Sean Lewis made the move to offensive coordinator at Colorado after a stint as head coach at Kent State University. He has a few premises that he holds dear when it comes to building a championship team. One of them is don’t have back to back bad days or bad plays.
“So we had a bad day and it wasn’t to our standard, so what, now what? We are going to take the field and make sure that we don’t’ stack bad things one after another other, because that ain’t going to be routine around here,” Lewis said.
But he’s not inferring that he’s intolerable towards mistakes. He actually hopes to see them, within the right context.
“If we’re not making new mistakes we’re not challenging ourselves. We’re hanging in a comfort zone and not willing to be on that edge where we need to be to be constantly growing. Anytime we’ve ever grown or improved in our life there’s been a level of discomfort to it. You’ve got to defeat being embarrassed. You’ve got to defeat that fear of kind of looking like a fool because you’re trying a new technique, or learning a new terminology and you’ve got to put yourself out there,” said Lewis.
Everything is competition
Lewis challenges the mind and stokes the competition level of his players in many unique ways. He kicked off spring practice by having the quarterbacks compete in problem solving situations using “Buildzi.” It was a puzzling look at first but the challenge was met head on. Freshman Ryan Staub took the first win.
The beginning of spring practice isn’t just about the players, the coaches are being evaluated as well.
“We got to figure out who’s going to be where on game day. Who’s going to be up in the box, who’s going to be down on the field. The way that they communicate and how we best communicate together. As we get in the room together to watch the practice tape, we’re going to grown and learn about one another as well,” said Lewis.
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