Smart people learn from their mistakes, but the smartest people learn from the mistakes of others.
Saturday afternoon in Kansas City the Jayhawks dumped #14 Colorado 37-21 to knock the Buffs out of the playoffs, and after the game Coach Prime blasted his team in the locker room.
“We got humbled,” he said.
The coach posted the speech to his Instagram account.
“There’s not one of you that can say you played your best game,” he said. “Nobody in here can say you gave the maximum effort; you gave it all you could. There’s nobody and you see the result. The problem is that you got intoxicated with success. And success is intoxicating. You start believing what they’re saying. You start listening more to what they’re saying. You bought into all that foolishness that you were this, and you went out there, and we got humbled. Coaches, players, everyone, we went out there and got humbled.”
“This moment just ain’t about football, it’s about life,” Sanders said. “This is a tremendous life lesson. Let’s learn from it. Let’s learn from it and grow from it. The question is, guys, I’m gonna ask you one last time: where do you go from here?”