Texas A&M Football
We had been talking about doing something like this for a while and its crazy because of the progression. When your kids are babies they go to the ‘Mommy and Me’ classes and my wife thought it would be cool to open up something similar. Then kids get to the age where they can go to the jumping and bounce house places and my wife thought it would be cool to open one up. Then kids get old enough to play sports and then my wife thought it would be cool to open something like that.
We got back to B/CS and we started talking to a bunch of people in the community and they were all talking about how they drive to Houston, Austin, or Dallas for club sports, lessons, and workouts. It was a consensus that the people that were trying to keep their kids busy and active were just traveling everywhere. I realized that we have a pipeline to A&M here in the area, one of the best universities in the country. I have always maintained my relationships with everyone at the university all the way from the janitor to the ‘who’s who’. Field House Sports is just something I thought would be great to bring to the community so that kids that play on travel ball teams can come here.”
“This is a compilation of me growing up in the Boys and Girls Club and my wife also growing up in the Boys and Girls Club. Me working at the Boys and Girls Club, the Lincoln Center and the Teen Center out on Rock Prairie while I was in college are what motivated Field House Sports. We will be providing some different things, there will be youth leagues, birthday parties, and more. I think the birthday parties will be a big deal ... To be able to just go out there and have your cake and then go into the cages and get some hacks in with your friends. It will be a great outlet for college kids and it will be a great event center, too. It is a multi-use facility that I think everybody from all sociocultural background can benefit from in a lot of ways. When I tossed the idea around of doing something charitable, we brought in some corporations together to better insert ourselves in the community in different aspects and provide in different ways. The possibilities are endless of the things we can do out at Field House Sports. It is pretty unique in its kind.”
“I think the sports world now, especially the youth sports world now, has really gone to the professional model. My thoughts are that the youth sports world will lead you to believe that you need to push your kids to one sport or another. Here is what I believe, kids normally play sports at a young age because their friends play it. When I played sports back in the day, I probably played because my friends were playing it. We saw on TV and would go grab a football and play, or a basketball and go play. Or maybe we had just finished watching the Astros game and we would go outside and play baseball. So a lot of that stuff comes from watching games and playing with your friends.
Then around age 13-14 kids start to really learn the sports they are playing. Kids are a little more knowledgeable about the game now with television and video games. That does not mean they are necessarily coordinated enough to go out and play them well. Here's the truth and I say this when people come see Field House Sports, I can throw a football out in the middle of a bunch of kids and they know what to do with it. I can throw a baseball out in the middle of a group and they know what to do with it. That goes for baseball, softball, and basketball. Kids know what to do when they see highlights and they can at least mimic what they see on TV.
What Field House will do is work very closely with the parent because the way we see it, the parent knows the kid better than anyone else does. We want to know what buttons to push and not to push. We want to know what gets these kids going and we want to know the true assessment of the kids and then we will take them through some workout assessments and be honest with the parents. We will do this more in an encouraging way because we think just like a teacher would because we want to maximize their potential and ability. We want to do that after conversations with the parents. “
“I am pretty encouraged by Chavis’ first year. I know Coach Chavis a little bit just from my recruiting days and you saw the great job he did at Tennessee when I was getting ready to come out of high school. I got to catch up with him at spring ball about what I saw this past year. Obviously he is working with guys and interchanging guys and getting them to where they need to be. Rome wasn’t built in one day and he will continue to get those guys into what he is trying to do.
One thing I took from Chavis and what he has done since he has been here are the adjustments he makes. I think in the game of football and in the SEC, which is about as close as you could get to the NFL in terms of the coaches who coach in it, I know you don’t go out and play those guys the same every time. Those adjustments, the film study and the halftime adjustments are big and I saw a lot of those with Chavis. When things may not have been going the way he would have liked it to go and you are sitting back and scratching your head but then they come back and close the gap. They were making adjustments and that was huge. You can’t just come in the first half and mimic that in the second half and expect anything to be any different.”
“Adjustments are everything and another thing that is big that gives you some insight is the communication between the players and the coaching staff. That is huge. It is huge for that player on the field that comes back and talks to the coach about what he saw out there. You cans see things pretty good on the sideline and up in the press box but even then there are things that go on that you cant see. It becomes a trust thing with the guys on the field to come back and retain and comprehend and then tell the coaches what they saw out there on the field. That is so big to their success. Making the adjustments is a big part of it.”
“I think the experience of the coaches is huge. You have two guys that have worked with and against each other before and you have two fiery guys that you will get a lot of sparks and fires started in practice. That is going to get the competition between offensive and defensive linemen very heated. I am sure there will be some fights and pulling and punching and that is all healthy. That is going to happen and you have two guys at the helm that are going to get the most from their players. For Jim Turner to be in place, the way he coaches, and to get another group of guys like Luke Joeckel and Jake Matthews and those guys back when Sherman was here. If you can get a group of guys like that again I think that would be huge.”
“At the end of the day, those coaches are helping these players become more specific to the position and how it needs to be coached. You have those guys working as one unit. The defensive end and defensive line coach are working collectively as a group to accomplish one goal but by breaking that up you get a little more specified coaching. You get one coach that is trying to coach all of those guys that can get north of 20 guys at all those positions; something can easily be missed from a coaching standpoint. I think bringing those guys in was a smart move and that comes with Chavis being so experienced as a defensive coordinator.”
“I think Daeshon Hall and Myles Garrett are two different types of players. They have a similar athletic skill. Hall was a little rail of a man when he came in. I remember when he came in and was going up against Jake Matthews and those guys and he was just scratching and clawing just to get around the corner on those guys. Obviously he was going up against some really good guys early on. He came into his own and had a really good year last year. Some people argue that he has just as good of a year as Myles.
Then you have Myles Garrett who is just a freak of a man. You just have those special athletes that roll through here every now and then. You have Von Miller, Myles Garrett and all these guys who come through here from time to time and he is one of them. He is a difference maker and one thing that you can always count on with him; he is always going to get a lot of attention on a play-to-play basis. When it is on the line you can almost count on him coming thought and doing something. Whether it is a sack, a strip fumble, or whatever else."
“Myles Garrett has a unique skillset. He is rangy, he is long, he is flexible and he has wheels to get around the corner pretty easily. That combination is pretty unique. Not to take his strength away from him, because he is very strong. I think that the sky is the limit for what can happen with the defensive line. I always thought a lot of Zaycoven Henderson as a defensive tackle. He has definitely come into his own and I think Chavis is starting to get the most out of his ability with the defensive line coach there. They also have Kingsley Keke. We talked about him a little bit. These guys have endless potential. Especially with the position specific coaches who will really put the focus on the individual position to better serve the Aggies on Saturdays. They bring it all together and that work ethic and consistency makes the sky the limit. “
“Daylon Mack is definitely a coachable guy. I have learned that being around him. He just needs to understand how it all works. When I came in, I came right in, much like him; people were talking about the weights he lifted. I came from Bryan High and broke the squat record but they couldn’t record it because I wasn’t enrolled yet. I was a strong guy who wanted to get in there and play right away but my technique wasn’t refined yet to go take somebody’s position. Although in my mind I was thinking about how badly I wanted to be on the field. I knew there were things that needed to happen before that. I think there is just an ‘aha’ factor when you transition form high school to the college ranks, especially in the SEC. They understand what needs to happen and the work that need to be put in. I think that ‘aha’ factor is how he will understand it. I would love to work with a lot of those guys out at Field House.”
Ty Warren discusses Field House Sports, 2016 Texas A&M defensive line
Key quotes from Ty Warren interview
“When we first talked about it, we mentioned that something big was coming. Field House Sports is definitely a collective effort and a family business. We have some silent partners there as well. It started out with a need for kids to be able to get somewhere. I think it started with the softball team that my daughter played on here in town when we first moved back into town. She played on a travel ball team and she had just started playing softball pretty seriously when we were about to move from Colorado after my last year in Denver. We got down to Bryan-College Station and it was just kind of hard between rain and other teams and trying to understand scheduling with the city, I think it was just hard to get onto a facility. My wife got all pumped up and wanted to get on the field. We have some land out in Millican and I told her that we should go build it.We had been talking about doing something like this for a while and its crazy because of the progression. When your kids are babies they go to the ‘Mommy and Me’ classes and my wife thought it would be cool to open up something similar. Then kids get to the age where they can go to the jumping and bounce house places and my wife thought it would be cool to open one up. Then kids get old enough to play sports and then my wife thought it would be cool to open something like that.
We got back to B/CS and we started talking to a bunch of people in the community and they were all talking about how they drive to Houston, Austin, or Dallas for club sports, lessons, and workouts. It was a consensus that the people that were trying to keep their kids busy and active were just traveling everywhere. I realized that we have a pipeline to A&M here in the area, one of the best universities in the country. I have always maintained my relationships with everyone at the university all the way from the janitor to the ‘who’s who’. Field House Sports is just something I thought would be great to bring to the community so that kids that play on travel ball teams can come here.”
“This is a compilation of me growing up in the Boys and Girls Club and my wife also growing up in the Boys and Girls Club. Me working at the Boys and Girls Club, the Lincoln Center and the Teen Center out on Rock Prairie while I was in college are what motivated Field House Sports. We will be providing some different things, there will be youth leagues, birthday parties, and more. I think the birthday parties will be a big deal ... To be able to just go out there and have your cake and then go into the cages and get some hacks in with your friends. It will be a great outlet for college kids and it will be a great event center, too. It is a multi-use facility that I think everybody from all sociocultural background can benefit from in a lot of ways. When I tossed the idea around of doing something charitable, we brought in some corporations together to better insert ourselves in the community in different aspects and provide in different ways. The possibilities are endless of the things we can do out at Field House Sports. It is pretty unique in its kind.”
“I think the sports world now, especially the youth sports world now, has really gone to the professional model. My thoughts are that the youth sports world will lead you to believe that you need to push your kids to one sport or another. Here is what I believe, kids normally play sports at a young age because their friends play it. When I played sports back in the day, I probably played because my friends were playing it. We saw on TV and would go grab a football and play, or a basketball and go play. Or maybe we had just finished watching the Astros game and we would go outside and play baseball. So a lot of that stuff comes from watching games and playing with your friends.
Then around age 13-14 kids start to really learn the sports they are playing. Kids are a little more knowledgeable about the game now with television and video games. That does not mean they are necessarily coordinated enough to go out and play them well. Here's the truth and I say this when people come see Field House Sports, I can throw a football out in the middle of a bunch of kids and they know what to do with it. I can throw a baseball out in the middle of a group and they know what to do with it. That goes for baseball, softball, and basketball. Kids know what to do when they see highlights and they can at least mimic what they see on TV.
What Field House will do is work very closely with the parent because the way we see it, the parent knows the kid better than anyone else does. We want to know what buttons to push and not to push. We want to know what gets these kids going and we want to know the true assessment of the kids and then we will take them through some workout assessments and be honest with the parents. We will do this more in an encouraging way because we think just like a teacher would because we want to maximize their potential and ability. We want to do that after conversations with the parents. “
“I am pretty encouraged by Chavis’ first year. I know Coach Chavis a little bit just from my recruiting days and you saw the great job he did at Tennessee when I was getting ready to come out of high school. I got to catch up with him at spring ball about what I saw this past year. Obviously he is working with guys and interchanging guys and getting them to where they need to be. Rome wasn’t built in one day and he will continue to get those guys into what he is trying to do.
One thing I took from Chavis and what he has done since he has been here are the adjustments he makes. I think in the game of football and in the SEC, which is about as close as you could get to the NFL in terms of the coaches who coach in it, I know you don’t go out and play those guys the same every time. Those adjustments, the film study and the halftime adjustments are big and I saw a lot of those with Chavis. When things may not have been going the way he would have liked it to go and you are sitting back and scratching your head but then they come back and close the gap. They were making adjustments and that was huge. You can’t just come in the first half and mimic that in the second half and expect anything to be any different.”
“Adjustments are everything and another thing that is big that gives you some insight is the communication between the players and the coaching staff. That is huge. It is huge for that player on the field that comes back and talks to the coach about what he saw out there. You cans see things pretty good on the sideline and up in the press box but even then there are things that go on that you cant see. It becomes a trust thing with the guys on the field to come back and retain and comprehend and then tell the coaches what they saw out there on the field. That is so big to their success. Making the adjustments is a big part of it.”
“I think the experience of the coaches is huge. You have two guys that have worked with and against each other before and you have two fiery guys that you will get a lot of sparks and fires started in practice. That is going to get the competition between offensive and defensive linemen very heated. I am sure there will be some fights and pulling and punching and that is all healthy. That is going to happen and you have two guys at the helm that are going to get the most from their players. For Jim Turner to be in place, the way he coaches, and to get another group of guys like Luke Joeckel and Jake Matthews and those guys back when Sherman was here. If you can get a group of guys like that again I think that would be huge.”
“At the end of the day, those coaches are helping these players become more specific to the position and how it needs to be coached. You have those guys working as one unit. The defensive end and defensive line coach are working collectively as a group to accomplish one goal but by breaking that up you get a little more specified coaching. You get one coach that is trying to coach all of those guys that can get north of 20 guys at all those positions; something can easily be missed from a coaching standpoint. I think bringing those guys in was a smart move and that comes with Chavis being so experienced as a defensive coordinator.”
“I think Daeshon Hall and Myles Garrett are two different types of players. They have a similar athletic skill. Hall was a little rail of a man when he came in. I remember when he came in and was going up against Jake Matthews and those guys and he was just scratching and clawing just to get around the corner on those guys. Obviously he was going up against some really good guys early on. He came into his own and had a really good year last year. Some people argue that he has just as good of a year as Myles.
Then you have Myles Garrett who is just a freak of a man. You just have those special athletes that roll through here every now and then. You have Von Miller, Myles Garrett and all these guys who come through here from time to time and he is one of them. He is a difference maker and one thing that you can always count on with him; he is always going to get a lot of attention on a play-to-play basis. When it is on the line you can almost count on him coming thought and doing something. Whether it is a sack, a strip fumble, or whatever else."
“Myles Garrett has a unique skillset. He is rangy, he is long, he is flexible and he has wheels to get around the corner pretty easily. That combination is pretty unique. Not to take his strength away from him, because he is very strong. I think that the sky is the limit for what can happen with the defensive line. I always thought a lot of Zaycoven Henderson as a defensive tackle. He has definitely come into his own and I think Chavis is starting to get the most out of his ability with the defensive line coach there. They also have Kingsley Keke. We talked about him a little bit. These guys have endless potential. Especially with the position specific coaches who will really put the focus on the individual position to better serve the Aggies on Saturdays. They bring it all together and that work ethic and consistency makes the sky the limit. “
“Daylon Mack is definitely a coachable guy. I have learned that being around him. He just needs to understand how it all works. When I came in, I came right in, much like him; people were talking about the weights he lifted. I came from Bryan High and broke the squat record but they couldn’t record it because I wasn’t enrolled yet. I was a strong guy who wanted to get in there and play right away but my technique wasn’t refined yet to go take somebody’s position. Although in my mind I was thinking about how badly I wanted to be on the field. I knew there were things that needed to happen before that. I think there is just an ‘aha’ factor when you transition form high school to the college ranks, especially in the SEC. They understand what needs to happen and the work that need to be put in. I think that ‘aha’ factor is how he will understand it. I would love to work with a lot of those guys out at Field House.”
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