Brock Roberts on Coaching, Mentoring, and Unsolved Mysteries Real Talk with Ben Tompkins

Brock Roberts is a teacher, a molder of youth, a culture builder, a state champion, and he’s currently the Head Football Coach at North Oldham High School, my alma mater.

We open things up with how he was raised by a single mother and what he learned watching his mom hustle for him and his brothers, how his father’s death is still an unsolved mystery in Kentucky, and how playing sports growing up helped shaped the person he is today.

Brock also went to Thomas More College, where I played a season of college football, which I didn’t know until this episode. We missed each other by a semester I think. Pretty wild.

So, we spend some time talking about that, and also how he handled the identity shift going from a player to a coach after his career had ended.

In this episode, Brock shares the lessons be strives to teach his players and students and how his position as coach is bigger than wins and losses.

He also shares what it was like becoming an assistant coach with Martha Layne Collins High School and winning a state championship, to becoming the head coach at Eminence High School, and then ultimately, landing at North Oldham.

Later, Brock defines his coaching style and philosophy, his go-to mantras and sayings, what makes a great leader, a time he hit rock bottom, the goals he’s reaching for next, and finally, his realest talk.

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