In this special remembrance episode of Shooting It Straight, We revisit a 2018 conversation recorded with Randy and Coach Clayton—mentor, educator, motivator, and the heart behind “BAM, son.” We talk about the origins and meaning of BAM (Believe, Achieve, Motivate), why failure is feedback, and how fear, process, and paying the price shape real success. Jim shares timeless lessons from 35 years in education and decades in coaching: building relationships, setting high expectations, learning students’ names, and making every learner feel seen and capable. He opens up about turning passion into profession, trailblazing individualized basketball training, and the second chance that reshaped his life after a devastating childhood injury.
We also dig into what makes great teachers and teams—consistency, intentionality, humility, and being “mission over position.” Jim reflects on influences who believed in him, the power of positive culture, and the simple, daily practice of adding value to others. He closes with what he wanted to be remembered for: passion, positivity, and giving 100% every day. BAM, son.
If you have any memories of Coach Clayton to share with his family and the podcast, please share it via the contact page on our website (https://shootingitstraight.com/contact/).
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Coach Jim Clayton: Bam son!
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Coach Jim Clayton: This is Shootin’ It Straight, the podcast where life blessings don’t come sugar-coated and excuses get bitched.
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Randy Black: I’m Randy Black, podcast guy, professional question asker, and apparently
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Randy Black: The only one here who doesn’t yell pam, son, in public.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Well we’re working on that, Randy.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I’m Jim Clayton, coach, mentor, motivator, and the guy who still thinks a whistle may be the best motivational tool known to man.
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Randy Black: Taking what Jim’s learned from the court, the drills, the discipline, the drive, and translating it into real-world success.
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Coach Jim Clayton: That’s right.
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Coach Jim Clayton: This ain’t just about basketball.
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Coach Jim Clayton: It’s about showing up when life presses full court.
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Coach Jim Clayton: It’s about pushing through when the clocks tick.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Kicking down.
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Randy Black: And if you’re looking for fluff, well, you might just want to ride the bench.
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Coach Jim Clayton: We’re here to help you believe bigger, achieve louder, and motivate strong.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So buckle up and whatever you do, keep shooting it straight.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Bam, son!
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Randy Black: Welcome back to Shooting It Straight, I’m Randy Black.
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Randy Black: And as we continue to work on our
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Randy Black: Remembering of Jim Clayton, I wanted to take the time to pull an episode out from a show I did back in 20
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Randy Black: 17, 2018, called the Randall Black Show.
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Randy Black: And on that up on there we had two episodes that were a split conversation that I had with Jim.
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Randy Black: back then.
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Randy Black: Uh same same studio space we recorded in for shooting it straight.
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Randy Black: Uh back in 2018, we sat down and had a discussion and talked about education.
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Randy Black: We talked about Jim’s coaching, his business.
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Randy Black: Things like that.
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Randy Black: And the end of this conversation hit me hard listening back to it because the question is
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Randy Black: What did Jim Clayton want to be remembered for?
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Randy Black: And the things he said are the exact things that everyone so far in their statements of remembrance have mentioned and talked about
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Randy Black: So please enjoy this recording that I pulled out from 2018 from the Randall Black show of myself talking with Jim just like we did on Shootin’ It Straight.
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Randy Black: And uh I’ll be back at the end of the episode to close it out.
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Randy Black: But I hope you enjoy it.
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Randy Black: Thank you.
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Randy Black: Today I’m setting in at the offices at Sports City U with Jimmy Clayton.
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Randy Black: Jimmy, I’m glad you could come on today
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Randy Black: Buddy, I appreciate you uh bring bringing me on.
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Randy Black: Jimmy, you know, we we sat here talking before we got started about, you know, me talking about the first time I remember meeting you.
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Randy Black: you know, sophomore in high school, would have been 96, 97, CK, uh, Shri-Kanova High School at the Teen Institute.
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Randy Black: And I said, you know, I don’t remember anything specific of what you said when you came to speak.
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Randy Black: But I remember the message was just about being positive.
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Randy Black: It was all positivity.
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Randy Black: And it it changed the way I kind of looked at some things in life as a youngster.
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Randy Black: Um, I graduated high school, went to college, uh, got to the second half of my student teaching at Huntington High, and who did I end up eating lunch with most days?
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Randy Black: Jimmy Clayton.
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Randy Black: And I was I was excited, you know.
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Randy Black: I said, I gotta remember this guy.
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Randy Black: He talked about all this stuff that was positive and you know it was it was fun because
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Randy Black: Sitting there eating lunch, I got to know Jimmy the educator and Jimmy the man a little bit that I didn’t see other than Jimmy the Speaker.
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Randy Black: So it was, it was, it was good.
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Randy Black: You know, I I graduated, I started teaching, uh, did my years subbing and then worked at Enslow for a couple years and left there to go to Cabble Midland.
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Randy Black: And who happens to be working at Cabel Midland?
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Randy Black: Jimmy Clayton.
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Randy Black: And it was it was exciting because I I watched the interaction and things you had with the kids and other people on the staff and said, you know what
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Randy Black: I want to be like Jimmy.
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Randy Black: I want to have those relationships.
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Randy Black: You know, and I I I try to do that now.
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Randy Black: Uh and it took me a couple of years to get to the point that I could.
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Randy Black: You know, it’s it’s always about growth.
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Randy Black: And I I’m at that point where I feel like I’m starting to
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Randy Black: to to have that now.
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Randy Black: And and I want to say thanks, Jimmy, because you kinda inspired me with that.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Well I appreciate that.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I appreciate that.
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Coach Jim Clayton: You’re right.
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Coach Jim Clayton: It does take time.
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Coach Jim Clayton: It takes a long time and it never’s you never stop learning how to be better at it
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Randy Black: So we’re sitting here and on your t-shirt.
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Randy Black: You’ve got this logo that was designed and and I love it because it’s that classic, you know, it’s got the Jimmy Clayton mustache that you’re
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Randy Black: famous for with people in the area and people who know you across the country.
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Randy Black: And it says BAM.
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Randy Black: And I know that stands for Believe, Achieve, Motivate
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Randy Black: What does that mean to you?
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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, you know, when you when you when you hear the word bam, like you turn on a television, you turn on, you hear somebody say that word.
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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, I just started saying it and it just kind of gives some energy.
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Coach Jim Clayton: It makes people excited.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Something when they say bam, you know, it’s like somebody’s excited about something.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yeah.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And so I started looking at that.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And so to be honest with you, it goes back to back to the teaching roots.
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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, you can get so it’s not always about
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Coach Jim Clayton: It’s a lot of times about the student teaching the educator.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And so right here in this gym, I was sitting in a camp with my highest level performers
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Coach Jim Clayton: And a little boy from Easter, Kentucky, his name’s Cole Craze, never forget it, he said, coach, you know what you should do?
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Coach Jim Clayton: He says, you should get a t-shirt out there.
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Coach Jim Clayton: He said, don’t put your face on it.
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Coach Jim Clayton: He said, just put your mustache on it.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And you should put, bam, son, on that thing.
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Coach Jim Clayton: You say that so much.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And I’m thinking, he said, you’re going.
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Coach Jim Clayton: You’ll kill it.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I said, I hear you go.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I said that ain’t gonna really work.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So it kind of laid there for a little bit and years thinking it popped back up.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I said
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Coach Jim Clayton: I think I’m going to look into that.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So a little girl across the street from me, uh, she’s an architect, interior design uh uh you know, graphic designer saying
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Coach Jim Clayton: Do you think you could make up something?
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Coach Jim Clayton: Come together?
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Coach Jim Clayton: So she made up a few things and we pieced it together and then I sent it to my my real graphic artist who lives in he lives in Detroit who
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Coach Jim Clayton: I had in high school in 1982 in Huntington East.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Now he’s one of the top graphic artists in the country.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And we put this logo together.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And so I started thinking, I said, you know, uh
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Coach Jim Clayton: The BAM is exciting thing.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I said, what can that mean?
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Coach Jim Clayton: What can I really make that mean?
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Coach Jim Clayton: It has to have a meaning.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Because that’s your brand.
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Randy Black: Oh yeah.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So what’s the meaning?
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Coach Jim Clayton: And I said, well, what do I talk about all the time?
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Coach Jim Clayton: And I’m always talking about believing in yourself.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I mean, how many people really don’t believe in themselves?
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Coach Jim Clayton: And the honest truth is you can’t expect other people to believe in you
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Coach Jim Clayton: if you really don’t believe in yourself.
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Randy Black: Right.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And you can really I’m really good at reading people really fast.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I can tell you in ten seconds whether you have a lot of confidence in yourself or not.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Whether you say one word to me or not.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So I said, number one, you gotta believe in yourself.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So that was the belief part.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And then the achiever part of it was I always started every year with a saying on my board: no one ever rises to low expectations.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So I said, we gotta set the bar.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I said, for a lot of y’all, we don’t even have a bar.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So we gotta set it.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And the the most successful and positive people, they don’t set it, they set it and they reset it.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And then they reset it
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Coach Jim Clayton: And then they reset it, okay?
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Coach Jim Clayton: Then they leap over it, okay, and they own it.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So the uh the the achieve the greatness part was the resetting of the bar.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, to try to be a little bit better every day.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, don’t stay the same.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Don’t live today off yesterday’s successes.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, it’s about what am I doing today
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Coach Jim Clayton: to make myself better and help other people add value to other people’s lives.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And the last part was the motivated
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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, motivation is kind of a strange tool, okay?
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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, you really, it’s not something that, you know, it’s not something that somebody can give you
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Coach Jim Clayton: It really has something to do with passion of what you’re really doing.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Because your passion is your energy, and your energy is what keeps you going day to day to day.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Because we all know
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Coach Jim Clayton: Man, it some days it could be like you feel like you’re just beating your head against the wall.
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Coach Jim Clayton: You’re not getting anywhere.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So, you know, you gotta have that passion.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And for me, you know, I was fortunate enough to turn my passion into my profession
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Coach Jim Clayton: So I never really had to work a day of my life.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I never really did.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And so when you believe in yourself, you know, you set the bar high and you’re going to keep achieving every day to try to be greater.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And you stay motivated every day.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I mean, you’re on the right track to success right there.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yeah.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And that’s how, that’s really what the BAM is.
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Coach Jim Clayton: You know what I mean?
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Coach Jim Clayton: So when I look at this body say, bam!
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Coach Jim Clayton: It’s there they know when I look at him and I point at him and I say that that something good has just happened.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I’m excited about it, you know, and
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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, I mean I people ask me that every day, and some people know it, and uh it’s it’s it’s really caught on.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I’ve used it with my John Maxwell teaching.
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Coach Jim Clayton: That’s exactly my my they told me they said, that’s your brand
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Coach Jim Clayton: Everybody’s gonna notice I hashtag everything, bam, sun, and and and the sun part, that’s kind of weird how that came in, because
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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, but my of course being in the basketball world, I was watching a tape one day, my son brought him The Legends of Bluegrass Basketball in Kentucky.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And there’s a coach called Billy Mike Running, who was the coach of Painesfield for 100 years
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Coach Jim Clayton: Real successful guy.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And he had a picture in a locker room with this guy and he was talking his boy says, Dang son, can’t you guard that guy son?
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Coach Jim Clayton: He’s eating you up, son.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And then I start going, son, and then it was bam, son, and now there it is.
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Randy Black: Yeah, you know, you know, anybody who listens to the my podcast knows that
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Randy Black: One of the big things I talk about a lot is is failure.
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Randy Black: Uh and it’s because I got a fortune cookie.
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Randy Black: And I talk about all the time and it said failure is feedback
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Randy Black: And feedback is the breakfast of champions.
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Randy Black: And that’s kind of my brand with with the way I look at things.
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Randy Black: I’ve got I’ve got a logo design and everything.
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Randy Black: I’m looking to
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Randy Black: Looking to to put some t-shirts up online, sell them, uh get some stickers printed up, give out to people.
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Randy Black: So I you know I totally get it, man.
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Randy Black: It’s it all makes sense.
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Coach Jim Clayton: It’s you know, I mean, and it’s it’s you know, a lot of the belief
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Coach Jim Clayton: is right on fear.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I mean fear does two things to people.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Either brings out the best in you or it brings out the worst in you.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And in the beginning, it’ll always bring out the worst.
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Coach Jim Clayton: But if you’re motivated and you stick with it,
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Coach Jim Clayton: But see, that’s the thing.
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Coach Jim Clayton: That’s the hard part about today’s kids in today’s world.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh no.
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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, I don’t care who you are, and I don’t care what you’re doing.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Two things, if you’re gonna be successful, two things gotta be present.
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Coach Jim Clayton: One, you gotta go through the process and two, you gotta pay the price.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And if you don’t anybody you talk to that is
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Coach Jim Clayton: And kiss today, people today they want to go, they want to fast forward all that.
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Coach Jim Clayton: You can’t miss the gaps.
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Coach Jim Clayton: There’s no elevators or steps.
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Coach Jim Clayton: You’ve got to take those steps.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And that’s the fear, man.
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Coach Jim Clayton: The fear does, I mean, the fear, you know, it’s like John Maxwell, one of my favorite books is called Failing Forward.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Sometimes you gotta fear is a better way to get begin again and failure is a better way to begin again more intelligently.
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Coach Jim Clayton: That’s what I tell myself.
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Coach Jim Clayton: There’s a reason it ain’t working.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Now let’s go back and figure it out and and make it better.
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Randy Black: Oh yeah
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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, and you’re either getting better or you’re getting bitter.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And that’s why the world’s mess that’s why they’re mad all the time, because they’re they’re bitter.
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Randy Black: Yeah.
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Coach Jim Clayton: They’re mad because they can’t fix nothing.
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Randy Black: You know, it’s the idea that, you know
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Randy Black: So many people are afraid of failure.
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Randy Black: Well, failure if you learn something from it is awesome.
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Randy Black: You know, as a teacher, did I fail a lot?
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Randy Black: Heck yeah.
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Randy Black: I failed all the time.
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Randy Black: But
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Randy Black: Did I learn something from it?
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Randy Black: Most of the time.
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Randy Black: So it’s a positive.
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Randy Black: It was a great outcome.
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Coach Jim Clayton: It really is.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And own up to the failure.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I own up to it all the time.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So in my business world say, you know, I made a mistake.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I know what I did.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Hey, don’t I look around, I’m not pointing fingers.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I’m looking at the guy in the mirror.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Who’s the fault?
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Coach Jim Clayton: Me.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And when we do camps and things here, that’s the first thing I tell kids.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Look, this is going to be a little different experience than some of them other ones because I don’t care if you mess up.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Matter of fact
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Coach Jim Clayton: I hope you do because that gets you out of two zones that you never want to play.
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Coach Jim Clayton: One is your comfort zone and the other is your coax zone.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And either way
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Coach Jim Clayton: You’re not making anything positive happen in those two songs.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And they look at me like, seriously?
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Coach Jim Clayton: You mean I can make them say I said, yep.
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Coach Jim Clayton: You shoot it in the
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Coach Jim Clayton: You’re not coming out.
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Coach Jim Clayton: We’re gonna figure out what the problem is and we’re gonna figure out how to solve it.
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Randy Black: Nice.
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Coach Jim Clayton: That’s the key.
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Randy Black: So, you know, looking back at, you know, you you spent 35 years as an educator.
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Randy Black: I was in the classroom for for quite a while before I moved into the position I mean, I’m still in education, but not in a classroom.
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Randy Black: What is it in your opinion that makes a great teacher or a great coach?
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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, to me, you know, it’s there’s an old saying, and I use a lot of sayings, kids want to know how much you care before they care how much you know.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And we had talked about it a little earlier previously.
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Coach Jim Clayton: It’s about relationships.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, yeah.
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Coach Jim Clayton: It’s all about you and that child.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And to me
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Coach Jim Clayton: See, I think certain people have the ability to look at people and they say, I’m not looking at you the way you are.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I’m seeing the way you could be, man.
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Coach Jim Clayton: You’ve got so much potential.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Because a lot of them have never heard that in their life.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?
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Coach Jim Clayton: And I don’t care what you want to do.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, it doesn’t matter whether you want to be a mechanic.
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Coach Jim Clayton: See, most people talk about doctors, lawyers, you know See, I started the other inspector.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yeah.
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Coach Jim Clayton: See, I never start with those guys because
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Coach Jim Clayton: Somebody’s got to build their house.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yeah.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Somebody’s got to fix their car.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Somebody’s got to fix the AC when I and the heat.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So
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Coach Jim Clayton: These guys on this end are just as important on that end because they don’t feel like they’re important.
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Coach Jim Clayton: They don’t feel that.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And see, when you make them feel important
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Coach Jim Clayton: You got them.
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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, I used to I got I got this, and it’s sometimes you know you don’t come up with these things, you just share them.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And this is something I did years and years and years ago.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I gave them a card.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Had my name on front.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Said Jim Quake, coach, teacher, mentor.
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Coach Jim Clayton: It says, you got my number.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And it had like a heartbeat across the front, like you would look, got my number
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Coach Jim Clayton: On the back, it had a bunch of people with a with the show in the back of them.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And it says on when you turn over, it says, and I got your back.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And it had a little thing.
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Coach Jim Clayton: It says, if you’re ever in trouble, you’re scared, you don’t know what to do.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And you can’t get a hold of your parents, you call me.
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Coach Jim Clayton: No questions asked.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I’m gonna come take care of you.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And they give you a look kind of right there on that spot.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Like, seriously?
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Coach Jim Clayton: Seriously.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Now that don’t mean call me and ha have have a personal conversation with me because I I I respect your space out of school and you gotta respect mine because respect is a two-way street here.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yeah.
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Coach Jim Clayton: It’s just not the general patent mentality, my way or the highway
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Coach Jim Clayton: It’s a two-way street, okay?
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Coach Jim Clayton: And that’s where I think a lot of educators and coaches they get messed up with kids.
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Randy Black: Yeah.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?
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Coach Jim Clayton: And I see kids today and it’s case say, Coach, I still got that card.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I still got that card.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I said, Well, it’s it still applies.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And, you know, I you the other thing is I learn everybody’s name.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Names are critical to people.
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Randy Black: Oh yeah.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And kids go all day and never hear their name
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Randy Black: Yeah.
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Coach Jim Clayton: They never anybody call their name.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And you know, everybody, you know, if you give a guy a brand new pen, what’s the first thing they write?
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Coach Jim Clayton: Their name.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And I said, hey Jay, hey, how you doing?
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Coach Jim Clayton: Hey, good job.
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Coach Jim Clayton: You know what I mean?
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Coach Jim Clayton: And I do research on my students.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I see they do it and made a good grade on your test.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I said, I see you made a good, I saw you made an A on Mr.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Black’s test, man.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Good job.
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Coach Jim Clayton: How’d you know that
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Coach Jim Clayton: See, they know you’re checking them out.
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Randy Black: Yeah.
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Coach Jim Clayton: See, it’s not just about you in that 50 minutes in that wall.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yeah.
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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, and and my method of teaching was so simple.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Which I think people sometimes, you know, educators uh they take things simple and make ’em tremendously complicated and could
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Coach Jim Clayton: Communicators take things that are extremely complicated and make them really simple.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And it took me a long time to figure that out.
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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, it it took me a long time to figure that kind of stuff out.
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Coach Jim Clayton: But
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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, through through John Maxwell and and things like that, you know, uh, you know, I I just I speak to him all the time.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Hey, how you doing?
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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, good to see you.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And
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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, I said, you better not go by me and not say hi to me.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Or I’ll call you out right there.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I see him in Walmart.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I see him every but I said, let me tell you something.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I’m not going to ever do anything
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Coach Jim Clayton: that embarrasses you ever in front of anybody and I really appreciate you returning the favor.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And they go, that’s not a problem.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So those were my simple things.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And when I talked to them, here’s exactly what I did.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Here’s what we’re learning today.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Here’s why we’re learning it.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And here’s how you’re going to use it in your life today.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And too many kids sit there and they thinking to themselves, why am I learning it?
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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yeah.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And see, that turns off the not that turns off the learning button
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Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Because now they’re having this personal conversation with yourself and it’s like they’re talking themselves right out of learning what you’re trying to teach ’em.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And the next day I say, Well, how’d we use that?
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Coach Jim Clayton: And they come in and say, Well, let me tell you how I used that
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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, and see that’s applying the the daily things.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And I tried to add things every day out of something out of the out of the out of the book.
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Coach Jim Clayton: took the knowledge part.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Let’s take let’s talk some life lessons.
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Coach Jim Clayton: How are we going to incorporate this?
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Coach Jim Clayton: So, you know, like I said, I knew some of them had tough homes.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I knew I did the research on it.
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Coach Jim Clayton: See some of the kids I I mean I hate saying it hurts my heart when I say this.
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Randy Black: Yeah
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Coach Jim Clayton: Some teachers don’t even know the kids’ names after they’ve been in the class for like eight months.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I I I I I’m blown away by that.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I never I never could get that either.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I am going, what are you doing?
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Coach Jim Clayton: You know what I mean?
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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, I just I want you to be excited about coming to class every day because I’m going to meet you and I’m going to create you.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And, you know, two things that are we’re going to do in this class.
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Coach Jim Clayton: One, you know, we’re going to be consistent.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And number two, we’re going to be intentional.
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Coach Jim Clayton: You never become great accidentally and you don’t become great inconsistently.
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Randy Black: Oh yeah.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And when you got those two words popping around, that’s how I taught.
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Coach Jim Clayton: That’s how I coach today.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And that’s how I get people, you know what I mean, that will do anything I I mean, they’ll do anything I want ’em to do.
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Coach Jim Clayton: But it’s not that simple.
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Coach Jim Clayton: It’s not that hard.
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Randy Black: Yeah.
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Coach Jim Clayton: It’s really simple.
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Coach Jim Clayton: But I don’t think that’s taught to teachers tonight.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I would agree.
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Coach Jim Clayton: It’s not taught when you’re coming through student teaching.
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Coach Jim Clayton: No.
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00:18:48,039 –> 00:18:49,000
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s not taught
400
00:18:49,160 –> 00:18:51,320
Coach Jim Clayton: when you’re a first, second, third year teacher.
401
00:18:51,320 –> 00:18:54,120
Coach Jim Clayton: See that’s what I think they need to get their claws on.
402
00:18:54,120 –> 00:18:54,680
Coach Jim Clayton: You know what I mean?
403
00:18:54,680 –> 00:18:55,880
Coach Jim Clayton: They need to dig their teeth in the city.
404
00:19:00,860 –> 00:19:01,419
Randy Black: Yeah.
405
00:19:01,419 –> 00:19:04,059
Randy Black: They don’t they don’t see the relationship component and how to build that.
406
00:19:04,059 –> 00:19:07,419
Randy Black: You know, you know, I look, I know there’s students that you had you’re still friends with.
407
00:19:07,419 –> 00:19:07,899
Randy Black: Oh, absolutely.
408
00:19:08,059 –> 00:19:09,019
Randy Black: For example.
409
00:19:08,760 –> 00:19:09,240
Randy Black: Crash.
410
00:19:09,240 –> 00:19:09,799
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh my god.
411
00:19:09,960 –> 00:19:10,679
Randy Black: I know who crashes.
412
00:19:11,080 –> 00:19:11,960
Randy Black: Crash is awesome.
413
00:19:11,960 –> 00:19:14,200
Randy Black: I remember crash when I did my student teaching at Huntington High.
414
00:19:14,200 –> 00:19:14,440
Randy Black: Oh yeah.
415
00:19:14,440 –> 00:19:16,679
Randy Black: I still see him around Huntington all over the place.
416
00:19:16,679 –> 00:19:17,160
Randy Black: Oh yeah.
417
00:19:17,160 –> 00:19:18,520
Randy Black: And I know you’re still close with him.
418
00:19:18,520 –> 00:19:19,320
Randy Black: You still talk
419
00:19:19,300 –> 00:19:19,700
Randy Black: All the time.
420
00:19:19,700 –> 00:19:20,420
Randy Black: And he’s all the time.
421
00:19:20,420 –> 00:19:21,300
Coach Jim Clayton: He’s he’s he calls me.
422
00:19:22,020 –> 00:19:22,980
Coach Jim Clayton: He moved out to Lincoln County.
423
00:19:22,980 –> 00:19:24,340
Coach Jim Clayton: So that kind of messed me up a little bit.
424
00:19:24,740 –> 00:19:25,620
Coach Jim Clayton: He can’t get in as much.
425
00:19:25,700 –> 00:19:27,140
Coach Jim Clayton: He’s you got anything you need me to do?
426
00:19:27,140 –> 00:19:28,100
Coach Jim Clayton: You want me to do some mulch?
427
00:19:28,100 –> 00:19:29,140
Coach Jim Clayton: He said, You want me?
428
00:19:29,140 –> 00:19:33,060
Coach Jim Clayton: I don’t care what I asked that boy to do.
429
00:19:32,720 –> 00:19:34,160
Coach Jim Clayton: He never questioned it.
430
00:19:34,160 –> 00:19:35,280
Coach Jim Clayton: He would do it.
431
00:19:35,280 –> 00:19:39,520
Coach Jim Clayton: But he also knew that I would take care of him.
432
00:19:39,520 –> 00:19:39,920
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.
433
00:19:39,920 –> 00:19:41,760
Coach Jim Clayton: I d he didn’t have to say something to me.
434
00:19:41,760 –> 00:19:44,160
Coach Jim Clayton: If he called me for something, someone write.
435
00:19:44,160 –> 00:19:44,480
Coach Jim Clayton: Right.
436
00:19:44,480 –> 00:19:46,080
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, Crash Wheels because he said
437
00:19:46,679 –> 00:19:48,440
Coach Jim Clayton: I don’t got any shoes.
438
00:19:48,440 –> 00:19:51,240
Coach Jim Clayton: I said, Well, I tell you what, buddy, where are you?
439
00:19:51,240 –> 00:19:51,799
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.
440
00:19:51,799 –> 00:19:53,960
Coach Jim Clayton: You got you got you got it you got a gym bag?
441
00:19:54,039 –> 00:19:54,440
Coach Jim Clayton: Yep.
442
00:19:54,440 –> 00:19:56,440
Coach Jim Clayton: I said, Well you just come you c w when can I see you?
443
00:19:56,440 –> 00:19:57,880
Coach Jim Clayton: Well when’s the next time we get together?
444
00:19:57,880 –> 00:19:59,080
Coach Jim Clayton: Well, I’ll come over tomorrow.
445
00:19:59,080 –> 00:19:59,880
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, come over.
446
00:19:59,880 –> 00:20:01,559
Coach Jim Clayton: I’ll you bring your bag.
447
00:20:01,360 –> 00:20:04,559
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m gonna fill you up with shoes because I got tons of shoes.
448
00:20:04,559 –> 00:20:08,880
Coach Jim Clayton: And, you know, I’d rather give them to somebody that I know needs them.
449
00:20:08,880 –> 00:20:10,480
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, and and again
450
00:20:10,919 –> 00:20:12,520
Coach Jim Clayton: He would do anything for you.
451
00:20:12,520 –> 00:20:13,000
Coach Jim Clayton: Not money.
452
00:20:14,280 –> 00:20:16,200
Coach Jim Clayton: Coach, can you give me a cheeseburger?
453
00:20:16,200 –> 00:20:17,559
Coach Jim Clayton: He ain’t even talking about money.
454
00:20:17,559 –> 00:20:20,360
Coach Jim Clayton: Like didn’t how much am I going to get paid?
455
00:20:19,880 –> 00:20:26,600
Coach Jim Clayton: Well that turns me off right there because because you know if if i it’s it’s not about it’s about the money.
456
00:20:26,600 –> 00:20:29,160
Coach Jim Clayton: Money’s important, but it’s not about the money.
457
00:20:29,160 –> 00:20:31,720
Coach Jim Clayton: If money’s your main driving force, you won’t have any
458
00:20:32,100 –> 00:20:32,820
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.
459
00:20:32,820 –> 00:20:38,100
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, you you gotta be, I call it, I call it mission oriented, not position oriented.
460
00:20:38,100 –> 00:20:39,700
Coach Jim Clayton: See, mission is about the team.
461
00:20:39,700 –> 00:20:43,299
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s about making what’s the best, you know, it’s like the faculty, it’s like your
462
00:20:43,860 –> 00:20:46,419
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s like your classroom, the best ever.
463
00:20:46,419 –> 00:20:49,059
Coach Jim Clayton: Mission oriented, it’s about you.
464
00:20:49,059 –> 00:20:50,260
Coach Jim Clayton: And it’s all about you.
465
00:20:50,260 –> 00:20:52,019
Coach Jim Clayton: And if you don’t get what you want there, you go someplace else.
466
00:20:52,019 –> 00:20:53,779
Coach Jim Clayton: If you don’t want you right there, you go someplace else.
467
00:20:53,779 –> 00:20:55,059
Coach Jim Clayton: So you’re always bouncing around.
468
00:20:55,059 –> 00:20:56,659
Coach Jim Clayton: You never stick to nothing
469
00:20:56,620 –> 00:21:00,780
Coach Jim Clayton: And that that’s not really gonna produce the best results.
470
00:21:00,780 –> 00:21:01,260
Coach Jim Clayton: Right.
471
00:21:01,260 –> 00:21:02,780
Coach Jim Clayton: But I I talk to people all the time.
472
00:21:02,780 –> 00:21:05,180
Coach Jim Clayton: I mean p th now through social media
473
00:21:05,260 –> 00:21:09,820
Coach Jim Clayton: I mean I get, you know, I I I sent a uh uh uh uh thing out yesterday.
474
00:21:09,820 –> 00:21:11,580
Coach Jim Clayton: One of my players was on the U.
475
00:21:11,580 –> 00:21:11,740
Coach Jim Clayton: S.
476
00:21:11,820 –> 00:21:12,620
Coach Jim Clayton: Olympic team.
477
00:21:12,620 –> 00:21:16,220
Coach Jim Clayton: They won the gold and the U eighteen and she’s going to Michigan.
478
00:21:15,500 –> 00:21:18,060
Coach Jim Clayton: I blew her up yesterday on my ends.
479
00:21:18,140 –> 00:21:20,860
Coach Jim Clayton: I said, big shit, big time, congrats.
480
00:21:20,860 –> 00:21:25,820
Coach Jim Clayton: And I said, man, Michigan’s so lucky to have you, and I’m going to tell you
481
00:21:25,660 –> 00:21:29,180
Coach Jim Clayton: I said it was an honor and a privilege to coach and teach you.
482
00:21:29,180 –> 00:21:31,500
Coach Jim Clayton: And I said, my heart is smiling right now.
483
00:21:31,500 –> 00:21:34,940
Coach Jim Clayton: She sent me a text back that would have blown you right off the wall.
484
00:21:35,020 –> 00:21:36,540
Coach Jim Clayton: I didn’t say that to get it back.
485
00:21:36,540 –> 00:21:37,100
Coach Jim Clayton: Right.
486
00:21:37,100 –> 00:21:38,940
Coach Jim Clayton: I said that because that’s how I felt.
487
00:21:39,820 –> 00:21:49,420
Coach Jim Clayton: And, you know, with with with the educational world today, with the way these whack some of these touchy touchy, you know, people post bad things.
488
00:21:49,560 –> 00:21:57,320
Coach Jim Clayton: It makes you want to back away from from the personal hands on like pat somebody on the back and say, I never
489
00:21:57,060 –> 00:22:02,580
Coach Jim Clayton: I never DDaved off of that and I wasn’t going to ever constrained to that because I never had those intentions.
490
00:22:02,580 –> 00:22:04,580
Coach Jim Clayton: And I think people know your intentions.
491
00:22:04,580 –> 00:22:05,220
Coach Jim Clayton: Right.
492
00:22:05,419 –> 00:22:06,780
Coach Jim Clayton: Because that’s how I coach.
493
00:22:06,780 –> 00:22:12,059
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m a hands, I’m a touch, I’m a touch, you know what I mean, high-five, pat you on the back, you know what I mean?
494
00:22:12,059 –> 00:22:17,740
Coach Jim Clayton: Put your hands where Yeah, I mean, on the ball, you know, I mean, I don’t even think twice about any of that because
495
00:22:18,320 –> 00:22:21,920
Coach Jim Clayton: Because it’s not where I was going, but the world is all changed.
496
00:22:21,920 –> 00:22:27,040
Coach Jim Clayton: And it’s just it you know, I I I miss certain aspects of teaching.
497
00:22:27,540 –> 00:22:29,780
Coach Jim Clayton: But I don’t miss certain aspects of it.
498
00:22:29,780 –> 00:22:31,220
Coach Jim Clayton: But I’ve never really quit teaching.
499
00:22:31,220 –> 00:22:31,700
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh no, no.
500
00:22:31,860 –> 00:22:34,020
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, see, I’m just teaching here you’re not.
501
00:22:34,020 –> 00:22:37,140
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m see I and I’m teaching, you know, on my on my s my my
502
00:22:37,440 –> 00:22:46,720
Coach Jim Clayton: My my I I got a thing on my sometimes I put out called Clayton’s Court and I have a motivational sings that I pop out on that and talks that I do and things and
503
00:22:47,300 –> 00:22:57,140
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, I’m gonna constantly be putting this stuff out there because I’m around people that are teaching me so much good stuff.
504
00:22:57,760 –> 00:22:58,880
Coach Jim Clayton: I can’t keep it to myself.
505
00:22:58,880 –> 00:23:02,400
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yeah, you gotta I gotta get it out there it’s called my twenty four hour rule.
506
00:23:02,400 –> 00:23:05,440
Coach Jim Clayton: If I learn something in twenty four hour that moves me
507
00:23:05,460 –> 00:23:06,820
Coach Jim Clayton: I gotta share it with somebody.
508
00:23:06,820 –> 00:23:07,220
Randy Black: Oh yeah.
509
00:23:07,220 –> 00:23:07,940
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s going out there.
510
00:23:07,940 –> 00:23:11,380
Coach Jim Clayton: Now it might go right over some closed mindsets.
511
00:23:11,780 –> 00:23:13,140
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, people that
512
00:23:13,060 –> 00:23:14,260
Coach Jim Clayton: This is the way it’s gonna be.
513
00:23:14,260 –> 00:23:18,020
Coach Jim Clayton: And you know, I don’t care what you say to me, you know, I’m never changing anything.
514
00:23:18,020 –> 00:23:23,860
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, and I’ve always wanted to do a shirt to one of these days I’m gonna do it that says, no change, no change.
515
00:23:23,860 –> 00:23:27,540
Coach Jim Clayton: Because change is a tough thing for people.
516
00:23:26,840 –> 00:23:28,280
Coach Jim Clayton: And I’m always willing to change.
517
00:23:28,280 –> 00:23:30,760
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m always willing to try to be a better because I’m a lifelong learner.
518
00:23:31,240 –> 00:23:32,039
Coach Jim Clayton: I’ll try some things.
519
00:23:32,039 –> 00:23:35,640
Coach Jim Clayton: It might not work for me, but I’ll tweak it and do some whatever, but I’m not
520
00:23:35,660 –> 00:23:43,660
Coach Jim Clayton: I’ve not got a closed mindset on, and at Midland, when we were teaching at Midland, they’re a little bit together, they did more
521
00:23:44,580 –> 00:23:52,980
Coach Jim Clayton: stuff, staff development things for the that for the staff than I’ve ever went through in all my years of
522
00:23:53,080 –> 00:23:58,200
Coach Jim Clayton: uh teaching and I implemented tons of that stuff, bits and pieces of it.
523
00:23:58,200 –> 00:24:03,160
Coach Jim Clayton: But there were always the ones You know, the grumblers in the back of the auditorium.
524
00:24:03,160 –> 00:24:07,960
Randy Black: I you know, I when I w when I was in my job as as technology integration specialist at Huntington Middle,
525
00:24:08,040 –> 00:24:10,840
Randy Black: I learned that there are really three groups of teachers.
526
00:24:10,840 –> 00:24:13,640
Randy Black: Especially when it comes to technology, but just three groups of teachers in general.
527
00:24:13,640 –> 00:24:16,920
Randy Black: The first group is willing to stick their neck out.
528
00:24:16,920 –> 00:24:20,600
Randy Black: They’re willing to try anything because it might be best for the kids.
529
00:24:20,600 –> 00:24:21,080
Randy Black: Yes.
530
00:24:21,080 –> 00:24:22,520
Randy Black: That’s the group that
531
00:24:22,720 –> 00:24:24,240
Randy Black: every administrator loves.
532
00:24:24,240 –> 00:24:28,080
Randy Black: That’s the group that as a tech coach I loved because they’re willing to do anything.
533
00:24:28,080 –> 00:24:35,600
Randy Black: Your second group are the people who’ve been at this a really long time and they’re in a rut and what they have works for them
534
00:24:35,840 –> 00:24:38,000
Randy Black: whether it works or not for the kids.
535
00:24:38,000 –> 00:24:38,400
Randy Black: Right.
536
00:24:38,640 –> 00:24:40,320
Randy Black: They want to they don’t want to change.
537
00:24:40,320 –> 00:24:50,559
Randy Black: Uh and then the the third group are in between and a lot of times they’re willing to try something new, but they won’t ask for help.
538
00:24:50,240 –> 00:24:54,160
Randy Black: And if they fail, they tend to to to shut down.
539
00:24:54,160 –> 00:24:56,000
Randy Black: And they don’t they don’t ever revisit it.
540
00:24:56,000 –> 00:24:58,559
Randy Black: You know, I loved working with the people in that first group.
541
00:24:58,840 –> 00:25:04,600
Randy Black: I loved pushing the people in that second group to try to get them into that first group or the third group to get them in the third group.
542
00:25:04,600 –> 00:25:07,880
Randy Black: That’s that group in the middle, the ones who don’t want to change.
543
00:25:07,940 –> 00:25:08,899
Randy Black: They’re tough.
544
00:25:08,899 –> 00:25:15,779
Randy Black: And I learned that as as frustrated and as as angry as I would get with these people because they didn’t want to change anything
545
00:25:16,320 –> 00:25:20,640
Randy Black: that I had to just I had to pull back and just keep feeding them ideas.
546
00:25:20,640 –> 00:25:22,000
Randy Black: Keep presenting stuff to them.
547
00:25:22,000 –> 00:25:25,440
Randy Black: Keep trying to to get them to see something different that might help.
548
00:25:26,160 –> 00:25:36,560
Randy Black: I c I can tell you it was a rough two and a half years in that job because I had a I had a big group in that in that middle group, but the ones who were willing to work and willing to try things new.
549
00:25:36,260 –> 00:25:36,820
Randy Black: I loved it.
550
00:25:36,820 –> 00:25:38,100
Randy Black: And that was the part of the job I loved.
551
00:25:38,100 –> 00:25:41,460
Randy Black: And it’s that way in all of education, not just with technology, but with education in general.
552
00:25:41,460 –> 00:25:43,940
Randy Black: You break you can break teachers down into those groups.
553
00:25:43,940 –> 00:25:45,299
Coach Jim Clayton: You nailed them.
554
00:25:45,040 –> 00:25:45,920
Coach Jim Clayton: You nailed them.
555
00:25:45,920 –> 00:25:47,280
Coach Jim Clayton: I’ve never heard it put that way.
556
00:25:47,600 –> 00:25:48,560
Coach Jim Clayton: But you’re dead on.
557
00:25:48,560 –> 00:25:52,960
Coach Jim Clayton: I was in the first one and the third, I tell you right now, look, I’m gonna hit something.
558
00:25:57,419 –> 00:25:59,419
Coach Jim Clayton: Super nice guy, awesome guy.
559
00:25:59,419 –> 00:26:00,220
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, Jeff.
560
00:26:00,220 –> 00:26:00,700
Coach Jim Clayton: Jeff.
561
00:26:00,700 –> 00:26:00,940
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.
562
00:26:00,940 –> 00:26:06,140
Coach Jim Clayton: I’d say, Jeff, I’m going to tell you right now, I’m going to hit a button and I’m going to mess this up.
563
00:26:06,140 –> 00:26:08,059
Coach Jim Clayton: He goes, you can’t mess it up.
564
00:26:08,059 –> 00:26:08,700
Coach Jim Clayton: I said
565
00:26:08,740 –> 00:26:10,820
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, can I get that in writing?
566
00:26:10,820 –> 00:26:12,340
Coach Jim Clayton: Because I’m going to mess it up.
567
00:26:12,340 –> 00:26:13,860
Coach Jim Clayton: And I said, Jeff, I messed it up.
568
00:26:13,860 –> 00:26:15,540
Coach Jim Clayton: He goes, okay, let me come down and check.
569
00:26:15,700 –> 00:26:17,060
Coach Jim Clayton: But I was trying to learn.
570
00:26:17,060 –> 00:26:19,060
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yeah, I was trying to put it in there
571
00:26:19,200 –> 00:26:29,360
Coach Jim Clayton: And uh, you know, it’s what I found out was that as I was trying to do it, the kids knew how to do more than I did, and they they shared stuff with me.
572
00:26:29,260 –> 00:26:30,860
Coach Jim Clayton: I said, how do you do that?
573
00:26:30,860 –> 00:26:32,380
Coach Jim Clayton: Man, I just know how to do it, coach.
574
00:26:32,380 –> 00:26:34,059
Coach Jim Clayton: I said, man, that’s awesome.
575
00:26:34,059 –> 00:26:38,860
Coach Jim Clayton: I said, you might want to think about going into that later in life because you’re good at this.
576
00:26:38,860 –> 00:26:39,419
Coach Jim Clayton: He goes.
577
00:26:39,560 –> 00:26:40,680
Coach Jim Clayton: I’ve never had any training.
578
00:26:40,680 –> 00:26:42,680
Coach Jim Clayton: I said, you just c you just know how to do it.
579
00:26:42,680 –> 00:26:43,960
Coach Jim Clayton: I said, that’s awesome.
580
00:26:43,960 –> 00:26:45,240
Coach Jim Clayton: I said, I don’t know how to do it.
581
00:26:46,200 –> 00:26:51,080
Coach Jim Clayton: Probably the word that describes the the one word I wish that I wasn’t is I’m a very impatient person.
582
00:26:52,100 –> 00:26:56,500
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m, oh, I know I I want things done like now.
583
00:26:56,500 –> 00:26:58,100
Coach Jim Clayton: And I know they can’t be done now.
584
00:26:58,100 –> 00:26:58,500
Coach Jim Clayton: Right.
585
00:26:58,500 –> 00:27:01,940
Coach Jim Clayton: See, so if I want something done, I can pretty much do it right now myself.
586
00:27:02,040 –> 00:27:03,240
Coach Jim Clayton: But it takes time.
587
00:27:03,240 –> 00:27:05,800
Coach Jim Clayton: Good things take time and you gotta play but I’m getting better at it.
588
00:27:05,800 –> 00:27:10,680
Coach Jim Clayton: But I w the bigger thing was I wasn’t asked I wasn’t ashamed to ask for help.
589
00:27:10,680 –> 00:27:11,480
Randy Black: Yeah.
590
00:27:11,440 –> 00:27:13,440
Randy Black: That’s that’s the hard part for a lot of people.
591
00:27:13,440 –> 00:27:16,639
Coach Jim Clayton: I I’m I’m first one to go hey can you help me can you show me how to do this?
592
00:27:16,639 –> 00:27:17,679
Coach Jim Clayton: What am I doing wrong?
593
00:27:17,679 –> 00:27:18,720
Coach Jim Clayton: You got a minute?
594
00:27:18,720 –> 00:27:19,840
Coach Jim Clayton: Right you know what I mean?
595
00:27:19,840 –> 00:27:24,480
Randy Black: Oh I I remember I remember I remember I remember a day specifically we were when we were at Midland
596
00:27:24,519 –> 00:27:31,880
Randy Black: where you and I both were standing outside Kelly Daniels’ office talking to her and there was something you were trying to do and you were you were just like, I don’t know how to do it.
597
00:27:31,880 –> 00:27:32,360
Randy Black: And that’s like
598
00:27:32,300 –> 00:27:32,940
Randy Black: So go back to your room.
599
00:27:32,940 –> 00:27:33,500
Randy Black: We’ll take care of it.
600
00:27:33,820 –> 00:27:36,780
Randy Black: And we went back to your room and we and we we looked at it and I helped you through it.
601
00:27:36,780 –> 00:27:38,140
Randy Black: And you were like, thank you.
602
00:27:38,220 –> 00:27:40,620
Randy Black: He’s like, and you were and you were so willing to learn how to do everything.
603
00:27:40,700 –> 00:27:42,220
Coach Jim Clayton: I want to learn how to do everything.
604
00:27:42,220 –> 00:27:47,260
Randy Black: So and that’s that’s the role that we need to have or the mindset we need.
605
00:27:46,519 –> 00:27:50,840
Randy Black: All educators to begin because if they’re in the mindset, the kids are going to get in that mindset.
606
00:27:50,840 –> 00:27:52,440
Randy Black: It’s all about it’s all about that growth mindset.
607
00:27:53,799 –> 00:27:55,159
Coach Jim Clayton: I taught through stories.
608
00:27:55,159 –> 00:27:56,440
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m a storyteller
609
00:27:56,740 –> 00:27:57,860
Coach Jim Clayton: And I wasn’t afraid.
610
00:27:57,940 –> 00:28:00,020
Coach Jim Clayton: So let me tell you I messed this up.
611
00:28:00,340 –> 00:28:08,580
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, see, I I told them about things I did that were the dumbest things that that produced and and they look at me and say, You seriously did that?
612
00:28:08,660 –> 00:28:10,500
Coach Jim Clayton: I said, Oh yeah, I did it
613
00:28:10,519 –> 00:28:14,120
Coach Jim Clayton: So it gave them, it kind of dropped their their their gloves a little bit.
614
00:28:14,519 –> 00:28:15,240
Coach Jim Clayton: And opened them up.
615
00:28:15,240 –> 00:28:20,440
Coach Jim Clayton: It took took them and I said, you know, let me tell you, but let me tell you, let me tell you how I got this turned around.
616
00:28:20,940 –> 00:28:21,820
Coach Jim Clayton: It wasn’t.
617
00:28:21,820 –> 00:28:25,500
Coach Jim Clayton: It was somebody that was your age, show me something that I did changed it all for me.
618
00:28:25,980 –> 00:28:27,340
Coach Jim Clayton: Like, wow.
619
00:28:27,340 –> 00:28:33,180
Coach Jim Clayton: They didn’t think, you mean we got the power to kind of see that they just see it so different.
620
00:28:32,560 –> 00:28:37,040
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s not a power s it’s not a position, power position talking down to people.
621
00:28:40,960 –> 00:28:43,200
Coach Jim Clayton: Never would I talk down to anybody.
622
00:28:43,200 –> 00:28:44,880
Coach Jim Clayton: I don’t care who you are.
623
00:28:44,540 –> 00:28:48,460
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, I’m not doing it because I don’t have the right to do it.
624
00:28:49,180 –> 00:28:53,340
Coach Jim Clayton: And you know, you know, just because you have a title
625
00:28:53,720 –> 00:28:58,760
Coach Jim Clayton: That doesn’t give you power, but there are a lot of people in education that have titles.
626
00:28:59,320 –> 00:29:00,920
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, there are our power players.
627
00:29:00,920 –> 00:29:04,360
Coach Jim Clayton: You’ve met them, I’ve met them, and they don’t last long.
628
00:29:04,440 –> 00:29:04,760
Coach Jim Clayton: And
629
00:29:05,240 –> 00:29:09,480
Coach Jim Clayton: They don’t have a good cohesiveness and chemistry with their team.
630
00:29:09,480 –> 00:29:11,000
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, their staff.
631
00:29:11,000 –> 00:29:13,320
Coach Jim Clayton: And I mean, that’s just like building a basketball team.
632
00:29:13,320 –> 00:29:13,720
Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.
633
00:29:13,720 –> 00:29:15,080
Coach Jim Clayton: Your staff is your team.
634
00:29:15,080 –> 00:29:15,640
Randy Black: Yeah.
635
00:29:15,640 –> 00:29:17,640
Coach Jim Clayton: And the bottom line here is
636
00:29:17,860 –> 00:29:24,580
Coach Jim Clayton: If you don’t have a great culture and relationship with your team, your vision
637
00:29:25,480 –> 00:29:27,240
Coach Jim Clayton: Culture weight vision for lunch.
638
00:29:27,240 –> 00:29:27,960
Randy Black: Oh yeah.
639
00:29:27,960 –> 00:29:34,760
Coach Jim Clayton: Your vision could be the greatest vision in the world, but you’ve already got people turns you off, turns you off, turns you off, turns you off on day one.
640
00:29:35,260 –> 00:29:39,980
Coach Jim Clayton: And with education, you know, I could go get that master’s in administration.
641
00:29:39,980 –> 00:29:42,139
Coach Jim Clayton: I I I could have been administrator too.
642
00:29:42,620 –> 00:29:44,620
Coach Jim Clayton: But like you talked about earlier
643
00:29:44,760 –> 00:29:49,240
Coach Jim Clayton: I’ve been dealing 90% of the time with the negativity of all the stuff where the people don’t want to be there.
644
00:29:49,240 –> 00:29:49,559
Randy Black: Right.
645
00:29:49,559 –> 00:29:52,280
Coach Jim Clayton: I like being in the trenches with the with the troops.
646
00:29:52,280 –> 00:29:52,840
Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.
647
00:29:52,840 –> 00:29:54,840
Coach Jim Clayton: Get the mug, get down in there where let’s go.
648
00:29:54,840 –> 00:29:55,320
Coach Jim Clayton: Let’s go.
649
00:29:55,320 –> 00:29:57,000
Coach Jim Clayton: Let’s get right in the middle of it
650
00:29:57,280 –> 00:30:00,000
Coach Jim Clayton: And that’s what a that’s what I like to do.
651
00:30:00,000 –> 00:30:01,440
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, there’s my right hand man.
652
00:30:02,000 –> 00:30:04,880
Coach Jim Clayton: There’s my right hand man Alfie, you know, every hey
653
00:30:04,800 –> 00:30:07,120
Coach Jim Clayton: And that’s the thing about I I’ve had eight dogs.
654
00:30:07,120 –> 00:30:08,320
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m down to three now.
655
00:30:08,320 –> 00:30:10,000
Coach Jim Clayton: They’ve all lived fifteen, sixteen.
656
00:30:10,000 –> 00:30:11,600
Coach Jim Clayton: I got a sixteen-year-old lab in home.
657
00:30:11,600 –> 00:30:13,600
Coach Jim Clayton: This is my youngest one right here.
658
00:30:13,519 –> 00:30:19,679
Coach Jim Clayton: And, you know, the thing about dogs is, you know, they always treat you like we wish we treated everybody else.
659
00:30:19,679 –> 00:30:21,120
Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.
660
00:30:21,120 –> 00:30:24,240
Coach Jim Clayton: And, you know, he’s just the happiest, go luckiest guy.
661
00:30:24,240 –> 00:30:25,679
Coach Jim Clayton: I cannot believe somebody
662
00:30:25,840 –> 00:30:27,200
Coach Jim Clayton: got rid of that dog.
663
00:30:27,200 –> 00:30:29,280
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, and I’m a dog lover.
664
00:30:29,280 –> 00:30:33,360
Coach Jim Clayton: I I I’m I’m a sucker for all the dog stories and the videos on.
665
00:30:33,360 –> 00:30:37,120
Coach Jim Clayton: I mean, I s can’t believe that people do that kind of stuff.
666
00:30:37,120 –> 00:30:39,360
Coach Jim Clayton: But yeah, you know, that’s the thing about being
667
00:30:39,540 –> 00:30:44,180
Coach Jim Clayton: A good coach, good teacher, a good person, a good parent, you know, all those things.
668
00:30:44,180 –> 00:30:45,460
Coach Jim Clayton: You gotta have a heart.
669
00:30:45,460 –> 00:30:46,180
Randy Black: Yeah.
670
00:30:46,180 –> 00:30:48,660
Coach Jim Clayton: You can’t have that steel, you know, you gotta have
671
00:30:48,760 –> 00:30:51,400
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, you gotta you’ve gotta be able to get emotional.
672
00:30:51,640 –> 00:30:55,160
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, they see you, they see certain things that, you know, crack me up.
673
00:30:55,160 –> 00:30:56,919
Coach Jim Clayton: I said, now I’m gonna tell you something, I’m gonna watch this movie.
674
00:30:56,919 –> 00:31:01,720
Coach Jim Clayton: I tell my students, I says, now, right in the middle of the movie, there’s certain parts that just hit me
675
00:31:01,940 –> 00:31:04,580
Coach Jim Clayton: I don’t care if I watched it 30 times.
676
00:31:04,580 –> 00:31:06,419
Coach Jim Clayton: Something’s going to draw a nerve in me.
677
00:31:06,419 –> 00:31:10,659
Coach Jim Clayton: So I’m just going to tell you, I ain’t going to drop a big tear right here on there looking like, you do that?
678
00:31:10,980 –> 00:31:11,700
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yeah.
679
00:31:11,700 –> 00:31:13,700
Coach Jim Clayton: But if you see me turn around
680
00:31:13,919 –> 00:31:19,039
Coach Jim Clayton: And look at the computer or do something, I’m just regaining, I’m re- refocusing my thoughts.
681
00:31:19,039 –> 00:31:20,080
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m not doing that.
682
00:31:20,720 –> 00:31:23,200
Coach Jim Clayton: And every time I do that, they’re all looking at me
683
00:31:22,960 –> 00:31:24,640
Coach Jim Clayton: I said, I know y’all are looking at me.
684
00:31:24,640 –> 00:31:26,000
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, they’ll be back there.
685
00:31:26,000 –> 00:31:26,640
Coach Jim Clayton: I’ll be here.
686
00:31:26,640 –> 00:31:28,320
Coach Jim Clayton: They go, I know you’re looking at me.
687
00:31:28,320 –> 00:31:29,840
Coach Jim Clayton: And they go, yeah, we’re looking at you.
688
00:31:29,840 –> 00:31:31,040
Coach Jim Clayton: I said, I’m good
689
00:31:31,160 –> 00:31:35,080
Coach Jim Clayton: And they’d see that that just that adds that that just adds something.
690
00:31:35,320 –> 00:31:36,680
Randy Black: It makes you more human to them.
691
00:31:36,840 –> 00:31:38,280
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah, that’s a good way of putting it.
692
00:31:38,280 –> 00:31:41,880
Coach Jim Clayton: That’s a good way of putting it because that’s all I want to be.
693
00:31:41,880 –> 00:31:42,520
Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.
694
00:31:42,520 –> 00:31:45,880
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m just the transfer of I’m just trying to teach you things.
695
00:31:46,080 –> 00:31:53,120
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, that you’re going and and you know, I had a a little girl the other day who I can remember the first day she walked in because her name’s Amber Ross.
696
00:31:53,120 –> 00:31:55,679
Coach Jim Clayton: She’s going she’s her final semester now at Marshall.
697
00:31:55,679 –> 00:31:57,039
Coach Jim Clayton: She’s gonna be a teacher
698
00:31:57,300 –> 00:32:06,020
Coach Jim Clayton: And she sends me stuff of things that she’s done that she’s basically talked about teaching my class.
699
00:32:05,960 –> 00:32:07,560
Coach Jim Clayton: And I said, let me tell you something.
700
00:32:07,560 –> 00:32:15,240
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, she didn’t she was as quiet when it sat there, you know, and I had her her fiance in my homeroom and he’s a smart guy, and they’re both really smart
701
00:32:15,160 –> 00:32:20,280
Coach Jim Clayton: And they’re going to be married, and I said, you’re going to be an awesome teacher.
702
00:32:20,280 –> 00:32:23,240
Coach Jim Clayton: And she’s going, I can’t believe it
703
00:32:23,680 –> 00:32:25,760
Coach Jim Clayton: And she’s just constantly going, thank you, man.
704
00:32:25,760 –> 00:32:26,080
Coach Jim Clayton: Thank you.
705
00:32:26,080 –> 00:32:27,600
Coach Jim Clayton: You’ve but you were the reason I went.
706
00:32:27,680 –> 00:32:33,200
Coach Jim Clayton: I mean, I said, well, you know, I said, you some people just are made for that, and you’re one of them.
707
00:32:33,200 –> 00:32:34,160
Randy Black: Yeah.
708
00:32:33,660 –> 00:32:36,620
Coach Jim Clayton: And you know, it’s just a constant positive what?
709
00:32:36,620 –> 00:32:40,540
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s get going back to the band, getting people to what?
710
00:32:40,540 –> 00:32:42,060
Coach Jim Clayton: Really believe in themselves.
711
00:32:42,060 –> 00:32:42,700
Randy Black: Exactly.
712
00:32:42,700 –> 00:32:46,540
Coach Jim Clayton: And when you believe in yourself, the world is your plate, man
713
00:32:46,480 –> 00:32:49,840
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, your canvas, you can paint anything you want.
714
00:32:49,840 –> 00:32:51,520
Coach Jim Clayton: And it never stops.
715
00:32:51,520 –> 00:32:51,760
Randy Black: Yeah.
716
00:32:51,920 –> 00:32:53,760
Coach Jim Clayton: And we have those ups and downs.
717
00:32:53,760 –> 00:32:58,320
Coach Jim Clayton: And sometimes you they d they know where to redirect to find
718
00:32:59,179 –> 00:33:01,019
Coach Jim Clayton: Some positive influence.
719
00:33:01,019 –> 00:33:02,059
Coach Jim Clayton: They know where to go.
720
00:33:02,539 –> 00:33:03,659
Coach Jim Clayton: They don’t forget that.
721
00:33:03,659 –> 00:33:05,340
Randy Black: And I don’t want them to forget that.
722
00:33:05,340 –> 00:33:08,059
Randy Black: You’ve been able to leverage your skills
723
00:33:08,040 –> 00:33:11,640
Randy Black: as an educator and as a coach into this business.
724
00:33:11,640 –> 00:33:13,080
Randy Black: And you’re successful.
725
00:33:13,080 –> 00:33:16,120
Randy Black: You you are 27 years we’ve been here this October.
726
00:33:16,120 –> 00:33:17,000
Randy Black: It’s awesome.
727
00:33:17,400 –> 00:33:19,720
Randy Black: You were and you were one of the first in the country.
728
00:33:19,720 –> 00:33:21,640
Coach Jim Clayton: Nobody really did this before this.
729
00:33:21,640 –> 00:33:27,240
Coach Jim Clayton: I mean you really when I started this in nineteen ninety two, if you wanted there was there was no such thing as a basketball lesson.
730
00:33:27,640 –> 00:33:29,880
Coach Jim Clayton: Now you could get a tennis lesson
731
00:33:29,640 –> 00:33:38,920
Coach Jim Clayton: You could get a karate lesson, you could get a violin lesson, you could get a guitar lesson, but there was no like structured broke down
732
00:33:39,540 –> 00:33:41,940
Coach Jim Clayton: you know, step by step how to do this.
733
00:33:42,180 –> 00:33:44,980
Coach Jim Clayton: And so I went back and I said, I’m going to create one.
734
00:33:44,980 –> 00:33:47,380
Coach Jim Clayton: And so I started just putting stuff together.
735
00:33:47,380 –> 00:33:48,340
Coach Jim Clayton: I didn’t I
736
00:33:48,380 –> 00:33:59,340
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, I tried to look for years, try to I tried to get the Calvin County to let me some of the schools they were closed and I tried to get Jerry Brewster to let me get a get in the facility and use it instead of tearing it down and letting it sit vacant and wouldn’t let me do nothing.
737
00:33:59,340 –> 00:34:01,020
Coach Jim Clayton: So I finally I found this little warehouse on
738
00:34:01,419 –> 00:34:06,780
Coach Jim Clayton: on Third Avenue and I converted it into a little gym and I started it.
739
00:34:06,780 –> 00:34:08,220
Coach Jim Clayton: I didn’t know anything.
740
00:34:08,220 –> 00:34:08,540
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay
741
00:34:08,800 –> 00:34:12,720
Coach Jim Clayton: I mean it it’s I said, you know, there’s well, it’s not the right time.
742
00:34:12,720 –> 00:34:13,760
Coach Jim Clayton: There’s no right time.
743
00:34:14,160 –> 00:34:15,120
Coach Jim Clayton: You just gotta jump.
744
00:34:15,120 –> 00:34:16,160
Coach Jim Clayton: You gotta leap.
745
00:34:16,160 –> 00:34:16,560
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.
746
00:34:16,560 –> 00:34:18,080
Coach Jim Clayton: Well I’m not smart enough
747
00:34:17,859 –> 00:34:18,820
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah you are.
748
00:34:18,820 –> 00:34:19,379
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.
749
00:34:19,379 –> 00:34:20,579
Coach Jim Clayton: I don’t know what I’m doing.
750
00:34:20,579 –> 00:34:21,220
Coach Jim Clayton: Who cares?
751
00:34:21,220 –> 00:34:21,780
Coach Jim Clayton: Just do it.
752
00:34:22,099 –> 00:34:22,980
Randy Black: It’ll fall into place.
753
00:34:23,220 –> 00:34:24,820
Randy Black: It’s the whole idea of fake it till you make it.
754
00:34:24,820 –> 00:34:25,220
Randy Black: Go.
755
00:34:25,220 –> 00:34:28,820
Randy Black: You know, you don’t if you don’t try, you’re not going to see if you can be successful.
756
00:34:28,820 –> 00:34:31,460
Randy Black: That’s you know with with doing a podcast
757
00:34:31,340 –> 00:34:33,340
Randy Black: I jumped out there and said, I’m just gonna do it.
758
00:34:33,740 –> 00:34:34,380
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m just gonna do it.
759
00:34:34,860 –> 00:34:35,340
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m gonna do it.
760
00:34:35,580 –> 00:34:36,540
Coach Jim Clayton: I see your equipment on the table.
761
00:34:39,780 –> 00:34:40,659
Coach Jim Clayton: But you could show me.
762
00:34:40,659 –> 00:34:44,740
Randy Black: I and you know I I looked at doing I write I looked at I did.
763
00:34:44,740 –> 00:34:48,500
Randy Black: I tried to do a podcast for my students when I was teaching at Enslow and that was
764
00:34:48,720 –> 00:34:54,799
Randy Black: 2007, 2008, and the technology just wasn’t in the kids’ hand to hands to consume it.
765
00:34:54,799 –> 00:34:55,200
Randy Black: Right.
766
00:34:55,200 –> 00:34:56,799
Randy Black: So I had attempted before
767
00:34:56,800 –> 00:35:05,760
Randy Black: Well, I got to this and I said, I I want to give people the opportunity to share what they’re doing from classrooms, from their schools, to share their stories.
768
00:35:05,820 –> 00:35:08,220
Randy Black: about whatever related education.
769
00:35:08,220 –> 00:35:09,740
Randy Black: And I said, I’m just gonna do it.
770
00:35:09,740 –> 00:35:13,580
Randy Black: And I I contacted a a buddy of mine who was an administrator in Work County at the time.
771
00:35:13,580 –> 00:35:16,060
Randy Black: He’s now over in Berkeley County in the far eastern side of the state.
772
00:35:16,220 –> 00:35:16,620
Randy Black: Been there.
773
00:35:16,620 –> 00:35:17,420
Randy Black: And he’s like
774
00:35:17,400 –> 00:35:19,240
Randy Black: He’s like, yeah, I’ll I’ll record with you.
775
00:35:19,240 –> 00:35:23,799
Randy Black: I contacted uh Mark Moore, who’s at the Department of Education as a coordinator in Charleston.
776
00:35:23,799 –> 00:35:25,160
Randy Black: He’s like, Yeah, we’ll do it.
777
00:35:25,160 –> 00:35:29,079
Randy Black: Uh and after I recorded that first night with with Derek,
778
00:35:29,520 –> 00:35:34,240
Randy Black: I got a and he tweeted something out and said, hey, I just finished recording with with Randy for this podcast.
779
00:35:34,240 –> 00:35:35,280
Randy Black: He’s ready to launch.
780
00:35:35,280 –> 00:35:36,160
Randy Black: Keep an eye out for it.
781
00:35:36,160 –> 00:35:37,839
Randy Black: It’s going to be coming out.
782
00:35:37,100 –> 00:35:40,060
Randy Black: I got a direct message from a guy who I didn’t know.
783
00:35:40,060 –> 00:35:41,260
Randy Black: He’s a former educator.
784
00:35:41,260 –> 00:35:43,100
Randy Black: He has an educational consulting business.
785
00:35:43,100 –> 00:35:44,700
Randy Black: His name’s Randall Sampson.
786
00:35:44,700 –> 00:35:45,100
Randy Black: Dr.
787
00:35:45,100 –> 00:35:47,420
Randy Black: Sampson, uh, he’s up in Columbus.
788
00:35:47,100 –> 00:35:49,820
Randy Black: And he sent me a message and goes, hey, I saw this.
789
00:35:49,820 –> 00:35:50,860
Randy Black: He said, I know Derek.
790
00:35:50,860 –> 00:35:51,820
Randy Black: I’ve met Derek.
791
00:35:51,820 –> 00:35:53,180
Randy Black: I’ve got a book coming out.
792
00:35:53,180 –> 00:35:55,740
Randy Black: I’d love to go on your podcast to talk to you about it.
793
00:35:55,740 –> 00:35:56,620
Randy Black: And I was like.
794
00:35:57,020 –> 00:35:58,140
Randy Black: Works for me.
795
00:35:58,380 –> 00:36:04,700
Randy Black: So I you know I set that up, started you know, talk to Randall, and he’s actually now been on the show twice, been on another time since then.
796
00:36:04,700 –> 00:36:07,180
Randy Black: You know, I stuck my neck out there to try this.
797
00:36:07,579 –> 00:36:11,660
Randy Black: And I tell everybody, I’m not I’m not making any money at this.
798
00:36:11,240 –> 00:36:13,400
Randy Black: My expenses on this are really, really low.
799
00:36:13,400 –> 00:36:15,640
Randy Black: So I’m not, you know, it’s not hurting me.
800
00:36:15,640 –> 00:36:20,840
Randy Black: I do this because I want to give s people the chance to share their story.
801
00:36:21,400 –> 00:36:24,920
Randy Black: You know, in education, we spend so much time hearing about the negative in the news.
802
00:36:24,920 –> 00:36:30,920
Randy Black: Hear about the teacher that got arrested for a DUI or had an inappropriate relationship with the student who
803
00:36:31,359 –> 00:36:33,760
Randy Black: sent material to a student they shouldn’t have.
804
00:36:33,760 –> 00:36:36,880
Randy Black: You know, I experienced that one directly, but we won’t go into it.
805
00:36:36,880 –> 00:36:40,880
Randy Black: Um that’s the stuff that you always hear about.
806
00:36:40,740 –> 00:36:42,820
Randy Black: You don’t hear the positive stuff very often.
807
00:36:42,820 –> 00:36:43,140
Randy Black: True.
808
00:36:43,140 –> 00:36:45,700
Randy Black: So this is a platform to get that stuff out there.
809
00:36:45,700 –> 00:36:51,220
Randy Black: And, you know, it’s all about me building the relationships with the people who come on the show.
810
00:36:51,320 –> 00:36:56,120
Randy Black: And then they can reach out to other people and go, hey, I sat down and talked with Randy.
811
00:36:56,120 –> 00:36:57,960
Randy Black: And his he has a pretty good podcast.
812
00:36:57,960 –> 00:36:59,640
Randy Black: You know, we talked about education stuff.
813
00:36:59,640 –> 00:37:00,760
Randy Black: We just talked.
814
00:37:00,640 –> 00:37:04,079
Randy Black: And that’s the kind of stuff I want to do because it gives people a chance to talk.
815
00:37:04,079 –> 00:37:08,400
Randy Black: You know, I reached out to you, gosh, it was October of last year when I first reached out.
816
00:37:08,400 –> 00:37:08,720
Randy Black: Yeah.
817
00:37:08,720 –> 00:37:10,880
Randy Black: And we just never, I never was able to
818
00:37:11,160 –> 00:37:13,240
Randy Black: to get with you until recently.
819
00:37:13,240 –> 00:37:14,760
Coach Jim Clayton: I was thrilled when you sent me that.
820
00:37:14,760 –> 00:37:19,000
Randy Black: And that part of what happened and I didn’t tell you about this, part of what happened I had a MRSA infection.
821
00:37:19,000 –> 00:37:19,640
Randy Black: Oh my God.
822
00:37:19,640 –> 00:37:21,000
Randy Black: That they had to cut out of my arm.
823
00:37:21,000 –> 00:37:22,920
Randy Black: Uh so it knocked me out for a little while.
824
00:37:23,160 –> 00:37:25,960
Randy Black: Um that was that was back in March of this year.
825
00:37:25,760 –> 00:37:28,960
Randy Black: I was in the hospital for some days, off work for nine and a half.
826
00:37:28,960 –> 00:37:30,480
Randy Black: And it threw me off a little bit.
827
00:37:30,480 –> 00:37:34,960
Randy Black: And I’ve I’ve started to now get back into it, to get going again with doing this.
828
00:37:34,960 –> 00:37:39,360
Randy Black: So, you know, for me, this is about sharing people’s stories
829
00:37:39,340 –> 00:37:40,540
Randy Black: It’s not about me.
830
00:37:40,540 –> 00:37:40,940
Randy Black: Right.
831
00:37:40,940 –> 00:37:41,740
Randy Black: It’s never about me.
832
00:37:41,740 –> 00:37:43,260
Randy Black: No, I’m never about me either.
833
00:37:43,260 –> 00:37:45,420
Randy Black: You know, but you know, I can sit down with you.
834
00:37:45,420 –> 00:37:47,740
Randy Black: You know, recently I sat down with Todd Alexander, and you know Todd.
835
00:37:48,460 –> 00:37:51,580
Randy Black: I sat down with Ryan Sachs, who’s now the Superintendent Cabell County.
836
00:37:51,100 –> 00:37:53,180
Randy Black: I sat down, you know, with my son one day.
837
00:37:53,180 –> 00:38:04,220
Randy Black: My son and I sat down at our desk at the house and we recorded him talking about, you know, how his school year went and the things he learned and the successes he’s having, because that’s a story.
838
00:38:04,120 –> 00:38:07,960
Randy Black: Not just about him, but about the success that his school has.
839
00:38:07,960 –> 00:38:08,280
Randy Black: Right.
840
00:38:08,280 –> 00:38:09,160
Randy Black: Because he’s at a great school.
841
00:38:09,160 –> 00:38:11,000
Randy Black: He’s at Kellogg Elementary in Wayne County.
842
00:38:11,000 –> 00:38:12,600
Randy Black: And and it’s awesome.
843
00:38:12,680 –> 00:38:13,160
Randy Black: You know
844
00:38:13,720 –> 00:38:18,039
Randy Black: Everything is about leveraging something to put out the positive.
845
00:38:18,039 –> 00:38:18,520
Randy Black: Yes.
846
00:38:18,520 –> 00:38:23,720
Randy Black: And and you know, like I said at the beginning, the first time I met you, it was all about the positive stuff.
847
00:38:23,720 –> 00:38:25,960
Randy Black: It was all about positivity and the message you delivered.
848
00:38:25,960 –> 00:38:26,119
Randy Black: And
849
00:38:26,000 –> 00:38:28,560
Randy Black: And I’m you know I’m trying to do that now with this too.
850
00:38:28,560 –> 00:38:30,880
Randy Black: You know, and I see I see what you’re doing here.
851
00:38:30,880 –> 00:38:34,000
Randy Black: Now that you’re retired and you’re right, you’re full time in this business.
852
00:38:34,800 –> 00:38:36,080
Randy Black: You’re traveling all over the place.
853
00:38:36,400 –> 00:38:39,440
Randy Black: You’re working with high schools and teams all across the country.
854
00:38:39,440 –> 00:38:41,200
Randy Black: Um, you’re with Nike.
855
00:38:41,200 –> 00:38:44,000
Randy Black: You do stuff with Nike and go do coaching clinics.
856
00:38:44,000 –> 00:38:45,680
Randy Black: You know, that’s awesome.
857
00:38:45,600 –> 00:38:54,640
Randy Black: And it’s because you’ve built that brand built on that positive image and bringing those positive aspects out for students and athletes.
858
00:38:54,460 –> 00:38:55,420
Coach Jim Clayton: And that’s awesome.
859
00:38:55,420 –> 00:38:56,380
Coach Jim Clayton: Well, I appreciate that.
860
00:38:56,380 –> 00:38:59,500
Coach Jim Clayton: Well, you know, those old sayings, enthusiasm is is is is caught.
861
00:38:59,500 –> 00:39:00,460
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s not taught.
862
00:39:00,460 –> 00:39:01,020
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.
863
00:39:01,020 –> 00:39:02,860
Coach Jim Clayton: And so, you know
864
00:39:03,620 –> 00:39:10,340
Coach Jim Clayton: The thing about it is I asked anybody, I said I asked this year, I said, you guys have known me for twenty years.
865
00:39:10,340 –> 00:39:11,220
Coach Jim Clayton: Tell me
866
00:39:11,160 –> 00:39:13,080
Coach Jim Clayton: Am I the same right now as I was?
867
00:39:13,320 –> 00:39:15,800
Coach Jim Clayton: Am I am I have I lo you’re exactly the same.
868
00:39:15,800 –> 00:39:16,280
Randy Black: Mm-hmm.
869
00:39:16,280 –> 00:39:17,000
Coach Jim Clayton: That’s consistent.
870
00:39:17,000 –> 00:39:17,960
Coach Jim Clayton: This is what you’re gonna get.
871
00:39:17,960 –> 00:39:18,440
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.
872
00:39:18,440 –> 00:39:24,680
Coach Jim Clayton: When you come here and and so when a when a player comes in here, when a student leaves my classroom, here’s the deal.
873
00:39:24,680 –> 00:39:25,960
Coach Jim Clayton: Here’s my thing.
874
00:39:25,660 –> 00:39:30,540
Coach Jim Clayton: If you’re not better going out than you were coming in, I didn’t do my job.
875
00:39:30,540 –> 00:39:31,100
Coach Jim Clayton: Right.
876
00:39:31,340 –> 00:39:32,620
Coach Jim Clayton: That’s how I look at it.
877
00:39:33,420 –> 00:39:35,660
Coach Jim Clayton: And that’s got to be on a day-to-day basis.
878
00:39:35,660 –> 00:39:38,140
Coach Jim Clayton: It doesn’t care if I’m not feeling great.
879
00:39:38,320 –> 00:39:40,560
Coach Jim Clayton: The world don’t stop because you’re not feeling great.
880
00:39:40,560 –> 00:39:41,040
Coach Jim Clayton: Right.
881
00:39:41,040 –> 00:39:42,720
Coach Jim Clayton: You gotta get through it.
882
00:39:42,720 –> 00:39:44,400
Coach Jim Clayton: And I’ve just learned how to do that.
883
00:39:44,400 –> 00:39:46,560
Coach Jim Clayton: And it’s you know, I’m gonna tell you something else too.
884
00:39:46,560 –> 00:39:47,440
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, it it
885
00:39:47,740 –> 00:39:51,580
Coach Jim Clayton: When you’re the best way to stay younger is be around younger people.
886
00:39:52,220 –> 00:39:56,380
Coach Jim Clayton: So I’m always around younger people that got energy.
887
00:39:56,059 –> 00:39:58,059
Coach Jim Clayton: Sometimes it’s in it’s all over the place.
888
00:39:58,059 –> 00:39:58,299
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.
889
00:39:58,460 –> 00:40:00,460
Coach Jim Clayton: I can deal with that because I was all over the place too.
890
00:40:00,460 –> 00:40:02,380
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m I’m just I’m exactly like that.
891
00:40:02,380 –> 00:40:03,260
Coach Jim Clayton: Uh-huh.
892
00:40:03,260 –> 00:40:03,579
Coach Jim Clayton: And
893
00:40:04,140 –> 00:40:09,339
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, making them feel good, making them be come they know where they’re coming, part of the team.
894
00:40:09,339 –> 00:40:16,859
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, nobody’s really it doesn’t matter how smart y’all doesn’t have a good jar or how if you’re at where where your level is of what you’re doing
895
00:40:16,680 –> 00:40:18,600
Coach Jim Clayton: you’re all accepted exactly the same.
896
00:40:18,600 –> 00:40:19,400
Randy Black: Mm-hmm.
897
00:40:19,400 –> 00:40:21,880
Coach Jim Clayton: And see in a lot of places it’s not like that.
898
00:40:21,880 –> 00:40:24,600
Coach Jim Clayton: And when kids find that a that vehicle
899
00:40:24,460 –> 00:40:26,300
Coach Jim Clayton: Boy, they like to get in it right.
900
00:40:26,300 –> 00:40:26,860
Coach Jim Clayton: Uh-huh.
901
00:40:26,860 –> 00:40:29,260
Coach Jim Clayton: And, you know, like I s I’ve been fortunate enough to do it.
902
00:40:29,260 –> 00:40:32,380
Coach Jim Clayton: I’ve I’ve taken something that I’ve wanted to do.
903
00:40:32,380 –> 00:40:35,980
Coach Jim Clayton: And, you know, I mean, for me I’ve worked
904
00:40:36,059 –> 00:40:41,579
Coach Jim Clayton: For twenty-five years, I’ve worked pretty much 18 hours a day every day.
905
00:40:41,579 –> 00:40:50,539
Coach Jim Clayton: So like on some days when I used to just go not have to I would have to not I wouldn’t necessarily be here and I’d go to teach for eight hours, I think I was working a half a day.
906
00:40:50,400 –> 00:40:55,520
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, so but I I I I you know I knew what I wanted to do.
907
00:40:55,520 –> 00:40:59,920
Coach Jim Clayton: The passion gave me the energy and the drive to do it.
908
00:41:00,020 –> 00:41:02,260
Coach Jim Clayton: And I’ve never lost it.
909
00:41:02,260 –> 00:41:04,900
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, I’ve never lost it in all those years.
910
00:41:04,900 –> 00:41:06,740
Randy Black: And that that’s the hard thing for so many people.
911
00:41:06,900 –> 00:41:08,099
Coach Jim Clayton: I’ve never lost it
912
00:41:07,920 –> 00:41:10,960
Coach Jim Clayton: And I think I got it maybe more now than I ever have.
913
00:41:11,440 –> 00:41:11,920
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.
914
00:41:11,920 –> 00:41:14,960
Coach Jim Clayton: I don’t know necessarily how or why I got it
915
00:41:15,440 –> 00:41:18,000
Coach Jim Clayton: I just know well I do kind of know how my God.
916
00:41:18,000 –> 00:41:27,760
Coach Jim Clayton: I mean a lot of people don’t know, but you know, I was involved in a real serious accident when I was like 12, and I broke my neck, and I spent about 10 months in hospital flat on my back
917
00:41:27,840 –> 00:41:30,000
Coach Jim Clayton: And I was paralyzed for a while.
918
00:41:30,000 –> 00:41:30,480
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?
919
00:41:30,480 –> 00:41:32,960
Coach Jim Clayton: And I broke my C1, two, three, four, five.
920
00:41:32,960 –> 00:41:33,520
Coach Jim Clayton: Blew them out.
921
00:41:33,520 –> 00:41:35,440
Coach Jim Clayton: Most people don’t even survive on one of those.
922
00:41:35,440 –> 00:41:35,840
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.
923
00:41:35,840 –> 00:41:37,360
Coach Jim Clayton: I blew all five of them out.
924
00:41:37,360 –> 00:41:39,280
Coach Jim Clayton: And I was paralyzed for a while.
925
00:41:39,280 –> 00:41:42,080
Coach Jim Clayton: And things were not looking really good for me.
926
00:41:42,099 –> 00:41:46,020
Coach Jim Clayton: And I really shouldn’t even be alive, according to the medical experts.
927
00:41:46,020 –> 00:41:49,780
Coach Jim Clayton: But, you know, I re the paralysis went away
928
00:41:49,920 –> 00:41:52,080
Coach Jim Clayton: Uh I grew a foot.
929
00:41:52,080 –> 00:41:57,520
Coach Jim Clayton: I learned how to do something with I learned how to shoot a basketball that I never did before.
930
00:41:58,520 –> 00:42:00,200
Coach Jim Clayton: I got in a game.
931
00:42:00,200 –> 00:42:01,640
Coach Jim Clayton: I’ve stayed in a game.
932
00:42:01,640 –> 00:42:02,040
Randy Black: Yeah.
933
00:42:02,040 –> 00:42:05,480
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s just changed different different perspectives of the game.
934
00:42:05,480 –> 00:42:09,960
Coach Jim Clayton: And, you know, when when you get a second lease on life,
935
00:42:10,420 –> 00:42:13,060
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s hard for somebody to understand that that’s never been there.
936
00:42:13,060 –> 00:42:13,700
Randy Black: Right.
937
00:42:13,700 –> 00:42:16,660
Coach Jim Clayton: Where today you’re not sure if you’re going to see tomorrow.
938
00:42:16,660 –> 00:42:19,540
Coach Jim Clayton: And you do get a chance, there’s only one reason I’m sitting here.
939
00:42:19,540 –> 00:42:20,500
Coach Jim Clayton: Only one reason.
940
00:42:20,500 –> 00:42:22,100
Coach Jim Clayton: And that’s the man upstairs.
941
00:42:22,500 –> 00:42:25,060
Coach Jim Clayton: There’s no other reason that I’m here.
942
00:42:25,660 –> 00:42:28,380
Coach Jim Clayton: And he had a plan for me.
943
00:42:28,380 –> 00:42:30,300
Coach Jim Clayton: And this was my plan.
944
00:42:30,300 –> 00:42:31,980
Coach Jim Clayton: And it’s not over yet.
945
00:42:32,060 –> 00:42:32,540
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?
946
00:42:32,540 –> 00:42:35,099
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s not even close to being over.
947
00:42:35,520 –> 00:42:36,320
Coach Jim Clayton: For me.
948
00:42:36,320 –> 00:42:39,040
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, it’s not just about this gym.
949
00:42:39,040 –> 00:42:40,880
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s this a big world out there.
950
00:42:41,200 –> 00:42:48,080
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, and through technology and things, you can conquer the world and be out there and never leave this room
951
00:42:48,299 –> 00:42:50,299
Coach Jim Clayton: Which I want to learn about.
952
00:42:50,299 –> 00:42:51,180
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?
953
00:42:51,180 –> 00:42:55,819
Coach Jim Clayton: And you know, that’s the stuff that floats my boat every day, man.
954
00:42:55,819 –> 00:42:58,859
Coach Jim Clayton: I get up fired up about it every day.
955
00:42:58,840 –> 00:43:00,200
Coach Jim Clayton: you know, learning new things.
956
00:43:00,200 –> 00:43:03,080
Coach Jim Clayton: I have people I listen to every day, John Maxwell.
957
00:43:03,160 –> 00:43:04,200
Coach Jim Clayton: I talk to him.
958
00:43:04,200 –> 00:43:06,120
Coach Jim Clayton: He’s sharing ideas and things I can do.
959
00:43:06,120 –> 00:43:07,720
Coach Jim Clayton: And then I go share with other people.
960
00:43:08,099 –> 00:43:09,140
Coach Jim Clayton: And that’s all it is.
961
00:43:09,140 –> 00:43:09,700
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s a game.
962
00:43:09,780 –> 00:43:10,900
Coach Jim Clayton: I didn’t come up with it.
963
00:43:10,900 –> 00:43:12,740
Coach Jim Clayton: We don’t come up with everything that we learn.
964
00:43:12,740 –> 00:43:12,980
Coach Jim Clayton: Right.
965
00:43:13,140 –> 00:43:14,980
Coach Jim Clayton: We acquire it through people sharing it.
966
00:43:15,300 –> 00:43:16,180
Coach Jim Clayton: Some things I have
967
00:43:18,400 –> 00:43:18,720
Coach Jim Clayton: Right.
968
00:43:18,720 –> 00:43:19,920
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m a trailblazer.
969
00:43:19,920 –> 00:43:21,039
Coach Jim Clayton: I didn’t drive down the road.
970
00:43:21,039 –> 00:43:22,240
Coach Jim Clayton: I paved the road.
971
00:43:22,240 –> 00:43:26,319
Coach Jim Clayton: Now a lot of people are pa are are getting the benefits of that right now
972
00:43:26,440 –> 00:43:34,440
Coach Jim Clayton: So I’ve had the opportunity to in influence people to go into this and, you know, the question is, you know, will you stay as long as I did
973
00:43:34,740 –> 00:43:35,620
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, it’s tough.
974
00:43:35,620 –> 00:43:36,180
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s hard.
975
00:43:36,180 –> 00:43:36,980
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s hard.
976
00:43:36,980 –> 00:43:38,740
Coach Jim Clayton: Uh, because teaching’s not easy.
977
00:43:38,740 –> 00:43:40,820
Coach Jim Clayton: My friends go, Oh, you just teach school.
978
00:43:40,820 –> 00:43:42,900
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, let me tell you something, buddy.
979
00:43:42,840 –> 00:43:44,760
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, let me tell you something.
980
00:43:44,760 –> 00:43:48,840
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, you when you can’t talk to your kid about something, let me tell you I can.
981
00:43:48,840 –> 00:43:53,400
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, when you can’t get to the I mean, I saw this the other day and I got it somewhere
982
00:43:53,059 –> 00:43:55,940
Coach Jim Clayton: And this gentleman was talking about, oh you do is teach.
983
00:43:55,940 –> 00:43:57,220
Coach Jim Clayton: Well let me tell you what I do.
984
00:43:57,539 –> 00:43:59,220
Coach Jim Clayton: This guy, I don’t know if you’ve seen that guy.
985
00:43:59,700 –> 00:44:01,859
Coach Jim Clayton: I’ve seen it to send it to a lot of people.
986
00:44:02,099 –> 00:44:03,140
Coach Jim Clayton: He nailed it.
987
00:44:03,140 –> 00:44:03,619
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yeah.
988
00:44:03,619 –> 00:44:05,460
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh my gosh, did he nail it?
989
00:44:05,460 –> 00:44:07,859
Coach Jim Clayton: And at the end of the day, man.
990
00:44:07,620 –> 00:44:16,820
Coach Jim Clayton: Man, I’m I I’m mentally tired because I put my heart and soul into everything that I do every day.
991
00:44:16,820 –> 00:44:18,340
Coach Jim Clayton: I don’t take a period off.
992
00:44:18,340 –> 00:44:19,140
Coach Jim Clayton: I don’t put
993
00:44:19,320 –> 00:44:20,360
Coach Jim Clayton: Worksheets out.
994
00:44:20,360 –> 00:44:21,160
Coach Jim Clayton: You know what I mean?
995
00:44:21,160 –> 00:44:22,040
Coach Jim Clayton: Sit and get.
996
00:44:22,360 –> 00:44:23,720
Coach Jim Clayton: I don’t do that stuff.
997
00:44:23,720 –> 00:44:26,600
Coach Jim Clayton: My training and cut teaching and coaching is hands-on.
998
00:44:26,600 –> 00:44:28,360
Coach Jim Clayton: Let’s go right now.
999
00:44:28,360 –> 00:44:28,760
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?
1000
00:44:28,760 –> 00:44:31,160
Coach Jim Clayton: And you’re feeling what I’m feeling
1001
00:44:31,120 –> 00:44:37,760
Coach Jim Clayton: And so that’s why, you know, th I think my style was it has a little uniqueness to it.
1002
00:44:37,760 –> 00:44:40,160
Coach Jim Clayton: And that’s what I was tell people.
1003
00:44:40,140 –> 00:44:43,819
Coach Jim Clayton: And I tell them all the time, I told it in my class, my camp, I had a classroom.
1004
00:44:43,819 –> 00:44:48,140
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, it’s about preparation, the process, and the price.
1005
00:44:48,299 –> 00:44:51,500
Coach Jim Clayton: And, you know, you gotta do all those things.
1006
00:44:51,500 –> 00:44:55,339
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, you you have to you have to do all those things.
1007
00:44:55,339 –> 00:44:55,660
Coach Jim Clayton: And
1008
00:44:55,900 –> 00:44:59,579
Coach Jim Clayton: You can’t just get it overnight and you gotta keep working it on your craft.
1009
00:44:59,579 –> 00:45:04,380
Coach Jim Clayton: You gotta keep polishing your craft, you know, and you can keep getting better at it
1010
00:45:04,799 –> 00:45:07,440
Coach Jim Clayton: And we we talked about that in the classroom.
1011
00:45:07,440 –> 00:45:09,039
Coach Jim Clayton: And I’ve gotten so many things back.
1012
00:45:09,039 –> 00:45:12,319
Coach Jim Clayton: I said, this year when you go to do a paper in class.
1013
00:45:12,799 –> 00:45:15,279
Coach Jim Clayton: You get these notes that we went on today.
1014
00:45:15,279 –> 00:45:17,520
Coach Jim Clayton: You’re gonna have some good stuff to talk about.
1015
00:45:17,520 –> 00:45:20,079
Coach Jim Clayton: You’re gonna have some good content to blow it up.
1016
00:45:20,079 –> 00:45:20,880
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.
1017
00:45:20,880 –> 00:45:22,960
Coach Jim Clayton: And I got that from other people.
1018
00:45:23,240 –> 00:45:25,400
Coach Jim Clayton: Those are things that are shared with me.
1019
00:45:25,400 –> 00:45:28,920
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, so you know it’s just a game of adding value to others.
1020
00:45:28,920 –> 00:45:31,000
Coach Jim Clayton: That’s really what this game is all about.
1021
00:45:31,000 –> 00:45:34,440
Coach Jim Clayton: All we’re doing right now, we’re talking.
1022
00:45:34,160 –> 00:45:35,440
Coach Jim Clayton: Somebody’s gonna hear this.
1023
00:45:35,440 –> 00:45:38,800
Coach Jim Clayton: Something we might say that we don’t seem to be important at all.
1024
00:45:38,800 –> 00:45:39,840
Randy Black: But it can mean the world to them.
1025
00:45:39,840 –> 00:45:41,280
Coach Jim Clayton: It could mean the world to them.
1026
00:45:41,280 –> 00:45:43,600
Coach Jim Clayton: And it might have been something that made their day.
1027
00:45:43,920 –> 00:45:46,400
Coach Jim Clayton: And when you make somebody’s day
1028
00:45:46,620 –> 00:45:50,860
Coach Jim Clayton: There ain’t a profession out there that can tap into that, man.
1029
00:45:50,860 –> 00:45:51,260
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh no.
1030
00:45:51,260 –> 00:45:52,220
Coach Jim Clayton: Teaching the coaches.
1031
00:45:52,220 –> 00:45:56,380
Coach Jim Clayton: And people that have never done it, you don’t really understand it, and I wish you did.
1032
00:45:56,380 –> 00:45:56,700
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay
1033
00:45:57,400 –> 00:45:59,960
Coach Jim Clayton: But uh, you know, I love it.
1034
00:45:59,960 –> 00:46:07,160
Coach Jim Clayton: I know you love it, and you know, I’m learning, I’m still learning, and I’m tickled to death that we’re even sitting here today having this conversation.
1035
00:46:08,180 –> 00:46:15,300
Randy Black: So, you know, you’ve had over 30 years for you were teaching and then and coaching and working here at your business.
1036
00:46:15,300 –> 00:46:17,140
Randy Black: And I know in that time.
1037
00:46:17,320 –> 00:46:20,440
Randy Black: you’ve had some people who’ve been extremely influential to you.
1038
00:46:20,440 –> 00:46:23,960
Randy Black: And before we you know before we start talking, I talked about Joe Bryson, someone we both know.
1039
00:46:23,960 –> 00:46:24,440
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yeah.
1040
00:46:24,440 –> 00:46:25,320
Randy Black: Both knew very well.
1041
00:46:25,320 –> 00:46:31,960
Randy Black: And Joe was extremely instr it extremely influential on me in the time I worked for him because Joe was my boss.
1042
00:46:32,020 –> 00:46:33,940
Randy Black: And I know you’ve got people like that.
1043
00:46:33,940 –> 00:46:37,700
Randy Black: So who are some of those people that inspired you and were influential on you?
1044
00:46:37,700 –> 00:46:42,579
Coach Jim Clayton: Well, you know, probably uh you know, I obviously I was lucky enough to have some pretty good coaches.
1045
00:46:42,579 –> 00:46:44,980
Coach Jim Clayton: Coach Coach Carlos Acres at Camac.
1046
00:46:45,300 –> 00:46:45,940
Coach Jim Clayton: Uh
1047
00:46:45,700 –> 00:46:48,820
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, he had confidence in me when I had none in myself.
1048
00:46:48,820 –> 00:46:50,579
Coach Jim Clayton: I was coming off that injury.
1049
00:46:50,579 –> 00:46:50,980
Randy Black: Yeah.
1050
00:46:50,980 –> 00:46:52,900
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, I didn’t even think I could play.
1051
00:46:52,900 –> 00:47:00,260
Coach Jim Clayton: I wasn’t one of the stars, you know, back in fourth grade, fifth grade, sixth grade, seventh grade, I was just the last guy on the bench.
1052
00:46:59,359 –> 00:46:59,680
Randy Black: Yeah.
1053
00:46:59,680 –> 00:47:03,920
Coach Jim Clayton: I was just the guy, I might have got on a team, but I was never in the game.
1054
00:47:04,079 –> 00:47:12,640
Coach Jim Clayton: And I didn’t really see that I was ever going to beat any of those guys because I thought and he says, you know, he’s the one that gave me the confidence and to do it and
1055
00:47:12,660 –> 00:47:19,060
Coach Jim Clayton: And then I got to high school and, you know, and and you know, I had s t couple of coaches, Coach Gene Ratcoff was one of ’em.
1056
00:47:19,060 –> 00:47:26,340
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, and I told his wife one time, I said, uh when he passed away, I said, you know, I probably shaved twenty five years off your husband’s life because
1057
00:47:26,600 –> 00:47:27,800
Coach Jim Clayton: He wore me out.
1058
00:47:27,800 –> 00:47:32,760
Coach Jim Clayton: I thought his head was going to pop off his head, his shoulders some days because he was screaming at me so hard.
1059
00:47:32,760 –> 00:47:38,200
Coach Jim Clayton: And I said, I know he I interrupted a lot of your meals, and I said, I apologize
1060
00:47:38,059 –> 00:47:40,220
Coach Jim Clayton: And she says, you don’t even know.
1061
00:47:40,220 –> 00:47:46,140
Coach Jim Clayton: She goes, you were the topic of conversation a lot at our table, but it really wasn’t a negative thing, you know.
1062
00:47:46,619 –> 00:47:49,339
Coach Jim Clayton: And I tell you probably the funniest one
1063
00:47:49,640 –> 00:47:57,240
Coach Jim Clayton: was the one that you would you you know as a teacher again and it was the subject that I hate the worst
1064
00:47:57,820 –> 00:47:58,780
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s math.
1065
00:47:59,180 –> 00:48:05,900
Coach Jim Clayton: And I had this lady for geometry, algebra, algebra too, her name was Shirley McClanahan
1066
00:48:06,160 –> 00:48:16,720
Coach Jim Clayton: And she was in Cabell County for a lot, and she got out of the the math part and actually was one of the first to get into computer side of technology in Cabo County.
1067
00:48:16,720 –> 00:48:20,560
Coach Jim Clayton: And she was probably five foot tall.
1068
00:48:20,960 –> 00:48:24,560
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, and had a little space between her teeth.
1069
00:48:24,560 –> 00:48:25,280
Coach Jim Clayton: I could still see it.
1070
00:48:25,680 –> 00:48:27,200
Coach Jim Clayton: He’d smack me on the back of the head.
1071
00:48:27,200 –> 00:48:28,400
Coach Jim Clayton: You’re gonna get this.
1072
00:48:28,400 –> 00:48:31,200
Coach Jim Clayton: She came to every game at the Memorial Field House.
1073
00:48:31,200 –> 00:48:33,120
Coach Jim Clayton: She could barely see over the
1074
00:48:33,340 –> 00:48:38,220
Coach Jim Clayton: The the the the the railing across the thing and she’d watch, man.
1075
00:48:38,220 –> 00:48:39,500
Coach Jim Clayton: And I couldn’t get it.
1076
00:48:39,500 –> 00:48:41,580
Coach Jim Clayton: She goes, let me tell you something
1077
00:48:41,080 –> 00:48:43,560
Coach Jim Clayton: When you drove in last night, shot that bank shot.
1078
00:48:43,560 –> 00:48:48,120
Coach Jim Clayton: That angle that you shot and hit that shot, that’s exactly what this means
1079
00:48:49,040 –> 00:48:50,400
Coach Jim Clayton: That’s what that means.
1080
00:48:50,400 –> 00:48:51,760
Coach Jim Clayton: That’s what that means.
1081
00:48:51,920 –> 00:48:52,720
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.
1082
00:48:52,720 –> 00:48:54,080
Coach Jim Clayton: I had teachers.
1083
00:48:54,080 –> 00:48:59,840
Coach Jim Clayton: Most of my my my people that really were big influences in my life were teachers.
1084
00:49:01,020 –> 00:49:02,940
Coach Jim Clayton: There were teachers.
1085
00:49:02,940 –> 00:49:09,339
Coach Jim Clayton: And they I I I might have hated the subject, but I love the teacher.
1086
00:49:09,339 –> 00:49:09,900
Randy Black: Yeah.
1087
00:49:09,900 –> 00:49:10,380
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?
1088
00:49:10,380 –> 00:49:12,300
Coach Jim Clayton: And they got me to do things that they’re
1089
00:49:12,660 –> 00:49:14,020
Coach Jim Clayton: I can’t believe I did it.
1090
00:49:14,020 –> 00:49:14,660
Coach Jim Clayton: Because I did it.
1091
00:49:14,980 –> 00:49:17,540
Coach Jim Clayton: Had to do it because I w couldn’t have graduated if I didn’t.
1092
00:49:17,540 –> 00:49:18,260
Coach Jim Clayton: Right.
1093
00:49:18,260 –> 00:49:24,820
Coach Jim Clayton: And, you know, people like that, you know, as I’ve gotten older, you know, it’s people that have given you chances, that saw something in you.
1094
00:49:24,820 –> 00:49:26,100
Coach Jim Clayton: Really that other people
1095
00:49:26,420 –> 00:49:27,220
Coach Jim Clayton: They don’t see any.
1096
00:49:27,220 –> 00:49:28,660
Coach Jim Clayton: They give you a chance.
1097
00:49:28,660 –> 00:49:30,340
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, and that’s all you need.
1098
00:49:30,580 –> 00:49:35,700
Coach Jim Clayton: If I can get my foot in the door, I’m diving in, son, and I ain’t looking back.
1099
00:49:35,359 –> 00:49:38,240
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, you’re not gonna outwork me, you’re not gonna out enthusiast me.
1100
00:49:38,240 –> 00:49:39,760
Coach Jim Clayton: You might be smarter than me.
1101
00:49:39,760 –> 00:49:42,160
Coach Jim Clayton: Because I never was claimed to fame to be the smartest.
1102
00:49:42,320 –> 00:49:44,000
Coach Jim Clayton: I was not the valid victoria.
1103
00:49:44,000 –> 00:49:44,320
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.
1104
00:49:44,320 –> 00:49:47,280
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, but you know, rumor the statistics prove
1105
00:49:46,900 –> 00:49:49,140
Coach Jim Clayton: ‘Cause I remember taking statistics in college.
1106
00:49:49,140 –> 00:49:53,539
Coach Jim Clayton: Statistics proved that a lot of valuictorians really end up being subport people.
1107
00:49:53,539 –> 00:49:55,700
Coach Jim Clayton: They were just masters of the four walls.
1108
00:49:55,700 –> 00:49:56,260
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah
1109
00:49:56,180 –> 00:50:05,620
Coach Jim Clayton: And they were smart and they could retain information, but as far as like being people people and knowing street stuff in the way of the world, they really didn’t comprehend that, okay?
1110
00:50:05,300 –> 00:50:07,220
Coach Jim Clayton: They were so smart, they were off the charts.
1111
00:50:07,220 –> 00:50:10,980
Coach Jim Clayton: But common sense wise and making day-to-day decisions, they weren’t even on the charts.
1112
00:50:10,980 –> 00:50:11,780
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.
1113
00:50:11,780 –> 00:50:16,180
Coach Jim Clayton: And so, you know, those were some some some of the people I, you know, I mean
1114
00:50:16,320 –> 00:50:21,280
Coach Jim Clayton: John Maxwell’s obviously been a big one, you know what I mean, because you know I got a tape from him one time.
1115
00:50:21,280 –> 00:50:22,240
Coach Jim Clayton: Somebody just gave it to me.
1116
00:50:22,240 –> 00:50:26,160
Coach Jim Clayton: It says, Growing yourself, growing others, and growing together.
1117
00:50:26,160 –> 00:50:29,120
Coach Jim Clayton: I put that tape in my car and I left it in there for one year.
1118
00:50:29,120 –> 00:50:30,720
Coach Jim Clayton: I never took it out.
1119
00:50:30,880 –> 00:50:34,079
Coach Jim Clayton: And I listened to it three or four times a week.
1120
00:50:34,079 –> 00:50:38,880
Coach Jim Clayton: Anytime I was on the road, which that’s my kind of my mobile classroom, I’m always listening to people.
1121
00:50:38,880 –> 00:50:39,680
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.
1122
00:50:39,680 –> 00:50:41,520
Coach Jim Clayton: And I just listened at and listened.
1123
00:50:41,520 –> 00:50:43,279
Coach Jim Clayton: And I said, that’s where
1124
00:50:43,300 –> 00:50:45,300
Coach Jim Clayton: And I started reading his books.
1125
00:50:45,300 –> 00:50:50,020
Coach Jim Clayton: And that’s when I started teaching some book club things in s in in high school.
1126
00:50:50,020 –> 00:50:52,340
Coach Jim Clayton: With Regina Signers up Campbell Midland.
1127
00:50:52,340 –> 00:50:53,540
Coach Jim Clayton: We bought books and we did.
1128
00:50:53,540 –> 00:50:55,460
Coach Jim Clayton: I never did anything like that
1129
00:50:55,380 –> 00:51:03,300
Coach Jim Clayton: But to probably the funniest one was one of my my my and that people find this hard to believe, but it was the last class I took in college.
1130
00:51:03,300 –> 00:51:04,180
Coach Jim Clayton: I couldn’t graduate.
1131
00:51:04,180 –> 00:51:05,940
Coach Jim Clayton: I said, you don’t take his class?
1132
00:51:05,940 –> 00:51:07,060
Coach Jim Clayton: You may graduate.
1133
00:51:07,060 –> 00:51:08,020
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.
1134
00:51:07,940 –> 00:51:10,740
Coach Jim Clayton: And it was my speech teacher.
1135
00:51:10,740 –> 00:51:14,020
Coach Jim Clayton: And I I couldn’t take that class.
1136
00:51:14,020 –> 00:51:16,339
Coach Jim Clayton: I couldn’t get up in front of people and take that class.
1137
00:51:16,820 –> 00:51:20,020
Coach Jim Clayton: I could get on a court and do anything, but I couldn’t get you know
1138
00:51:20,340 –> 00:51:22,580
Coach Jim Clayton: Public spew, phobia, number one in America.
1139
00:51:22,580 –> 00:51:23,860
Coach Jim Clayton: I took the class.
1140
00:51:23,860 –> 00:51:27,300
Coach Jim Clayton: And when the class was over, I kicked myself every day.
1141
00:51:27,300 –> 00:51:28,820
Coach Jim Clayton: Why didn’t I take that first?
1142
00:51:28,820 –> 00:51:29,300
Randy Black: Yeah.
1143
00:51:29,300 –> 00:51:31,780
Coach Jim Clayton: Because I had so much fun in that class.
1144
00:51:31,780 –> 00:51:35,060
Coach Jim Clayton: But she got me to get up there and do things.
1145
00:51:34,200 –> 00:51:35,800
Coach Jim Clayton: But I didn’t think I could do.
1146
00:51:36,920 –> 00:51:40,839
Coach Jim Clayton: And really, that’s what it all comes down to.
1147
00:51:40,839 –> 00:51:46,040
Coach Jim Clayton: Getting people to think, man, you got an area of uniqueness.
1148
00:51:46,240 –> 00:51:48,320
Coach Jim Clayton: And that’s what I tell people all the time.
1149
00:51:48,320 –> 00:51:49,280
Coach Jim Clayton: What is yours?
1150
00:51:49,280 –> 00:51:52,080
Coach Jim Clayton: You’re developing, you’re finding it right here.
1151
00:51:52,080 –> 00:51:53,440
Coach Jim Clayton: You got an area in here.
1152
00:51:53,440 –> 00:51:55,200
Coach Jim Clayton: You’re good at this.
1153
00:51:55,200 –> 00:51:59,200
Coach Jim Clayton: And find your area and stay in it
1154
00:51:59,520 –> 00:52:03,119
Coach Jim Clayton: Because when you get out of it, you’re not unique anymore.
1155
00:52:03,119 –> 00:52:10,160
Coach Jim Clayton: And everybody has that area of uniqueness, but the majority of people in the world have never figured out what it is.
1156
00:52:10,800 –> 00:52:12,560
Coach Jim Clayton: And that’s sad to me
1157
00:52:12,820 –> 00:52:15,300
Coach Jim Clayton: But I f I now know what mine is.
1158
00:52:15,300 –> 00:52:16,020
Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.
1159
00:52:16,020 –> 00:52:22,260
Coach Jim Clayton: Now, mine’s not doing all the computer work itself, you know what I mean, and doing editing.
1160
00:52:22,260 –> 00:52:23,860
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m not that guy.
1161
00:52:23,840 –> 00:52:25,440
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m the guy right here.
1162
00:52:25,440 –> 00:52:26,080
Coach Jim Clayton: Up front.
1163
00:52:26,080 –> 00:52:27,520
Coach Jim Clayton: Let’s get it.
1164
00:52:27,520 –> 00:52:28,240
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?
1165
00:52:28,240 –> 00:52:30,000
Coach Jim Clayton: But you can always get other people to do that.
1166
00:52:30,000 –> 00:52:30,480
Randy Black: Oh yeah.
1167
00:52:30,480 –> 00:52:32,320
Coach Jim Clayton: There’s aren’t there’s people that are really good at that.
1168
00:52:32,320 –> 00:52:32,640
Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.
1169
00:52:32,720 –> 00:52:34,800
Coach Jim Clayton: Well they gotta stick to their area.
1170
00:52:35,260 –> 00:52:37,500
Coach Jim Clayton: And I’ve just learned how to stick to mine.
1171
00:52:37,500 –> 00:52:37,900
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.
1172
00:52:37,900 –> 00:52:39,740
Coach Jim Clayton: And I try not to get out of it.
1173
00:52:39,740 –> 00:52:43,020
Coach Jim Clayton: And sometimes I do because I have a hard time saying no.
1174
00:52:43,960 –> 00:52:45,799
Coach Jim Clayton: And there’s only so many hours in the day.
1175
00:52:45,799 –> 00:52:46,119
Randy Black: Yeah.
1176
00:52:46,119 –> 00:52:48,440
Coach Jim Clayton: And today ends at twelve oh one.
1177
00:52:48,440 –> 00:52:50,680
Coach Jim Clayton: And I can’t live off tomorrow.
1178
00:52:50,680 –> 00:52:53,000
Coach Jim Clayton: T I can’t live off what I did today tomorrow.
1179
00:52:53,000 –> 00:52:54,520
Coach Jim Clayton: T tomorrow’s a new day.
1180
00:52:54,520 –> 00:52:56,359
Coach Jim Clayton: But you know, I I mean
1181
00:52:56,240 –> 00:53:04,800
Coach Jim Clayton: Teachers have had a major influence, and I’m sure teachers have had a major interest in you and you know just just just people, just common people
1182
00:53:05,780 –> 00:53:08,500
Coach Jim Clayton: That really didn’t know the powers that they had.
1183
00:53:08,500 –> 00:53:09,460
Randy Black: Yep.
1184
00:53:09,460 –> 00:53:10,420
Coach Jim Clayton: If that makes sense.
1185
00:53:10,660 –> 00:53:11,220
Randy Black: Oh, it makes sense.
1186
00:53:11,220 –> 00:53:14,820
Randy Black: And I’ve had, you know, and I know you’ve had this, I’ve had students come back to me and say
1187
00:53:15,599 –> 00:53:23,200
Randy Black: You know, you you know, I may not have ac I may not have acted in the you know, it when I had you in class that I appreciated you, but after the fact
1188
00:53:23,160 –> 00:53:24,360
Randy Black: I do, and here’s why.
1189
00:53:24,360 –> 00:53:25,400
Randy Black: And they would tell me why.
1190
00:53:25,400 –> 00:53:27,480
Randy Black: You know, I had a couple kids at Cabal Midland.
1191
00:53:27,480 –> 00:53:30,360
Randy Black: My first year there, I was teaching sociology.
1192
00:53:30,360 –> 00:53:30,680
Randy Black: And
1193
00:53:31,320 –> 00:53:43,240
Randy Black: They you know where they were seniors, they were preparing to go to college, and after two years, I got an email from two of them uh two years later that said, Hey, I had to take intro sociology at Marshall.
1194
00:53:43,640 –> 00:53:46,839
Randy Black: And I didn’t have to do anything to prep to prepare for that class.
1195
00:53:46,839 –> 00:53:48,599
Randy Black: So you taught me everything already.
1196
00:53:48,680 –> 00:53:50,359
Randy Black: Said I want to say thank you for that.
1197
00:53:50,359 –> 00:53:54,359
Randy Black: And I I gave them more skills in that content area.
1198
00:53:54,520 –> 00:53:56,200
Randy Black: So they could be prepared for it.
1199
00:53:56,200 –> 00:54:00,119
Randy Black: And we did more stuff in that high school class than they did in the college class.
1200
00:54:00,119 –> 00:54:02,359
Randy Black: And they were excited because they walked in like
1201
00:54:02,460 –> 00:54:03,100
Randy Black: This was great.
1202
00:54:03,100 –> 00:54:07,100
Randy Black: I didn’t have to work hard because I already knew the content and I already knew how to apply it.
1203
00:54:07,100 –> 00:54:08,940
Randy Black: And I was so happy with that.
1204
00:54:08,940 –> 00:54:13,180
Randy Black: Um as we’re finishing up, because I know you probably have some stuff going on.
1205
00:54:13,180 –> 00:54:14,700
Randy Black: Yeah, another guy’s couple workouts.
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00:54:15,020 –> 00:54:15,340
Randy Black: So
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00:54:15,720 –> 00:54:19,319
Randy Black: What is it that you want Jimmy Clayton to be remembered for?
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00:54:20,680 –> 00:54:22,200
Randy Black: I wait till the end to hit you with the tough one.
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00:54:22,279 –> 00:54:23,160
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah, that’s a good one.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Um Yeah, I I I thought about this for a long time.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Uh
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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, and you know I I I I heard somebody say, if you had to write your your you know, your youth in one word, what would it be?
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00:54:39,420 –> 00:54:40,300
Coach Jim Clayton: You know what I mean?
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00:54:40,300 –> 00:54:48,380
Coach Jim Clayton: How what what would you and I you know, i I I I thought about that for a while and you know, it’s just like I was passionate.
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00:54:48,380 –> 00:54:49,260
Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.
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00:54:49,260 –> 00:54:50,780
Coach Jim Clayton: You know what I mean?
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00:54:50,780 –> 00:54:54,060
Coach Jim Clayton: Uh consistent.
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00:54:53,940 –> 00:55:02,100
Coach Jim Clayton: uh um caring, you know, um you know uh
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Randy Black: Positive.
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Randy Black: Mm-hmm.
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Randy Black: Okay.
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00:55:08,279 –> 00:55:11,720
Randy Black: It’s like I said, that’s been that’s been my impression of you for over twenty years.
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00:55:12,200 –> 00:55:15,640
Coach Jim Clayton: Really, you know, I I’m the same I I’m the same to everybody, really.
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00:55:15,640 –> 00:55:16,200
Coach Jim Clayton: You know what I mean?
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00:55:16,200 –> 00:55:18,359
Coach Jim Clayton: I’ve never met a stranger, really, hardly.
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00:55:18,880 –> 00:55:23,440
Coach Jim Clayton: And uh uh I I’ve been, you know, like I said, man, it’s passionate.
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00:55:23,440 –> 00:55:26,400
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s just it’s just that’s my energy level.
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00:55:26,400 –> 00:55:28,720
Coach Jim Clayton: I I I’m the same all the time.
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00:55:29,099 –> 00:55:32,220
Coach Jim Clayton: And uh and and that’s really me.
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00:55:32,220 –> 00:55:32,859
Coach Jim Clayton: That’s that’s it.
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00:55:32,859 –> 00:55:36,140
Coach Jim Clayton: I mean, like I told you people want to know how much you care for they care how much you know.
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00:55:36,140 –> 00:55:36,540
Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.
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00:55:36,540 –> 00:55:39,980
Coach Jim Clayton: And you know, I mean when you say care, well he was a nice guy.
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00:55:39,980 –> 00:55:42,940
Coach Jim Clayton: No, you know, he’s not everybody’s not nice all the time.
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00:55:43,240 –> 00:55:43,960
Coach Jim Clayton: That’s a fact.
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00:55:44,440 –> 00:55:45,400
Coach Jim Clayton: I mean, except for dogs.
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00:55:45,640 –> 00:55:50,840
Coach Jim Clayton: My dog right here, Alfie, he’s the nice, he’s never been anything but nice to meet every minute I’ve known him.
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00:55:50,840 –> 00:55:53,160
Coach Jim Clayton: But everybody’s not that way, okay?
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00:55:53,160 –> 00:55:53,480
Coach Jim Clayton: But
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00:55:54,020 –> 00:55:58,740
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, when when you look at you know, uh uh everybody’s not understanding all the time.
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00:55:58,740 –> 00:56:00,660
Coach Jim Clayton: I mean you live and you learn, okay?
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00:56:00,660 –> 00:56:05,460
Coach Jim Clayton: But you know, I I I have been passionate about what I do day in, day out.
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00:56:05,460 –> 00:56:06,180
Randy Black: Mm-hmm.
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00:56:06,180 –> 00:56:07,380
Coach Jim Clayton: Uh and
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00:56:07,859 –> 00:56:09,060
Coach Jim Clayton: That pretty much covers everything.
1247
00:56:09,060 –> 00:56:10,579
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m passionate about what I taught.
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00:56:10,579 –> 00:56:12,260
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m passionate about way I coach.
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00:56:12,260 –> 00:56:17,060
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m passionate about I teach somebody how to shoot
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00:56:16,700 –> 00:56:24,540
Coach Jim Clayton: I teach them how to dribble, you know, I’m not going to I’m not going I’m going to give you one hundred percent of me every day
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00:56:24,900 –> 00:56:28,580
Coach Jim Clayton: And that’s pretty much what I do every day.
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00:56:28,580 –> 00:56:31,140
Coach Jim Clayton: I don’t care what it is, and I never stop.
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00:56:31,140 –> 00:56:34,020
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, I don’t quit when I’m tired, I quit when I’m done.
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00:56:34,779 –> 00:56:38,460
Coach Jim Clayton: And you know, that’s kinda me.
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00:56:38,460 –> 00:56:39,740
Coach Jim Clayton: That’s Jimmy Clay.
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00:56:39,740 –> 00:56:40,299
Coach Jim Clayton: That’s me.
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00:56:40,299 –> 00:56:43,339
Coach Jim Clayton: So enthusiastic, you know, positive.
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00:56:43,339 –> 00:56:43,900
Coach Jim Clayton: Got a
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00:56:44,440 –> 00:56:46,920
Randy Black: So as we’re finishing up, I wanna say thank you.
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00:56:46,920 –> 00:56:49,640
Randy Black: I appreciate you taking the time to to sit down with me.
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00:56:49,640 –> 00:56:51,800
Randy Black: Is there anything you just wanna share?
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00:56:51,800 –> 00:56:53,800
Randy Black: Anything else you you wanna throw out there from a listeners?
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00:56:53,960 –> 00:56:55,960
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, you we’ve covered a lot of stuff, you know what I mean?
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00:56:55,960 –> 00:56:57,880
Coach Jim Clayton: And it’s all stuff that’s really important to me.
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00:56:57,880 –> 00:56:59,079
Coach Jim Clayton: And it’s things that I
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00:56:59,260 –> 00:57:03,340
Coach Jim Clayton: that I kind of uh live, eat and breathe on every day.
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00:57:03,340 –> 00:57:09,100
Coach Jim Clayton: And uh, you know, I would just tell people, you know, just again, find that area.
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00:57:08,940 –> 00:57:10,140
Coach Jim Clayton: Find your area.
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00:57:10,140 –> 00:57:11,339
Coach Jim Clayton: Find your area.
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00:57:11,339 –> 00:57:17,420
Coach Jim Clayton: Get around people that are, and the big thing is get around people in your life that are fire lighters.
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00:57:17,540 –> 00:57:18,980
Coach Jim Clayton: They make your flame bigger.
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00:57:18,980 –> 00:57:19,380
Randy Black: Yep.
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00:57:19,380 –> 00:57:21,140
Coach Jim Clayton: Not people that put your flame out.
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00:57:21,140 –> 00:57:21,620
Randy Black: Mm-hmm.
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00:57:21,620 –> 00:57:26,660
Coach Jim Clayton: And I saw a tweet today from a guy that I coached in the MBA, a guy by the name of Kenny Anderson.
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00:57:26,660 –> 00:57:29,060
Coach Jim Clayton: Kenny was the best player they say to come out of New York.
1277
00:57:29,220 –> 00:57:31,220
Coach Jim Clayton: Play for the Nets, play for Georgia Tech.
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00:57:31,220 –> 00:57:32,260
Coach Jim Clayton: Unbelievable guy.
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00:57:32,100 –> 00:57:36,660
Coach Jim Clayton: And he’s made this statement, which is so true about the society today.
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00:57:36,660 –> 00:57:43,620
Coach Jim Clayton: He says, it really upsets me that people can’t be happy for other people’s successes.
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00:57:43,740 –> 00:57:51,100
Coach Jim Clayton: And you really think about that, in every way, shape, and form of everything that we do, people are just torn up with that
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00:57:51,780 –> 00:57:54,420
Coach Jim Clayton: and be happy for other people’s successes.
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00:57:54,420 –> 00:57:55,060
Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.
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00:57:55,060 –> 00:57:56,100
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.
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00:57:56,100 –> 00:58:00,100
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, there’s too many things to be happy about and unfortunately
1286
00:58:00,160 –> 00:58:02,880
Coach Jim Clayton: the world as finds all the negative in the world.
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00:58:02,880 –> 00:58:05,040
Coach Jim Clayton: So find the positive people in your life.
1288
00:58:05,040 –> 00:58:07,120
Coach Jim Clayton: Find the people that bring out the best in you.
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00:58:07,120 –> 00:58:07,760
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.
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00:58:07,760 –> 00:58:12,640
Coach Jim Clayton: Find the people because there’s an a there’s a statement that says you become the average of the five people you associate with.
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00:58:12,640 –> 00:58:13,200
Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm
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00:58:13,620 –> 00:58:16,020
Coach Jim Clayton: So you better look at the five people you associate.
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00:58:16,020 –> 00:58:21,860
Coach Jim Clayton: If you’re trying to move up, but you’re staying around people that are just happy where the where they are, they’re content
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00:58:22,220 –> 00:58:22,700
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.
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00:58:22,700 –> 00:58:31,660
Coach Jim Clayton: I mean, you know, uh success is is a can you know it is is a content disease, man, because people that are happy where they are, I said they’re not going anywhere.
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Randy Black: Mm-hmm.
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00:58:32,700 –> 00:58:34,460
Coach Jim Clayton: And so you gotta keep
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00:58:34,740 –> 00:58:35,940
Coach Jim Clayton: Moving out.
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00:58:35,940 –> 00:58:36,500
Coach Jim Clayton: Keep climbing up.
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00:58:43,020 –> 00:58:45,579
Coach Jim Clayton: wants any information or any way I could help ’em.
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00:58:45,579 –> 00:58:47,099
Coach Jim Clayton: I don’t have to know them to help them.
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00:58:47,099 –> 00:58:48,300
Coach Jim Clayton: You know what I mean?
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00:58:48,300 –> 00:58:51,740
Coach Jim Clayton: Uh there’s ways to get I mean I’m on Instagram, I’m on Facebook.
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00:58:51,740 –> 00:58:52,140
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m on Facebook.
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00:58:52,540 –> 00:58:53,339
Coach Jim Clayton: That was my next question.
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00:58:53,579 –> 00:58:54,619
Coach Jim Clayton: How can people find you, Jimmy?
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00:58:55,500 –> 00:58:57,820
Coach Jim Clayton: I got my own Jim Clayton Facebook page.
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00:58:57,820 –> 00:58:59,820
Coach Jim Clayton: I’ve got uh an Instagram page.
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00:58:59,820 –> 00:59:07,420
Coach Jim Clayton: I got my business page, and I have a Jim Clayton, like Jim underscore with two Ns Clayton, have an own a motivational page which is
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00:59:07,260 –> 00:59:08,940
Coach Jim Clayton: That’s a pretty cool page.
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00:59:08,940 –> 00:59:11,500
Coach Jim Clayton: I’ve got Twitter, SCU hoops.
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00:59:11,500 –> 00:59:11,740
Randy Black: Yep.
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00:59:11,900 –> 00:59:13,020
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m on there all the time.
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00:59:13,020 –> 00:59:15,980
Randy Black: And I’m go I’m I’ll I’ll throw links to all this.
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00:59:16,400 –> 00:59:19,840
Randy Black: So if anybody wants to if you send me something.
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00:59:19,840 –> 00:59:25,760
Coach Jim Clayton: If you see something that you think I would like, oh by all means share it with me, man, because
1317
00:59:25,859 –> 00:59:27,060
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m a sponge.
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00:59:27,060 –> 00:59:29,380
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m a sucker for people that share stuff.
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00:59:29,380 –> 00:59:30,180
Coach Jim Clayton: I love it.
1320
00:59:30,180 –> 00:59:32,099
Coach Jim Clayton: It makes my brain I twist it.
1321
00:59:32,099 –> 00:59:33,780
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, I look at that and I go
1322
00:59:33,660 –> 00:59:35,020
Coach Jim Clayton: I see it a different way.
1323
00:59:35,020 –> 00:59:38,940
Coach Jim Clayton: My brain just works totally different than than most people’s.
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00:59:38,940 –> 00:59:46,700
Coach Jim Clayton: And uh, you know, like I said, I was just I’m just tickled to death to have an opportunity to sit here and and and share some things with you and
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00:59:46,580 –> 00:59:55,860
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, I’m bl I’m blessed to have be able to do what I like to do and I I’m I’m healthy enough at the current moment, knock on wood, but I’m still rolling with the punches.
1326
00:59:55,860 –> 01:00:01,380
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah and uh I’m gonna keep rolling as long as I can keep rolling.
1327
01:00:00,660 –> 01:00:01,780
Coach Jim Clayton: And I really appreciate it.
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01:00:02,100 –> 01:00:03,540
Randy Black: I appreciate you taking the time, Jimmy.
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01:00:03,780 –> 01:00:05,460
Coach Jim Clayton: And I’ll tell you this last thing.
1330
01:00:05,460 –> 01:00:08,500
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, believe in yourself or nobody else will.
1331
01:00:08,500 –> 01:00:12,180
Coach Jim Clayton: Set the bar high, achieve greatness, and stay motivated through the process.
1332
01:00:12,420 –> 01:00:13,620
Coach Jim Clayton: You know what that spells?
1333
01:00:13,620 –> 01:00:15,460
Coach Jim Clayton: BAM, son.
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01:00:17,619 –> 01:00:19,140
Randy Black: Thanks guys for listening.
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01:00:19,140 –> 01:00:20,500
Randy Black: I really appreciate it.
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01:00:20,500 –> 01:00:27,220
Randy Black: Uh another time that we’ve had Jim on the show in trying to do our best to remember him.
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01:00:27,220 –> 01:00:29,859
Randy Black: So until we put something else out here.
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01:00:30,140 –> 01:00:42,779
Randy Black: on the feed remember that we want you to do everything you can to live your life with purpose do things in a way that you want to be remembered so remember to always keep shooting it straight
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Coach Jim Clayton: BAM, Son!
