The Coastal Carolina football team brought in sports psychologist Brian Cain last week to spend some time with the team - an idea coach David Bennett got from the Chants’ baseball program.
“And dang if he didn’t do great for our baseball team,” Bennett said.
Cain worked with the team Tuesday afternoon, all of Wednesday and Thursday morning on the power of a positive mindset and imagery - ideas Bennett is hoping his players will transfer to the field.
“He was really, really good,” Bennett said. “He had our guys swallowing fire, bending rebar, breaking boards.”
In one example, he placed a board on top of two ladders and had senior receiver Marquel Willis pick four teammates he trusted to help him walk across it. The point being that if you can walk across the board when it’s on the ground, you can walk across it when it’s atop two ladders - a symbolic message.
As Bennett elaborated, “Do you go up there and live in green-light mode ready to do it, or are you in yellow mode - caution. Well, I hope I can do it. I think I can do it. Or are you in red-light mode? Oh, I can’t do that. I can’t do that. If you’ve got a lot of football players out there on the field in red-light mode, we’re going to get killed. A lot of them in yellow, it’s 50-50. If we get them all in green-light mode, positive, excited, ready to play the game, we’ve got a chance to be pretty darn good.”
| Ryan Young, ryoung@thesunnews.com
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