11-Year-Old College Football Scholarship | Titan Lacaden

oh [Applause] hawaii has been home to some big name football player now a new athlete could be making a name for himself titan lackadain yes he's only 11. he's now on his way to becoming a college football player when he gets older through the week i went to all the uh's camp that's where he kind of struck some notice with some of the coaches and i saw coach rolovich and he called me down and you know said that we think that titan's special it was weird i had like random people walk up to me oh you're the boy that got the scholarship congratulations the road to a scholarship is hard when you get it you don't pass it up so you know we accepted it it's better to focus now so you could cherish it when you get to that time you know what to do i mean he's right we gotta we gotta focus on what's today and what's gonna happen tomorrow and although it's a it's a blessing and we cherish everything that that's coming out of this you know we know that nothing's guaranteed and we're gonna grind like none of this has ever happened [Music] [Applause] [Music] we play a lot of guys bigger than us size is good for some things but everything is speed man i graduated from st louis high school located in waialae uh coached there for over 25 years that was one of the things that i told parents i said i don't know if i know how to coach at this level so i'm going to coach like how i coach in high school and then these guys got to just kind of like understand how is it so far good easy hard hard easy what's the hardest part nothing nothing hard last season yeah we're undefeated nobody scored on us you'd have coaches that would just say coach you know we're coaching this age bracket they can't do that on this age bracket they may not be able to run as fast you know or it is hard but they can do everything that the older guys can do you know as far as mental wise i watch the team that we're gonna verse the next time focus on like what i did wrong and what i need to improve on and i look for coverages and the way they line up hawaii is a football state you know there's there's no doubt it's not everybody can afford college so this is a vessel football is a vessel for them to get a higher education and i mean families are going all in on it oh you gotta share the ball around it's not just my game it's also my teammates game too we look for brothers it's like a big family so we share like our food around like our balls of food so we gotta share football around it takes a village to raise a child so everybody within our organization is not we're not just teammates but we're actually family that's always the focal point of of what we're trying to do we're trying to build you know good young human beings that will eventually be leaders of our community it starts from them you know they're going to make our state now world a much better place to live but and i tell people this all the time football is about that much of your life but it's a blueprint of who you are who you're going to be you you get that blueprint so like when football ends you know wherever you're going to be you're going to work hard you're going to constantly work hard it's a blueprint once the once they're ready to leave the nest we let them fly and hopefully that what we taught you know taught them in that short amount of time sticks with them has it stuck with you already yeah okay you got it in you yeah i got it you got the blueprint think before you say something don't mess up all right here we go define leadership for me you're the leader not the follower yeah you gotta pick up your teammates because if you don't then the whole team's gonna start getting affected if someone's like talking trash on the field i could just like stay humble and just tell them this next plan focus sometimes you just shine and everyone will follow you encouraging everyone helping players get better brotherhood if the team is falling down i got to pick them up a leader means to make good decisions when no one's watching or lead by example we don't place kids in positions we just say who wants to be quarterback who wants to be wide receiver and you know some people some some organizations do that then they end up moving the kids to a position that the kid really doesn't want to play but i believe that you leave the kid in that position because even if he's not starting he's going to keep fighting to start you know so it keeps the kid mentally involved [Music] football smash so [Music] it's it's very physical it's it's becoming finesse i prefer to play defense because i like hitting people instead of them hitting me us being islanders we had to fight for territory i think it's just you know i think just think it's within our culture you know i mean this is the closest thing that you can bring to to our heritage i mean where you put on gear and you you go into combat they say good job this week hey um of mental mentality wise we got to change fly around win every what win every period okay we got that hey mindset you

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Length: 7min 26sec (446 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 28 2017