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Welcome to Better Than I Found It, Luke Calcatera. Luke is one of the great up-and-coming coaches in college golf. Currently in his second year at UNT, Luke found great success at the division two level, as he spent over 10 years at Arkansas Tech, his alma mater. Luke's teams set a national record of five consecutive trips to the Elite 8, including when they won the 2021 division two national championship. Luke is a fantastic recruiter and I hope from this interview you see why his teams have had such success. Subscribe to the podcast for future episodes. You can follow us on Instagram and Facebook —> @BetterThanIFoundItPodcastAssociated social media accounts:Coach McGraw - @BearCoachMcGrawBaylor Men's Golf - @BaylorMGolfProduced and Edited by Will GreeneMusic: DriftMaster by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com---Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/betterthanifoundit/message

On this week's episode of Inside the Headset – Presented by CoachComm, we sit down with Arkansas Tech Head Coach and 2024 AFCA Division 2 Assistant Coach of the Year, Roy Thompson. In this conversation, Coach Thompson discusses the impact that professional development has had on his career, working to prove himself as a coach, and the importance of relationships throughout his journey.  Follow Coach Thompson and Arkansas Tech football on social media here:   @RoyThompsonFB & @ATUFootball  1:30 Opportunity at Highland CC, returning to your alma mater, and the power of professional development.   16:48 First stint as Ouachita Baptist, taking over a room for the first time, and navigating tough situations.  30:52 First opportunity to be a DC at Mendocino, developing your own philosophy as a coach, taking ownership in the success of your team.   42:23 Returning to Ouachita Baptist, being named 2024 AFCA D2 Assistant Coach of the Year, and becoming the Head Coach at Arkansas Tech.  

Rob Breaux and Dr. Mike Gustafson recap Texas Tech Football's loss to Arkansas in the Liberty Bowl, what they saw in the Alamo Bowl between Colorado and BYU, and preview Tech Basketball's upcoming game against UCF. They also talk about the marketing of the Pop Tarts Bowl and recap the year that was as they give their best local and national stories from 2024.

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The Association of Collegiate Anglers is set to host the second event of its historic 20th season this upcoming weekend.  The AFTCO Collegiate Bass Open will take place on October 12-13 at Lake Dardanelle in Russellville, AR.  On EP. 217 of the Rapala #WeAreCollegiateBass Podcast, host Kyle Curry is joined by Mat Higby from Arkansas Tech University.  In 2022, Mat and his fellow teammate won this particular event.  Tune in to hear him talk about the current conditions at Lake Dardanelle, and what he thinks it will take to win the tournament!

Ryan Valenta highlights Drew Vega of Arkansas Tech, who extended his hitting streak to six games after Thursday's game, and was also involved in a weird incident on defense.

Ryan Valenta catches up with Ark Tech Wonderboy Jackson Crain after his walk-off hit against the Plainsmen Tuesday.

Brents Family named District Farm Family; Morrilton High School juniors show ACT improvement; Westrock Coffee opens Conway plant ahead of schedule; Arkansas Tech holds reception to close out capital campaign; UACCM holding summer camps; we talk with Morgan Zimmerman of Main Street Morrilton.

This week I sit down with Dr. Blaine Leeds to discuss oral health, sleep apnea, bedwetting and more. Dr. Leeds is a leader in the dental field. He speaks nationally on tele-dentistry, oral health and dental treatments for sleep disordered breathing and sleep apnea. He is a graduate of Arkansas Tech with a Bachelors degree in Chemistry before attending the University of Tennessee School of Dentistry where he graduated with honors. His skills in dentistry have also spurned many technological companies to help dentistry reach far locations. He is the author of, What happens when your child doesn't sleep? a book exploring the connection between oral motor function, anatomy and sleep. This is a very important topic as poor sleep will dominate a child's behavior in a negative way. He has been a guest on many major news networks sharing this wisdom. Today we sit down to dissect the issues of oral health, sleep and a whole child approach. The exploration is exactly what we need, root cause analysis and treatments based on the reasons not the symptoms. Please enjoy my conversation with Blaine Leeds, Dr. M

Mark Downey recently completed the fourth season of his second stint as the Head Men's Basketball Coach at Arkansas Tech University and his ninth season overall at Tech in 2023-24 which saw the Wonder Boys go 25-7 in 23-24 and lose to eventual national champion Minnesota State in the DII NCAA Tournament. Downey's first stint at Arkansas S was from 2006-2010.In 2010 Downey returned home to his alma mater to become the head coach at the University of Charleston. He remained at Charleston for three seasons before moving on to become the head coach at the University of West Alabama for the 2013-14 season. After his one-year stint at West Alabama Downey became an assistant coach at the NCAA Division I level, serving as an assistant at Bowling Green State University (2014-15) and at Purdue University-Fort Wayne (2015-16 to 2017-18).After those four seasons as an assistant coach at the DI level, Downey returned to NCAA Division II as head coach at Northeastern State University in 2017 before returning to Arkansas Tech in 2020.If you're looking to improve your coaching please consider joining the Hoop Heads Mentorship Program. We believe that having a mentor is the best way to maximize your potential and become a transformational coach. By matching you up with one of our experienced mentors you'll develop a one on one relationship that will help your coaching, your team, your program, and your mindset. The Hoop Heads Mentorship Program delivers mentoring services to basketball coaches at all levels through our team of experienced Head Coaches. Find out more at hoopheadspod.com or shoot me an email directly mike@hoopheadspod.comMake sure you're subscribed to the Hoop Heads Pod on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts and while you're there please leave us a 5 star rating and review. Your ratings help your friends and coaching colleagues find the show. If you really love what you're hearing recommend the Hoop Heads Pod to someone and get them to join you as a part of Hoop Heads Nation.Have a notebook handy as you listen to this episode with Mark Downey, Head Men's Basketball Coach at Arkansas Tech University.Website - https://arkansastechsports.com/sports/mens-basketballEmail - mdowney@atu.eduTwitter/X - @mdowneyATUVisit our Sponsors!Dr. Dish BasketballOur friends at Dr. Dish Basketball are bringing back their big BOGO offer to help fuel your team's off-season training efforts! Now until 4/30, Buy 1 Dr. Dish All-Star+ shooting machine, Get 1 All-Star+ for $1000! Take advantage of this offer while supplies last.Fast Model SportsFastModel Sports has the most compelling and intuitive basketball software out there! In addition to a great product, they also provide basketball coaching content and resources through their blog and playbank, which features over 8,000 free plays and drills from their online coaching community. For access to these plays and more information, visit fastmodelsports.com

In this episode we celebrate Black History Month by inviting four of Arkansas Tech's Black Student Leaders Noah Sumler, Maddie Cook, Cynseree Ryan, Charles Moton. Many of who hold positions within Registered Student Orgs and are Student Workers.

The special guest for this episode of the Rapala #WeAreCollegiateBass Podcast is Mat Higby from Arkansas Tech University.  Mat, and his fishing partner John Foster Case, won the AFTCO Collegiate Bass Open on Lake Dardanelle last year.  Mat joins host Kyle Curry to talk about how the lake is setting up and what the field of more than 460 elite anglers can expect this weekend.  Tune in to hear about the current fishing conditions, implications for the Bass Pro Shops School of the Year presented by Abu Garcia, and more as we preview the AFTCO Collegiate Bass Open.

Office of Emergency Management offers response training to community ahead of eclipse; School Report Cards released; Arkansas Tech to demolish two buildings; FUMC Rummage Sale is this week; ARDOT announces new communications portal; Pinion and the Hogs play Red-White scrimmage tonight; we visit with Mary Clark of UACCM.

Host Chase Brewster and Southern Arkansas Head Baseball Coach Justin Pettigrew talk about his playing career at Connors State and Arkansas Tech, getting into coaching at Arkansas Tech, transitioning to conference rival Southern Arkansas to work with legendary coach Alan Gum, working with Coaching Browning, taking over the program as the newest head coach, among other things on Episode 34 of The Chase Brewster Show.#ChangeInspireMotivate 

In this episode, we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with two of Arkansas Tech's Latina student leaders Sofia Guerrero and Litzi Baltazar. They are the current presidents of 3 out of 4 of the Hispanic/Latinx Student Organizations here on campus!

Gordon honored with Steve Willbanks Award; SCCSD approves budgets; Perry County Fair continues; Arkansas Tech reports enrollment drop at Russellville campus, increase at Ozark; Morrilton volleyball gets win; we visit with Cindy Lucariello with the Conway County Care Center.

Today, I got the pleasure of interviewing RJ Glasper a Arkansas High School phenom from Forrest City. Tune in today to hear his journey in college basketball from Arkansas to Arkansas Tech to Oral Roberts to UIW, and much more about his experience playing Overseas now plus his basketball journey!

Today's episode features Cass Capen-Housley, an Instructor and Event Coordinator for the Arkansas Tech Department of Agriculture and Tourism. She shares the importance of community building and service through events as well as agritourism's role in providing an additional income stream while educating others.  To find out more about agritourism in Arkansas, check out the agritourism page at Arkansas.com. You can learn more about Arkansas Tech University and it's degrees and programs at their website, ATU.edu. The website for Farm Bureau Financial Services has a helpful article titled Is Starting an Agritourism Business Right for Your Farm? That Farm Life Podcast is a resource of Agri Health Network. For more information and to find more resources, check out AgriHealth.net. Questions or comments? Email us at info@agrihealth.net.

Nick hit his first Duncan field HR in the double header against Casper on Saturday.

Ryan Valenta visits with Markos about his journey from Puerto Rico.

Tex Cook talks about his five innings of solid relief work against Fremont on Thursday. He also tells us about Arkansas, how he got his name, and what his future holds.

Today, we have a special interview with Trevor Davis! Trevor is a part of Cru Ministries on campus and has been a part of both our lives in a huge way.

On this episode, we talked to Kylia Stewart and Yushia Thao, who work in the Norman Career Services Office. It's important to talk about all the resources Arkansas Tech has to provide, especially to our First-Generation students.

As Women's History Month comes to an end, two First-Gen student leaders talk about the adversities they have faced as being young women of color. Star Douangchanh and Kristin Hardy are both Seniors at Arkansas Tech.

Nikki Metcalfe joins host Trey Schaap as discusses the ordeal of a six-hour surgery to correct scoliosis followed by a rehab process that lasted over six months at the age of 17. She also talks about growing up in her native Australia, what the animals are like there and which one is her spirit animal. Metcalfe, who spent two years at Arkansas Tech, explains what it is like seeing the banners Foley won in Russellville and then getting the opportunity to play for the legendary coach at Little Rock, winning a conference championship and the pain of falling short in the OVC Tournament Championship Game. She also discusses her future plans as she is the only player on the roster that will fully exhaust her collegiate eligibility after this season.  

Today on Welcome to Wynnsanity we interview Arkansas Tech Cheer member Layne Lawson! Join us as we discuss her journey to Arkansas Tech cheer and everything that goes along with cheer experiences!

This episode is all about highlighting the Office of Diversity and Inclusion at Arkansas Tech. Caylin Allen, the graduate assistant for DDI talks about their resources and upcoming events.

Join us on Welcome to Wynnsanity today as we get to interview Arkansas Tech Tennis players Lea Grinberg and Izzy Major. They tell us about their journeys as tennis players, and how their path to tennis success happened!

As we dive into a new year and a new semester, reflecting upon one's actions is important. It's a new year with new beginnings and we talk all about it. This episode is a casual conversation with Paris Thompson, a freshman at Arkansas Tech.

Dr. Jenn received her PhD in Sociology, specializing in gender role socialization, sexuality, and marriage. She integrates this macro-level lens for understanding human patterns and behavior into her 15-year private practice as a mindful intimacy coach and executive relationship coach. And all of this informs her speaking around the world on mindful intimacy, sexual consent, effective communication, healthy relationships, body image, erotic play, and women's empowerment. She has presented two TEDx Talks, is a writer on sex and relationships, and a recurring intimacy expert on the San Diego morning news. Dr. Jenn is also an active philanthropist with Women Give San Diego and the Compassion It nonprofit, was the founder of World Sexual Health Day--San Diego, and was on the executive team for Sex Positive San Diego. Her In the Den with Dr. Jenn educational video series has 1.7 million hits on YouTube, and she is a sex expert in the masturbation documentary, called Sticky: A (Self) Love Story. Dr. Jenn has collaborated on projects with Planned Parenthood, the Global YPO Spouse/Partner Network, Erica Lust films, and Dr. Ruth's Sex for Dummies book. She has been interviewed by publications including USA Today, The Washington Post, Cosmo, The Sunday Times (London), Oprah Daily, Men's Health, Playboy, Marie Claire, Madame Figaro (France), and Shape. She has spoken at Stanford, Syracuse, University of South Carolina, Miami University of Ohio, Lehigh University, UC San Diego, Arkansas Tech, Sharp Hospital, Rancho La Puerta, YPOs, EOs, and many more schools and organizations. Listen to this insightful Whinypaluza episode with Dr. Jenn Gunsaullus about achieving healthy sexual empowerment for women. Here is what to expect on this week's show: Dr. Jenn's passion for creating safe spaces for others to be vulnerable and feel comfortable in their bodies. Empowerment means the freedom to make better choices for ourselves. Normalizing speaking up for yourself if you are unsatisfied in your intimate relationship. Defining “sex positive” to create a healthy sexuality. Releasing shame around sexuality. How past emotional trauma, or present upsets can physically manifest inside you. How do you effect lasting change in habits? Connect with Dr. Jenn: Website Twitter Instagram  Facebook LinkedIn Follow Rebecca Greene Blog  https://www.whinypaluza.com/ Book  https://bit.ly/WhinypaluzaBook Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/whinypaluzaparenting Instagram https://www.instagram.com/becgreene5/ @becgreene5 TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@whinypaluzamom?lang=en @whinypaluzamom Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The month of November is a special month for First Generation because we celebrate National First Generation Week from November 7-11. This episode is a casual conversation with Sierra Smith, a graduate student at Arkansas Tech.

Arkansas Tech's Homecoming was celebrated on October 10-15th. Paula Gonzalez and Marquis Vasquez are the newly selected homecoming queen and king for the 2022 school year. They both share their experiences as they went through the process of being nominated to selected.

Just over one week ago, the Association of Collegiate Anglers contested its final event for the fall of 2022.  The AFTCO Collegiate Bass Open was a two-day tournament held at Lake Dardanelle in Russellville, AR.  With over $20,000 in prizes & contingencies on the line, as well as double points to count towards the Bass Pro Shops School of the Year presented by Abu Garcia, 218 of the top college teams were on hand.  Mat Higby & John Foster Case from Arkansas Tech University won the event with a two-day total weight of 27.09 pounds.  Tune in to this episode of the Rapala #WeAreCollegiateBass Podcast to hear the duo talk about their major victory!  

This week on Inside the Headset, we are featuring Northwestern State's safeties coach and recruiting coordinator, Josh Jones. Coach Jones talks about chasing knowledge of the game, shares his experience recruiting in the heart of high school football, and discusses what it's like being a member of the AFCA's 35Under35 Institute. Josh Jones is the safeties coach and recruiting coordinator at Northwestern State. Coach Jones began his coaching career as a GA at three schools, Arkansas Tech, Troy, and Missouri Western University. Following his graduate assistantships, Coach Jones became the cornerbacks coach at Henderson State. Coach Jones then spent two years on staff with the UCA Bears before going to Central Arkansas and following head coach Steven Campbell to South Alabama. Coach Jones then spent a season at Arkansas- Pine Bluff before coming to Northwestern State where he has been for three years. Coach Jones has accumulated many prestigious awards as a player and a coach. This includes developing a first-team All-SWAC player and the most number of interceptions in the NCAA in 2015. Coach Jones broke school records and attended the Cactus Bowl as a player. [1:26] Collegiate Playing Career [2:52] Learn the game, don't chase the money- the benefits of being a GA at 3 schools [7:44] Synergy [10:17] Destigmatizing DBs [11:56]  “As a young coach, how do you continue to develop?” [14:05] Looking to Improve [15:06] Recruiting in the Heart of High School Football [18:16] AFCA 35Under35 Twitter: @Coach_JonesNSU

Coach Greg Riccono, former OC at Arkansas Tech and head coach at UAM joins us to tell his story and talk football. Stay tuned for the commercial break.

We have a special guest this week. Coach Steve Mullins former Head Coach and AD at Arkansas Tech joins us to talk some football among other things. This was Big C's coach so he was a little scared the whole interview.

Our last episode of this season is about mental health. Hunter Bramlitt is one of Arkansas Tech's counselors, who shared tips on how to take care of our mental health state.

Natasha Golden and Tia Brown are two Arkansas Tech graduate students who share their stories of what it's like to be in graduate school.

In honor of celebrating Women's History Month, we had two young women Noelia Lopez and Olivia Rowe share their stories as First-Generation women attending Arkansas Tech.

Arkansas Tech students Taylor Wilkerson, Daniel Gonzalez, and Nigel Lewis share their stories detailing their experiences of being a minority at a predominantly white institution.

Arkansas Tech has a student led organization dedicated for First Generation Students. Elli White and Dakota Bridges, who are freshman at Tech share their stories as they are part of this organization.

Trey Schapp talks to the Arkansas Tech men's golf coach after they win the D2 NCAA men's championship. Trey also speaks with Arkansas men's and Little Rock men's head coaches as they head to the NCAA D1 championships.

Michael Westbrook of #theGAC Sports Network recaps the tenth week of football with highlights from Southeastern Oklahoma State, Harding, Henderson State, Southern Arkansas, East Central and Arkansas Tech.

Michael Westbrook of #theGAC Sports Network recaps the ninth week of football with highlights from Ouachita, Harding, Henderson State, Arkansas Tech, Southeastern Oklahoma State and Oklahoma Baptist

Michael Westbrook of #theGAC Sports Network recaps the sixth week of football with highlights from Arkansas Tech, Harding, Southeastern Oklahoma State, Ouachita and Henderson State

Michael Westbrook of #theGAC Sports Network recaps the fifth week of football with highlights from Arkansas Tech, East Central, Arkansas-Monticello, Harding, Ouachita and Henderson State

Today on Power The Journey. A former Football Student-Athlete from Arkansas Tech, who transitioned into a coach at the University of Arkansas, Missouri State, Texas State, and the Naval Academy. He then joined athletics administration, holding positions at Rice University, SMU, and Grand Canyon University as the Vice President of Athletics. He is currently the CEO at 86Hope, a Sports Sponsorship and Partnership Consulting Agency. He is a trailblazer in the sports business market, in both the private and public sectors. Introducing Mike Vaught. To Learn More Visit: https://wearegameplan.com/powerthejourney/

Coach Chris Richardson shares his journey from growing up in West Virginia to spending 10+ years as a D2 Assistant Coach, and finally returned to West Virginia to be the Head Coach at Wheeling University. He didn't take the typical Manager route, he covered the men's basketball team for the newspaper and helped out at Fairmont State while being a student at West Virginia University. Coach Richardson interned with the Memphis Grizzlies before spending over a decade as an Assistant Coach at Arkansas Tech, University of Charleston, Fairmont State, Delta State, and Central Missouri. Coach Richardson talks about becoming a first time Head Coach, being a lifelong learner and so much more!

State covid hospitalizations rise by 106; Legislative leader says Arkansas Tech violated state law; Little Rock School District leaders recommend cash for vaccinated workers; Fun indictment dismissed

In this episode of the podcast your hosts sit down with Coach Brent Dearmon, currently the Offensive Coordinator for Middle Tennessee State in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Coach Dearmon has previously spent time as the OC at Kansas, Head Coach at Bethel U (TN), & OC at Arkansas Tech. Coach Dearmon is also the author of the best selling book The Evolution of the RPO. Follow Coach Dearmon on Twitter: @BrentDearmon Coach Dearmon CoachTube Courses: https://coachtube.com/users/brentdearmon Hosts: James Heath, Former Coach in Aurora, OH, Producer of The Armchair Coaching Podcast Darrin Sheffer, OL coach at Brentsville District HS in Nokesville, Virginia Linktree: https://linktr.ee/coachsheffer Launch Pad Kickoff Tee: https://launchpadkickofftee.com/acp Discount code “ACP” for 10% purchase of single Tee plus other offers High and Tight Footballs: https://highandtight.com?sca_ref=579574.BKfRO1FbSQ Discount code “ACP” for 10% any purchase 2nd Skull: http://www.2ndskull.com/ Discount code ‘ARMCHAIR' for 20% off any purchase Knack Bags https://knack-bags.pxf.io/O6MjQ CSF Magazine: CSF Coaching Magazine (Coming Soon) | Coach Stone Football https://www.coachstonefootball.com/csf-magazine-coming-soon/

In the latest edition of WeARtheGuard, we interview Spc. Hannah Lomax, a Soldier assigned to the 106th Army Band, a dual-major student at Arkansas Tech. University and a contestant in the 2021 in the Miss Arkansas Pageant. Tune in to our podcast and hear about the personal courage required to “step up and speak out about” important situations and break down some of the walls that, particularly females, face in military life. She advises Soldiers in the Guard to “Never be afraid to push past your own fear.” You can listen/subscribe to our podcasts on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/76NNkcAgAL0yhR6EffJIOe Apple Podcasts: http://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1557909504 DVIDS: https://www.dvidshub.net/podcast/alpha/W/page/1 Catch us to/from work, in the gym, or whenever you have an opportunity and Thank you for listening.

In this episode of the Life and Football Podcast our special guest was Brent Dearmon. Brent Dearmon who is currently the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Middle Tennessee State University. He was previously the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at the University of Kansas. He was also the head coach at Bethel University in Tennessee, where he won a Mid-South Conference championship in his lone season as head coach. He also played college football at Bethel, where he set career and single-season records in passing yards and touchdowns. Dearmon also spent time playing professionally for indoor football teams before getting into coaching. COACHING EXPERIENCE • 2007: Bethel College (student assistant) • 2008-10: Vigor HS (AL) (offensive coordinator) • 2011-12: B.C. Rain HS (AL) (head coach) • 2013-14: Auburn (analyst) • 2015-17: Arkansas Tech (offensive coordinator) • 2018: Bethel College (head coach) • 2019: Kansas (senior offensive consultant) • 2020: Kansas (offensive coordinator) • 2021-Present: Middle Tennessee (offensive coordinator)

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Think you know your state fish? Match wits with Arkansas Tech students Emily Jonagen and Jacob Atchley as they battle it out for top honors in the State Fish Quiz Show. Fisheries Pod co-host Sue Colvin and ATU student, Arkansas fish expert, and linguist Dawson Hicks challenge our contestants in this fishy quiz.  And remember the Humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa is the state fish of Hawaii. Support The Fisheries Podcast! https://www.patreon.com/FisheriesPodcast Fisheries Podcast Merch! https://teespring.com/stores/the-fisheries-podcast-fan-shop Don't forget to find us on Facebook and other social media platforms https://www.facebook.com/FisheriesPod/ @Fisheries Pod (Twitter handle) Thanks Andrew Gialanella for the intro/outro music.

Aoife Cooke already has a national championship. Now she wants a spot in the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games. The Irish athlete, who competed collegiately in the United States for Arkansas Tech, needs to run an Olympic-qualifying marathon time in an upcoming race and she'll punch her ticket. For Cooke, being an out athlete is important as she understands the impact visibility has on other athletes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Michael Westbrooks of the GAC Sports Network talks with Arkansas Tech Head Volleyball Coach Kera Dukic to preview the 2021 spring season.

Coach Trace & Coach Adam discuss MENTAL HEALTH with college commits Karina & Trysta!

Joey McWilliams of the GAC Sports Network talks with Arkansas Tech Head Women's Basketball Coach Dave Wilbers to preview the 2021 season.

Joey McWilliams of the GAC Sports Network talks with Arkansas Tech Head Men's Basketball Coach Mark Downey to preview the 2021 season.

From the Archives: Originally an offensive consultant, Coach Dearmon was promoted by Kansas Jayhawk head coach Les Miles to serve as the program’s new offensive coordinator on October 6, 2019. Due to his previous experience as an offensive coordinator at Arkansas Tech, head coach at Bethel University (Tenn.) and analyst at Auburn University (Ala.), Coach Dearmon was able to handle the task of taking over as Kansas’ offensive coordinator mid-season. Prior to Kansas, Dearmon became one of the hottest offensive names in the game after his one-year campaign as head coach of Bethel University, where they went 10-0 and boasted an incredible 540.3 yards per game to go along with an unheard of 55 points per game, the most for any team in college football. Show notes :33 Start as a football coach and the jump to the college ranks 2:02 Job at Auburn 3:01 Prepared yourself for opportunity to coach college 4:31 Transition to Arkansas Tech 6:21 Getting players to buy in 8:54 Building one message on top of the other 9:59 Inspiration from Urban Meyer 11:29 Approach to practice 13:20 Teaching at a fast pace 16:51 Nuts and bolts of Dearmon’s offense 18:45 Go-to RPO play 21:21 What to do to win third-and-long 23:27 Preparing players for RPO 25:37 Mistake as young coach 29:19 Work-life balance 30:46 Two-minute drill 32:50 Winning edge Twitter: @CoachKGrabowski @BrentDearmon Coach Dearmon Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/sets/a-masters-class-in-rpo-the

A look ahead to the 2020 Arkansas Tech football season --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/arkansasgridirontoday/message

This week, we got to talk to Stephen Knez, a JUCO player at LA Valley, about his baseball story. From getting recruited late to play at Arkansas Tech, to transferring to LA Valley, to having an awesome platform as a baseball creator, and more! It was an amazing interview and Stephen seems to be a person that is going to do some big things in life so give him a follow on Insta(@StephenKnez), subscribe to his Youtube channel(@StephenKnez), and check out Valleyboys.shop! Enjoy the interview and Thank you for listening!

He's regarded as one of the brightest up-and-coming offensive minds in football. But if it seems that Brent Dearmon was a bit of an unknown to college football fans prior to the 2019 season…well, he was. So how did the Kansas offensive coordinator end up here? The son of a football coach, Dearmon fell in love with the game at an early age. After a record-setting playing career at NAIA Bethel College, Dearmon went into coaching at the high school level in Alabama. It was there where Auburn coach Gus Malzahn took notice, and added Dearmon to his staff as an offensive analyst. Dearmon would then spend four years as the OC at Arkansas Tech before returning to his alma mater as the head coach. But after one season of producing the country's highest-scoring offense, why did he decide to take a leap of faith and join the Jayhawks as an analyst? And how has that leap now paid off?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

He's regarded as one of the brightest up-and-coming offensive minds in football. But if it seems that Brent Dearmon was a bit of an unknown to college football fans prior to the 2019 season…well, he was. So how did the Kansas offensive coordinator end up here? The son of a football coach, Dearmon fell in love with the game at an early age. After a record-setting playing career at NAIA Bethel College, Dearmon went into coaching at the high school level in Alabama. It was there where Auburn coach Gus Malzahn took notice, and added Dearmon to his staff as an offensive analyst. Dearmon would then spend four years as the OC at Arkansas Tech before returning to his alma mater as the head coach. But after one season of producing the country's highest-scoring offense, why did he decide to take a leap of faith and join the Jayhawks as an analyst? And how has that leap now paid off?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Aoife Cooke had a promising junior Cross Country career that brought her to Arkansas Tech on a scholarship. She initially had success at college, but she struggled with osteopenia, the resulting injuries cut her college time short and she returned home. With the pause in her running career, she dropped off the radar, and she went through a challenging time as her running future looked uncertain. We dive into this and explore the steps, she took to have run the fastest marathon ever run by an Irish woman in Ireland in Dublin 2019 2:32:34. Coached by John Starrett, she has run the 5th fastest marathon time ever recorded by an Irish female runner. Her goal following Dublin is to achieve Olympic qualification. She needed more than motivation, to be the runner she is today. And I know you’ll leave this conversation feeling inspired. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/marcus-brown9/support

Preparation is always crucial because when opportunities arise, you must be ready to take them. On this episode of the Coach and Coordinator podcast, we invited back coach Brent Dearmon. Originally an offensive consultant, Coach Dearmon was promoted by Kansas Jayhawk head coach Les Miles to serve as the program’s new offensive coordinator on October 6, 2019. Due to his previous experience as an offensive coordinator at Arkansas Tech, head coach at Bethel University (Tenn.) and analyst at Auburn University (Ala.), Coach Dearmon was able to handle the task of taking over as Kansas’ offensive coordinator mid-season. Learn about Coach Dearmon’s experiences on this episode and also how he helps incorporate C- and D-Gap RPOs into his offense. 0:20 Intro 2:33 Taking over as Kansas’ offensive coordinator 5:56 Evolving your offense 7:55 Changing the way you teach 9:19 Paying it forward 12:22 C- and D-Gap RPOs 14:50 Example of C-Gap RPOs 16:44 What is the aim point on different paths? 17:31 Avoiding ineligible man downfield penalties 20:49 Avoiding penalties on the fullback 22:19 Duties of X-receiver 23:08 D-Gap RPOs 25:27 Gap scheme RPOs 28:09 Base offense 29:36 When do you push? 30:10 Pre- and post-snap side 30:35 Proper alignment for running backs 32:36 Complementing power reads You can follow Coach Dearmon on Twitter here: @BrentDearmon Related Content: - Coach Dearmon Episode 1: https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/brent-dearmon-arkansas-tech - Coach Dearmon Episode Two: https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/brent-dearmon-arkansas-tech-1 - All In On Offense- The RPO with Brent Dearmon, Offensive Assistant- Kansas University: https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/all-in-on-offense-the-rpo-with-brent-dearmon-offensive-assistant-kansas-university Coach and Coordinator Podcast Main Show Link: ⁃ Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/show/2FMkGaDAACBdFKWXY9WfGs?si=2-wEykhuRqON913cBwxv7g ⁃ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/usa-football-coach-and-coordinator-podcast/id1216363733 ⁃ SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956 ⁃ Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/usa-football-coach-and-coordinator-podcast Check out our systems for skill development in blocking, defeating blocks and tackling at footballdevelopment.com. Follow us daily on Twitter for content and interaction @FBDevCoach and be sure to check out X's and O's analysis at blogs.usafootball.com.

Joey McWilliams of the GAC Sports Network talks with Arkansas Tech's Head Softball Coach Kristina McSweeney to preview the 2020 season.

Joey McWilliams of the GAC Sports Network talks with Arkansas Tech Head Baseball Coach Dave Dawson to preview the 2020 season.

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A house fire claims the life of a Morrilton man; we'll tell you about tonight's Conway County Christmas Parade; and an MHS senior orally commits to play football at Arkansas Tech.

Fisher Wagner is a freshman at Arkansas Tech, majoring in computer engineering. Originally from Van Buren, he shares his knowledge of the amateur mountain biking scene in northwest Arkansas along with his thoughts on TikTok vs. Vine, China, Monopoly, and our future as cyborgs.

Michael Westbrook of the GAC Sports Network talks with Arkansas Tech Head Women's Basketball Coach Dave Wilbers to preview the 2019-20 season.

Michael Westbrook of the GAC Sports Network talks with Arkansas Tech Head Men's Basketball Coach Chad Kline to preview the 2019-20 season.

I'm sure we've all just wanted to say, "Just give me the job" in our job searches. So far I've only talked to one person on this show who actually said it and it's Paul. Rooting himself at Arkansas Tech, Paul and I will discuss how to be more assertive, being selective in opportunities, and crisis communication among other things. Follow us on social media @sportsinfocast. Follow Paul on Twitter: @ptsmith109 Sign up for our Newsletter: SIDcast.fireside.fm/newsletter

On this episode of the Rapala #WeAreCollegiateBass Podcast we talk to Fletcher Nutt and Dustin Reid from Arkansas Tech University. They won a recent FLW College Fishing event on the Arkansas River. The event took out of Little Rock, and anglers took to the Arkansas River to see who could catch the five best bass. Nutt and Reid weighed in five fish for 15 pounds 2 ounces. That total bested second place by roughly two and a half pounds. While we have these two Arkansas Tech University anglers on the phone, we take a minute to talk with them about the upcoming AFTCO Collegiate Bass Open. The event will be held on Lake Dardanelle from October 26-27, 2019. ATU is located in Russellville, AR which is near the host site at Lake Dardanelle. Tune in to hear what these anglers have to say on the latest episode!

Joey McWilliams of the GAC Sports Network talks with Arkansas Tech Head Volleyball Coach Kera Dukic to preview the 2019 season.

Joey McWilliams of the GAC Sports Network talks with Arkansas Tech Head Football Coach Kyle Shipp to preview the 2019 season.

Check out episode #28 of the Fraternity Foodie Podcast! We interview Blake Bratcher, a Sigma Pi alumnus from Arkansas Tech who now works in Development for the University of Utah. We ask why he chose Arkansas Tech, what it was like joining a fraternity, should students work while going to school, how fraternity helped after graduation, what it was like getting a Masters Degree, how he transitioned into Development at a major university, his responsibilities as a Development Officer, how undergraduate fraternity and sorority members can raise money from alumni, volunteer opportunities for youth and animals, and where to go for great food in Salt Lake City. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-inZgLZKs3M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-inZgLZKs3M

On this episode of Coach and Coordinator podcast’s “All In on Offense” series, host Keith Grabowski is joined by Brent Dearmon, offensive assistant at Kansas. Dearmon is one of the hottest offensive names in the game right now after his one-year campaign as head coach of Bethel University, where they went 10-0 and boasted an incredible 540.3 yards per game to go along with an unheard of 55 points per game, the most for any team in college football. Additionally, Dearmon spent three seasons at Arkansas Tech and two seasons as an analyst on Guz Malzahn’s staff at Auburn. Dearmon also wrote the book, “The Evolution of the RPO,” and is one of the top RPO coaches in the country. Dearmon joins Grabowski to talk about all things RPO in today’s “All In on Offense” segment. Show notes: 1:28 How the RPO has evolved 3:27 What should coaches start with in the RPO game 5:35 Inside zone 7:11 Placing receivers 10:23 Preparing packages to combat what defenses are doing (i.e., vs. 4-2-5 and tite) 12:58 Pre-snap reads 16:15 Tips to installing and practicing RPOs 19:22 Making sure players are repping their actual routes 20:25 Teaching the QB 24:44 Keeping consistency when using different personnel in the box 26:45 Utilization of the backs 29:51 Key points for the TE 32:07 TE pop pass 34:19 Defeating different coverages 36:32 Challenges vs. zone coverage 40:15 Buck sweep RPO 41:54 Keys to RPO offense 43:11 Connect with Coach Related Content: https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/brent-dearmon-arkansas-tech-1 https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/brent-dearmon-arkansas-tech https://blogs.usafootball.com/blog/7338/run-pass-option-resources-for-offense-and-defense https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/all-in-on-offense-defeating-the-tite-front-with-matt-drinkall-army-offensive-assistant https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/all-in-on-offense-4-verts-with-aj-smith

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Kristy Bayer, Deputy AD at Emporia State, visits @TaiMBrown as the two discuss Bayer's transition from Head Volleyball Coach at Arkansas Tech to the deputy position for Emporia State athletics. Bayer gives insight on the decision to give up coaching, discussing that decision with her supervisor at the time, and having the final conversation with her team. She also covers her current role as Deputy AD and how her coaching background has proven to be a major asset to the department at Emporia State.

Joey McWilliams of the GAC Sports Network talks with Arkansas Tech Head Softball Coach Kristina McSweeney to preview the 2019 season.

Joey McWilliams of the GAC Sports Network talks with Arkansas Tech Head Baseball Coach Dave Dawson to preview the 2019 season.

Brent Dearmon talks about installing RPOs into your offense and how he's turning around Bethel University with an explosive offensive style. Coach Brent Dearmon has a pretty impressive resume including most recently working as Offensive Coordinator at Arkansas Tech. Now he's turning around his alma mater at Bethel University in Tennessee. In this Football Coaching Podcast interview, Coach Dearmon shares how you can install RPOs into your offense, and how to call plays to attack any coverage. Plus he'll talk about the turnaround process at Bethel, and about his time working for Gus Malzahn at Auburn. Coach Dearmon and CoachTube.com generously provided a special deal for Football Coaching Podcast Listeners to get $10 OFF Identifying & Attacking Coverages with the RPO. Coach Dearmon teaches everything you need to know to incorporate RPOs into your offense right now. Click here to get this exclusive deal.

In yet another bonus pod, we take you inside the booth for Todd Miller's call of the Jake Gozzo walk-off hit to defeat Arkansas Tech in extra innings at the GAC Baseball Tournament (3:40). Thomas Shroder (8:40), the starting pitcher of the game, and Gozzo (11:15) are later interviewed by Todd on the postgame show. All in-game audio is courtesy of the Bison Sports Network. Watch and listen to select OBU athletics events at obubison.com/watch. ***MAIL BAG POD: Email questions you have for The Bison Sports Podcast to bisonsportspodcast@gmail.com for a special future episode! You might have your question answered by a special guest!***

An interview with Taylor Otwell, creator of Laravel, about what he did before Laravel and what got him started. Views by Drake The Life of Pablo by Kanye West Free 6LACK by 6LACK 808s and heartbreak by Kanye West Blue Neighbourhood by Troye Sivan Laravel & Lawns Transcript (sponsored by Laravel News): Matt Stauffer : Welcome to the Laravel Podcast, episode 55, in which I talk to Laravel creator Taylor Otwell. We learn about his back story, where he came from, and what helped him—and made him—start Laravel in the first place. Stay tuned. Taylor, it's great to have you on season three of the Laravel podcast. Obviously you've been around since the very beginning, but we're doing a little switch up here, where I'm going to start doing interviews. So, I'm super excited to have you as the first person whose brain I get to pick here. So, I guess we can start with ... Say hi to the people. Taylor Otwell : Hey people. Hey party people. Matt Stauffer : Ha. Party people. What we're going to do here for today, and I told you this beforehand, but I feel like a lot of people have talked to you about Laravel, about development, about the latest version. Every time a new version comes out, 5.5 just came out, people want to talk about that. And maybe we'll cover that a little bit, but what I feel like we haven't talked about quite as much is, the man behind the scenes, kind of thing. I think there's a lot about you that people don't know, so I first started with the questions ... I've known you for years now. I feel like I know you really well and there's still certain things I don't know about your past, but then I also asked a few folks, "What are some things you really want to know about Taylor and how he works?" So, we're just going to off-the-cuff, just throw some of those questions at you and see where it goes. Sound good? Taylor Otwell : Sounds good. Matt Stauffer : Awesome. So, first of all, back to the early days, when did you first have a computer in your home? Taylor Otwell : I think I was about ten or eleven, I had a computer. 66-megahertz computer that our neighbor actually, I think had, had it built of us, because our neighbor was a computer programmer, across the street. And this was back in the early days of Windows. Matt Stauffer : Mm-hmm (affirmative). Taylor Otwell : I guess it was like Windows 3.1 or something like that. Matt Stauffer : Yeah. Taylor Otwell : He was an early Windows programmer. And my parents had, I think asked him to help them get a computer for us. And it had a little megahertz readout on the front of the screen ... or on the front of the tower I guess. And was like Windows 95. Matt Stauffer : I'm always interested to hear from people what role, kind of early access and interest in computers has for them. So you having that neighbor, was it your neighbor that sparked your interest or was it having that computer? What was it that really sparked your interest in computers when you first got into them? Taylor Otwell : You know, it's hard to say, I don't think it was necessarily the neighbor that sparked the interest. I'm not sure I even realized that my neighbor was a programmer until later. I think I was just always interested in sci-fi type stuff and geeky stuff. Of course, I always liked Star Wars. I liked The Jetsons cartoon when I was a kid and all the cool tech stuff they had, so I guess I was just always drawn to futuristic tech stuff, so it was natural to be into computers. My first dabbling in programming was just playing HTML, where I would make little websites about the games I liked, like Pokemon or whatever other games I was playing at the time. Just little tips and strategy site. I remember one of the first ones I ever made actually, which was on CompuServe. And our neighbor, that same neighbor helped me and his son put it on CompuServe, was a website about Civilization 2, and sort of our strategies for that game. Matt Stauffer : Yes. What's the oldest website that you still have access to? Do you know? Taylor Otwell : I don't have anything from my childhood unfortunately. I wish I did. I wish I had thought to take screenshots of them and stuff. But a lot of them ... Several of them were on GeoCities and other free sites like that. Matt Stauffer : I remember my GeoCities sites. The only thing that I remember is the first one that I ever built, I hosted on GeoCities and it had a single image in it because image tags were pretty new at that point. So it was basically like text about me and a giant picture with a page scroll on the corner of the picture because the page scroll was the hottest Photoshop effect or whatever. Taylor Otwell : Yeah. I always thought the counters were really cool too. That you could put on your stuff. Matt Stauffer : Oh, my God, yeah. I was listening to somebody's podcast recently, I don't know who it was and the guy who had originally created link exchange was on there. Did you ever do those? Taylor Otwell : Yeah. I remember those. Those were big especially in the Pokemon website world. Matt Stauffer : Right? Yeah. We were all just waiting for one of those big sites to get a link over to us because of how the link exchange rule played. So it sounds like HTML is where you go started, do you ever do any, I don't know what the right term is like coding, coding, like a basic or anything like that early on, or was it not till later. Taylor Otwell : Yeah, I wrote few basic things. I also got really into TI-83 calculator programs where I would write little strategy games. Back then, at least in like middle school and high school the popular thing was like that drug wars game. Matt Stauffer : I was just going to say drug wars, that was it. Taylor Otwell : I would write games like that, either with drugs or with other lemonade stand type games. And I learned how to do that basically like sitting in ninth grade English, I just kind of taught myself how to program the calculator. Those were really the first real programs I wrote, I feel like. Matt Stauffer : When was your first exposure to the Internet that you remember? Taylor Otwell : We had internet pretty early after I got my first computer. We had dial up Internet. Just like at 14 4 modem. That was my first exposure to the internet. I don't even remember what sites were really a thing back then. I remember mainly looking at video game sites and just like Yahoo, and stuff like that. Matt Stauffer : When you were thinking, then, about coding ... I think a lot of us we were just kind of figuring it out as we went. Did you think, "Man, this is what I want to do forever," or was it just a fun thing and you were still ... did you have a different plan for your life at that point? Taylor Otwell : I actually did not plan to do coding, even when I entered college, I was doing my degree in computer networking and stuff because I thought programming would be too mathematical and sort of boring. Matt Stauffer : Mm-hmm (affirmative). Taylor Otwell : But I didn't really have a good understanding of what real programming was like, on a professional level. I'm not sure if schools back then, even in college ... I'm not sure I really got a good picture of what actual, on-the-job programming is like. I always imagined it to be so theoretical and really hard, like calculus all the time and stuff like that. But it really, at least for the kind of programming we do on the web, it doesn't tend to be that way. I went through all of college not planning to even be a programmer. Matt Stauffer : Did you do well ... I hope you don't mind me asking ... did you do well in math in high school, did you take calculus and everything? Taylor Otwell : Yeah, I was always like a B student in math. Matt Stauffer : Okay. Taylor Otwell : I was just okay. Matt Stauffer : Right. Taylor Otwell : I wasn't exceptional. Matt Stauffer : Not enough that the idea of programming being very "mathy" made you excited about it. Taylor Otwell : Yeah, exactly. Matt Stauffer : Okay. Did you ... like a different tact ... did you always consider yourself someone who's gonna do entrepreneurial stuff? At what point did you start thinking of yourself as, "I'm someone who's going to start a business"? Taylor Otwell : Only a few years after I'd gotten out of college and had a taste of the fact that anyone could take PHP and build an entire web application, which I didn't really realize, I guess, at the time that that was pretty possible for someone to do. Once I realized that, my brain just started churning with different ideas, and even if it wasn't something I could do full-time, but just something small to supplement my income or whatever. I was probably two or three years out of college before I really started thinking that way, though. Matt Stauffer : What was your first exposure to PHP that led you to having that experience? Taylor Otwell : My very first exposure was in college itself. We had a class project, it was a group project with two other people, and we had to build an inventory tracking system for a local charity. This was our final senior thing. We were all assigned real-world projects in the community, and so we happened to get this inventory tracking thing. One of the guys in the group was familiar with PHP, apparently, and said, "We can use PHP for this, because it's pretty easy," and I didn't really know any better, so I was like, "Sure, sounds good." That's when I really got my first exposure to PHP, even though I, on that project, mainly did talking with the customer, and finding out how they needed it to work, and stuff like that. Later, a couple of years down the road, when I started having ideas for side projects and stuff, I had remembered that he had chosen PHP back a couple of years ago in that class project. It was supposed to be easy or whatever, and I knew that we were able to lush the projects, so it wasn't too hard, apparently. Matt Stauffer : Were you ... Taylor Otwell : Yeah, so that's when I revisited PHP, because I hadn't actually used it very much in college. My partner had chosen it as our programming language for that project. Matt Stauffer : In college, when he chose that, were you doing .NET at that point, or did you get into it out of college? Taylor Otwell : No, I only did .NET once I got hired at my first actual programming job. The only programming courses I took in college were two semesters of C++, and that was it, actually I had those two semesters of programming, again, because I was in a networking degree, so I didn't have a lot of programming classes, like a pure computer science major might have. Matt Stauffer : Right. I think I remember you told me that the .NET thing was an intentional, learning-the-job-type situation? Taylor Otwell : Yeah. Matt Stauffer : What was that experience like? Taylor Otwell : Yeah, so, the place that hired me right out of college, they came to my university, which was Arkansas Tech. They were just interviewing students, and since they were there, I just decided to do an interview, even though I hadn't planned on being a programmer. I did the interview, and got the job, and the immediately put you in this six-month training program, where basically, for the first six months of the job, you spend most of your time in class, especially for the first three months, and then for the remaining three months, it's like 50-50 in class, and doing little projects and stuff. They actually taught me basically all of classic ASP, COBOL, JCL, which are two old things, and some beginnings of .NET, but not a ton of it. I did a lot of COBOL and classic ASP, and then eventually got put on a .NET project at work. I just picked that up from the existing code that was already written on the project, because I wasn't writing it from scratch at first. I just taught myself .NET as I got in there, because I already had been programming for a couple of years, so picking up another language was not too difficult, since they actually wrote in VB.NET, and all of their classic ASP was in VB, so ... Matt Stauffer : Right. The syntax was really similar. Taylor Otwell : Wasn't too bad. Matt Stauffer : That actually ... I wanted to ask about .NET and VC, but stepping back for a second, when you guys were writing PHP in school, was this classic PHP, was this ... I'm assuming it was 5-3, based on what I've talked to you about before, right? Was there any framework or anything? Taylor Otwell : No, there was no framework on that project that I remember. It was just classic ... from what I remember, because I actually had to put it all in a thumb drive and install it at this charity, it was just a bunch of random PHP files. There was no real structure to it. Matt Stauffer : Index.php, about.php ... Taylor Otwell : All the ... I remember looking at the HTML and all the PHP being mixed in. Matt Stauffer : Yeah. You got your SQL queries up top, and then the end bracket, and then, all of a sudden, your HTML. Taylor Otwell : Yeah. But then, when I came back to PHP later, it was on PHP 5.3. But again, I started with plain PHP for a few weeks, and then quickly realized that I needed some structure, and that's when I used CodeIgniter for a little bit. Matt Stauffer : Okay. Now, when you were doing .NET, was it .MVC at that point, or was it some predecessor? Taylor Otwell : I've done both. I've done .NET webforms, which were a predecessor to .MVC, and later, I did .MVC, the early versions. Matt Stauffer : I have experience with webforms, and I've never got my brain around the way it works, because if I remember right, it's basically ... rather than a route or a controller, or anything, it's really basically a form that handles its own validation, that handles its own everything. Everything is centered around this form, and then that form, and then that form. It's just a very different mental model, in my ... I know that's not a great description, but am I right in remembering that that's the difference between that versus .MVC? Taylor Otwell : Yeah. I think what they did, is they took WinForms, which is what we used to write desktop apps. On WinForms, how it works, if you want to do some action on a button-click, when they click on a button on your desktop app, you're literally in, the designer can click the button, and it takes you to the spot in the code that's like a click-event handler, and you write all of your code. I think on webforms, they tried to have ... basically, their thought process was, "Wouldn't it be cool if we could make the same model for the web, so that all these WinForms programmers can write these dynamic web applications, so you have the same thing, where you have button-click handlers in your .NET code that correspond to things on your front end." Somehow, they routed that using ... I don't know if it was query strings, or what they were actually passing in the form, but somehow, they were able to route that to the right piece of code when you clicked a button on your web front end. It felt like building a WinForms app, and was really different than any other web technology I've ever used since. Matt Stauffer : Yeah. The reason I was asking is, my brother has done .MVC for ages, and he helped me understand .MVC when I first got into CodeIgniter, but I remember having written webforms before that, and it's such a complete ... it felt a little bit like writing a classic ASP, especially if you're using VB, but then it felt a little bit like some kind of super-powered jQuery, basically. It's not like a mentality that I'm used to seeing anywhere else. Before you got back into CodeIgniter, you had had some experience with .MVC, then. Taylor Otwell : Yeah. I had .MVC, and that's why I even knew the frameworks as a concept to look for, basically. Matt Stauffer : So, you got a job out of school. It almost seems like it was a sponsored boot camp, basically, for the first six months. Is that a good way to think about it? There are getting used to real-world stuff, but you're actually sitting in classes sponsored by the company? Taylor Otwell : Yeah, a little bit. It was all on site, and all the instructors were full-time employees that actually were in other departments, actually. They would just pull them into these training classes when they needed them. But it was a really unique place. They only hired new graduates, and everyone goes through the same training program. It's like they just want people fresh, and wanted to sort of train them in their way of doing things, rather than bring in existing programmers that are already, I guess, ingrained with other ways. Matt Stauffer : Right. That you have to un-train, basically. Taylor Otwell : Yeah, it was one of the of the ... I guess, the only places I've worked that only hired new graduates. Matt Stauffer : Interesting. So, you're doing that, you're working at .MVC, and you have this idea that you want to do some side projects, and you mention that seeing your partner in that class project using PHP gave you a little of the idea that you could do something on your own. Can you tell me a little bit more about what the mentality was, and what the thought process was, that led for you to have a good, paying job doing .MVC, that you could do that for quite a while, and saying, "You know what? I want to do something on the side." What was the itch there? Taylor Otwell : I think part of it was having freedom to move wherever I wanted to if it did take off. Then, I could work from home, and we could move back closer to family, because at the time, I was living three or four hours away from the main bulk of my family, which lives in one town. It was just gonna be more freedom is what I remember to live wherever we wanted to. Matt Stauffer : Yeah. You wanted that freedom, you wanted to be able to be self-employed. If it's anything like it was for me, and then you can tell me if I'm wrong, that there wasn't quite as significant of a culture around being an entrepreneur. It feels like there is, today ... there wasn't all these conferences about being a sole entrepreneur. I guess hearing Ian and Andre talk about it, they're definitely ... what's that form they're always talking about? Business and Software? Taylor Otwell : Mm-hmm (affirmative). Matt Stauffer : But I don't know about you ... have you ever heard of any of those folks who are really big about doing your little business, or is it just something where you said, "Well, I want to do this, and I'll figure it out as I go." Taylor Otwell : No, I didn't know anyone else doing anything like that. I didn't even go to any websites that talked about that or anything. Matt Stauffer : Yeah, same here. I'm interested ... let's see if anything will come up during this chat ... whether the lack of those resources help to hurt us in various ways. You knew PHP was an option. You knew that you could ship with PHP. You at least had the ability to compare it against some other web-based programming things, and it seemed like PHP was more viable for getting something launched, working solo, and so you dug into PHP, you did a little bit of old-school procedural PHP, quickly realized you wanted to do CodeIgniter. What was the first project, do you remember, that you built with CodeIgniter? Taylor Otwell : One of the first projects I built was this really niche thing. I had known someone that owned a book bindery, they rebind old books, and I was going to build a little system for them to take orders and keep track of orders of books they were rebinding. It was a very specific product for this company. I think they were based in Tulsa or something at the time, pretty close to where I was living, really. Matt Stauffer : You built an app custom for them, you built it in CodeIgniter ... what was hosting like? What was the front end like? Do you remember any of the other technical details of what that was like? Taylor Otwell : I think I used DreamHost at the time, so it was just a shared host, because I didn't really know how to configure my own VPS until years later, basically. Yeah, I know I was on DreamHost, and would FTP the files using FileZilla, because I was on Windows at the time, and actually, I didn't even have a Mac until I started working for UserScape after Laravel had been built. All of Laravel, the first version, was built on a cheap Windows laptop. I would just FTP all the files up. When I first started, I was using Notepad++. Matt Stauffer : Yeah, man, I love Notepad++. A lot of good work done with Notepad++ and FileZilla. You were doing that, and at some point, you felt like ... well, actually, I was gonna say, at some point, you felt like CodeIgniter wasn't giving you what you wanted, but actually, the reason you and I first interacted was because I was a CodeIgniter developer who had started learning about IOC and DI, and stuff like that, and I said, "What I wanted was an IOC container for CodeIgniter," and this guy Taylor, this young guy, had written an IOC container for CodeIgniter, and I couldn't find the code anywhere." I ended up DMing you or something, and you ended up saying, "You know what I just pulled ... I got rid of it, I pulled it in Laravel, you should check out Laravel." That was basically how I first my Laravel. I followed Jeffrey at Nettuts for a while, and he'd been talking about Laravel for a bit, so that was what finally switched me over. It sounds like before you went off on your own to do your own thing, you were trying to work in the CodeIgniter ecosystem to improve it. What was that like? Taylor Otwell : Yeah, so at first, I had no intentions of splitting off and writing a framework. But you're right, one of the first projects I wrote was CI injector, CInject or something like that. I was actually pretty proud of that. It was actually the first reflection-based IOC container in PHP at all that I'm aware of. There was one other IOC container that was also written in 2010, a few months later. That was one of the main pieces of .NET/.MVC that I really like was the auto-resolving container. Laravel's container still works, basically, like that first CodeIgniter container did. The other thing I was really interested in was the better ORM for CodeIgniter, and I wanted to get those two things in ... oh, there was a third thing. I wanted better templating, like Blade, where you have an @extends at the top, and then you define these sections that override the parent template section, stuff like that. Template inheritance. I remember the final straw, that I couldn't really continue with CodeIgniter anymore, is I wanted auto-resolving dependency injection in my CodeIgniter controllers. To make that work, you really had to start editing the core files in a way that was not in a nice, packageable, shippable way, where other people could do it. Then I hit this crossroads, where I considered just forking CodeIgniter, and making this "special edition" of just sort of souped-up CodeIgniter on steroids, and giving it another name. Or just starting fresh. I think I just started fresh to just experiment at first, and then got so far along, I just kept going. I know I rewrote the first version of Laravel, probably a solid five or six times until I was happy with it. Matt Stauffer : What was the first thing you wrote in Laravel? Taylor Otwell : I remember writing the routing engine first. Probably the routing and the views. I think ... I don't remember exactly what I was doing for the database at the time. There was an active record of implementation called PHP ActiveRecord, that even at that time had become abandonware. That was back in 2010. Then, there was another couple of libraries. One was called Idiorm ... it was I-D-I-O-R-M, and then it had a corresponding ORM called "Paris". I think the Idiorm thing was the query builder, Paris was the ORM. Actually, Eloquent was very inspired by Paris, because it had the sort of model where a relationship is just a function of the model that returns a query builder. Eloquent, of course, still works like that to this day, so Paris deserves quite a bit of credit for coming up with that model. I don't think the person who wrote Paris even programs PHP anymore, last time I looked, but I'm not sure they're aware that Eloquent was so inspired by that. Matt Stauffer : That's really cool. I remember the moment where I realized I had to leave CodeIgniter was when I recognized that some of its inherent restrictions were forcing me into writing worse code. For example, some of the ugliest stuff in my old CodeIgniter apps were because I had ... database models, they called it, which was really like it was a model and repository and three other things, but you cram it all into one, and so you have methods that are everything you could just possibly imagine that would touch the database in any way, would all get crammed into a single class. If you're lucky, you've figured out enough to at least differentiate those classes by table. But that wasn't even always the case. Like you said, without view inheritance, you end up loading views and data in every controller and passing them around to each other, and you've got a single variable that you're passing through your controller method that tracks the data that's eventually going to get past the view. There's just a lot of things, because of the constraints of CodeIgniter, you just wrote worse code. When you started doing Laravel, you wanted to be able to do dependency injection and all these things. How much of your mindset was, "I'm gonna write things that are gonna make people write better code," and how much of it was, "I want to do these things, and I can't do these things." Was it a purity concept? Was it an ease-of-use concept, or were those things all tied together? Taylor Otwell : At first, I feel like it was a lot of ease-of-use, but also, there was some purity mixed in as well, because of the whole dependency injection thing, which I considered a more pure approach to doing some things back then, and of course still is a more pure approach a lot of times now. I feel like ... but also, ease of use was huge, too, because I wanted it to be very Apple-esque, where it was just really nice to use out of the box, and you didn't have to do all these hacks and customizations to get it really nice that I had to do with CodeIgniter. I wanted it to be like when you unwrap Laravel, it was this nice package that you could use, it was all cohesive and coherent. Matt Stauffer : Yeah. I want to talk a little bit further on that for a little bit. One of the things that you've talked about since the early days is that you recognize that the documentation in the community just make a really big impact on people's experience, working with the framework of a library. You've reference the fact that CodeIgniter was so successful, in large part because it had great documentation. For starters, what do you think it is that prepared you to be in a place where you could recognize that? Is it because you hadn't trained to be a programmer, or are there other experiences in your life that made you more sensitive to those types of, or do you even have a sense for what that is? Taylor Otwell : I don't know. I feel like it was just a low tolerance for pain in terms of programming, because programming wasn't a hobby for me, even really back then. I didn't come home and program, I did other stuff. To have a painful experience programming wasn't that great for me, because it wasn't something I was particularly obsessed about, and so if I was gonna do it at all, I wanted it to be really enjoyable, and easy to do, and fun. I just had a really low threshold for any pain points in the tools I was using, I think. Matt Stauffer : Yeah. It's like we always joke about the fact that a lazy programmer is a good programmer because they're gonna do the one that doesn't waste time or whatever else it ends up being, so I hear that. Taylor Otwell : Yeah, and even when I was at my .NET job, I had already discovered that I really enjoyed writing tools that helped programmers be more productive, because I remember one of the things I did there in my free time, when I had a few extra minutes, was I wrote this little program called WeDev in .NET that was like ... the closest thing I can think of, it would be a lot worse version of Slack, but it had a file dropbox where we could drop files to each other, and it had a little status indicator of what you were doing then, so it was like our own little instant messenger with a file share thing. But I really loved that project, so that was my first taste of, "Hey, I really enjoyed making developers' lives easier." I think that was part of what drew me into Laravel, was it became this fun project to see how productive I could make a programming environment. Matt Stauffer : Yeah, I like that. One of the things that really struck me when I first started going to Laravel conferences was how many people told stories about the ways that Laravel had changed their lives. That was something I wasn't used to. I think people ... there's some jokes around that the terms of "artisan" and some of the other terms we use in the Laravel world, but it's reflective of a really different approach for what the priorities and values are coming from Laravel. What's the goal? That's the question I was asking about purity versus ease of use, it seems like developer happiness is really a very significant ... like productivity and happiness are really significant goals that you have there. When you were building Laravel, you started out, you wanted to scratch your own itch. You wanted to make something that was good for you and it made you be able to do things a certain way, but you were relatively public about it. You started showing people. At what point did you start to realize this is something people are responding to? This is something that might really be a big player in the post-CodeIgniter framework world. Taylor Otwell : I think when I was pretty far along and had, basically, a finished product, only then did I really decide that I would go all the way and document it. I knew that the documentation would be huge, because I felt like that was why CodeIgniter was even popular to begin with, because there was Kohana, which was another, CodeIgniteresque-type framework that had some advantages, and had some better features, but the documentation was so much worse that it just never really had the same steam that CodeIgniter had. I had picked up on that pretty early that if I wanted Laravel to be popular, I would have to write really good documentation. I tried to write, basically, CodeIgniter-level documentation from the very first 1.0 release, because I've seen a lot of people put stuff out there, and then looks like, "Documentation coming soon," or "Documentation in progress," and it's never gonna get the same reception as if it's a finished product. I thought I had a pretty productive little thing, and decided, "Hey, I'll go ahead and document it and put it out there, and see what the response is." My mentality at the time was, "Even if nobody else ever uses this, then that's fine with me, because I at least have something enjoyable to use when I write PHP." Matt Stauffer : Are there any people or moments or inflection points or whatever where you point to a thing and said, "If that thing hadn't happened, or that moment hadn't happened, it would have been a completely different story"? Taylor Otwell : Yeah, so there's a couple of moments. A big moment was, there was a point where a few PHP programmers were teaming up to make this PHP framework called "Fuel", and it was a few CodeIgniter people like Phil Sturgeon, and Dan Horrigan, and one other guy, I think, one or two other guys. I think they were trying to build the successor to CodeIgniter that was moving faster and had features that people wanted, and stuff like that. They had some pretty decent marketing pages for it, and stuff like that. I remember I had some ideas ... I was actually excited about Fuel, and had some ideas that I wanted to put into Fuel. I can't remember what they exactly were at the time. I think one of them might have been some type of route filter-type thing that ended up being in Laravel, or something like that. I had messaged one of them and said, "Hey, I'd really like to help out on Fuel. This is the feature I want to add, or whatever." They weren't super-interested in the feature, which is fine. It's not a knock on them, they just weren't interested in it. I was like, "Okay, I guess I'll keep working on Laravel," but if they would have bit on that, and been interested in me helping with Fuel a little bit and some of these things, then of course, I think things could have been really different, because I would have jumped into Fuel and started adding stuff there, and probably would have just started using it, and become invested in it. That's one moment. Probably the biggest moment I can think of where things could have taken a really different direction because that feature wasn't really a fit for them, that I just kept working on Laravel. Matt Stauffer : Yeah. Well, I, for one, am grateful to whoever it was that rejected that feature. I think ... it's not to say that something else wouldn't have come along, but I think your life would have looked a little bit different after that point, so I think it's a good time to ask a couple questions about what's your life like today. When you were working full-time ... I assume it's at least a 40-hour work week .NET job, and you were writing Laravel on the side ... do you have a sense for what your hours a week were looking like between day job and Laravel work? Taylor Otwell : Yeah. I seemed to have a lot of energy back then. I worked eight to five, and then I came home. James, our first child, was pretty young at the time, just basically a baby, when I'd first started working on it. I would hang out with the family from five to nine. We were just in a little two-bedroom apartment, it was 900 square feet. We were all in there together, pretty close. Abigail would go to bed around nine or 9:30, and I would actually stay up until one or 1:30, a lot of the time. Going to bed at midnight, for me, was like, "I'm going to feel great tomorrow, I went to bed at midnight." I would stay up until midnight, one, sometimes two, the majority of nights, really, and work on Laravel. I was putting in, let's see, probably three to four hours of Laravel work every night, and somehow felt pretty good, actually. I can't really seem to do that anymore. I don't know what changed, but ... Matt Stauffer : Yeah. When my wife was pregnant, she would go to bed at 9:00 every night. I was not happy with my day job situation, and that's when I wrote my first softwares and service. I was working 90, 100-hour work weeks between my normal job and that. It's the same thing. There's no way I could do that right now. But I'm glad I did it then, back when I had that energy. Taylor Otwell : Even when I wrote Forge, I was still working at UserScape, and would stay up until midnight or one routinely, because that took six months for me to build just in my free time. Matt Stauffer : Yeah. At some point, you had Laravel to a point ... I don't want to go too deep in this story, because it's been told before, so I want to cover things I haven't, but you got to a point where Laravel was good enough that it attracted Ian's attention. He was looking to do a reboot of UserScape, which was handled PHP from scratch, and he pick Laravel, and he hired you, and said, "Hey, you build this thing out, and you can make Laravel better, so it can support our needs." You would add a lot of features that UserScape needed, and that helped Laravel grow up in a lot of ways. You told that story. I think the interesting aspect that hasn't been covered before, is what the shift from being UserScape plus Laravel to solo Laravel look like. What were some of the things that you were thinking about when you were starting to make that decision ... when you were starting to consider going out on your own, what was scary, what was exciting, what considerations did you have before you decided to go solo? Taylor Otwell : Some of the scary parts were just not knowing how much longevity Laravel, as the ecosystem, would have, because ... Forge was out, and was doing well, and I was actually making more on Forge than I was making at UserScape pretty quickly. But Laravel was still relatively new. It was only three years old when Forge came out, so there was questions. What if everyone stops using Laravel? What if a better framework comes out in six months and everyone's like, "Screw Laravel, screw Forge, I'm using whatever." That was one of the main fears. The exciting part was that I would just have so much time to work on Laravel. At the time, it was just unfathomable if you know how much time that would be, because 40 hours a week on Laravel. If I'm working just two or three hours of my free time at night, it's two weeks worth of free time. I could try stuff faster, I could experiment faster. That was the most exciting part for me. Matt Stauffer : Yeah, that's cool. I remember talking to you during that time where, to me, it seemed obvious because I have a similar story where I did DreamHost, but I was running a softwares and service from 2010, 2011. I needed a VPS, and I tried managing my own Linode VPSes, and it was just awful. I wasn't trained in that stuff. I ended up paying for these super-constrained hosts that didn't let you do what CodeIgniter and Laravel needed, because nothing like Forge was out there, and I just couldn't afford from my SaaS to pay a DevOps person to handle it. When Forge came along ... I don't want to be bombastic, but it really revolutionized individual developers' and small teams' ability to run fully-robust VPSes without having full-time DevOps people. For me, as someone from the outside, first of all, I said, "Please let us pay you more money," but second of all, I knew that was really gonna sustain. But I know that there were times where it was a little bit scary. Within your realm of comfort ... I don't want you to have to say your deepest, darkest secrets, but what does make you nervous today? Are you worried about some other framework? Are you worried about PHP no longer being viable? Are you just feeling pretty good? What does ... in the life that you have, where Laravel is very popular, very stable, what's on your horizon? Taylor Otwell : Nothing makes me too nervous anymore, because even if Laravel started dying today, and died a slow death over the next few years, I would have secured my future at this point, in terms of "I'm gonna be able to retire with my family, the kids' college is paid for, and I don't have to worry about those things anymore." I would just be like, "Okay, great, thanks for the memories," and I would apply to work at Tighten, I guess. Matt Stauffer : I know, I love it, yes, I'm sold. Taylor Otwell : I would have to just go back to being a regular guy programmer, working on projects and stuff, but I don't know. It doesn't make me too nervous, because I always try to have this mentality that Laravel, obviously, will not be a thing anymore, that either because PHP's not a thing anymore or there's some other framework that's better or whatever. I don't know how long that will be, but I don't really get too nervous about it, because I feel happy with what I created, the memories I made, what I did for my family for decades to come, basically. If it all ended tomorrow, I would be fine. It would be a fun ride. Matt Stauffer : I love it, and that's really good. I think that makes me so happy I want to touch two other things, and then we might just cut it short. The two other things are in that same direction, about what makes you happy and what gives you peace outside of programming. I think the first question is, do you have any daily practices or any mantras, or any things that you do to center yourself, and just help you handle life when it's stressful or not? Just things to keep you steady, I guess. Taylor Otwell : Yeah, I try to meditate some. I can't say I do it every day, but every other day at least, let's say, I try to meditate. For me, that's a spiritual thing, but for other people, it might not be. It might be more just a "focus your thoughts" kind of thing. Also, just try to keep life and perspective during that meditation, I guess. Try to think some of those things ... same thoughts where I don't want to hold too tightly on the success of Laravel, or being a popular programmer is core to my identity, because I think that's setting yourself up for a lot of pain in the future, because all things pass away eventually. It's just a time to focus my thoughts. Also, I just think about my family, stuff like that. More important stuff than programming. But I find it just de-stresses me a bit, helps me focus on what's important, and it's refreshing. But now I try to make time to do it. I feel like as soon as we get up in the morning, now with two kids, it's sort of rushing around everywhere getting ready for school and stuff like that. But yeah, that's what I do. Matt Stauffer : Yeah. You got to be intentional about those things. You've talked about productivity systems and how much you love Wunderlist and stuff. How structured do you keep your life? Do you have, "This is the hour when I do that"? I remember you've talked about starting with pull requests and issues. Do you still have some of those same structures, or is it different with Mohamed around? Taylor Otwell : Yeah, I still have some structures. It's not structured to the point that every hour of the day is structured. I'm more focused in day increments moreso than hour increments in Todoist, which is what I moved to after Wunderlist, which I'm really enjoying, actually. I have this bullet journal approach, where I only really sit in the "Today" column of Todoist, and I have, usually, five or six things that I want to do that day, and I have them in Todoist, and then I have projects that I treat just as grab-bags, the things I want to do at some point. Some of my projects in Todoist are actual projects that I'm working on, like Laravel Horizon was, where I have all the things I want to do. But some of them are just movies I want to watch, or music I want to listen to, or something like that. I do keep my day fairly structured, where I start my day with port request and emails, but then after that, it's not so structured. I just work through my to-do list for that day as I ... just whatever I feel like doing next. But it's still structured at a daily level. Matt Stauffer : Right. In regards to the music that you're gonna listen to ... I'm not gonna ask you to tell me the best rap album of all time, because we could do a whole podcast on that, but do you have one that, even if it's not your favorite today, has been the longest-running favorite, or the most significant impact, just the one that you played out like no other album or something. Taylor Otwell : I feel like I go in phases, and it's funny because each Laravel release, I feel like, has had an album that I feel like I really played a lot for that release. I know on one of the releases, I played the Views album that Drake put out quite a bit. One of the releases was "The Life of Pablo" from Kanye West. But I think one of the albums recently that I really played a lot was ... I think you pronounce his name "Black" even though it's spelled with a six on the front, so "6lack" is what it looks like. He's a rapper/singer hybrid, I guess you could say, almost more singer than rapper, but I played that album a lot when it first came out, and still play it quite a bit. Matt Stauffer : All right. Did you like 808s and Heartbreak? Taylor Otwell : Yeah, I really like that album. Matt Stauffer : I played that out like no album for quite a while. Taylor Otwell : Yeah, looking through my music ... okay, another album I played a lot was "Blue Neighbourhood", by Troye Sivan, who's not a rapper at all, he's a singer. But that's another album I just really wore out over the past couple of years Matt Stauffer : I've literally never heard of it. Taylor Otwell : Okay, you should check that out. Matt Stauffer : I definitely will. That's awesome. I'll put all of this in the show notes. Okay, let's see, so I'm sure rap is one of these, but what outside program inspires you? Whether it's inspiring you to do good things with programming, because you hear something that gives you a thing, or just inspires you in terms of your life and your family and your entrepreneurial-ness or whatever else. What inspires you? Taylor Otwell : Any time I travel, I feel like I get inspired. Any time I see some cool part of the world, or some really beautiful piece of scenery while I'm traveling or something, somehow that just inspires me to create cool stuff in general. For me, that usually translates into trying to think of cool Laravel ideas, so travel is a big inspiration for me. Let's see, what else ... you know music is a big inspiration. I don't know. Those are the two things that jump out at me. Matt Stauffer : That's good. I didn't prepare you for this one, so sorry, but my friend DeRay and his podcast always asks every guest for one piece of advice that they've received that's really influenced them across their life ... is there any one piece of advice that really stands out, that has big impact on you, that you've gotten from somebody else? Taylor Otwell : One thing that comes to mind that wasn't really a piece of advice, but just more like learning, is probably from my grandfather, who just did jobs really well. Anything he worked on, he just made sure it was done really right, in a way he could be proud of. I don't know, I guess it goes back to an old-fashioned work ethic that he must have been raised with, but I think that was really inspiring, and I actually blogged about this once, but when I worked with him, actually when I was in college, we took care of all the lawns at our local church. It was just a lot, because they had soccer fields, and just big lawns and stuff, and even with that, he put a lot of attention to detail into that. It inspired a lot of my own attention to detail and going forward. It wasn't a spoken piece of advice, it was more of just a thing you had to observe, but was pretty impactful. Matt Stauffer : I remember that post. I'll link it. Well, I could ask you questions for another hour, but I'm gonna try and keep this one to the hour range, so I think that is pretty good for my questions for today. Is there anything else, especially along this line of questions, but just in general, that you feel like you want to talk about today? Taylor Otwell : I can't think of anything. Matt Stauffer : Okay. Taylor, this was ridiculously fun. Part of the reason that I'm having you is that the first episode of the Laravel Podcast, Season Three, is because everybody wants to know about you and you have a lot to say, but also I just want to say, officially, from me, and from Dan, and from the rest of the crew at Tighten, and the rest of the Laravel crew, thank you for what you've done for our community, because when I talk about Tighten, I say, "You know what? We're creating a company that we want to take care of people. We want to create good jobs for people and stuff like that." You're doing the same thing with Laravel. Yeah, you make money off of it, and you have the ability for yourself to create certain kinds of codes and stuff like that. But your attention to providing good things for people is evident throughout this interview, and just throughout everything about what you've done for Laravel. From all of us, thank you very much. Taylor Otwell : All right. You're welcome. Matt Stauffer : Awesome, man. Thank you so much for speaking with me today, and that's it for today. Taylor Otwell : All right, see you. See you.

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Episode 4 of Tech Talk features Joe Foley, former head coach of the Golden Suns basketball team (1987-2003) and Ron Marvel, former head coach of the Central Arkansas Sugar Bears basketball team (1980-2004, 2008), talking about Arkansas Tech's national champion basketball teams being inducted into the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame, the strength of women's basketball during the AIC years, and the Tech/UCA rivalry.

Episode 1 of Tech Talk features Paul Smith visiting with Sam Strasner, Arkansas Tech's Director of University Relations. We talk about his start with Arkansas Tech athletics as a student assistant in Larry Smith's office, the founding of the Great American Conference, and a look ahead at the 2016-17 athletic year for Arkansas Tech. We also find out about his favorite road eateries from his years of travel with the Wonder Boys and Golden Suns!

Ross Bowsher, Head Strength & Conditioning Coach, Arkansas Tech University Topics in this Interview How Ross got started in the professionNetworking through powerliftingMentors that allow their assistants to grow"You can make it other ways"Training is training no matter where you areMotivating athletes: "You have to want to have to train”Running a DI program at the DII levelWhy hasn’t small schools adapted this model?Trusting your assistant by trusting who they learned fromVelocity based trainingUsing Force plate to determine strength & speed qualitiesWeak point training at the highest levelBrian Mann is the man using VBT for preparednessKnowing your athletes: jousting preparedness by bar speedDeveloping high force at slower speedsDifferences in technique based on body typesFrom Charlie Francis to Dwayne Carlisle; From the weight room to the field.The speed work and the weight room are marriedWorking with ThrowersWeak Point training with throwersThe Law of Individual differencesYou have to survive it to be great at itThe best of advice for young coaches? CompeteI am my best coach when I was trainingIf you have not pushed yourself, these kids do not believe youThree things to learn from Johnny ParkerHarold Nash Moses Cabrera Box SquatMax Effort DL with Pat IvyThis does happen if you do not live the life The Ross Bowsher File Ross Bowsher, who has spent the last nine years as a strength and conditioning coach at the Division I level, has been selected as the first Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at Arkansas Tech University, announced Director of Athletics Steve Mullins on Tuesday. Bowsher, who most recently served as Sports Performance Assistant at Big Ten member Purdue University, will officially begin his duties at Arkansas Tech on July 1. "We are excited to have Ross join the Tech family and serve as the leader of our strength and conditioning program," said Mullins. "The addition of a comprehensive strength and conditioning program will benefit all of our student-athletes and programs here at Arkansas Tech, and we are confident that the knowledge and expertise that Ross brings to this position will help prepare our student-athletes for great success in competition." At Arkansas Tech, Bowsher will be responsible for the strength and conditioning efforts for Tech's 10 sports programs and nearly 300 student-athletes, designing and implementing strength and conditioning plans for all of the Wonder Boys and Golden Suns athletic teams. "I feel privileged to be at Arkansas Tech," said Bowsher. "I feel like I've worked under two of the best strength coaches in the nation in coach Jim Peal and coach Duane Carlisle. I spent time at Purdue under coach Carlisle building a sports performance program from the ground up that is considered one of the nation's best, and I'm excited to bring what I learned under both coaches to Arkansas Tech."  Bowsher has served as the Sports Performance Assistant at Purdue from 2011-14, where he oversaw the sports performance programs for baseball and the track and field throwers while assisting with football. Previously, he spent 2005-2011 at Butler University on the staff of veteran strength and conditioning coach Jim Peal, who worked with four national championship teams, four Final Four squads, and one FCS national championship team in football. Prior to joining the staff at Butler, Bowsher served as the Associate Director of Sports Performance at Athlete's Edge in Indianapolis from 2003-05.Bowsher received an associate's degree in health and human performance from Vincennes University in 2001, before completing the NSCA 18-credit hour certification program in 2004 from IUPUI. In 2008, he earned a bachelor's degree in kinesiology from the University of Indianapolis. He is currently certified through the CSCCa.He played baseball at both Vincennes and the University of Tennessee-Martin.Bowsher has attained elite powerlifting totals in both the 242 and 275 weight classes, and is a member of the International Powerlifting Association and American Powerlifting Federation. He is currently in the top 50 in the world Power Lifting USA rankings in the squat and deadlift, and is in the top 100 in the bench press.             Courtesy Arkansas Tech University www.elitefts.com

GSC-Radio Live brings you all the action from around the Gulf South Conference. This week, we bring you interviews from West Alabama's men's basketball coach Eddie McCarter, Arkansas Tech's women's basketball coach Dave Wilbers and much more!

GSC-Radio Live brings you all the action from around the Gulf South Conference. This week, we bring you interviews from West Alabama's men's basketball coach Eddie McCarter, Arkansas Tech's women's basketball coach Dave Wilbers and much more!

GSC-Radio Live brings you all the action from around the Gulf South Conference. This week,we brig you interviews from Southern Arkansas head football coach Bob Keopple, West Alabama volleyball coach Tabitha Turner, Arkansas Tech men's basketball coach Doug Karleskint and GSC soccer contact Michael Banks, who will break down the this week's GSC soccer tournament.

GSC-Radio Live brings you all the action from around the Gulf South Conference. This week,we brig you interviews from Southern Arkansas head football coach Bob Keopple, West Alabama volleyball coach Tabitha Turner, Arkansas Tech men's basketball coach Doug Karleskint and GSC soccer contact Michael Banks, who will break down the this week's GSC soccer tournament.

Micah and Tyler are back with two yes two excellent interviews First Namon Bob Ross Jackson once again paints us a masterpiece of the Las Vegas Stadium and talks with us the final time about the Draft Then Cua Rose former safety at Arkansas Tech tells us about his inspiring journey from 10th grade athlete to draft hopeful This is an episode you do not want to miss We promise