Head Baseball Coach @palestine_isd || Married to @sdillard0811 | Pitching/ Hitting certified @OnBaseU

Joined August 2025
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F: @DTigerBaseball Scout Team 6, Dallas Pelicans 1 PoG: Colt Medders 2-2, 2B, R, RBI, BB
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Big time hire for both @GTEagleFootball and @EFND_Baseball @CoachDeramus is a winner on the field and a great leader in the classroom.
The last piece of the puzzle for @GTEagleFootball and @EFND_Baseball. Welcome Coach Deramus. @CoachDeramus
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Confirmed: The guy who started the shirtless movement at Busch Stadium, Bryce Bradford, will throw out the first pitch at today’s game against the Pirates. @SFAClubBsbl planned to stay in town until Wednesday regardless of the outcome of their NCBA DII World Series game, so the @Cardinals welcomed the team back for an encore. @KMOV | @MatrixMidwest
#NEW: The @SFAClubBsbl team will be back at Busch Stadium on Tuesday night to lead the #TarpsOff section for one last time. @KMOV | @MatrixMidwest

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This is incredible information.$19? Might be best bargain on the market. If you are a high school coach… must have.
Announcing Blackbook Baseball: scouting reports from $19: blackbookbaseball.com/ Built from 4 years scouting opponents for my son's varsity baseball staff. Honed into something truly useful. This weekend, I bundled it into something repeatable.
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Beyond honored to represent Region 6 as a nominee for this award. Thank you to the coaches that nominated and voted 🫶🏼
Here are the 2026 Girls Coaching Beyond the Game Award nominees🤩 This award recognizes individuals who have made an impact beyond sports. Congratulations to all of our regional winners and our overall winner!👏
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🔥Fired Up to partner with Palestine HS Baseball (TX) @PHSWildcatBsb to provide Armored Heat for all their arms! Looking forward to working with @coachdilly08 and crew to build some Big Time Arms! 📈
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Nobody who's made it has ever said "it was easier than I expected." It takes more than you think. More work. More focus. More consistency than they ever expected. The ones who didn't make it? They thought they were doing enough. They just underestimated what it actually takes. That's the difference. The willingness to do more than you think is 'enough'. For longer than you think is 'enough'. Every rep you half a$$. Every session you go through the motions. You're disrespecting every player who showed up when they didn't feel like it. You're disrespecting who did the work you decided wasn't worth doing. It's going to take more than you think. Way more. Not for a day, or a week, or a month. Six months. Twelve months. Three years. Send this to someone who needs to hear it. Save it for when you need it.
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Tom Brady shares the advice that changed his career and his mindset. He was at Michigan - he was only getting 2 practice reps while the starter got 20. He was complaining to sports psychologist Greg Harden: "How can I ever get better? All these guys get all the reps and I only get 2." Greg's response changed everything: "Just go in there and focus with the 2 that you got and make them as perfect as you possibly can." Focus on what you can control. So that's what he did. "They'd put me in for those 2. Man, I'd sprint in there like it was Super Bowl 49. 'Let's go boys! Here we go! What play we got?'" "I did really well with those 2 'cause I brought enthusiasm, I brought some energy, and I had a little more confidence in myself." You don't get what you want in life - you get what you earn. It starts with showing up and earning it every single day. "It went from 2 reps to getting 4 reps because those 2 were pretty good. Then I had 4 good reps. Then I got 10 good reps." You can always try to lead the team in effort, attitude, and perspective because it takes no talent. Then he shared the mindset shift: "Focus on what you can control. Focus on what you're getting, not what anyone else is getting. Whenever you get an opportunity, you take advantage of it. You treat it like it's the Super Bowl." Stop complaining about what you don't have. Dominate what you do. Opportunity doesn't care about fairness - it rewards how ready you are. (🎥PBD Podcast )
Tom Brady was the 199th pick in the NFL Draft. At Michigan, the starter got 20 reps. The backup got 10. Brady got 2. His sports psychologist told him: "Make your 2 reps perfect." Here's his formula: (📌Bookmark this)
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The best competitors don't rise to the occasion. They've already been there. Cori Close talks about the lion mindset. 🔥 When night comes, the lion has to hunt. Watch. Share. Bookmark.
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Shoutout the late @KenRavizza1 The Godfather of the Mental game of Baseball and @LantzWheeler “Confidence is fragile!” “Feeling good is overrated!” The best 20 minutes of your season! I studied under Dr. Ravizza at @csuf and it changed my life!
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PLAYERS: Your coach shouldn't have to beg you to be unselfish, provide energy, have a good attitude, or give your best effort. Those are all things you can control. That is what a winning teammate brings to a team. Great teams have great teammates.
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I often quip that the only class that prepared me for business ownership was playing college baseball. Augie Garrido perfectly sums up why here, and his words encapsulate why I’ve decided to devote my life to helping kids play at the next level. “Having the courage to act on your own ideas and become who you want to become.”
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Geno Auriemma shares how he explains success to his players and why showing up isn't enough. "If you go to class and you do average work, you're gonna get a C. That's why it's called average." "If you want a B, you have to do more work. If you want an A, you have to do even more work and you have to give up stuff." You get what you earn in life. "You have to sacrifice. Maybe you can't do all the things that everybody else does." It means if you want more then you have to be willing to do more. "If you're just happy getting Bs all your life, there's nothing wrong with that either. But you're never gonna get the satisfaction of what it feels like to get an A." Then he connected it to basketball: "If you just wanna be average, then you do average work. If you wanna be a little bit above average then you do a little more work." "If you wanna get As in basketball, then you gotta do stuff that other people aren't willing to do - especially if you have the talent like we do. We have talent." It means bring a mindset of excellence to everything that you do. Excellence isn't the goal - it's the standard you set. Then he called out the entitlement problem: "Some of these younger guys coming out of high school, man, they wanna show up and go, 'I'm here. Where's my 3.7?'" "Like my father used to say, 'I got your 3.7 right here.'" Showing up doesn't earn you anything. Doing the work does. You get the grade you earn - in school, in basketball, and in life. It's easy to be average...successful people look to compete in everything they do. (🎥UCTV Sports )
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I did not have Ole Miss outspending Mississippi State for baseball on my bingo card
in today's Extra Points, we obtained the FY25 operating budget for (nearly) every public school college baseball program here's who spent a lot of money and still sucked, how much you need to compete for an at-large bid, who spent what and more: extrapointsmb.com/p/here-s-w…
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As Notre Dame Nation continues to pray for Coach Lou Holtz and his family it’s a great time to watch arguably his most powerful speech ever ☘️
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𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝟓𝟔 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞. #UnleashTheGrizz
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Looking forward to following team 56 on their journey this Spring. @CoachNelly11 and staff have the guys ready to go in what will be a historic season for the @OaklandBSB
𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝟓𝟔 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞. #UnleashTheGrizz
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There used to be a thing called #FridayFollow It disappeared or at least I haven’t seen it in a while. Figured I would give it a go…. @CoachSheets3 @chuckbox1969 @MollyMiller33 @Mike_Rooney
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Simple “Tells” off of a LHP. #baseball #practice #michigan #coaching #training
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