The Guiding Principles of Lobo Football: Hard Things Together

Hard Things Together.  Nothing evern worth doing is easy.  You have all heard that.  If it was easy, everyone would do it.  You’ve all heard that one too.  Nothing about football is easy.  Nothing about being a student-athlete is easy.  It’s all pretty hard.  If there is anyone that understands the concept of Hard Things Together it’s Nate Pototshnik, the Director of Athletic Performance and the men charged with overseeing all stength and condition for the Lobos under Bronco Mendenhall.

When you have an athletic performance coach who is a U.S. Army Veteran who still goes by his call signal of “Blackjack”, you can be sure that Hard Things Together resonates with him.  It’s a principle that guided him throughout his Army days, and it makes for a seemless transitition for the 2024 Lobo Football team. When you can do hard things together, when you can band and you can bond, you are just setting yourself up for success.

For assistant coach Donte Wilkins, Hard Things Together means exactly that, but relishing in it.  Not so much an odd enjoyment of the task, but of accomplishing a goal by grinding, by sweating, but doing what seems impossible.  When you can do the impossible, you feel great.  When you as a group can do the impossible, when you share that joy with your brothers, your comrades, your family, you feel not just great, but invincible.

As Wilkins says, “it makes the bonds deeper”.  It a way to build culture, and to build a bond between teammates.