Akron safeties coach Oscar Rodriguez has a unique perspective on life and football.
While many of us as coaches love to talk about the adversity within the game of football, what Rodriguez has been through as a two-time cancer survivor has provided him with some unique perspective that he's passing on to Zips players.
"We tend to always talk about adversity in sports, like - 'Hey, we're going to have some adversity.' But here's the reality. There isn't adversity in sports. It's just a bad roll, or bad luck.
"I try to keep things in perspective because the reality is we all go through things in life where we deal with real adversity. In life, you don't really have a choice. You have to attack it, and you have to deal with it."
For the first three minutes or so of the video, an emotional coach Rodriguez fights back tears as he takes you on his personal journey of adversity from hearing the words cancer come from his doctors mouth, to staying in his house for three weeks, to going to his next scan with his mom and dad and having his doctor shares news that even a trained professional couldn't get himself to believe.
It's an incredible, raw story from one of our own inside the coaching profession, and is a great reminder that while we're all facing our own forms of adversity every day there are people we care about facing some really serious stuff that threatens their life as they know it.
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