What Jon Gruden Learned about Practice from Indiana Basketball

I'm a huge Jon Gruden fan. I liked his passion and enthusiasm as a coach. I love that same enthusiasm in his game analysis for ESPN. I recently read his book, "Do You Love Football?!" He obviously has learned from many great football coaches, with experiences at Tennessee under Johnny Major and in the NFL with the Bill Walsh 49ers and Mike Holmgren Packers, to name a few. But here are the lessons he learned from Bob Knight and the Indiana Basketball Program when he was a ball boy, during the time his father was an assistant football coach at IU:

"Teach your players how to practice. That's even more important than teaching them what to practice, because if you don't establish the pace you want and if you aren't consistent about it, they're going to work the way they want to and it's going to change with each day. You have to let them know that you want them practicing hard, with a sense of purpose, every time."