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THE DRAGON WAY Podcast: Episode 11 – Abe Roehrich

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Without a fall season last year due to COVID, Dragon Football assisted in creating an award-winning television show called THE DRAGON WAY.  Now that games are back, they're continuing to promote the culture and values of the program through a new THE DRAGON WAY Podcast.  Hear and see MSUM Dragons Football through the lens of those who lived it while they played and how they're living it today.

Your host is former Dragons player and coach Wade Youngblom, and he likes B-Dubs, the sponsor of TDW Podcast.

For those of you who don't know what THE DRAGON WAY is, simply it's four things Dragon Football focuses on to create men of character. Do What's Right, Find A Way, Be A Great Teammate, and Keep Getting Better!  That's THE DRAGON WAY.

EPISODE QUOTES FROM ABE ROEHRICH:

"You could tell they're very genuine people…my mom even said, "You can tell they have good values." The values of the program matched who I wanted to be in the future."

"It's 4-5 years of your life where you're basically making all the decisions. The biggest thing is deciding who you want to be and what values you have. It's the people that matter. If you're around good people and you're doing something kinda crappy or hard, it'll probably be fun. If you're doing something fun with crappy people, it's probably not going to be fun. Go somewhere with people you want to be like because you're going to become more like those people as you spend more and more time with them."

"In high school I thought I had the 10 best friends I'd have forever. The guys that I'm gonna be friends with forever (the guys in my wedding) ended up being the guys I played with at MSUM."

"You're gonna be valued as a person at MSUM. No matter what your role is or isn't, you matter in this program. Everybody cares about everybody."

"As a player, Find A Way was the most important. Gotta find a way to bring that positive energy no matter what you're doing and push through. Now it's Be A Great Teammate…to Maren, my wife. Stepping up and doing the dishes even though I know she'll do them if I leave em. It's bled more into my life outside of football."

"The area I changed the most in was Do What's Right. I wasn't a "bad" kid, but Laqua almost engrains it in ya. "Is this the right thing or not?" goes through your head on every decision. Make the decision that will make you happy a year from now not an hour from now. It's the cookie and the apple. Cookie makes you feel good now, but the apple will make you feel good tomorrow."

"Hopefully I'm having as big of an impact on others as Coach Koch had on me."

For those of you who don't know what THE DRAGON WAY is, simply it's four things Dragon Football focuses on to create men of character. Do What's Right, Find A Way, Be A Great Teammate, and Keep Getting Better! That's THE DRAGON WAY.

You can listen to THE DRAGON WAY podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and of course MSUMDragons.com and the MSUM DRAGONS app.

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