UC Berkeley Rugby Coach Jack Clark on Team Building, Culture, Honesty

Jack Clark (0:00)

I'd like to believe that our players are getting the unofficial Ph.D. in team.

They're getting a really, an acute understanding of team. They know what a good teammate looks like, and the effect that they can have. They know what a bad teammate is, unbearably, right? I mean, these young people, they're past the 10,000 hours, 10 year moment. I mean, they're becoming an expert in team, and especially if we make that, that's what we're doing here, and it's gonna help us win some rugby games, but at the end of the day, that's the thing that is gonna be the takeaway.

Michael Gervais (0:50)

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Now, this conversation is with Jack Clark. And Jack is the iconic rugby coach of the University of California. Been around the game a long time. His team building abilities are considered legendary within university circles and throughout the corporate sector.

Since becoming the head coach of the Golden Bears in 1984, Coach Clark has led the rugby program to 29 national collegiate championships. Yeah, that's so cool. I mean, that's not easy to do, right? Of course that's not easy to do, but 29 national collegiate championships. And in 2000, Clark was chosen as the Cal's 10 most influential sport figures of the 20th century.