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A little more than a decade later, by then a full-time assistant athletic director, Harden sat across from Tom Brady. And he said, sorry Tom, but I can’t help you become a starter at Michigan. “But what I can help you with,” he said, “is this: I can help you believe you should be the starter at Michigan.”

Harden saw an athlete who was confident in his abilities, but insecure about his ability to succeed at Michigan. Up until this point, talent led Brady directly to success. That’s how almost every prep athlete thinks when he or she enters college. But when talent doesn’t lead to results, the freshman mind goes haywire. Harden needed to get Brady to put another variable into the talent equals success equation.

Harden told the quarterback to become the best player at his position first – to know the playbook better than any other quarterback and to be able to make every throw better than any other quarterback. If he knows the position better than Drew Henson, Harden said, at least he’ll know in his heart he belonged in the starting lineup. Worry about that, and then worry about being the best in the conference, and then the nation. “We can all rationalize being stuck,” Harden says. “It’s your response that matters. You don’t get to decide my response.”