Spartans' Brent Brennan Speaks On Pivotal Leadership

              For San Jose State University football head coach Brent Brennan, he attributes the Spartans' success as the 2020 Mountain West champion and finishing the season ranked 24th nationally in the NCAA's Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) to connecting, caring and giving to each other.
 
            Coach Brennan, the 2020 Mountain West Coach of the Year and a finalist for several national college football coach of the year honors, discusses pivotal leadership in a recent Silicon Valley Business Journal cover story feature written by Marcia Daszko, best-selling author of "Pivot, Disrupt, Transform."
 
            "Football is the best sport to learn about systems and holistic thinking. The game is a good training ground to pivot. It's the process, the struggle. The players need to lean on each other. The pieces come together," Brennan said in the article that includes local health care and small business leaders' views on pivotal leadership.
 
            In the recently completed 2020 season, San Jose State finished with a 7-1 win-loss record winning its first Mountain West football championship since joining the conference in 2013 and first outright football conference championship in 30 years. The Spartans won their first seven games, accepted an invitation to play in the Offerpad Arizona Bowl in Tucson, Ariz., and ended the season with their best win-loss record percentage (.875) since 1940.