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WHERE HAVE YOU GONE? him into position. He signed a contract with the Dallas Cowboys in 2005 and was once again blown away by how much more there was to learn about the game. Now that Goolsby's playing days ball's going. Who's going to get there first? … I've seen tremendous results from kids who come for six weeks and never have to break a sweat." Goolsby had to put his football tu- are over, he's trying to find ways to give young players the head start he never had. He started the Game Changers Academy in his native Joliet a few years ago and added his name to the list of many programs offering their services to talented high school football players in the Chicagoland area. toring on hold last month when he moved from the Chicago area to Wich- ita, Kan., for his day job. He recently started working for Henry Schein Dental Sales, which is ranked 303rd on Fortune's lists of America's top large corporations. He said he's adjusting well to life in Kansas and already has a location picked out to start teaching high school players in Wichita soon. "WE APPROACH THE MENTAL AND THE TECHNIQUE SIDE — AT THE END OF THE DAY THAT'S THE EQUALIZER. GIVE ME A LINEBACKER THAT RUNS 4.5 [40-YARD DASH] AND DOESN'T KNOW WHAT HE'S LOOKING AT, AND THEN GIVE ME ONE THAT RUNS A 4.8 AND KNOWS WHERE THE BALL'S GOING. WHO'S GOING TO GET THERE FIRST?" GOOLSBY different in that he's not a personal trainer or a speed coach and he's not trying to find blue-chip recruits and market them to colleges. He's worked with dozens of clients over the past few years from junior varsity under- classmen to five-star running back re- cruit Ty Isaac. His goal is to take the physical tools a high school kid brings to the field and make the most out of them. "We approach the mental and the Game Changers, Goolsby said, is of environment, I could do it on no sleep," he said. "I can't see myself not doing it." technique side — at the end of the day that's the equalizer," he said. "Give me a linebacker that runs 4.5 [40-yard dash] and doesn't know what he's looking at, and then give me one that runs a 4.8 and knows where the a player develop, which is what has made the first half of the 2012 Notre Dame season so enjoyable for him. In the past week, Irish head coach Brian Kelly and star linebacker Manti Te'o have both talked about how much smarter Te'o is now than he was as a freshman on the field in 2009. Those types of improvements have been missing for the past decade at Notre Dame, especially from the defensive side of the ball. Seeing them now Goolsby gets a kick out of watching A FAMILIAR LOOK "Working with kids in that kind