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The Sports Coach Podcast

The Sports Coach Podcast

Di: Steve Collins
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Got a coaching problem you can't Google? You're in the right place. Playing time decisions, parent conflicts, building a roster, running a practice that actually works — every week we dig into the real challenges youth sports coaches are dealing with right now. Tips. Techniques. Secrets from coaches who have been in the trenches. Ten minutes. Every week. No fluff. This is The Sports Coach. Let's get to work.Coach Market LLC Genitorialità e famiglie Relazioni
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  • Ep 166 What Happens in October Decides What Happens in February

    Ep 166 What Happens in October Decides What Happens in February
    Oct 15 2026
    https://teachhoops.com/ Your season does not start on the first day of practice. It starts about four weeks earlier, which means for most coaches it has already started. In this episode Coach Collins makes the case that by the time you blow the first whistle in November, a surprising amount has already been decided: who trusts you, who believes they matter to you, who showed up in shape, and what the air in your gym is going to feel like. The episode opens with an uncomfortable question. If your first practice were tomorrow morning, what would your team already know about you? Not what you plan to tell them in that first meeting, but what they already know today without you saying a word. Kids are not waiting on your speech. They have been reading you since June. From there Coach Collins lays out three things a coach can put in the bank in October that cannot be recovered in February. The first is relationships, because you cannot build trust in a timeout. The clock is running, the crowd is loud, and a player who does not trust you will not suddenly start trusting you with nine seconds left. That work happens now, in the boring hours, and the episode gives a simple assignment: write out the full roster, then go find five of those kids this week at a soccer game, a cross country meet, or in the hallway. The second is clarity. One page, written in plain language, covering what we do here, what we do not do here, what earns time and what loses it. If you cannot write it on one page, you cannot coach it in a gym, and fog on paper becomes fog in practice. Coach Collins urges coaches to write it now while they are calm, because nobody writes an honest standards page in December when they are two games under and everybody in town has an opinion. The third is the coach himself. Too many coaches walk into the first practice already worn out, already behind, already carrying a season of stress before the season exists. The episode makes a direct case for getting the calendar out in October, defending the nights that belong to your family, and deciding in advance what you are saying no to. A tired coach in November becomes a short tempered coach in January, and the players and the family both pay for it. This is an episode for coaches who want a head start instead of a scramble, built on one idea: February is not won in February. It is won on a quiet Tuesday in October when nobody was watching. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    7 min
  • Ep 165 The Way You Cut a Kid Tells the Whole Town Who You Are

    Ep 165 The Way You Cut a Kid Tells the Whole Town Who You Are
    Oct 8 2026
    https://teachhoops.com/ Tryouts are coming, and with them the part of coaching nobody puts on a highlight reel. In this episode Coach Collins takes on cut day, the two hours a year that reveal more about a program than any game on the schedule. After a long career he is blunt about it: it never got easier, not once, and it should not. The central idea is that everybody in the building is watching how you do it. The kid being cut is watching. His parents are watching. His friends in the hallway are watching. And your returning players are watching the closest of all, because they are learning exactly what a person is worth in your program once he stops being useful to you. How you cut a kid is not a side issue. It is one of the loudest culture statements you make all year. Coach Collins walks through four things worth fighting for. Tell players before tryouts exactly what you are evaluating, how many days it will take, who is deciding, and when they will know, because kids can handle bad news but mystery wrecks them. Deliver the news face to face, not on a list taped to a door or in a group text, because a list tells a sixteen year old he was never a person to you, just a name. Give him something he can actually use instead of hiding behind roster numbers, and then hold the door open by telling him when open gym is and that you want to see him there. And watch what gets said about him in the coaches office afterward, because if a kid is disposable in your office, your players will feel it on the floor. The episode also asks the harder question underneath all of it: do you have to cut at all? Rosters have limits and gyms have limits, and sometimes the answer is yes. But Coach Collins pushes coaches to think carefully about the junior who works, will never start, and loves the program, because sometimes that kid is the culture, and a roster spot is the cheapest investment a coach will ever make. When the answer really is no, the rule is simple: make sure the reason is basketball, and make sure you can say it out loud to his mother. It closes with a practical assignment. Before tryouts begin, write down the exact criteria you are evaluating, and write down the first sentence you will say when a kid sits down and it is bad news. Write it while you are calm, because you will not find the right words in the moment, and that kid will carry the wrong ones for twenty years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    8 min
  • Ep 164 Your Staff Is Not Aligned Yet, and Your Players Already Know It

    Ep 164 Your Staff Is Not Aligned Yet, and Your Players Already Know It
    Oct 1 2026
    https://teachhoops.com/ Coaches spend October on the players. Conditioning, open gyms, skill work, the schedule, the gear order. Then they walk into November assuming the three or four adults on the bench are on the same page. In this episode Coach Collins argues that assumption is where a lot of seasons quietly go wrong, and that staff alignment is something you have to build on purpose before the first practice. The test he offers is simple. Could each of your assistants, tonight, tell you the same three things your program is about? If the answer is no, your players already know it. Kids figure out staff division about nine days into a season. The episode walks through how that division shows up in a gym. A player told to help down by one coach and stay home by another, so he stands still. A kid you just corrected hard, quietly told by an assistant not to worry about you because you are in a mood. A parent who calls a specific assistant because everybody in town knows which coach is the soft landing. None of that is a loyalty problem. Most assistants are good people trying to help. It is an alignment problem, and alignment does not happen by accident. Coach Collins then lays out the preseason staff meeting he wants every head coach to run. Two hours, no phones, somewhere that is not the gym. It starts with a question rather than a speech: what are we actually about this year? He is candid that he got this wrong for years by walking in and announcing the vision, which is not alignment, it is a memo. People do not defend a plan they had no hand in building. The meeting produces three specific things. Three non negotiables chosen together, not twelve, because assistants who helped pick them will enforce them when the head coach is not looking. A real job for every coach, not a title, because an assistant with no ownership becomes a spectator and eventually a critic. And a stated rule for how to disagree with the head coach, because if you never tell a coach how to push back on you, he will do it sideways, to a parent or a player or in the parking lot. The episode adds one more step most head coaches skip: ask each assistant what he wants out of this season for himself, because developing a future head coach and developing a lifelong assistant are not the same job. The takeaway is uncomfortable and clarifying at the same time. Your team will never be more unified than your staff is, so build the bench before you build the roster. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    8 min
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