Megan Belo

Head Women's Basketball Coach for @marlinswbb

[Tom Crean @TomCrean]

Just Coach the Team
1. When everyone is watching the Ball you are MISSING the Game !!
2. Don’t use numbers and phrases you can’t explain EASILY to the players on how it affects THEM
3. Don’t use numbers or phrases you don’t understand yourself.
4. Breathe confidence into them!

[nicole ruiz @nwilliams030]

" Every single day of my childhood, my parents asked the same question at dinner. Not “What did you learn?” but “Who did you serve?” "

Excellent piece by Alex Sasse, @BenSasse 's eldest daughter, one what she learned from her father

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

The lie we tell ourselves.

“Once we win one I’ll be happy.” - Sean McVay

Winning doesn’t fill the void. It just moves the finish line.

The real joy?
The grind. The growth. The people.

[Ed Molitor @TheMolitorGroup]

Are you doing the best you can with what you have to get better today?

@CoachBobStarkey’s one daily goal: be the best version of himself today.

That is the process. That is coaching greatness.

🎥Watch now: https://t.co/DihTuDMczQ

#LSUWomensBasketball #CoachingGreatness

[VWU WBB @marlinswbb]

Calling all elementary and middle school girls in the 757: come spend a week with us in the tank! We are hosting our 1st lady marlins girls basketball camp June 30th-July 2nd! Spread the word and bring a friend with you! #SummerCamp #SummerFun #Summer2026

[Megan Belo @CoachMegGreen]

This is what I’m most proud of🤓

[VWU WBB @marlinswbb]

Another semester crushing it in the classroom! 🐟📚

#finsup #gomarlins #vwuwbb #gdtbam

[Megan Belo @CoachMegGreen]

So proud. So inspired. So ready for more🐟

[VWU WBB @marlinswbb]

Closing out the 2025-2026 school year feeling inspired! Proud of what we accomplished but even more excited for what’s to come. As always, Fear The Fish🐟

#finsup #gomarlins #vwuwbb #gdtbam

[Megan Belo @CoachMegGreen]

1️⃣st book on my summer reading list is “The Culture Code” by @DanielCoyle 🥸 He talks about Sam Presti and his ability to bring people together… Fun fact about Sam Presti: he’s a former @VWU_Basketball player!
Go Marlins! Go Thunder! #WhyD3

[Brian Kight @BrianKight]

“The difference between a life that sounds like music and a life that sounds like noise is whether you stop and listen.

Whether you're honest enough to listen for which string has drifted out of tune. And humble enough to make the adjustment. Instead of just turning up the volume and hoping nobody notices.

Because you will notice. The part of you that knows what the chords should sound like will always notice.”

[Cody Royle @codyroyle]

In his book, legendary UNC basketball coach Dean Smith wrote a whole chapter called 'One-on-One Meetings'.

In it, he detailed his entire philosophy on when, where and how often he met his players, and what they'd talk about.

I wrote about it here:

https://t.co/XXY7SUftum

[Washington Mystics @WashMystics]

Up and under from Kira

[Ser Troy Haliburton @TroyHalibur]

Sonia Citron is the sleeping giant next superstar of the WNBA

[Molly McGrath @MollyMcGrath12]

@CitronSonia smiling when she’s on fire from three is about as wholesome as you can get on #wnba opening night

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

Development CANNOT exist where embarrassment feels prominent. 🚫

Confidence is contagious. 🦠 But so are fear, skepticism, and cynicism.

A teammate rolling his eyes.
A coach instantly frustrated.
A visible loss of belief.

Those small reactions seem insignificant, but just one can spread through a team like a virus. Stunting growth and splintering a locker room.

When people are mocked for mistakes, they start protecting themselves instead of pushing themselves.

They hesitate. They stop focusing on thriving, and start focusing on surviving.

And over time, that self-protection mechanism suffocates their self-development.

Every reaction matters because young players are constantly asking: “Do they still believe in me?”

If belief becomes borrowed confidence, then borrowed confidence becomes real confidence over time.

Loaned Confidence Looks Like:
-A teammate clapping and saying “next play.”
-A coach trusting them enough to leave them in.
-A veteran pulling them aside with encouragement instead of criticism.
-Eye contact instead of eye rolls.
-Teaching instead of tension.
-A visible reminder that one mistake does not change their value to the team.

The best cultures are not focused on avoiding mistakes.

They are built on creating enough psychological safety that people can survive mistakes without losing their sense of belonging.

Because real growth happens in environments where people can GO through embarrassment, while they GROW through embarrassment.

[Megan Belo @CoachMegGreen]

Congrats Meadow for leaving her jersey in a better place than she found it! We can’t wait to see her crush med school 🤓

[VWU WBB @marlinswbb]

Last night we had the pleasure of celebrating our senior athletes. Such a great event honoring the hard work of our student athletes and their commitment over four years! 🐟💙

#gdtbam 🎓

[rich @richardmz13]

“May the bridges I burn light my way.”

God, every single line delivery from Emily Blunt is just too good. Scene-stealing without even trying. #TheDevilWearsPrada2

[Megan Belo @CoachMegGreen]

Our summer reading book just came in! So excited to read @JoshuaMedcalf’s “Chop Wood Carry Water” with our group 🤓 The excitement for year 3️⃣ to start in the fall is very real‼️

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Warren Buffett told a class of MBA students at Georgia in 2001 that character is not ordained.

He gave them an exercise: pick the person in the room you'd most want to buy 10% of for the rest of their life. Write down every habit that made you pick them. Then ask, is there anything on that list I couldn't do myself?

The answer is there won't be. Patience, candor, finishing what you start, giving credit you didn't take. None of it requires talent. All of it requires daily decisions.

Then do the inverse. Pick the person you'd sell short. Write down every quality you'd bet against. Look for those traits in yourself. Egotism, claiming credit you didn't earn, cutting corners. Buffett's line: that is not ordained. Drop them.

The exercise works because it forces market pricing on traits people usually treat as abstract. You don't say "I admire reliability." You say "I would pay money to own a share of this person because of their reliability." That shift closes the gap between what people say they value and what they're willing to pay for.

Ben Graham invented the drill. The man who taught Buffett value investing ran it on himself as a young man, looked around, asked who he admired, asked why, then engineered himself into someone who behaved that way. Graham taught Buffett that price and value diverge in markets. The same gap exists in people. There's the person you are and the person you'd pay for. The exercise is the bridge.

Berkshire hires for three things: intelligence, energy, integrity. Without the third, the first two will kill you. Smart and energetic with no integrity is the most dangerous combination on a team. Buffett's framing: if you're hiring someone with no integrity, you actively want them lazy and dumb.

Integrity is the only one of the three that's a habit pattern. Intelligence mostly stops compounding in your 20s. Energy is biology. Integrity compounds across 30 years of small decisions about whether to keep your word.

Buffett quoted a line in that lecture: the chains of habit are too light to be felt until they're too heavy to be broken.

The exercise has a window. After 30, you're paying compound interest on what you wired in by 25.

Buffett was 70 when he gave the lecture. He'd been running the exercise on himself since his 20s.

Berkshire stock is just a share of the person he built.

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

Taking notes by hand leads to better greater conceptual understanding and retention than typing.

[Sarah Graves @sarahkgraves]

Every post about women's sports draws comments about how men's teams are "better." Nobody's comparing on-court performance. It's a different game.

His argument: women's sports were under-invested in 2021. They STILL are.

The NCAA has improved; I had a great experience at the Final 4 this year. But smarter capital will solve the missed monetization opportunities (@sevensevensix).

The "free market of attention" in college has favored female personal brands. I'm excited to see how companies will continue to capitalize on this over the next year...