Duane Pitts

Pinconning MS/HS
MS/HS Teacher
Girls Varsity Basketball Coach

[Duane Pitts @DuanePitts1]

❤️🏀👊🏻🎯 --- Can't love this enough!!!

[Jamy Bechler @jamybechler]

FAILURE IS PART OF THE PROCESS

"Is anyone going to learn how to fail? It's okay to fail...

You don't learn as much from winning as you do from losing." (Tom Izzo)

~ via @TheWinningDiff1

[Duane Pitts @DuanePitts1]

@CoachFernandez1 Congrats!

[Duane Pitts @DuanePitts1]

🙏🏻❤️ Here is something good out of today's mess! Glad to have been able to watch this!

[Brandon Marcello @bmarcello]

While the melee was going on between Michigan and Ohio State, Ryan Day looked on and two Buckeyes and a Wolverine huddled together to pray

[Duane Pitts @DuanePitts1]

Absolutely love this LOL 🏈🤣👊🏻

[Desmond Howard @DesmondHoward]

Hail.

[Duane Pitts @DuanePitts1]

DAY #1 of the 24-25 girls🏀season starts tomorrow. It is also my 1st year as varsity girls' basketball coach at Pinconning HS. Lots of work to do. Have some really good coaches that will help with this process. Good luck to my fellow coaching colleagues that start tomorrow too.

[Duane Pitts @DuanePitts1]

@csteed I would like a copy please. Thank you.

[Duane Pitts @DuanePitts1]

@CoachFernandez1 Congrats Coach! Best of luck.

[Hoop Herald @TheHoopHerald]

Love this edit

If you want to stand out, do what others don’t want to do

Everyone wants to score

[WTHR.com @WTHRcom]

Caitlin Clark's legend continues to grow — so big you can see it from the sky! 🌽🏀

Check out this Caitlin Clark corn maze at County Line Orchard in Hobart, IN.

(📸: Matt Scott Media)

[The Winning Difference @thewinningdiff1]

Shift your mindset from obstacles to opportunities, and you'll transform every challenge into a stepping stone for greatness.

[The Winning Difference @thewinningdiff1]

“We spend a lot of time focusing on the parents. Are they going to be fans of their son or parents? Are they going to hold them accountable? Have an expectation that when something goes wrong, that it’s not the coach’s fault. Their son has to work harder, do more, earn his role,” Dan Hurley

The role of a parent makes a difference in building a TEAM culture.

🎥@aaronwilbur

[Duane Pitts @DuanePitts1]

🏀 I ❤ this great game & how much attention the women's game is getting & it just continues to grow. Awesome that the women & men are both receiving opportunities to shine. Also, love the NIT/WBIT tourneys as well. College 🏀 is great at so many different levels of competition.

[Matt Lisle @CoachLisle]

Kara Lawson 💬

“When you experience failure you have two options. You can either tell yourself the truth or you can lie to yourself”. #BeCoachable

[Duane Pitts @DuanePitts1]

@coachles89 @MHSAA It was good to see you Dave when our team visited Mayville this season. Glad you are enjoying officiating-always need more individuals that understand the game at a high level.

[Scott Battas, CMAA @coachb83]

In my 20+ years in high school athletics, this is without question, the toughest time to be a High School Coach. With so many outlets (Select Sports, Skill Coaches, Social Media, etc) there are that many more opinions about how people should do their job. There isn’t a more scrutinized job for less money than what a High School Coach is expected to do and deal with every day. And it’s not going to get any better.

They have to manage grades, personalities, fundraising, booster clubs, parents, camps, budgets, and personalities more than most full time jobs do.

My advice to all of you, is fight the fight, because it’s worth it! You are the only ones in the arena, not the naysayers in the bleachers.. As I sit in the stands night after night, it’s becoming a sad experience listening just how easy people think these jobs are. At the same time it’s inspiring because it’s makes guys like me want to continue finding ways to give our coaches what they need when they need it. Most of the time, that’s just love and support! I am so damn thankful for our coaches and what they do every single day.

I see you in the film room when others are in bed, I talk to you when times are tough and expectations are high, and I see you with your arms around our kids even when the parents are convinced you don’t care. You know who you are, and what you’re about.

I remind you to remind yourself to coach for one reason: Love. Love for what you do, love for the kids, love for the process, and love for the lessons. While it’s harder now than ever to realize it, you are changing lives and making the world a better place… Even when others won’t take the time to realize that is what you are doing!

One big wall in my office, has a passage on it, and it’s there for a reason. It is posted below…

[Duane Pitts @DuanePitts1]

@daniellabruce_ That smile on James Reimer's face as he was leaving the ice said it all.

[Duane Pitts @DuanePitts1]

@WWE A

[Courtside Films @CourtsideFilms]

7-foot-6 Olivier Rioux is going off this summer! He holds the Guinness World Record for tallest teenager 😱

[Duane Pitts @DuanePitts1]

@CoachFernandez1 @Guilfordbball Congratulations Coach!