DaQuan Wilson

Follower ✝️🐑 Father👨🏽‍🍼 Youth Athletics Coordinator/Field House Manager - Orange County Sportsplex Head Coach - A.L. Stanback Boys Basketball 🐾

[DaQuan Wilson @_CoachDW]

When the seasons over, but you still have one more sub to make 🥰

[Zach Brandon @MVP_Mindset]

Joe Mazzulla on the importance of building a culture that doesn’t depend solely on the head coach.

“You don't want to be the sole person controlling the environment. You almost want it to run better when you're not around because that's a testament of the people.”

If your culture only works when you’re watching, then you've merely just created compliance.

The best environments are sustained by the people and shared ownership inside them.

📹: Verse Us Podcast

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

Following North Carolina officially sanctioning Girls Flag Football as a varsity high school sport Wednesday, David and Nicole Tepper now have committed an additional $1 million to support programs across the Carolinas. They now have contributed over $2.5 million since 2022 in grant funding directly to schools to support the continued growth and development of the sport in both North and South Carolina.

[Jon Beck @CoachJonBeck]

If winning is the #1 goal at the jr. high level, you’re missing the point. The job isn’t to chase trophies. It’s to build people, habits & standards that last. Programs that prioritize development over short-term results don’t just build better players, they build better people.

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

See a parent sitting quietly at a game?

Often, that’s the one who gets it.

No complaining.
No criticizing coaches.
No yelling at refs.
No drama.

Just watching their kid compete.
Youth sports need more parents like those.

Be part of the solution.

[Nick Grant @CoachNick_G]

For me, it started with skill development and recruiting. Those were my things. That’s what I was known for. Then, it evolved to defensive teaching/scheming. Currently, I’m working to grow offensively.. but I’ll never not do the initial 3. That’s me, and I’ll always be that!

[Nick Grant @CoachNick_G]

Too often, we want what we see established coaches doing right away. That same instant gratification a lot of players have that we complain about, we want the same in our profession.

Aim to be elite, rinse and repeat

Pt 2

[Nick Grant @CoachNick_G]

Younger coaches, before elevation, aim to be elite at one thing. One thing that you can hang your hat on no matter the season or circumstance. After that, find the next thing to grow in, with the understanding that you can’t lose sight of what got you the new opportunity.

Pt 1

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

I’m in love with this sentence:

“The best math you can learn is how to calculate the future cost of current decisions.”

[Gerry DeFilippo @Challenger_ST]

🔥 Strength & conditioning helped Michigan to a Natty

While other teams were fading…

Michigan was still flying

Dusty May: ‘Matt Aldred does a great job in the weight room, especially late in the year at keeping these guys fresh.’

A championship built in the weight room! 〽️

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

A friend of mine used to say: “Show up on time, with a good attitude, and do what you said you’d do. That’s it. That’s 90% of winning in life." The older I get, the more I realize just how right he was.

[Ross Garner @CoachRGarner]

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[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

A great assistant coach is worth more than any play you drew up this week.

They catch what you miss.
They reach who you can’t.
They reinforce what you expect.

Great teams aren’t led by one voice.
They’re built by a connected staff.

[Hunter Price @CoachHPrice]

Brad Underwood waited 26 years for a Div 1 head coaching job. Yes, he spent 26 years coaching high school, JUCO, and assisting.

At 49 years old he was hired to coach SF Austin. At 53 he was hired by Illinois. He finally reached the Final Four after turning 60.

The point: Sometimes if you truly want to be great you have to pay your dues. You have to stay the course and trust the process.

We want microwaved success so badly. There are 20-30 year olds mulling over quitting the profession because it isn’t happening fast enough. You gotta understand that a high level coaching career is earned, not given.

Congrats to Coach Underwood for sticking with the dream. He did what a lot can’t do: he waited. And he was rightfully rewarded.

[Gerry DeFilippo @Challenger_ST]

Friendly reminder…

If you’re not resting properly, you’re probably not training speed!

[DJ Sackmann @DJSackmann]

Players… don’t train too much without playing 5 on 5. Also, don’t play too much 5 on 5 without training. Find balance. The only wrong way is doing too much of a singular thing without diversifying.

[DaQuan Wilson @_CoachDW]

Coaches too

[Clif Marshall @ClifMarshall]

Sports make a great game - but a terrible God.

Listen carefully if you’re an athlete…

One day the season will end.
One day the career will end.
One day the applause will stop.

If your identity is in the game, you’ll feel lost when the game is gone.

But if your identity is in God, the game simply becomes a platform.

Sports are meant to be played.
They were never meant to be worshipped.

Train hard.
Compete with excellence.
Honor God with your effort.

But never forget:

Your purpose is bigger than your performance.

“You shall have no other gods before me.”
{Exodus 20:3}

[DaQuan Wilson @_CoachDW]

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[Coach Jeff Barnes @JeffBarnes52]

Coaches, be careful rewarding the naturally gifted athlete over the one who shows up and works every single day. When you reward lazy talent instead of daily effort, you tear down your culture. The work ethic you reward is the work ethic you get.

[Zach Brandon @MVP_Mindset]

This is one of the fastest ways to lose credibility as a coach.

Take a moment and consider how many promises you give and receive daily.

These include things that sound like:
"I’ll keep you in the loop."
"I’ll send you that clip."
"We'll revisit this after the next game."
"Let's sit down and talk next week"

We say these things constantly. In meetings. In texts. In passing conversations. And most of the time, we mean well.

But if we’re honest, many of those promises go unmet and not because we don’t care, but because we’ve become casual with our word.

When we think about leadership, we often picture more "significant" moments such as leading the team meeting, making the decisive call, delivering tough feedback, and stepping up when others won’t.

Those moments matter, but leadership is also built (or diminished) in far more ordinary ways with the promises we make.

One of the quickest ways to erode trust over time is to collect follow-ups we don’t close and empty promises we know we won't honor when we agree to them.

Not only does this affect how others experience us, but it affects how we experience ourselves. Every promise provides an opportunity to vote for the person we aspire to be and it signals to others whether our word carries weight or not.

So here’s a simple practice: Audit your promises.

What promises are you making explicitly or implicitly? Which ones are you honoring? Which ones are being offered automatically without real intention behind them?

Strong leaders don’t promise more. They promise less and deliver more.

[Coach Swit @CoachSwit]

You can still play multiple sports in high school and go on to play college baseball. If a coach says year-round baseball is the only path, find a new travel team.