Coaches Group Chat

The conversations coaches have when nobody else is in the room. Hoops. Leadership. Culture. Parents. Players. Life. And the occasional bullshit. 🏀🥃

[Coaches Group Chat @CoachesGrpChat]

@treymourning Exactly. The ranking itself isn’t the killer.

It’s when adults turn it into the kid’s identity.

Now a bad game isn’t just a bad game. It threatens who he’s been told he is.

That’s a hell of a burden to put on a 14-year-old.

[Coaches Group Chat @CoachesGrpChat]

We’re evaluating 2029 kids.

Offering 2030 kids.

Ranking kids before they’ve played meaningful high school basketball.

Then wondering why 14-year-olds think every game is an audition.

Adults created this shit. Don’t blame the kids for believing it.

[Coaches Group Chat @CoachesGrpChat]

Recruiting success creates expectations before those kids ever step on campus.

Rankings are great for Twitter.

Coaches still have to turn talented individuals into a TEAM.

Collecting talent and building a basketball team are two very different fucking skills.

[Coaches Group Chat @CoachesGrpChat]

@latsondheimer It’s infected ALL of youth sports.

Agents. Handlers. Trainers. Recruiters. “Advisors.”

We’re talking about HIGH SCHOOL KIDS.

Somewhere along the way youth sports stopped being about development and started becoming a damn marketplace.

[Coaches Group Chat @CoachesGrpChat]

Recruiting rankings tell you who people THINK will be good.

Development tells you who actually becomes good.

Signing talented players matters.

What your program does with them after they arrive matters a hell of a lot more.

[Coaches Group Chat @CoachesGrpChat]

Official college basketball practice starts MONDAY.

Some coaches still don’t know who on their roster is actually eligible.

Imagine spending all offseason recruiting, developing and building a team…

Then needing a fucking judge to finalize your depth chart. 😂

What a sport.

[Coaches Group Chat @CoachesGrpChat]

NIGHT CAP 🥃 8/10

Two more 3-day weekends before basketball season.

Then the wife becomes a single mother and Coach starts living in the gym. 😂

Enjoying the calm before the beautiful fucking storm. 🥃

[Coaches Group Chat @CoachesGrpChat]

@mar5hallhoops There’s a difference between:

A kid who plays basketball.

A skilled basketball player.

And a PLAYER.

A PLAYER understands spacing, timing, reads, roles, pace, defense, winning and how to impact the game without the ball.

We train skills. We need to teach the GAME.

[Coaches Group Chat @CoachesGrpChat]

Win a gold medal.

Come home.

Career-high 35 in your first game back.

Some players celebrate success.

Great competitors show up the next day looking for the next fucking challenge.

Jackie Young. 🏀

[Coaches Group Chat @CoachesGrpChat]

Players don’t commit to your practice plan.

They don’t commit to your fucking playbook.

They commit to PEOPLE.

You can coach them hard. Demand a lot. Hold an incredibly high standard.

But they better know the person behind the whistle too.

[Coaches Group Chat @CoachesGrpChat]

Parents will spend thousands on AAU, trainers, showcases and exposure.

Then act surprised when a transcript eliminates schools before the coach even watches the film.

Want more opportunities? Handle your business in the classroom too.

[Coaches Group Chat @CoachesGrpChat]

NIGHT CAP 🥃 5/10

Great day. Great night.

Wife is happy. Coach is VERY happy. 😂

Sometimes you just have to appreciate the little victories in life.

Life is fucking good, coaches. 🥃

[Sean Strickland @Coach__Strick]

Someone asked me something similar via text. I’ve attached from response.

If the money went away, it would cure everything. Yes, that would include the millions the coaches and administrators are being paid. But the genie can’t be put back in the bottle now. There’s WAY too much money involved.

Bottom line is this is getting “fixed” exactly how NCAA wanted it to. They want to keep as much money as possible, and now with caps, they (and all others) can

[Coaches Group Chat @CoachesGrpChat]

@coachwwest This one hit. 🎯

Some of the best people in our profession are assistant coaches nobody outside the program knows.

They give these kids their time, energy and damn near their souls for pennies on the dollar.

Programs don’t survive without these people.

[Coaches Group Chat @CoachesGrpChat]

Coaching gets a lot easier when you figure out what bullshit you’re willing to tolerate—and what you’re not.

Not everything is worth winning with.

Some headaches cost more than the wins are worth.

[Coaches Group Chat @CoachesGrpChat]

@Coach__Strick Serious question for college coaches:

How do we create enforceable national rules WITHOUT giving the NCAA so much protection that athletes lose meaningful ways to challenge bad ones?

Because college sports clearly needs structure.

But checks and balances matter too.

[Coaches Group Chat @CoachesGrpChat]

@BDStan The basketball world is WAY too small to be an asshole. 😂

Today’s young assistant is tomorrow’s head coach. Today’s manager might be tomorrow’s AD.

But none of that should matter.

Treat people right because it’s the right thing to do.

[Coaches Group Chat @CoachesGrpChat]

17 years in the NBA and Taj Gibson immediately moves to the bench as an assistant coach.

Love this.

Playing experience doesn’t automatically make you a great coach. But being willing to become a STUDENT again after 17 years as a player?

That’s where coaching starts.

[Coaches Group Chat @CoachesGrpChat]

College sports legislation just cleared a major Senate hurdle.

NIL. Revenue sharing. Transfers. Eligibility. Recruiting.

Whatever ultimately becomes law, one thing seems obvious:

The era of college athletics making this shit up as we go has to end.

[Coaches Group Chat @CoachesGrpChat]

NIGHT CAP 🥃 4/10

Long week already.

And we’re two damn days in. 😂

Nobody cares. Alarm goes off tomorrow and we’re back at it.

Keep fucking going. 🥃