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[College Baseball Insights @InsightsCollege]

🚨NCAA-D1 The 5-in-5 Model👉 Approved June 23rd

👉Transition rules finalized
👉Waivers officially eliminated
👉July 31 deadline confirmed as hard cutoff

👇Learn more from the CBI Frequently Ask Questions

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[⚡️Gridiron Wire⚡️ @GridironWire1]

The amount of bad information floating around about the new NCAA eligibility rules is wild.

A player doesn’t lose a year of eligibility just because he turned 19 in high school.

We put together a simple breakdown to help athletes and parents understand what actually changed.

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What have you heard about the new rule?

[Coach the Coaches @WinningCoaches]

~ via @LewisCaralla

[Oh No He Didn't @ohnohedidnt24]

Josh Hart:

"Everybody wants to be the guy that scores the most, that puts the ball in the basket and that's not everybody's path. That wasn't my path and sometimes that's a tough pill to swallow but when you embrace that when you're a star in your role and you take pride in doing the little things that breeds winning basketball. For me as embraced as I was in this city wearing this jersey that sacrifice was easy. Some days it was tough don't get me wrong but you sacrifice for moments like this"

[Nacho @nachomiranda14]

Mike Brown dropped a definition about winning in life.

“If you get knocked down in life and you’re able to get back up and keep fighting - that’s a fricking win.”

You need to hear this.

Success isn’t always winning.

Sometimes it’s refusing to stay down

[Adam Barnes @CoachBarnes1]

Teaching players how to actually play the game matters.

It’s spacing, angles, tempo, and pace. It’s knowing how to move without the ball, set and use screens, read defenders, and make the right decision in real time. It’s becoming a consistent shooter and understanding how your skill fits within a team concept.

Being skilled in a workout is important but understanding how to apply it is what separates players.

[Hoop Dreams Basketball 🏀🧠 @hoopdreamsbball]

🥵“The cost of WINNING”…is you better get your ass in the BEST SHAPE you’ve ever got in your life!” - Pat Riley (President of @MiamiHEAT)

🏆9x NBA Champion as a Player, Assistant Coach, Head Coach or Team Executive!

💯CONDITIONING is #1 in Basketball!👇🏽

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

Kobe Bryant on how he used the Compound Effect to inevitably become one of the best in the world at his craft:

✖️The Compound Interest equation is Reps multiplied by Time (Reps x Time = Growth). Improvement is quite early and obvious late— as you put in more time and reps. Most people quit in the silent phase, early on, not realizing the results were already building beneath the surface. The key is starting as early as possible and putting energy toward that improvement, because you can’t ever get TIME back, no matter how many reps you plan to do in the future.

🐍 Kobe didn’t just wake up at 4am for discipline, he did it to create separation between him and his opponent. The edge wasn’t intensity, it was timing. While others were still asleep, he was stacking deposits. By the time they caught up for their first session, he was already on his second, compounding effort into distance.

⛄️ Growth doesn’t just come from working harder, but can also come from working earlier AND more often. Kobe didn’t chase overnight success, he built a schedule that made exponential improvement inevitable and catching up to him nearly impossible.

Design a system where TIME works for you, so every REP doesn’t just add up, it multiplies and makes it harder for others to close the gap.

[Mike Hoffmann @MikeHoffmann]

Luke Falk shared a Mike Leach story that stopped me cold:

Two kids. One rich. One poor.

Every training camp, Coach Leach told his team about these 2 kids.

The rich kid has two choices.

Get soft. Get entitled. Expect everything handed to him because he was handed more.

Or take the resources, the coaching, the opportunities, and compound them into something greater.

The poor kid has two choices too.

Say nobody gave him anything. Blame the world. Make his circumstances the reason he never became what he could have been.

Or outwork everyone in the room.

Luke said the locker room had both. Kids from wealth. Kids from nothing. Kids with every advantage. Kids who scraped for every inch.

Same choice for all of them.

Ownership or victimhood.
Fuel or excuse.

The rich kid can waste the head start or build on it.

The poor kid can drown in the deficit or weaponize it.

Greatness doesn't come from where you start.

It comes from which kid you choose to feed.

Credit to @coachlukefalk for continuing to share golden nuggets about Coach’s legacy

[Stefan Moore ★ @2StefanMoore]

A final piece of advice from Holly Butcher - written the day before she passed away from cancer at just 27:

“It’s a strange thing knowing you’re going to die young.

At 26, I thought I had time…
To fall in love.
Start a family.
Grow old.

But cancer doesn’t care about plans.

Now, I understand how fragile life really is. Every single day is a gift, not a guarantee.

I’m not writing this to scare you. I’m writing to remind you: really live.

Stop stressing over little things. Be kind to your body- move it, nourish it, stop criticizing it. One day you’ll wish you had appreciated it.

Go outside.
Look at the sky.
Feel the sun.
Just be.

Spend less time chasing “stuff” - more time making memories. Don’t skip moments with people you love.

Laugh more.
Write a note.
Tell someone you love them.

Complain less.
Give more.
Helping others brings more joy than anything you can buy.

Be present.
Put your phone down.
Show up - really show up.

You don’t need to have it all figured out. You don’t need a perfect body, or a perfect life.

Just follow what makes your heart light up. Say no to what drains you. Make changes when you need to.

And please - donate blood. I wouldn’t have had that extra year without it. And that year gave me memories I’ll hold close… forever.

Thank you for reading this.
Live your life well.

And maybe… we’ll meet again someday.”

Holly 🩷

Repost & share Holly’s important advice. ❤️

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

Tom Brady: “You need coaches that push you outside your comfort zone because that’s how you grow and that’s how you develop self confidence and self esteem. They push you to deal with failure.”

[Hoop Herald @TheHoopHerald]

“Our basketball development in the US needs to be better… AAU basketball is probably the worst brand of basketball.” - Jalen Brunson

(Via @Roommates__Show 🎥)

[GymRat Basketball | Trey Winkler @grbball_1]

Confidence comes from work.

If you only touch a basketball in November, or once a week, your confidence isn’t real. It’s fragile. It can be taken by a coach, a crowd, or a better opponent in seconds.

Real confidence shows up when you’ve put in the work daily. When you’ve already seen it, felt it, and done it over and over.

[Hoop Herald @TheHoopHerald]

This is such a powerful quote from Hornets Head Coach, Charles Lee

“Anybody that's gonna push you loves you more than anybody that's gonna let you stay the same."

[Hoop Herald @TheHoopHerald]

Trainers are still teaching kids 700 dribble combo moves

Meanwhile, Kon Knueppel is terrorizing the NBA as a 20 year old Rookie and barely dribbling

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

Larry Bird: "My confidence came from me shooting basketball by myself for hours up on hours."

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

I was flying Southwest from Dallas to New York. Three rows ahead of me, there was a young soldier in uniform. He looked barely 18. He was staring straight ahead, gripping the armrests. He looked nervous. When the drink cart came around, the flight attendant asked him what he wanted. 'Coke, please,' he said. 'Heading home?' she asked kindly. 'No, ma'am,' he said. 'Deploying. First time.' The whole row went quiet. The flight attendant didn't say a word. she handed him his Coke. Then, she got on the PA system. 'Ladies and gentlemen, we have a very special guest in Row 8 today. Private Miller is on his first deployment to serve our country. Since I can't buy him a drink, I’m going to ask a favor. If you want to write him a note of encouragement, pass it forward.' I grabbed a napkin. I wrote: 'You got this. Stay safe. - A dad from Row 12.' I watched as napkins traveled up the aisle. Napkins, receipts, pages torn from books. By the time we landed, the soldier had a pile of paper on his tray table three inches high. He stood up to get his bag, and he was wiping his eyes. He carefully packed every single scrap of paper into his rucksack. 'Thank you,' he told the flight attendant. 'No,' she said. 'Thank you.' We all walked off that plane a little quieter, reminded that freedom is just a word until you meet the kid who is defending it.

Credit: Margie Lee

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

Transactional vs. Transformational Coaching…

Dan Hurley shared a story about asking Geno Auriemma for advice after a rough start last season. Geno didn’t mince words:

“Listen, if the only gratification and the only part of coaching that excites you is winning the national championship, then you’ve lost your way, buddy! Where’s the joy in the things that you’ve always been about as a coach before you went on the championship run, like relationships with your players, like helping people get better, like making your team the best it can be. Be a coach, man. This is when you really need to be a leader. This team isn’t as good as last year’s, so what the hell are you going to do about it? Are you going home? Are you going to let this thing unravel?”

That’s the tension every coach feels:
Transactional vs. Transformational.

Transactional coaching is outcome-obsessed. It’s about the wins, the losses, the trophies. The problem? When results don’t come, your purpose crumbles with them.

Transformational coaching is different. It’s about people. It’s about growth. It’s about building something that lasts, whether the scoreboard agrees with you or not.

And this is why mentorship matters so much in coaching.

Left on our own, it’s easy to drift into a transactional mode without even realizing it.

A trusted mentor can pull us back to center and remind us why we started coaching in the first place.

To build relationships.
To develop players as people.
To make teams the best they can be.

Wins matter. But they’re not the why.

The why is impact.
The why is growth.
The why is leaving your players better than you found them.

The process is the prize. Stay grounded. Stay on the path.

Always remember your why.

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

Kelvin Sampson shares what separates good programs from great ones.

It comes down to 3 things.

"The best teams come from the coaching staffs that are the best demanders. There are certain non-negotiables."

"We're not going to sit down and talk about this...This is the way it's done and we expect this effort."

No debate. No negotiation. Just the standard.

"And those eventually will be called standards. So - standards, accountability, and then we've raised our expectations."

"Here's our expectations, and our expectation is probably a little bit higher than most people's. We don't talk about them."

The standard is how you operate every day.

"We practiced this morning at 6:00. Probably our best practice in the last 6 or 7 days. But that's because our standards are raising. Our kids are holding each other accountable now."

Then he said the line that defines a great program:
"That's when you know you've got a great program."

When the players hold each other accountable not just the coaches. That's when you've built something real.

The formula is:
1. Standards
2. Accountability
3. Raised Expectations.

A great team isn't made of individuals seeking personal glory - it's made of people who hold each other accountable and work towards a common goal

(🎥 March Madness)

[Next Level Baseball @nextlevelbb]

Public Service Announcement
If your son was dismissed from his high school team for missing the teams spring break tournament, to go on vacation (beach trip, etc.).
Or
Your son isn't getting playing time because he missed the spring break tournament for vacation.
Do this.
Call the school's athletic director or principal and request a meeting.
Tell them it's important.
At the meeting, tell them how much you appreciate the coach caring enough about your son to teach him about life, and how much you appreciate him holding your son accountable.
Then thank them for hiring a coach that cared about commitment, sacrifice and teaching the kids that being a great teammate comes with responsibilities.
Then suggest they give the coach a raise, shake their hands and reiterate how much you appreciate them.