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In this week's basketball coaching conversation, New York University head coach Dave Klatsky joins The Basketball Podcast to share insights on program philosophy and in-game coaching.Dave Klatsky was appointed head coach of the New York University men's basketball program in May 2022 and has quickly made an impact. In his second season (2023-24), he guided the Violets to a stellar 21-6 record, capturing the University Athletic Association (UAA) Co-Championship—their first conference title in 30 years—and advancing to the second round of the NCAA Division III Tournament.Under Klatsky's leadership, NYU excelled nationally, finishing seventh in three-point shooting percentage (39.02%) and 19th in assist/turnover ratio (1.43). Star player Spencer Freedman thrived in Klatsky's system, earning D3hoops.com National Player of the Year, UAA Player of the Year, NABC Third Team All-American, and First Team All-Metropolitan honors.His remarkable debut year earned him numerous accolades, including UAA Coaching Staff of the Year and D3hoops.com Region 4 Coach of the Year, solidifying his place as one of the top coaches in Division III basketball.At Colgate, under three-time Patriot League Coach of the Year Matt Langel, Klatsky had numerous responsibilities including scouting, practice and game planning, recruiting and analyzing advanced statistics. He was the primary recruiter of four All-League selections and two Defensive Players of the Year while directing Colgate's Elite Prospect Camp.Prior to Colgate, Klatsky served as an assistant coach at Stevens Institute of Technology from 2007-11. While there, he played a key role in all facets of the program, helping guide the Ducks to their first-ever ECAC Metro Championships (2008, '11).After graduating from Penn, Klatsky worked as an equity analyst and trader in Manhattan and Jersey City, NJ. He is also the creator of StatChat, a podcast centered around how different programs utilize advanced statistics, and mentored a Colgate student in developing the startup company ShotQuality which measures the expected value of all shots attempted.

FOOTBALL - Coming off a bye week and two straight losses, Haldane bounced back on Oct. 12 with a 23-0 home win over Peekskill. David Powlis completed 10 of 15 passes for 165 yards and three touchdowns, Alex Gaugler had 28 carries for 132 yards and Jake Thomas caught four passes for 95 yards and two scores. The Blue Devils scored in the first quarter on 51-yard and 23-yard passes from Powlis to Thomas. The defense also forced a safety to put Haldane up 16-0. The third TD came in the fourth quarter when Powlis fired a 23-yard pass to Brody Corless. Haldane (3-2) will host Putnam Valley (3-2) at 7 p.m. tonight (Oct. 18) under the lights for homecoming. BOYS' SOCCER - Haldane suffered two tough road losses, falling 6-0 at Peekskill on Oct. 11 and 4-0 at Walter Panas on Tuesday (Oct. 15). The Blue Devils (3-10) hosted Pawling on Thursday (Oct. 17) and travel to Putnam Valley on Saturday. GIRLS' SOCCER - While the boys hosted Walter Panas, the girls traveled to Cortlandt to face the Panthers but also fell, 4-1. After Stella Gretina tied the game for the Blue Devils in the first half, Panas scored three straight. On Wednesday (Oct. 16), Haldane honored its seniors - Amelia Alayon, Josie Foley-Hedlund, Zohra Kapoor, Martha McBride and Gabby Perilli - before hosting Yonkers Montessori Academy. Although YMA scored first, Gretina had the equalizer with 4:42 left in the first half, and a minute later Foley-Hedlund gave Haldane the lead. Gretina and Foley-Hedlund each scored again in the second half, along with Perilli, for a 5-2 win. The Blue Devils (2-11) have one more game scheduled, on Monday (Oct. 21) at Franklin Roosevelt. GIRLS' TENNIS - The Blue Devils won their fourth straight match on Oct. 10 over Westlake, 4-0. Ellie Dubroff and Mary McBride won at singles and Scout Thakur De Beer/Silvia Hardman and Charlie Robohm/Audrey Silverstein at doubles. Against Croton-Harmon on Oct. 11, the girls fell, 3-1, with Dubroff winning at singles. Despite a late-season surge, the Blue Devils (7-5) did not qualify for the Section I tournament. VOLLEYBALL - Haldane fell, 3-0, at Yonkers Montessori Academy on Oct. 11 but won at Pawling on Wednesday (Oct. 16), 3-1 (25-20, 25-19, 22-25, 25-20). Elaina Johanson had 11 kills, Liv Holmbo had 11 aces and Savannah Duggan scored 17 digs. The Blue Devils (3-11) host Croton-Harmon today (Oct. 18) at 4:15 p.m., travel to Putnam Valley on Monday and host Pawling at 6 p.m. on Wednesday. CROSS-COUNTRY - The boys edged Putnam Valley on Oct. 10 by one point for the league championship at North Salem. The girls finished second, seven points behind North Salem. Owen Powers won the boys' race, setting a course record in 16:44, Jack Ilian was third in 18:10 and Henry Amadei was 13th in 19:10. For the girls, Ashley Sousa was third in 22:50, Kate Resi was 10th in 24:54 and Hazel Berkley was 11th in 25:08. All six runners received All-League honors. The Blue Devils will race on Saturday (Oct. 19) in the Section I Invitational at Woodlands.

In the last of three episodes to recap Preview Week, Bob, John and Kyle discuss our preseason picks at the top of the polls, which are Green Bay and Cleveland State for the women and Milwaukee and Purdue Fort Wayne for the men. They also talk about our picks for our preseason All-League teams.

The 2024 ECS Lacrosse team recently wrapped-up a fantastic campaign, which included a deep postseason run, four All-League player selections, and Coach Kyle Story being chosen as Division 2/AA-A coach of the year. Coach Story and rising seniors Lucas Cox and Grant Mariencheck join the podcast to share how an, “everybody has got something to give” mindset made this team special, and how unfinished business is motivating them for the year ahead.

Subscribe to The Beautiful Mess Podcast in your favorite podcast platform using this RSS URL: https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/24711.rssIntroductionIn today's episode of The Beautiful Mess Podcast, I am talking to Chris Butler. Chris is currently a staff product operations manager at GitHub.During his career, he's worked at companies like Google, Facebook, Cognizant, Kayak, and Waze, as well as founding the Uncertainty Project. Chris embraces the mess like few people I've met. Defying categorization in his career path, inventing models and techniques for collaboration and sense-making, he's well versed in engineering, design and product, and figuring out how to challenge the status quo in big companies.Somehow he manages to be a mad scientist in terms of ways of working, and have a day job. In this episode we talk about being a change agent, introducing new ways of working, embracing a persona external to your day job, and interesting stories about the Google culture and define career categorizations.Enjoy.Transcript[00:00:00] John Cutler: Hi Chris, welcome to the It Depends podcast. How are you doing?[00:01:07] Chris Butler: Good. Thank you for having me. I'm excited to say it depends as many times as possible during this podcast.[00:01:13] John Cutler: You will not be judged for saying it depends in this podcast.[00:01:17] Chris Butler: I have the it depends jar over here that I have to keep putting, you know, a dollar in every single time I say it on other places. So it's, it's good that this is an open space.[00:01:25] John Cutler: And it depends safe space for sure. One thing I wanted to start out with is that typically there's things about our personal experience or how we grew up or maybe the jobs we've had, our personal context, which is our own personal It Depends. When you think about your personal experience, what are some things that stood out that have shaped how you view situations?[00:01:44] Chris Butler: I really hate the question, at a barbecue, "Like, what do you do?" It requires me to simplify down what I am and kind of my experience around what I do down to a place that is you know, maybe not helpful.[00:01:58] In high school I would help teach the C programming course because I was taught by another student and the teachers there didn't know how to do C programming. So I basically taught that course. I was a senior class vice president, but I ran on the anarchist ticket, mostly about how we would get like better pencil machines in the hallways.[00:02:16] And then I was, you know, a team captain on a football team, three time All League, Honorable Mention of my Empire. And I also built red boxes and ran bulletin board systems that were like, Warez Bulletin Boards back in the day.[00:02:30] I try not to require my identity to become one thing. Rather than like a T shaped career or whatever those other things are, like an octopus career. And the reason why I like that is because, you know, the octopus is like a very interesting neural kind of, system where it has one brain, but it also has like brains in all of its arms.[00:02:49] I guess I've just started to allow myself to be more comfortable with having a bunch of different things that maybe unify in certain cases. And I get paid for those things or it's part of my daily job. But I think I've just always followed my interests.[00:03:01] The anarchist kind of thread in my background or the fact that I was building red boxes or doing warez boards kind of says to me a little bit that I also have a problem with doing things within the rules sometimes. I don't think this is fair, right? Like just to be very clear, I don't think this is fair, but I feel like I have a natural distrust for leaders. I realized that there are also people, right. And there was a great post that came out a little while ago that was basically like, you will never fully love your manager no matter what, because of just the way, the way that these systems work.[00:03:29] That's maybe something that has really formed the way I think about all of this stuff and the work that I do on a regular basis is really, it's, it's a lot about how are we pushing back on just the way things are. That's where I would say, you know, I've kind of come from and maybe that's, that's the reason why I am the way I'm today.[00:03:46] John Cutler: I'm curious, when you start a new job do you know you've found your fellow Anarchist, you know, football captain, you know, cause certainly you could run into the football captain in the hall and say, Hey, welcome, welcome to the Anarchy Club, you were in the Anarcy Club too. And they, they might not be too happy with that statement.[00:04:04] John Cutler: How do you know that you found your tribe when you're in a company?[00:04:08] Chris Butler: Joining very large companies is interesting because I guess I see part of what my benefit is to people is building connections between maybe topics that don't make sense together, but also connecting and creating networks within the organization I'm in .[00:04:23] For example, there's a group called Flux and Gale, and it was started by someone internal to Google that was all about people that are model thinkers, system thinkers, like that type of stuff.[00:04:35] You kind of have to pretend to just be a regular person at first. I guess. When you find your other community, it's not because you want to just like be the same as everybody else. It's that you want your thinking challenged in this domain and they have the tools, the terminology, the language and the background to be able to then push you.[00:04:54] I've been doing a lot of stuff with something called design fiction, which is really about this idea of like prototyping some future artifact. And then how do we use that in a bunch of different ways? Like I I've given a talk about like product management is product management, fiction, right? Which like everything we write as product managers is fiction at first. It just happens to be really boring fiction, unfortunately. And so like, how do we do a better job of that?[00:05:15] But me going into like an intranet site and looking up things like design fiction, I started to find groups of people that were, you know, interested in these topic areas. And from there, I'm just have a natural like networking kind of ability that I then just reach out to people and say, Hey, I did this cool thing over here. I think you might be interested in it.[00:05:33] So that's, that's how I ended up like finding those people is really based on topic areas, but it's not always, it's not always possible. The intranet site that runs something like GitHub is different than the intranet sites that were inside of Google.[00:05:45] It's hard, but if you allow for that iterative exploration, you'll find the next person that is like this and, and maybe pushes you in a way that that would be helpful.[00:05:55] John Cutler: I knew you do a fair amount of speaking external to the companies you work at. curious how the desire to express yourself externally from your companies Is that a balancing act for you so that you can balance the need to project that everywhere internally as well.[00:06:10] Chris Butler: It's more of like an escape valve because I think like whenever we're at an organization, there are cultural expectations. There's the Overton window of what is acceptable or not. I've had previous leaders say we're kind of cutesy or like too smart or something like that. I have to try to gauge what is the Overton window for process change inside of this organization, and how do I push them a little bit so I can do more of this stuff? I think I've started to come to the conclusion, and I think a lot of people in the Wardley Mapping community also think about this, is that like, I can't use the terminology, I can't call it this thing anymore.[00:06:42] I was talking to someone at the product ops summit in New York like a month or two ago. And they were an agile coach that had gone into product operations, which feels like a natural progression, honestly, based on the terminology of today. She was saying that if she then tries to do something like hold a retrospective for the team, especially with her current team, they would be like, no, we're not, we don't do that type of thing. We don't get in a room and just like whine at each other about how bad things are. Right. But when she says like, we just had this launch and the launch went well in a lot of ways, but not in all ways, so why don't we get in a room and let's talk about like what went right, what went wrong and what we could do better next time.[00:07:17] I need a place to be able to experiment with these concepts. And so I use the external speaking as a place to do that. Would say that the values that I really care about personally end up being connection, right? Ends up being how do we actually discover new ways of doing things and then how do I personally learn about things. And so that type of drive for me means that these are going to be topic areas where I think they're on the edge of what is acceptability or considered to be normal or regular for these teams.[00:07:44] And that's what drives me is it's that escape valve.[00:07:46] Now, what's cool though, is that like when people that are part of my work come and see me talk about this stuff. They want to do more of it internally. The problem is how do we do it in a way that still allows leaders to kind of feel the culture that they have is appropriate and it's not too much of an assault on that.[00:08:02] So I think that's the, that's the problem I ended up coming up against is that I want to do these things internally. Right. But it's not always going to be considered to be a good thing if I didn't.[00:08:11] John Cutler: don't know if you have any, an example of something within the Wardley Mapping community, for example, that if you went down a rabbit hole, it would be the best three hours that had ever had. within Google or GitHub or whatever, if you went down that same rabbit hole in the same way, in that, in a different culture, it would not go over well. Maybe to give people like a very tangible, sense of how that would go down.[00:08:33] Chris Butler: Well so like with Wardley Mapping, right? Created by Simon Wardley, there's a bunch of different people that, that are kind of in this community of practice around essentially how do we create value chains and then understand the evolution of them over time, right? That's the simplest way I would put it.[00:08:46] I did a workshop as part of one of the Wardley Mapping online conferences about how you use Wardley Maps as a game board for doing strategic rehearsal or wargaming.[00:08:54] That's the type of thing where those people are like, "Oh, wow, this is actually a very interesting way to use this map to then talk about evolution."[00:09:00] When I did that, by the way, I did that inside of Google as part of our summit. And it was interesting because we did two different exercises as part of this. We did scenario planning where we would create basically critical uncertainty--so a two by two of like two different uncertainties, and it creates four worlds that we want to like talk about.[00:09:16] And the people that were user researchers, designers, they really got that. They, they did a great job inside of Google to do that. The PMs inside of Google had a really hard time thinking about like uncertainty about the future. But then like we, we changed it around and I had people build their Wardley Maps and then we would have random events that would happen and then they would have to like figure out what does that mean.[00:09:36] I think the thing that I do in a lot of these types of workshops or in these discussions, it ends up being that there's a surprise that they need to realize on their own. And so inside of this, I had felt like our strategy was not as like, well formulated as it could have been and was not communicated out in the way it could have been. And so whenever I asked for reflection at the end of this process of using a Wardley Map, people were like, you know, I was like, how did the strategy work out for you? And they were like, we are incredibly reactive.[00:10:03] I think it's things like that where you have to sometimes just not use exactly the type of terminology you want to use, but you want to still get people to some type of transformation or realization. And so, that to me is like, maybe looking at those two different communities, like, that type of wargaming thing could have gone on for actually more hours after that with the Wardley Mapping community. Within my community, It was like a little bit like pulling teeth to get people to think about this, like uncertainty and have an imperfect map. Inside the Wardley Mapping community all these maps are disposable. You create a map and then you will throw it away essentially.[00:10:34] Every time that I've ever done a workshop inside of Google where there's like post it notes, someone's like, "Who's going to write down all these post it notes?" And I'm like, no, we're not. We're just going to throw them all away, like, or recycle them ideally. But like, we don't need to have every single idea captured. It was about the lived experience of everybody inside this workshop that was actually meaningful.[00:10:52] So it's like stances on what is considered to be expertise or great at something, like how certain or uncertain people are. I think it's those kinds of things inside the communities that end up being I think it's very different.[00:11:04] John Cutler: Without necessarily revealing privacy stuff or whatever, what, what is it about the the Google culture that predisposes it to how are we going to write up all the stickies?[00:11:15] Chris Butler: There's a lot of smart people inside of Google, right? For a very long time, the culture was around academic excellence, right? I actually, I interviewed at Google like four times before I got offered a job. And I think it was the first couple of times I got rejected because my high school GPA wasn't that high.[00:11:28] There's like a real academic kind of smartness type of thing that's there. And so what that means is like, for people that are very smart in a particular domain, they tend to think that if they just think hard enough about something, they will come up with the perfect answer.[00:11:40] That's not true in my opinion.[00:11:42] This also is then related to like consensus driven decision making, which I think Google suffers from an awful lot. Where because everybody's like the other part of the culture is kind of like everybody's kind of nice to each other as well. It means that we all have to agree to be able to move forward. Because we're all super smart people, that means all of our opinions are equally weighted. And we have to converge all of them before we can move forward on anything.[00:12:02] And so that's, those are two things I think from the culture. And again, there are benefits to those types of cultures.[00:12:07] I would say that in the face of uncertainty, that's why we have to write down and take notes about every idea that came up because we don't want to miss a good idea that was there, when the reality is like, this was really just more of a workshop to get people to talk to each other in a particular way. And, and so I think that's, that's like a key difference, I think, and the reason why actually it's like that inside of places like Google.[00:12:28] John Cutler: When you think about the Wardley Mapping community. So that's the flip side. Like, what's the first thing that jumps out to you?[00:12:34] riverside_john_cutler_raw-audio_john_cutler's studio_0002: It's[00:12:34] John Cutler: seems like it's a honeypot for a certain type of thinking or need. what, what, what about that context sort of is the flip side for that? Um, cause it attracts a certain type thinker, uh, almost by definition of the visualization.[00:12:53] Chris Butler: I've met a lot of people inside the Wardley Mapping community that, you know, I mean, they're, they're fairly analytical when it comes to trying to understand this because some people are trying to take it into the direction where it's like, we're going to now use this map. Right. And, and you, you know, Double Loop right? Like I think Double Loop is a great example of that type of thing. They are actually trying to, in some way, mechanize these types of strategies. The honeypot of Wardley Mapping is trying to understand what is going on and then making choices about that.[00:13:19] The antithesis to that is that we actually have to make choices together and we want to make sure that everybody's happy. How much of your organization needs to agree to a strategic direction or not?[00:13:29] And I used to think it was like high, like you want to get everybody to agree. Then I was kind of like, Oh, well, maybe it's like 51%. You just need like most people. And then now I'm, now I'm actually of the mind that like, if you have a leader that you trust, it's actually only one person needs to actually believe in that strategy and everybody else can like decide whether they want to stay on that train or not. Basically. Right. Culture is another one. Like, yeah, you can try to change culture. It takes a lot of work to change culture, but if this culture is just not right for you, you just shouldn't be there.[00:13:59] Ideally, right? I think there's issues with like, you know, the fact that compensation and we all have to take care of families and that type of thing that I think ends up muddying this thing. But I think that's the ideal, right? We want to make hard decisions. And I think most of the time making hard decisions is a better strategic value, but that doesn't work inside of consensus driven cultures.[00:14:20] Like, like a Google. If we were to say to our leaders a lot of the time, like, should we do this or that? They'd say, do both. And it was because we also had unlimited resources almost, right? Search and ads are just printing money. So like all these other things we should be able to just like build whatever we want, but maybe the thing that, that Google has done really well that I loved about Google was that they don't feel bad about killing products if they feel like it's not in line. That's great.[00:14:44] And then there was like an internal site called Meme Gen which is known publicly, but it's like a meme site for Googlers. And it's usually very scathing of the leadership. And I thought this was probably one of the most interesting cultural things inside of Google.[00:14:58] If I wanted to understand what was actually going on with the people inside of Google, and it could be negative, a little bit negative sometimes. If I go to Meme Gen, I will understand what most of Google is thinking about, like in reality, not what we're actually talking about when it comes to, like the polished press releases and stuff like that.[00:15:12] John Cutler: I wonder what it is about that culture that would let that type of thing emerge.[00:15:19] it that, well, people are doing pretty well from a financial perspective and they're not going to get fired for saying something scathing? Or maybe that's changed now. Maybe you're like, yeah.[00:15:28] Chris Butler: it's, it is changing. I mean, I think there's always a struggle within organizations about how to allow for people to have, say, political discussions internally. And so that is something. There's an article that just came out recently about how they're removing downvotes because of some of the memes that came out about like the, you know, Israel, Palestine, conflict, right.[00:15:47] So there's things like that, that I think they're still figuring out. Now, there has been a belief that, that Googlers think that like management is trying to slowly kill Meme Gen because they don't like it.[00:15:58] Maybe from the beginning though, too. It's like, if, if you have a lot of really smart people. That are doing their own thing. That means that you allow for this type of like hacker culture. Like that's, that's, that's the truth is, is what's going on here. And so I think as like an organization like Google that's trying to become more of like a shareholder holder value type of organization, rather than an engineering driven organization, I think that's where you start to see that change.[00:16:22] Whereas for me, like it, it actually is very much like an engineer driven way of being is that you just build something because you felt like it was funny, right? That's where, that's where I think Meme Gen comes from, right? And there's lots of stuff like that internally that I thought was like, again, I think is, is an important part of like the culture there, but it's changing over time.[00:16:41] John Cutler: When you see people forming strategies do you have any example of of some contextual factor that they tend to think that matters that doesn't really matter in the grand scheme?[00:16:49] Chris Butler: One of the things I see pretty often is that people think about the plan, not about the strategy. And so we end up getting tied around the axle on like the stack ranking priority of this thing over this thing, rather than what are the rules that we're actually trying to kind of think about from this?[00:17:07] If you look at something like your roadmap or the next projects that are being funded, look at like how many headcount, any of those things are, that is your strategy at that point. And I call it the starter strategy and kind of a, you know, it's fine. Like that's, that's the way most leaders they'll come in. They'll create this like thing, which is a roadmap. That is the strategy, quote unquote, but it's really just like a plan.[00:17:26] That's actually something that leaders shouldn't be doing. Product leaders should not micromanage as much.[00:17:30] And I've definitely heard this concept that people should get into the weeds and worry about it. When the reality is like, If you're a product leader, if you're there to talk about the strategy, then maybe you need to know something about how the execution will take place. And I don't want to create this false dichotomy between strategy and execution. Like every execution includes a strategy of some type. But what I really get annoyed with is like, your job is actually to build culture now or to build the team or to create incentives for practicing in a way that you want people to practice. And that to me is less about like you're helping make these little tiny decisions and it's more about like broader things.[00:18:06] All the decisions then start being like, like led from just the leader rather than being distributed through the team, which is what we really want. That's why you should have a great strategy is because you should make the really hard decisions that people are constantly struggling with very easy. Because here's the strategy that says that we're going to do these things.[00:18:22] When we have things like escalations happening from the people that are at the ground level or at like the practicing level where they're talking with customers and they're building things for customers. If a whole bunch of escalations happen because of this theme, it sounds like that's actually a problem your team is struggling with, and they want guidance, right?[00:18:38] But it shouldn't be on a piece by piece basis. It should be that probably those five different things that are in the same theme, that's a strategy. And that's actually something that's really pertinent to today in making decision making, in doing decisions. We don't have enough where people are looking at the escalations to see how that modifies the strategy.[00:18:55] And then the third kind of last thing I think happens a lot for leaders is that they don't provide the context to their organization as often as they should. We don't have as much, at least I don't see it in a way that really, I think impacts people's day to day is here's kind of the headwinds and tailwinds that I see, like over the last month that I think you should actually know because I have a different context than you. Here's what I think you need to know more about in this world. And I feel like a lot of the time when we do strategy, like reviews, it's just pushing information up in a document or a slide deck or something like that, but there's very little, like, there's no, like, what is the person that's reviewing? What are they going to provide inside this meeting other than just like saying yes or no? Like they should actually be preparing things as well about like what they think is going on with the organization. That that's what I would argue.[00:19:43] John Cutler: When you think about the last couple of years why are we seeing this increase in people saying leaders should get into the details. Why are we saying this so often? Why is Brian Chesky saying this on an interview and, and every day on LinkedIn, someone's saying or have to be more hands on than you thought you were like, what's going on.[00:20:06] Chris Butler: I'm sure that there are leaders that are domain experts, right? Like I, I don't, I, I totally believe that's true. Right. And, and I've, I've often gotten in trouble both internally with my teams or externally on Tik TOK about saying, I don't think product managers should be very technical.[00:20:20] You can be a domain expert as a leader, and you can have good judgment and taste and kind of belief around things. But if you're not actually building teams that are able to be the domain experts. Right. I think that's a failure of leadership or, or a failure of building a team at the very least.[00:20:39] Because I want to make sure that there's like, there's a difference between like being great at hiring and talent development versus leadership in a certain area versus the management mechanisms and politics and all those different things that like are balled into a manager or a senior leader type of position. I want to make sure that that's clear that like, there's a lot of different ways to be a great senior leader. I think the moment that some moment that your job is there to catch all of the failures of your team. That's probably not a very healthy relationship.[00:21:08] That's why, like when, when managers complain that they don't get any like feedback from people, it's because that's the way that they usually are interacted with is like, you're there to make the most perfect presentation possible and any, any failure, like, you know, I've, I've heard about certain leaders that if anybody ever fails for any reason, they're suddenly unlucky and they should not be trusted with anything else. And that just sounds insane to me. You've got to be incredibly lucky. And that's like survivorship bias. Right. So then make it to that point. And maybe that's just the way that they think is the right view of the world. But I think, I don't think it is, I think it's bad for the organizations that they're building[00:21:43] John Cutler: What are some tips to make those sessions more effective?[00:21:46] Chris Butler: Derek Sivers has like a post that's like a two cents and it's all about the fact that a leader's two cents can be taken way out of context when the reality is it was like, just like a throwaway comment. And now someone's spun up a work stream to like figure out what this like two cent comment meant basically.[00:22:02] Speak less. Like it's your, your job is, is there to enable teams and to help them, but not to be like the main speaker, right? Like that, that's what I would argue.[00:22:11] The last thing is to actually believe in the systems that allow for that type of peer feedback. PMs can learn an awful lot from the way that like does great design critiques work or great code reviews happen.[00:22:23] From those kinds of practices, you end up actually learning something much more from each other. And because there's other people there, you accelerate the learning because other people are dealing with other problems. Allowing for that type of thing and actually not only inspiring it, but actually pushing to have those things inside of your teams. I think that is what great leaders should do is they want to create as many opportunities for feedback, between their team members as possible. And they're not always going to be the right ones to do the feedback because again, there's power dynamics. There's the fear of like losing your job because you screwed up, right? Like these are things that are really visceral for people. I don't think that the leader can always do that. What they can do though is they can push for systems that allow for that type of thing and do a better job of that.[00:23:03] I've heard this from a leader specifically that they thought that retrospectives were just whining sessions. And then they sent me a couple of articles about how HBR thought that retrospectives were bad. I get it. Like you need a good facilitator for those things sometimes, right? Like people will rat hole or they'll just want to complain or whatever. But I think overall, like having the team talk in a structured way about things is better than not doing it. Is what I would argue.[00:23:27] And I think this is why leaders, what they should be doing more of, is actually telling people on their team why they made a particular decision. And what was the process by which they did that. And if it's just intuition, Like, I just have tons of experience in this industry and so I'm making a decision based on this. That I think is the part that we, we need senior leaders to describe more.[00:23:44] And this is why like things like forward looking case studies, like decision forcing cases I think are so interesting is that you get everybody in a room from both junior to senior people and I would run these inside of Google. We get L3s to L7s inside of this room. They have to create a slide that is going to be for this offsite. It's very, it's a very PM activity. Right. Um, they, they have five minutes to create a slide that is going to basically frame this conversation that needs to take place.[00:24:09] And it's really interesting because like the L3 people, they, they are like very much, okay, well, here's the traffic light grid of options and characteristics and like red, yellow, green, everything like that, the L7s they would just be like, I have two questions for this audience. It's just like question one, question two. And it's like, the discussion is what matters in that case.[00:24:27] And what's really cool is just seeing the way that those senior leaders think about that in comparison to the junior ones. And they're not wrong or right. They're just like two different ways of looking at it.[00:24:37] I think this is why like strategic rehearsal thing I was talking about for wildly mapping, like. Those senior leaders should not go off and do email during those summits and just have their people do these activities. They should be there actually describing how they would do this. We need leaders to present more of their expertise as well inside these things to be able to describe this.[00:24:55] So that's why, I tend to want to have these types of containers for conversations that rather than the weekly, you know hand down of here's what's going to happen. I want the leader to be part of a game that talks about different decisions and see how different people in that room would do it because you learn about everybody's decision making capability.[00:25:15] That's what I would say. I think those things are more helpful. I've been starting to read this, this book about LARPing live action role playing, but there's this idea of a conceit where I'm going to play this role. It's not really who I am. Right. But I may be a jerk right now or like six hats is a great example of that, right? Like one of those hats is a jerk and it's okay because that's just the way six hats work. Right. So I think like allowing for those types of things that are more exploratory, I think, actually help the entire team learn from each other.[00:25:40] John Cutler: Back in the beginning of the podcast you talked about how you were okay with the flexibility in these particular environments. Right? Now I understand better about how you might be okay with like, uh, this is going to be improv slash, uh, we're going to do a two by two and improv and you're going to make slides and, and going to be fine with, uh, we're going to throw it all away afterwards.[00:26:05] Chris Butler: Right. That's right.[00:26:06] Dave Snowden. We call it acceptation. I think it's this idea of like meta or interdisciplinary thinking. I think we, we can gain an awful lot from that. And, and that's, that's what I love about this work.[00:26:16] John Cutler: One thing I like about how you're describing this though, is that you seem. to like the theory side of it, but then you seem to like manifesting it in an actually very visceral, hands on, out in the world type way. And one thing I've noticed Is that often that duality is not something that people immediately understand, right?[00:26:37] Do you ever get pigeonholed as being very theoretical and academic and you're like you have to raise your hand and say actually "Do you want to do an improv, uh role playing session with me? Like let's LARP. We're gonna go LARPing now." How do you communicate that duality that you seem to have to folks? ,[00:26:55] Chris Butler: I've been definitely called very academic, like very theoretical. But what's funny too is that like with a lot of the people that if I like be coaching someone or trying to mentor them, you know, I'm asking a lot of questions because I'm trying to understand what is the context of what's going on.[00:27:10] And, and people have said like, you know, I'll have a conversation with Chris and it's like the first 55 minutes are just like meandering. I have no idea where they're going. And then he gives me like three things to do with the 55 minute work. And it's like exactly what I needed, basically. You're absolutely right.[00:27:24] I think like part of the product manager's job is to be a toolbox of like methodologies and frameworks, right? It's like shu ha ri from the agile world is, is what we're trying to do.[00:27:32] I think once you get to that point where you're doing your own way. It's usually just a combination of things that have worked. I mean, I think you've said this too, about the fact that like frameworks are usually just an experts encodification of what they usually do. Right. And it worked in that moment, in that place, in that time. And it's trying to now turn it into something that anybody can pick up as a tool. But the reality is like, there's pieces of it that won't exactly work in every context.[00:27:54] Rather than assuming that there's this process that just has to work this exact way, how do we build something that is appropriate and fit for this. And I think maybe dropping another kind of like honeypot name is probably Christopher Alexander and pattern libraries and stuff like that. The way he thinks about things is that we're going to create a beautiful place that is going to be a place for someone to live, that is situated in the environment and gives them the things that they want, like the ability to have like a great breakfast with a beautiful view or something like that.[00:28:24] He really railed against the idea of kind of establishment of licensing for architects, the way that like architecture started to become something that was all about like the perfect way of doing something.[00:28:34] And if it's going to be for people, you have to build things in a very special way. And that's why I think like. We need all these tools and then we have like a team, which is a bunch of just people together and we need to figure out how they work and what they, what they want to work like. And that's why those things are, but it's, it's very hard.[00:28:49] I definitely try to do that. Usually it's just through workshops, right? It's like, that's the simplest way. Let's get in a room and we're going to format this conversation where it's not one person talking the whole time. It's all of us talking in this particular way.[00:29:00] And so that's kind of a, just for me, that's the brass tacks of this is like conversations.[00:29:06] John Cutler: Awesome. Well, I think that's a good way to end, actually. That's like a nice way of wrapping this up. This was a lot of fun and. I think I'm supposed to ask, you know, where are people supposed to find you? Although I think people are generally fairly findable now at the moment.[00:29:23] Chris Butler: Yeah. I mean, I'm on LinkedIn. If people want to connect and I'd love to hear if you try anything that I've talked about, I'd love to hear how it works for you and whether it does or doesn't. The Uncertainty Project is a community of like decision makers and strategists that I think is interesting.[00:29:36] And there's like, that's where I've been doing some, some more interesting writing about this. But yeah, just in general, just always excited to hear how people are doing their job.[00:29:44] John Cutler: Great. All right. Thank you so much, Chris.[00:29:46] Chris Butler: You're welcome. Thank you. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cutlefish.substack.com

Why Kansas Jayhawks basketball freshman guard/wing Johnny Furphy from Australia should be the front-runner for Big 12 Freshman of the Year in 2024, Kevin McCullar and Hunter Dickinson's chances to win Player of the Year, All-League candidacies for them and Dajuan Harris, and why Furphy and KJ Adams should be considered for Most Improved player. Plus, Kansas Jayhawks women's basketball has won five in a row as they attempt to push toward the NCAA Tournament.Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!IbottaRight now, Ibotta is offering our listeners $5 just for trying Ibotta by using the code LOCKEDONCOLLEGE when you register.LinkedInThese days every new potential hire can feel like a high stakes wager for your small business. That's why LinkedIn Jobs helps find the right people for your team, faster and for free. Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com/lockedoncollege. Terms and conditions apply.GametimeDownload the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDON for $20 off your first purchase.FanDuelNew customers, join today and you'll getONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS in BONUS BETS if your first bet of FIVE DOLLARS or more wins. Visit FanDuel.com/LOCKEDON to get started.eBay MotorsWith all the parts you need at the prices you want, it's easy to turn your car into the MVP and bring home that win. Keep your ride-or-die alive at EbayMotors.com. Eligible items only. Exclusions apply. eBay Guaranteed Fit only available to US customers.FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Why Kansas Jayhawks basketball freshman guard/wing Johnny Furphy from Australia should be the front-runner for Big 12 Freshman of the Year in 2024, Kevin McCullar and Hunter Dickinson's chances to win Player of the Year, All-League candidacies for them and Dajuan Harris, and why Furphy and KJ Adams should be considered for Most Improved player. Plus, Kansas Jayhawks women's basketball has won five in a row as they attempt to push toward the NCAA Tournament. Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Ibotta Right now, Ibotta is offering our listeners $5 just for trying Ibotta by using the code LOCKEDONCOLLEGE when you register. LinkedIn These days every new potential hire can feel like a high stakes wager for your small business. That's why LinkedIn Jobs helps find the right people for your team, faster and for free. Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com/lockedoncollege. Terms and conditions apply. Gametime Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDON for $20 off your first purchase. FanDuel New customers, join today and you'll getONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS in BONUS BETS if your first bet of FIVE DOLLARS or more wins. Visit FanDuel.com/LOCKEDON to get started. eBay Motors With all the parts you need at the prices you want, it's easy to turn your car into the MVP and bring home that win. Keep your ride-or-die alive at EbayMotors.com. Eligible items only. Exclusions apply. eBay Guaranteed Fit only available to US customers. FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Matt and Shayne discuss their opinions on the process of selecting All League players.  They discuss how different leagues have different selection processes.  They also debate what should be the main focusses of coaches when participating in the process of voting for all conference players.  

In Part One of Two of the Gigi Speer Interview we got to discuss her upbringing as a multi-sport athlete playing basketball, volleyball, and softball growing up. A softball career that includes her leading Hopkins High School to a title her junior year as well as winning two Atlantic-10 Conference titles (‘19, ‘22) that includes the go ahead winning drive her senior year to defeat #1 ranked George Washington to clinch the title at Fordham University where she played Division I Softball

Part Two of the Morning Footy podcast kicks off with a discussion about Phil Neville's managerial hiring at Portland Timbers despite his bad run at Inter Miami (3:38). Then, the MF crew drop the announcement that the USL has signed a four year agreement with CBS Sports Golazo Network with seventy-five matches set to to broadcast on Golazo and twenty-five to hit CBS Sports Network. Charlie Dennis of the Tampa Bay Rowdies USL team joins to celebrate the news as well as his inclusion in the All-League 2023 First Team (11:28). Next, a look at Americans abroad as Matt Turner has been benched by Nottingham Forest which begs the question, where does he go from here (25:55)? Then, the team preview the upcoming MLS Playoff matchups including Almada's return for Atlanta United (34:36). And finally, Guillem Balagué is welcomed in to preview the AC Milan vs PSG match and the group make some predictions to close things out (42:30). Morning Footy is available for free on the Audacy app as well as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and wherever else you listen to podcasts.  Follow the Morning Footy podcast on Twitter: @CBSSportsGolazo, @susannahcollins, @nicocantor1, @NotAlexis, @CharlieDavies9 For more soccer coverage from CBS Sports, visit https://www.cbssports.com/soccer/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ Watch UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, UEFA Europa Conference League, Serie A, Coppa Italia, CONCACAF, NWSL, Scottish Premiership, the Brasileiro, Argentine Primera División by subscribing Paramount Plus: https://www.paramountplus.com/home/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today on The Neil Haley Show, join Neil Haley as he interviews Bob Newton. Robert Lee Newton (born August 16, 1949) is a former American football guard in the National Football League (NFL) from 1971 to 1981. Newton was voted most improved player his junior year and "most valuable lineman" and All-League defensive tackle his senior year at John Glenn High School.[2] Newton played for the Chicago Bears from 1971 to 1975 and with Pro Football Hall of Fame players Dick Butkus, Gale Sayers and Walter Payton. He played for the Seattle Seahawks from 1976 to 1981 with Hall of Famer Steve Largent. Newton was on the 1976 Seattle Seahawks expansion team that got the franchise started. He was a third round draft selection of the Chicago Bears and was moved from offensive tackle to guard his rookie year. He was named 1980 Seahawks Lineman of the Year. In 1983, Newton had brief playing experiences with the Boston Breakers and Chicago Blitz of the USFL, but his chemical dependency illness forced him to leave both teams.[2]

Today on The Neil Haley Show, join Neil Haley as he interviews Bob Newton. Robert Lee Newton (born August 16, 1949) is a former American football guard in the National Football League (NFL) from 1971 to 1981. Newton was voted most improved player his junior year and "most valuable lineman" and All-League defensive tackle his senior year at John Glenn High School.[2] Newton played for the Chicago Bears from 1971 to 1975 and with Pro Football Hall of Fame players Dick Butkus, Gale Sayers and Walter Payton. He played for the Seattle Seahawks from 1976 to 1981 with Hall of Famer Steve Largent. Newton was on the 1976 Seattle Seahawks expansion team that got the franchise started. He was a third round draft selection of the Chicago Bears and was moved from offensive tackle to guard his rookie year. He was named 1980 Seahawks Lineman of the Year. In 1983, Newton had brief playing experiences with the Boston Breakers and Chicago Blitz of the USFL, but his chemical dependency illness forced him to leave both teams.[2]

Alex from League 1 Updater joins Eboni, still drunk from celebrating, and Kyle. They go through the award finalist and All-League teams, NCFC big partnership and the recent coaching moves in Madison and Fuego. Then, they recap the semi-final matches and breakdown how Omaha didn't score, Austin Pack masterclass and NCFC cruising. Then he discussion of the Independence/NCFC derby final and what is to be expected on Sunday. Join Wakin 90 as they will have a live watch along during the final on Sunday!

On this episode of the Sports Business Classroom Audio Experience “Alumni Takeover” series, host Arthur McKibben is joined by Financial Advisor & President of Victory Everyday, Rick Paulsen. Rick was a legendary student-athlete who made his mark as a star basketball and baseball player at St. Mary's High School, followed by a collegiate basketball career at the University of the Pacific. He was a three-time All-League and All-City player, leading the Rams to three consecutive Valley Oak League championships. Rick received many honors and accolades, including being named the MVP of the City of Stockton in his junior and senior years and making the All-Northern California team twice. In this episode, Arthur and Rick discuss:Rick's transition from athlete to entrepreneurAdvice for listeners who are looking to work with professional athletesThe challenges of working in the sports industryRick's 10 Steps of SuccessAfter his collegiate athletic career, Rick became a highly successful businessman, specializing in life insurance for families, athletes, and business owners; and has been a member of New York Life's Chairman's Council for 33 consecutive years. Rick's coaching style emphasizes teaching life lessons through sports, helping him have a positive impact on many young athletes. In addition to his professional accomplishments, Rick is a respected community leader and coach, donating his time and expertise to many local charities. Rick is also a board member of the University of the Pacific School of Business, Pacific Athletic Foundation, and Dameron Community Hospital. Rick's contagious unselfishness and positive attitude continue to inspire those around him to strive for greatness in all aspects of life. Follow SBC: LinkedIn | Instagram | Twitter | FacebookFollow Arthur: LinkedIn | InstagramFollow Rick: LinkedIn

Jordan Hogan We sat down with Jordan Hogan at the Coach's Lounge at the Catapult Sports booth at AFCA to discuss what he's done since we last talked at the NYSHSFCA Clinic in 2019 while he was the receivers coach at Cornell. During the pandemic, which was a shutdown of the Ivy League season, Coach Hogan was able to attain the Bill Bidwill Coaching Fellowship, a program started by the Arizona Cardinals in 2015 to help increase diversity in the coaching ranks and provide more opportunity for experience on the NFL level. Recently named to FootballScoop's Minority Watch List, Hogan worked with the offensive staff and served as an assistant in the quarterback room during his time with the Cardinals. He helped with the creation of install tapes, game breakdowns, play drawings, and assisted with game and practice data input among other duties.  Prior to his time in the NFL, Hogan spent three seasons at nearby Cornell. During his time with the Big Red, Hogan served as the wide receivers coach where he developed several record-setting players at that position.  Along with his role with the Arizona Cardinals, Hogan has served in similar NFL capacities in the Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching Fellowship with the Baltimore Ravens in 2019, Indianapolis Colts in 2017, and the Buffalo Bills in 2016.  Hogan has had previous wide receiver coaching stops at Division II Stonehill College (2017) and Division III Buffalo State College (2013-2017). He also served as the wide receivers coach for the US National Team development game in Canton, Ohio, in 2016.  A standout wide receiver at Brockport, Hogan at the time of graduation ranked fifth in school history in career receiving yards (1,546) and eighth in catches (108). He earned All-League honors as a junior and was a preseason All-American as a senior captain. Shownotes: -Coach Hogan over the last three years -What he learned with the Cardinals and is applying now in his own room -QB/WR timing -Networking as a young coach NYSHSFCA Clinic Info: nyshsfca.org Coach Hogan's Course - “Simple WR Drills for Indy”: https://coachtube.com/course/football/jordan-hogan-simple-drills-for-wr-indy/11737836?ambassador=ddd391c93af2433281656b763 Coach Hogan's first episode on Coach and Coordinator - “Win Your Now”: https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/win-your-now-jordan-hogan-wide-receiver-coach-at-cornell-university-ny

Tickets for Bellator 286 at the Long Beach Convention Center are still available and can be purchased on Ticketmaster. Article Written by JJ Fiddler of The 562:No matter how you look at it, A.J. McKee's Bellator Mixed Martial Arts fight in Long Beach this weekend is the first page of a new chapter in his life.The Long Beach native is coming off of his first professional loss and is fighting in a new weight class for the first time in his career, but McKee said he knows something special is going to happen in the Long Beach Arena on Saturday night when he fights Spike Carlyle.“Having everybody there in my hometown is going to be insane,” McKee told the Long Beach Post's Jackie Rae in an interview for The Word podcast. “The amount of energy that was in (The Forum in Inglewood when I won the featherweight title) was phenomenal so I think it's going to be ten times more electrifying (in Long Beach).”McKee, 27, went to Poly High School where he was an All-League and CIF wrestler. Even though he was already training as an MMA fighter while at Poly, McKee embraced the community and used others' advancement to motivate himself.“It's a city of opportunities.” McKee said. “You can come from nothing and make your life the most extraordinary thing. If you're willing to put in the work it can be done. It's phenomenal to see people you know who struggled to be able to make it out because they visualized a better lifestyle for themselves.”The reason McKee was working on his MMA skills at such a young age is because his father, Antonio McKee, is a former MMA fighter himself. The McKee family worked out of Body Shop Fitness in Lakewood while McKee went 7-1 as an amateur. He also was a member of the CCCAA State Championship wrestling team at Cerritos College.McKee joined Bellator in 2015 and won his debut fight against Marcos Bonilla via rear-naked choke submission in the first round, which really sent a message to the rest of the MMA world that he was ready to take the main stage. While setting the Bellator record with 18 consecutive victories to start his professional career, McKee made a name for himself by winning the Bellator Featherweight World Grand Prix in 2019. The championship fight for the title worth $1 million dollars was a shocker for most fans as McKee landed a high kick early and used a guillotine choke for the first-round win. The rematch with his finals opponent, Patrício Pitbull, was a unanimous decision for Pitbull after an entertaining bout. It was the first loss of McKee's career, and he didn't take it well. Instead of fighting Pitbull again, like he wants to, McKee is moving up from featherweight to 155-pound lightweight. “The transition should be easy for me,” McKee said. “Faster, stronger, bigger and better is my motto for this fight. I have the reach. It's just about making a few minor adjustments. I don't think strength is going to be an issue in this fight.” This fight with Carlyle is also a new chapter because it comes after McKee suffered a “full mental breakdown” following the loss to Pitbull. “I went through a mental depression and I kind of went through it on my own,” McKee said. “I was cooped up in the house, just going to the gym and going home. It was a mental check, and it's a bounce back to use that as motivation.” McKee added that talking about the issue has made it easier to deal with, even though it's not natural for him. “I'm kind of an introvert, but I'm comfortable with it now,” he said. “Even as vulnerable as I am speaking about it, I'm okay sharing that with other people.” Bellator 286 is Saturday at the Long Beach Arena and it will be headlined by Pitbull vs. Adam Borics. The prelim fights start at 7 p.m. and the main card featuring the McKee fight is scheduled for 10 p.m.

We welcome Dan's wrestling coach Paul Bass to the podcast this episode. Over his career, 37 seasons as a coach, 32 as head coach, all at Westhampton Beach High School, Bass amassed 324 wins, making him the sixth winningest coach in Suffolk County (NY). During his time coaching, he produced 246 All-League wrestlers, eight county champions, 13 state qualifiers, and six wrestlers were All-State. Bass was named the Coach of the Year title seven times in his career, and in 2015 he was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. Coach Bass talks about what he gained from coaching the sport for almost four decades, what it still means to him today and how he and wrestlers both changed over the years.Plus, he gives us the inside scoop on how good of a wrestler Dan was in high school.In the intro we discuss the new classifications that came out earlier this month and go on a mini rant about how the state duals should be seeded.All of this and more on this week's episode. 

Sports Dump Ep. 28: Did the Baseball Committees Get It Right? The Chronicle Sports Guys (Aaron and Alec) run through the rainout schedule for the 2A and 2B district softball tournaments, then call Napavine assistant baseball coach Conner Hogue to talk about the Tigers' hot streak heading into regionals and how the brackets look. With updates on All-League teams and yet another look at some track numbers.

Episode 76 of EIUPanthers Podcast visits with former Eastern Illinois women's soccer player Dr. Carole Griggs.  Griggs was a standout player on the pitch for the Panthers in the early days of the program helping EIU win an OVC Tournament Championship while earning All-League honors.  Since graduation she has gone on to create and run a successful consulting business that involves executive coaching for some top companies on the West Coast.  In addition she has worked as a college professor and written several books.  She talks about all those experiences and more on today's episode.  

Episode 76 of EIUPanthers Podcast visits with former Eastern Illinois women's soccer player Dr. Carole Griggs.  Griggs was a standout player on the pitch for the Panthers in the early days of the program helping EIU win an OVC Tournament Championship while earning All-League honors.  Since graduation she has gone on to create and run a successful consulting business that involves executive coaching for some top companies on the West Coast.  In addition she has worked as a college professor and written several books.  She talks about all those experiences and more on today's episode.  

Atlantic Physical Therapy presents the 88th Episode of the Hondo Handy's Podcast. The podcast shares the journey of Professional Basketball Player Brian Wethers from Murrieta, California. Brian will be Head Coach for the Valley Eagles a new Professional Basketball that will be playing in the TBL. Brian also enters his fourth season as the Head Basketball Coach of the Murrieta Valley Nighthawk Boys Basketball program. He previously ran two other local high school programs; Calvary Murrieta and Linfield Christian. Wethers was the Director of Basketball Operations at the University of California-Riverside. Wethers attended the University of California-Berkeley (1999-2003) where he was a four-year starter for the Golden Bears. He holds the school record for most points scored in a single NCAA tournament game with 27. After college, he went on to play professionally overseas in numerous countries; Germany, France, Australia, Ukraine, New Zealand and Lebanon. He also spent time in the NBDL with the Bakersfield Jam. While playing in Australia, Wethers led the league in scoring and was named League MVP.      Wethers #25 hangs high above the north-end basket in the Hawk House. During his time at Murrieta Valley, he was a four-year Varsity starter (1995-1999), All-League four years, League MVP as a Junior and Senior, Riverside County Player of the Year his Senior year, All-State his Senior year and a Top-25 National Recruit. Wethers remains the programs all-time leading scorer.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Coach C. Collins is ready to talk more AAU basketball, life and everything in between. In this episode, the coach has the opportunity to sit down with Marcus Kirkland for Strive Above Others training and coach of the EG royals AAU club.  He is back for a part 2 and he has come with a list of things to talk about in the crazy AAU world. Marcus has made some big moves since his first episode such as, going viral from Tik Tok, creating vlog content on his YouTube channel, becoming a coach, growing his training brand and being a staple in the basketball community.  He is always a welcome guest on the show that Coach Collins will sit down and have some great conversation with that you don't want to miss. ------------------------------ If you wish to support the show Podbean Patron: https://patron.podbean.com/boutthatlifeaau Patreon Account: https://www.patreon.com/join/Boutthatlife? Cash App: https://cash.app/$phenixfitness23 PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=XKVLCD8U3MC36 Venmo: https://account.venmo.com/u/CoachCCollins ------------------------------- The list of topics are actually things Marcus wanted to address so coach Collins gets to kind of sit back and have a fun discussion about the state of AAU today. A big focus of the show is on the kids that were great in 7th and 8th grade but have since not made any significant impact now being in high school, the "Middle School Hype" as it is known. ------------------------------ If you wish to support the show Podbean Patron: https://patron.podbean.com/boutthatlifeaau Patreon Account: https://www.patreon.com/join/Boutthatlife? Cash App: https://cash.app/$phenixfitness23 PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=XKVLCD8U3MC36 Venmo: https://account.venmo.com/u/CoachCCollins ------------------------------- Guest: Marcus Kirkland(Founder/CEO of Strive Above Others) Owner of "StriveAboveOthers" - a training company dedicated to the youth of Sacramento. Prior to starting StriveAboveOthers, he played at Natomas High School before getting an athletic scholarship to Simpson University. At Natomas High School, I was a 3-time Varsity player and received the MVP award for Sophomore year then All-League his Senior year He knew he still wanted to play so he began training harder than ever. He worked on his ball handling, put up 100 jump shots a day and was training a minimum of twice a day. He then started to contact coaches and attend college open gyms. After playing in a Simpson University open gym, he was offered an athletic scholarship to play basketball his Senior year, he made the All-League team After college, he wanted to dedicate himself to helping kids and giving them opportunities that he didn't have growing up and "StriveAboveOthers" was created.   Gof Follow Marcus Journey Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/striveaboveothers/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/striveaboveothers YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/marc6601 Basketball Trainers Mentality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtQ9PePwusk   ------------------------------- This episode we get to see the perspective of a one of the best trainers in Sacramento and Coach C. Collins is going to see if Marcus is really Bout That Life!!! ------------------------------- Please Support the Show Podbean Patron: https://patron.podbean.com/boutthatlifeaau Patreon Account: https://www.patreon.com/join/Boutthatlife? Cash App: https://cash.app/$phenixfitness23 PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=XKVLCD8U3MC36 Venmo: https://account.venmo.com/u/CoachCCollins   Sponsers Dr. Dish the best shooting machines on the market https://www.drdishbasketball.com/ Hardwood Palace http://www.hardwoodpalace.com/tournaments/   Courtside Tournaments https://www.courtsidecenter.com/youth-tournaments   West Coast Takeover Tournaments (Sacramento CA) https://www.westcoasttakeover.com/teams/?u=WESTCOASTTAKEOVER&s=basketball   West Coast Legends Athletics With more than 20 years experience of custom apparel we have thousands of product choices and custom options for your Athletic Team, Program and Organization.    https://wclathletics.com/   Bout that Life Instagram Follow our Journey https://www.instagram.com/boutthatlifepodcast/   Click Here to follow the Coaches Coach C. Collins IG: https://www.instagram.com/hoopstariam/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/christopher.collins.106 Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/Christo53408073 Feel free to check our bonus episodes "Coaches Rize Time" Training Site: https://www.phenixfitness23.com/contact-us AAU Club Information: http://www.ybadawgs.com/   Coach MJ(God Given Talent) IG: https://www.instagram.com/ggtbasketball/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=mark%20jeffries   Mirrorless Media Group(Johann Tate) Video production IG: https://www.instagram.com/nocapyog/  

Sports Dump Ep. 12: The Palm Springs of State Brackets The first round of the state football playoffs are in the books, and the Chronicle sports staff discusses the hits and misses of the seeding committees brackets. Alec Dietz reports on his experience at Tenino's wild 80-point playoff game, Eric Trent discusses his trip to Yakima, and the crew looks forward to a pair of state quarterfinal matchups they saw a few weeks earlier. Plus: State volleyball results and All-League results.

Coach Forward is an interview-style podcast hosted by Jason Mejeur (Coach J), accomplished Coach, Mentor, and Founder/CEO at MaxOne.Today, I'm excited to be joined by Pete Jacobson. Pete Jacobson has been a Varsity High School Wrestling Coach in New York for 20 years. Over 20 years, his program has come a long way: three NY State Champions, 12 All-State Wrestlers, 25 Individual Section Champions, 60 All-Section Wrestlers, and many dozens of All-League athletes.Pete works with coaches of all levels through WinSmarter, to help them build Championship Cultures in all parts of their programs, have a greater positive impact, and go home happy.You can learn more about him by visiting winsmarter.com.About Jason Mejeur (Coach J)Jason has more than 15 years of experience coaching basketball at the college and high school level and has lived on the sidelines and in the locker rooms working to build teams and inspire athletes. His mission is to build authentic relationships with his players so that he could have an impact on their lives beyond the basketball court.More recently, Jason founded MaxOne to be a platform that makes coaches' lives easier and helps them use technology to have a bigger impact on the lives of their athletesKeep up with Coach Forward on social media:Twitter, Linkedin, InstagramEnjoying Coach Forward Podcast? Consider subscribing or leaving us a review! 

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 1. Sports update2. MLB releases the All League team.3. LSU football self imposes a 1 year ban.4. James harden needs 6 straight negative test.5. The MLB removing 40 minor league teams.6. TNF preview.--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sportstownpodcast/support

My guest today is Jake Anapol. Jake is fresh off of his commitment to play Division I Football for the Marist Red Foxes. Jake has overcome a ton of adversity to get to where he is today. He moved to the United States from Oxford, England in elementary school. Jake had to undergo multiple surgeries to fix a knee issue that he was born with throughout his childhood. When Jake got to high school, he had an additional two surgeries caused from football totaling seven knee procedures. Jake began his high school football career at Xavier HS in Middletown, CT before transferring to the Kent School. Jake excelled in football at both places. At Kent, he became an All-League and All-New England offensive lineman. He missed his sophomore year due to injury and his senior season due to COVID, but Jake was still able to pick up multiple D1 offers. He recently committed to Marist and will sign with the football program on December 16th. If you'd like to connect with Jake his IG is https://www.instagram.com/jakeanapol_55/ and his Twitter is https://twitter.com/anapol_jake. To learn more about myself and the show please visit https://www.tannerkern.com.

Jamal Patterson, Renzo Gracie Black Belt & I had a great conversation about Old School MMA, The future of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and Business Strategies that work for Martial Arts academy owners or any business owner. Jamal Patterson is a 3rd degree black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu under Renzo Gracie and a graduate from Colgate University. He has been teaching for over 10 years and is one of the few people in the world that has this unique experience and knowledge. He went to high school at the prestigious Blair Academy, where he placed 3rd in the country and won a National Prep Championship. At Blair Academy, he was coached by the legendary Jeff Buxton, who has coached numerous college national champions, All Americans, and Olympians. He then went on and got his degree from Colgate University, where he was a two sport athlete, competing in both track and football. He was a four year starter and All League standout for the Red Raiders and part of their historic 1997 Patriot League team that turned the Colgate football program around. After leaving college, Professor Jamal went on to attain his Black Belt in 2005 from the legendary Renzo Gracie, where he went on to win the North American Abu Dhabi Trials and many Grapplers and Naga Super fights. Not stopping there, Professor Jamal went on and furthered his knowledge of Martial Arts by extensively working and training with some of the the best boxing coaches and boxers in the world. He trained under the watchful eye of Aroz “Terrific”Gist, who has worked with world champions Kendall Holt and Pawel Wolack. He also trained with legendary coach, Tommy Brooks, who had worked with Mike Tyson, Evander Hollyfield, and the Klitchkos. He has been sparring partners with World Champion Wayne Braithwaite, Monte “Two Guns” Barrett contenders Emmanuel Najado, Patrick “Paddy Boy” Farrel, and many more. As a professional MMA fighter, Professor Jamal was at one time considered one of the top guys in the world at his weight class. He was also a member of Renzo Gracie’s International Fight League World Championship team. He’s trained with UFC champions Frankie Edgar and George St. Pierre Chris Weidman, veterans Ricardo Almeida, Gian Vallante, Nick Catone and David Branch, and world champions Braulio Estima, Matt Serra and Roger Gracie. Professor Patterson focuses on technique over strength. These diverse experiences have enabled him to understand the fighting arts as they were intended to be taught, practiced and used in both real world application and competitive fighting. _________-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------_________ SUBSCRIBE TO Listen To Lance’s YOUTUBE CHANNEL NOW If you want the NO B.S. way to master your financial destiny… Using businesses, real estate, and personal finance then learn from Lance. Subscribe to this channel now. Please understand that by watching Listen To Lance’s videos or enrolling in his programs does not mean you’ll get results close to what he’s been able to do (or do anything for that matter). He’s been in business for over 20 years and his results are not typical. Most people who watch his videos or enroll in his programs get the “how to” but never take action with the information. Lance is only sharing what has worked for him and his students. Your results are dependent on many factors… including but not limited to your ability to work hard, commit yourself, and do whatever it takes There is never a guarantee in business. YOU DO YOU Martial arts owners learn how Lance has helped other academy owners 2x revenue and finally make money in the martial arts business go to www.mmastudiosecrets.com/

Coach C.Collins and Coach MJ are ready to talk more AAU basketball, life and everything in between.  First the NBA Russell Westbrook may want to leave Houston, James Harden may look to Brooklyn nets, NBA draft is coming up, AD officially opting out of final year of contract and will be a free agent, Danny Green is out of LA including predictions for the next season.  The question of if there will be a High school season that the CIF will allow and they have shifted the rules of AAU to extend to the 2021 class, how will that affect all of AAU basketball next year 2021?  The coaches also discuss with guest Marcus Kirkland should we let people with big issues get in the boxing ring and settle everything? This episode the coaches got the chance to sit down with one of the original 4 from the Prelude show to "Bout that Life" podcast. "Basketball Trainers Mentality" was the first show the coaches talked on with our Guest Marcus Kirkland.  As always the coaches are ready to be real and pull know punches    Guest: Marcus Kirkland(Founder/CEO of Strive Above Others)Owner of "StriveAboveOthers" - a training company dedicated to the youth of Sacramento.Prior to starting StriveAboveOthers, he played at Natomas High School before getting an athletic scholarship to Simpson University.At Natomas High School, I was a 3-time Varsity player and received the MVP award for Sophomore year then All-League his Senior yearHe knew he still wanted to play so he began training harder than ever. He worked on his ball handling, put up 100 jump shots a day and was training a minimum of twice a day. He then started to contact coaches and attend college open gyms.After playing in a Simpson University open gym, he was offered an athletic scholarship to play basketball his Senior year, he made the All-League teamAfter college, he wanted to dedicate himself to helping kids and giving them opportunities that he didn’t have growing up and "StriveAboveOthers" was created. Social MediaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/striveaboveothers/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/striveaboveothersYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/marc6601Basketball Trainers Mentality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtQ9PePwusk " Lets get all these kids out, lets get all these kids scholarships " Marcus KirklandThis episode we get to see the perspective of a Basketball Trainer who has a hand in both the community and basketball world.Coach C. Collins and Coach MJ are going to see if Marcus Kirikland is really Bout That Life!!! Click Here to follow Coach C.CollinsIG: https://www.instagram.com/hoopstariam/FB: https://www.facebook.com/christopher.collins.106Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/Christo53408073Feel free to check our bonus episodes "Coaches Rize Time"Training Site: https://www.phenixfitness23.com/contact-usAAU Club Information: http://www.ybadawgs.com/Thank you for your support and time Coach MJ(God Given Talent)IG: https://www.instagram.com/ggtbasketball/FB: https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=mark%20jeffries 

(00:00-03:34) – Greg Rakestraw is back on a Halloween edition of Soccer Saturday informing you about the players that made the All-League team's from the Indy Eleven, what games he will be broadcasting for the high school state finals, and preview's his five favorite moments that helped shape his soccer story. (06:37-21:41) – A good friend of the show in Mike Watts joins the show to discuss if he was surprised when the Tampa Bay Rowdies knocked off Louisville City considering they didn't see each other this year, face any similar opponents during the year, and because of how dominant Louisville has been at home. Watts also previews his sixth USL Cup Final between Tampa Bay and Phoenix Rising. (24:42-37:04) – The first year head coach of Guerin Catholic's women's soccer team in Sean Yau to describe what it means to make the state championship game in his first year as a head coach, the level of familiarity going up against a school in Noblesville in the state championship game for the first time in their school's history even though they are less than ten miles away, and how the sectional they had to come out of is a “dog eat dog sectional.” (40:07:-51:10) – Following his conversation with Drew Thompson from The Game Beckons, Greg Rakestraw and Brad Hauter asked him if they could share their top five favorite soccer moments. A couple of his favorite moments were the 2006 World Cup Final between Italy and France and the opening night for the Indy Eleven back in 2014. (54:10-56:37) – In the final segment of the final October edition of Soccer Saturday, Greg touches on the idea of Fort Wayne FC will play on the amateur level the next two years and then enter league one to play professionally in 2023. From a youth soccer standpoint, the Indy Eleven will compete in the USL Academy League and updates you on what is going on in the Champions League.

Alyssa May played basketball at the College of Holy Cross from 2007-2011. She talks about growing up in Oradell, New Jersey, how she got into basketball, and playing other sports but having to give them up to pursue basketball. She details her great career at River Dell High School where she played both volleyball and basketball, was an All-League and All-County volleyball player, and was one of the best basketball players in Bergen County history, winning North Jersey Player of the Year in 2006 and 2007 and holds multiple River Dell records. Alyssa describes playing for Coach Lou Wejnert, the impact he had on her, and his recent passing. She then goes into the recruiting process, why she chose Holy Cross, playing the 4 early in her career, playing against UConn all 4 years, the tough Patriot League competition, and her great four year career there. Alyssa explains why she chose not to pursue a professional basketball career and describes her position working at the NBA.

Coach Campbell just completed his 26th season as a head girls’ basketball coach and his 15th as the head coach at Clovis West HS in Fresno, CA In eleven years as the Varsity Girls’ Coach at Reno High School, they won eight straight Sierra League Championships and averaged over 22 wins per season. Reno High School was the 2001 4A State Champion and the 2000, 2004 and 2005 4A State Runner-Up. Reno High was also the Regional Champion in ’98, ’00, ’03, ’04 and ‘05. He has over 600 career wins and has been recognized as Coach of the Year in 23 of his 26 seasons by multiple publications. His teams have produced an abundance of All-League and All-State selections. Under Coach Campbell’s tutelage, 50 players have gone on to play collegiate basketball in the last 19 seasons. In his fifteen years at Clovis West, Coach Campbell’s teams have won 390 games, 15 consecutive League Titles and the 2007, 2008, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020 Valley Championships, including winning the CIF Open Division State Championship as well as being chosen as ESPN’s 2017 National Champion! They were the only Central Section team to be selected for the state’s Open Division 6 straight years, which consists of the top 16 teams in the state. His teams have won 22 consecutive League Championships. He was also the first Coach to win the prestigious Nike Tournament of Champions with two different schools including winning the National Division in 2017. He was also chosen as the 2017 California State Coach of the Year! He has worked the Kobe Bryant Academy as well as being a commissioner at the Michael Jordan Flight School for 8 years. At Clovis West, they have won 15 consecutive League Titles and 8 straight Section titles, including 11 of 15 overall. Clovis West is the only public school to be selected for the CIF Open Division the last 7 years straight which is the top 16 schools out of 1500+ high schools. We were also the 2017, 2018, 2019 Public High School State Team of the Year. We have been between #1 and #3 in 3 point shooting in our state out of over 1500 high schools for the last 7 years and are considered one of the top 3 point shooting teams nationally during that span as well. Coach Campbell’s daughter, Madison, was the 1st 4 time 1st Team All State player from Clovis West. She was also selected as a Who’sNxt All American and graduated as a valedictorian. She is a redshirt freshman at USC as she herniated a disc in her back and missed her frosh season. She holds school records for: Most points in a game Most points in a season Most points in a career Most 3’s in a game Most 3’s in a season Most 3’s in a career Most assists Most rebounds She had a record of 127-12 over her career. Her 127 wins are a Central Section record for boys or girls. In 2017, we won the CIF Open Division State Championship and were selected as National Champion by USA Today, Maxpreps, and ESPNW. We defeated 9 of the top 25 teams in the nation that year and also defeated 8 McDonald’s All Americans. We will have 11 kids playing college basketball next season and all 7 of our class of 2021 will have scholarship opportunities as well CraigCampbell@clovisusd.k12.ca.us @CoachCCW --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kevin-furtado/support

LetsTalkAboutIt Madden & Electronic Arta agree on five year extension that carries until at least 2026 worth $1.5 Billion. Updated NFL rule changes. https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2893839-report-nfl-tables-onside-kick-talks-approves-ir-tweaks-more-rule-changes Minnesota Vikings official statement on the murder of George Floyd Kap says we need to fight back Devonta Freeman turns down deal with Seattle. Bucs and eagles in #CommunityConversations Special guest: Former L.A. Wildcats, Kansas Jayhawk, Cal Bear and Riverside Junior College offensive lineman Dwayne Wallace. Wallace was in the foster care system and didn’t grow up with either of his biological parents. His adopted father was there for him. He was All-League in high school but had a 1.3 gpa. He became a JUCO ALL-AMERICAN at Riverside community college and worked his way into Cal and was a grad transfer at Kansas. #TakeOrTangent DeAndre Hopkins said other receivers know he’s the best receiver in the league. NFL extends virtual offseason another 2-3 weeks Jadaveon Clowney turned down monster one-year payday from Cleveland JT Daniels goes to Georgia Tomlin likes Rooney Rule Tiki says eli is HOF Cam decline is evident per GM #TouchdownOrTurnover Joe Flacco to mentor Sam Panthers sign Eli Apple Ravens sign Tyler Huntley, Utah QB who beat Lamar Jackson for a District title in high school MIn didnt want to trade Diggs Ramsey wont hold out Love was best player available Hall will take Reed over gronk

LetsTalkAboutItMadden & Electronic Arta agree on five year extension that carries until at least 2026 worth $1.5 Billion.Updated NFL rule changes. https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2893839-report-nfl-tables-onside-kick-talks-approves-ir-tweaks-more-rule-changesMinnesota Vikings official statement on the murder of George FloydKap says we need to fight backDevonta Freeman turns down deal with Seattle. Bucs and eagles in#CommunityConversationsSpecial guest: Former L.A. Wildcats, Kansas Jayhawk, Cal Bear and Riverside Junior College offensive lineman Dwayne Wallace. Wallace was in the foster care system and didn’t grow up with either of his biological parents. His adopted father was there for him. He was All-League in high school but had a 1.3 gpa. He became a JUCO ALL-AMERICAN at Riverside community college and worked his way into Cal and was a grad transfer at Kansas. #TakeOrTangentDeAndre Hopkins said other receivers know he’s the best receiver in the league.NFL extends virtual offseason another 2-3 weeksJadaveon Clowney turned down monster one-year payday from ClevelandJT Daniels goes to GeorgiaTomlin likes Rooney RuleTiki says eli is HOFCam decline is evident per GM#TouchdownOrTurnoverJoe Flacco to mentor Sam Panthers sign Eli AppleRavens sign Tyler Huntley, Utah QB who beat Lamar Jackson for a District title in high school MIn didnt want to trade DiggsRamsey wont hold outLove was best player availableHall will take Reed over gronk

David Beckham on Extratime? You better believe it (49:35). Andrew, David and The Athletic’s Sam Stejskal jump in the studio to make bold predictions on the eve of MLS’s 25th season, plus chat with Beckham as Inter Miami prepare to play their first game and PRO’s Howard Webb takes you under the refereeing hood for 2020. The guys dig into all the traditional award categories, make up some of their own and try to nail the MLS Cup winner. Use the time codes to jump to around in the show, or listen to the whole thing as you get hyped for Week 1! Major League Soccer's long-running podcast Extratime is now available on YouTube. 3:12 – Shock and awe in the Concacaf Champions League! 13:00 – MLS Predict 6 Game of the Week: Portland vs. Minnesota 16:30 – Newcomer of the Year 19:04 – AT&T Rookie of the Year 22:00 – 22 Under 22 Player of the Year 25:31 – Allstate Goalkeeper of the Year 27:40 – Defender of the Year 30:33 – Comeback Player of the Year 34:54 – MLS Assist King 39:00 – Golden Boot presented by Audi 46:01 – Landon Donovan MLS MVP 49:35 – INTERVIEW: David Beckham (Inter Miami) 56:08 – David Accam Dark Horse MVP 59:22 – Ozzie Alonso D-Mid of the Year 1:01:44 – Yamil Asad Ridiculous Positional Switch 1:03:56 – [To be named later] Outside Back to Watch 1:06:23 – Juan Agudelo “It’s his year, I swear” Award 1:09:05 – Nouhou Player of the Year 1:12:57 – Dom Badji First-Time Double Digit Scorer 1:14:09 – Aaron Long Award: Good player to All-League 1:16:07 – INTERVIEW: Howard Webb (PRO) 1:25:53 – Sigi Schmid Coach of the Year 1:31:21 – Out of the playoffs and into the field? In the playoffs and out? MLS Cup and Darkhorse MLS Cup 1:35:58 – MAILBAG: Baerantees galore!

In this episode of the Sportscenetv Weekly Prep Sports podcast we wrap up the 2019 prep football season looking at the divisional playoff brackets and announcing the winners for each division. Next, in our second segment, we look at the All-League player awards and recognize those student athletes for their excellent play. Finally, in the third segment, we preview the Boys Basketball teams in the local area and talk about the upcoming Damien Classic Basketball Tournament.

Pete has been a varsity wrestling coach for 15 years and has faces the struggles every new coach has had to go through. His first year coaching. the entire varsity team had 8 kids and didn’t win a single match! Over 15 years, his program has come a long way: two NY State Champions, 11 All-State Wrestlers, 22 Individual Section Champions, 50 All-Section Wrestlers and many dozens of All-League athletes. For Pete, coaching is a passion and a labor of love. Now with years of experience under his belt; dozens and dozens of books on coaching theory, sports psychology, performance nutrition, team building and motivation read and on his bookshelf; thousands of dollars worth of clinics, seminars and classes attended and PLENTY of trial and error, Pete is out to ensure that coaches don't have to struggle with their questions on their own anymore! Table of Contents:  0:11 – Guest Intro  2:18 – Personal Youth Sports Experience/ Growing up 6:30 - Favourite Memory 10:28 – His start to coaching 12:20 -  What would you have done differently if you could go back? 16:10 – His Teams philosophy 23:56 – Win Smarter  27:35 – Engaging Parents 31:00 – Core Values 44:00 – His Standards 48:00 – What can coaches do to help kids love the game more at the end of the season than they did at the beginning?  52:40 – Resources 56:30 - #1 tip for new coaches to shave years off their learning curve 

Anna Collier is sitting on Tri Bourne’s couch, and she is – if you can believe it – relaxed. She hasn’t been to the beach in months, aside from when she rides her bike down the strand. She’s getting facials, going to the spa. Reconnecting with old friends. Getting fit. “Just call me Soccer Mom Anna Collier,” she said on SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter. For anyone who knows, or has known, Collier, this is a near-impossible thing to imagine. For the past four decades, Collier hasn’t had time for facials. Trips to the spa. Relax? How can you relax when your day job, for just shy of 40 years, included acting as the Athletic Director, compliance office and volleyball coach at Santa Monica College? Most coaches take the summers off, do they? Not Collier. That was for FIVB, for AVP, for juniors. Non-stop the coaching cycle went, around and around and around. Until, on June 6, it came to a halt. Collier announced her retirement from USC, where she had built not only a beach program, the first of its kind, but had played an integral role in building beach volleyball as a sport at the collegiate level. “It was time,” she said. There is never any one reason for such a monumental decision in one’s life. But as those reasons accumulate over the course of 40-plus years, sometimes it takes one gentle nudge, from a former protégé, to tip you over the edge. That came, in part, from Misty May-Treanor, whom Collier had once coached. “When,” May-Treanor wondered, “are you going to have won enough?” On Collier’s fingers, figuratively, were seven National Championship rings at USC. On her resume were 206 wins and only 38 losses at SC. To her name is virtually every coaching record one can imagine: 62 consecutive wins, an NCAA recore; two-time Coach of the Year; first head coach to reach 100 wins, and 150, and 200. Enough victories over rival UCLA for the rest of the university to be happy. The more Collier thought about it, the easier it became for her to admit, both to herself and to the public, that “it’s time.” And for the first time in as long as she could remember, she slept like a rock. No longer was her mind whirring over recruiting – Who to call, when to call them, who to look for – or how she could tinker with this lineup or that partnership. Her biggest decision, suddenly, was: “Do I take my bike this way, or that way?” And she loves it. “I haven’t had a summer off in a long time,” she said. “This is literally the first summer I’ve had off in four decades.” What she leaves behind is a legacy and coaching epoch that will be labeled as iconic. She, alongside similarly Hall of Fame caliber coaches such as Nina Matthies at Pepperdine, helped usher in an entirely new era of beach volleyball, growing the college game into the fastest growing sport in NCAA history. And it all began with crashing a golf cart. In 2013, Sara Hughes was one of the best indoor players in the country. A four-year starter at Mater Dei, an athletics powerhouse in Santa Ana, Hughes was named team MVP in three consecutive seasons, the Female Athlete of the Year. All-American. All-League. All-Everything. And Anna Collier had a shot. Hughes had grown up playing sand in Huntington Beach. When she was touring schools, she made a firm rule that it needed to have a beach program, which less than 20 in the country did when she was making her decision. USC had launched its program in 2012, with only one scholarship athlete, Geena Urango. Collier had no idea if she could even offer any others, but this was Sara Hughes. She’d find a way. There was only one problem: Her recruiting trip was a complete disaster. Collier loaded up Hughes and her father, Rory, in then-indoor coach Mick Haley’s golf cart, and off they went, driving around campus, which Collier was hardly any more familiar with than Hughes was. She was still working at Santa Monica College at the time, and hadn’t had much availability to learn USC’s campus outside of anything volleyball related. So they toured, and Collier “just made stuff up,” about the buildings, making a mental footnote to actually learn a thing or two. But she can’t make up the next part, about Collier coming to a structure of arches on campus – and crashing the golf cart directly into them.    “She walks out the door and I look to my assistant and I’m like ‘We’ll never see her again. That’s it. We’re done,’” Collier said. She’s able to laugh about it now, because, as you know by this point, Hughes became a Trojan, launching one of the most dominant four years in all of college sports. And it wasn’t just Hughes. With five more scholarships than had been originally budgeted, a rapid increase thanks to “an anonymous tip,” Collier said, laughing a surreptitious laugh, she locked in Kelly Claes, Allie Wheeler, Nicolette Martin. Born was the indomitable power that would become USC beach volleyball. Now that power is in the hands of Dain Blanton, who coached under Collier for four seasons as the volunteer assistant. Collier knows USC is in good hands. Blanton’s the right man for the job. As for her? She’s already had requests to coach at the professional level. Her answer every time: I’m not doing anything. Not this summer, at least. She’s enjoying the Summer of Anna Collier. She likes being Soccer Mom Anna Collier, where she gets to wake up and wonder: Do I go left on the strand, or right? For the first time in more than 40 years, it really doesn’t matter. “This,” she said, “is sweet.”

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The first notes on the Book of Andy Benesh came a little less than a year ago, about a six-hour drive north of Hermosa Beach. Adam Roberts was there to watch Benesh’s second-round match. Playing in just his second AVP qualifier, with little points to his name, Benesh came in as the 33 seed, meaning, after a pigtail round, he, with Cole Fiers, had top-seeded Myles Muagututia and Kyle Friend. “I saw him serve a ball, get to the net, get four blocks in a row, get an ace, and I was like ‘Who is this kid? Let’s see if he can set,’” Adam Roberts, Benesh’s current partner, said on SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter. “Standard big guy stuff, right? They serve Cole and he puts up a juicy set and I’m like ‘Man! What is his name? What is his number? I’m gonna tuck that one away.’” While Roberts had it tucked away, Benesh quietly made a few main draws. He wound up qualifying in San Francisco, upsetting Friend and Muagututia, 24-22, 21-17, and winning his next two matches. Then he and Fiers did it again in Hermosa. It was an auspicious start for Benesh’s beach career, one that really only began in earnest a few months prior to San Francisco. He had been an indoor kid, for the most part, growing up. Raised in Palos Verdes, he was named First Team All-American, put on the VolleyballMag.com Fab 50 list, All-Area, All-League, All-Everything. Those accolades earned him a spot as a middle at USC, where he started all 26 matches as a freshman, falling just shy of the Trojan hitting percentage record. So went the next three years at USC, where he continued to excel, eventually being named captain as a senior. But the only beach experience he had was messing around on the fours courts at 16th street. Which brings us back to Roberts’ key question for all big men: Could the kid set? Prior to AVP Huntington, Roberts set up a four-team practice, Benesh being one of the teams. There it was confirmed: Benesh could indeed put up a set, and after both failed to qualify in Huntington, both were looking for partners in Austin. Roberts turned back the clock to that day in San Francisco. Yes, Benesh would be quite the option.   Their first two tournaments, though, they fell short. A few quirky plays in the third set of the final round of the AVP Austin qualifier kept them out of main draw. Then came a first-round exit in New York and all of a sudden doubt began creeping in. “You look at it, and it’s ‘Are we a good team or are we not?’ We’re kinda looking at it like ‘Maybe we’re not that good’ but I was thinking ‘Man, I really think we’re a good team,’” Roberts said. “Even if you look at the results, losing the round to get in, lose first round, lose first round, maybe they’re not that good, but I just kept thinking we really have something special here. To me, it doesn’t make sense when guys make lateral moves mid-season. I just kept thinking: I think we’re a good team, I think we’re a good team.” The past few months, they’ve proved as much. They flew from New York and directly into an AVP Next Gold Series in Colorado, winning the tournament and, subsequently, a bid into the Manhattan Beach Open main draw. In Hermosa, they qualified for their first main draw, marking Benesh’s first in a year and Roberts’ first since Chicago of 2017 with – here’s a good beach volleyball trivia tidbit – Mark Burik. They were ecstatic, to be sure. But not satisfied. Not yet. “I texted Adam Thursday night and said ‘We’re not done yet,’” Benesh said. “I’m not just here to go 0-2 in the main draw. I’m trying to win some matches, see if we can compete at that level.” Oh, they competed all right. They came out and won their first main draw match 21-17, 21-11, setting up a match with fourth-seeded Billy Allen and Stafford Slick. And on a packed stadium court, they delivered the first major upset of the tournament, 23-21, 18-21, 15-11. A day later, they’d deliver another, eliminating seventh-seeded Chase Frishman and Avery Drost, 15-21, 21-18, 15-13. “Obviously coming out of the qualifier we don’t have that opportunity every tournament,” Benesh said of upsetting main draw teams. “So when you do you want to take advantage of it. I don’t think there was a team in the draw that we were intimidated by.” They’ll be back in the main draw again, in Manhattan Beach, now with a seventh-place finish under their belt, and a God-blessed day of rest prior to the tournament.   “It’s nice. It’s very nice,” Roberts said. “It kind of gives us a chance to really focus on a main draw. That extra day of rest is going to be very useful.”   

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On the show this week we have Joe Fierle who is the VP of Communications for the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, OH. We discuss how the players are chosen to be enshrined in the hall of fame. We also talk about why no one will be at the podium to represent Junior Seau. Below is the list of the Pro Football Hall of Fame class 2015. Bettis retired after 13 seasons ranked fifth all-time in rushing with 13,662 yards. A six-time Pro Bowl selection, Bettis rushed for 100 yards or more 61 times in his career. Brown He registered 1,094 career receptions for 14,934 yards and 100 TDs.  Haley, the only player ever to win five Super Bowls, racked up 100.5 sacks during his 12-year career with the Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers. Six times he posted double-digit sack totals in a season. Polian earned the reputation as a general manager who built dominant teams. Under his leadership, he led the Buffalo Bills and Indianapolis Colts to a combined five Super Bowls. Seau starred for 20 NFL seasons and named first-team All-Pro eight times, he was selected to 12 Pro Bowls and named NFL Defensive Player of the Year in 1992. Shields never missed a game during his 14-season, 224-game career with the Kansas City Chiefs. He was named to the NFL’s All-Decade Team of the 2000s, selected first-team All-Pro three times, and played in 12 straight Pro Bowls. Tingelhoff He earned a starting role at center as a rookie and never missed a game for his entire 17-season career. A seven-time All-League selection, he was named to six straight Pro Bowls. Wolf spent 23 years with the Raiders during which time the team posted winning records in all but six of those seasons. He later transformed the Green Bay Packers into Super Bowl champions.