coaching
Six leadership commitments of great coaches
I once read an article that examined the six leadership commitments of five-time NBA champion head coach Gregg Popovich. Because he has been so successful, I thought I'd share the tips and put my own spin on how these help coaches. 1. Understand what...
Learning and mastering new skills
As a coach in any sport, one of the many responsibilities you have is with player development. This more often than not requires your athletes to learn new things or, depending on the age group, even requires them to part with bad habits. As coaches,...
Mobile Equipment Storage Equals More Time Coaching
{Sponsored} Students shuffle into the gear room one at a time to grab their bulky pads and helmets. The equipment assistant sighs. At this rate, it’ll be at least 20 minutes until everyone has gear and heads out to the football field. Then they’l...
Gene Keady’s 5 tips to make your program stronger
As a seven-time Big Ten Coach of the Year, Gene Keady had more than his share of success at Purdue University. Keady, a former president of the National Association of Basketball Coaches, is always more than willing to pass along time-tested coachin...
Give your team something to rally behind
Prior to each season, coaches typically call a team meeting to get their players fired up for the upcoming year. You can shout words of encouragement or challenge your team to put in the extra practice time, but there are more effective ways to help ...
How to implement and enforce team rules
In this interview with sports psychologist Jack Stark, who formerly worked with the University of Nebraska athletic department, he addresses the best ways to organize and implement team rules. How are team rules best structured? First, all p...
Coaches share locker room motivation methods
When former Michigan coach Lloyd Carr got ready to address his team one final time, the one thing he avoided was saying anything about himself: "I think the real challenge is that we’ve got to keep all the nostalgia and those type of things unt...
Proven entries from a 1-4 low set
These entries are all run from the same 1-4 low set, positioning 4 and 5 just outside the free throw lane. 2 and 3 always start in the deep corners outside the three-point line, with 2 on the right and 3 on the left. This alignment gives the post pla...
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