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The Sports Coach Podcast

The Sports Coach Podcast

De : Steve Collins
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Got a coaching problem you can't Google? You're in the right place. Playing time decisions, parent conflicts, building a roster, running a practice that actually works — every week we dig into the real challenges youth sports coaches are dealing with right now. Tips. Techniques. Secrets from coaches who have been in the trenches. Ten minutes. Every week. No fluff. This is The Sports Coach. Let's get to work.Coach Market LLC Parentalité Relations
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  • Ep 168 When Your Work Ethic Is Really Fear

    Ep 168 When Your Work Ethic Is Really Fear
    Oct 29 2026
    https://teachhoops.com/ Head over to TeachHoops.com for ready to use practice plans, systems, culture resources, and a free trial built to give coaches their evenings back. There is a belief baked deep into coaching: more means committed. More hours in the office, more film, more meetings, more nights in the gym. In this episode Coach Collins challenges that belief head on and asks an uncomfortable question. How many of your hours are driven by the work, and how many are driven by fear? Fear does not always look afraid. Sometimes it looks incredibly productive. It sounds like worrying that another staff is working while you are not, wondering what people will think if you leave early, or dreading the loss you might regret if you skip one more hour of film. Coach Collins explains why two coaches can work the exact same fourteen hour day for completely different reasons, and why players can feel the difference. A coach running on purpose walks into practice with a plan and energy. A coach running on fear walks in exhausted and tight, and tight coaches build tight teams. The episode gives coaches three honest questions to answer. If nobody knew when I arrived or left, would my schedule change? What am I afraid would happen if I did less? Am I doing this because it matters, or because doing more makes me feel safer? Coach Collins is clear that this is not permission to care less or lower the standard. Efficiency is not laziness, and building a better system that saves time is a sign of growth. He also reminds head coaches that whatever they model about hours becomes the culture of their entire staff. The challenge for this week: track your hours for five days, circle the ones that actually made your team better, and question everything that is not circled. More does not equal better. Better equals better. Get more help building a sustainable, championship level program at TeachHoops.com. https://teachhoops.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    9 min
  • Ep 167 Great Coaches Are Great at the Boring

    Ep 167 Great Coaches Are Great at the Boring
    Oct 22 2026
    https://teachhoops.com/ Head over to TeachHoops.com for courses, a coaching community, and a free trial built for coaches who want to win more and stress less. Most coaches overestimate the big moments and underestimate the ordinary ones. In this episode Coach Collins borrows a lesson from an NFL sideline, where a head coach told his young quarterback that you cannot get bored taking what the defense gives you, and applies it straight to the coaching profession. The temptation for coaches is the same as it is for quarterbacks. Eventually we want to make the spectacular play. But the spectacular should never have to make up for the ordinary things we quietly stopped doing. Coach Collins makes the case that the best coaches he ever competed against were not great because of a brilliant set or a famous locker room speech. They were great because they did ordinary things unusually well. They planned practice on paper with minutes. They explained expectations before they mattered. They had hard conversations early. They followed up. They noticed the kid at the end of the bench. They taught the same fundamental for the five hundredth time with the same energy as the first. The episode then turns practical with five habits every coach can sharpen this week: falling in love with the practice plan, stating expectations before correcting them, doing the follow up, intentionally giving attention to the players who are not playing, and guarding your energy for the ordinary days when nobody is watching. Because players do not rise to the big moment. They fall back on whatever their coach made routine. The challenge is simple. Write down the three most boring things that make your program good, and ask whether you are still doing them as well as you did your first year. Great teams make the routine play routine, and great coaches do the same thing. Find more resources for building a championship culture at TeachHoops.com. https://teachhoops.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    11 min
  • Ep 166 What Happens in October Decides What Happens in February

    Ep 166 What Happens in October Decides What Happens in February
    Oct 15 2026
    https://teachhoops.com/ Your season does not start on the first day of practice. It starts about four weeks earlier, which means for most coaches it has already started. In this episode Coach Collins makes the case that by the time you blow the first whistle in November, a surprising amount has already been decided: who trusts you, who believes they matter to you, who showed up in shape, and what the air in your gym is going to feel like. The episode opens with an uncomfortable question. If your first practice were tomorrow morning, what would your team already know about you? Not what you plan to tell them in that first meeting, but what they already know today without you saying a word. Kids are not waiting on your speech. They have been reading you since June. From there Coach Collins lays out three things a coach can put in the bank in October that cannot be recovered in February. The first is relationships, because you cannot build trust in a timeout. The clock is running, the crowd is loud, and a player who does not trust you will not suddenly start trusting you with nine seconds left. That work happens now, in the boring hours, and the episode gives a simple assignment: write out the full roster, then go find five of those kids this week at a soccer game, a cross country meet, or in the hallway. The second is clarity. One page, written in plain language, covering what we do here, what we do not do here, what earns time and what loses it. If you cannot write it on one page, you cannot coach it in a gym, and fog on paper becomes fog in practice. Coach Collins urges coaches to write it now while they are calm, because nobody writes an honest standards page in December when they are two games under and everybody in town has an opinion. The third is the coach himself. Too many coaches walk into the first practice already worn out, already behind, already carrying a season of stress before the season exists. The episode makes a direct case for getting the calendar out in October, defending the nights that belong to your family, and deciding in advance what you are saying no to. A tired coach in November becomes a short tempered coach in January, and the players and the family both pay for it. This is an episode for coaches who want a head start instead of a scramble, built on one idea: February is not won in February. It is won on a quiet Tuesday in October when nobody was watching. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    7 min
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