A Pen And A Napkin

This week's guest is Rusty Elmore, the Men's Head Coach at Garden City Community College (KS) of the famed JayHawk Conference. Coach Elmore discusses his unique journey as a coach who started in business to his influences, the difficulties of taking over a successful program, the "Peel" defense, building a staff and much more!

Really excited to have Rex Walters, the former 1st round NBA draft pick and member of the 1993 Kansas Final Four team, on the podcast this week! Rex is now an assistant coach with the Charlotte Hornets, and we unpack his coaching career, from playing for and coaching with some of the legends of the game, to his stint at the University of San Francisco to his current job. Along with that, we discuss team defense, building a team first culture and more! Great discussion this week!

If you do this job long enough, you're going to have a player or two along your journey that, for whatever reason, you have trouble fitting into your team dynamic. This week, Tony and I break down some of the things that you should be looking for when it comes to red flags for this type of player, along with some solutions and how to address the issue to make it better for everyone. Along with that, we have trivia and our "TWIB" segments!

We had time to sneak in one more roundtable at Snow Valley this week, so I'm really happy to have Liz Kay from "The Commonwealth of Massachusetts", Ryan McAdams from Arkansas-Fort Smith and Tim Leuschen from Millard South (NE) discuss analytics, changes to practice schedules and things to consider when putting together your game schedule. Great discussion with four REALLY tired coaches!

It's always great to be at Snow Valley, and it's always great to have the opportunity to have a roundtable, so let's do both! Jeff Steines (Ames, IA), Austin Godfrey (St. Louis, MO) and the always awesome Tony Vis come together to talk giving the game back to the players, building trust in a short amount of time, being at Snow Valley and more. Enjoy!

We all want our players to get better in the summer, but how do you measure whether or not your summer was a success after it's all done? Tony and I break down a bunch of different ways to evaluate both individual and team success in the summer, along with trivia (which I nailed!), "TWIB" and some scheduling updates . . . enjoy!

This week we have one of Nebraska's best small school coaches in Traci Berg, the GBB HC at O"Neill St. Mary's. We discuss coaching at a small school with limited numbers, how to run practices with less than 10 players, offensive and defensive transition philosophy and much more. We also touch on Traci's husband's cancer diagnosis and how that has changed some of her perspectives on coaching. A great chat with one of Nebraska's best!

Former Xavier and current Miami (OH) Men's HC Travis Steele comes on the podcast this week to discuss a variety of different topics. Some of the things that Coach Steele discusses includes his progression as a Division I coach, things he learned being a young HC at the Division I level, rebuilding the Miami program, defensive transition and player development. Great discussion with one of the best young HC's in Division I!!

As we get into the thick of AAU season, we have our players, especially our seniors, really starting to think ahead for their college of choice and where they want to play. As a high school coach, there are three major things to consider; 1) What is your role as their coach? 2) What do you need to communicate to an interested college coach? and 3) What can you do to help your players get recruited? This week, Tony and I break down these three things, along with trivia and our "TWIB" segment!

Back home visiting my dad and step-mom, so I thought we'd have a road show podcast while I was back home! Really excited to have on Heather Graffing from Central Lyon, Ryan Brasser from West Lyon and Kiley Yates from South O'Brien to discuss a wide range of topics, including off-season improvement, off-season adjustments, building community support and much more!