Season 4 Episode 25 is out with Casey Demko. Casey is currently an assistant coach at Abilene Christian University located in Abilene, TX. Before, ACU Casey played college baseball at many levels including (Ohio State, Sinclair CC, and Coker University). This has allowed Casey to have a very eye-opening college experience showing that there is talent at every level of baseball.

Casey started his college coaching career at Quincy University a Division 2 baseball program in Quincy, IL. Casey goes in-depth talking about how he used technology at Quincy to help develop infielders. Technology become a huge staple in his development process by analyzing every type of ground ball hit while also tracking throws through an application created through R.

Casey is a progressive coach while understanding that development is a process, and you need a plan for every player. Please join me in listening to Casey.

Timestamps:

Background 01:30

• Ohio State 1:34
• Sinclair CC 1:47
• Coker College 2:02
• Quincy University 2:23
• Abilene Christian University (Go through and explain your recent hire)

 

2022 season at Quincy 3:06

 

Overall path to becoming an assistant coach in college 5:45

• Process of being a grad student 5:50
• Grad school and coaching balance 7:30
• What do you really need to know going into this position 9:20

 

Skills that need to be learned

• Coaching style 13:25
• Process of actually running a real college program 18:30
• Player development qualities 19:20

 

How hard is it to get a D1 assistant coaches job 26:21

• would be interested hearing your experience without giving out to much personal information

 

Player development 2023

• Expectations 29:41
• Biggest differences between 2021-2022 39:16

 

Closing