Coach Scott Waterman is the Head Coach at Academy of Art University in Downtown San Francisco. Scott spent 17 years as an Assistant Coach at the Division 1,2, and 3 levels before assuming his current position in 2019. This conversation is a reflection of his first year as a Head Coach.

3:00 - Morning runs for sanity and energy

6:45 - Proceeding during quarantine

8:30 - Take aways from coaching journey

10:30 - Becoming the ultimate decision maker

13:50 - Prepared vs over prepared

18:00 - Building relationships and recruiting to bring a new culture

23:00 - Using your players as a resource to evaluate a recruit

24:45 - Creating buy in with new faces

32:35 - Scott's 3 most important qualities of a coach

Quotes:

5:40 - "the biggest thing I learned this year is as a head coach you cant have a bad day, you can't take a minute off"

11:20 - "that was the hardest thing, going from the assistant with all the answers to the guy with the ultimate answer"

28:00 - "they spend so much time with a basketball, doing stuff without a basketball, even for five minutes...is huge"