-Dad started his love with basketball coaching, UW basketball season tickets 

-Watching Sam Okey play during his youth 

-Hugh Roberts & Bob Haffele 

-The beginning of his relationship with Scot Vesterdahl 

-AAU Basketball with George Karl and meeting Tom Desotell 

-Meeting John Wooden in California and touring his condo 

-Joe Wolf coaching one of his AAU tournaments and the drills he had 

-His decision to attend UWL 

-Not about what you know, but who you know 

-“Kill them with kindness.” - Luke Homan 

-Wisconsin Playmakers AAU (connections to Henry Ellenson and Matt Thomas) 

-Mistake in coaching youth kids as if they were college kids -Gaining coaching insight from John Ellenson 

-Looking back and learning from reflection 

-Met Dale Layer at IMG Academy and Coach Layer got him connected with Marquette Basketball Camps 

-IMG Academy Summer Intern experience 

-Punctuality is top five on his priority list 

-Study abroad experience 

-Philosophy: Be a good person. Do the right thing and work hard. If I do that, opportunities will present themselves. 

-Substituting, working at Nike, volunteering at Madison College and then taking over the GM job at JustAGame Fieldhouse 

-Getting hired based on Hugh Roberts recommendation 

-Day to day lifestyle of running JustAGame Fieldhouse 

-“No job that is above you.” 

-Cleaning the toilets 

-Starting AAU programs under the JustAGame Fieldhouse brand 

-Main focus was getting kids to play and developing their skill sets 

-Using your practice as conditioning 

-Coaching during a tournament that you set-up and organized (not being able to yell at the refs because you hired them) 

-Making hot dogs, cleaning toilets and coaching 

-“If you do everything right during the week, everything should go right during the event.” 

-Preparation of being organized. 

-Connecting once again and working for Scot Vesterdahl 

-Coaching at a Junior College 

-Stepping in as head coach after Scot Vesterdahl retired 

-Two years having success and being named Coach of the Year in the league 

-Being late for the bus and leaving best player behind 

-Offensive philosophy 

-Ball just bounces the wrong way sometimes 

-Having best player receive Division II scholarship 

-Creating stricter rules and consequences in year 2 

-So much more than basketball 

-Have to feed them confidence 

-Hard to build culture at the junior college level 

-Managing family and basketball 

-Life changes when having your first kid 

-Evolution of Billy Kegler Basketball 

-Reading Kevin Eastman’s book “Why the Best are the Best”, Basketball Immersion podcast, Great Big Story podcast