Off Duty ADs

The Off Duty ADs talk about the current pauses, delays, and suspensions of their winter sports. They also discuss the absence of Mike from CO, Big Ten Minute, listener emails, making up games, fitting competition into the safety discussion, in-person learning, how Everclear relates to winter sports, color coding, casual profanity, traveling with kids, Squatter's Brewery, and Mark's family getting ready to move to the other end of the block.

The Off Duty ADs talk about some of the things they've been thankful for in their profession this year. They also discuss the return of Uncle Bill, MACtion, a little bit of covid update, appreciating our colleagues within and outside our districts, enjoying problem-solving, learning what's significant, our favorite (and Mike's least favorite) fictional Presidents, and a pepperminty porter for the holidays.

The Off Duty ADs talk about starting and managing the wrestling season. They also discuss popular TV series that they've ignored, Big Ten Minute and college football, where our states currently are in opening up wrestling, creating new schedules, making practices safer, sacrificing competitive growth for safety protocols, hosting winter sports vs. sending kids to private clubs, Ryan's economics degree, post-season adjustments, getting messages from previous coaches or students, a potential research project, and a mango IPA from Illinois.

The Off Duty ADs use Jen from Missouri (www.jenbrooks.com) to answer a listener email about females in the AD world. They also discuss Mike's ruined Saturday, college football rolling towards the playoffs, Jen's experience as an athletic director in a male-dominated profession, The Global Community of Women in High School Sports (https://globalcommunityofwomeninsports.com/), advice to younger and newer female ADs, and Ryan's run - including the extra mileage.

The Off Duty ADs talk about their golf programs. They also discuss the return of the Big Ten Minute, Uncle Bill's promotion to Executive Director of Nebraska's IAA, more reduced fan difficulties, selecting golf lineups, the wide variety of "whys" among high school golfers, live scoring at tournaments, coaches missing school time, getting good golfers into the program, making baseball more exciting, a Halloween beer from Warped Wing Brewery, and drumming up more support for Ryan's fundraiser.

The Off Duty ADs talk about the various coordination between athletics and activities directors. They also discuss musically based child-raising, listener-based research, Uncle Bill's Corner, smoke alarms, overseeing fine arts and other activities, different association structures, comparing football coaching to band directing, NFL confusion, conflicts between activities, custodial duties, shoveling the sidewalks, and our favorite snacks.

The Off Duty ADs discuss a little bit of everything. They talk about the frustration of Mike's mom, listener email, Uncle Bill's hip replacement, our ferocious dogs, fan requests within ticket restrictions, a new t-shirt idea, Colorado football, professional bowling, streaming playoff games, association reserve funds, ignoring signage, a dead deer you gotta minute, Ryan's top 10 albums, Mark's preference for 1984 Van Halen, an Almond Joy controversy, and the terribleness of popcorn balls.

The Off Duty ADs talk about tournament management in the Fall of 2020. They also discuss lack of citations and accurate quotes, the NL/AL Garbage, Ryan's Browns, parent criticism, the lack of tennis ADs, reserved seating at cross country meets, giving kids a chance to compete, fan control at tournaments, the potential intersection of high school tournaments and American Gladiators, fan parking, another variety pack problem, and a celebratory can of Hamm's.

The Off Duty ADs talk about managing crowds amid the unprecedented covid-related fan protocols. They also discuss adults losing the focus on kids, bringing dogs to games, how high school football relates to Jurassic Park, previewing the eventual collapse of our baseball teams, refusing to wear a mask in the stands, using SROs for crowd control, Dr. Seuss, being right vs. doing right, bad movies that we like, and some usual beverage choices.

The Off Duty ADs talk about selecting captains for their teams. They also discuss dad jokes, California's competitive balance formula, AAC women's rowing, the MLB, Mike doing ad reads, the weakness of team voting, popularity vs. leadership, preferred qualities in a captain, intentionally teaching leadership, a long field goal in North Dakota, the return of Ryan's regular tastebuds, and the passing of an ND legend.