Watched another ball drop and low and behold another year has begun. The time certainly does fly by. Seems like it was yesterday I was struggling to stay awake and see that ball drop. Oh wait, that was just yesterday. Moving on. As we look forward to this year, there are some trends I have [...]
The older you get, the more opportunities you have to regret certain choices that you might have made. Do you think Pete Carroll regrets going for the pass in the Super Bowl when you had Beastmode in the backfield? I hope he does. Something about him irritates me. I’m sure there are choices that you [...]
A couple years ago, my youngest and I were having a discussion about club soccer. She was trying to convince me to play and then came with the phrase, “I’m not going to get any better if I don’t play club.” I had to stop and think about what she said. The statement wasn’t entirely [...]
I have officially become that “old school” guy. The “back in my day” individual watching these new age athletes. I don’t feel bad because so has Lebron James and he is way younger than me. Athletes have a big advantage nowadays with all the knowledge that is out there on how to train and what [...]
I try to make it out to as many games possible that my athletes play in. That being said, I can usually tell the type of effort my athlete will give during a game based on what I see during the warmups. Part of my mission with athletes is to teach them what it means [...]
What I do not like about the youth sports atmosphere currently is the seriousness level that is being played at such a young age. I’m not a big fan of the glorification of the Little League World Series for example. They are playing that thing at a time when kids should be playing with their [...]
An athlete messes up in a game. Maybe you see it, maybe you don’t. You then hear the coach say, “I’ve explained this to you a hundred times.” Heck, even as parents you’ve probably said that to your kids…a lot. So what does that tell you? The athlete has a learning disability and is not [...]
I think the toughest thing for kids to handle is being cut from a team or not making the ‘A’ team that they wanted to. I’m not talking high school kids, I’m talking junior high age or younger. We have put such an emphasis on sports that there is a heck of a lot of [...]
My youngest was playing in her last soccer tournament of the season. This was the last game. They had played two games the day before and a game earlier in the day. This was it. They immediately scored a quick goal on this team and was up 1-0. Not too long after that her team [...]
I was talking to a buddy about his kid who plays on the school baseball team and he was railing on the coach. Being a coach, I like to cut them some slack, but when there are bad ones there are bad ones. But, is this a bad coach? First off, my buddy was a [...]