I sat down this morning and started writing a blog post about how I would organize a youth baseball league.  To aid in my writing, I looked back at some of the comments from my readers on my blog, on twitter, on Facebook, and on LinkedIn and realized that my readers have an absolutely outstanding […]

When I began coaching the answer to any issue we were having on the team had two components, yelling and running.  This was a very effective short term motivator and many times the behavior was corrected almost immediately.   At the time, this was the only means I knew and I thought it was very effective […]

If you read my last post, you know that I am a huge proponent of a coaching style that revolves around the athlete and not the coach or coaching staff.  I know that there are many different styles, and many people have success with all kinds of different methods.  I don’t even know if an […]

I heard something disheartening today from friend of mine who is a parent of very involved youth athletes.  They have a championship game in 9U flag football this Saturday that conflicts with a soccer tournament.  All of the players on my friends son’s flag football team are also in the soccer tournament.  The league gave […]

There are several different coaching philosophies that have produced positive on the field results.  Fans of professional and college sports teams often think that a coach who is constantly yelling is constantly coaching.  Listen to a local sports talk radio station of a struggling team and you will hear several callers declare that the current […]

The secret to single elimination baseball is… there isn’t one.  Single elimination baseball often amounts to a very entertaining and exciting coin flip.  If one team has a hot pitcher, they win.  A single game of baseball can often be decided by luck or chance alone.  If Team A has a blooper fall in with […]

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In my decade of coaching, I have coached twenty three players who have played college baseball (at any level), and one who has played professionally.  That is an average of 2.3 players per graduating class going on to college, and one in ten years playing as a profession.  Roughly, 67% of the players I coach […]

The landscape of youth and high school sports has been changing over the past decade, and not for the better. Many parents and players feel as though they are falling behind other players if they don’t get on the best travel team, quit all other sports, have them exposed to the most training in the offseason, […]

Today’s youth and high school players are bigger, faster, stronger, and throw harder than they ever have.  The number of players who throw 90 and 95 miles per hour is at an all time high.  I would also guess that the number of players who run sub 6.6-60s is also at an all time high […]