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The Sports Coach Podcast

The Sports Coach Podcast

Von: Steve Collins
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Got a coaching problem you can't Google? You're in the right place. Playing time decisions, parent conflicts, building a roster, running a practice that actually works — every week we dig into the real challenges youth sports coaches are dealing with right now. Tips. Techniques. Secrets from coaches who have been in the trenches. Ten minutes. Every week. No fluff. This is The Sports Coach. Let's get to work.Coach Market LLC Beziehungen Elternschaft & Familienleben
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  • Ep 164 Your Staff Is Not Aligned Yet, and Your Players Already Know It

    Ep 164 Your Staff Is Not Aligned Yet, and Your Players Already Know It
    Oct 1 2026
    https://teachhoops.com/ Coaches spend October on the players. Conditioning, open gyms, skill work, the schedule, the gear order. Then they walk into November assuming the three or four adults on the bench are on the same page. In this episode Coach Collins argues that assumption is where a lot of seasons quietly go wrong, and that staff alignment is something you have to build on purpose before the first practice. The test he offers is simple. Could each of your assistants, tonight, tell you the same three things your program is about? If the answer is no, your players already know it. Kids figure out staff division about nine days into a season. The episode walks through how that division shows up in a gym. A player told to help down by one coach and stay home by another, so he stands still. A kid you just corrected hard, quietly told by an assistant not to worry about you because you are in a mood. A parent who calls a specific assistant because everybody in town knows which coach is the soft landing. None of that is a loyalty problem. Most assistants are good people trying to help. It is an alignment problem, and alignment does not happen by accident. Coach Collins then lays out the preseason staff meeting he wants every head coach to run. Two hours, no phones, somewhere that is not the gym. It starts with a question rather than a speech: what are we actually about this year? He is candid that he got this wrong for years by walking in and announcing the vision, which is not alignment, it is a memo. People do not defend a plan they had no hand in building. The meeting produces three specific things. Three non negotiables chosen together, not twelve, because assistants who helped pick them will enforce them when the head coach is not looking. A real job for every coach, not a title, because an assistant with no ownership becomes a spectator and eventually a critic. And a stated rule for how to disagree with the head coach, because if you never tell a coach how to push back on you, he will do it sideways, to a parent or a player or in the parking lot. The episode adds one more step most head coaches skip: ask each assistant what he wants out of this season for himself, because developing a future head coach and developing a lifelong assistant are not the same job. The takeaway is uncomfortable and clarifying at the same time. Your team will never be more unified than your staff is, so build the bench before you build the roster. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    8 Min.
  • Ep 163 How You Finish Is the Part They Actually Remember

    Ep 163 How You Finish Is the Part They Actually Remember
    Sep 24 2026
    https://teachhoops.com/ This episode is for the fall coaches. Soccer, volleyball, cross country, football, tennis. You are two or three weeks from the end, some chasing a conference title, some chasing a winning record, and some, honestly, just chasing the finish line. Coach Collins argues that this stretch is the part of the year most of us coach the worst. The reason is simple. By mid October coaches are tired. The energy from August is gone, and the mind has already drifted to next year, to who is graduating, to the meeting with the athletic director, to the other sport that starts in three weeks. Players feel every bit of that, and a coach who has mentally moved on teaches his team that the season stopped mattering. The core idea is that how you finish is what they remember. Nobody remembers the middle of September. Players remember the last two weeks and the last conversation, and that is what they carry out the door and repeat to the younger kids all winter. Coach Collins offers four ways to finish on purpose. Give the team something to chase that is not the record, because a team with nothing to chase quits quietly in the third quarter rather than loudly. Get to the seniors before the last day instead of waiting for the banquet, and tell each one not what his stats were but what is different about the program because he walked through it. Finish the standards rather than letting the late kid, the loafing rep, and the sloppy drill slide, because a standard dropped in the last two weeks is one you will spend all next August rebuilding, and kids never forget which rules had an expiration date. And protect the ending, because if the last game goes badly, that locker room is a leadership moment, not a venting moment. Correct on Monday. Care on Friday. The episode closes with three things to do this week: name something worth chasing for the last two weeks, talk to every senior individually before it ends, and pick the one standard you refuse to let slide on the way out. Every season ends, and a coach gets no say in that. What he does get a say in is whether it ends well, because a team that finishes well becomes a program that starts well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    8 Min.
  • Ep 162 Can You Stay Steady When the Scoreboard Does Not?

    Ep 162 Can You Stay Steady When the Scoreboard Does Not?
    Sep 17 2026
    https://teachhoops.com/ What happens to your team when the head coach has a bad day? In this episode, Coach Collins takes a deep dive into one of the most important responsibilities of leadership: managing the emotional temperature of your program. Coaches often spend enormous amounts of time thinking about strategy, practice planning, player development, and culture. But players and assistant coaches are also constantly reading something else—the emotional state of the person leading them. Coach Collins uses the idea of the thermostat versus the thermometer to explain the difference. A thermometer simply reflects the temperature around it. A thermostat helps set it. Athletes naturally react to what is happening around them. Coaches have a greater responsibility. Their frustration, confidence, fear, patience, body language, and emotional consistency can quickly spread throughout a team. This becomes especially important when circumstances change quickly. Winning streaks, great practices, injuries, difficult losses, parent problems, player issues, staff disagreements, and unexpected setbacks can all happen within days of each other. If a coach’s emotional state rises and falls with every event, players begin experiencing leadership whiplash. The episode explores the idea that every coach has a leadership range. At the top end, coaches are clear, proactive, relational, confident, and able to see the big picture. At their baseline, they are steady and dependable. At the low end, fatigue and frustration can lead to emotional reactions, micromanaging, distance, impatience, or poor communication. The goal is not to pretend that great leaders never reach their low end. They do. The goal is to raise the floor. How do you behave when things go badly? Can you lose and still communicate clearly? Can you receive difficult news without bringing panic into the gym? Can you correct a player without turning your frustration into that athlete’s shame? Can your assistant coaches concentrate on coaching instead of trying to figure out what mood you are in? Those questions reveal a great deal about leadership. Coach Collins also challenges coaches to separate their identity from the scoreboard. Winning matters. Competition matters. Championships matter. But when a coach needs winning to validate who they are, the entire culture begins riding the emotional roller coaster with them. A great night means everything is wonderful. One loss suddenly makes everything feel broken. That is not stability. Great programs need leaders who can compete intensely while remaining grounded through both success and adversity. The episode gives coaches three practical questions for evaluating themselves: Did I act as the thermostat or the thermometer this week? What did my low end cost the people around me? And what boundary can I create to protect my emotional baseline next week? Sometimes that boundary is waiting before speaking after a difficult loss. Sometimes it is refusing to send the emotional text. Sometimes it is sleep, time away, perspective, or simply recognizing that an important decision should not be made while angry. For coaches trying to build sustainable culture, this episode is a reminder that your emotional regulation is not just personal. It becomes organizational. Players feel it. Assistant coaches feel it. Your program eventually reflects it. The scoreboard can change your circumstances. It does not have to change your leadership. basketball leadership, coaching leadership, basketball coaching, team culture, emotional leadership, thermostat vs thermometer, coach emotional control, leadership under pressure, coaching adversity, basketball culture, mental toughness for coaches, emotional regulation, head coach leadership, coaching staff, player development, program culture, leadership consistency, handling losses, coaching confidence, basketball program, high school basketball coach, coaching mindset, team leadership, sustainable culture, basketball podcast, TeachHoops Keywords Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    8 Min.
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