-Starting his coaching career as a student assistant at UW-Parkside
-Ran his own AAU program with Next Level AAU
-Hours, details and making no money but having a great experience running his own AAU program
-Trey McKinney-Jones and Matt Thomas played in his program
-Hitting deer with rental car while recruiting
-Coach Reigel, Buchanan, Wolfe and Skinkis were all extremely helpful to him at UW Parkside
-Coach Grzesk and the program building/defense at St. Norbert along with Woody Wilson
-Coach Murray at Cornell (IA) gave him a ton of freedom, big on relationships and always tried to learn and get better
-Coach Rusthoven and Coach Fano at St. Mary’s (MN) with program building and running the defense respectively
-Film has been biggest change over the last decade within college basketball coaching
-Noticed more of a D1 trend with graphics being a big part of the recruitment process
-Loves to watch and break down film on Twitter and his website (InTheGaps.com)
-“Watch an hour of film a day.” - Tom Crean
-Loves watching film on Synergy because there are so many different programs and clips of different offense/defense/situational type breakdowns.
-Wants to simplify breaking down clips to his team
-“Everything is time and time is money.”
-Uses Sportscode as well
-Great to give his players comparisons based on the video he has broken down to show them how to do something
-Likes to watch Utah Jazz, Houston Rockets, G-League teams and Northern Colorado (now Wyoming-Jeff Linder)
-Enjoys looking at quirky things that are unique within film
-Process creating his website and his Five Play Friday Newsletter
-The power of writing online and learning online from David Perell
-Puts out info that he enjoys talking about but also wants to share it
-How he changed his Twitter approach
-Uses website as a place to gather his thoughts
-“Your brains way of synthesizing all information.”
-“Twitter is the best clinic in the world.”
-Growth of Five Play Friday released each Friday since the month of May
-“It’s like that last 15% to 20% of doing something, that keeps you from doing it.”
-“Thinking critically and showing the work that he is doing.”
-“What can I find that is a little different, what can I find that’s a little outside the box.”
-Tiago Forte “Building a Second Brain”
-James Clear “Atomic Habits”
-Growth mindset over fixed mindset
-Gary Vaynerchuk and his similarities to recruiting
-Football coaches are unbelievably organized
-Some coaches limit themselves with only studying their sports
-“Everything is going to improve.”
-“You learn and grow and adapt and you go!”
-NBA bubble and pandemic thoughts
