Robbie Britt
HC University of Charleston (WV)
Bio
- Finished 3rd year a HC of Golden Eagles
- 16-game win streak, the longest in program history
- 11th in the country, its highest national ranking in program history.
- third straight regular season conference championship with a 24-4 conference record,
- hosted the NCAA Division II Atlantic Regional for the first time in the program’s 118-year history.
- 4th straight semester with a team gpa above a 3.0 and served over 1000 hours of community service
- 5 top-25 victories, including a victory over #6 ranked Ashland, and a win over #15 ranked Wingate, a first in the history of the program.
- Former assistant and interim head baseball coach at Middle Tennessee State University from 2015-2018.
2022 Notes
40-18 Record (2nd most in program history)
Mountain East Regular Season & Tournament Champions
NCAA Atlantic Regional Finalist
4th straight conference championship and NCAA Tournament Appearance
6th straight semester with a 3.0+ team gpa
1000 Hours of Community Service in the Charleston community
Robbie Britt Notes
82-36 Career Record (.694 Win %)
53-12 Conference Record (.815 Win %)
Married to Courtney, Father to Ellie (3) and Camp (2).
Speaker at ABCA Barnstormer, TBCA, WVBCA, OHSBCA Conventions
Owner/CEO Culture House LLC., Empower Leaders, Inspire Excellence
Other Notes
Coaching Staff Features a Unique Model - Young Coaches, Bold Opportunities
Three Program Pillars: Graduate Leaders, Create Champions, Develop Stewards
UCWV Features 3 professional players (Logan Campbell, RHP Minnesota Twins; Austin Henrich, RHP Frontier League; Colt Webb, High Point Rockers, Atlantic League)
Show Notes
- Staffing provides the experience for the students athletes
- Oldest coach at 29
- If you hire great people, and unlock them to do great work, you can provide an awesome experience
- Creative content position
- 7 coaches who have coached with Britt now who are now in full time coaching positions
- Hire people who
- Self starters, internally motivated
- Growth minded - want to learn
- Collaborative and spirited
- Replicating the model
- Get a high school student involve
- Clearly define expectations and what it looks like
- Empower them to get it done
- Identify what you want it to look like (create the vision with width and depth)
- Width = a lot of people
- Depth = its not just about winning (something greater, the “transcendent” student experience
- Who are the people?
- What are the things I need in my organization?
- What am I good at? What am I not good at?
- Define a clearly defined program for the individual (staff and player)
- Player and personal side of player development (hire a player development)
- Cast, clip, quote
- Look at your resources
- Either worry about your resources or worry about your resourcefulness!
- Are their people on campus that want to help your baseball players?
- Is there a math teacher that would break down metrics? Create a meaningful title
- Do it If there is value to your program and you have a willingness to be told NO!
- Recruited a director of analytics just like a student athlete!!
- Life skills and platform you are teaching through the content
- If you are teaching so you can coach, you are out of wack!!!
- Made us be really focused on the type of recruit that is a fit for us!
- Run it like a business/board meeting - we meet everyday
- Individual staff meetings
- The “unseen” hours - where you make life work
- What are the metrics that we feel leads to winning? (clarify the metrics that are important)
- Core principles
- Primary strategies
- performance indicators
- Physicality wins!
- Ever evolving (finding clarity)
- Clarity is always the goal, but evolution towards clarity is what you are trying to achieve (excellence)
- Its what the game provides!!
- @CoachRB6, @UCWV_baseball
- www.ucgoldeneagles.com
- Go to baseball page and then “mountain state of mind blog”
- Google - “mountain state of mind blog”
- robertbritt@ucwv.edu
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