BIO
- Centre College HC
- 15U USA Baseball National Team Manager
- Most recent 2022 USA Baseball Developmental Coach of the Year
- Centre College record for wins in a season
- Center college record for season winning percentage
- Former AC with Birmingham Southern
- 10 conference titles
- 4 straight regional appearances
- Has worked with USA baseball task force, AC on 15U national team in 2016 before getting promoted to manager in 2021
Notes
- Some of the best coaches are HC coaches based on the experience at the task force (ground level)
- “The gold standard” - how you go about your business
- Performing at a high level no matter what you do
- Trickle down from director to veteran coach to new coaches to set the standard
- Same formula in business and team
- Doesn’t happen without a clear vision
- First meeting go over the 10 standards of Center
- Individual decisions we make each day that build the vision or deviate from the vision.
- Motivating young people to make decision for the greater good
- Vision called “1 mission” - USA Baseball - “quick bake”
- College/School level - vision bigger and crossover into academic and personal realm
- We have to establish a relationship to see what makes them tick
- Talk about things other than baseball
- How is your body?
- Understand their thought process to help steer them in the right direction
- What do you like here?
- What are you most comfortable
- Grab them during down times or transitions
- Collaborative communication - ask a lot of questions about themselves and different situations
- Talk to kids and they earn that trust
- Have ownership and intentionality with their own game
- They work their game and work who they are
- Number 1 job as parents
- Coach pitch scrimmage
- Live at bats for guys who did not play so much over the weekend
- Machine pitch league - 3 teams and played twice a week and simulate velo
- Classroom before drilling it
- Intangibles are definitely something that has to be evaluated
- Checking in with kids about the lineup and how the game is going
- Top 2 hitters will hit top 3 to get most at bats
- Low strikeout guy in the 5 hole (12%)
- Play to strengths of the lineup
- Feed them (my staff) information to help them during the game
- Allow assistant coaches to be assistant coaches
- AC Be ready to show up and get to work!
- AC realize the power you have being the conduit between HC and players
- HC set clear vision of what we are going to do. Here is what is going to happen and how it will happen
- The foundation and what the team is about starts and ends right with me (HC)
- We have to set the hook and then make the choice to show up and work
- The game will continue…
- We allow the wins and losses to effect our relationships with our players
- Make sure the relationships are solid, and be sure
