Shotzberger Notes
Bio
- HC of UIW - University of the Incarnate Word
- In 2022 he led UIW to the furthest Southland Conference Tournament appearance in Division I program history.
- First year in 2019 was cut short due to COVID
- Prior to UIW he was AC at Houston and TCU
- helped those programs to seven 40+ win seasons.
- 13 conference championships
- eight regular-season championships
- five conference tournament championships
- nine trips to NCAA Regionals
- three appearances at NCAA Super Regionals
- one trip to the College World Series
- Coached over 60 players who have been drafted
- eight of those appearing on active Major League Baseball rosters
- 5 current MLB
Notes
- We have our team values
- If your early your orgranized
- No blame, complain, or defend
- CARDS - bottom of every practice plan
- Players are now speaking the language
- Working with you not for you
- The best teams are player led, not coaches fed
- When you get out front you get vulnerable
- You can’t talk about win the pitch and then be losing your mind
- The beginning you are talking to yourself
- Meet after practice
- Mental game - what does it mean to you?
- Getting them to recognize they are doing something with them knowing it
- Helping you get to the next pitch and realize you are going too fast
- Breathe and get to the next pitch
- You can gripe and complain about it or you can adapt and change
- Its a 40 year decision, not a 4 year decision
- In order to set the goals, you had to work towards the goals
- Back map from doing something the program has never done before
- Deconstruct winning a conference
- Track positive at bats
- Do your job - doesn’t matter how, execute quality pitches with conviction
- Each team needs to create their own identity
- Play as hard as you for as long as you can
- Process > outcome
- 60% positive at bats
- Percentage of QAB determined what we need to do
- 60% or better we win
- 50% and we need to play good defense and pitch it well
- 40% then we better of pitched great and caught it
- WHO got the RBI - talking RBI not hits
- Educate kids on the situation.
- If the kids don’t know the situation that’s
