Bio
- Current HC at Cookeville HS in Cookeville, TN.
- 34 years in baseball
- Has spent the last 14 years with USA Baseball
- Spent 4 years as an assistant coach at Tennessee Tech
- 3 years was a special assignment scout for the Kansas City Royals
- National speaker/clinician
- Truth spreader of the game
- Just a dude!!!
- Preacher of the game
Show notes
- I yearned for consistency
- “Rebuilding year” insults everyone in your program
- We are going to work as hard as we can, we will find that line, and then work a little harder
- I am going to try and find a way to get everyone in the game except the next game starter
- The other team is just feedback to see if what we are doing is working or not
- If you are talking development, and about development, then your seniors as coaches!
- You cannot rush athleticism.
- The secret sauce to development is maturity. We push maturity A LOT!
- Maturity is a decision.
- Make your bed
- When you go in the classroom you be respectful
- When you get done with lunch throw trash away
- Raise your hand and be responsible
- Teaching manners
- Best gauge of your culture is behavior
- Players only offer words of encouragement, not criticism
- Mature kids learn faster, so athletically they will take off
- The elite guys loved being coach!!
- No wasted reps, and guys who make national teams don’t waste reps. They don’t make them accidentally
- If you don’t have success, how will you recover? Recover after the strikeout.
- Parent manual given to my parents at first meeting
- Need to be ok with people not liking you and being on your side
- Systematic approach to how we develop
- Make it more than an activity
- As a coach I can’t strike out
- Simple is a skill
- chaffinb1@pcsstn.com
- Great follow on twitter (when he gets it figured out) @Gawbage29
- It's not about me, but it is about me leave fingerprints all over the place
- Guardian of the game!
