How to Rebuild a Program - Stephanie Norman, Louisville Basketball

Jody Conradt Keynote Address

4/27/2012

Below are some notes I took from Coach Conradt's keynote address at A Step Up coaching symposium in Dallas this weekend. Watch for much more A Step Up information over the next few weeks!


This is a PROFESSION; teach one, reach one- each one.

Coaching is not just recruiting; what's most important is being a student of the game; setting your self apart and rising above. Coaching is

Contribute or Contaminate

Easy enough: you're either contributing or your contaminating the practice court. Great video.

Is your coaching style adaptable to the new generation?

Here's a simple fact with huge effects: you cannot coach today's kids the same way you coached a team 10 years ago. Are you making the adjustment?

Below are 5 characterizations from the article The Most Technologically Advanced Yet by Sherry Posnick-Goodwin that pinpoints how today's "Generation Z", "Generation @" or "iGeneration" cohorts (generally born between 1991-2001) experience the world

Vic Shaefer's talk at the Final Four

Below are some notes I took when Texas A&M Assistant Coach Vic Schaefer spoke at the WBCA Convention at the Final Four last year (the day his Aggies won the National Championship!).

-Assistants and Head Coaches can agree to disagree...but, when you disagree, it should be about what we think is best for the program or team.

-The Head Coach should talk to parents about intangibles, but let the

Culture beats strategy...All day long!

How Do You Weigh Strategy, Execution, and Culture in an Organization's Success? -Article from Harvard Business School by Jim HeskettStrategy, execution, and culture: Do we have our priorities right? 
"An outstanding strategy weakly executed will always be trumped by a weak strategy with outstanding execution.
What if you had a plan to be president of the USA? You could have a perfect plan. A

13 Key Habits to Help You "Seize the Day" Part 1/2

From Success Magazine, Paul J. Meyer, 2009.

Part 1/2


1. Be an inverted paranoid: Believe that the whole world is conspiring to do good things to you.

2. Be a quick forgiver: We don't have time to waste in unforgiveness.

3. Be optimistic: Believing the best of people and circumstances is a sure way to find the best.

4. Be thankful: Always give thanks for the blessings in our lives.

5. Be

9 Important Teaching Points for Your Drills

The following are notes from Morgan Wootten's Basketball Camp around 2005...these were given to Joe Wootten from Kevin Eastman (Boston Celtics Assistant Coach) and passed on to the camp staff:

1) Basketball is a game of inches (John Stockton; slow, but sure)- Attack ankles/Attack hips, etc.

2) Pound dribble for better handle on the basketball

3) Play the game low to high (on screens: cutter's

A Rebounder's Mentality

"It's not what you teach that's important; it's what you emphasize that counts".

That phrase rings true for me in many situations.

In the game of basketball, there is a ton of focus (and rightly so) on technique. We want our players to execute skills in the most efficient manner possible. Is there a point when this emphasis on technique becomes overbearing and the ?

I love this one simple rule

Do you deserve to win?

Rick Pitino opens his book Success is a Choice with the following: "Winston Churchill's rallying cry for the British people during WWII was simple and succinct: hoping and praying for victory was fine, but deserving it was what really mattered.

What does it mean to 'deserve victory'?
According to Churchill, victory comes only to those who work long and hard, who are willing to pay the price in

Tex Winter: Essentials of Coaching

 Read this post on another great blogger's website. Enjoy!





What makes Tex Winter so great is that his principles regarding the game of basketball remain true no matter what era. Because of his principles, he was able to remain influential as a coach his entire career which was over 50 years. Here are Tex Winters Essentials of Coaching:




A. The answer to success in coaching does not

Quote of the Day:

"Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable." -Lord Chesterfield

Positive Teaching Techniques That Inspire Improvement

Some snippets from an excellent article by Sheri Jeavons! If you’ve ever tried to coach someone to stop doing a particular behavior or to change a certain action, then you know how difficult it can be to break bad habits and alter their ways. Why is it often so hard to help people improve, even when you specifically point out what they’re doing wrong is hurting them? Because

Theme for your team?

The following is something I gave to our coaching staff when we were trying to come up with a Team Theme for the year; something that outlines the coaching staff's goal and vision for this season that we can consistently refer back to as a foundational message.