Today I an excited to announce the launch of the IOWA PLAYER DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY and it’s home here at WordPress.
This academy is the culmination of a 50 year love affair with the great game of basketball.
With 30+ years of college and high school coahcing experience in my past I am taking to the floor to do what I love most; Coaching players HOW to play the game, become complete players, and enjoy playing.
Join me in sharing this passion for the game at this Blog Site as I will be adding content frequently for the benefit of all players, parents, and coaches at all levels!
Recvently in the USA Today, George Karl shared his thoughts on the plight of an NBA coach:
“NBA coaches think they have to prove themselves when they lose threee in a row. We’re always kind of paranoid. You can have 1,000 wins and be a really good coach for 20 years and go on a five-game losing streak—and you’re stupid. It’s an amazing formula we have.”
These comments below come from the Yahoo Groups–Coaching Basketball community.
They have to do with the advantages that can be gained from having a mentor.
I have 2 questions for all coaches—Do you have a mentor? If not, why not?
Just to add my two cents on the mentor topic, I would
be absolutely nowhere as a coach were it not for the
mentoring of a few coaches. My biggest was a coach
named John Burnley. I doubt anybody in this group
knows him, but he shaped who I am as a coach, and in a
lot of ways, as a man.
In my opinion, the smartest thing for any young coach
to do is to find a mentor and soak up as much
knowledge as possible.
For experienced coaches, mentoring a young coach is
the greatest gift you could ever give him or her.
Coach Josh Stinson
www.perfectpractice .net
Ken Sartini has been huge for me
> and he will even say I spoke with him at least once
> per week during our season , I have sent him tapes
> and value his opinion on everything. He is someone I
> do want to meet someday and thank. I cannot believe
> he has not gotten sick of me yet Thanks Ken for
> all the help that you have given me. He is someone
> who I will keep contact with weekly for a very long
> time
Coach Justin Hagar
I have also learned/stolen a great deal from this
> board and from Coach Sartini, Coach Lok, Coach
> Paxson and quite a few others. Unfortunately when I
> had the opportunity to mentor a young coach on our
> staff, I didn’t do a very good job with him. He
> only stayed with us one year before the head coach
> decided to cut him loose. The replacement he hired
> was an absolute zero as a coach. The kids didn’t
> learn a single thing except new ways to string curse
> words together. I always thought if I ever get a
> second chance with the previous coach I would do a
> better job of helping him. As luck would have it I
> ran into to this coach recently and had a long
> conversation with him about his short stay at our
> school. Funny thing is he thought I was the only
> one that helped him. I knew I could have and should
> have done more to help a young coach struggling with
> his coaching identity. Happily this guy just got
> his first head coaching gig at a school in our
> league. Since I’m “between
> gigs” I told him any thing I can do to help him
> just let me know. He called me last night to tell
> me his mother had just been diagnosed with leukemia.
> We talked for about an 30 minutes. I think we
> mentioned basketball once and that was right before
> we hung up. Mentoring is more than basketball
> stuff.
CoachRB is dedicated to helping improve the quality of the game of basketbal. My mentoring program is based on education, challenges, and self-improvement strategies for all coaches.
My motto is Coach the Coach, Teach the Player, Change the Game
Currently I am mentoring 20 young coaches who have the desire to become college basketball coaches at the highest level. Some are high school coahces and some have already made the leap into their first college position.
My ELITE College Coaching program offers live programs that discuss the most pertinent issues for young coaches. Frequently I will extend an invitation to one of the games best, most experiences coaches.
During each program, coaches are able to ask questions, receive advice and gain valuable contacts to build their network in coaching.
There is no other program like this in the country and if YOU are like the young coaches in my program, you too will want to become a part of my ELITE College Coaching program.
Want to know HOW to join us? Email me at rb@coachrb.com to find out all of the details of this unique and powerful program.
Click this link to hear the Scott Howard interview from Monday, Oct. 27th, 2008.
Approximately, 80% of the game is played away from the ball.
Is our individual improvement/ development addressing 80% of the game, both on offense and defense?
Our seminar was designed with this 80/20 concept in mind. We watched game footage at all levels to make sure this was accurate and it was.
What are we doing as coaches about the vast majority of the game played away from the ball?
That is my challenge to all of us and actually, it was difficult to present our 40 skill outline and do justice to doing a great job of teaching player “how to play” away from the ball.
Thanks Ken for
