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The Sports Coach Podcast

Got a coaching problem you can"t Google? You"re in the right place. Playing time decisions, parent conflicts, building a roster, running a practice that actually works — every week we dig into the real challenges youth sports coaches are dealing with right now. Tips. Techniques. Secrets from coaches who have been in the trenches. Ten minutes. Every week. No fluff. This is The Sports Coach. Let"s get to work.

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8:26

Ep 164 Your Staff Is Not Aligned Yet, and Your...

The Sports Coach Podcast ·

2026/10/01

https://teachhoops.com/Coaches spend October on the players. Conditioning, open gyms, skill work, the schedule, the gear order. Then they walk into November assuming the three or four adults on the bench are on the same page. In this episode Coach Collins argues that assumption is where a lot of seasons quietly go wrong, and that staff alignment is something you have to build on purpose before the first practice. The test he offers is simple. Could each of your assistants, tonight, tell you the

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7:32

Ep 163 How You Finish Is the Part They Actually Remember

The Sports Coach Podcast ·

2026/09/24

https://teachhoops.com/This episode is for the fall coaches. Soccer, volleyball, cross country, football, tennis. You are two or three weeks from the end, some chasing a conference title, some chasing a winning record, and some, honestly, just chasing the finish line. Coach Collins argues that this stretch is the part of the year most of us coach the worst. The reason is simple. By mid October coaches are tired. The energy from August is gone, and the mind has already drifted to next year, to who

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8:14

Ep 162 Can You Stay Steady When the Scoreboard Does Not?

The Sports Coach Podcast ·

2026/09/17

https://teachhoops.com/What happens to your team when the head coach has a bad day? In this episode, Coach Collins takes a deep dive into one of the most important responsibilities of leadership: managing the emotional temperature of your program. Coaches often spend enormous amounts of time thinking about strategy, practice planning, player development, and culture. But players and assistant coaches are also constantly reading something else—the emotional state of the person leading them. Coach

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7:39

Ep 161 What If Your Best Coaching Move Is Taking...

The Sports Coach Podcast ·

2026/09/10

https://teachhoops.com/Performance equals potential minus interference. That one equation, borrowed from Timothy Gallwey's The Inner Game of Tennis, is the spine of this episode, and it flips the way most coaches think about player development. Nearly all of our energy goes into the first half of that equation. Better drills, better lifts, better skill work, better film. But Coach Collins argues that some of the biggest breakthroughs in a season do not come from adding anything at all. They come

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8:27

Ep 160 One Game Is Evidence, Not a Verdict

The Sports Coach Podcast ·

2026/09/03

https://teachhoops.com/How quickly can one basketball game become an entire story in an athlete’s mind? A player has a great opening night and thinks, “This is finally my year.” Another struggles and immediately thinks, “Here we go again.” A player gets fewer minutes than expected and decides the coach no longer believes in them. A teammate has a breakout game and suddenly someone else begins wondering whether they are falling behind. In this episode, Coach Collins explores one of the most

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8:17

Ep 159 Why Doesn't Your Team Play Hard?

The Sports Coach Podcast ·

2026/08/27

https://teachhoops.com/My kids do not play hard. It might be the oldest complaint in coaching, and in this episode Coach Collins argues that most coaches are diagnosing it wrong. When a team does not play hard, we tend to treat it like a character problem. That kid is lazy. This group is soft. But playing hard is not a personality trait. It is a standard, and standards have to be taught, defined, and celebrated just like any skill in the game. The episode starts with a revealing test: if you

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9:04

Ep 158 Are You Trying to Improve Before You...

The Sports Coach Podcast ·

2026/08/20

Long Show Noteshttps://teachhoops.com/ Where does real improvement begin? Most athletes immediately think about more workouts, more shots, more film, more confidence, or becoming mentally tougher. But in this episode, Coach Collins argues that development starts somewhere much simpler and much more difficult: seeing yourself honestly. This episode takes a deep dive into self-awareness and why athletes cannot improve from the person they wish they were. They have to begin with who they actually

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8:56

Ep 157 Is Your Program Developing Confident Players...

The Sports Coach Podcast ·

2026/08/13

https://teachhoops.com/How do coaches develop mentally strong athletes? Most coaches immediately think about confidence, toughness, motivation, breathing exercises, or pressure training. But this episode challenges coaches to begin with a different question: Are you creating an environment where mental performance can actually develop? Coach Collins explains why an athlete’s environment can either reinforce or undermine everything being taught about confidence, resilience, composure, and handling

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9:06

Ep 156 Are Your Goals Helping You Achieve Something...

The Sports Coach Podcast ·

2026/08/06

https://teachhoops.com/Are your goals helping you achieve something, or become someone? In this episode, Coach Collins breaks down why the best athletes do not just focus on outcomes. They focus on the Coach Collins breaks down why the best athletes do not just habits, character, and daily choices required to deserve those outcomes. This episode is about the deeper purpose of goal setting, why becoming comes before achieving, and how goals only matter when they change behavior today. Coach

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9:00

Ep 155 Is Winning Enough to Build a Lasting Legacy?

The Sports Coach Podcast ·

2026/07/30

https://teachhoops.com/What makes a team memorable long after the final buzzer? In this episode, Coach Collins takes a deep dive into one of the most important leadership questions in coaching: is winning enough, or does a truly lasting program have to mean more than the scoreboard? This episode explores the idea that the teams people remember most are not always the teams that won the championship. Often, they are the teams that made people feel something. They played with joy, grit,

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9:21

Ep 154 What’s Really Getting in the Way of Your...

The Sports Coach Podcast ·

2026/07/23

https://teachhoops.com/What is really getting in the way of performance? In this episode, Coach Collins takes a deep dive into one of the most overlooked leadership ideas in coaching: sometimes the biggest gap is not between a player’s talent and success, but between their potential and their ability to access it consistently under pressure. This episode unpacks the idea of interference and why so many coaches misdiagnose the problem when performance drops. Instead of asking what a player, coach,

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7:54

Ep 153 The Sport Parent Confessions ( Hey Sammi)

The Sports Coach Podcast ·

2026/07/16

https://heysammi.com/⁠ ⁠Hey Sammi Podcast Spotify⁠ Hey Sammi Podcast Itunes why does my 13 year old suddenly want to quit sports?SUBTITLE: how to find out what's really going on when your teen won't talkDESCRIPTION: why do teenagers suddenly quit sports they love? a mom in portland wrote to me because her 13 year old daughter went from sleeping in her jersey to done, overnight, and won't say why. in this episode i answer the questions parents of teen athletes ask most. why won't my teenager tell

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9:06

Ep 152 Are You Delaying the Conversation Your Team...

The Sports Coach Podcast ·

2026/07/09

https://teachhoops.com/ Are you delaying the conversation your team needs most? In this episode, Coach Collins breaks down why difficult conversations in coaching are usually not communication problems. They are fear problems. This episode explores why coaches delay honest feedback, what fear is usually hiding underneath that delay, and how avoiding candor slowly hurts both relationships and performance. Coach Collins also talks about why truth, delivered with care, is not criticism but belief,

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10:13

Ep 151 Are We Hurting Kids by Pushing One Sport Too...

The Sports Coach Podcast ·

2026/07/02

https://teachhoops.com/ What is all this pressure to specialize really doing to young athletes? In this episode, Coach Collins takes on one of the biggest issues facing high school coaches today: the push for kids to choose one sport too early and play it year-round. This episode breaks down the real cost of early sport specialization, including overuse injuries, burnout, mental fatigue, and declining high school sports participation. Coach Collins also talks about why multi-sport athletes often

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9:38

Ep 150 Can Toughness Be Taught or Does It Have to Be...

The Sports Coach Podcast ·

2026/06/25

https://teachhoops.com/ How do coaches actually teach toughness to a team? In this episode, Coach Collins breaks down why toughness is not just yelling louder, practicing harder, or talking about being gritty. Real toughness is built through daily habits, clear standards, accountability, and teaching players how to respond when things get hard. This episode looks at how toughness shows up in body language, effort, communication, resilience, and the ability to stay connected under pressure. Coach

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8:50

Ep 149 Do Your Players Know You Care Enough to Tell...

The Sports Coach Podcast ·

2026/06/18

https://teachhoops.com/What does real care look like in coaching? In this episode, Coach Collins talks about why leadership is not about making players comfortable. It is about caring enough to tell the truth when growth is on the line. This episode breaks down the difference between comfort and leadership, why truth without care feels harsh, and why care without truth is weak. Coach Collins also talks about the hard conversations that help players grow, the danger of fake offseason work, and why

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8:57

EP 148 Are Your Players Following You Because They...

The Sports Coach Podcast ·

2026/06/11

https://teachhoops.com/Are your players following you because they trust you or because they fear you? In this episode, Coach Collins breaks down one of the biggest leadership questions in coaching and why fear and trust can look similar from the outside, but lead to very different cultures. This episode digs into the difference between control and real leadership, why fear creates short-term obedience, and why trust builds stronger communication, tougher teams, and better long-term culture. It

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8:55

Ep 147 Helping Players when things go Sideways...

The Sports Coach Podcast ·

2026/06/04

https://teachhoops.com/Episode Title: How Do You Stop the One-Mistake Spiral Before It Destroys a Game? Every coach has seen it: one mistake turns into two, body language collapses, and a player checks out mentally. This episode gives you a simple, repeatable system to stop the spiral in real time—without speeches, posters, or “shake it off” coaching. You’ll learn how to train the reset like a skill so it shows up when the game gets tight. Why most players spiral after mistakes (and why

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16:01

Ep 146 How Do You Fix Late RSVPs, Missed Messages,...

The Sports Coach Podcast ·

2026/05/28

https://heysammi.com/coachesEpisode Title: Is the Best Sports Management App No App at All? Coaches don’t lose parents because they “don’t care.” They lose them because families are drowning in platforms, notifications, and logins. This episode breaks down the real reason team apps stop working by mid-season—and why Sammi was built around the one thing parents always read: text messages. Sammi is designed to handle roster, schedules, payments, and parent communication entirely through SMS, with

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8:47

Ep 145 What Does Real Leadership Look Like at Halftime?

The Sports Coach Podcast ·

2026/05/21

https://teachhoops.com/What does real leadership look like at halftime? In this episode, Coach Collins talks about one of the biggest in-game leadership moments coaches face and why halftime is about much more than drawing up plays. This episode breaks down why teams often borrow the emotional level of their coach, how great halftime leaders settle the room, simplify the message, and give players both truth and belief. Coach Collins also explains why the best halftime adjustments are often about

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