How to not get fired by your AD in your post-season meeting...

When I first started coaching, I knew nothing.

I thought I knew a lot…But I didn’t.

It was even worse than that though.

I was 23 years old and I inherited a wrestling program with eight kids on the roster, no commitment, a wrestling mat from 1980 (it was 2002 at the time!), singlets from around that same time. It was a sad state of affairs.

My first year was rough.

We had no culture, kids quit (which hurts even more when you’re only starting with eight of them), you could hear crickets in the gym at our matches (if I listened carefully enough, I'm pretty sure I heard them laughing).

Me coaching back in the day.

I also had a rude awakening. I didn’t know nearly as much as I thought I did. It was embarrassing. It was frustrating.

Hey coaches,

What are you doing this summer?

Hopefully you’re relaxing a bit and enjoying some time with friends and family… but hopefully you’re also taking some steps to up your coaching game and build your program!

Summer’s definitely the time to do it!

If there were a way to have a dramatic impact on your program with only a few hours of your time, why wouldn't you do it?

Today I’m gonna talk about a lot of great tactics and strategies that should be super-useful for you!

In fact, I’m *literally* going to talk - I was recently a guest on my friend Craig Haworth’s Winning Youth Coaching Podcast.

It was great talking coaching with Craig and we went really deep on some very actionable stuff you guys will appreciate! In fact, I thought the interview would be about 40 minutes, but we ended up going for over an hour and 15 minutes!

There’s some great stuff in here that I haven’t written about before, and we tried our best to keep it focused on areas that would be most helpful to you guys.

To make it even easier and save you some time (and in case you want to skip around), I threw together some time-stamped notes below, so you can either listen all the way through or jump to what most sparks your interest!

So last night at Edgemont High School I watched four of our wrestlers and several more former wrestlers walk across the path in front of the A Building and accept their diplomas as they graduated from high school.