Top 9 Mistakes

The Top 9 mistakes made by parents: Coaching your child during a game You can disagree all you want. This is an absolute no-no. Thinking that because you believe your child outplayed an athlete who already has scholarship offers, your child must be a scholarship level player. You don’t know what you’re looking at, or what your doing Allowing your child […]

Being Invited

When today’s parents were kids, being invited to a camp or an all-star game meant something that everybody understood. Not anymore. Things have changed. Now recruiting and money drive most of these events and the word invite is cleverly used by the organizers to entice and confuse families. Here are three cases almost everyone can learn from. If you think these […]

Defining Types of Improvement

Improvement is an important part of sports. Coaches, parents and players often like to say that a particular athlete is only going to get better. But what does that really mean? It seems obvious, right? It’s not. Let’s look at what it really means and why it matters. There are really two categories of improvement, arithmetic and geometric. (There’s […]

How to Get Playing Time as a Freshman

Most athletes, parents and high school coaches don’t understand what it takes to get playing time as a college freshman. When they talk about playing time they usually start breaking down an athlete’s game or the returning players on the team, and it gets complicated and confusing in a hurry. It’s really pretty simple. In most instances, playing time as a freshman comes down […]

“My Kid Can Play at That Level”

We all compare ourselves to others. It’s human nature. Most of us also want to play at the highest possible level, whether it’s adults in the workplace (“I can do a better job than that guy”) or athletes competing for recruitment and scholarships. The phrase “I can play at that level” or “my kid can play at that level” […]