In this episode of Beyond Coaching, Rob talks with former college and professional baseball player Cody Fuqua about failure, resilience, and the lessons athletes carry into life after sports. Cody shares how his athletic experiences shaped the way he now leads a team and runs a business. The conversation explores why athletes need to struggle, […]
Drift is the slow, quiet erosion of a team’s standards. Not a blowup or a scandal, but the gradual slide where commitment becomes conditional and small behaviors chip away at the culture without anyone deciding to let them. The hardest part of leadership isn’t knowing drift exists. It’s recognizing it early enough to prevent it. […]
In this episode of Beyond Coaching, Rob talks with David Durand about what is actually limiting today’s athletes—and why it is rarely talent. David explains how modern athletes are dealing with more pressure and less preparation, largely driven by social media and unrealistic expectations. That combination shows up in performance when athletes get stuck in […]
Looking back, my heart got too big when I was coaching. I could rationalize poor behavior that I said I would not accept, because I cared for the kid and wanted to impact their life. If I am being more brutally honest, I think at times I rationalized most when the player was really good. […]
Every generation says the next one is soft. Rob’s dad said it. Dustin’s dad said it. Now coaches are saying it about the athletes in their gyms right now. But before we accept the premise, it’s worth asking a harder question: what if they’re not softer at all? What if they’re just more aware, more […]
I want to talk about the Texas Tech quarterback situation, but not the part everyone else is covering. Brendan Sorsby, a transfer Texas Tech Quarterback, admitted to placing over 9,000 bets totaling around $90,000, including bets involving his own team. Betting on your own games has been a red line in athletics, and the NCAA […]
In his book Maintenance of Everything: Part One, Stewart Brand opens with the story of the 1968 Golden Globe Race. The more I sit with it, the more it feels like a parable for coaching. In 1968, the Sunday Times of London sponsored a race for the first solo, nonstop circumnavigation of the world. Roughly […]
For our newer subscribers: most of what we publish is about coaching and player development, but every so often we take on a current issue shaping the world coaches and athletes operate in. This is one of those pieces. Athletic conferences across the country have been expanding aggressively over the last several years. The recent […]
