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Former Baltimore Orioles manager Dave Trembley, who has spent more than 40 years coaching baseball and won more than 1,500 games in the minor leagues, joins the next Daily Coach TV live show, “Leading Through the Noise”. Register at the link below to join live on Tuesday, November 3 at 12:00 pm EST/9:00 am PST or access the replay on demand: thedaily.coach/tv

Assistant coach for the WNBA's Dallas Wings, @coachneighbors, shares how he borrowed organizational strategies from concert roadies to save time, from his interview with The Daily Coach.

Coach @TeriMoren, Indiana’s all-time winningest women's basketball coach and 2023 National Coach of the Year, shares how building a relationship with their fans became a foundation for the program’s growth, from her interview with The Daily Coach. "The people in Indiana, when March comes around, it's basketball. So they were all searching for something, some type of entertainment." "The entertainment happened to be Indiana women's basketball. Tyra Buss, Amanda Cahill, two of the top all-time greatest in Indiana women's basketball history were seniors at the time." "By the championship game, we filled the entire Assembly Hall. 17,007 fans were there to see that championship game." " The fans became a part of our program. That changed everything because at that time, we didn't have season tickets. It was general admission." "Once you start winning, then you can get in the homes of the Grace Berger's, those five-star recruits because they're like, "Oh, wow, yeah, they're turning the tide there at Indiana. They're doing something special, and I want to become a part of that."

Head Baseball Coach at Denison University, @CoachDeegan shares how he evaluates coaching staff, from his interview with The Daily Coach. "When evaluating coaches, if you can have them do some element of the job, or if you've seen them do some of the element of the job before, that's like gold." "I'm less and less impressed with the actual interview process, because people can tell you whatever they want." "If I've seen you work in some capacity or seen you engage in your work, those are the signals that this person could be really good in our system."

Mike Neighbors, assistant coach for the WNBA's Dallas Wings, shares the small changes he made to his daily routine to get more time back, from his interview with The Daily Coach.  "I became very intentional about every second of every day, trying to find 5, 10, 15 minutes along the way." " Every year, I throw all my socks out and buy 50 pair of the same white Nike sock. I throw them in one drawer and I don't have to pair my socks up and look for them in the morning." " And I bet that saves me maybe 15 minutes a year. Okay, big deal. But that's 15 minutes that I get to read or 15 minutes that I get to help my son  that I wouldn't have had otherwise."  "I park in the very first parking spot I see everywhere I go. I don't hunt for the front row. I just take the first spot and walk in. I probably save 15 minutes that way." "We have to find out what works for us as coaches, but you have to be aware of it."

Coach @CuonzoMartin on the importance of saying no and protecting time with your family, during Daily Coach TV: Leading Yourself. Missed us live? Register below to watch the full episode through the end of the day on Sunday before it goes into the vault: mdpmioo596t.typeform.com/to/…

Coach @CuonzoMartin shares how the coaches who impacted him most taught life alongside the sport, during Daily Coach TV: Leading Yourself. Missed us live? Register below to watch the full episode through the end of the day on Sunday before it goes into the vault: mdpmioo596t.typeform.com/to/…

Ben Sasse cultivated a career most people would call remarkable: college president, U.S. senator, bestselling author. The former U.S. senator learned last year that he has terminal pancreatic cancer. Rather than step back from public life, though, he recently sat with a handful of journalists, to talk about what the diagnosis had taught him. He told CNN's Jake Tapper: "I have serious regret about how much I traveled. That's a hell of a lot of missed dinners," he said. Sasse named three specific things he'd change if he had the years back. Keep phones off the dinner table. Cap business travel. Live closer to family. None of this is regret about the career itself, the regret is more about proximity, as he pictured his kids wearing "a chain around their neck with an hourglass," and realized he was the one watching the sand fall rather than being there for it. Career and status climb toward the top of the list, especially for top coaches and leaders. Husband, dad, mom, whatever the other role is, slides down, even though we'd all say it's what matters most. What you say you value and where your time goes turn out to be two different lists. It took a diagnosis for Sasse to notice the gap, and now he said he’s living his final days with those regrets. But from where he is now, the order of operations is obvious to him in a way it wasn't before. You don't need a diagnosis to learn that, of course. You just need to act like the clock is already running, because it is.

Coaches @CuonzoMartin and @CoachStrong_, who bring more than 60 years of coaching experience across the college and professional levels, join Daily Coach TV live on Wednesday, September 16 for a discussion on how to build a development system for yourself as rigorous as the one you run for your team. Register here to join live or watch the free replay through next Sunday, September 20th: thedaily.coach/tv

In 1971, about 300,000 girls played high school sports. Seven years later, that number exploded to more than two million, and today, it’s 3.5 million. And the number of female intercollegiate athletes more than doubled to 64,000 between 1971 and 1976. In 2026, it’s an astonishing 242,000. The reason was Title IX, which passed in 1972 to give women equal opportunities in education and school sports. The systems in place perpetuated a long-held culture of inequality. But in the early 1970s, Gloria Steinem became one of the most powerful voices challenging those systems. Title IX and other new laws enacted throughout the 1970s eventually provided legal protections for women to get their own credit cards, mortgages, rental leases, and to keep their jobs during and after pregnancy. Steinem didn’t make those laws happen, but she did create the awareness and political momentum that helped bring them about. She first did this as a journalist, covering women’s inequality. Then as an activist, who co-founded a political caucus to help get women elected into the law-making system. Change often begins with someone noticing that what’s accepted as “normal” is actually not right. Steinem’s legacy urges us to recognize that changing the culture requires changing the conditions or systems that reinforce the culture. In what ways could we do that in our own organization?

Coach @CuonzoMartin, who has spent more than 20 years coaching at the NCAA Division I level, leading four programs as a head coach, joins the next Daily Coach TV live show, “Leading Yourself”. Register at the link below to join live on Wednesday, September 16 at 12:30 pm EDT/9:30 am PDT or access the replay on demand: thedaily.coach/tv

On Aug. 28, 1963, a 26-year-old volunteer security guard stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and felt the ground shift beneath his feet. He didn't know where the country was going. Nobody did. But everyone on those steps that afternoon knew, with the certainty of something felt in the chest before it is understood by the mind, that there was no going back. When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. finished speaking, the young man leaned over and asked a simple question. "Dr. King, can I have those papers?" King looked at him and handed over the handwritten manuscript of the "I Have a Dream" speech without a word. That young man was George Raveling. He had no idea what he was holding. He was just a kid from Washington, D.C., who happened to be standing in the right place at the right moment, who had the instinct, the audacity, really, to ask for a piece of history. He tucked the pages under his arm and carried them home, and he carried them for the next 62 years. In all that time, he never stopped moving in the direction that afternoon had pointed him. He believed in the land those words described. He spent his whole life trying to take people there. The I Have a Dream Train never stopped running. It carried the lost and the found, the broken and the whole, the ones who knew where they were going and the ones who just knew they couldn't stay where they were. He preached constantly: Dreams will not be thwarted. Faith will be rewarded. George Raveling made good on that promise every single day. And now every person he ever pulled aboard, every coach he called out of nowhere, every young man he handed a book to, every weary traveler he told to keep going, is still out there, still moving, still carrying what he gave them, still passing it forward to people he will never meet. The conductor may be gone, yet the I Have a Dream Train keeps running here at the Daily Coach. We welcome all. Climb aboard.

Coach George Raveling on the true value of a coaching tree, from his book with Ryan Holiday, What You’re Made For 📙

Coach Cecile Reynaud, who won 635 games leading Florida State volleyball, says one of the best ways to build ownership within a team is to ask players for input during practices and games, from her interview with The Daily Coach. " I do think it's so important to ask them what they think, and I would do that during timeouts. I'd say, are we playing the right defense?" "Are we attacking the right places at the net? They were out on the court and they knew what we needed to do." " If you're trying to get them to do something and they don't feel like it's the right system, you might as well change and not lose a game or a match because you were in the wrong system."

They were arch-enemies who didn’t want to be in the same room, let alone at the same table. He loathed her, and anyone with her skin color, blaming them for his problems. She despised this white man and others like him for violently oppressing her people. But in 1971, there they were: Ann Atwater, a Black community activist fighting for the rights of poor Black families in Durham, North Carolina, and C.P. Ellis, the white supremacist leader of Durham’s Ku Klux Klan. Both were asked to co-chair a 10-day community meeting about desegregating the city’s public schools. Neither wanted to work with the other, but their stake in the outcome overruled that. These two people had serious history. Reports said Atwater had previously pulled a knife, ready to kill Ellis for his hateful treatment of Black people, before someone stopped her. On the first day of their meetings, Ellis reportedly brought a machine gun. Separated by a seemingly uncrossable chasm, they argued at first. But as they kept coming back, day after day, they began to hear one another and discovered they had things in common. Both struggled financially. Both had children who dealt with many of the same problems in Durham’s troubled schools. And both wanted better futures for them. This realization eventually made Ellis ask himself a question that changed him: “What in the hell had I spent all my life fighting people like Ann for?” That’s when they began to work together. At the end of the meetings, the man who had been committed to the KKK said, “The whole world was openin’ up, and I was learnin’ new truths that I had never learned before.” He could finally see Atwater not simply as a Black woman, but as a fellow human being. When the 10 days were over, Ellis renounced his leadership of the Klan and tore up his membership card in front of the community. It was a shift that cost him old friendships and more. Even so, he became a labor organizer and an advocate for racial equality. And through it all, he and Atwater became the most unlikely of friends. Not for 10 days. Not for a photo op. For the rest of his life. When Ellis died in 2005, Atwater gave the eulogy at his funeral, speaking of her friendship with the man who had once been her enemy. It was a relationship that began with a shared purpose and a willingness to sit in the same room long enough to discover that the person they had judged was more complicated than the caricature they had created. Pausing and pondering doesn’t mean lowering the standard or abandoning your convictions. It means refusing to let those things blind you to the person in front of you. It’s intentionally allowing space for a new perspective, for discovering common ground and deeper understanding. It’s gathering information before making a judgment. When we are willing to be curious and not judgmental, relationships and viewpoints change and grow. As they do, we grow with them. And sometimes, the world around us does, too.

Coach @PaulAssaiante, who built a 252-match winning streak and won 17 national championships at Trinity College, shares why coaches need to find the right time to teach after an athlete experiences failure, from Daily Coach TV: Building vs. Sustaining. Missed us live? Register below to watch the full episode through the end of the day on Sunday before it goes into the vault: mdpmioo596t.typeform.com/to/…

This is how @CReynaud, former Florida State volleyball head coach with over 650 career wins, learned to give players more responsibility and let them find the answers, from Daily Coach TV: Building vs. Sustaining. Missed us live? Register below to watch the full episode through the end of the day on Sunday before it goes into the vault: mdpmioo596t.typeform.com/to/…

Coaches @CReynaud and @PaulAssaiante share how their coaching staffs, expectations and leadership approach changed as their programs evolved, during Daily Coach TV: Building vs. Sustaining. Missed us live? Register below to watch the full episode through the end of the day on Sunday before it goes into the vault: mdpmioo596t.typeform.com/to/…

ESPN’s Wright Thompson usually focuses on a key question when profiling elite athletes: what does greatness cost the people who chase it? His 2019 collection, The Cost of These Dreams, gathers the answers. Thompson's profile of Jordan at 50 is the centerpiece of the collection. He finds the greatest winner in the history of American sports unable to sleep, replaying slights, hunting for competition in blackjack, golf, even word-search puzzles in a Bahamas hotel room. The rage that built six championships never left. Thompson's verdict on that appetite is four words long: "successful and spectacularly unhealthy." Many leaders know a version of this fire, and many of us were promoted because of it. One question Thompson asks is whether the fire is working for you or whether you are working for it. The Urban Meyer profile hits close to home for coaches. At Florida, Meyer won two national titles while losing weight, losing sleep, and losing his family. He skipped his daughter Gigi's scholarship signing because a now-forgotten problem consumed him. When he finally walked away, he left $20 million on the table, "unable to answer the simplest of questions: Why am I doing this?" Before Meyer took the Ohio State job, his daughter Nicki wrote a contract on pink notebook paper and made him sign it in exchange for the family's blessing. Rule No. 1: family comes first. Ten promises in all, covering meals, sleep, and hours at the office. He framed it above his desk, next to a blue rock etched with one word: balance. Thompson doesn't tell us whether Meyer keeps the contract. He just shows him back at the facility, 12 hours in, already breaking the rules. The dream always sends an invoice, and the people who never look at the price end up paying the most: their health, their marriages, their kids' signing days, their peace. Elite leaders audit costs before they compound. They ask the big question: why am I doing this, while there's still time to like the answer, and they notice when the fire that built the program starts consuming the person running it. They understand what Jordan's story proves beyond argument: no win is big enough to fix what the chase is breaking. Chase the dream, build the program, demand excellence. Those are all noble, admirable things. Just read the invoice first, because it always comes.

After winning 1,684 games at Michigan softball, Coach @UMCoachHutch shares how her assistant coaches helped make her program so successful with @LD_ChalkTalk during her interview with The Daily Coach.