Coaching Thoughts from Rising Coaches Elite

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A quick thank you to Lindsay Scarlatelli and Trey Meyer from Miami of Ohio for sharing with me  their notes from the 2014 Rising Coaches Elite conference in Las Vegas.  Down below are my takeaways from a coaching perspective.  There were also great networking nuggets that I will share in my next post.

Chris Babcock Philadelphia 76ers

• Pick the brains of your players.  You can learn more from your players than the coaches around you.
• A coaches job is to build confidence.

Chris Hollender Mississippi State

• Work on yourself everyday.
• You are teaching the game of basketball and life.  Have passion and hold yourself to a high standard.
• Exercise daily.

Kevin Sutton Georgetown

• Build up your trust equity within people.
• Our players teach us, as much as we teach them.  It's a give and take relationship.
• Dream every day about he job you aspire to have.
• Know your own definition of success.

Adam Cohen Vanderbilt

• Don't be jealous of other coaches and their paths.

Jamie Dixon Pittsburg

• Do anything to be around good coaches, regardless of where it is.
• Put yourself around good people and learn. Trust.
• There are no set patterns or one way to do things.

Jack Murphy Northern Arizona

• Find a way to make yourself valuable in the basketball world.
• You have to coach what you know and what you believe in.

Frank Martin South Carolina

• Teach through coaching.
• Words to live by:
• Honesty-don't be a "yes" person
• Loyalty-don't crack the dam by not being loyal
• Trust-don't have people looking over their shoulder
• Love-genuine and real love.

Once you are honest, you can have loyalty. Once you have loyalty, people will trust.  Once you trust, you can love.  When you love, you can overcome anything.

Rashon Burno Florida

• It is not what you know, it's what you can teach and communicate to your players.

From AD Panel:

• When looking to hire a head coach, AD's put names into 3 buckets:
• people they know personally
• people who they know what they have done/accomplished
• other names they hear over time
• If you have talent, you can be taught.  Talent is character, discipline, and dedication.

Dale Clayton Nations of Coaches

• Know why you want to coach.
• The why determines the how.
• Relationships stand the test of time.  Not winning.
• A coach will impact more lives in one year than most will in a decade.

Andy Farrell Southwest Mississippi CC

• Have a plan and purpose and stick with it.
• Workout, pray, read, watch film, talk to people (rely on peer counsel).
• Your time will come. Greatness is still in store for the faithful.