Posted on 12 November 2009.
If you go to any bookstore’s Sports section, chances are that you will see a disproportionate number of coaching books written by basketball coaches. Seriously, check it out next time you’re in Barnes and Noble. So that got me thinking, “Why is that?” Do basketball coaches have a secret formula on great coaching? What is [...]
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Posted on 22 April 2009.
Calling all coaches… is it me or are the players today lacking a lot of the fundamentals? Watching kids catch and throw the wrong way is becoming the norm. I remember my oldest daughter’s lacrosse team being very smooth, catching and throwing at ease when they were at the Midget level. Now my youngest is [...]
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Posted on 22 April 2009.
For all of these, please check the dates. For more information on college recruiting, see the following Kudda videos on recruiting Rutgers MVP- June 13-15th… Run by Rutgers University is a team camp. Players stay at one of the many campuses at Rutgers in AC dorms. Teams check in on Friday w/ their first game [...]
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Posted on 06 January 2009.
Yet, another eye-opener of a book is Michael Sokolove’s Warrior Girls. Sokolove looks into the alarmingly high rate of injuries in girls participating in sports and investigates why this is happening. With the advent of Title IX which opened the door for women to reap the benefits of playing sports in college, the discovery and [...]
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Posted on 16 December 2008.
I also just finished reading Meat Market by ESPN reporter Bruce Feldman. Feldman spent a year embedded with the University of Mississippi’s football coaches as they went through the process of recruiting their players. Although there were far too many names of both coaches and players and it was hard to keep everyone straight, the [...]
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Posted on 16 December 2008.
Game On I just finished reading Tom Farray’s Game On. Needless to say, it was an eye opener both as an educator/coach and as a parent. As I was reading I would say to myself, “Yup, that’s me”, or “I did that”. The basic focus of the book is on our obsession w/ youth sports [...]
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Posted on 16 May 2008.
We are going in the wrong direction! This slow trend toward one sport athletes for school aged kids is taking us down the wrong path. Parents, coaches and sometimes the players are making decisions to specialize in one youth sport. I have met hundreds of coaches who agree that the development of the athlete is [...]
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