The Games vs. Practice Problem: John Moeaki Gets Honest

  John Moeaki played linebacker at BYU, where one of his travel roommates was a young Kalani Sitake. His daughter Taylor won Gatorade Player of the Year in Utah basketball and played collegiately at Utah Tech. His son Noah, who started on varsity basketball as a freshman at American Fork and won a state championship, received D1 football offers the same week before ever having real football film, and is now a tight end at BYU.   In this episode of The Get There, John and Brad get into the real stuff: the specialization debate, the games-versus-practice question, the relative age effect, hold backs, the socioeconomic gap that keeps talented kids invisible to recruiters, and the moment a California basketball tournament in third grade changed the way Noah saw himself as an athlete.   John's answer when Brad asks him to sum it all up is short and hard to argue with: there is no magic drill. It is just the hours.