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224: Coaching Dilemmas Nobody Prepares You For

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223: Does Your Team Need a Speech? Or Do You?

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222: Who Failed, the Player or the Preparation?

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221: What Makes a Big Game a Big Game?

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220: The Unofficial Coaching Life Awards

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220: The Unofficial Coaching Life Awards

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219: More Than a Coach – Helping Athletes Carry What They Are Carrying

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218: From an Interrupted Dream to Playing for a Higher Purpose (w/ Josh Waite, Ohio Football)

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217: The Off-Season That Doesn’t Exist

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216: Winning Is a Byproduct of Doing Youth Sports Right (w/ guest Cody Bail)

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215: 10 Questions. No Prep. Just Honest Answers.

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214: How Small Schools Win (Guest: Chaz Mohler)

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213: The Emotional Toll of Coaching That Most People Never See

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212: The Hardest Part of Coaching Isn’t What You Think

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211: The Hidden Skill That Separates Good Players From Great Ones

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210: When Sports Seasons Overlap

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209: Athlete Mindset: An Underrated Difference Maker

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208: Feed Yourself, Coach – Bring the Energy!

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207: The Coaching Life "12 Tips of Christmas"

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206: The Over-Coached Athlete

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205: Inside the Chaos of Coaching Changes, NIL, and What We Don’t Understand

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204: Are Athletes Today Softer… or Are They Just More Honest?

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203: What Fans Don’t See – The Invisible Details That Define Outcomes

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202: Playing for an Audience of One – Ohio Volleyball Libero Kendall Hickey

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BONUS: Eastern Volleyball Talk (Chris)

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201: They Should Already Know That… Shouldn’t They?

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200: Life After Sports – Guest Brennan Meadows

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199: Staying Ready! The Resilient Journey of Delaney Crawford

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198: Discipline, Standards, and Second Chances

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197: Coaching With AI – Can AI Be Helpful For Coaches, Athletes, and Parents

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196: Coaching the "Middle-Bottom" Players

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195: Little Things – In-Between Moments That Impact Teams

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194: Rethinking Practice – Are We Doing It Right?

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193: Season 12 – New Conversations in The Coaching Life

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192: LOVE The Game, LOVE Your Team

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191: Game Week! Marauders vs. Eagles

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190: Behind the Scenes – First Week of Baseball

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189: Comparing Yourself To Others Isn't Always Bad

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188: Lifelong Learners and Used To Be NFL Fans

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187: Fire Ryan Day!!! (Okay, um... maybe not.)

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186: New Year. New Season. New Growth.

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185: Parker Navarro, QB of the MAC Champion Ohio Bobcats

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184: Home-Grown Coaching! Special Guest, Coach Billy Roper

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183: Beware of Groupthink

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182: Keep A Ball In The Pocket

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181: Are They Really Cheering For Injury??

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180: Let's Talk About Pete Rose (1941-2024)

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179: Guest Brooks McKeller, Ohio Bobcats Golf – A Deeper Purpose In Sports

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178: Creating A Winning Mindset

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177: Student-Led Teams Are The Best Teams

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176: Remembering the Tragedy and the Faithfulness (9/11)

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175: Communication – The Most Important Skill

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174: Body Language, Discipline, Sportsmanship

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173: The "Perfect" Sport, and the Winner Is...

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172: Savannah Bananas – Is It Baseball?

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171: How Are Cockiness, Confidence, Swagger, and Class Related? Can Teams Have Them All?

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170: Creating New Opportunities

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169: Back To Basics (Team Fundamentals)

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168: The Experience of a Lifetime

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167: Post-Season Check-In

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166: Genuine Joy For the Successes of Others

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165: The Greatest Pleasure In Life (ft. Lukas Moore)

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164: Yes, Do Play Multiple Sports!

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163: Change is Not a Four-Letter Word

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162: Creating a Memorable Experience for All

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161: Coaching Life Culture – The Post Interview

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160: Coaches Learning from Coaches (OHSBCA Clinic Preview)

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159: New Year, New Season!

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158: Flush It and Control Your Response

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157: How Sports Change Your Life

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156: Top 10 Attributes of a Great Coach

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155: Who's Going to Fill the Gap? (A Tribute to Dave Boyd)

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154: Development = "The Process of Winning"

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153: Winning a Mental Game with Guest Morgan Rodgers, Ohio University Golf

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152: Is Pressure a Figment of Your Imagination?

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151: Coaching Means Doing Stuff You Might Not Realize You Had To Do

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150: Parent/Coach Collaboration Because We Have a Common Goal – the Player's Success

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149: Guest Parker Navarro, OHIO University QB – Lead From Whatever Role You're In

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148: Guest Jon Hanlon and the Officials Shortage in High School Sports

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147: Response to Poor Performance

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146: Boys To Men

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145: What You Say Matters

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144: Youth Sports vs Church

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143: Don't Go Broke! (and more Do's and Don'ts)

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142: There IS a Way When It Seems There Is No Way

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141: Do's and Don'ts For Sports Parents (Part 1)

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140: Stories From The Diamond

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139: Cringeworthy Things Heard From the Stands

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138: The Welcome Back Show – Season 8 Begins!

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137: An Update From Chris and Pat

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136: Kurtis Rourke, Ohio University QB - His Own Legacy

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135: "Believe-In" Over "Buy-In"

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134: Justin Roush - Think You Deserve It? Prove It!

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133: Coach Sam Smathers – Discovering Joe Burrow

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132: Do You Know What You Don't Know?

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131: Let's Talk About Playing Time

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130: Playing Through Injury

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129: How Youth And Varsity Programs Are Connected

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128: Heart – A Tribute To Bernard Hussell

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127: What do you WANT?