In my previous blog post on Home Court Advantage (HCA) I asked you to consider a possible theory I have as to the source. I did not tell you what you might do to mitigate the HCA. I will give you something in that regard, momentarily. The first thing I want you to clearly get [...]
The NBA Finals began last night at the home of the World Champion Miami Heat. The words “Home Court Advantage” (HCA) will be heard often over the next couple of weeks. The San Antonio Spurs erased Miami’s advantage with a solid 92-88 win. The stat guys will tell you that the HCA is worth a [...]
Everybody talks about the value of being a team. My question isn’t whether they have a team or not, but rather what the level of that team is. People participating together for a particular purpose are a team. But, is that team striving for the highest level of excellence? Are they actually practicing to be [...]
Every team can achieve team chemistry by simply taking on the following: • Live that relationship is the key to everything • Create a Code of Honor (Basic Principles) to live by • Practice, practice, practice In order to be successful each player must realize what they have done. By saying, "yes" in a commitment [...]
Adventures at CAL Todd Team Coaching has done a lot of work at the University of California(UC), Berkeley. Women’s and Men’s Tennis, Men’s Basketball, Women’s Golf, Women’s Swimming, Softball, and Gymnastics teams have all participated in our Building A Championship Team process. In addition we have worked with all of those coaching staffs in our Coaching Excellence [...]
There's A "Shark" In The Water This week my college roommate, Jerry Tarkanian, was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. I say, totally deserved and about time. I have never much cared for the “Shark” nickname. I can look at it this way ... perhaps in the same vein as “pool shark.” [...]
This Spring, it has been very rewarding to see the work that Todd Team Coaching has done showing up in concentration. I'm referring to the work we've done with intercollegiate golf on the west coast. More specifically, women’s golf coaches and their teams. For example, the leader of the pack is Nancy McDaniel, Head Coach, [...]
I know it is the time of year for conjecture about the “Road to the Final Four” and who should be on it. However, at some point, maybe we need to “chill” and see how the current system plays out. After all, changing just to be changing doesn’t work and never did. I am definitely [...]
The Ides of March is fast approaching, which signals that we are fully into that madness called college basketball and its NCAA Championship competition. Our media pundits are fully engaged in identifying who is in and who is out, and of course, who is on the œinfamous bubble. Its one of the very few occupations [...]
It is Monday in February, so the Super Bowl must be over and the football is ended. A sad day for our friends in the media. Not sad for too long given March Madness is just around the corner. Thats a conversation for another time. I wonder why the powers that be think they have [...]