The four teams have been selected for the playoffs to decide the collegiate National Football Champion for 2015. All four teams (Clemson, Alabama, Michigan State and Oklahoma) are worthy contenders. My question is “What has the football powers that be limit the number to four teams?” College basketball has successfully included 68 or more teams. [...]
In September, 1951, I enrolled at the College of the Sequoias (COS), Visalia, CA ... what one would call a "junior college." At 5’7”, 135 lbs. I was determined to continue to play sports just as I had in high school. I was naive enough to think I could compete, so I never had a [...]
Today is Mother’s Day. The day that honors the people who keep everything together—our Moms. These are the people who always place the needs of their children before their own. Many have a job or profession that takes a big chunk of their time as well. This is also a time when the spring sports [...]
College’s March Madness is often referred to as “The Big Dance” and the majority of teams have a goal to get an invitation to attend. Ultimately two teams will play for the honor of being the “King.” Usually the final two are fairly predictable. They thought they were supposed to be there. Is there a [...]
I had the opportunity to see the No. 1 high school basketball team in the country (Findlay Prep, Las Vegas, NV) play this weekend against their crosstown rival, Gorman Catholic High School. Gorman’s record doesn’t match Findlay Prep’s, but they battled wire-to-wire and Findlay Prep managed to eke out the victory. Most of the game [...]
This past week’s Sports Illustrated featured tonight’s football game for the National Championship between the University of Oregon and Ohio State University. It is the culmination of the first real playoff in Division I college football. In this issue there was another article, one by Seth Davis about someone I have always loved spending time [...]
Given I’ve been coaching for over 50 years, I am always very interested in what others coaches do. For the most part, what I don’t get to discover is who they “be” in delivering the daily practices that develop their team. Mostly I use how their teams go about their business. What kinds of winners [...]
Today is the first day of the second workshop we have done at Providence College over the past few days. We worked with the lacrosse team last weekend and are working with the softball team starting this afternoon. The work we are doing is called Building a Championship Team, and we have been teaching this [...]
The structure of the NCAA and intercollegiate athletics is under fire and rightfully so. How it has evolved has had many lose sight of the value of the experience for the athlete and those who know the athlete. Yesterday morning the University of California, Berkeley was represented in the women’s singles tennis final by a [...]
The Final Four is decided. The Univ. of Florida, Univ. of Conn, Univ. of Wisconsin and Univ. of Kentucky are in. With the exception of the Badgers, all the participants have won multiple NCAA titles. Bo Ryan might be the best coach in the country ergo Wisconsin reigns. The rich get richer and they like [...]