Eight of the best college baseball teams are closing in on one of the best yearly sporting events in college sports--the College World Series. This premier event in Omaha, Nebraska is a great show lasting for 8 or 9 days. Billionaire Warren Buffet loves it and we know how smart he is. I do, however, [...]
There is a cool breeze blowing into Tempe, AZ today as some of the best collegiate women’s golf teams blow into town today. (Hopefully the breeze doesn’t get any stronger). I have had the privilege, and continue to have, of working with several coaches and their teams over the years. It is especially great that [...]
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.” [...]
I have never thought of myself being resistant to change. However, I must consider it given my reaction to the current view I have to the games of March Madness, 2013. As they have done before in other sports, the media has changed the face of collegiate basketball. And, not for the better. It is [...]
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 [...]
My ode to Bill Raftery ... I have been fortunate in my lifetime to have met some really great people. Back in my other life as a college basketball coach, I had the good fortune to be introduced to Bill Raftery, who at the time was the Head Basketball Coach at Seton Hall University. I [...]
For over 40 years I have been a member of the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC). And, as a member I have regularly attended its national convention. This event is always held at the site of the Final Four. Back in the day, the site for this event was rotated from an East Coast [...]
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 [...]
March Madness comes to a screeching halt in, of all things, April. This weekend in Indianapolis, IN four teams will take their best shot at winning the NCAA Championship. One team will do so on what amounts to a home court. That would be Butler University, one of the two 5th seeds to make it [...]