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I shared the notes from the Coaching U LIVE clinic here last week and hope to share the notes from this one as they become available. Sadly, I did not attend. I truly hope to one day. Invite only clinics and clinics that have the focus this one does are the best. Back in the late 80′s and early 90′s a group of us used to hand out assignments: BOB’s, P & R Defense, Specialty Plays, Late Game, etc…, convene at the Final Four, meet in an empty room and go. It was truly awesome. Each person was responsible for bringing in enough copies of written material for the group. Each coach had about an hour, with time for Q & A after. Sadly, that disintegrated.
The “recruiting” aspect of the Final Four… college guys hanging with AAU guys to solidify the relationship for X player took over and the time for X’s & O’s was prioritized out of the equation. Everyone said, “We have to do that again.” It never happens.
Kudos to Coach Shyatt and the Florida staff for keeping it alive and growing the game in a way outside of recruiting. As they said, the reason why many of us got into it in the first place.
This was a good article on what the clinic is truly all about.
First thing Monday morning, and Larry Shyatt is standing on the men’s court inside the Florida basketball practice facility, welcoming those who have assembled on this SEC campus to talk hoops in what feels like a genuine and pure environment. There is nothing glamorous here. A white board on the court, folding chairs lining a baseline and sideline, and little more. The room is filled with everybody from future Hall of Famers to junior college coaches, and Shyatt, Billy Donovan’s associate head coach at Florida, has just one instruction before turning things over to Butler’s Brad Stevens.
Matt Painter shares information about the motion offense he has perfected over at Purdue. (Courtesy: Gary Parrish)
“No holding back,” Shyatt said. “If you’re not willing to share, this is not for you.”
What happened next was nice to witness.
The subsequent 14 hours featured one speaker after another — Stevens, NBA icon Del Harris, Pittsburgh coach Jamie Dixon, Boston Celtics assistant Kevin Eastman, etc., — talking about a variety of subjects, exchanging ideas, discussing, debating and thoroughly enjoying a two-day clinic Shyatt created years ago that continues today thanks to the support of Florida athletic director Jeremy Foley and the willingness of those invited to make time to attend. They talked about transition defense and motion offense, about mental toughness and proper shooting techniques. They talked about how to deal with certain situations in the media, how to handle players who won’t work, what to do with student-athletes’ sometimes embarrassing addiction to Facebook and Twitter, and then they went to bed, awoke early Tuesday, and did it all again.
I really enjoy stories of perseverance…
Steve Megargee
Rivals.com College Basketball
With the confidence of a coach and the passion of a preacher, Zach Lipson has spent much of his teenage years telling anyone he meets about his plans to join one of the nation’s elite college basketball programs.
It didn’t matter to him that he’d never played a minute of organized hoops. Or that he stood little chance of ever being more than 4 feet tall. He still gave the same speech to just about everyone he met, whether he was chatting at a dinner table full of strangers or sitting across from a skeptical guidance counselor.
He was born with a spinal deformity, so he already had overcome long odds. What was to stop this Nashville resident from proving people wrong once again?
Zachary Lipson's passion has him headed to Kentucky as part of the basketball program.
Lipson’s story proved inspirational enough to earn him a spot as a student-manager at Kentucky. He is expected to live at Wildcat Lodge – the same building that houses the players.
That represents a stunning turn of events for someone who has overcome more obstacles in his 19 years than most people face in their lives.
Lipson was born eight weeks premature and weighed less than 2 pounds. He required CPR in the delivery room. He has undergone more than 30 surgeries. And if that weren’t enough to make him curse fate, Lipson also has a twin brother who is healthy. Lipson doesn’t need to wonder what might have been: He has a walking reminder in his home.
Lipson has resisted the temptation of self-pity. He instead has faced every challenge with the same upbeat approach that has helped him serve as an inspiration to friends, family members and classmates. Kentucky’s latest recruit won’t develop into the next Tony Delk, but he just might become the next Tony Robbins.
Shared with us by Ross Comerford of Fast Model Technologies…
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”
- Theodore Roosevelt
From everyone I have spoken to this event was one of the best coaching resource tools they have ever been to. People continue to rave about the University of Florida Coaches Clinic that Coach Donovan and his staff put on every year (sadly, I have not attended either – that will change next year). These two coaching resources must be “Top 5″ for coaching growth and development.
If you attended either of these events (or others) and can provide information and feedback, it would be greatly appreciated.
Post a comment and I’ll share it with everyone.
Above is a link to 70+ pages of notes provided to a friend of mine by:
Adam Cohen - University of Southern California
I don’t personally know either of these guys, but they did a tremendous job detailing the information provided by Coaching U LIVE. On first impressions, these are two young, detail oriented guys who “get it.”
Thanks for sharing with all of us.
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