Create Your Shot: Adam Nelson / Hoopdirt

Create Your Shot

Chris Horwedel

Sports, Underdog Sports, The Underdog, Basketball, Nba, -- None --, Create Your Shot

4.9 • 939 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2017

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Smallz and Tyler are joined by the man behind the mythical twitter account @Hoopdirt. Adam Nelson, AKA, Dirtking talks on his career, the college coaching carousel, mistakes he made and advice he has for young coaches. A 25-year coaching veteran, Dirtking dives into burnout in the coaching world, building a business and the difference between Division 1 and Division 3. Dirtking can be reached @hoopdirt, at hoopdirt.com and [email protected].Â 0:31 - Tyler and Smallz Intro The Dirtking, Adam Nelson 2:32 - Dirtking's backgroundÂ 8:45 - Adam Nelson IntroÂ 11:30 - Dirtking's coaching journeyÂ 12:48 - Working with Pat SkerryÂ 14:27 - Burn out working in coachingÂ 15:10 - Differences between division 1 and division 3 schools 17:20 - Leaving the Division 1 level and what's the best choice for coaches starting out 20:00 -Tyler's arrogant past/plans and a quick storyÂ 21:01 - Starting Hoopdirt.comÂ 23:15 - Amount of traffic to @hoopdirt and hoopdirt.com 24:00 - The impact of twitter on the site 25:20 - Controlling the flow of information and the news cycle 26:05 - On being correct while reporting - Missing on San Jose State coaching searchÂ 28:23 - Stepping out of coaching to focus solely on Hoopdirt 29:27 - The structure behind hoopdirt.com 32:20 - The future of HoopdirtÂ 35:10 - Biggest struggle for Hoopdirt/Competition within the rumor mill 37:20 - Balancing coaching/website and familyÂ 39:30 - Ultimate goalsÂ 41:25 - WHERE WILL THEY LANDÂ 45:48 - Ashley Howard - Assistant, VillanovaÂ 42:27 - Earl Grant - Head Coach, CofC 43:10 - Danny Hurley - Head Coach, URI 44:12 - Gregg Marshall - Head Coach, Wichita State 45:11 - Kenny Payne - Assistant Coach, Kentucky 46:26 - Rick Pitino - Former HC, LouisvilleÂ 48:22 - CITY REVIEW - QUINCY, MA 52:58 - TEN TOUCHESÂ 52:14 - Funniest guy Dirtking has ever worked with 53:05 - Worst travel experienceÂ 54:25 - Favorite BookÂ 54:56 - "Defense wins championships" 55:40 - Craziest AAU tournament storyÂ 56:30 - One change to college basketballÂ 57:42 - Three coaches on the hottest seats 59:58 - Dream Coaching JobÂ 1:00:41 - Best coaching twitter follow 1:01:49 - Best youth sport to attendÂ 1:02:30 - Parting ShotsÂ 1:02:43 - Best advice ever given 1:03:14 - Face-to-Face with 25 year old self - DirtKing's bat phone goes off in the background

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0:00.0	The following podcast is part of the underdog sports
0:07.9	podcasting network for a full list of our shows as well as breaking sports news and engaging feature stories.
0:15.4	Visit us at www dot the underdog sports.com. Come.
0:29.0	Welcome to the 12th episode of Create Your Shot.
0:30.0	Smalls and I are back, and we like I say in the episode an early holiday
0:36.8	present for young coaches out there. This week we have the man behind Hoopdirt.com, the Dirt King, Adam Nelson.
0:45.3	And this is a fun interview.
0:47.2	Obviously, young coaches who are going to listen to this have probably spent hours
0:51.1	and hours and hours on Twitter looking at job postings looking at
0:54.5	daily dirt being like oh man how's that guy got a job or how can I get this job who do I
0:58.6	know that works here so this was one that was really fun because when I was trying to break in the business in 2009, 2010 and on like I spent so much time reading Hoopter checking all the rumors and getting so deep into the coaching carousel and we actually got the guy behind it and we learned
1:15.2	because I knew nothing about him. I mean he was Dirt King for years and years and years and he's just finally
1:19.3	started to let people know who he is and put his number up there and really you know make this viable so
1:23.6	Smalls the dirt king was awesome it was so cool yeah it was fun I mean cool fun
1:30.7	whatever you want to call it the myth I mean what what a guy to get because when I said that email just reaching out to him I was like this might just go into space this guy's not even real.
1:43.8	But in all seriousness, it was awesome
1:46.4	because we didn't know what was coming.
1:48.3	A lot of the guys we've had on, we knew
1:50.4	and we kind of knew they're gonna be be guarded in the beginning but we can open
1:54.4	them up. We didn't know what we were getting and it was really refreshing because I
1:58.9	think he was beautifully candid and also very honest with you know his experiences
2:06.2	what his feelings are now and then just everything that's going on in the college basketball world
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