Create Your Shot: Josh Loeffler

Create Your Shot

Chris Horwedel

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

4.9 • 939 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2018

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Smallz and Tyler welcome on Josh Loeffler of the Johns Hopkins Blue Jays. Josh just finished his first year as head coach at Johns Hopkins where he and his team finished as the centennial conference champions before bowing out in the second round of the Division III tournament. Josh talks about the differences between division I and division III, how he took lessons from early mentors, coaching at an academic powerhouse and much more. Segments this week include coach speak from Coach K and Brett Brown and a city review of one of Smallz' favorite cities, Hoboken, NJ. Coach Loeffler can be found on twitter @CoachJ_Loeffler :29 Tyler and Smallz Intro 8:25 Intro to Coach Loeffler and stories of the Big East 18:03 Recruiting at D3 level, what to look for 22:23 why D3 was the ultimate path and being a young head coach 27:46 Establishing culture while following a legend. 34:35 Being a genius and how it relates to recruiting 40:48 Approach to networking 52:25 Work life balance and career goals 57:10 Coach Speak â€” Brett Brown and Coach K 1:03:20 City Review â€” Hoboken NJ 1:14:40 Ten Touches 1:32:45 Parting Shots

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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 this week's Create Your Shot.
0:30.0	I am Tyler Lori.
0:32.0	joined as always by Chris Smalls Angelo and this week we have a man who has been referred to as the Tony Bennett of the Centennial Conference,
0:42.8	and that is Josh Leffler,
0:44.4	head coach of the Johns Hopkins Smalls.
0:47.7	I believe they're the Blue Jays
0:49.4	if I didn't do any research before this,
0:51.4	but I'm pretty sure they're the Blue Jays. I'm 97.3% sure you're right.
0:57.4	So Josh Leffler this week and really funny interview and we did banter a lot and cloaked in all the jokes and
1:05.2	laughter is a guy that I think really gets it a guy that was like I was a kid from
1:11.0	a small town I went to Swarthmore so I'm really really smart and all I know is
1:14.8	division three hoops and I got an opportunity to be a head division three coach at 25.
1:19.7	I got an opportunity to work on a division one staff.
1:22.2	I got an opportunity to be an a division one staff. I got an opportunity to be an assistant
1:24.3	in the Patriot League and I now, you know, he's the head coach of Johns Hopkins and just a guy that appreciated
1:31.4	where he was and just kind of laughed and joked around about his impact but now we're looking at it at someone who he won the centennial conference in his first year they went 24 and 5 unfortunately lost in the second round of the NCA tournament but his first year he's hosting
1:43.7	two NCAA tournament game Smalls. Yeah I mean that that's big time that's first of
1:49.3	off every one every coach out there knows and if you're not a coach and you're listening to understand how hard it is to make the tournament is one thing but I'll tell you what the division three level at the division two level when you're only playing within your region essentially and you have to
2:05.7	essentially win your conference unless your conference is strong then there might be an
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