David Rutherford Show: The Lie Travel Sports Is Telling Your Kid | Jason Collinsworth
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 11.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Jason Collinsworth — host of the I Hate Soccer podcast and 11-year youth soccer trainer — joins David to break down what's actually happening inside the multi-billion-dollar youth sports machine. You'll learn why 17 coaches in eight years can produce zero real development, why the leagues your kid is fighting to join are run as gatekeeping cartels, and why most coaches at the youth level can't even articulate a coaching philosophy when asked. David explains why what Jason is describing isn't a soccer problem — it's the same failure pattern you see when any system replaces meticulous individual development with marketing, recruiting, and pay-to-play optics. We break down two-footed training as a confidence-building doctrine, why parents become the threat instead of the support, and what to look for in a coach who's actually going to develop your kid versus one who's going to use them. Jason Collinsworth has spent over a decade running his own training company and is one of the most-watched independent voices in U.S. youth soccer.
✅ Sponsor: ☕️ Black Rifle Coffee, use code froglogic20 for discount: https://www.blackriflecoffee.com/
🏫 Get coaching by David Rutherford: https://www.froglogicinstitute.com/
📕 Get David's novel, The Poet Warrior: https://www.ballastbooks.com/ballast-bookstore/the-poet-warrior
📰 Sign up for David's newsletter for free coaching tips, updates, and more: https://davidrutherfordletter.substack.com/
Follow Clay & Buck on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/clayandbuck
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.3 | I used to have high highs division one level type players that would come to me and say, |
| 0:11.0 | I only enjoy soccer when I'm training with you. |
| 0:13.7 | I used to be like, that is not a compliment. |
| 0:17.5 | That hurts. |
| 0:19.0 | Why is it called I hate soccer? |
| 0:20.7 | It's that. It's like, why are we turning |
| 0:23.2 | this sport into something that they used to love into something that is a job at 14 and 15 years old? |
| 0:30.3 | All that stuff is conditioned through parents and coaches and other players. And it's like, man, |
| 0:35.0 | where has the love of the game gone? |
| 0:50.2 | Jason Collinsworth from the I hate soccer podcast. |
| 0:59.2 | Man, I was just, we were talking before. My wife sent me one of your videos about the politics of EC&L and GA Girls Travel Soccer, and I was automatically hooked. And since that, I've gone through, |
| 1:08.1 | I've watched probably three or four of your shows. And Jason, what you're doing |
| 1:13.0 | is really cool. Can you tell the audience why you decided to start the I hate soccer podcast |
| 1:20.3 | and what's been taking place? So for the last 11 years, I haven't worked for a club. |
| 1:27.8 | I worked for myself and I did my own training company. |
| 1:31.3 | And I started in 2015 in Buffalo, New York because I was out there coaching in the NWSL, |
| 1:37.5 | which is a professional league with when they still have the team. |
| 1:40.7 | So I broke off of that, started my own thing. |
| 1:43.8 | And for the last 11 years, I've talked and developed and developed relationships with all these players and all these families, and then they would come with me with their nightmares from club. |
| 1:56.0 | And all throughout those 10 years, I would always just like whisper under my breath or a parent would |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from iHeartPodcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of iHeartPodcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.