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From the fifth quarter studios in Madison, Wisconsin, you're listening to Coach Unplugged.

And now, your host, Steve Collins.

Hey, everybody. Welcome, welcome, welcome to Coach Unplugged. I am so happy that you decided to join us.

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It will give you one-on-one calls and office hours and a community of like-minded coaches. I think you'll love it. Let's head off to the podcast. Whatever you want, this is your time, whatever you want to talk about. Awesome. Well, I am my son's basketball coach. Okay. the last four years. It's almost like by the last man standing to coach.

I've been there, trust me. I've been a varsity coach for 30 years, and when my son was in sixth and seventh grade, no one else would do it, and I had to do it. I go, I'm coaching another team. It's like, yeah, your last man standing sometimes gets it. Yeah. I so I got every one of the years not knowing if I'm going to coach.

Right.

And so I always, and so this year I didn't know if I was going to coach. I didn't know if there's going to be two teams. Right. The other coach was going to be the head coach if we had one team. Right. We had two teams.

I volunteered to be the coach,

only because I don't want to,

I don't want to start the year off not knowing.

So I've gone in these years never knowing.

So now. teams, I volunteered to be the coach, only because I don't want to, I don't want to start the

year off not knowing. So I've gone in these years never knowing. So now I'm just going to

assume I'm going to be coaching my son's team. Okay. So I'm going to work all year long on it.

Right. Okay. So we're in a CYO league. Okay. It's more recreational, although it's considered to travel.

But it's basically a league of kids that don't play high school basketball.

Okay.

You can't play CYO and play high school basketball.

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