Welcome to the Hardwood Hustle part by PGC coaching.

This week, Sam is joined by Josh Merkel, head men's coach at Randolph-Macon,

to discuss end-of-season evaluations, off-season plans, and ways to continue improving your program.

Let's get started.

Welcome to the Hardwood Hustle and really excited about this one. Sam here,

no TJ, no Lisa, but joined by my good friend and coaching friend. Josh Merkel, head coach

at Randolph-Macon. Josh, excited to talk with you today. We're going to talk about, well, first off,

welcome. Glad you're here. Glad to be here. Big shoes to fill when you today. We're going to talk about, well, first off, welcome. Glad you're here.

Glad to be here. Big shoes to fill when you, when you break down the intro like that. No Lisa, no

T.J. But I'm excited. Hey, you're a great, you're a great sub off the bench, six man of the year

right here. But Josh, you know, you've been on before, and, you know, we, you know, you're now

part of our PGC coaching team.

You're one of what we call our coach mentors inside our membership.

And so it's just been a lot of fun watching you serve coaches through there in our community.

And, you know, you're still killing it at Randolph-Macon.

You guys every year in the hunt, you know you're still killing it at randolph making you guys every year in the

hunt you know top five program division three and so we're just going to talk your season just

ended you know here in the last couple weeks um you guys had another great run it ended uh before you

would have liked to, I'm sure.

And so we're just going to, you know, we did this with TJ a couple weeks ago and talk about your season, kind of what your thoughts are, what's going on right now as you turn the page of the off season.

And then towards the end of the show, we'll talk about what we're looking forward to with this March madness.

You know, talk to us just about how you... show we'll talk about what we're looking forward to with this March Madness.

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