HeyJaredChris Goodrum
Chief Operating Officer for Pro Skills Basketball, Assistant Varsity Boys Coach at Ballantyne Ridge High School, and author of The Crossroads of Youth Sports Parenting.
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Stop Changing the Environment. Develop the Kid. (opens the original)
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One of the biggest changes I’ve watched happen in youth sports isn’t with the kids.It’s with us.When something isn’t going the way we hoped, our first instinct has increasingly become to change the environment.Not enough playing time? Change teams.Not getting the role we expected? Find another program.Competition too difficult? Play down.Not producing enough? Find weaker competition.Not standing out in his grade? Reclass.Coach holding him accountable? F
Reclassing Down: Growing Up vs. Gaming Up (opens the original)
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Reclassing isn’t new.Long before rankings, social media, NIL, and the transfer portal became part of the youth basketball conversation, families were making the decision to give kids an extra year.And sometimes, it was exactly the right decision.A kid was young for his grade. Physically behind. Academically behind. Emotionally not quite ready. An extra year gave him time to catch up to the kids he was already competing against.But somewhere along the way, the conversation started to change.The e
Why 3x3 Deserves a Real Place in Youth Basketball, All the Way to Varsity (opens the original)
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I recently took my son to the BIG3 Championship in Charlotte.I knew we’d enjoy it. What I didn’t expect was to spend most of the game thinking about youth basketball.The atmosphere was incredible, but I kept noticing the game itself. The space. The physicality. How involved every player had to be. There really weren’t any possessions where someone could just disappear.And I kept coming back to the same question:Why aren’t we doing more of this in youth basketball?Maybe the better question is why
The Unknown Opponent: It’s Never Been About Them (opens the original)
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When I started writing this series, I thought I was writing three different articles.One for players.One for parents.One for coaches.But somewhere along the way, I realized something.They’re all the same article.Because they’re all fighting the same opponent.It just wears different uniforms.The Player Thinks...The player thinks the opponent is another player.The defender.<span
The Unknown Opponent Part III: Coaches (opens the original)
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When coaches think about opponents, we naturally think about the next game.The next scouting report.The next matchup.The next challenge.We spend hours preparing for the team standing across from us.Studying tendencies.Watching film.Building game plans.But after more than two decades of coaching, I’ve become convinced the greatest opponent we’ll ever coach against...Is ourselves.The Opponent Nobody Se
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