Ahead Of The Curve with Jonathan Gelnar

Patrick Murphy- Building a Championship Program

Today we have on Patrick Murphy, Head Softball Coach, University of Alabama Murph is in his 25th year at Alabama; 23rd year as head coach. In his tenure, he is the winningest coach of all-time in any sport at Bama. They have been to the NCAA tournament 22 straight years and all 15 Super Regional rounds that have been played. They have been a 12-time WCWS participant. He is a 6-time SEC champion, they have been the national attendance leader 14 years running and they have had the most academic All-Americans of any softball program the past 10 years.
 
On the show, we discuss all things program building which includes leadership dinners, involving parents, creating a culture of affirmations and gratitude and so much more.
 
You're gonna love this episode with Patrick Murphy!
 
Time Stamps
4:00- Vision when Patrick got the job
8:11- First Steps
12:30- Combating the anxious generation
15:30- "its all about the relationships"
17:15- Leadership Dinners
23:15- "Dont hold grudges"
27:20- Involving Parents
35:00 The power of affirmations
41:30- Holding teammates accountable
46:40- Classroom Sessions
49:40- Practice Planning Advice
56:30- Quick Hitters
Resources
Leadership from a dancing man
The Choice- Edith Eger
 
Contact
Coach Murphy
pmurphy@ia.ua.edu
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Minisode Monday: Start with Clarity

This week, we're talking why we should start with and continually focus on clarity.
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Justin Toole on peak performance, simplifying analytics and facilitating learning environments

Intro
Entering his 13th year in the Cleveland Indians Organization, and his second year on the Major League Staff. Justin spend the first 7 years as a minor league player reaching AAA, and the past 6 years as a coach. He was a hitting coach from 2016-'19 and Spent 2020 in his current role as the Major League hitting analyst. Justin Attended/played collegiately at the University of Iowa. Spent a week in the American Association before he was fortunate enough to sign with the Indians as a non drafted FA. He just finished a masters program in Performance Psychology this past March.
 
On the show dive into the art of coaching, facilitating a learning environment, blending intuition and science, simplifying analytics, and of course, psychology.
 
Time Stamps
2:00- What does a hitting analyst do?
6:00- Filtering Information
9:45- Advanced Reports
16:50- Evaluating new players
20:00- Communication
23:32- Teaching and its role in coaching
30:40- Blending the art of coaching with science/data
37- Facilitating learning environments
43- Mastery vs Performance goals
47:20- Giving Better Feedback
50- Focal Points, Routines and breathing
56:00- Quick Hitters
 
Resources
The Coaches Guide to teaching- Doug Lemov
Greenlights- Matthew McConaughey
Daniel Coyle Books
Legacy- James Kerr
Relentless- Tim Grover
Mind Gym- Gary mack
Range- David Epstein
Contact
https://twitter.com/Tooleyj24
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Minisode Monday: Creating a system for retaining information

This episode is powered by stick and ball. If you'd like a free month? go to stickandball.tv and enter the code AOTC2021 for a free 30 day trial, it WILL be worth it.
 
I'm going to do some shorter podcasts on some topics i'm passionate about, periodically and in addition to the weekly podcast. Todays topic is about creating a system for retaining information.
 
 
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Robin Lund on player assessments, developing motor learning plans, and blending the art and science of coaching.

Bio
Born in Northern Alberta, Canada in an area where there is very little baseball, his parents let him move to Lewiston, ID when he was in the 9th grade and live with a host family and play high school baseball. He then played at Spokane Falls Community College and  Whitworth University
After playing he coached at Spokane Falls CC for 4 years working with hitters and outfielders and  also serving as the S&C coach. During that time, he got His Master’s degree in Exercise Science from Eastern Washington University. Robin then got out of coaching and pursued a PhD and While working on it, he was Ed Cheff’s S&C coach at Lewis Clark State College. Robin completed his degree in 2002 and landed a tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Kinesiology in cedar falls Iowa. After 18 years, he got back into coaching and became the volunteer assistant for the University of Northern Iowa softball team in the Fall of 2018 and then in January of 2019 he took a job at the university of Iowa,  where he started as the hitting coach and then became the pitching coach in the Fall of 2020.
 
On the show, we go over player assessments, developing motor learning plans, and blending the art and science of coaching.
 
Time stamps
3:50 - Player Assessments
16:00- Blending art and science of coaching
18:30- Motor Learning Plans for pitchers
25:27- Motor learning plans for hitters
33:30- Using in game data for pitchers
37:00- Using in game data for hitters
43:30- Gameplanning
45:00- Pre-pitch routines
46:45- Post Game reports
50:30- Simplifying data
55:30- Quick Hitters
 
Resources
Motus Sleeve
Trent Otis
Google sheets/Pivot tables
Functional Movement Screen
Frans Bosch
 
Contact
@Lunderton
robin-lund@iowabaseball.com
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Lance Zawadzki on the lower half function in the swing, training adjustability and using technology efficiently

Today we have on Lance Zawadski, Minor League hitting coach for the Boston Red Sox. Lance played at San Diego State University and Lee University. He also played for 6 different organization and indy ball before getting into coaching.
 
On the show we talk about the lower half function in the swing,  training adjustability in the swing and using technology efficiently
 
Time Stamps
2:30- Player Evaluation.
10:48- Exploring the lower half.
13:00- Environment/Adjustability.
19:50- Training vs preparation
28:00- Lower half adjustability
35:00- Bill Belichick on technology and Technology best practices
46:30 Gameplanning
51:30- Resources
 
Resources
https://www.synapse-ccr.com/
Anticipation and Decision Making in Sport 1st Edition, Kindle Edition by A. Mark William
 
Contact
IG- @Lancezawadzki
Twitter -@Lancezawadzki
 
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Keith Law on scouting, developing talent, and preventing cognitive bias

On todays show
Keith is currently a senior baseball writer for the Athletic. He previously wrote for ESPN.com and ESPN Scouts, Inc. and for Baseball Prospectus. Keith also worked in the front office for the Toronto Blue Jays from 2002-2006.
 
On the show, we discuss scouting and its role in player development which includes a discussion on what traits can be taught, and what cant. Then we take a deep dive into analytics and what Keith thinks could be the most impactful information for the next decade.
 
Time Stamps
2:30- How Keith started in baseball
8:30- Analytics
11:30- Future Trends
25:30- Scouting
34:30 cognitive Biases
40:00 Traits that we can develop and traits that are innate
47:35- Acquiring players with traits you can develop
53:00- Resources
55:30- Last Things
 
Contact
The Athletic
Paste
Twitter
Blog
 
Resources
Thinking Fast and Slow- Tversky and Kahneman
Inside Game- Keith Law
Smart Baseball- Keith Law
Whistling Vivaldi- Steele
Biased- Eberhardt
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Geoff Rottmayer and Darrell Coulter on individualized player development plans and in-game strategy

Today we have on the Athletic Mission Baseball Academy staff Geoff Rottmayer and Darrell Coulter. AMBA is located in Tulsa Oklahoma and specializes in helping two way baseball players develop a strategic advantage mindset so they can deliver on game day.
 
Geoff is the owner of AMBA, was Drafted by the Florida Marlins out of High School 2003 but went on to sign at Seminole State College 2003 and later Florida Gulf Coast University 2004. He has 15+ years of coaching and mentoring hundred of player through the college recruiting and pre-draft and draft process and is the Creator of “The Command Hitting System”
 
Darrell signed with the Philadelphia Phillies out of High School in 1986 and played 4 years in Phillies Minor League System. Darrell has more than 15 years of College Recruiting Consulting and Advising for Parents & Players. he has Consulted with over 100+ College and Professional Pitchers. and he is the Owner of S.T.A.R.T.T. Pitching and theCreator of “The Strategic Pitcher Program”
 
They both also Co-Host of The Strategic Baseball Podcast.
 
On the show we go dive into what player development consists of, how to create strategic in game advantages, we talk game-planning, assessments and much, much more.
 
 
Contact
http://www.athletic-mission.com/staff
https://www.strategicbaseballpodcast.com/
 
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Trevor Burmeister on technology, challenging training environments and constraints training

Today we have on Trevor Burmeister, MiLB hitting coach for the Colorado rockies.
Trevor started his coaching career at UW-La Crosse in 2014 as Outfield and Assistant Hitting Coach. In his second year at the school the team went on to take second place in the NCAA World Series.
 
The following season, Burmeister started pursuing his Master’s Degree at the University of Minnesota-Duluth and in his first season there, they also had the third best batting average and second best home run totals in NCAA DII.
 
Before getting hired by the Rockies, Trevor was an assistant coach at Madison College. And In 2019 he was named the NJCAA Division II Assistant Coach of the Year by the ABCA and Baseball America
 
on the show, we discussed how to best use technology, how to create a challenging training environment,  and Trevor goes in depth with implements and constraints training.
 
Resources
Old School vs New School
https://108pa.com/book
 
Contact
https://twitter.com/T_Burm
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Kyle Stark on coaching and feedback, culture and why conversations need to start with clarity, connectedness and consistency

On todays show we have on Kyle Stark who is a leadership and coaching consultant. Kyles went to ball state, got his law degree from Toledo but he always knew he wants to be in baseball, so much so that in grad school he also serves as the pitching coach for St. Bonaventure, where he got his masters in business administration. He started as an intern with the Cleveland Indians and then he was hired by the pirates and worked his way up to be the assistant GM until 2019. On the show we discuss coaching and feedback, we take a deep dive into culture and we discuss why conversations need to start with clarity, connectedness and consistency.
 
Resources
The Bible
Contact
tkstark8@gmail.com
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