Coach 360

In our latest episode, Mackey is live with Marion County HS Coaches talking about the idea of coaching "long shelf life" traits. As coaches, mentors, and parents, we are responsible for making sure our athletes and students are ready not only for the test next week, but for the tests they'll face in life. We need to make sure we are equipping them with the tools to be successful in life. Some key...

In our latest episode, Colton is live with Head Basketball Coach David Peavy from Duncanville HS. Coach David Peavy is the new Head Coach at Duncanville High School. He was previously at Houston Dekaney where he coached them to a 34-4 record losing to Jesuit in the Class 6A Regional II Semifinals. They were also regional semifinalists in 2017 when they lost to Dallas Skyline after a 27-8 season. C...

In today's episode, Mackey is live at Spring Branch ISD Coaches training sharing the importance of coaching up and developing your athletes mindset. Key takeaways from this week's episode: Attitude is a personal choice YOU are the most powerful person in your life If you don't have great effort, you have no one to blame but yourself Mackey brings the heat in this episode, teaching coaches ways to...

In our latest Coach 360 episode, Colton is live with Coach Jeff Hulme, Head Football Coach from Midway High School. Coach Hulme took over at Midway in 2016 after leading Mansfield to the Class 6A state semifinals. This past year, in his second season at Midway, he took the Panthers to the Class 6A State Championship game. This week, Coach Hulme talks to us about his journey to Midway and everythin...

David Smoak has over three decades of experience covering sports in Texas and is a graduate of Tyler Junior College ('79) and Stephen F. Austin State University ('81). He became the program director and talk show host for ESPN-Central Texas (AM1660, 100.9FM, 106.9FM) in June 2010 after spending the spring of 2010 at ESPN Radio in Dallas. Mackey joins "You Make the Call" on ESPN Central Tx 1660 wit...

"Good, Better, Best Never let it Rest, Until the good is better And the Better is Best." In our latest episode, Colton is live with Coach Ross McMurry, Athletic Director and Head Football Coach at Colmesneil HS. This week will look a little different as Coach McMurry dives into his background and the struggles he faced before becoming the mentor, coach, and husband he is today.  In today's podcast...

In our latest Coach 360 episode, Colton is live with Coach Chris Castillo, Head Football Coach and Athletic Coordinator from Dallas Sunset High School. Coach took over at sunset 2 years ago and has since been on a mission to take Sunset to the next level. With an open enrollment district and a tough few seasons coach had 12 guys show up his first day of practice. Coach talks about the importance o...

In our latest episode, Mackey is live with Coach James Stagnitta, Head Coach of the Charlotte Hounds Major League Lacrosse team. Coach dives into his career and shares with us this idea that coaching is different than leading. Coach explains that as he grew and developed as a coach, he grew as a leader as well. It's one thing to put people in set and tell them what to do, and it's another thing to...

We have a special episode for you as we reach the end of the week. We're sharing a clip from one of our curriculum videos, "Your Role". Colton shares with us a little bit about what this idea means to him and how sports were an outlet for him while he faced family struggles. This is an all too familiar story, that we know coaches see every day. Mackey asks us a powerful question. He asks, "do you...

In our latest episode, Colton is live with Coach Todd Vesely, Executive Director at Ector County. Coach shares his transition from being a coach to working towards an administrative role. He talks about how the common themes he used in coaching was easily translatable to other programs across the board, which is what drew him to a more administrative role. Coach goes on to talk about what winning...

In our latest episode Colton and Mackey are talking about perspectives and the idea that having different perspectives than one another doesn't make one party right and one wrong. Mackey shares a story about an experience he and his wife had while engaged and how the way they viewed the situation then is completely different than the way they view now looking back. He talks about the importance of...

In our latest episode, Colton is speaking with the Aggie Christian Business Leaders Club about his move from the security of a job at a fast-growing company to diving head first into a start up with his best friend. Colton and Mackey go back about 10 years, and over that time as he was crafting his speaking ability, Colton was growing in business experience. Colton was connected to an amazing comp...

In our latest episode, Colton is live with Coach Kent Jackson from Seminole High School. Coach Jackson talks about his program's mantra, TR1BE. Which stands for: Trust Respect Integrity Belief Enthusiasm Coach talks about replacing the i with a 1 representing one tribe, one unit, one mission. Coach dives in a little deeper on what exactly it means to have belief and do everything with enthusiasm....

In our latest episode, Colton is live at Hamlin High School telling his story of putting in the hard work in hopes of winning in a power building competition. Colton talks about putting in months and months of effort into this one moment, for seven minutes on stage competing. Colton talks about wanting more at the end of that competition. He thought that if he was putting in months of effort, endl...

Mackey and Colton are live in our newest episode of Coach 360 talking about Colonel Craig Flower's idea of tier 1 leadership. Mackey shares the three questions that get asked of these tier 1 leaders: 1. Can they do it? 2. Will they do it? 3. Will others follow them when they do? So many times we believe that in order to be the best leader, you have to be the best player on the field, and if you we...

This episode is a special one as Colton is live with retired Concordia Chicago's Head Women's Basketball Coach, Rusty Rogers, who was the coach of one of our very own 2W team members. Coach Rogers shares his story and how his mindset on coaching was changed after the birth of his daughter. He talked about the shift from thinking solely about winning and records to focusing on using basketball as a...

In our latest episode, we are bringing you the latest curriculum video, Tick Tock. Life is often unpredictable, and you can never know or control what the next day will bring. You can control how you react to whatever the future holds. Even though you can't predict exactly what struggle you will face, you know that some type of struggle is coming. Each day you can prepare for those unknown obstacl...

In our latest episode, Mackey is live at the Leadership Summit encouraging coaches and leaders to be of good character. Mackey talks about how we can put rings on a finger and records on a wall, but all of those things are temporary and can be taken away at any given moment, but the one thing that cannot be taken away is your character. As you help raise up the next generation, recognize that they...

In this episode of Coach360, Mackey interview LTC. JC Glick, U.S. Army, Ret. Mackey and LTC. Glick dive deep into the difference between capacity and capability, the power of teaching athletes "how to think" not just "what to think", and the importance of disciplined, nuanced thinking. JC served in the U.S. Army as an infantry officer for 20 years, primarily in special operations and special missi...

In our latest episode, Mackey is live at the Leadership Summit encouraging coaches and leaders to stand firm in what they do and who they are. Mackey talks about how easy it is being so close to the end of the year to want to coast and quit continually pursuing excellence in everything you do. If you are at that place in the year, at the place in your life when you want to give up and quit, stand...

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In our latest #Coach360 episode, Colton is live with Coach Hank Semler from Aldine Senior High School. Coach Semler talks about the challenges his program faced, not only through the devastation of Hurricane Harvey, but also through different obstacles placed before his team throughout the season. Throughout the uncertainty of the season, Coach made it a point to create and maintain a mindset that...

In this episode of Coach360, Colton, and Mackey discuss just how damaging lowering your standard can be, the dark side of pride, and the greatest show of strength you can ever display.  The guys speak from the heart on this one, and you won't want to miss out! Connect with Colton @FullCurlColton and Mackey @MackeySpeaks.

In our latest episode, Colton is live with Coach Herring of Refugio ISD. Coach talks about the importance of not allowing circumstances to affect your performance, and shares the devastation that Hurricane Harvey had on his town. He talks about putting himself aside and being more than a coach for the athletes by sleeping in cots with them when their home was destroyed, beginning football early to...

In our latest episode, Mackey is live at Anderson HS in what he says was one of the most electric places he's ever spoken at. Mackey emphasizes that what we learn in sports will translate to the rest of our life. We learn things like integrity, doing the right things because they're the right things to do, and we don't fear the consequence of doing so. We live in a world where people stay quiet be...