Coaching U Podcast with Coach Brendan Suhr

Coach Brendan Suhr is joined by on of his dear friends, Hall of Fame player and 2 Time NBA Champion with the Detroit Pistons, Isiah Thomas. In this episode, Coach Suhr and Isiah discuss their recent reunion as they celebrated the 30 year anniversary of the Back-to-back World Champion Detroit Pistons “Bad Boys” teams. Isiah then discusses how both players and coaches should handle adversity and fai...

Coach Brendan Suhr is joined by the Tony Dungy: Super Bowl Champion, Pro Football Hall of Fame Head Coach and New York Times Best Selling Author. In this episode, Coach Dungy discusses how he arrived at the story for his new book The SOUL of a Team and how he used his past experiences to shape the book. He also discussed the importance of leadership and teamwork on teams, his coaching style, how h...

Coach Brendan Suhr is joined by the NEW Head Coach of the Stetson Hatters Donnie Jones. In this episode, Coach Jones takes you through his first 24 hours on the Stetson campus, why he chose to take the job at Stetson, the style of play he plans to implement as well as the process of taking over a program. Donnie Jones is one of the games sharpest coaches with an outlook that is heavily influenced...

Coach Brendan Suhr takes you through a 3 part episode that includes his thoughts on Tom Izzo and how he is perceived after the incident that occurred in the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament, his preview of both the Men’s & Women’s NCAA Sweet Sixteen games as well as how he recommends you plan for your offseason as a coach. All that and more on Episode 131 of the Coaching U Podcast with Coa...

Coach Brendan Suhr is joined by basketball analyst Debbie Antonelli to preview the 2019 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament. In this episode, Debbie takes you through each region and highlights the key matchups as well as teams to watch. Also, she shares with you here proposal to bring the women’s Sweet 16 to Las Vegas. Find out how it will work logistically and how it truly has the chance to be a...

Coach Brendan Suhr is joined by the Head Coach of the #22 Ranked Wofford Terriers, Mike Young. In this episode, Coach Young discusses the joy he has coaching his Top 25 team featuring SoCon Player of the Year – Fletcher Magee, why he’s had success over his 30+ years at Wofford, the strength of the Southern Conference as a whole, gaining experience as an assistant, some of his most memorable wins d...

Coach Brendan Suhr is joined by the Head Coach of the Ivy League Champion Harvard Crimson Tommy Amaker. In this episode, Coach Amaker discusses his coaching style and how he navigates the Ivy League’s unique schedule, celebrating his 400th win recently, coaching special players like Jeremy Lin, the journey he and his staff took to build this Harvard program into what it is today, his development a...

Coach Brendan Suhr is joined by ESPN & SEC Basketball Analyst Andy Kennedy. Prior to joining the ESPN broadcast team Coach Kennedy spent the last 12 seasons at Ole Miss including nine 20+ win seasons while becoming the winningest coach in Ole Miss history. In this episode, Coach Kennedy reflects on his time at Ole Miss, shares how this year away from coaching has allowed him to gain a differen...

Coach Brendan Suhr is joined by Becky Burleigh, Head Coach of the Florida Gator Women’s Soccer Team and Co-Founder of What Drives Winning. During her time at Florida, Coach Burleigh has won 14 SEC Team Championships, 12 SEC Tournament Championships and the 1998 National Championship. In this episode, Coach Burleigh discusses how she and Brett Ledbetter founded What Drives Winning, the format of th...

Coach Brendan Suhr is joined by the Head Coach of the Texas Longhorns Women’s Basketball Team, Karen Aston. Coach Aston shares how humbled and gracious she was to return to Texas as the Head Coach and what she learned as an assistant coach under Jody Conradt. She also discusses what she has found to be the best approach to coaching each of her players, advice to assistant coaches trying to climb t...

Coach Brendan Suhr is joined by the Head Coach of the Liberty Flames Ritchie McKay. In this episode, Coach McKay tells Coach Suhr which coaches have had the biggest influence on his career, why he leaving Liberty positioned him for success when he returned as head coach, 5 of the Pillars he has built his program around, his style of play, the strength of the teams and coaches in the Atlantic Sun C...

Coach Brendan Suhr is joined by the Head Coach of the Oklahoma City Blue, Mark Daigneault. Mark will explain how the Oklahoma City Thunder organization invests in the Blue in order to maximize results, how quickly & efficiently the G-League has evolved in a short amount of time, the style of play in the league and how systems are formed around concepts instead of personnel, what is at stake fo...

Coach Brendan Suhr is joined by the Head Coach of the Texas Southern Tigers, Johnny Jones. Texas Southern is off to a great start in Jones’ first season as head coach including 3 road wins over Power 5 opponents: Baylor, #18 Oregon & Texas A&M. In this episode, Coach Jones discusses how he has evolved as a coach throughout his career beginning as an assistant coach under Hall of Famer Dale...

Coach Brendan Suhr is joined by the Head Coach of the Washington Huskies Mike Hopkins. In this episode, Coach Hopkins takes you back to his start at Syracuse as a player and Assistant Coach with legendary coach Jim Boeheim, the opportunity he had to work with USA Basketball and how it has developed over time, his thought process and what other aspects influenced him to take the Washington head coa...

Coach Brendan Suhr is joined by the Head Coach of the Furman Paladins, Bob Richey. In this episode, Coach Richey takes you inside the rise of his Furman program as they are now in the Top 25 for the first time in school history. He also describes their style of play, how it is taught through concept and designed to fit the team’s identity, the importance of being a life-learner and finding ways to...

Coach Brendan Suhr is joined by founder & president of Janssen Sports Leadership Center, Jeff Janssen. Widely considered the world’s top expert on Sports Leadership, Jeff’s pioneering work in launching and conducting college athletics’ first Leadership Academies with student-athletes and coaches began over a decade ago. His groundbreaking work is what originally started the whole field of...

Coach Brendan Suhr is joined by the Ganon Baker, one of the world-wide leaders in player development. In this episode, Ganon discusses his playing career and how it influenced him to transition into the world of player development. He shares with you how he approaches player development for each position, the importance of being competent, being able to connect, being clear what you need to work o...

Coach Brendan Suhr is joined by the Head Coach of the LSU Tigers – Will Wade. In this episode, Coach Wade covers a variety of topics including how he decided to pursue a career in coaching, the people of influence in his career and how they prepared him for transitioning into a head coaching position at such a young age. Coach Wade also discussed his current tenure at LSU, his style of play, pract...

Coach Brendan Suhr is joined by the BJ Armstrong, 3-Time NBA Champion with the Chicago Bulls and now Executive Vice President for basketball with Wasserman. In this episode, BJ takes you inside the job of a player agent. BJ represents some of the NBA’s best including Derrick Rose, Josh Jackson, Draymond Green and JaVale McGee. He also discusses the recent revival of Derrick Rose and what he saw fr...

Coach Brendan Suhr is joined by the Head Coach of the Ryerson Rams Roy Rana. In this episode, Coach Rana discusses his experience of coaching the World Select Team at the Nike Hoop Summit, his background coaching the Canadian National Teams and the great players Canada has produced, transitioning from the best Canadian high school job to Ryerson in 2009 and how his vision for the program has come...

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Coach Brendan Suhr takes you inside his ALL NEW PHD in Coaching Course! This episode covers the inspiration for the course as well as overviews of each lesson along with FREE PREVIEWS of the featured Timeout sessions with special guests: Tom Flick, Mano Watsa, Dr. Tim Elmore and Jon Gordon. Also, we discuss the SPECIAL LAUNCH PRICE of ONLY $97 ($149 Value) as well as recap everything you will rece...

Coach Brendan Suhr is joined by the Head Coach of the UCR Highlanders, David Patrick. Coach Patrick is entering his first season as the Head Coach of UCR and was previously holding Associate Head Coach positions at TCU and LSU as he established himself as one of the nation’s premiere assistant coaches and rising stars in the profession. In this episode, Coach Patrick discusses how he prepared hims...

Coach Brendan Suhr is joined by the Head Coach of the Texas A&M Women’s Basketball Team, Gary Blair. Coach Blair is a Hall of Famer who is entering his 47th year of coaching at both the high school and collegiate levels. The self-proclaimed “late bloomer” got his start in coaching by accident at the age of 27 as he coached 4 sports in high school after being in the US Marine Corps. In this pod...

Coach Brendan Suhr is joined by the ESPN Senior Writer & Author of 3 New York Times Bestsellers including his latest book “Belichick”, Ian O’Connor. In this episode, Ian and Coach Brendan Suhr dive into the the book as Ian shares what he learned about Coach Bill Belichick’s coaching style, how he has changed over the years, stories about his work ethic and attention to detail, the ins and outs...