Colorado CoachEm Up

In Part 2 of “Who Is to Blame?” we take a deeper look at the club sports industry, coaching, and the system shaping today’s youth athletes. From the rise of the pay-to-play model to the illusion of “A teams,” we unpack how youth sports has become a marketplace—and what that means for families, coaches, and kids. We challenge the idea that paying more leads to better opportunities, expose the reali...

Youth sports is a multi-billion dollar industry. Families are spending more than ever. And 70% of kids quit by age 13. So… who is to blame? In the Season 3 premiere of the Colorado CoachEm Up Podcast, we tackle one of the biggest questions in sports today. Parents, clubs, coaches, schools, communities — nobody is fully off the hook. We also talk multi-sport athletes, old school coaches vs. new sch...

We’re back behind the mic — and this time, it’s personal. What started as a debate about Bad Boys vs. Rush Hour quickly turned into something deeper: why we launched this podcast in the first place. Youth sports are changing. The cost is rising. Kids are getting priced out. Recreation leagues that once gave us opportunity — PAL, Parks & Rec, Boys & Girls Club — are shrinking or disappearing. And b...

In this episode Bubba and Jesse dive into women’s basketball and greater effect on women’s sports. They talk about high school baseball in Colorado and the complexities of weather and rescheduling games. Then they offer advice to coaches who are struggling to get performance out of their teams on game days.

In the return episode of the Colorado Coachem Up podcast Bubba and Jesse discuss the cost of sports and how it affects the youth in the inner city.

Jesse and Bubba kick off season 2 with a discussion about leadership and offer some tips to become a better leader. They also bring in softball coach, Claude Vigil who has 30 years coaching experience ranging from youth to high school

Bubba makes a big announcement and asks Jesse some difficult questions from a coaches perspective to an athletic director

We invite our good friend Eric Duran to add some new flavor to the Coachem Up podcast. Eric engages us by bringing up relevant sports topics that will tug at your heart and make you laugh.

Have a plan for practice or plan to fail. Jess and Bubba go into detail about quality practice planning and structure. They also answer questions about the way they want to be remembered, coaching their own kids and when they fell in love with their sport.

This episode we are talking about what happened to the three sport athletes, the dangers of specializing too soon, diminishing participation numbers and more.

We discuss the importance of establishing core covenants and how they are more important than strategy. We also share our best and worst moments as coaches.

Being called coach is a great honor. And it comes with tremendous responsibility. We discuss some issues that we are seeing currently with youth coaches and offer some coaching tips to help.

We dive into the most important people in a child's athletic success. We will talk about the good, the bad and the ugly sides of parenting in sports.

Get to know Jesse and Bubba as they set the stage for the podcast. A relationship built on competition and a shared determination to over come adversity. There is 40 years of coaching experience between the two of them. The majority of that experience is from Jesse being a high school football coach and Bubba being a high school baseball coach. Listen as they take aim to use their experience to in...