Off Duty ADs

The Off Duty ADs talk about staying engaged as a youth sports parent, hazing, and Kirk Cousins. 

The AL Garbage, NL Garbage, hot dogs, PBR pounders, and the potential for regularly published episodes in our future.

Hey, look; an episode in 2023!  It's a catch-up pod driven by the passing of our beloved #1 fan, Uncle Bill.  We cover a lot of ground with our fandom - most of it negative - but the band was back together for a night.

Mike was covided-out, so it's just Mark and Ryan talking about their bourbon collections, AD internships, female coaches and AD, not being ready to discuss Maverick yet, and Ryan's pseudo-ambulance driving skills.

The long-awaited post-July 1 episode includes additional good news from Mike about his Boy #2.  After some initial chatter, Mark describes his last school year, and then Mike (of course) has to chat about the White Sox.

It's just Ryan and Mark today because Mike became a Dad x2!  It takes a while, but the guys eventually get to some semi-professional content by chatting about NIL.

We know it's Tuesday, but there are no rules anymore!  Professional development, NIL, Rethinking Fandom, Candlebox, and the marching band.

We're back!  It's a new format with the same nonsense: a little of this, a little of that, some things that might be helpful, and a lot that won't be.   No guarantees for the time between this one and the next one, but for today, we're back.

Like Arnold, Slim Shady, and Michael Scott, we're back.  The people have demanded it, so we're delivering.  Enjoy.

The Off Duty ADs say so long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodnight.  We also discuss our level of professionalism vs amateurism, the growth of HS AD podcasts, getting snubbed by the NIAAA, a handful of our longtime listeners, our t-shirt ideas, and a parting shot at Uncle Bill.

The Off Duty ADs talk about activities association imposed roster limits.  They also discuss the impact of oversize rosters during the post-season, possible advantages to unlimited rosters, trying to compare sports rosters to classroom rosters, dollar and beyond dollar impacts, how we'd deal with unlimited rosters, youth baseball parents, and new legislation for Colorado.

The Off Duty ADs engage in a thought exercise regarding the coordination of related tax-funded entities.  They also discuss the White Sox and the Browns, overcoming the political gaps between schools and parks, the positives of turning over all programming to the schools, the positives of letting the city manage facilities, putting pride back into neighborhood teams, managing a full K-12 program,...

The Off Duty ADs talk about replacing perfectly OK coaches.  They also discuss getting that first AD job, navigating internal personnel interest, balancing AD loyalty against recruiting high-level talent, combining teaching and coaching jobs, running into coaches at the grocery store, PE teachers, an almost really exciting volleyball match, a new cable cutting option, Quad Cities River Bandits, an...

The Off Duty ADs talk about managing student free speech using a well-known current case as a starting point.  They also recap a great story from Joe from Washington, how student free speech laws apply to athletes, kids these days and their snapchats and tiktoks, Ryan's MySpace, Coach Mike dealing with angry Mark, Mike's legal counsel, the new classic rock, and massive cans of good beverages from...

The Off Duty ADs talk about the continued officials' shortage in many sports.  They also discuss their month-long hiatus, Uncle Bill's critique of our eating habits, Mike and Siri, reaching the tipping point of lost officials compared to new officials, the difficulty with young officials getting started, competing with other leagues, Mark's wad of reffing cash, and a long trip to Florida that incl...

The Off Duty ADs first talk about whose baseball team is worse then eventually get to exploratory sports at the youth level.  Ryan empathizes with the parents of young athletes and kicks the tires on intramural programs; Mike wants people to understand there is no correlation between travel program success and the ability to play varsity sports and effectively summarizes exploratory sports today;...

The Off Duty ADs talk about managing contests during spring break.  They also discuss the Imogene Pass Run, Trevor Bauer, our historical sports game time machines, concerns about teams making long trips, crossing fingers to avoid bad decisions, when family causes a you gotta minute, stubborn dads, managing emergency absences, a podcast episode to check out, highballs and eight balls, and Mike's fa...

The Off Duty ADs talk about how they're evaluating coaches during covid-changed seasons.  They also talk about Mark's episode patching skills, tater tot hotdish, air fryers, Arrested Development, FCS football, Big Ten Minute, changing evaluation topics, cattle on the train tracks, Mike's four components of coaching, learning what coaches value, potential loss of participation this spring, Star War...

The Off Duty ADs respond to a listener's questions.  They also discuss recording without Mike last week, Big Ten Minute, FCS football, reporting ineligibilities in Covid (and normal) times, working with a part-time or no-time administrative assistant, parent feedback leading to growth, Mark's unfortunate interaction in a store, Ryan's fortunate interaction in a watering hole, Mike's movie moment a...

The Off Duty ADs talk about being a sane youth sports parent while also being an athletic director.  They also discuss the cold weather across the Midwest, craft beverages, comparable college football and basketball teams, coaching your own kid's team, gauging your words and tone after contests, choosing your sports parent friends wisely, assessing the quality of your kid's volunteer coaches, swit...

The Off Duty ADs talk about accommodating officials during Covid restrictions.  They also discuss small-town wrestling, Mike's family, a unique replay decision, Super Bowl incorrectness, Big 10 minute, various regulations for officials in our states, getting through the winter to make it to the spring, rescheduling games, an unfortunate injury to a colleague, Mark's variety pack review, and small...

The Off Duty ADs talk about whether character should matter when selecting student awards.  They also discuss Ryan's eye, the MLB Hall of Fame, coaches operating as the moral police, missing great athletes because they're "bad" people, trusting coaches with their nominations, new volunteers for game worker positions, Mark's Boy #4, karate fights in high school, Alone, new beers that are basically...

The Off Duty ADs talk about positive relationships between coaches and their athletes.  They also discuss Ryan's Brownies, Uncle Bill, whether coaches need to be liked, being judged by character and competence, finding resources to improve relationship building, Mike's library, coaches as teachers, rebuilding coaches who have "lost it," referee motivation, running trails that fight back, and anoth...

The Off Duty ADs talk about putting coaches on improvement plans.  They also discuss responding to emails, marshmallow beer, music for babies, Drew Brees and Tom Brady, Urban and the Jags, using or not using formal improvement plans, improving comparing to terminating, leopards or zebras, parent complaints leading to improvement plans, being a parent AD, the benefits of covid changes, Alone, a gre...

The Off Duty ADs talk about some of the changes and concerns that surround their current facility policies.  They also talk about the Brownies, college football coaches, a D3 football legend, volunteer coaches, co-op obstacles for athletes, concern around youth wrestling programs without a facility, getting stuck in comparisons to neighbors, managing rental requests, out of season usage, asking ou...