Off Duty ADs

The Off Duty ADs talk about their various athletic director and state organization meetings.  They also discuss Mike's disgust about last week's episode, Uncle Bill's Corner, Urban Meyer, home runs, the difference between mandatory meetings in each state, professional development in AD meetings, a guest intrusion, safe driving practices, avoiding a couple other discussions, Mark's favorite type of...

The Off Duty ADs talk about their facility checks before the fall seasons start.  They also discuss the MLB trade deadline including Mike's White Sox complete lack of action, a much different Uncle Bill's Corner, highly paid coaches, checking the integrity of both stands and bus seats, missing flags and partial announcements, forgetting the details, pulling out the old bleachers, AD duct tape, mor...

The Off Duty ADs discuss hiring coaches at the last minute.  They also discuss Ryan recording on location, recap Mark's trip to Baltimore, NFL tickets, packaging teaching and coaching jobs together, processing new hires as quickly as possible, factors that reduce applicant pools, the absolutes to get a new coach started, an insect attack, prioritizing the non-message message, the Year of Tom, Mike...

The Off Duty ADs talk about hosting pre-season parent meetings.  Despite poor audio, they also talk about a missed opportunity with the national group, the new segment called Uncle Bill's Corner, office windows, scheduling parent meetings, filling the content of those meetings, ways to receive those elusive verifications, a lack of common sense, normalizing bad behavior, using other ADs to pass al...

The Off Duty ADs talk about returning to the office after their summer "breaks."  They also discuss Mark's inability to do math, Mike's new income suggestion, potential changes to the podcast logo, serving as your own athletic trainer, way too much fandom, Happy Bobby Bonilla Day, Colorado's mental health initiative, the Eisenhower productivity principle, managing the fire, deciding what's really...

The Off Duty ADs talk about a recent video ad that revolves around a fictional parent support group.  They also discuss the lack of one of our hosts, pretending to not work, correspondence from Bill NE, Mike's love for the Kardashians, stereotyped youth sports parents, the purpose of our programs, effectively run youth programs, the attrition rate of youth participation, eating an elephant, our fa...

The Off Duty ADs talk about their athletic trainers and sports medicine programs.  They also discuss listener feedback, the beauty of rally scoring, managing athletic trainer coverage on multiple sites a night, taking injury decisions away from coaches, parents running the Return To Play end around, Ryan's more traditional fake basketball team, and a mini-Big Ten minute to finish the episode.

The Off Duty ADs talk about sportsmanship in athletics.  They also discuss feedback from previous episodes, angry Little League parents, live Cubs/White Sox reporting, World Cup blowouts, mercy rules, adults being adults, their movie outfields, and Ryan's dessert beer.

The Off Duty ADs talk about their summer facility usage.  They also talk about Mike's past absence, little league baseball rules and the current state of baseball, weight room etiquette, a celebrity visit by Joe from WA, increased penalties for fan conduct, balancing outside rentals with in-house facility use, chasing off non-renters, the quality of Ohio vs. Colorado grass, our movie-based basebal...

The Off Duty ADs talk about hosting interns and the curriculum of advanced degrees.  They also try out a new introduction, cover for a missing Mike, the Cubs addition, answer listener mail, faulty state brewery rankings, sports management and athletic administration degrees, unsuccessfully avoid generation generalizations, learning by doing, the problem with short internships and shadowing, Ryan f...

The Off Duty ADs talk about those last steps before flipping the switch from the end of one year to the start of the next.  They also talk about Billy Fitz's Nebraska based gloating, the AL Central being dominated by the Twins, Mike's Sixers and the NBA playoffs, checklist items for ending the spring season before leaving the office, squeezing in spring coach evaluations, finishing up fiscal year...

The Off Duty ADs foolishly think they can answer the question, "What's the most important thing an AD does?".  They also talk about the possible end of Ryan's AD career, our continued non-footprint in Alaska, listener email, thanking event organizers, sidetrack into Office Space quotes, being an educational leader or an operational manager, trying to identify a single most important job, focusing...

Amazed that they've lasted an entire year, the Off Duty ADs reflect on the beginning of their podcast and their past 50 episodes.  They also talk about how ADs do nothing in the spring, collecting spring equipment, Mark takes some unnecessary shots at South Dakota, Mike yells at the kids on his lawn, Ryan hates Survivor loved ones, recap their first recording days, review their experience in a Ger...

The Off Duty ADs celebrate Year One by answering emails and responding to articles about volunteer coaches, financing your athletic department, assaulting officials, and policies about fan ejections.  They also discuss Mike's and Ryan's low week as fans but listen to Mark gloat, skipping school for RBI Baseball, The Simpsons softball team, Iowa Western's draft success, participation fees, booster...

The Off Duty ADs (minus one) talk about a magazine article devoted to the seven signs of a struggling coach.  They also discuss the AL Garbage Division, professional sports in Ohio, funny "you gotta minute" moments, research done by a longtime listener, the umpire shortage, coaches' quirks on the sideline, our lengthy episode lengths, scheduling requests, focusing on the wrong things, keeping your...

The Off Duty ADs talk about alcohol, tobacco, and substance abuse violations.  They also talk about prom supervision, rare birds disrupting a lacrosse season, Mike (not surprisingly) trolls Nebraska, backyard golf, violation structures in the guys' three states, Mark suspends a girl with two right hands, the definition of the word possession, investigating pictures (or not investigating them if yo...

The Off Duty ADs discuss comments made by Geno Auriemma about coaches being scared of their players.  They also revisit the discussion about the umpire shortage, tell Mark's brother to put together his own beer list, try to figure out how to immediately get fields ready for antsy coaches, either agree or disagree (or somewhere in between) about how Tom Izzo's motivational tactic would fit in high...

The Off Duty ADs talk about the steps they take to leave the office for a few days.  The also discuss Joe's beer selections, the start of the MLB season, clearing a gym, Core Values from Brainerd, 50/50 drawings, creating a call list before leaving on vacation, remote rescheduling, Mark ignoring his coaches, creating a daily schedule while gone, answer messages in volume, our secretaries knowing m...

The Off Duty ADs are one man short but bring back recurring guest Joe from Washington to talk about the current shortage of officials.  Also, Mike refuses an invite to the Cornhusker bandwagon, Mike has technical difficulties, good basketball players magically appear in Seattle, Big Ten wrestling domination, Mark gives a youth sports update, rogue officials in Washington, making up for a lack of o...

The Off Duty ADs continue their discussion about fan behavior and engagement.  They also discuss the lack of spring in ND, Mark's bandwagon days, youth wrestling, college admissions among celebrities, banning students from being fans at contests, the college influence on student sections, Mark plugs a post from his blog, playing referee between adults, the excellent Tom Cruise basketball scene, El...

The Off Duty ADs talk about fan behavior, engagement, and guidelines.  They also discuss well-known fight songs, Mike resumes his admiration of Urban Meyer, the state race for podcast listeners, North Dakota weather update, the need for ADs, Mike again apologies to Bill from NE, spectators in the math classroom, creeping normality, supervising empty gyms, TLC vs STP, questions about content that e...

The Off Duty ADs talk about hosting major tournaments.  They also get into the firing of the ADs who couldn't beat Hickory but then discuss structural changes in South Bend, Mark calls out Joe from Washington, 90s recollections, early White Sox chatter, Baby Shark, lazy weekends that don't exist, geometry, North Dakota geography, handing out second place trophies, the importance of taking care of...

The Off Duty ADs talk about e-sports.  They also cover coaches' meetings (or safety meetings) over a beverage, awkward pauses, Big Ten minute including Iowa legends, Cubs and Indians, Fernando Rodney's arrows, kids playing video games, possible legitimate facts (and possibly not), including more kids in high school activities, how money with affect the growth of esports, the lack of conditioning d...

The Off Duty ADs talk about their office secretaries...or their administrative assistants depending on your preference.  They also cover the Big Ten minute, youth hockey, Mark rants, more Big Ten minute, how we don't really know what our secretaries are doing all day, ignoring our phone lines, pre-phone call meetings, bobbleheads, the year of Tom Cruise continues in a race car, Mike forgets about...

The Off Duty ADs talk about athletic directors having friendships with coaches.  They also talk about Mike's continued technical difficulties, west coast collegiate wrestling, The AAF, Mike's Big Ten update, Ryan's internet filter, Mark's editing skills, how crappy February is, the dangers of running distracted miles, having friendships with athletes' parents, being mentally tougher than grandpare...