Ep 166 What Happens in October Decides What Happens in February

The Sports Coach Podcast · Oct 15, 2026 · 7m

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Your season does not start on the first day of practice. It starts about four weeks earlier, which means for most coaches it has already started. In this episode Coach Collins makes the case that by the time you blow the first whistle in November, a surprising amount has already been decided: who trusts you, who believes they matter to you, who showed up in shape, and what the air in your gym is going to feel like.

The episode opens with an uncomfortable question. If your first practice were tomorrow morning, what would your team already know about you? Not what you…