Ep 165 The Way You Cut a Kid Tells the Whole Town Who You Are

The Sports Coach Podcast · Oct 8, 2026 · 7m

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Tryouts are coming, and with them the part of coaching nobody puts on a highlight reel. In this episode Coach Collins takes on cut day, the two hours a year that reveal more about a program than any game on the schedule. After a long career he is blunt about it: it never got easier, not once, and it should not.

The central idea is that everybody in the building is watching how you do it. The kid being cut is watching. His parents are watching. His friends in the hallway are watching. And your returning players are watching the closest of all, because they are learning…