Best Audio Demo I ever heard was with Rob Sample. I was really new in he space. He carried some Prestige speakers from Paradigm into a small office, with the worse imaginable acoustics, and then like an artist, taught me how to hear great audio. To this day, still my fav demo

Finally got a chance to experience this setup. So simple to set up. Still love a high end setup, separates, hi fidelity speakers, an amazing projector, but for a good setup at a decent price, that anyone can install into an existing space, this is really hard to beat.

I had a family tell me last night after AAU ends today they have high school games Wednesday. WTF is wrong with people??? I wish some HS coach would call me talking about some workouts or some games. My response “see you in September”

Everybody wants to “discover” an athlete once the spotlight finds them. The real work is believing in them before the world does. Stay faithful to the assignment. God sees what people overlook.

The true measure of a coach? Not the wins and losses. It's how many players come back to you years later and say: *Coach, thank you, it was bigger than basketball.*

TRANSFERRING DOESN’T ALWAYS MEAN “QUITTING” The easiest thing to do when a student-athlete transfers is call them a quitter. It’s also one of the laziest opinions in college athletics. Yes, some athletes leave because they’re unhappy with playing time or because the grass looks greener somewhere else. That happens. But pretending every transfer fits that stereotype ignores how college sports actually work today. What gets overlooked is how many student-athletes never truly choose to leave. They’re “encouraged” to enter the portal after a coaching change. They’re told they no longer fit the system. They’re informed their scholarship won’t be renewed. They’re recruited over. They’re asked to do something very than they were never promised. Some programs need to free up roster spots, and someone has to be the casualty. Is that quitting? Or is that survival? The conversation also conveniently ignores the role coaches play in creating today’s transfer landscape. We criticize athletes for entering the portal, but many coaching staffs have made the portal their primary recruiting strategy. If coaches continue filling significant portions of their roster through transfers every year, why would we expect fewer players to enter? The portal exists because there’s demand. If coaches stopped relying on it tomorrow, you’d see the numbers change faster than most people realize. There are countless other reasons athletes transfer that have nothing to do with toughness or commitment. Family illness. Personal health reasons. Financial realities. Academic programs. A coach who recruited them leaving after one season. Wanting to be closer to home. A toxic team culture. Broken promises. Personal growth that changes priorities. Life doesn’t stop because a young person agreed to play a sport at a college or university. The people most eager to label transfers as quitters are often the same people who applaud coaches for leaving one job for a better opportunity. We call it career advancement for adults but question the character of a 19-year-old trying to make the best decision for their future. Why do we attended college in the first place? To prepare us for careers. That double standard has never made much sense to me. Every transfer has a story. Some are admirable. Some aren’t. Some are not quitting and some are. But assuming you know which one it is because you saw a name enter the portal is irresponsible. Before we judge, we should remember there’s usually far more happening behind the scenes than a press release, a social media post, or a database entry will ever tell us. Student-athletes deserve to be evaluated as individuals, not reduced to a stereotype the moment their name appears in the transfer portal.

Also think it's odd, when a parent invests to help their Child be the very best in athletics or dance, ALL PARENTS are "living their dream through their kids", but when a parent pays for their kid to have top education at a Private School they're giving them an advantage.

If you're a club, and you're not ECNL, parents move their kids to new club. Then can you blame a Club for chasing ECNL? If you're a parent, and told your kid has no shot outside of ECNL, can you blame them for hunting an ECNL Club? Same applies in Bball with Shoe circuits.

Follow the money. What's actually driving all of it? Are the clubs driving this? Are ALL PARENTS really guilty of living vicariously through their kids? In soccer, to play D1 they say you need to play ECNL. Whose driving that? Is that really Club and Parents fault?

Always think the takes on these debates are missing critical context. Too much to unpack in a single tweet, but we over simplify it blaming parents for 'living their dreams vicariously' or blaming clubs for 'chasing IG Glory.' And none of those takes move the needle forward.

Has club sports ruined youth sports in every state, or just Utah? I can’t believe what these kids and parents are put through now…. It’s a travesty.

I texted a coach this morning and asked how the new job was going after about a month. His response was one I’ve heard many times… and lived myself: “Not bad. Some kids pushing back culture wise. Always worried about staff and numbers.” If you go into a program and start making the changes that need to be made, be ready for pushback. That’s normal. My advice to him: Water the good grass. Don’t let the weeds hold you hostage. Too many coaches start looking the other way because they want to keep players and coaches happy. They convince themselves they can slowly change the culture. It doesn’t work that way. Culture doesn’t drift in the right direction. It moves toward the standard you enforce. Stay strong to your principles. The right grass will grow. 🌱🏈 @fastnwide