Jono Armold

Transactional vs. Transformational Coaching Dan Hurley shared a story about asking Geno Auriemma for advice after a rough start last season. Geno didn’t mince words: “Listen, if the only gratification and the only part of coaching that excites you is winning the national championship, then you’ve lost your way, buddy! Where’s the joy in the things that you’ve always been about as a coach before you went on the championship run, like relationships with your players, like helping people get better, like making your team the best it can be. Be a coach, man. This is when you really need to be a leader. This team isn’t as good as last year’s, so what the hell are you going to do about it? Are you going home? Are you going to let this thing unravel?” That’s the tension every coach feels: Transactional vs. Transformational. Transactional coaching is outcome-obsessed. It’s about the wins, the losses, the trophies. The problem? When results don’t come, your purpose crumbles with them. Transformational coaching is different. It’s about people. It’s about growth. It’s about building something that lasts whether the scoreboard agrees with you or not. And this is why mentorship matters so much in coaching. Left on our own, it’s easy to drift into a transactional mode without even realizing it. A trusted mentor can pull us back to center, and remind us why we started coaching in the first place. To build relationships. To develop players as people. To make teams the best they can be. Wins matter. But they’re not the why. The why is impact. The why is growth. The why is leaving your players better than you found them. The process is the prize. Stay grounded. Stay on the path. Always remember your why.

@tanous_tom That’s some needle threading. I need to see the bylaws pertaining to rushing, Mississippi counts, etc.

Unbelievable heart breaking game today - old team loses to young upstarts by score of 7-6 . Older team had to resort to very complicated offense to make up for lack of speed as evident in this Tanous pass.

When a plane is off course by 1 degree it misses its target by 60 miles. This is called the 1 in 60 rule & here's why you need to use it to achieve any goal:

@baseball44smith Should’ve left the visiting bullpen as it was…like an eighth wonder of the world…

I suppose I could see myself spending some time out here now and again.

@CD_Pelham “Nice play Pelman, never again.”

Love the reactions.. 😂😮

There is a lot we don’t know (and may never know) about hitter’s vision...but a useful trick to help “hide” spin...

@ColeUvila Should have waited at least another two full days.

Couldn’t help but smile when the entire bullpen erupts after ignoring you for two full days because you missed bullpen breakfast 😂😅

@jaegersports @patpinkman @Cmacniner @p_larson6 @ABCA1945 Really?? That’s the picture you chose?

And we’re off! Pitching Hot Stove rolling, hosted by ⁦@patpinkman⁩ w PItching Coaches ⁦⁦@Cmacniner⁩ @24jono⁩ ⁦⁦@p_larson6⁩ What a great opportunity to learn and ask questions!! ⁦@ABCA1945⁩ #Pitching #Hot #Stove

@SuccessLvsClues If you don’t top this off with a Diet Mountain Dew then you’re not living...

My God. You eat like a King. Here’s my New Years meal from Kwik Trip We couldn’t live any different lives 😂 #D1vsJUCO

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Eddie Jones on coaching👇 🗣"We use to think that we had to tell the players everything... One of the most important tools you've got is good questioning... But sometimes they've got to be told, you can't be asking questions if they don't have the body of knowledge to answer"

🚨 New Post 🚨 @CoeSoxMetrics looks at how pitchers with a “Dead Zone” fastball can still be effective at the major league level baseballcloud.blog/2020/12/02/__t…

@MattD_Official Peak legging angular velocity has room for improvement. Nike Huaraches are clean and efficient.

Unless you DEFINE the term for your players, "competing" just becomes another empty & ineffective buzzword. Defining it with measurable behaviors ➡️ Better Understanding ➡️ Better Execution #mvpmind

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Something we need to keep reminding ourselves - Yes there are some invariants in skilled movement (key positions, "fundamentals", a topology of coordination) but they are relative few in number compared to the variants available for us to exploit. From Sparrow & Newell (1998).

@wesrob22 Stop

“And that’s where you want your fastball... down and he went and got it.” - Alex Rodriguez on a pitcher with elite vertical break who lives up in the zone after 3 consecutive curveballs.

When you determine what drives success in the game and your pillars are geared towards that, makes training & programming have so much clarity Long gone are the days of having to listen to Higher level coaches at clinics give us wildly inaccurate info Train what matters #Pillars

Two young and projectable arms to add to our system! Look forward to getting to work.

@ColeUvila @wesrob22 🔥🔥🔥

@wesrob22 He’s got some all timers

“Pitching is simple but it is not easy. If you can make the ball do what you want it to do and throw it where you want to throw it, you will make so much f***ing money you won’t know what to do with it.” Easily my favorite quote from a PC since being in proball.