Kyle Ellison

@CallingOurShot Yessir! Thank you!

Hope you watched the video... ✅ I'll have another parlay in today's vid.

@WilliamMcCall_ Feel like Dixon would be great in TJ’s system.

Offseason predictions (zero sources) Head coach: T. J. Otzelberger Leaving - Kyan - Luka - Powell - James brown - Zayden high - Derek Dixon Staying - Denis - Stevenson NBA - Henri - Caleb #Tar

“You’re always going to get knocked down and you have a choice to stay down, whine, complain, point fingers and make excuses or you can get back up and fight” - Hubert Davis (Via @thewinningdiff1 🎥)

Thank you, Coach Davis! 🏀🐏

@HoltBasketballB @HoltSection Congratulations, Coach!

After 13 yrs @ Holt I am stepping down as 🏀 coach. It has been a privilege to lead a remarkable group of young men over the yrs! My sincere thanks to the players, parents, admin, coaches, & our @HoltSection for yrs of unwavering support!

Why do I believe in a clean weight room ? I believe in controlling the controllable. Small wins daily , it helps practice discipline , and helps teach practicing good habits. Looks and feels good also . Teach pride and ownership .

High school coaches are expected to be champions, recruiting consultants, film scouts, & relationship managers — on top of teaching 6 classes a day. For pennies on the dollar. Some good ones are walking away. That’s a problem nobody’s talking about.

Thank you for everything Coach Davis, one of the best men and coaches in my life.

This guy is going to be a star in the coaching world.

7 Things you should be doing to get faster: 1) Sprinting 2) Jumping 3) Throwing 4) Lifting 5) Sleeping 6) Recovering 7) Repeating This holds especially true for teenagers.

TWO FEET vs. ONE FOOT Big South Championship High Point 🟣 2 ft: 80% / 1ft: 33% Winthrop 🟠 2 ft: 65% / 1 ft: 29% Footwork is the lifeblood of a basketball 🏀 player

🚫 Chris Beard Defensive System • 3 stops = Kill • 7 kills = Win • 1 rule = NO MIDDLE More in Friday’s newsletter - link in bio

@WestranGirlsBB @khariganfuemm @JaelynMiller02 @KateHollmann @HadleyH21 @jillSte86333760 @KalynnCarroll1 @NemoPressbox @LewisClarkConf @missouri_sports @All_MO_Sports @Mid_Mo_Sports @scoreboardguy Congrats, Coach. Good luck Friday!

Class 2 District 7 Girls Semifinal Westran (20-8) 39 Marceline 36 @khariganfuemm 14 @JaelynMiller02 8 @KateHollmann 7 @HadleyH21 4 @jillSte86333760 4 @KalynnCarroll1 2 @NemoPressbox @LewisClarkConf @missouri_sports @All_MO_Sports @Mid_Mo_Sports @scoreboardguy

The only thing more elite than Caleb Wilson’s game is his enthusiasm on the bench for his teammates while he is injured.. He’s a real one.

Pittsfield Lady Saukees Head Coach, Noah Mendenhall, has resigned his position as the head coach, following two seasons at the helm. The following statement was provided to Central Illinois Sports.

2/ Are there bad coaches? Of course. There are bad professionals in every field. But sweeping declarations about “lazy coaches” flatten a deeply complex profession into an easy villain, and complex realities rarely survive long inside convenient narratives. Human nature hasn’t deteriorated. The environment has changed. Year-round specialization. Club conflicts. Recruiting pressures. Social media scrutiny. Parent expectations. Mental health realities. Administrative compliance demands. Coaching didn’t get softer. It got heavier. Distance, however, has a way of creating false confidence. It’s easier to assign motives, diagnose laziness, and question integrity when you’re not responsible for practices, classrooms, roster decisions, or the deeply human moments that define school-based athletics. It’s a very different vantage point — one where the pressures of guiding teenagers are replaced by the comparatively manageable logistics of organizing soccer tournaments, inviting teams, and making sure the right T-shirts find the right benches. And occasionally, modern criticism takes on a curious shape — where disagreement drifts beyond ideas, where reactions feel designed less to illuminate and more to unsettle. 20 years in journalism teaches you many things, but one lesson repeats itself: disagreement with an opinion rarely carries the same energy as discomfort with a perspective that refuses to align neatly with an established storyline. The difference is usually unmistakable. Experienced professionals understand why. None of this suggests coaches should be shielded from accountability. Accountability matters. But accountability without precision becomes performance. And performance without solutions becomes noise. Because identifying problems is easy. Finding solutions is the real work. If we truly believe athletics are “more than just games,” then the conversation must move beyond outrage cycles and toward something harder. How do schools better support coaches? How do we improve communication? Prevent burnout? Navigate athlete mental health challenges? Clarify offseason expectations so that we all know the difference between family time and commitment? Mentor young coaches entering an increasingly complicated landscape? Sorry to burst the bubble stretched over your football field — but solutions, real ones, demand more than imaginative proposals and sweeping declarations. They demand perspective. High school athletics are NOT a battlefield of villains. Coaches, officials, schools, and yes, the IHSA — overwhelmingly good people guiding imperfect teenagers through growth, resilience, failure, accountability, teamwork, and development that extends far beyond the scoreboard. But reducing an educational institution — or the people within it — to a running tally of court decisions misses something far more important. The purpose. High school sports exist, at their best, as an extension of the classroom. A space for growth, resilience, failure, accountability, teamwork, and social-emotional development. A space where imperfect adults guide imperfect teenagers through experiences that shape who they become. We can debate policies. We can critique decisions. We can push for improvement. But if the starting point is cynicism, caricature, and the assumption of bad intent, the conversation is already broken. And if someone cannot acknowledge the fundamental educational mission of high school athletics — the development of young people — then perhaps the most constructive contribution is not louder commentary, but a step back from the discussion entirely. Because this space was never meant to be defined by outrage, narratives, or scorekeeping. It has always been about growth. -MR

THREAD: When I coached football at DeKalb, my stipend check arrived every two weeks. For $99. Not per day. Not per practice. Per pay period. One season as a freshman basketball coach brought a grand total of $1,000. For an entire season. Today, as a varsity basketball official, I’ll typically earn $83 for a contest — before taxes, before travel, before the quiet math that reminds you this was never designed to be lucrative. Those numbers aren’t shared as complaints. They’re shared because context matters. Because perspective matters. And because conversations about high school athletics have developed a curious tendency to drift far from the lived realities inside schools. Especially the loud conversations. Especially the viral ones. Especially the ones built for engagement rather than understanding. Because perspective, inconveniently, tends to belong to those who have actually lived inside this world. Because if you’ve never lived inside this space — not observed it, not commented from afar, not tweeted about it — but truly lived it — the conclusions can come easily. If you’ve never been evaluated as a coach by an administrator. Never navigated roster decisions that directly affect teenagers and families. Never balanced classroom responsibilities with practices, film sessions, eligibility compliance, offseason regulations, and the quiet emotional labor coaching demands. Never sacrificed evenings, weekends, holidays, and family time for compensation that looks dramatically different when divided by hours invested. Then yes… The realities are easy to misread. And the narrative circulating online can sound persuasive. “More lazy high school coaches than ever.” It’s a striking claim. It’s also the kind of simplicity that travels exceptionally well online — clean, confident, and ultimately very… dare I say… lazy. 🤨 Because real life inside schools is rarely that tidy. Most high school coaches are teachers or school staff working full days before stepping into a gym or onto a field. They manage lesson plans, grading, meetings, interventions, and student needs long before practice begins. Then comes preparation, planning, communication, compliance, logistics, mentorship, hours of film session on a Sunday morning and countless unseen moments that never make it into social media commentary. All for stipends that, when measured honestly against hours invested, would surprise many of the loudest critics. Most coaches are not getting rich. They’re getting tired. 1/

@britishtarheel Wayne or Cam Johnson

You’ve got to choose one Tar Heel in a 3 point contest… who you going with? I’ll start…

🚨Head Football Coach Opening🚨 The Harrisburg Bulldogs are accepting applications for their varsity head football coaching position for the fall of 2026. #BulldawgPride If you have any questions, contact AD, Chris Ackman. Send information to: ackmanc@harrisburg.k12.mo.us

INTENTION changes everything! Two athletes. Same starting point. Same exact program.
But one keeps improving… and the other stays stuck. Why? Athlete A is just going through the motions. Showing up because they have to. Checking the box.
 Athlete B shows UP. Every rep has purpose. Every drill has focus. Every session has effort behind it. That’s the difference between average and elite. If you want to become an elite athlete, don’t just be present; be intentional. Work hard. Compete. Show up with purpose. This post put together by performwithpete needs to be seen by as many athletes and coaches as possible! Amazing visual and an important lesson on how to maximize every training session. Over a thousand training sessions INTENT becomes the difference between success and knowing you could have been more!