2012 Villa 7 Consortium Notes
Mike White – Head Coach Louisiana Tech
White – 1st 100 days, 4 kids 4 and under, 2 conference wins, lost 2 best players, 6 games, 5 scholarships, 2 kids who had not been to class in 2 weeks, APR problems
-Take deep breaths
-1 day at a time
-Win the day
-Regroup at night
-Don’t worry about things you can’t control
Press Conference is Huge | 2012 Villa 7 Consortium Notes
-Get some sleep the night before
-Express gratitude
-Excitement
-Share vision
-Recruit the masses and challenge them to get on board
Who you hire is most important?
-Loves his staff
-Admin help ASAP
-Right hand man to get you through 1st month or so
-Ops guy in 24 hours
-Wanted continuity, retained 2 guys
-Best assistant coaches can help you in your opportunity
What do you look for in assistants? | 2012 Villa 7 Consortium Notes
1. Work capacity
2. Character
3. Presence in the region
-Consider responsibilities, see how they fit together
-Make sure he is excited about what he is doing
-Make sure he is well rounded, people that want to be head coaches
-Recruiting
-Player meetings – Recruit, listen, and build trust
-Spend time with Jimmy before you go looking for Joe
-Contact the best players in the region ASAP
-Develop High School and AAU relationships
-Give local recruiting people equity early by keeping them updated on the early days of your job
-Get on scheduling early
Creating your culture/Changing culture | 2012 Villa 7 Consortium Notes
1st team meeting
-Be organized
-Met with staff for 6 hours
-Wanted to make it clear they were on the player’s butts.
-Sharing the vision
-Challenging them to take ownership of the vision
-Have to fast track relationships
-Team socials and have them over the house, Bowling Alley
1st Month | 2012 Villa 7 Consortium Notes
-Get Support Staff
-Set up email, phone, voicemail
-Get keys
-Business cards
-Letterhead
-Staff interaction
*Meals/workouts/films
*Recruiting trips
-Individual team workouts make evaluations
-Have to get an idea of what you’re about
-Community outreach | 2012 Villa 7 Consortium Notes
-8 AM 3 weeks @ Starbucks
-Same thing for lunch
-Put the team in front of the community
-Media Luncheon
-Scheduling
-Camps
-Sit down with key people on campus and share vision
-Admissions/Facilities/Band/Registrar/Academics/Alumni Center
2nd Month | 2012 Villa 7 Consortium Notes
-Recruiting
-Signing 1st spring class, those guys will be building blocks, ok to hold on.
-Won
-Coachable
-Tough
-Wanted to be there
-5 Days a week go to faculty staff lunch room
-Watch basketball with team playoffs?
-Speaking engagements
3rd Month | 2012 Villa 7 Consortium Notes
-Outreach to former players, welcome and appreciate them
-Outreach to former coaches/assistant coaches
-Outreach to student body
-Speak at freshman orientation
-Fraternity/Sorority
-Change appearance of lockeroom/gear/signs/coaches
-Make assistants comfortable
-Ask AD for things before you lose a game
-Meet other coaches on campus, introduce yourself to all
-Marketing Ideas
-Fall workouts
-Responsibilities
-Terminology
Mistakes he made
-Lack of lead time to let them know you became a head coach. Reach out to those people quickly.
Press Conference
-Don’t start recruiting; understand the difference between trying to get the job vs. press conference.
-People use the press conference against you if you say the wrong thing. Less can be more
-You cannot say yes to every speaking engagement | 2012 Villa 7 Consortium Notes
-How many are going to be there?
-How many give money?
-Do they have season tickets?
-Don’t put Scheduling off
Assistant Coaching Candidates | 2012 Villa 7 Consortium Notes
-5-10 friends will swear they will be hired.
-Can’t allow assumptions from friends, be honest, hard convo but then follow up with them.
-Investigate APR/Academic support | 2012 Villa 7 Consortium Notes
-Get family settled ASAP.
-Embrace your role as crisis management coordinator
-Every night set a priority list, be ready to reprioritize it.
-Would respond to all texts at the end of the night
-Let your voicemail box get full, they will text you and you can respond via text.
-Prioritize your email, categorize it, so you can copy/paste
-Learn to close your door
-Have secretary email phone calls
-Maintain AD relationship
-Ask Administration for help
-Take care of your body
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