Episode 13 See ya later alligator

The host of the podcast called Got You Coached, Coach Rick, reflects on his 50+ year coaching career and the purpose of his podcast. He shares stories about coaching youth and high school sports, and his intention to help new coaches. He talks about the challenges of remembering details from the past and finding a comfortable speaking style. Throughout the series, he discusses his experiences coaching in different sports and locations, the problems he encountered, and his coaching philosophy. He mentions the decline in interest and lack of feedback from listeners, leading him to suspend the podcast temporarily in hopes of finding more interesting material to share in the future. Hey there coaches, welcome back to my podcast called Got You Coached. A podcast for coaches, about coaching, and hosted by a real coach. I'm your host, Coach Rick, and you're listening to episode 13 titled, See You Later Alligator. When I decided to start this series, I went into it with huge dreams about sharing the stories about coaching youth and high school sports that delighted and also irritated me throughout my 50 plus year coaching career. As I said in the very early episodes, I was never ever doing this for money. Not that I don't need it or would like to see it, but rather to help new coaches and those of you who were or are considering entering into the wacky world of being a youth sports coach. I actually had fun putting together my stories from the past and had a little bit of a memory problem at my age trying to remember the exact details from 50 plus years ago. And when I went from reading my written scripts word for word to using the scripts as more of a guideline and actually starting sounding more comfortable and not so robot-like. Over the course of the series, you learned about how I started out in Little League Baseball in Cupertino, California as an assistant coach, coaching with my dad, and how I learned my first bad lesson about how crazy athletes' parents can get when they interject their, I'm living life through my son and daughter because I never made it in sports attitude, when things may not be going the way they feel that they should. Then you learned about my time in South Lake Tahoe as a 20-year-old head coach of a girls' AAU track and cross-country team, and some of the fun times and trials and tribulations of learning how to coach a sport cross-country that I knew nothing about except that I wouldn't be caught dead actually doing the sport. And there I was trying to coach it without the use of the internet and Google. We then explored the ways that I set out to change the image of that AAU team and the different things and places that we did and went to with the team, and how it became a special group of girls that really enjoyed each other and worked very hard to get rid of the old image of the team being losers. We then went on to dive into the what-ifs or the problems and alternatives that I encountered while coaching in snow country, and how my decisions may have turned things out differently if I had chosen different ways to do things. Next, we visited how I got into coaching youth soccer in Tahoe, overcame my thought that soccer was a communist sport and my kids would never, ever play that game, and eventually formulated my coaching philosophy that carried me into other sports. Then we went into developing your coaching philosophy in Episode 6, how to inspire and motivate your athletes in Episode 7, and then how to prepare your athletes in Episode 8. Episode 9 took you through the problems that I encountered in my career and especially dealt with a very touchy problem that led to my leaving the profession. Episode 10 took us into the love-hate relationship that I had with year-round sports and how they interfered with the school sport that I was coaching, specifically track and field. And we started off the 2020 fourth year with Episode 11, where we discussed the issues with athletics and school administrations, as well as the demon referred to as the college transfer portal and opting out of playing in collegiate bowl games in football. I really enjoyed bringing these episodes and stories and the stories in them to all of you. But apparently, the interest in my stories have dropped off quite a bit as each one of the episodes were dropped. Week by week, I ended the podcast with information giving out my email account and reminding everyone that you could send any questions or comments to me for discussion the following week. But alas, nobody ever sent in anything. No positive feedback on my Facebook page or Instagram, and it was difficult to get feedback whenever I saw friends or others if they even listened to the podcast. Without that feedback, I don't understand how I can gauge if the topics that I'm talking about are interesting to anybody else but me. And with the number of downloads going down, down, and down even further, I'm finding it less fun and more work to try to get a topic that's interesting and easy to write and talk about. Therefore, as losing political candidates do when they see their writing on the wall, I am suspending the Gotcha Coach podcast for the time being in hopes of being able to come up with some more interesting material and to come back later with that material for you. Until then, take care, be safe, laugh a lot, and tell someone that you love them. Thanks for listening.