125 Ryan Shotzberger - University of The Incarnate Word

Shotzberger Notes

 

Bio

• HC of UIW - University of the Incarnate Word
• In 2022 he led UIW to the furthest Southland Conference Tournament appearance in Division I program history.
• First year in 2019 was cut short due to COVID
• Prior to UIW he was AC at Houston and TCU
  • helped those programs to seven 40+ win seasons.
  • 13 conference championships
  • eight regular-season championships
  •  five conference tournament championships
  • nine trips to NCAA Regionals
  • three appearances at NCAA Super Regionals
  • one trip to the College World Series
• Coached over 60 players who have been drafted
  • eight of those appearing on active Major League Baseball rosters
  • 5 current MLB

 

Notes

• We have our team values
• If your early your orgranized
• No blame, complain, or defend
• CARDS - bottom of every practice plan
• Players are now speaking the language
• Working with you not for you
• The best teams are player led, not coaches fed
• When you get out front you get vulnerable
• You can’t talk about win the pitch and then be losing your mind
• The beginning you are talking to yourself
• Meet after practice
• Mental game - what does it mean to you?
• Getting them to recognize they are doing something with them knowing it
• Helping you get to the next pitch and realize you are going too fast
• Breathe and get to the next pitch
• You can gripe and complain about it or you can adapt and change
• Its a 40 year decision, not a 4 year decision
• In order to set the goals, you had to work towards the goals
• Back map from doing something the program has never done before
• Deconstruct winning a conference 
• Track positive at bats
• Do your job - doesn’t matter how, execute quality pitches with conviction
• Each team needs to create their own identity
• Play as hard as you for as long as you can
• Process > outcome
• 60% positive at bats
  • Percentage of QAB determined what we need to do
  • 60% or better we win
  • 50% and we need to play good defense and pitch it well
  • 40% then we better of pitched great and caught it
• WHO got the RBI - talking RBI not hits
• Educate kids on the situation. 
  • If the kids don’t know the situation that’s