64 - Trevor Flow North Hall HS (GA)

Bio

• Current Head Coach at North Hall High School (GA)
  • 2021 AAA Georgia State Champions!
    • First as a head coach 
    • 2013 won 3A state championship as assistant coach
  • 116-33 overall record 
  • first year (2018) as head coach the Trojans finished 24-7 and made it to the Sweet Sixteen
  • in year 2 the Trojans finished 21-16 and made it to the Final Four, 
  • year 3 the Trojans were 12-4 and ranked #1 in AAA before the Covid shortened season.
  • Region Coach of the Year honors during the 2018 season
  • AAA Coach of the Year in 2019
  • Constant LEARNER!
  • A DUDE!!

 

Notes

• Keep a card and write down any learning point throughout the game
• Extended column - these things that can help us or hurt us in the playoffs
  • Become Practice plans 
  • Hope to cross off items as we go
• If I am going to ask a kid to get better I need to be specific
  • It's on me to be specific
• Write MAY on their bullpen ball
• The playoffs are like a high wire - regular season is low and then as you get longer in the season the wire gets higher and you have no net!
• Team goal of 950 field %
  • Outfield - NO GAPS
  • Infield - can’t play infield without good feet
  • 200 ground balls a day - 
  • Only throws full speed or DON’T THROW
  • Game speed feet if you can’t throw game speed
• Your expectations as a coach turn into players’ actions!
• Positions are rented!
• You better watch out for the teams that fight for positions
• When you get to the point of vulnerability you don’t back down from confrontation
• More time in the weightroom, long toss sessions, bullpens, any chance you get to get to know each kid because you can’t talk to each kid the same
• Your kids need to know that you don’t have it all figured out
  • Not scared to tell the kids I made a mistake
    • Let a pitcher in too long
    • Send a runner or didn’t send a runner
• It can’t be a one size fits all
• Big difference between knowing the game as a player and knowing the game as a coach
• There is no substitute for experience
• How do I extend the 21 outs on my side and shorten them on their side
• Most coaches don’t trust their players preparation, when it turn it is the coaches who prepared them, so it’s really the coaches failure in preparing. 
• Would you rather win a game 10-2 or 10-6?
  • 10-2 you lost an opportunity for you to find something about a kid
  • 10-6 you got an opportunity for you to find something about a kid
• Know you players and their identity (move power hitter to leadoff spot based on his identity)
• Video breakdown and character talk
• When they leave the program I want them to know I love them and be better people and have more than an identity than baseball players
• Character card - values of the people in our program will possess
  • This is your card about you as a man in this program
  • If I take it we talk about, and I give it back when I see they make the changes
  • Reached out to staff as characteristics of what our kids need the most
• Made hard decisions based on the character of a kid - addition by subtraction 
• Surface - element card
  • Surface - fence, grass, backstop, etc
  • Element - wind, temperature, sun, etc
• Team meeting before practice
• Character talk before practice
• Feel the heart beat of your team and see what would be generic for the guys and figure out what works 
  • Don’t be scared to fail and think the coach is “cool”
• Twitter - @trevorflow
• Email North Hall
• social media is a dialogue for myself
• The more I coach it's not competing against the other coach, it is coaching/playing against the game and ourselves
• You got to go out and play chess not checkers!!
• Advice from other coaches through the coaching community
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