Steve D'Agostino

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Finding Peak with Ryan Hanley · Building Resilient Kids: The Real Game of Youth Sports · 25 Nov 2024 podcast

In a crude laboratory in the basement of his home.

Yeah, thanks for having me. I'm excited to be here.

Yeah, 100%. So I've been lucky. So my dad was a high school coach forever before I was even born. And then he coached youth. He coached my brother all the way up and then was an assistant on our high school teams. And then once we graduated high school, he went back to being a varsity head coach.

And so I've always had a good perspective from him on the youth basketball landscape, the high school basketball landscape. And then my brother went on to be a college coach locally at UAlbany, Hudson Valley, and then down in Florida at an AIA school. So I got the insight right for like the college stuff through him. And then just in my own career,

having played elite AAU on the Nike circuit and then Division II basketball and then overseas for six years. I went through all that as a player. And when I transitioned to being a trainer and a player development coach, Typically, what happens is these development coaches are in one level, right? You'll see their college MBA or their youth high school.

And I have two businesses, one Dags Basketball, who has we do kindergarten all the way up through 12th grade. And then my national brand, Maximize Basketball, that's where we focus on our MBA clients, all of our national camps and clinics. And so I literally get every single level that I get to work with.

And so I'm able to see, you know, obviously, like you're saying, with the adults and all the craziness of youth basketball, the high school recruiting college landscape, and then the professional aspect as well, too. And so there's so many different variables that go in it. And I'm sure we'll get into a lot of them. But I've been lucky enough that I have experience in all the different levels.

Yeah, 100%. I think at the youth level, it's different now. And I'm a player development coach. So I do a lot of like the training. And so I can see that parents are a lot more invested in their kids' youth sports now than maybe they were 20, 30 years ago. And I'm not saying like emotionally invested as far as like, hey, you want your kid to play sports and

and be well, but like the time and money that goes into it and those both lead into stress, right? So like, hey, I'm investing this time, I'm investing this money. And then also now everything is on social media. So like you'll have, you know, if you're a parent, you go on social media and just take AAU season.

you know, your kids on one team and then you go on social media and all these other teams are posting their championship and I'll put it in quotes, right? Like t-shirts and pictures and now you're like, man, I wish my kid was on that team and this.

So there's all this like fear of missing out and trying to keep up with the Joneses and it really takes away with like the best thing about youth sports is that It teaches kids how to be accountable, how to handle adversity, how to be part of a team, how to sacrifice.

And like you were saying, we've lost a lot of that for like this manipulation of like trying to win games or having to be on the best team. And and it leads to a ton of stress and that stress.

is mostly there because of the adults, and then it gets taken out on, whether it's a coach taking it out on the players, whether it's a parent taking it out on a coach, whether it's the parent or the coach taking it out on the refs. It's just, it manifests in all this chaos, and it's like, yo, just let the kids play.

Yeah, so I think when they're younger, so I would say like, just take basketball, for instance, like typically these kids will be on teams starting in like third grade, right? And then like from third grade to seventh grade, I think it's very much like the parent kind of like leading the way a little bit.

Like, hey, you're gonna be on this team and you're gonna go to this and this might help, this camp might help you and you're leading the way. But when they get into like eighth, ninth, 10th grade, dude, the kids are gonna tell you by their action. I can't tell you the amount of kids that come into our gym locally And you could tell they don't want to be there.

And so, you know, like, and it's extra work. So, so I get it, but, but, you know, at some point the kid is going to lead the way and you're going to be spending all this time and money and the kid's not even going to want to be there.

My thought is, and there was actually a study, I was listening to Malcolm Gladwell podcast and there was a study, they studied like elite runners in the UK when they were, I think like 15 and they, what they did by the time they got up to 22 and like the smallest, smallest percentage of those elite runners at 15 ended up being elite at 22.

And we sit here and there's all these like elite middle school teams and they're traveling all over the country. And it's like, dude, you can, you can literally pick out the one or two kids like Andre Jackson's in the NBA for the Milwaukee Bucks. He was in fifth grade. You're like, whoa, that guy moves different. You know what I mean?

Kevin Herter when he was in seventh grade, like, yo, that kid's got a chance, you know? And, and so, What we do is, it's the intention behind it. It's, okay, I'm going to invest all this because I want my kid to be great and they want to play college sports and they're going to go play college basketball or college baseball.

That shouldn't be the intention because all of that is just a byproduct of how productive the kid is when they're on varsity.

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