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

Unless you really, really love what you're doing and you can handle, like we've been saying, the adversity, those hard times. Yeah. Right. And so I always say when these people are chasing this, like, OK, would you rather your kid be a college basketball player? Would you rather be happy? Yeah. Like, oh, happy. Well, then wait. You're pushing college over happy.

You don't even know if you want college basketball. You don't even know if your kid wants college basketball. But yet you're pushing this notion that... And to your point, I play Division II. I don't care what level you go to. I mean, obviously, for all these organizations and businesses that have players, you want them to go to the highest level, right? I'm the opposite.

We had a kid who's probably the best player in the area right now. And he's... He was choosing between Johns Hopkins, Tufts. I think he's a Division I player. Those are high academic Division III schools. And we had a conversation. I'm like, dude, you're going to go to Johns Hopkins.

And in 10 years, you're going to be looking back and be like, oh, my God, I can't believe that I was going to go to, you know, name a low division one school. It doesn't matter this school that I don't even want to name any because I don't want to disrespect anybody. Right. But you're looking at it from such a short lens of like, you know, Johns Hopkins, man, are you crazy?

You've got to go to Johns Hopkins. And so if the focus was just be the best you can in high school, if you're productive enough and good enough, somebody's going to want you. And then hopefully you choose that right situation that's going to benefit you the most for your future.

And we phrase it, not to cut you off, but the way that it's framed to these kids by the parents and the other AU coaches, trainers, decision makers, is that the college level is like good, better, best. It's not the case. It's not the case because everybody's different. So what?

So you get a Division I scholarship to a low Division I school that's better than going to a Tufts or a Williams or a Johns Hopkins? Not in 20 years it's not, you know? And so, again, and this goes back to the right information.

Do you have somebody that can frame it in a way so that you and the kid and the parent can still make the choice on what they think is better for them, but they have all the right information? You have all of it, you know? Yeah.

Yeah, so I think a couple things. When I started Dags Basketball, which is the local business, I'm just reacting to what the market is, right? And there wasn't a ton of honesty and value. Right. And so what I've always said is whatever we do, we're going to try to provide the most value and we're going to mess up. We're going to have days where we're not great.

But for the most part, we're going to try to provide great value. And then we're going to be honest. We're going to be honest with the players. We're going to be honest with the parents. And I think that social media following. is there because of those two things. People see like, whoa, there's value in this. And it's honest.

It's not some in an authentic like somebody trying to do it because I want to be famous. If I could not do social media, I would not do social media. Yeah. But the fact of the matter is that The people who get more opportunities are the ones that have a great social media following. So I have to do it.

And so all you're seeing on there is like actual conversations that I would have with our parents and players and during our training sessions, you know? And so I think that helps. I think. The other thing is, you know, it's crazy. I can't remember, like, our area having as many high-level players as we have right now. Andre Jackson with the Bucs. Kevin Herter with the Sacramento Kings.

Boo Booey just signed with the New York Knicks. I know I'm missing a handful of players. I mean, we had guys at Villanova, Syracuse, like I mentioned before, North Carolina. And I think...

What happened, you know, in like that small period of time in Albany, New York is I was able to work with all those players and it wasn't anything that I did, but they were all around each other and they all had a similar perspective. Right. And so like when you know, like Andrew Playtech played at North Carolina before he went there his freshman year.

I remember being in the gym with Joe Cremo and Kevin Herter or both, you know, high major players. And Playtech was saying how, you know, what he thought that North Carolina would be like. And we were all sitting there like, you're going to learn, buddy, what you think it's going to be like. And after your freshman year is going to be.

And so you have all these people that have real life experience. It's not somebody spewing some crap so that their business makes more money. Right. And so I think, I always say this, especially it helps when you have NBA players. If I was in New York City or Los Angeles or Miami, I'd have triple the amount of NBA players that I work with now. But I'm home in Albany, New York.

So whoever comes in the gym, we're going to do the best job. And it's been crazy to see the success of some of our players. And it's on them because they're the ones who have to decide who they listen to and how they go about their business. So it's been cool to be a part of it. That's for sure.

for them it's it's so hard because ready I do this I've been doing this for a long time right and so this is like not what we do but I think I can make my revenue could double easy ready hey right Duke and Colton are one of the they're some of the best basketball players that I've seen like really if they like locked in and really trained a couple times a week I think that they could end up being like some of the best players in the area

What are you going to do? You're going to say, oh no, this guy's BSing me.

You know? And so like, it's so hard for the parents. Like somebody wants to compliment your kid and say that they're doing really, really well. You're going to be like, oh man, I knew my kid was pretty good, you know? And so it's just, it's that your question of the BS filter, it's hard because that's all you have to do. I think over time though, you figure out like a lot of the trainers, you

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