Beyond The Whistle with Odell McCants

Beyond The Whistle with Odell McCants

Beyond The Whistle is the podcast that takes basketball coaches beyond Xs and Os with actionable tips and advice to grow your network, create a plan for your career and maximize your influence. Hosted by Odell McCants of McCants Sports Advisors.

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May 4, 2020 51 mins

On this episode, we go Beyond The Whistle with Matt Johnson, Director of Men’s Basketball Strength and Conditioning at Butler University.

Matt and I discuss:

  • The role of the strength and conditioning coach during the COVID-19 pandemic
  • One of my goals with the podcast is to bring coaches tools, resources and stories from other coaches that you can use in your own professional development. This episode of Beyond The Whistle accomplishes just that.

    In this impactful episode with Khadija Head, Associate Head Coach of women’s basketball at Kennesaw State, we discuss:

    • On September 26th, the college sports world was rocked by an F.B.I. investigation of college basketball, which lead to the arrests of 10 people, including four assistant coaches and two Adidas executives. The fallout has also included the firing of Hall of Fame coach Rick Pitino by the University of Louisville. And this is just the beginning.

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How do you control your recruiting process? Do you even have a process? My guest on this episode is Dan Tudor of Tudor Collegiate Strategies. Dan has done an amazing job of taking professional selling processes, skills and tactics and has applied them to athlete recruiting. Dan shares what recruits and parents are looking for during the process, how to effectively communicate with recruits and how to control the process. We also di...

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August 8, 2017 3 mins

Rising Coaches Elite 2017

I recently had the opportunity to speak at the 8th Annual Rising Coaches Elite 2017 Conference. Rising Coaches Elite is an annual conference that provides professional development for basketball coaches, primarily just starting in their careers. Most of the attendees are graduate assistants, directors of basketball operations and team managers. Attendees came from a wide ran...

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July 12, 2017 4 mins

It's July, which means we are in the college basketball summer evaluation period. Coaches will travel throughout the country evaluating high school players at AAU tournaments, camps and summer leagues. As a college coach, just as you are looking for high school players that stand out as prospects for your program, the summer is also perhaps the best time of the year for you to stand out for your own professional development an...

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June 16, 2017 7 mins

During the most recent “coaching carousel” of college basketball, I had the opportunity to work with a few coaches on their resumes. There is one mistake I see on coaching resumes and if you're has this, you can fix it right now.

The number one mistake I see on resumes - of all professions, not just coaching - is writing the resume as a job description. Your resume IS NOT  a job description. The person reading your resume know...

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