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Coach Mike Candrea, retired head coach for Arizona and 2004 USA Olympic coach (GOAT), spoke during the 2026 NFCA conference. He spoke multiple times but the last session he had didn’t even have a powerpoint. He said he just wanted to speak from the heart this time. He said something along the lines ...

You make time. There are quite literally ZERO excuses. If you want to be the best you can be, you will find a way to put in the work. 

I hear this from my pitchers a lot. “I have school and then I have practice and I have homework and blah blah.” I get it and I used those same excuses 100 times. My...

 The Parents!

I said it. It’s the parents. You might have thought I was going to say the coaches. Yes, there are some bad coaches out there but the parents… they’re a different breed nowadays. 

I’ll list some reasons why with #4 being my biggest pet peeve!

1. Disrespect. Parents think it’s a free...

Foundation. It’s everything. Why are pitchers being taught to “go hard” and “drive further” when they don’t even know how to properly push off of the mound? They can’t even tell you which part of the pitch produces the most power but coaches keep saying “get faster”.

That doesn’t register in the p...