When John Beilein arrived at University of Michigan in 2007, the once-proud men's basketball program was adrift after failing to reach the NCAA Tournament for nine straight seasons. Over the next twelve years, he became the program's all-time winningest coach, reached two national championship games, won four Big Ten championships and produced eight NBA first-round draft picks. In an age of ethical lapses throughout college basketball, Beilein succeeded without a hint of impropriety. As much a teacher as a coach, he consistently identified undervalued recruits, taught them his innovative offensive system and carefully developed them into better players--an approach to the game that drove his unprecedented rise from high school junior varsity coach to head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers. This book examines his tenure at Michigan in detail for the first time.
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 198. Chapters: John Beilein, Big Show, Avery Brundage, Kevin Nash, Chris Young (pitcher), Terrell Owens, Brad Stevens, Jim Thorpe, Johnny Gee, Sydney Johnson, Lute Olson, Nikos Galis, LeRon Ellis, Gary Williams, Tom Selleck, Cryme Tyme, Gordon Wood (American football coach), Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Dave Winfield, Bruce Bowen, Mike Flanagan (baseball), Lenae Williams, Jim Brown, Kenny Lofton, Don Haskins, Tony Gonzalez (American football), Tim Floyd, Shad Gaspard, Thad Matta, Ben Howland, Ralph Jordan, Dave Bliss, Albert White (basketball), Tye Fields, Henry Iba, Andy Kennedy (basketball coach), Chuck Connors, Bill Foster (basketball, born 1930), Master P, Jamie Dixon, John Chaney (basketball, born 1932), Mark Sanford (basketball), Mitch Henderson, Leroy Edwards, Steve Fisher, Kevin O'Neill (basketball), Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Allyssa DeHaan, Ralph Miller, Jim Caviezel, Don DeVoe, Tyler Haws, Herb Sendek, Danny Tarkanian, Al Skinner, Beth Couture, Harry Gallatin, Baron Hill. Excerpt: John Beilein (pronounced bee-line; born February 5, 1953) is an American college basketball coach and current men's basketball head coach at the University of Michigan. He is the 16th head coach of the Michigan Wolverines. The 2011-12 season is his fifth at Michigan, with whom he has a six-year contract. Beilein has won 567 career games at four-year universities (including games that were not at the Division I level) and 642 games including those at the junior-college level. He has previously coached the West Virginia Mountaineers (2002-2007), Richmond Spiders (1997-2002), Canisius College Golden Griffins (1992-1997) in Division I as well as Le Moyne College (1983-1992), Nazareth College (1982-1983) and Erie Community College (1978-1982). Beilein is the only active collegiate coach to have achieved 20-win seasons at four different...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 191. Chapters: John Beilein, Heather Zurich, Brad Stevens, Joseph Stilwell, Pat Summitt, Dean Smith, Kermit Washington, John Calipari, Sydney Johnson, Billy Gillispie, Bob Cousy, Rick Barry, Bill Self, Rick Pitino, Lute Olson, Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Boeheim, Gary Williams, Red Auerbach, Fritz Crisler, Bill Blakeley, Jerry Sloan, George Mikan, Eddie Sutton, Mark Turgeon, Matt Painter, Bruce Pearl, Steve Alford, Tom Izzo, Phog Allen, Gary Blair, Tom Crean (basketball), Jim Larranaga, Hugh Durham, Eddie Anderson (American football coach), Danny Ainge, Tim Floyd, Denny Crum, Thad Matta, Jim Valvano, Ben Howland, Damon Stoudamire, Ron Jacobs (basketball), Dave Bliss, Bill Lange (coach), Jerry Tarkanian, Bobby Braswell, Skip Prosser, Henry Iba, Bo Ryan, Andy Kennedy (basketball coach), Norman Black, Rick Majerus, Sam Barry. Excerpt: John Beilein (pronounced bee-line; born February 5, 1953) is an American college basketball coach and current men's basketball head coach at the University of Michigan. He is the 16th head coach of the Michigan Wolverines. The 2011-12 season is his fifth at Michigan, with whom he has a six-year contract. Beilein has won 567 career games at four-year universities (including games that were not at the Division I level) and 642 games including those at the junior-college level. He has previously coached the West Virginia Mountaineers (2002-2007), Richmond Spiders (1997-2002), Canisius College Golden Griffins (1992-1997) in Division I as well as Le Moyne College (1983-1992), Nazareth College (1982-1983) and Erie Community College (1978-1982). Beilein is the only active collegiate coach to have achieved 20-win seasons at four different levels-junior college, NAIA, NCAA Division II and NCAA Division I. He has been recognized as Coach of the Year four times: in 1981 at Erie Community College, in 1988...
NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the “poet laureate of Michigan football," a riveting inside chronicle of the Jim Harbaugh era, and "an unprecedented look at the inner workings" (Sporting News) of a big-time college football program John U. Bacon received rare access to Head Coach Jim Harbaugh’s University of Michigan football team: coaches, players, and staffers, in closed-door meetings, locker rooms, meals, and classes. Overtime captures this storied program at the crossroads, as the sport’s winningest team battles to reclaim its former glory. But what if the price of success today comes at the cost of your soul? Do you pay it, or compete without compromising? In the spirit of HBO’s Hardknocks, Overtime delivers a deeply reported human portrait that follows the Wolverine coaches, players, and staffers. Above all, thisis a human story. In Overtime we not only discover what these public figures are like behind the scenes, we learn what the experience means to them as they go through it – the trials, the triumphs, and the unexpected answers to a central question: Is it worth it? From the “poet laureate of Michigan football” (according to New York Times’s Joe Drape), and one of the keenest observers of college football, Overtime offers a window into a legendary program and the sport itself that only John U. Bacon could deliver.
Some of greatest untold stories from Michigan’s football program are shared in this book based on intimate interviews with former players and coaches. Due to his long history covering Michigan football, author Steve Kornacki was given open-door access to Lloyd Carr, Bo Schembelcher, and Gary Moeller, all of whom provided hours of their time sharing their personal accounts and of occurrences during their coaching tenures; the stuff that legends are made of. Stories include being in the Michigan locker room after Bo Schembechler’s last game in the Big House and hearing his rousing speech leading the team in “The Victors” as they punctuated each verse by thrusting red roses toward the ceiling. Coach Carr tells about riding in a limousine through New York on the eve of the Heisman Trophy presentation with Desmond Howard en route to a meeting at NBC Studios with Tom Brokaw and a night in the green room at Late Night with David Letterman. A more heartfelt yarn is the “American Dream” tale of quarterback Elvis Grbac’s Croatian family and the story of center Steve Everitt’s family surviving Hurricane Andrew in a bathtub with the family dog and his 1990 Gator Bowl MVP trophy. Go Blue! reaches back to those special places in time in the program’s history in addition to sharing heartwarming anecdotes. This collection is something no Michigan football fan will want to be without.
Basketball Strength and Conditioning, Above the Rim with Camp Sanderson is a Basketball specific training book. This book covers all areas of training basketball athletes including strength, power, speed, conditioning, mobility, nutrition, and much more. This book also provides sample workouts and many diagrams to help coaches and athletes start implementing what they learn into their own workouts.
What makes a coach great? How do great coaches turn a collection of individuals into a coherent “us”? Seth Davis, one of the keenest minds in sports journalism, has been thinking about that question for twenty-five years. It’s one of the things that drove him to write the definitive biography of college basketball’s greatest coach, John Wooden, Wooden: A Coach’s Life. But John Wooden coached a long time ago. The world has changed, and coaching has too, tremendously. Seth Davis decided to embark on a proper investigation to get to the root of the matter. In Getting to Us, Davis probes and prods the best of the best from the landscape of active coaches of football and basketball, college and pro—from Urban Meyer, Dabo Swinney, and Jim Harbaugh to Mike Krzyzewski, Tom Izzo, Jim Boeheim, Brad Stevens, Geno Auriemma, and Doc Rivers—to get at the fundamental ingredients of greatness in the coaching sphere. There’s no single right way, of course—part of the great value of this book is Davis’s distillation of what he has learned about different types of greatness in coaching, and what sort of leadership thrives in one kind of environment but not in others. Some coaches have thrived at the college level but not in the pros. Why? What’s the difference? Some coaches are stern taskmasters, others are warm and cuddly; some are brilliant strategists but less emotionally involved with their players, and with others it’s vice versa. In Getting to Us, we come to feel a deep connection with the most successful and iconic coaches in all of sports—big winners and big characters, whose stories offer much of enduring interest and value.
An uplifting leadership book about a coach who helped transform the nation’s worst high school hockey team into one of the best. Bacon’s strategy is straightforward: set high expectations, make them accountable to each other, and inspire them all to lead their team. When John U. Bacon played for the Ann Arbor Huron High School River Rats, he never scored a goal. Yet somehow, years later he found himself leading his alma mater’s downtrodden program. How bad? The team hadn’t won a game in over a year, making them the nation’s worst squad—a fact they celebrated. With almost everyone expecting more failure, Bacon made it special to play for Huron by making it hard, which inspired the players to excel. Then he defied conventional wisdom again by putting the players in charge of team discipline, goal-setting, and even decision-making – and it worked. In just three seasons the River Rats bypassed 95-percent of the nation’s teams. A true story filled with unforgettable characters, stories, and lessons that apply to organizations everywhere, Let Them Lead includes the leader’s mistakes and the reactions of the players, who have since achieved great success as leaders themselves. Let Them Lead is a fast-paced, feel-good book that leaders of all kinds can embrace to motivate their teams to work harder, work together, and take responsibility for their own success.
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 55. Chapters: Alton Lister, Armen Gilliam, Bill Carmody, Bob Burton (basketball), Brian Katz, Brooks Thompson, Chad Boudreau, Charlie Spoonhour, Chris Lowery, Cotton Fitzsimmons, Dana Altman, Denny Crum, Denny Fitzpatrick, Donnie Tyndall, Eddie Sutton, Fang Mitchell, Gene Keady, George Nessman, Howie Dickenman, Jack Hartman, Jerome Jenkins, Jerry Tarkanian, Joe Callero, Joe Dan Gold, John Beilein, Ken Bone, Kevin Borseth, Kevin Bromley, Kurt Budke, Larry Eustachy, Leon Rice (basketball), Lute Olson, Michael E. Long, Mike McConathy, Nolan Richardson, Patrick Henry (basketball), Reggie Witherspoon (basketball), Robbie Laing, Rob Flaska, Rodney Tention, Roger Reid, Roy Skinner, Steve McClain, Tim Cluess, Tim James (basketball), Tommy Dempsey, Will Brown (basketball). Excerpt: John Beilein (pronounced bee-line; born February 5, 1953) is an American college basketball coach and current men's basketball head coach at the University of Michigan. He is the 16th head coach of the Michigan Wolverines. The 2011-12 season is his fifth at Michigan, with whom he has a six-year contract. Beilein has won 567 career games at four-year universities (including games that were not at the Division I level) and 642 games including those at the junior-college level. He has previously coached the West Virginia Mountaineers (2002-2007), Richmond Spiders (1997-2002), Canisius College Golden Griffins (1992-1997) in Division I as well as Le Moyne College (1983-1992), Nazareth College (1982-1983) and Erie Community College (1978-1982). Beilein is the only active collegiate coach to have achieved 20-win seasons at four different levels-junior college, NAIA, NCAA Division II and NCAA Division I. He has been recognized as Coach of the Year four times: in 1981 at Erie Community College, in 1988 at LeMoyne, in 1994 at Canisius, and in 1998 at...
