The One-Day Contract by Rick Pitino & Eric Crawford

Author:Rick Pitino & Eric Crawford
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press

Schedule

6:30 a.m.—Meet with coaching staff. Be positive and energetic so that they will feed off that energy; challenge every coach to be better and have more of an impact on the program than they had last season.

7:15–7:45 a.m.—Meet with team trainers and strength and conditioning coaches. Listen to their input on where the team stands from a health and conditioning standpoint. Get them to buy into a one-day contract that challenges them to come up with innovative ways to improve our strength and conditioning. Leave them with this thought: If it’s not broken, break it and make it better. We will have to do this if we want to reach championship level.

8:00–8:42 a.m.—First individual instruction session, with point guards. Emphasis will be on positive instruction and improving on workouts from a season ago. Go into each workout with the goal that it will be the best I have ever conducted.

9:00–9:42 a.m.—Individual instruction with shooting guards and wing players.

10:00–10:42 a.m.—Individual instruction with power forwards.

11:00–11:42 a.m.—Individual instruction with centers. The contract for each session of individual instruction is the same.

Noon–1 p.m.—Have my smoothie for lunch, and exercise for one hour. Last season, I exercised for forty-five minutes, this year it will be for one hour. Even though I’m one year older, I had already planned to make it one year better.

You can see as this unfolds, that the plan isn’t just a list of tasks, but that there is meaning behind what I am doing, there is a motivational element, and that I am already writing into my contract from Day One the elements of improvement that will be needed for a championship season.

1:30–2:45 p.m.—Watch video. I committed to watching at least forty-five minutes of video per day, either of our workouts from the current season, game video, or tape of last season. I’ll also do any additional organizing needed for the rest of the day.

3:00–3:15 p.m.—During this time each day, I will speak to our team for fifteen minutes on a different topic. It’s just a little time to motivate our guys to be the best they can be between the lines, and to teach.

3:15–5:15 p.m.—Practice. These sessions are highly organized in themselves, with each drill and scrimmage scheduled down to the minute. They are crafted in consultation with our coaching staff to maximize all of the limited practice time we are permitted to have by NCAA rules. In addition, I have committed to make our practices more positive and energetic than they have been in the past. I approach these no differently from games. I need to be at my best, and diligent with each fundamental. This is part of my one-day contract. Attitude and approach to practice time might seem like something that could be taken for granted after as many years as I’ve been coaching, and it is. That is a danger. It’s why I write into the one-day contract that I should be as passionate and serious about creating great practices as I ever have been.

5:30–6:30—Meet as a staff to review the practice.

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