Coming Soon
The Podcast
Working conversations with the people who actually run youth sports.
Status
The show is built and the first conversations are being recorded. There's nothing to listen to yet. When episode one lands it goes out with the newsletter first — no separate feed to chase.
What It Is
The newsletter, out loud.
The Coach's Board is the weekly executive roundup read by the people who actually run youth athletics — club directors, facility owners, tournament operators, coaches, and the founders building the software they run on. This is where those conversations happen out loud.
Every episode is a working conversation with an operator, recorded the way THE FACEOFF is written: the failure before the fix, the number behind the claim, and something you can use Monday morning.
What We'll Get Into
The questions the trade press doesn't ask.
Platforms
How registration and scheduling software earns its keep, and what it costs when it doesn't.
Facilities
How a building fills its weekday hours, which is the whole business.
Coaching Pay
What coaches actually get paid, and why the number is what it is.
Travel Ball
Where the money goes once a family says yes.
Development
What player development looks like when someone does it properly.
What It Won't Be
No recruiting hype, no highlight reels, and no takes from people who have never run a season.
Subscribers hear about episode one first.
Join youth sports leaders reading every Monday.
Want To Be On It
If you run a club, a facility, a league or the software behind one — and you'll talk about what actually happened, not the press-release version — we want the conversation.