Chat By The Pitch
The questions parents are too polite to ask.
Ian Babcock
Founder & host
- Host
- Ian Babcock, Founder & host
- Rooted in
- North Texas
- Since
- December 2022
- Episodes
- 180-plus
- Website
- chatbythepitch.com
What it is
Ian Babcock has published 180-plus episodes since December 2022, most of them 40 to 60 minutes with a club director, a coach, a sport psychologist or a parent who has been through it. What earns the pick isn't just the interviews. It's the infrastructure around them: chatbythepitch.com runs an open tryout listing board and a camps and clinics board, plus a written companion, The Sideline Read. Start with "Why Pay-to-Play Youth Soccer Is Failing American Players" with Alex Lubyansky, the XbotGo AI-camera episode, and The Cappis Family on raising a pro without pushing.
Why it earns the pick
For a club director, it's a free distribution channel, not just another thing to listen to: a tryout board and a camps-and-clinics board you can post into, in front of an audience that already shows up every week.
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