# Ep 363 What Is the Biggest Character Lesson You Are Trying to Teach Your Players This Season?

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Podcast: [Coaching Youth Hoops (Youth Basketball Coach)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/coaching-youth-hoops-youth-basketball-coach-5343716)
Published: 2026-08-20T11:00:00+00:00
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Duration seconds: 775

## Resource

CoachingYouthHoops.com: The one stop shop for youth basketball coaches. Practice plans with life lessons built right in. If we don't have it, you don't need it, or we'll make it. HeySai.com: Text based assistant that takes the administrative pain out of youth sports. One place for all your kids' teams, updates by text, no app to install. Versions coming for parents and for coaches. Get on the wait list, launching this fall. (Say it "Hey Sammy," spelled H E Y S A I.) Coaching Youth Hoops on Facebook: Search Groups for Coaching Youth Hoops. This week's topic came straight out of the group. Ask your question and if we see it come up more than once, we build a resource for it. Another question pulled from the Coaching Youth Hoops Facebook group: what is the biggest character lesson you are trying to teach your players this season? Coach Collins and Coach Bill make the case that the life lessons taught through sports matter more than the sport itself, and that the whole thing falls apart if you don't connect the dots for the kids. They cover failure as a teacher, being on time as a stand in for responsibility, leaving the gym better than you found it, getting along with teammates you would never choose as friends, and why a difficult coach can be one of the more useful things that happens to a young athlete. They also give coaches a practical season planning move: pick the three or four character lessons you intend to teach, then leave room for the ones the season hands you. Coach Collins is direct about it: one of the reasons he coached as long as he did is that the life lessons taught through sports are more important than the sport. That belief has to come first, because everything else in this episode follows from it. This is the phrase both coaches keep returning to. K…

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