-Hard to imagine this guy can get to sleep at night! Energy! -Joey played his college baseball at Charlotte and was drafted in the 25th round by the Orioles. -After spending 11 years in the minors he started to coach at the high school level. -He then spent 7 years at Wake Forest. -He has been the head coach at High Point since 2021. -He has three sons, one plays at High Point, one was a first round draft pick last year. Click here for the audio version. Below for th

The podcast with Bill Cilento covered the following topics: Being a three sport athlete in high school. The path that led him to go to Siena. Starting in accounting and hating it. Taking a coaching job at Siena. Lessons learned from Coach Rossi at Siena. Going with Tom Walter to University of New Orleans, right before Hurricane Katrina. Working at Brown for 3 seasons. Coming to Wake Forest with Coach Walter how they share core beliefs. We covered his coaching style, wh

Tad Skelley played at Wheaton, went on to work in Baseball Operations at the University of Notre Dame and then to coach at Northwestern. After a year in scouting with the Toronto Blue Jays he coached at Colby College and then took over the program at Gordon College. In 2023 he became the Head Coach at Vassar College. We covered a lot about coaching, recruiting, and playing in a high academic D3 environment. For the video click below. For the audio click here . Show Note

Ty Blankeyer is the son of a legendary grandfather and father. His grandfather Mike Sheppard was the longtime coach at Seton Hall and his Dad Ed Blankmeyer was the longtime coach at St. John's. After playing at St. John's and getting drafted, Ty began scouting for the Milwaukee Brewers. He then began his college coaching career at Wake Forest. From there he went to Duke before moving on to Vanderbilt. Click below for video. Here for audio . Show notes below. Ty Blankm

I first met Mark Calvi in 1992! I had just moved to Florida to start my graduate school at St. Thomas University in Miami and starting my first coaching job at Nova Southeastern University. Mark had graduated from Nova and was with the Seattle Mariners minor leagues. After his playing career he went on to scout before getting into coaching. He spent 11 years at FIU, 6 at South Carolina (where he won a National Championship!), and has been at University of South Alabama sin

Jim Martin is from Norwood, MA and attended St. John's University. He has since coached at St. Anselm, Southern CT State U, Merrimack, URI, and joined Stony Brook as an assistant. He was promoted to Associate Head Coach and then named Head Coach at long time coach Matt Senk retired after last season. Many in the coaching/baseball community think Jim is a baseball savant! If you go back to my podcast with Nick Barese, Head Coach at UMASS Lowell you will hear this exact sta

From his youth in Vermont to playing football and baseball at Maine, Jack Leggett has been a force to be reckoned with. He started his coaching career as the Club Baseball Coach at Vermont before it went varsity. Then After 6 years there build Western Carolina into a powerhouse. In 1991 he moved to Clemson as an assistant then took over as head coach from 1993-2015. Click the below to see the video and here to listen to the audio.

After running the program at Niagara for 16 years, Coach McCoy took over the reigns of The Tribe program in June of 2024. Prior to becoming the head coach at Niagara he was an assistant there as well as at James Madison and Dakota Wesleyan, his alma mater. He spoke about how having Brian Cain in to speak to his team in 2015 set him and them program on a path that would leave to turn the program around. We discussed William & Mary, the baseball program, his recruiting proce

What a great guy. I had never met Coach Smith before but it became quickly apparant what a geniune guy he is. Raised in rural Florida, he attended Pfieffer University. He started coaching at an assistant Belmont-Abbey, before taking over as head coach. He then went on the lead Lander University. He is entering his 10th year at App State. For the video link see below. For the audio link click here . Show Notes: Kermit Smith is the head baseball coach at Appalachian State

Talk about energy! Steve Trimper goes at coaching and life full speed. An educator and teacher at heart, his career is all about hard work. A great story teller too! This is a must watch/listen! Here is a link to the audio only . Video is below.

In his 29th year as head coach at Kenyon, Matt Burdette and I talk all things Kenyon, D3 baseball, recruiting, transfer portal, and coaching. Video below. Audio here .

With a proven track record of turning around every program he has been to, Coach Pollard now takes over at UVA, a program with a strong baseball past. Don't be surprised to see UVA in the CWS very soon. We talked a lot about his playing and coaching background, but also live as a recruiting dad two his two sons (one at Kenyon, one committed to Gardner Webb). You can tell he is a great coach and great with people. Recruits the right kids and develops them in a great culture

Coach Holbrook took over as Brown head coach just before July 4th, 2025. First order of business was to hire a great staff, then lock in his 2026 class. A navtive of Middletown, RI we talked about his time at Northeastern U, with coach Mike Glavine, prior to Brown. Before that he was the head coach at Rhode Island College for 5 years. He started his coaching career with the Newport Gulls of the NECBL and then at Wheaton. All of this following a short stink in law school

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