Howard Joffe: The secret sauce of back to back NCAA championships

Howard Joffe is our guest for the fourteenth episode of Baseline Intelligence. Howard is a former All-American for Pepperdine University and is currently the women's head coach for the University of Texas where they've won both the 2021 and the 2022 NCAA championships.

We talk:

2:09 How he builds his team

4:52 What he looks for in a recruit

6:28 How a player reveals their passion for the game

11:34 When he starts recruiting junior players

15:15 The "false self"

17:18 What he focuses on with his players

21:05 Listening to his players

25:16 How his players stay relaxed under pressure

27:10 The difficult of defending a national championship

31:47 Most difficult aspect of being a head coach

33:18 His halftime speeches

35:14 His best advice to win more matches

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