Pod Practice Jake Smart, Brown BMo, Boston DiG, Boston Glory | Ep 78
Jan 25, 2025
02:02:10
In this episode Jake Smart talks about building a culture of honest communication and his constraints led approach to teaching.
Jake is one of the best coaches in ultimate frisbee and no stranger to winning. Before joining Brown as a coach, Jake played for the Wisconsin Hodags, another historically great college program. His teams are known for having incredibly efficient offenses and defenses that make opponents always second guessing.
A few of Jake's accolades:
3x College Champion (2 coaching BMo, 1 playing for the Hodags)
2x College D-I Men's Coach of the Year
YCC Champion Coaching Boston BUDA
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0:00 Intro
3:00 Balancing Commitments
4:20 College vs Club vs Pro
7:00 Jake's Coaching Philosophy
13:00 Switching contexts
16:15 Facilitating honest communication
19:30 UAEs
21:05 Receiving imperfect feedback well
23:00 Honest, imperfect feedback might hurt in the moment, but if it makes you better then it's worth it
28:45 Holding things in creates resentment
30:35 Honesty is a two way street
31:20 Almost every criticism you get is right even if the solution is wrong
33:40 When is it time to give feedback?
40:50 Framing friction as an opportunity to get closer
41:55 Elo
46:25 TrueSkill
48:00 How Jake uses Elo in practice
54:10 Practicing "caring about an outcome"
54:55 Jake's practice structure, pro games, anti drill, learning to use the right tool
59:20 The value of playing more, playing age
1:01:00 How to teach during games
1:05:30 BMo's style of play, response to criticisms
1:14:20 Jake's thoughts on offensive structure, clearing, and zone concepts
1:18:15 Reading the field as a player
1:20:30 Brown's understanding of roles
1:23:15 Jake's line calling philosophy
1:28:40 Decision to play zone
1:33:30 Strategizing for the UFA
1:37:30 Balancing Commitments Pt Deux
1:41:00 Transferrable skills between work and frisbee
1:42:45 All-Time Brown
1:44:50 Jake's offensive meta, front dominated vs the cutter driven
1:49:50 Back to the All-Time Brown Team
1:51:25 All-Time Hodag Team
1:54:44 All-Time Hodags vs All-Time Brown
2:00:20 Outro