Oct 2, 2026 · 12 min · 9 segments
The Parable of the Mustard Seed becomes a powerful early-season coaching lesson: start small, teach everything again, and never assume players already understand the details. This episode looks at…
He said another parable before them saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed.
which as a man took and sowed in his field, which indeed is smaller than all seeds, but when it is grown, it is greater than the herds and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the sky come and lodge in its branches.
Something small is planted, and with time it becomes something much greater.
Why are you planting right now? At this point in the season, everybody wants to talk about February.
Well, conference championships, nationals, and what their team will eventually become.
The habits we tolerate now, the details we teach now, and the standards we repeat now will eventually become part of the team's identity.
One of the most dangerous assumptions a coach can make is, they already know this.
Maybe they remember the terminology, maybe they ran the same coverage or the same offense last year, but this is not last year's team.
Roles change, personnel changes, confidence changes, leadership changes, new players arrive, returning players take on new responsibilities, and the chemistry of the group changes.
Even when the system is familiar, the people executing it are not exactly the same.
He said another parable before them saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed.
which as a man took and sowed in his field, which indeed is smaller than all seeds, but when it is grown, it is greater than the herds and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the sky come and lodge in its branches.
Something small is planted, and with time it becomes something much greater.
Why are you planting right now? At this point in the season, everybody wants to talk about February.
Well, conference championships, nationals, and what their team will eventually become.
The habits we tolerate now, the details we teach now, and the standards we repeat now will eventually become part of the team's identity.
One of the most dangerous assumptions a coach can make is, they already know this.
Maybe they remember the terminology, maybe they ran the same coverage or the same offense last year, but this is not last year's team.
Roles change, personnel changes, confidence changes, leadership changes, new players arrive, returning players take on new responsibilities, and the chemistry of the group changes.
Even when the system is familiar, the people executing it are not exactly the same.
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