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David Calloway joined the Makarios Consulting team as a principal in 2011. For the 14 years prior to that time, Mr. Calloway led the Monmouth University Division I Basketball program. His successes include three Northeast Conference championships and three NCAA Tournament appearances, amply demonstrating his skill in management, recruitment, leadership, team building, and talent development.

As a member of Makarios Consulting, Calloway will work with both sports coaches and corporate leaders. “Coaching a team and managing a business have many similarities,” Mr. Calloway explains. “That is why many business leaders read biographies of famous coaches, and why coaches read books on successful business leaders. Whether your team is on the field or in the office, you need to understand how to motivate them, how to get them to pull together, and how to focus their concentration on attaining specific goals.”

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January 19, 2011


How about this weather? Last year the northeast was blasted with a tremendous snow storm the day after Christmas. This year you could still play golf on New Year’s Day. With the start of the New Year, sports fans are usually bundled up and ready to move inside. Dr. James Naismith invented the game of BASKETBALL for this very reason. He created the game to help the New Englanders get through the long cold winters. Times have changed, and we no longer shoot into a peach basket. One constant remains in the great game of basketball after the New Year Ball drops, CONFERENCE time is here!

Not sure if it gets much better than this if you are a true hoops lover. We all know the general public is not concerned until it’s time to fill out their brackets in March, but how great is conference play, at every level? Early season match-ups are nice for TV and coaches get to rotate players more frequently to figure out what their capabilities are under some pressure.

Conference play is when the games truly begin for most coaches. “We play a tough non-conference schedule to prepare us for conference play,” says Steve Pikiell. His Stony Brook squad started out the year 3- 6, but has now run off 7 of their last 8 and stand atop the America East League standings at 5-1. Winning his conference regular season and gaining the number one seed in the conference tournament is huge for a school like Stony Brook.

Their conference tournament will be held at Hartford for the first two rounds. With ESPN coming to town for the championship game, the venue is moved to the home site of the highest remaining seed. Winning the regular season conference championship all but locks up a home game on ESPN for the chance to go to NCAA Tournament.

Eighty plus schools pad their non-conference schedules in hopes of building up enough wins so they can become one of the 37 at large teams whose name is called on Selection Sunday; which to the true hoop fan has become as big as that other Sunday in February.

For the other 250 Division I Men’s Basketball teams out there, conference play is their only shot at making it to the Big Dance. Most coaches really feel the pressure this time of year. Every game becomes more important as teams fight it out to win a conference championship and prepare themselves for their conference tournament.

Only 68 teams will be dancing on March 11th, but the concern this time of year is one conference game at a time.
 

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