Team sports like football, basketball, soccer, and rugby are hugely popular the world over, on both college and professional levels, and such popularity means that they are big business.
Bringing together the latest evidence-based practices and lessons from business, psychology, biology, and many othe.
His TTPP Model not only helps players continually progress but also stops treating them like a disposable commodity and instead prioritizes athlete health.
Game Changer also shows you how to expand training focus from players\' physical qualities to also advance athletes technically, tactically, and psychologically.
The lessons of Game day then can be used to create valuable learning experiences in training, evaluate the quality of your team\'s performance, and home in on what\'s working and what isn\'t.
Through his unprecedented experiences with teams in professional football, basketball, rugby, soccer, Aussie Rules, and Gaelic football, as well as with elite military units, Connolly has discovered how to break down the common elements in all sports to their basic components so that each moment of any Game can be better analyzed, whether you\'re a player or a coach.
In Game Changer, Fergus Connolly shows how to improve performance with evidence-based analysis and athlete-focused training.
But as they\'ve gotten stuck in stats, mired in backroom politics, and diverted by the facilities arms race, many have lost sight of what should\'ve been their primary focus all along: the Game itself.
Teams in all sports have tried just about every gimmick to hack their way to better performance.
The trouble is that all this spending often fails to yield better results.
But that\'s child\'s play compared to the outgoings at the world\'s most valuable soccer team, Manchester United, which spent more than $500 million in 2015.
Fifteen other college athletics program also racked up over $100 million in annual expenses.
Sure, the athletic program at the University of Texas brought in $161 million last year, but the Longhorns also spent $154 million over the same period.
As the rewards for winning have increased, it\'s no surprise that sports team budgets have followed suit.
Broadcasting rights alone bring in billions: ESPN paid $5.6 billion to broadcast college football playoffs for twelve years
Turner Sports/CBS shelled out $10.4 billion to show the national college basketball tournament through 2024; and the most recent NBA TV deal came in at a cool $26.4 billion.
Very big.
Team sports like football, basketball, soccer, and rugby are hugely popular the world over, on both college and professional levels, and such popularity means that they are big business
