Ep 378 What Does It Actually Take to Build a Twenty Six Team Club? ( part 2)

Interview: Joey Fuca, Lake Show

Links mentioned in this episode

⁠TeachHoops.com⁠

⁠LakeShowHoops.com⁠ — Joey's club in the Bay Area. Contact info is on the About Us page

⁠CoachingYouthHoops.com⁠

Beyond Pulse — the wearable band Coach Bill is testing with his team

⁠NukeHydration.com ⁠— the fifteen second voice note evaluation app Coach Bill is also testing

What Does It Actually Take to Build a Twenty Six Team Club?

Gym time, good coaches, and the myth of arriving.

Coach Bill sits down with Joey Fuca, who runs Lake Show in the Bay Area and is also, as Coach Bill puts it, his boss. Two years in the making. Joey has coached everywhere from his third grade son's team to the college and pro level, and Lake Show now runs about twenty six teams and roughly two hundred forty boys.

Strip away the uniforms, the tournaments, and the Instagram posts, and Joey's answer is simple: helping kids. Ages seven and eight through the teens, and then staying connected to those families for decades. Over the last four or five years he has hired coaches who played in the program. He has coached multiple sets of brothers. He had Lake Show guys in his wedding party as groomsmen. He calls it a lineage of players.

The club started in 2005 as a family project. His dad, Joe Fuca, a tech CEO who worked at DocuSign through its IPO and now coaches at a small school in Dublin, put it together for Joey and his buddies. Nothing more ambitious than that.