Overview
The Season Starter Kit is a nine step build for high school coaches who leave practice with clear notes and lose them by bedtime. Written by Dan Barto, it shows you how to talk those notes into your phone on the drive home and turn them into short development texts for every player. You build it across one school week, in about three and a half hours, and none of the work happens at home.
Works with Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini, including the free versions
Starts with four questions for your athletic director before any player’s name goes in
Includes the exact prompts to paste at every step
What You Will Create
Three pages on how you coach: what you believe, what you teach and the words your team uses, so the texts sound like you
A file for every player: his role, his one thing for the month, and three steps you can count in practice
Saved instructions that run the same way in February as in November
Three texts a week: Monday’s Aim, Wednesday’s Mirror and Friday’s Proof, each a different length and shape
A not-mentioned list showing which players you skipped, and for how many practices in a row
You read every text before it goes, and you send each one yourself.
Why It Matters
Attention is the scarcest thing a head coach has, and it rarely gets spread evenly. It goes to the starter, the struggler and the loud kid. The steady player who asks for nothing can go a month without hearing a specific word about his game.
Every player hears from you three times a week about his own development
Built-in rules keep grades, health, discipline and playing-time promises out of every text
The count shows who you missed while there’s still time to fix it
Download the Free Guide (PDF) below.