Episode Details

Doug Meacham:
Players see me getting rattled and riled up. It's a natural tendency for them to start to lose focus and I'm trying to look for every advantage for us to win a game.

Carlo Mulford:
Culture has really become a tight-knit group of friends and success that the school has never seen in basketball.

Cale Barclay:
We made it to the semifinals last year and now, right now, we're on pace to hopefully win the region.

Stockton:
Confidence is the biggest thing.

Anthony Godfrey:
Hello and welcome to the Supercast. I'm your host, Superintendent Anthony Godfrey. They are in it to win it on and off the basketball court at Herriman High School.

On this episode of the Supercast, it's “game on” as we talk to players and coach Doug Meacham about their love of basketball and how it has built character and a culture of teamwork at Herriman High School.

We're here at Herriman High School today to talk with the boys' basketball coach Coach Meacham. Thanks for taking time to talk with us. You're a counselor here, a coach here. It's a very busy season with class changes and the season well underway so thank you very much for taking the time.

Doug Meacham:
You bet. I appreciate having the opportunity.

Anthony Godfrey:
Tell me about what you love about coaching basketball.

Doug Meacham:
There's probably easier to talk maybe what I don't love because there's so many things that are just awesome. I think just listening to these guys talk about their experience in terms of how they approach things and their leadership qualities, to just watch young men grow, is to me the biggest satisfaction. To get some of those emails back after things have happened in their life there are great accomplishments. That to me, that's the reward. Basketball is a part of it, but you know I think molding young men has been the biggest thing. As former coaches have had such a huge impact on me, you know, I hope to do the same.

Anthony Godfrey:
Tell me about some of those coaches in your life that have had an impact.

Doug Meacham:
Well, I go back to my high school coaches Coach Knight, Coach Eccles, guys who always would say things like, you know, “The things that you're learning now will impact you later in life” and they do. And how they handled their business with their families with just them as individual people was impressive to me. I was fortunate to be a walk-on at the University of Utah with Coach Majerus for a few years. I was a grad assistant with him and so I was around just a phenomenal team and a staff that I just learned so much. It was just amazing to experience that part of it and when I was sitting there sitting at some of those practices is where I thought you know I probably need to do something along the lines of coaching basketball.

Anthony Godfrey:
That's fantastic I love that you've built on those experiences and are now providing those to so many other students. When I mentioned to your principal that I was going to be interviewing you for the podcast, other principals overheard that and said “Oh yeah, he's the guy you want to talk to.” So your reputation is really out there for being such a great coach and a great support to these students. Tell me what is your how would you summarize your approach to coaching?

Doug Meacham:
My approach to coaching is how I would want my own son to be coached. I want to give them a hundred percent. I don't want to ask them to do something that I wasn't willing to do mysel