In this episode, Dr. Andy Galpin joins Slappin’ Glass for a practical, high-level conversation on basketball performance, recovery, strength training, sleep, travel, and pregame preparation.

Galpin breaks down why improving movement is not just about stretching, mobility work, or lifting weights, but about understanding the physical qualities that allow athletes to move with more range, force, control, and efficiency. The conversation moves from the history of strength training in sport to modern tools for evaluating movement, asymmetries, muscle development, and return-to-play readiness.

A major theme of the episode is recovery. Galpin makes a strong case that sleep is still the most powerful performance tool available to coaches and athletes, especially in-season. He discusses the impact of early practices, late-night games, post-practice downregulation, hydration, fueling, protein synthesis, and how coaches can better organize the schedule before fatigue becomes a problem.

During “Start, Sub, or Sit,” the conversation turns to silent stressors inside a basketball program, including travel, walkthroughs, film, scout prep, pregame warmups, physical contact, and how to prepare players to actually feel ready when the ball goes up.

What You’ll Learn

• Why strength training can improve movement, range of motion, and athletic expression when it is designed correctly.
• How coaches should think about recovery beyond soreness, including sleep, hydration, refueling, and rebuilding tissue.
• Why early-morning practices may be costing teams more than they realize.
• How post-practice and postgame downregulation can help athletes transition toward better sleep.
• Why travel is one of the biggest hidden stressors on player performance.
• How to proactively adjust practice loads around dense parts of the schedule.
• What coaches should consider with bus rides, compression gear, movement breaks, and arrival timing.
• How to structure pregame warmups around skill feel, physical readiness, movement prep, and contact.
• Why players need some level of game-like physicality before tip-off, especially bigs and contact-heavy roles.
• How physiology, breathing, CO2 tolerance, and arousal levels connect to focus, decision-making, and emotional regulation.

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UT Martin Head Coach Jeremy Shulman joins the Slappin’ Glass podcast for a deep dive into building a defensive system around conviction, trade-offs, and player fit.

Shulman discusses the philosophy behind his unique defensive approach, including why his teams lean toward containment, switch heavily, borrow matchup-zone principles without playing zone, and still find ways to generate turnovers without relying on full-court pressure. He also details how he thinks about solving mismatches after switches, layering post coverage, recruiting for basketball IQ, and turning rotations and closeouts into a strength.

In the “Start, Sub, or Sit” segment, Shulman breaks down attacking hedge coverage, including flipping the screen, RAM screens, and re-screens, before sharing broader thoughts on pick-and-roll offense, the power of the pass, and studying ideas that genuinely fit who you are as a coach.

What you’ll learn

• Why defensive identity has to begin with what a coach truly believes in
• How Shulman blends man-to-man, switching, and matchup-zone principles
• Why switching everything can reduce confusion against slips, ghosts, and misdirection
• How UT Martin thinks about post mismatches, doubles, digs, and defensive layers
• Why putting two on the ball can create steals without becoming a pressure team
• How scouting, film, and player processing shape scramble defense and closeouts
• Why trust is the hardest thing to build quickly in the current roster-building era
• How agents and NIL have changed the way coaches think about buy-in
• The teaching details behind flipping ball screens against hedge coverage
• Why Shulman views pick-and-roll as a way to move the ball, not just create downhill scoring

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College basketball’s NIL era has quickly become one of the most disruptive forces in the global basketball market.

In this Slappin’ Glass Deep Dive, Eric Fawcett sits down with Kevin Sweeney, college basketball and NBA Draft writer for Sports Illustrated, to unpack what NIL money really looks like inside the modern college game, how schools are building rosters, and why the American college system is now pulling players from Europe and other international markets at a level that is reshaping the sport.

Sweeney breaks down the current NIL spending ranges across college basketball, from Final Four contenders operating with payrolls that can reach $20 million-plus, to mid-major programs using targeted spending to compete for league titles and NCAA Tournament bids. He also explains why international recruiting has become such a major part of roster building, how college programs are evaluating European talent, and where the process still has major blind spots.

The conversation also gets into the uncertainty around NCAA eligibility rules for international players, the sustainability of NIL spending, and why roster evaluation now requires a deeper understanding of translatable skills, role fit, personality, learning style, and reliable intel.

For coaches, scouts, executives, and anyone trying to understand where the basketball talent market is headed, this episode offers a clear look inside one of the most important shifts happening in the game today.

What You’ll Learn

• What NIL spending looks like across different levels of college basketball, from Final Four contenders to mid-major programs.
• Why European and international players have become such a major target for NCAA programs.
• How NIL has changed the global basketball market and put college basketball in direct competition with professional leagues.
• Why international recruiting still has major evaluation gaps, especially around player intel, role fit, and translatable skills.
• What the NCAA’s recent eligibility guidance could mean for older international players entering college basketball.
• Why the best roster builders are looking beyond scoring and placing more value on players who can defend, connect, cut, space, and impact winning without needing the ball.

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