Episode #29 – Building a great team mentality – Guest Pat Murphy
Join Phil Boyte and his guest Pat Murphy, the Bench Coach for the Milwaukee Brewers as they talk about the power of culture in sports and how to build a great team mentality. Pat’s coaching and managing career has spanned over three decades at all levels of the game and he shares from his perspective how to set your team up for success. During this podcast, Phil and Pat talk about the importance of leaders first seeking to understand each player, the power of building positive connections and why facing challenges together is so key. Looking for a few great ideas to build culture on your campus; be it on the field, in the hallway or in the classroom… you won’t want to miss this podcast!
A little about Pat:
“The 2018 Major League season marks Pat Murphy’s third year as the bench coach of the Milwaukee Brewers and his twelfth overall season in professional baseball. Murphy’s coaching and managing career has spanned over three decades at all levels of the game.
In 2015, the San Diego Padres named Pat Murphy interim manager, making him only the 3rd manager in history that was previously a head coach at the college level. Prior to his promotion, Murphy spent four-and-a-half seasons managing in the Minors for the Padres. Pat Murphy’s baseball coaching career came full circle in 2016 when he was named the Milwaukee Brewers bench coach under his former collegiate student-of-the-game, Craig Counsell, who played under Murphy at the University of Notre Dame from 1989-1992.
Murphy spent a better part of his career with two D-I schools: the University of Notre Dame, building a program to become a prominent national contender, and Arizona State University, upholding the tradition of a historically Top-10 team. The Notre Dame locker room was recently named in his honor. Murphy has also managed at an international level, including taking the 2000 Dutch team to the Summer Olympics.
To this day, Coach Murphy is considered one of the most successful coaches in college baseball history. In his 25-year head coaching career, Murphy was the youngest coach to earn 500 victories, is one of only three coaches to reach 1,000 wins by the age of 50, and is one of only three coaches in NCAA D-I history to have a winning percentage of .600 or higher in every season for 20 or more years as a Head Coach. He was named National Coach of the Year in 1998.
Pat Murphy currently resides in Mesa, AZ during the off-season. He has three children, Keli, Kai, and Austin.”
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