
How College Football's Wild West is a Warning Every Pickleball Player Should Hear with Jay Paterno
Descripción del Episodio
This week, Casie and Lauren sit down with Jay Paterno, son of Penn State coaching legend Joe Paterno, and author of Blitzed: The All-Out Pressure of College Football's New Era.
This one is part sports conversation, part cultural temperature check, and we did what we do best: take a sports story and find the human behavior hiding underneath it. Because it turns out that money, pressure, loyalty, ego, and identity do not stay neatly on the football field. They show up everywhere people care deeply about something, including a 20X44 pickleball court with a plastic ball and a surprisingly complicated rulebook.
In this episode we talk about:
-
The trick Jay uses to tell the truth (and why it lands better when it comes with a little plausible deniability)
-
The NIL era, and what happens when college football starts operating more like a franchise than a tradition
-
What the pickleball community should probably get in writing before growth outruns the pickleball culture
-
Why the most intense person in any pickleball competition is rarely having the most fun
-
The chaos of a game growing faster than its guardrails and what a pickleball strategy looks like when the rulebook is still being written
-
The women in Jay's book who keep asking the inconvenient questions
-
And the question underneath it all: when something you love becomes valuable to everyone else, does it still feel like yours
The pickleball lessons here have nothing to do with your backhand and everything to do with what happens when a sport you love starts growing faster than the values that built it. So whether you're following NIL headlines or just wondering where pickleball goes from here, this episode gives you plenty to chew on.
Pour something cold, hit play, and spend some time with the man who knows what happens when a game gets bigger than its guardrails.
Cheers,
Casie and Lauren
Dinks on Tap
You can purchase Blitzed!: The All-Out Pressure of College Football's New Era by Jay Paterno here.
Other ways to connect with Jay Paterno:Website
Let’s keep the conversation going! Connect with us:
Instagram: @dinksontap
Facebook: @DinksonTapWebsite: dinksontap.com
For those wanting to fortify their mental game on the court, check out Lauren’s Mental Caddie offerings on her website or book a Chemistry Call.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episodios Recientes

Más podcasts de Sociedad y Cultura
Ver toda la categoría →
Elton John Impact Awards
By shows
<p>Elton John Impact Awards honors the cultural icons championing equality for everyone. Inspiration meets impact in an unforgettable celebration of voices changing the world. Hosts Billy Porter and Elvis Duran lead a series of intimate and candid conversations with Elton John, David Furnish, and six incredible honorees whose work has shaped culture, advanced equality, and driven positive change for the LGBTQ+ community - Jonathan Bailey, Laverne Cox, Melissa Etheridge, Billie Jean King, Orville Peck, and Chappell Roan. These awards are all about recognizing those who cleared the path for us, and the ones who are lighting the way for future generations.</p>

Five Miles From Home
By shows
When beloved high school junior Micaela Costanzo disappears on her way home from track practice, the race to find her leads to unlikely suspects, simmering rage, and unimaginable betrayal. Keith Morrison takes us to a small Nevada casino town to find out what really happened that night under the desert sky.

¿Qué Haría Jesús?
By shows
¿Qué Haría Jesús? es un podcast producido por New Fire (@benewfire) en el que 7 sacerdotes legionarios de Cristo, comparten la reflexión diaria del Evangelio. P. Gabriel Abascal, LC (@padreabascal) P. Luis Rodrigo Núñez, LC (@padreluisrodrigo) P. Jorge Obregón, LC (@jobregong) P. Pablo Solis, LC (@pablosolisic) P. Evanibaldo Díaz, LC (@padreevanibaldo) P. Juan Antonio Ruíz, LC (@pjuanruizjlc) P. Jesús Rodrigues, LC (@padrejesuslc)

Blunt Force Trauma
By shows
Blunt Force Trauma is a new serialised investigation into the unsolved murder of Faithe Ely, from EchoSpace and host Troy Taylor (from award winning podcast Among The Missing). On March 28, 2021, Faith Ely was found lifeless on the side of a dark Oklahoma highway, her death quickly being ruled a hit and run. But the evidence doesn’t line up. The injuries don’t tell a clear story. And the more you dig, the harder it becomes to make sense of the official narrative. What should be a straightforward accident begins to feel anything but…

Después de la pérdida
By shows
Bienvenidos a un espacio que invita a la resiliencia durante el duelo. Entender el proceso, no significa que no duela el corazón. Hablaremos sobre el dolor, pero sobre todo, del amor. Un gusto conectar con ustedes en formato de podcast para que me puedan escuchar en el coche, en la casa, en el trabajo o donde ustedes quieran. ¡Gracias!

Ad Propositum
By shows
Bienvenidas y bienvenidos al podcast de Adpropositum, mi espacio auditivo para acompañarte a conectarte con tu propósito ayudándote a eliminar los obstáculos para acceder a una vida autentica y con sentido. Aqui reflexionaremos y aprenderemos en torno a la vida, el amor, el sufrimiento, el proposito y lo valioso. Un lugar construido para que lo compartas con otros y para que ademas de acceder a mis podcast, tambien encuentres mis medicinas auditivas para el alma.

Modo Taoísmo
By shows
Obtén inspiración para poseer el poder de alcanzar la grandeza y desbloquear todo tu potencial. Solo necesitas motivación y orientación para superar obstáculos y llevar una vida con propósito.
