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The Long Game

The Long Game

Written by: Nathan Pali
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The Long Game is a leadership and sports podcast about how the greatest coaches, teams, and organizations built success that lasted.

Championships are won in moments. Dynasties are built over years.

This podcast studies elite coaching, leadership through sports, and the long-term systems behind sustained excellence. Each episode explores a legendary coach, team, or program from across football, basketball, baseball, soccer, hockey, and beyond, blending sports history, biography, and leadership analysis to uncover how the best leaders thought in decades, not seasons.

You’ll learn:

  • How great coaches built long-term systems
  • How culture created consistency across generations
  • How leaders developed talent instead of chasing shortcuts
  • How patience and discipline shaped dynasties
  • How innovation evolved over time
  • How leaders handled setbacks, rebuilding, and transitions
  • How sustained excellence is actually built

This isn’t a highlight show or a podcast about quick wins. It’s a story-driven guide to long-term leadership, coaching philosophy, organizational culture, and understanding how the best leaders in history played — and won — the long game.

If you’re interested in leadership, sports leadership, coaching philosophy, team culture, organizational leadership, performance psychology, great coaches, and learning how enduring success is built over time — this podcast is for you.

The Long Game Because real success is never built overnight.

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Episodes
  • Standards Over Sentiment: The Nick Saban Method
    Jan 24 2026

    How Alabama’s dynasty was built not on emotion or inspiration, but on systems, discipline, and relentless clarity.

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    16 mins
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