Coach Me Up with Jimmy Dykes & Chris Burke

Jimmy Dykes, Chris Burke

Booking Overview

Interview-driven Christian sports and life podcast featuring external athletes, coaches, sports executives, theologians, authors, and other high-profile figures who discuss faith, leadership, resilience, and life transitions. Strong pitch candidates include Christian sports personalities, coaches, athletics administrators, authors, speakers, and experts with credible achievement and a substantive personal-faith perspective; booking difficulty is medium.

Metrics

Episodes: 109

Frequency: Biweekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

coachmeuppodcast@gmail.com

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Host

Jimmy Dykes - Former college basketball coach and longtime college basketball analyst.

Chris Burke - Former Major League Baseball infielder and sports broadcaster.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Established athletes, coaches, sports executives, theologians, authors, and speakers with notable professional or ministry accomplishments and a compelling Christian faith or life-transition story.

Required Achievements:

Professional or elite athletic careers, Leadership roles in college or professional sports, Published books, National sports-media experience, Notable ministry or theological credentials

Recent Guest Discussions

Dan Butterly - Leadership, Stewardship, College Athletics, NIL, Revenue Sharing, The Transfer Portal, Decision-making, And Christian Faith.

Yan Gomes - Identity, Retirement From Professional Sports, Christian Faith, Family, Comparison, And Becoming A Coach.

Owen Strachan - Anxiety, Christian Living, Productivity, Fatherhood, And Cultivating A Faithful Life.

David Pollack - Faith, Family Resilience, Cancer, Career Transition, College Football, And His Book Every Day Counts.

Gina Rouse - Running, Athletic Perseverance, Motherhood, And Deepening One's Christian Faith Through Sport.

Recent Topics

Sports, Christianity, Athletes, College Athletics, Leadership

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Coach Me Up with Jimmy Dykes & Chris Burke

Lee Smith: "I Was Easy Prey" — 11 Years in the NFL and the Wall He Built | Coach Me Up with Jimmy Dykes & Chris Burke

September 27, 2026

Lee Smith never missed a Bible study in eleven NFL seasons. He prayed over his kids their whole lives. And he'll tell you straight: for most of that time, he was easy prey.The Knoxville native signed with Tennessee out of Powell High School and didn't make it to his first training camp — a DUI arrest ended it before the summer was over. He landed at Marshall, got married at the courthouse at nineteen, had two kids in college and a third by the time the Patriots drafted him in 2011. Ne...

Dan Butterly: Leadership Is Stewardship, Not Status | Coach Me Up with Jimmy Dykes & Chris Burke

September 13, 2026

Ask a sitting Division I commissioner to grade the current state of college athletics and most will dodge. Dan Butterly doesn't. The Big West commissioner tells Jimmy exactly where he thinks the enterprise stands right now — and why the uncertainty around NIL, revenue sharing, and the portal is generating anxiety for everyone in the building, not just the athletes.Jimmy and Dan go back more than 25 years, to Big Monday broadcasts and ten o'clock Mountain Time tip-offs. In this one, Da...

Yan Gomes: Brazil's First Big Leaguer on Identity, Game 7, and Being Available | Coach Me Up with Jimmy Dykes & Chris Burke

August 30, 2026

"You're not a cooler baseball player, and then you sprinkle some Jesus dust around the clubhouse." Yan Gomes spent 13 seasons behind the plate in the big leagues, and he's got a blunt take on how identity actually works — and how most guys get it backwards.Yan made history in 2012 as the first Brazilian-born player ever to reach Major League Baseball. He caught Game 7 of the 2016 World Series for Cleveland, won a ring with Washington in 2019, and finished his career with the...

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