Originally Posted by
Alan Shore
I suspect you're wrong. I've never coached at that level, but have worked with youth sports for many years. You train, you develop, you encourage, you get them riled up so that they play better than they ever thought they could.
But you
never snow them. You
never tell them things that you know not to be true. You may not necessarily tell them everything you know(
), but you don't BS them. They will
always see right through that.
You are correct in much of what you write. Train. Develop. Positive encouragement.
The foundation to those is details, details details and communication cubed. Making sure you focus on details and doing them at your highest level while communicating effectively and positively.
Who, right now, is focusing on details and communicating positively, unless one considers communicating positively as telling your team not to expect to go out and score many points.?
Our "coaching staff" is lacking and challenged currently.
Imagine what we could do with an effective communicator that has a vision (winning) and is detailed focused on getting the other coaches and team working to attain that vision.