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Post by phantom on Nov 14, 2010 21:40:03 GMT -6
I'm curious about how many of you are superstitious. I'm not but a couple of our coaches have it bad.
Example: I have a hat that I've worn for practice for at least 10 years. No reason except that I don't want to wreck a new hat (we get a new one every year) at practice. I don't have a locker so I always leave it on the corner of the couch in the office. A few weeks ago I decided to chuck my hat and use a newer one (again, no reason except it was beat up to the point of being uncomfortable). Well, when they saw me toss the old hat in the trash both of them almost had a freakin' heart attack. They insisted on keeping it. I didn't have to wear it but it had to stay on the couch.
How 'bout you guys?
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Post by td4tc on Nov 14, 2010 21:59:07 GMT -6
keep the hat!what the F were you thinking?all that great success you guys have had comes from the hat
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Post by phantom on Nov 14, 2010 22:05:33 GMT -6
I wore it before we had that success, too.
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Post by td4tc on Nov 14, 2010 22:08:09 GMT -6
you had to give it a chance to work..just like your players..10 years is a long time coach..that hat should go in a trophy case at least..lol
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Post by phantom on Nov 14, 2010 22:09:39 GMT -6
LOL. It still has a spot on the couch for now. If we lose a game somebody will probably throw it out.
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coachood
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Post by coachood on Nov 15, 2010 0:12:36 GMT -6
I think it's bad luck to be superstitious .
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Post by mhcoach on Nov 15, 2010 7:24:43 GMT -6
Phantom
I have small superstitions that I think are just to keep me sane. My logical mind tells me they have no real bearing on anything, but just going through the ritual makes me calmer before a game. Over the years I have seen some strange ones, my favorite was the lucky nickel. I coached with a guy who all week would search the ground to find a nickel(it had to be a nickel) then would toss it across the field right before kickoff. He was absolutely possesed about this nickel. He even had this little baggie he would carry it in.
Joe
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Post by coachwoodall on Nov 15, 2010 11:44:38 GMT -6
I am very superstitious. I think it is bad luck not to work hard, which will cause you to lose ball games.
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Post by blb on Nov 15, 2010 11:48:43 GMT -6
I am superstitious, too.
I believe it is bad luck to be behind at the end of the game.
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Post by John Knight on Nov 15, 2010 12:03:24 GMT -6
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Post by coachguy83 on Nov 15, 2010 13:29:31 GMT -6
AND if we lose...he buys me a new hat cause the other one "went bad". At least you get a new hat to help ease the pain of losing.
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Post by k on Nov 15, 2010 18:47:15 GMT -6
I'm NOT superstitious in reality but I definitely pretend to be. I know that the team colored socks I wear don't really help us win but I wear them because its fun to talk about "25-2 since I started wearing them and 2-21" before that game when I showed up wearing sandals thinking I had a pair of socks in my locker to wear with my game shoes and didn't so I wore players game socks.
Also I find a benefit in being able to play off "bad" events by using the idea of "bad luck" even though it is freaking ridiculous as a concept. Had a punt returner drop two kicks early in the year wearing underarmour on his arms and he is a character and really lets stuff like that get to him so we played it off as the shirt, he later burned it. Totally got him past it.
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Post by bighit65 on Nov 15, 2010 18:59:50 GMT -6
For those of you that don't believe...my high school team was never very good. Then my senior year we finally came together and went on a seven game win streak to start the season. I have to miss an away game due to injury and my buddy asks to borrow my away game socks. ( we had to pay $5 to replace any lost) So I tell him ok but give them right back. I haven't washed them all season. Sure enough he takes them home and washes them then gives them back. The next week I wear my dirty home socks and we win. The next week district title game Iwear my clean socks and we get beat. I cussed him all the way home. We may have gone 14-0 if not for you, Dusty Rose!!
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Post by jgordon1 on Nov 15, 2010 20:22:03 GMT -6
I have to have a white hat...don't know why or how it started...I bought three this year
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Post by groundchuck on Nov 15, 2010 20:36:47 GMT -6
I have always worn tan kahki pants for games. We lost week 2 this year ugly and I decided to go black pants the following week with a grey hoodie.
We upset the #3 team in the state and I continued to wear those pants and sweatshirt every game until we lost in the playoffs.
Routine not superstition.
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Post by phantom on Nov 15, 2010 21:09:30 GMT -6
I have always worn tan kahki pants for games. We lost week 2 this year ugly and I decided to go black pants the following week with a grey hoodie. We upset the #3 team in the state and I continued to wear those pants and sweatshirt every game until we lost in the playoffs. Routine not superstition. Hate to say it but if it was just a question of routine it wouldn't matter what color the pants were.
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Post by dubber on Nov 15, 2010 21:16:31 GMT -6
I really don't care
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Post by Coach Klemme on Nov 15, 2010 21:53:17 GMT -6
I have never shaved on a gameday from HS to present time. I don't know why.
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Post by pvogel on Nov 16, 2010 0:12:20 GMT -6
im not superstitious. a little stitious though.
i used to not shave on gameday. picked that up from playin hockey. as a coach now though i always shave on gameday. as a player i would clean my cleats with an old toothbrush while listening to music (we wore white cleats). just got me focused for some odd reason. and i always make a breakfast burrito for breakfast on gamedays. dunno why. just do. since i played in HS.
im sure once wins become more constant something new will pick up.
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Post by groundchuck on Nov 16, 2010 4:32:28 GMT -6
I have always worn tan kahki pants for games. We lost week 2 this year ugly and I decided to go black pants the following week with a grey hoodie. We upset the #3 team in the state and I continued to wear those pants and sweatshirt every game until we lost in the playoffs. Routine not superstition. Hate to say it but if it was just a question of routine it wouldn't matter what color the pants were. Um......OK you got me.
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Post by dacoachmo on Nov 16, 2010 6:28:21 GMT -6
I think more coaches are creatures of habit not superstition...It give all of us a calm feeling. Last week, I was more George like (do the opposite) because we have lost in Regionals three straight years...did not work, now the losing streak is at four!
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Post by dacoordinator on Nov 16, 2010 8:56:38 GMT -6
A great mind (can't remember his name at the moment) once said, "that being that we are creatures of habit it is perfectly normal to associate things that we do or wear before great successes and try to replicate them in order to obtain similar results the next." While I dont think I am superstitious, I do try to repeat almost all activity I did the week we won games.. just because its what help me get into my zone as a coach. Just like when you were a player and you did certain things to get into your zone same goes for coaching... I dont too much believe in superstition though.
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Post by leighty on Nov 17, 2010 8:17:53 GMT -6
I have never shaved on a gameday from HS to present time. I don't know why. I shave every gameday.
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Post by blb on Nov 17, 2010 8:34:46 GMT -6
I have never shaved on a gameday from HS to present time. I don't know why. I shave every gameday. At my age, every morning first thing I do when I get up is check the obituaries to see if I need to shave.
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Post by dirtybird13 on Nov 17, 2010 18:59:29 GMT -6
I come from a background of familial OCD. I used to mock my mother and her obsession with numbers and "bad luck." She looked at serial numbers on Bills, dates on coins, and did not do ANYTHING that was bad luck. It drove her up the wall that I got a black cat on friday the 13th, and that my jersey number was 13 any time I had my way...
That being said, it has now come full circle... I like to think that I am still not superstitious, but I do not feel like spitting in the wind. What's the line from Bull Durham about never f-ing with a win streak?
However, I do not like changes in my routine... I don't want a different seat at our meeting table... I write with the same pen until it is empty, a year ago I was still a smoker... the only one I knew who would keep the same cheap bic lighter until it was completely empty...
Guess I am reaping what I have sown for mocking my mother when I was younger. It DOES help me though, as I pay attention to detail in my work.
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Post by ram7gm on Nov 17, 2010 19:40:20 GMT -6
I seem to develop weird ones... something in my head attributing bad events to something I did or wore. We lost? It must have been because I shaved that day or wore a certain polo. We won? I better keep wearing this sweatshirt.
This year, we started off 0-2. For both of those games, I wore my brand new Nike coaching shoes. Week 3, I went back to my old beat up ones. We won and then proceeded to reel off 9 straight wins (including week 1 playoffs). Because of the shoes? Of course not!! But it couldn't have hurt (or so I think).
But then of course we lost our next playoff game, while still wearing the beat up shoes. So that leaves me with one question...
...what should I wear week 1 next season!??!
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Post by calkayne on Nov 18, 2010 11:45:21 GMT -6
Im not generally superstitious, but one year we won every game I wore a certain TShirt. Though that same year I didnt wash my beanie from OffSeason to Season, untill the missus washed it. Then we lost.
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Post by Coach Klemme on Nov 18, 2010 20:24:48 GMT -6
At my age, every morning first thing I do when I get up is check the obituaries to see if I need to shave. Maybe this is what I've been doing wrong.
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Post by alln on Nov 19, 2010 0:43:31 GMT -6
This is stupid, but I'm hung up on when to switch pieces of chewing gum during games. If things aren't going well, I spit out the piece I'm chewing and put in a new piece. If things are going well, I keep chewing the same piece until something bad happens. A piece of gum loses all flavor and gets rock hard by the 4th quarter, but I'll take that all day long.
Also, the gum has to be green. Why? Because our school colors are green and white.
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Post by black on Nov 19, 2010 1:21:54 GMT -6
I feel like once you've attributed success or failure to arbitrary things, you ignore the real reasons why you win or lose.
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