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Post by blb on Feb 17, 2017 8:46:41 GMT -6
Thats interesting, I was thinking about that the other day. The number I came up with in my mind was 1/4 of HS games (but that was just a guess). I wonder how many HS games are decided before they even start? I'd put that number closer to 3/4
Ask yourself, how many upsets have you won in the past few years?
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Post by blb on Feb 17, 2017 8:54:48 GMT -6
How about when you have a Senior class who lost 7-8 players since their Freshman year, mostly due to grades, as a group never broke 40% attendance at Summer workouts, in their last year had more kids attend no workouts than came to all of them, and had less than half make more than 50% of the sessions?Happened to me. This goes to lochness' earlier post and is an example of how kids can lose games off the field. Wow, that had to be a fun group to coach.
It was not fun.
But every Friday night regardless of what happened I found something positive to say (SOMETHING good must have occurred, even if it was getting out of huddle with no one falling down) to give them a reason to keep coming back.
And every week I told them we could win this game if we just did this, this, and this.
Unfortunately I was wrong eight out of nine times.
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Post by 44dlcoach on Feb 17, 2017 9:30:49 GMT -6
8 of 13 for us last year there was absolutely no doubt who was going to win the game at kick off.
There's a lot of time between conception and kickoff though, I'd say all 8 were decided from the time the players walked in as 9th graders until kickoff, not before that.
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Post by veerwego on Feb 17, 2017 9:51:36 GMT -6
Check out Jim Collins' book Good to Great. Talks about level 5 leadership. One aspect is the mirror and the window.
Level 5 leaders look in the mirror to place blame and look out the window to give credit to others when things go well. It is much like the Bear Bryant quote from earlier. They still hold people accountable, but they take blame personally.
If you cannot get a kid to do what is coached after doing it over and over again, maybe think about the relationships that are built between your players and your coaches and players. If a kid wants to do something because he loves and trusts his teammates, he may be much more motivated. Much of this success has to be built off of the field.
Sometimes the best kid we have to play at a position, just can't do it against some opponents. Keep coaching him and loving him and tell him you are proud of him for not giving up. That is all he can do.
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Post by newhope on Feb 18, 2017 17:16:46 GMT -6
Never to the team or in public blame losses on the players and ABSOLUTELY never an individual player.
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Post by ttp22 on Feb 18, 2017 23:57:17 GMT -6
I teach extreme accountability.
After a loss, everyone, including me, needs to have the mindset that the loss was 100% their fault. QB needs to be thinking how he should've passed better, benchwarmer needs to be thinking about how he could've encouraged sideline morale better, Defensive Line coach needs to be thinking how he can coach DLine better.
If everyone pins the blame sorely on themselves, and doesn't blame others, we can keep improving. If we start pointing fingers, we can't improve.
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Post by indian1 on Feb 19, 2017 15:44:53 GMT -6
NEVER
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Post by Spread 'em out on Feb 20, 2017 9:48:54 GMT -6
Our HC never blames our team for a loss, he always says, "When we lose it's because we (the coaches) didn't prepare you well." To me, that's BS. There are times when kids just don't do what they're told/taught to do. We had several seniors in our playoff game this year that were overhead talking in the locker room saying, "Man, if we win tonight we have to practice for another whole week." Those kids went out and played like dog vomit. I don't know how you can pin that on the coaches. The other side of it is if you say every loss is our fault you're basically elevating the coaching above the players. So if we win a game it's not because the kids played great it's because we're such awesome coaches that we prepared you to the point that the other team couldn't beat you? There's times that a loss is the fault of the coaches. There are also times it's the fault of the players. I agree with your premise here, not everything falls on the coaches, but the majority does. sometimes your QB and his girlfriend break up that day and he plays poorly despite an excellent gameplan and great week of practice. Sometimes players just don't give their all.... but to a large degree its our job as coaches to create a culture that doesn't allow for this. Thats not to say it will never happen, but if you build a great team culture then I think you minimize that. With that said I feel culture is the HC's thing. It doesn't work if you have 1 or 2 assistants who constantly preach about all out effort and the head coach allows for laziness (not accusing your HC of that, just making a general statment.), All coaches on staff need to share, or atleast present, the same culture and vision for the team otherwise you get players who dog it to prevent an extra week of practice.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2017 11:02:41 GMT -6
I agree that the vast majority of the times when a team loses it's because the coaching staff didn't properly prepare the kids or because the team was just outmatched in every conceivable way. But now and again there are times when the kids don't show up for whatever reason and to say, "that's the coaches' fault for not creating the right culture, it's NEVER the kids fault" is just wrong in my opinion. Like I said before, we're trying to prepare the kids to be men in the real world. In the real world they're going to have bad days, they're going to have days they don't want to be there, they're going to have days where it seems things just aren't going their way - should they just give up for the day? "Sorry boss, I know you gave me what you thought I needed to land that big account but it didn't work out, they asked me some questions I wasn't really prepared for so I just told them I didn't know." They do that and the next thing they're going to feel is his foot in their ass as they're sent out the door. Again, I'm not talking about airing the team's dirty laundry to the world, "We prepared the kids but they just didn't have heart, that's why we lost." Throwing the kids under the bus is a dbag move, 100% but when you are having a team meeting I think it's totally appropriate to call kids onto the carpet for a heartless performance. Not one where they gave 100% but still lost, a heartless performance.
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