Honest question - what does this even mean?

THANK YOU!!! Typical coaching cliche. I'm with you boneyard, what do it even mean? And all the coaches who believe that...*facepalm*. I AM NOT discounting that culture and community is important, it is. Saw one coach say, "I don't fear your X's & O's, I fear your culture." I am probably in the minority on saying that your X's and O's matter more than your culture on game night. But as Mike Tyson said, everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face. What happens to your culture then?
"Changing the culture" or "Trust the process" or "Culture over scheme"
Please stop! It just gets old!

TRUST
noun
1.firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone or something.

synonyms: confidence, belief, faith, freedom from suspicion/doubt, sureness, certainty, certitude, assurance, conviction, credence, reliance


PROCESS
noun
1.a series of actions or steps taken in order to achieve a particular end.
synonyms: procedure, operation, action, activity, exercise, affair, business, job, task, undertaking, proceeding

I really try to not be a big "Cliche guy" but I will use this one. The problem is that a lot of people use it/repeat it but never really understand what it means (coaches and players alike)

IF you can get your coaches AND players AND parents AND school staff to "believe in the procedures you are following to meet your end goals" then it is pretty powerful.

Obviously if you are just quoting a "Sabanism" I don't think it means much.

It means don't deviate from what we are teaching you and try to freelance and come up with something on your own, or give up on what we are instructing you to do. It can also mean to not focus on the end result, and short term failures, rather continue doing what we are asking you to do and know that success will come in the long run.

Example, I was the coach for a brand new school once, our first year of varsity we were out matched because we simply didnt have the upperclassmen athletes that many opponents had. It would have been for players to quit, to denounce the techniques or system, to try to do it their own way. They could have simply gave up on the sport due to the short term struggles, but many didn't.

Within a year, we were league champs and soon thereafter a perennial state contender. Don't be myopic and let the short term struggles distract you from the long term success we will achieve if you trust the process.

Of course, in your case, it could have just been a cheap mantra for the coach to use to buy him time while he was failing.

Maybe it means that they have a pitching rotation going and they won't deviate from it for a regular season win. Maybe they start the season off preaching no breaking balls till later in the year or something like that.

If they are very good and have guys that anyone thinks can actually make it to the majors and you beat them 18-0, something is WILDLY off. 18-0 is an absolute disaster.

The fact they kept repeating trust the process and they are very good and have real talent could actually mean something here. Like you played their second string cause this was a throwaway game and they are about to play in a big time tournament with six games and they need all their actual pitching and players for that tournament.

Just a guess. I mean a good team with major league talent doesn’t even get beat 18-0 by the best team in the nation.

Jimmy Chitwood trusted the process...

But Jimmy was only going to play if Coach kept his job. 😆

Yeah...I get that. With that being said...c'mon. "Trust the process"? Is it even possible to be more cliche than that? I guess if the coach would have yelled out, "Row the boat", that would have been worse! 

I think MICoach hit the nail on the head. Beyond what he said, I think it is something that gets thrown out there when a coach really doesn't know what to do in terms of adjustments OR really doesn't have any other option other than what he is currently doing. You yell out something like, "Trust the Process!" to make it seem like you understand that the situation looks bleak now but that you have a plan that is going to produce better results in the future (even if you really don't!)

I almost have to wonder if saying something like "Trust the Process" is more for the parents and fans than it is for the kids.

fkaboneyard,

How has the team been doing this season minus that one game?

GATA will never go out of style.

changing the culture or turning this doormatt of a loser, bottom feeder into something respectable.  that would be changing the culture.  if youve ever coached in a community that has never had or been some years of losing and excitement hasnt happend in some time, changing that culture can be as simple as the team being in stretch lines and doing things as a team on friday night.  walking 2x2 to and from the field, lining up on the goal line for national anthem, etc.....

know that 1st hand, i did it at a school. was the most bizarre thing.
we lost home opener and admin came to me and said that was the best thing they had seen in quite some time at the school.
community people were shaking my hand (we lost by 3 tds) and saying thank you for creating some excitment and we looked great out there, best they had seen in 10 years.  it happend alot for a couple years.  we won 6 games in 3 seasons and you would have thought we were state champs.  never lost a game by more than 3 tds.......

culture over scheme, sure its jimmies n joes, not x and o.  
if my dudes are killers you can scheme all you want if your 5'5 and 150lbs OL kids.  

thrust the process=listen to what we have been teaching, coaching, working on, at some point it will come to fruition.

brotha, let me tell ya....
the principal that hired me, was moved the next summer, then that guy was around for 2 seasons(top 2 ive ever worked for), he could care less if we won or not.  it was about putting solid on the field, he knew the struggles(was an AP at a 3x state champ program) and understood what we had to work with.
so he left summer of year 3.
brand, brand new principal, was overwhelemed, he brought in his own AD(former football coach, knew it was going to be bad), AD that hired me, she retired,
i knew that was the begnning of the end.
i was let go pretty soon after the hiring.

would it have worked out, naw, not with this dude wanting his own people.
but,
that is the job,,,

all things considered, if either the principal that hired me or the next 1 had stayed, i would still be the HBC.  
we had it going in the right direction for sure!
on to the next 1