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Post by tog on Jun 30, 2006 13:21:43 GMT -6
what does it mean to you?
yes I stole this idea from TOC. I think we will get better answers here for sure.
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Post by brophy on Jun 30, 2006 13:32:12 GMT -6
ALWAYS trying to get better for the sake of your own personal growth, for better ways to help the kids excel, and looking for ways to coordinate tasks with your staff.
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Post by fbdoc on Jun 30, 2006 13:39:50 GMT -6
Don't know if I like the question. I got into coaching so I wouldn't have to "Work" for a living.
I guess my answer would be IF you are NOT doing the following, you're taking it too easy.
Planning every minute/drill of every practice.
Being true to yourself - yeller, quiet guy, fire and brimstone, pat on the butt ... being YOU.
Motivator for your players and for your staff!
Watching Video
Running the Weight Room
Running the Off Season-Summer
Making recruiting phone calls and videos
Visiting kids and parents in their home
Being the visable Leader of your Team
Spending time with family - NOT "bragging" (even to yourself) that you stay in the office till Midnight watching tape and game planning - that tells me you're not very efficient! Go home and spend some time with the wife and kids because you'll never get it back!
Just a start...
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Post by blb on Jun 30, 2006 13:51:56 GMT -6
Be intense enough to get the job done, but relaxed enough to enjoy it.
Make sure you have done everything in your power to give the kids a chance to compete.
The "luxury" of coaching is winning - don't lose when you should've won.
Game time, be luck a duck - calm on the surface, but paddle like heck underneath.
Work hard, work smart. Sometimes, this means: Take a break! Too much of a good thing, even football, is still too much.
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Post by brophy on Jun 30, 2006 13:55:54 GMT -6
it's not "Work" if you enjoy what you're doing.
--George Halas
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2006 16:48:40 GMT -6
Let's see, I coach football in the fall, guide goose hunters in the winter, guide fly fishermen in the summer, and oversee a few farms. Sounds like I've never worked a day, BUT. . .
In each and every one of those things, I've done whatever it takes to be the best I can be and make the ones who depend on me have every opportunity to reach their own goals and dreams.
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Post by tvt50 on Jun 30, 2006 17:54:53 GMT -6
People tell you that you are obsessed, that you need to take some time off, or get some other hobbies. I like what Bum Phillips said in an interview, "I took one week off in 30 years and I HATED it" "Hobbies, I didnt have any hobbies- football was my hobby, it was my first love and last love." "All the good coaches are like that". Those are signs that you working hard.
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Post by Coach Huey on Jun 30, 2006 21:05:20 GMT -6
football & coaching is not what i do ... it is what i am...
passionate is an understatement ...
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Post by tvt50 on Jun 30, 2006 22:13:45 GMT -6
"If I'm not coaching, I'm not breathing"- George Allen
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Post by Coach Huey on Jun 30, 2006 22:48:35 GMT -6
"football is not life ... it's more important than that" -- huey hahahahahahahahahahahahaha |
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Post by saintrad on Jun 30, 2006 23:28:50 GMT -6
since all the teachers are referring to the "No Child Left Behind" as "No Teacher Left Standing", I guess there will only be us coaches left to do what is right for our kids.
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Post by coachjd on Jul 1, 2006 0:34:52 GMT -6
I'm not much of a Lou fan because he bailed on us Gopher lovers years ago for the touchdown Jesus, but here is a good quote about football and comittment and hardwork.
"If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing,
then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking.
It's tough enough getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing,
let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting his jacket on. "
--Lou Holtz, College football coach College football coach
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Post by tvt50 on Jul 1, 2006 1:12:46 GMT -6
Trivia Question
How many times has Lou bailed out??? LOL!
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Post by blb on Jul 1, 2006 6:19:38 GMT -6
Trivia answer:
Not as many times as you might think...he was invited not to return on at least two occasions.
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Post by pegleg on Jul 1, 2006 7:55:07 GMT -6
i don't work, ever. getting up and going to the field house is what gets me outta bed everyday. its the only thing that is important (other than my kids) in the universe. i'm with huey, passion doesn't even begin to describe it.
my dad told e years ago: "find out what you love to do and then figure out a way to get paid to do it." he has spent the last 35 years making more money than i'll ever see, and wishes he did something else. he has told me my whole life to do what i love, not what will make me rich. he was right, i can't imagine anything else.
i coach, its who i am.
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Post by tog on Jul 1, 2006 8:52:23 GMT -6
guess who said this?
"Show me a coach who's a real good golfer and I will whip him in football."
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Post by pegleg on Jul 1, 2006 10:31:17 GMT -6
well it wasn't spurrier. he says he plays all the time.
10-15 years ago i was a 6 handicap. now i play 2x a year, if i'm lucky. oh and one of those is a booster club tourny for the school where i work. so i get to take a paid day off for golf, cool stuff.
oh and the answer is in your sig!
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Post by Coach Huey on Jul 1, 2006 12:00:52 GMT -6
oh and the answer is in your sig! earl campbell? |
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Post by blb on Jul 1, 2006 12:28:18 GMT -6
Nile Kinnick?
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Post by tog on Jul 1, 2006 13:00:55 GMT -6
yall are funny
i always tell my wife and family that I don't work
that is just where I go during the day
sittin around talkin about football? ok, where? when? I am there
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Post by Split50 on Jul 1, 2006 15:01:25 GMT -6
Woody Hayes
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Post by los on Jul 1, 2006 19:29:48 GMT -6
Some coach who isn't a good golfer and is pissed off cause he can't beat his buddies?
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Post by tog on Jul 1, 2006 20:22:12 GMT -6
hyaden fry
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