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Post by begreat on Jan 12, 2009 21:12:49 GMT -6
I'm sure this has been answered on here before by many of you good coaches but I wanted to ask. What is your coaching philosophy? Not your offense or defense but your coaching philosophy.
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Post by tog on Jan 12, 2009 21:24:32 GMT -6
build citizens build athletes
put them in the best position with the skills to make plays
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Post by CoachCP on Jan 12, 2009 22:08:07 GMT -6
I have two. I believe you need a philosophy on life before you can do coaching. Only after that can you build a philosophy of coaching.
Philosophy on Life: A successful man is built on a foundation of integrity, gentlemanly behavior, a strong mind, responsible citizenry, and leadership by example or oratory. A man that is firm in these principles will experience life to the fullest, while at the same time being triumphant in all that he does.
Philosophy of Coaching: I want to maximize the academic and athletic potential of each of my players. I want their experience with my team to be successful, and to give their lives a useful template to find their own triumphs. Their teams will be built on love and family, for everyone that is a part of it. Sometimes love is tough, sometimes is compassionate. No matter what, it conquers all.
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Post by coachbdud on Jan 12, 2009 22:59:19 GMT -6
Have a positive impact on someone else's life everyday. I want every kid to look back on their life when their 30 or 40 and realize how much i did to help them. I think a coach also has to always stress the importance of academics
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Post by Fridge on Jan 13, 2009 3:12:32 GMT -6
Like in real life... if you do it, do it with 100%.
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Post by touchdownmaker on Jan 13, 2009 6:02:01 GMT -6
I want my players to "do right always"- I want them to do their best always.
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Post by jpdaley25 on Jan 13, 2009 6:24:43 GMT -6
Our most basic and over-riding philosophy is that success is a by-product of doing things right, and that doing things right is a choice. This choice applies to every aspect of our players' lives - thoughts, attitudes, speech, appearance, actions, and the way they play. The more things you do right, the greater your chances of success. We believe that there are a million ways to do anything the wrong way and only one way to do it right. We want to make doing things right a habit, and we want our players to take pride in doing things right. If my name is attached to it, it will be done right. We do not emphasize winning. We measure success by the number of things done right. "There's the wrong way, and there's the Cougar Way!"
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Post by tvt50 on Jan 13, 2009 6:46:07 GMT -6
I like Lou Holtz's so we stoled his.
1. Do What's Right 2. Do Your Best 3. Treat People the Way you want to be Treated
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2009 8:08:12 GMT -6
There's a poem called "The Builder" that sums it all up. Can't find it now but will look.
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Post by pegleg on Jan 13, 2009 8:14:23 GMT -6
"Man is built to succeed, not fail."
In other words accentuate the positive always. Don't look for negative things, look for good stuff.
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Post by dacoordinator on Jan 13, 2009 8:28:07 GMT -6
Simple....we build guys for life and football which ever they excell in.
1.) Faith - Whatever religion you believe in always put that first. 2.) Family - The family is the most important part of any persons life. The decisions that are made with the family can be vital in the kids life. As the family should always come first after your faith, every other issue is second. 3.) Finance - This for kids deals with school (Grades). Without the grades you can't play football, without the grades you cant possibly move on the the next level and play. We also tell our guys that finance is for when they get older, without the finances they can not live comfortably in the economy. 4.) Football - after all those there is football.
If our players come to us with an excuse about why they cant do this and that about football and school.. if its not dealing with one of those 4. we dont want to hear it.
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Post by undertakerx on Jan 13, 2009 8:46:46 GMT -6
My High school coach told me this 18 years ago and it has still stuck in my head and i tell the kids the same thing.
Be at the right place at the right time doing the right things.
I also stress to my kids that everything they do is making them better, and that someone somewhere is training harder then they are.
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Post by jgordon1 on Jan 13, 2009 10:48:44 GMT -6
Going for a head job in a couple of days so it got me thinking. This is what I came up with:
The mission of our coaching staff is to use football to teach life’s lessons. It is our purpose to give these children the necessary tools to enable them to grow into young, responsible men. These lessons, hopefully, will be passed along to their children, creating an endless cycle of responsibility, accountability and integrity.
I ran this by a couple of people, one person told me they didn't like the word children in a mission statement. I really believe the students we see on a daily basis are still children. boys more so than girls.
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Post by coachgeorge51 on Jan 13, 2009 21:46:01 GMT -6
I agree that you should lose the word "children" and end it after "responsible young men". You won't be able to affect the circumstances in their life that creates or ends a cycle. You can use your life to impact theirs and I think that is our ultimate goal on a personal level.
I have revisited my mission statement and think "teach them how to WIN in everything they do" has become my purpose. Our young men need to learn how to compete, win, and fight through adversity.
I think words like commitment, responsibility, integrity.........are great but these are the end result of four years of work and self-sacrifice. In other words, they are a bi-product of what we do, not a product itself.
Kill themselves in the weightroom every day = commitment Give a freshman a ride to morning lifting = responsibility Talk directly to a coach with honesty if they have to miss lifting = integrity Calling out a teammate who is not lifting = courage Not attending the party where drugs and alcohol are present = character
I hope you see my point.
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Post by touchdowng on Jan 13, 2009 22:37:25 GMT -6
To model what our program stands for
Citizenship Servant leadership Trust in others
It's one thing to have a philosophy, it's quite another for your players to fully experience it through the actions of the coaching staff and the senior class. That's the challenge.
It would be a great thread to hear how coaching staff's keep themselves accountable for the good of the whole.
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Post by jaspercoach on Jan 14, 2009 8:06:16 GMT -6
Here is the poem I think irishblitzer was talking about.
THE BUILDER
I saw them tearing a building down A team of men in my hometown. With a heave and a ho and a yes yes yell, they swung a beam and a sidewall fell.
And I said to the foreman, "Are these men skilled?" "Like the ones you'd use if you had to build?" And he laughed and said, "Oh no, indeed... the most common labor is all I need... for I can destroy in a day or two what takes a builder ten years to do."
So I thought to myself as I went on my way... Which one of these roles am I willing to play? Am I one who is tearing down as I carelessly make my way around? Or am I one who builds with care, in order to make the world a little better... because I was there?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2009 22:16:59 GMT -6
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Post by justryn2 on Jan 16, 2009 16:08:18 GMT -6
Find a way to make something better.
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Post by bigm0073 on Jan 18, 2009 11:09:40 GMT -6
Our philosophy is three pronged:
1. Development of our players socially. We as coaches are role models and we want to develop positive young man off of ideals of trust,honesty,character, leadership and work ethic.
2. Students - We want our players to be the best students possible. We develop stuents who excel in the classroom.
3. Athlete - We as coaches want to put our players in the best possible situation to succeed on the field. We want them to maximize their ability through a strenous off-season.
We believe if you start with this as your foundation you are going to be very successful. This has been very beneficial to me over the year.
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Post by touchdowng on Jan 18, 2009 11:34:10 GMT -6
What is most amazing about all of the responses on this thread is no matter where coaches see their philosophies I would bet that many players in your programs probably get a little of everything (positive) that people are sharing and sometimes we just don't know it.
A good way to find out if your philosophies are sinking in are to ask some of your players who have been around a couple of years or ones who come back to visit after being away for awhile.
Don't be surprised by some of the responses you receive. They are probably getting some "things" that you didn't intentionally focus on.
H.S. football.............is there a better place to mold/build/refine/expose the character of young people?
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Post by jgordon1 on Jan 18, 2009 13:58:43 GMT -6
Big M: How do you develop students that excel in the classroom.
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Post by coachorr on Jan 18, 2009 19:27:49 GMT -6
Coach George said: "You can use your life to impact theirs and I think that is our ultimate goal on a personal level."
Let me add to this discussion with this: Based on the quoted statement (to me Coach George's statement is the crucible of coaching for me, it is the catalyst for everything I do), how do we measure this? Anything valuable should be measured, so how is this measured.
I also like how Coach George has defined what words mean in the eyes of kids. I wish there were a way to provide more examples.
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Post by coachorr on Jan 18, 2009 19:35:49 GMT -6
Jasper, thanks for the poem.
jgordon, I try to help my students by providing consequences for poor behavior in class and study hall for poor grades and missing assignments.
This next year, I am going to look to improve this, by looking to implement rewards for the opposite behavior. I think I may have put the cart before the horse.
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Post by coachorr on Jan 18, 2009 19:38:05 GMT -6
Jgordon, I think the word "children" is appropriate. Similar to the full metal jacket theory, only you are not calling them "maggots".
When an artist makes a pot, does he call the clay he began working with "a pot", or is this the title reserved for the finished product?
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