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Post by darin30 on May 29, 2010 17:03:52 GMT -6
Coaches, I am looking at putting together an action plan for my athletes. It would consist of steps we must do as a team, offseason and inseason to win a championship. your suggestions and thoughts.
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Post by jpdaley25 on Jun 2, 2010 8:27:11 GMT -6
I break it down into challenges throughout the year. Off season workouts,spring Practice, summer workouts, dead period workouts, summer practice, 2 a days, fall practice, games 1 - 5, games 6 - 10, playoffs, and then the championship game. We have specific goals for attendance, achievement, and learning in each segment designed to spring board us into the next segment. We also try to incorporate life lessons into each segment. For example, during the dead period they are expected to follow a workout on. Their own so we preach about loyalty, duty, responsibility, and self discipline. Hope this helps.
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Post by warrior53 on Jun 2, 2010 19:49:41 GMT -6
I have a unique point of view on this particular topic. I am against this type of success planning. A number of years ago I coached a very good team, we were highly touted, ranked in the top 10 in the country, and picked to win the conference championship, you get the picture. Our head coach (stud guy) developed a success pyramid with all kinds of things that we needed to do in order to get to the national championship. Long story short...we missed a couple of those pyramid blocks and proceeded to fall apart. Coach, believe me when I say we were VERY good. I truely believe that our kids started to lose faith in their direction and their abilities based on the few blocks/goals they didn't achieve. I think these things are good motivators, but what happens when you don't achieve these little goals? How are your kids going to handle that mentally? Food for thought.
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Post by eaglemountie on Jun 3, 2010 7:43:31 GMT -6
I have a unique point of view on this particular topic. I am against this type of success planning. A number of years ago I coached a very good team, we were highly touted, ranked in the top 10 in the country, and picked to win the conference championship, you get the picture. Our head coach (stud guy) developed a success pyramid with all kinds of things that we needed to do in order to get to the national championship. Long story short...we missed a couple of those pyramid blocks and proceeded to fall apart. Coach, believe me when I say we were VERY good. I truely believe that our kids started to lose faith in their direction and their abilities based on the few blocks/goals they didn't achieve. I think these things are good motivators, but what happens when you don't achieve these little goals? How are your kids going to handle that mentally? Food for thought. What would be an alternative for continuous motivation? Would you celebrate/recognize every little success or building block?
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Post by warrior53 on Jun 3, 2010 10:12:20 GMT -6
I am more of a one game at a time type guy, or one goal at a time type guy. I don't think there is anything wrong with the season goals or anything like that, I just think if you plot out a road map and all of a sudden you have to take an alternate route, that can affect your team mentally. For me it's what do we want to do as a team this summer, off-season (or even more broken up into different sections) once you get to a season, then it is one game at a time. Yes you celebrate success, just don't give your team a chance to dwell on mistakes by making a big production/road map out of your goals. I mean we went all out, we put our pyramid on player manuals, on t-shirts, on everything - I think our kids could not overcome all the build up and focus on that pyramid-of-success, to the point that it cost us what could have been a good season. If we had approached the goals one goal at a time, we probably could have overcome a couple of stumbles.
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