ex-centralcoach
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Post by ex-centralcoach on May 12, 2007 8:33:20 GMT -6
Coachers,
We are less then a month away from our summer camp. Last week in one of our staff meetings we were talking about how we should approach repeating. My thoughts are we dont approach it we focus on going 1 and 0 every week. For all of you who have been lucky enough to win it all more then once, how did you approach the season after your championship? Thanks to all
Marinelli
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Post by phantom on May 12, 2007 15:00:04 GMT -6
You need to address it. The kids are hearing crap from all over, getting smoke blown up their a$$es. We've been hammering them since we've started conditioning in January.
We tell the seniors to remember the leadership example that the graduates have set. It's their team now and much of how it ends up will depend on their leadership. We tell the guys who are moving up that last year they were ON a champion. This year they have to WIN a championship. We tell all of them that they have a target on their chest. They have to work hard because everybody wants them.
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Post by phantom on May 12, 2007 15:06:17 GMT -6
I forgot to mention that I never wear our championship ring. It's a cherished keepsake but it's old news. As soon as we started conditioning the old year ended.
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Post by ex-centralcoach on May 12, 2007 18:41:48 GMT -6
I dont wear mine either. I like the way you approached it, and talking about leadership and how everyone is gunning for us. Thanks Phantom, much help!
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Post by coachjim on May 15, 2007 7:16:39 GMT -6
Hrm, if I may chime in with a question your post brings to mind and apologize; don't want to hijack your thread and lead it on another path, but i have to inquire: Coaches, when you were champions the previous year, those of you who know, the following year, does putting pressure on the kids to perform like the year before work? It's not really a debate about the appropriateness of it, but more toward whether or not it is effective. I know pressure has its definate drawbacks, but it seems it could have positive effects as well. You have to put a little pressure on them to get them motivated, don't you?
Again, sorry, hope this isn't off topic but it seems relative to your post about next year championship teams. I already assume, that their age has a lot to do with how much pressure you exert. But how much pressure can they take and how far do you push it before it has negative effects? And most importantly, does it make the team better or worse (based on your tried and true experience in this, not conjecture?)
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Post by fbcoach33 on May 15, 2007 8:09:52 GMT -6
I think you have to take a look at your kids a bit and determine were they are at, are they full of themselves at this point or are they a group that wants to make their own name for themselves, Ive dealt with both, we repeated one year, got to the semis another time, but had to treat each group different based on how they were handling things. Realize everyone is going to give you their best effort next year and you have to play better next year than you did this year to win it again.
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Post by phantom on May 15, 2007 16:09:46 GMT -6
Hrm, if I may chime in with a question your post brings to mind and apologize; don't want to hijack your thread and lead it on another path, but i have to inquire: Coaches, when you were champions the previous year, those of you who know, the following year, does putting pressure on the kids to perform like the year before work? It's not really a debate about the appropriateness of it, but more toward whether or not it is effective. I know pressure has its definate drawbacks, but it seems it could have positive effects as well. You have to put a little pressure on them to get them motivated, don't you? Again, sorry, hope this isn't off topic but it seems relative to your post about next year championship teams. I already assume, that their age has a lot to do with how much pressure you exert. But how much pressure can they take and how far do you push it before it has negative effects? And most importantly, does it make the team better or worse (based on your tried and true experience in this, not conjecture?) Well, what do you mean by pressure? There's always pressure on the defending champ. There's no getting away from it. Are we going to hold up the 2006 team as an example of the work ethic, attitude, teamwork, and single-mindedness that it takes to win? You bet. As I said earlier, we'll certainly remind them constantly that everybody wants them now. That's pressure. Other than that I'm not sure what kind of pressure you mean. |
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Post by oldwarrior on May 16, 2007 8:56:07 GMT -6
Get a hold of Mike Gear
Sidney High School
Sidney MT
406-433-2330
9 State Championships in 10 years
7 in a row
did not lose a game for the last 5 years of that run
he would know
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