Of course, there are people like us. Other coaches like us. Even coaches who coach the same sport as us. There is an advantage of hanging with people like us. We understand each other. We can help, console, and empathize with each other. People like us know the issues we are dealing with. We can […]
Cowardly Coaching, A Decision
A superhero movie is always playing in our local theater. I grab the kids and go because those movies are fun and exciting. But they’re fiction. I’d like to be a superhero-coach. That coach who is always doing the right thing, at the right time, for the right reason. Being brave all the time. Well, […]
The year of soulless coaching, and how I stopped
I leaned against the wall. It’d been a terrible season. Nothing helped. Whatever I did made it worse. It wasn’t them. Wasn’t the kids. It was me. Been there? Coaching is hard. Not all the time, but a lot of the time. This time it was wicked hard. Yet as sucky as it was I […]
8 Hells Of Coaching
Welcome to Hell. You don’t want to be here. You don’t deserve to be here. Yet, here you stand — hip deep in Coach-Hell. Welcome to the club. Every so often I visit Coach-Hell. Sometimes it’s my fault, sometimes not. Regardless of how I get there, the trips are always the same: hot, painful, and scary. […]
7 Sly Skills of Wicked Good Coaches
Have you been trying to improve your coaching, but it’s not working well? Do you know the simple skills that can make a big difference? I’ve not been in many Cracker Barrel restaurants, but I will remember this one. We were traveling to Boston and stopped to grab a bite. Sitting in the booth behind […]
The Secret Sauce Of Stealing From A Coach
Coaches do it all the time. We see something successful and we steal it. Well … more like copy it. That coach won — so I’ll do what she did. He got the big recruit — so I’ll use his system. That team got to go to Disney — so we’ll be doing what they […]