Flip wrote:Ask a parent. If you are one ask one smarter than you. They know everything.
TheOneTheOnly wrote:How do you judge if a coach is good?
Flip wrote:Ask a parent. If you are one ask one smarter than you. They know everything.
MNTwinsFan wrote:Flip wrote:Ask a parent. If you are one ask one smarter than you. They know everything.
Usually, the vocal parents (I agree with Flip, the ones that know everything) that are yelling from the stands fall under the philosophy that players win and coaches lose....those are the ones that will tell you if a coach is "good or not".
EHS1998 wrote:God Bless Tom Izzo.
I would just as soon a coach hold my child accountable for their performance, attitude, behavior, how they treat others, etc than give them a trophy or anything else. This is what life has in store for them after all.
winner-within wrote:EHS1998 wrote:God Bless Tom Izzo.
I would just as soon a coach hold my child accountable for their performance, attitude, behavior, how they treat others, etc than give them a trophy or anything else. This is what life has in store for them after all.
I honestly dont think that in North Dakota, South Dakota, along with the rural areas of Minnesota that his theory applys heavily....there is an element of it here I'm sure, but overall we have some very hardworking, win lose understanding young athletes and I think in general most parents expect total commitment to the sport...
hsfootballfan wrote:With the sense of entitlement in society these days, a coach has their work cut out for them. A good coach will demand respect from his players, demand a work ethic like no other when walking thru the gym doors after class and the ability to control the Little Johnnys running to mom and dad crying that they got over worked in practice, or aren't getting the playing time because they decided to play an hour of video games in the evening every night instead of going out and handling a basketball during the summer. I might be a little old school, Im not even that old, but the star of the team making a bad pass then jogging down the court afterwards drives me nuts. Goes along the lines of not running out a ground ball. IMO, a good coach will sit said kid down and let him know that he needs to hustle after a mistake, and if not willing to listen, maybe make a statement and leave them on the bench for a period of time.
ndfootball4444 wrote:hsfootballfan wrote:With the sense of entitlement in society these days, a coach has their work cut out for them. A good coach will demand respect from his players, demand a work ethic like no other when walking thru the gym doors after class and the ability to control the Little Johnnys running to mom and dad crying that they got over worked in practice, or aren't getting the playing time because they decided to play an hour of video games in the evening every night instead of going out and handling a basketball during the summer. I might be a little old school, Im not even that old, but the star of the team making a bad pass then jogging down the court afterwards drives me nuts. Goes along the lines of not running out a ground ball. IMO, a good coach will sit said kid down and let him know that he needs to hustle after a mistake, and if not willing to listen, maybe make a statement and leave them on the bench for a period of time.
Yup you said it all right here. Kids raising kids these days. Video games.. The coach is always wrong attitude. (im not a coach btw).. A good coach can get kids thru this.
BasketballMind wrote:It's hard to judge it at the Class "B" level because as anyone who coaches long enough or even follows it knows, you go through runs where you'll have a stretch where you have athletes and when you don't.
In region 2 for example there have been many teams that will go from having deep runs in regional/state tournaments to a few years later getting bounced from Districts on the second day. Did those coaches really get "worse" in that stretch? No. They can't force their players to practice outside of the 4 months of the season so it's on the kids to want to get better. It's not the coaches job or even the parents job, if you wanna play basketball, YOU have to put in the time and be a little organized.
It helps when parents/coaches encourage it and get them on the right path, but if the kids don't want to put in those hours in the summer and would rather be on the lake, that's what they're going to do. It takes a pretty selfless person to put up 500 shots in a hot gym in the middle of June with no one watching and that doesn't seem to happen anymore.
I judge a good coach as someone who has his team playing better at the end of the year than at the beginning, and those years you DO have athletes, you get the most out of them. One of the best coaching jobs I've seen recently is Brandy George in Thompson. Doesn't have a ton of talent or experience right now, but all those guys believe in his system and play hard for him. Once they get some of their younger talent at the junior high level playing for him, Thompson will be scary good.
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