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To: panthermom
If he were that horrible with the kids, chances are he would not be brought back.

Welllll, no. There are parents who go in for that sort of thing; they want their kids to win as much as the coach does, and they often gravitate to this sort of coach.

It's an interesting phenomenon; I've seen it myself (I coach kids' lacrosse) -- there are "yelling coaches," and "yelling parents" who are really quite unpleasant to be around. They'll browbeat their kids on the sidelines, and probably on the way home, too.

Many times, "yelling coaches" have pretty good teams. The kids don't look like they're having much fun, though. And my teams often beat them anyway -- I find that it's quite possible to teach skills to kids and make it fun; and come game day, they're a lot looser, and work the ball better, and play more like a team.

63 posted on 03/31/2009 6:52:52 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: r9etb

I’m a yelling lacrosse coach this time of year but I don’t yell bad stuff. The young men can’t hear it most of the time anyway and it makes you look like an idiot. If you need to yell instructions and criticism you haven’t coached properly during practice.


66 posted on 03/31/2009 6:56:51 AM PDT by perez24 (Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap.)
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To: r9etb

Well, being a cad and yelling don’t go together in many cases. I’ve seen a few of those style coaches be quiet too. They can win, because they want to, and that projects.

My local district judge is such a coach, as a judge we’ve nearly come to blows, but on the soccer field we could talk because at least he understood the game. He won because he scouted and cherry picked talent. I win with teams of anybody, because I can project a winning spirit, yet never brow beat the kids (excepting my own kids). I hardly ever yell — never to motivate, only to get a player way out of position and sleeping back into position.

Yet he was better at teaching the skills, because he dedicated the time to it. Me, my schedule then did not permit me that liberty. Besides my philosophy then was to learn by playing, and that over-focus on skills and drills pulled away from the game. I emphasized awareness of the ball, positional play, passing and setting up plays. All stuff that has to be taught while playing.

One of my brothers developed a whole program in a local city where they emphasized skills, but did so in a laid back way. He spent a whole season or two just doing skills development and getting coaches lined up and trained. He’d be all over this email-flinging jake of a coach, nor did he think much of the judge’s style.

My brother was a high school and college star, I was just a player, although I did play one game on a semi-pro team. His buddy in setting up the city kids league was a ex-British and European pro.


70 posted on 03/31/2009 7:14:48 AM PDT by bvw
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