Game Day! By: Jeb Airkinns As a 43-year veteran of football (coaching and playing) I have learned one un-disputable point that all coaches should take to heart. The point is that game day is no time for teaching or coaching in the most common sense of the word. Game day for a coach is a day to motivate and inspire. As a coach if your players haven’t learned what their job is and the proper technic to accomplish it, you have already failed. I recently watched my grandsons little league game and saw a team that was primed for failure. During the warm up’s (that I watched closely) I saw the coach yelling and screaming because somebody was not stepping with the correct foot or ran the wrong pattern. I new at that point they had already lost even if the final score would not reflect it. During the game the head and assistant coaches continued to yell and scream at players. In the end we won and won by a huge margin, but as the kids marched off the field I saw children dejected and walking with there heads down…..Not the way any team much less a group of 4th & 5th graders that had just won by 38 points should act. To the point; If you coach or are a parent of a player in little league, high school or collage for that matter, remember there just kids. They are not seasoned NFL vets that sometimes need their ego’s put back in check, There Just Kids. Kids respond positively to allot of situation, yelling and screaming at them is not one of them. WORK HARD, PLAY HARD & LEAVE IT ALL ON THE FIELD
Posted on: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 18:58:00 +0000
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