Coaching can easily become like raising kids… with the first child, there’s tight control and worry about everything. By the second child, you’ve learned a little through your experience with the first one and you slack-off on the tight control. By the third child, they’re in the kitchen juggling knives and it doesn’t phase you.
Over the past few seasons, I have little by little, slacked-off on the discipline and work ethic we need to be competitive and it bit us in the butt last night. I knew Providence was a good team, I just didn’t realize how far we had fallen.
There’s an old saying among coaches that a team will play the way they practice. That is, a team that has good-focused practices, filled with enthusiasm and effort, will play the same way. The teams that take practices lightly… whether they intend to or not, will play the same way.
Good-focused practice, means the players are giving their all in everything they do. They’re working to improve a skill, not just going through the motions. It means they purposefully seek to “learn and know” the plays because their team depends on them to know them for the teams success.
Thursday’s practice will be the beginning of a new season. Gone will be the lazy attitude of just going through the motions that our team has grown accustomed to… and that was my fault.
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