“The need to get better every day begins with the coaches. If you expect your players to be students, you must first be a great student yourself.”
I. Rod Dedeaux – your team must expect to win and have a swagger about them, i.e., something the opponent cannot help but take note of and is very concerned about overcoming – “The other team is going to hate us anyway; we might as well give them a good reason.”
II. Augie Garrido – your team must know that everything about who they are as people and as players matters to you at the deepest level, i.e., their development as people of strong character and as elite athletes is something you care about on a personal level.
III. John Wooden – the best motivator of your players is the development of their self-esteem – coaches spend too much time with how to praise and discipline their players (less than 15% of his coaching time combined) and not enough time on the details and methodology of player development. Players are motivated most by doings things individually and as a team that they never dreamed they could accomplish. Becoming a better teacher is the best way to motivate your players.
IV. John Scolinos – the importance of surrounding yourself with good people and those ‘good people’ start with Him.
V. Jose Mourinho – when you watch sports, watch off the ball much more than what happens with the ball and study coaches more than players; there is much to be learned from good coaches in all sports.
VI. Bill Self – how to coach your players to play hard and to think and play unselfishly in practice so you only need to be concerned with execution in games.
VII. Jim Calhoun – how to imprint your personality on to your team during practice and how your team will impose it upon the other team in the game.
VIII. Lou Piniella – a coach establishes a bar of excellence for all of his teams, but great coaches adapt to the personalities of each of his players on every team.
IX. Geno Auriemma – the critical importance for all players to master the details of every aspect of the game and how to design practices that teach them to do it through “perfect practice”.
X. Mike Krzyzewski - how to empower team captains while teaching leadership skills to all players.
XI. Urban Meyer – how to get your team to play in sync and with a single purpose – team claps and cheers; consistent discipline.
XII. – Anson Dorrance – how to build team chemistry by gatherings and events off the field; how men’s and women’s teams differ in this regard.
What I am most proud of in my own coaching - teaching life skills within the game for beyond the game – explicit program and practice design that makes it clear to the players that what the players are learning transcends sports into their personal lives.
I. Rod Dedeaux – your team must expect to win and have a swagger about them, i.e., something the opponent cannot help but take note of and is very concerned about overcoming – “The other team is going to hate us anyway; we might as well give them a good reason.”
II. Augie Garrido – your team must know that everything about who they are as people and as players matters to you at the deepest level, i.e., their development as people of strong character and as elite athletes is something you care about on a personal level.
III. John Wooden – the best motivator of your players is the development of their self-esteem – coaches spend too much time with how to praise and discipline their players (less than 15% of his coaching time combined) and not enough time on the details and methodology of player development. Players are motivated most by doings things individually and as a team that they never dreamed they could accomplish. Becoming a better teacher is the best way to motivate your players.
IV. John Scolinos – the importance of surrounding yourself with good people and those ‘good people’ start with Him.
V. Jose Mourinho – when you watch sports, watch off the ball much more than what happens with the ball and study coaches more than players; there is much to be learned from good coaches in all sports.
VI. Bill Self – how to coach your players to play hard and to think and play unselfishly in practice so you only need to be concerned with execution in games.
VII. Jim Calhoun – how to imprint your personality on to your team during practice and how your team will impose it upon the other team in the game.
VIII. Lou Piniella – a coach establishes a bar of excellence for all of his teams, but great coaches adapt to the personalities of each of his players on every team.
IX. Geno Auriemma – the critical importance for all players to master the details of every aspect of the game and how to design practices that teach them to do it through “perfect practice”.
X. Mike Krzyzewski - how to empower team captains while teaching leadership skills to all players.
XI. Urban Meyer – how to get your team to play in sync and with a single purpose – team claps and cheers; consistent discipline.
XII. – Anson Dorrance – how to build team chemistry by gatherings and events off the field; how men’s and women’s teams differ in this regard.
What I am most proud of in my own coaching - teaching life skills within the game for beyond the game – explicit program and practice design that makes it clear to the players that what the players are learning transcends sports into their personal lives.
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