It's the coach's job.
To see the potential in each athlete and believe so hard in their ability to reach it that they begin to believe too.
That's the easy part anyway.
The human body and human mind are so astoundingly adaptable, that I've yet to come close to pressing my hopes farther than a player's potential. I have a good team this year. Very athletic, very courageous, very coachable. They've done everything I asked and achieved each goal I've set.
I can see them starting to believe in themselves...and in me. Good grief, that's the hard part.
It's hard to develop further than you're coached. They're a great team with unlimited potential so far the glass ceiling of my ability will let them go. Season opener today and my stomach is tied in knots. Should I have spent more time on X and not so much on Y. Did I research enough? are the tactics and formations I'm feeding them any good? They've done everything I asked.
Out of time now. I hope it was enough. I hope I'm enough.
I hope.
1 comment:
so gosh guess who just found out you have a blog. im such a genius
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g im just one person. i don't think i had potential. but i'd have you know that you hoped enough for our team that it made me believe in hope. i think a coach can have only so much credit for his team's successes (and we all were so blessed with such an awesome guy to coach us cause we kicked butt) just like he can have only so much credit for the failures (in which case i'd be more quick to blame the team because if he's doing everything or most things right then their general incompetency or failure to listen is to blame)
we all cried that last game. we were sad it was over. but gosh, we were so in love with it g. we were so alive in the hope. it kept us running even when we thought we were done. that can only be attributed to the coach, cause even when we felt hopeless, he kept hoping for us
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