Coaching principles are universal.
Jim Wilmouth is a junior varsity girls basketball coach at Evergreen High School in Vancouver. On Twitter under the handle @SWWACOACH he sends out daily thoughts on coaching, quotes and truisms from champions and legendary coaches. Here are ten of his best:
1. "Discipline and demand without being demeaning.”
2. Think big, dream big, believe big, act big, and the results will be big! (Echoes one of Chip Kelly's favorite sayings, "No one ever rises to low expectations.") –Don Meyer
3. Every player needs 3 things: they need someone to believe in them: they need a belief system to make sense of world: they need a place to belong.
4. There is always a way to compete, even against superior forces, but it requires strict adherence to a calculated plan. –Bill Parcells
5. The road to execution is paved by repetition. –Bill Parcells
6-10. All great teams: 1) Buy in & have 1 mission 2) Have great practices 3) Play together & accept roles 4) Give & take criticism well 5) Improve
Every successful coaching has a philosophy, a method and a style of teaching. They are never content to merely not to be someone else or keep things in place. They lead. They teach. They change lives. They make athletes better than they knew they could be, and push them to excellence.
At Oregon, Mark Helfrich leads a program with every advantage of faciiities, talent, technology and staff. The expectations are sky-high. But no one ever rises to low expectations.
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