Agree with the first. The last part brings in the degree of fluky. Its rare that a team plays as bad as they possible can.
Short of a "Waterboy" moment where you throw the other team the ball just so you can drop kick them after they score a TD. I agree.
yes kids are getting more mentally weak every day. Especially the pampered ones and the number of pampered ones sets a new daily record, daily. Its not their fault. There are so many distractions. It used to just be girls and school. Now its girls, school, video games, iphones, snapchat, texts, ease of access to everything without working too hard to find it, twitter, facebook, Instagram, likes. Its crazy.
“Once I got to 9, I figured that was as bad it could get. Didn’t realize there would be an entire slew of Vols’ floors below that. My bad.” - Dante, probably
That's just poor coaching. It works for some people, but to act like being degrading toward everybody should incentive everyone the same is asinine.
IMO the score being close at half was flukey. They scored on a short field and on a drive extended by (1) a defense bust on 3rd and 10, (2) a fourth down conversion, and (3) a controversial PI call on third down. They did not move the ball consistently at all. We, on the other hand, moved the ball without great difficulty, with our drives stopping on (1) a fumble, (2) a decision not to go for a 4th and 1 after Guarantano slid a foot too early on 2nd down, and (3) the coaches forgetting we had timeouts late in the half. Despite the 17-14 score, there was no point in the first half where I felt like we were in danger of losing the game. In the second half we got absolutely dominated. I don’t know whether to put that down to attitude or adjustments or what, but it was like two separate games.
I go the other direction. We make it hard as shit. The kids know it’s hard and you’d be surprised at how they respond to it when that’s your culture. They wear it like a badge of honor. Kids are the same. It the adults that’s changed on how we treat them. It will cost you some kids but they wouldn’t have made a difference anyways.
we spent many years on teams and clubs with the its ok attitude in various sports. Finally, though it was just 7 v 7, the hard coaching one son received in training especially, in game benching, reentering games after benching, and seeing a response vs pouty body language, challenged physically and verbally in front of teammates brought out the best in game situations for my youngest and that team went like 45-2. He loved it not only because they won, but he knew they were coached harder as the coach reminded them that he was harder on them than any other coach in the league. But its not for every kid of course. Cant rely on a player who is going to get his feelings hurt though, especially in football.
I was watching at my Mom's and I went home once we couldn't answer their opening drive in the 2nd half. I knew, win or lose, that they were putting out a losing effort. I didn't realize GSU was going to Maxim us to death for the rest of the second half.
Yep, and adults are frustrated with kids these days because how they act, respond, and do things is how they're being raised by the parents.
and I'm saying the incentive must ultimately be internal. it is the only thing the individual can control. You will encounter assholes. you will encounter people who are just wrong about you. you may actually suck. in all cases, the incentive to move forward has to have its roots internally.
To be fair, he may never have actually made it to Z when learning the alphabet. Might not believe it’s a real word.
