Sounds resonable to me! I've never been in favor of berating a player. Yelling? SURE! I'm a yeller as a coach. However, I don't berate. When or if it comes to that, move on. Someone else on the team or at the lower levels will be intrinsically motivated and so, you'll enjoy watching their development.
"... and if you want to make God laugh, tell him your plan."
I think it was my basketball coach that always said, "Don't worry if I'm yelling at you. Work to get better. You should worry when I QUIT yelling at you."
"The Harder You Work, The Harder It is to Surrender"
Posts: 1351 | Location: Waterloo, IL--Cape Girardeau, MO | Registered: February 05, 2006
Originally posted by Bulldog 19: I think it was my basketball coach that always said, "Don't worry if I'm yelling at you. Work to get better. You should worry when I QUIT yelling at you."
Baseball is different than basketball or football. I've coached both. Parents can't believe it's the same person. I'm real calm coaching baseball. You couldn't tell whose winning by reading the expression. In basketball I'll be in the team's face telling them they don't want it as badly as the other team.
In basketball if a coach gets in a kid's face he'll run the court faster. In football the kid will look for someone to drill. In baseball the kid may not come up for three innings or wait forever for a ball to come his way. He may not get the play to take out his aggression. In the meantime he can lose focus from the chewing out and not perform the next play he's needed.
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Posts: 3720 | Location: Mid-Atlantic | Registered: October 29, 2007
I couldn't agree with that statement more. Treat the baseball field as an extension of your classroom. If a kid didn't understand an algebra problem in my class, berating him and making him run wind sprints won't make him understand the problem any better. Just like in baseball, berating and making a kid run wind sprints won't make him be able to perform a skill any better. You need to teach him and give him a chance to perfect his weaknesses in practice.
Make the routine play!
Posts: 168 | Location: Illinois | Registered: May 25, 2006
Physical mistake - coach them Mental mistake - if it's something you have covered then yell and run but if it's something you haven't covered then coach them.
When life hands you gators - make Gatorade
Posts: 1994 | Location: Started in WV - then to KY - now in NC | Registered: May 12, 2006
