Coaching Kids by Frank Watts

Author:Frank Watts
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Price World Publishing, LLC
Published: 2011-07-29T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

10

WIN AT

ALL COST

At young ages, the primary difference between the win-at-all-costs coach and other coaches is in the treatment of the kids on the bottom of the totem pole. The “win-at-all-costs” coaches can be spotted because they find a way to drive off the bottom performers. They may have more difficulty doing this if the league has minimum playing-time rules. Without such rules, these coaches will just give the bottom performers token playing time or none at all.

The poorest performers may be singled out. They may be ridiculed in front of the rest of the team. When game or practice schedule changes occur, they don’t get the word. During scrimmages, they almost always sit down at the start. They never start a game.

Everyone on the team is called by their first name except them. They are never asked to demonstrate a technique. I’m sure I’ve left out some of the “better” methods. When I was coaching, I used to ask other coaches why they didn’t have the same number of kids I had. The answer was often that a couple of kids quit because “they really didn’t want to play this sport.” Sure, and a beer gut doesn’t come from drinking beer!

Many of us revere Green Bay Packer coach and multiple Super Bowl winner Vince Lombardi, who said, “Winning isn’t everything – it’s the only thing!” I agree, as long as we are talking about pro sports. But this ain’t about pro sports, it’s about kids sports.

Bill Koch, a U.S. Cross Country champion and Olympic medal winner said, “Winning isn’t everything in sports, striving for excellence is!” It was the venerable sports writer Grantland Rice who so wisely wrote:

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