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Message: <blockquote data-quote="luvcatchingbass" data-source="post: 152152" data-attributes="member: 1979">In middle and high school I had the opportunity to play for a variety of coaches in a small town. I did not have the right name, I did have to work, I had farm duties that needed to be filled, we didn't have much money and my parents still gave me opportunities. I played a little baseball, some football, basketball, wrestling and golf and in the end my last two years (only wrestled junior senior) getting my butt kicked on the mat was the only time that I felt the word team and drive to succeed at life was upheld by a coach and actually showed in our team unlike the other sports and that is because of the coach. Coaching makes a Huge difference but the individuals also need to put the work in and show a little dedication.Example: I never touched a wrestling mat until my Junior year in High School so needless to say I had some learning to do. I wrestled a few varsity matches and my Senior year held a full Varsity spot due to less competition, that was not good enough for me. I can honestly say that in my many many many loses only twice did I ever feel that I was out muscled and that was from doing the added conditioning and lifting to go with dealing with cattle and splitting wood at home, but I was really out technique most times from guys that had been wrestling for 8-12 years. It would have been easy for me to just settle but it was my friends and teammates that truly drove me to push harder with the coach backing that up (great coach that I still respect) so I would say it was us kids as a culture along with the coach fueling that culture. I say there are many facets that make up an average, good, great coach but there still needs to be a certain amount of commitment from athletes or maybe the current athletes just don't jive with the coaching at that point. It is easy to quickly judge this guy for what he is saying or judge the kids he speaks of but unless someone "un-biased" has first hand look at this situation how can anyone blame coaches or kids?</blockquote>

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