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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gst" data-source="post: 152167" data-attributes="member: 373">THAT is what is missing in too many programs. The ones that have it show.- - - Updated - - -Anyone can develop a great offense or defense game plan, those coaches that invest the time in developing the player as much as the athlete are those you see with consistant successful programs. I have asked each of my sons at the beginning of each football season if their coach ever took the time to pull them aside and spend 5 minutes talking with them asking them what goal they had as a player and what three goals they had for the team and how those relate. Not once has a coach done that in our system. Stop and think of what it does for a kid and a player if some point in a game a coach calls them off the sidelines and says he remembers that conversation and gives the kid a chance to accomplish or take a step towards that something. Over the years I have watched as coaches did not pull the true potential of some of their players out simply becasue they did not know how to connect with that kid on a level that makes them reach inside of themselves to find it. You don;t have to be the kids best friend, just give em a reasonto respect you. the coaches that find that ability usually have consistant winning teams. The sooner they find it the better coach they become, The better coach they become the better program they have, the better program they have the better players they will get becasue every little kid on the play ground can;t wait to play for Coach Joe and they work harder to get there.   A basketball coach in our area that long ago learned that ability just celebrated his 600th win. And when that kid hangs up his cleats those lessons are far more valuable than the all state plaque on his wall.</blockquote>

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