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Regardless of your sport – football, baseball, basketball, boxing, figure skating, tennis, golf –success, earnings, and career longevity depend upon performance.  As an athlete, you must invest your offseason time

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  The Impact of a Coach
  

  This column is normally reserved for fitness tips and new research findings that may help your fitness regimen.  Now that high school football season is upon us,  I thought it to be a good time to comment on something social that affects many high school athletes in this country.

  What is the role of a high school football coach?  Is it to win football games?  Is it to develop talent so that kids can have a shot at the next level and possibly a free college education?  Is it to teach the value of hard work, togetherness, hope, determination and grit?  Is it to keep parents happy?  I guess the answer to this depends on the character of the school and the coaching staff.

  15 years removed from high school as a player, and now entrenched in coaching kids, I can tell you what it should be.

  Coaches should aim to connect.  Be a force of positivity and affirmation.  While always holding detail for the skill at its highest, connect on more than just football coaching.  Tell a kid that if he works hard enough, and becomes good enough (important factor, but likely, given the former), he will play.  If he commits to offseason training and preparation for football, he will be a part of the machine that is a team.  But on the other hand, if he does not commit, only "contributes" some of his time and effort in the offseason, he won't see the field, no matter how physically gifted he may be.  Without the coach drawing parallels to a kid's future in life, the kid may not appreciate the larger picture of the lessons he is learning on a football field.

  When coaches turn their backs quickly on a child who is a born leader, the most worthy player, a hard worker, and a winner, to salvage a relationship with a competitive child's parent, everyone loses. Including the kid on the field now.  Oddly, in no effort to teach the benched player lessons about life, the coach teaches him one of the most profound - about how this world works sometimes.

  I can no longer remember the scores to many of my high school games, nor can I remember many of the details that seemed so important in the moment.  What I do remember are the coaches who treated players fairly, who valued hard work, who were unafraid to work themselves.  Those who took a personal interest and taught lessons far beyond the football field.  These coaches were the ones who got it, they understood their role.  These men impact more than the score of a football game, they change lives.

  Young athletes should be evaluated based on ability, yes.  But work ethic and positive attitude should be requirements.  These two attributes, aside from religious faith and education, are , no question, the most important in your future successes.  If these lessons are taught at a young age, by role models like coaches, they can save many young men and can set some on a path to greatness.

  But a select few children with the insight, maturity and a strong enough foundation to understand the simplicity of the coach's mistakes, can use these moments of unfairness to fuel future success beyond imagination!

  
  

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