Coaches Must Learn How to Use “Illusionary” Goal Progress

One of the most important jobs of a coach is motivation. When an athlete is struggling with motivation, a coach’s first instinct is to step in and offer an external motivator to kick-start the athlete’s motivation. Most coaches will either default to a carrot or a stick depending on their coaching style. However, the problem […]

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Nick Saban Knows How to Lose, That’s Why He Doesn’t

Nick Saban is the greatest college football coach of all-time. He has more division 1 national titles than any other coach, and consistently wins with different players year after year. Simply stated, teams coached by Nick Saban don’t lose often. However, that doesn’t mean Nick Saban doesn’t know how to lose. I would argue he […]

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Coaches Who Win Are Not the Same as Coaches Who are Winners

Any coach can get lucky and inherit a group of talented athletes and win with those athletes. However, winning one time doesn’t make a coach a winner. Winning once in a while doesn’t make a coach a winner either. What makes a coach a winner is winning a lot, especially when it counts. Furthermore, there […]

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