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Message: [QUOTE="timkay99, post: 1845322, member: 635"] While football is team oriented, you still rely on winning one on one battles. You rely on individuals winning their small games. That's baseball too. A bench player in baseball not bought in 100 % and a bench player in football not bought in 100 % has the same effect... Just because you roll your eyes at a speech does not mean you are not bought in 100 %. Coaching is coaching. Coaching is 100 % all about relationships. Understanding your kids to get the best out of them. All coaching deals with players on an individual basis. This means within drills themselves with the position coach dictating how to do things to individuals and doing it 1 on 1. If you can coach one sport and be successful, you can coach any sport as long as you have someone with the sport knowledge to offset your lack of sporting knowledge. Rolling eyes is an example I was given and used, but more often guys smile during these speeches b/c they find it funny. I am not sure why this is a tough concept. It isn't as much respect as we have heard this same thing 30 times. Guys laugh about it after practice. You don't think guys are making jokes about orange being the new fast when they are playing things like Madden or doing classwork or something? It's little jokes you make and those little jokes build team camaraderie. I have made as many comments as I can about this, but the key thing I want to tell you guys is if you have to motivate your team with extrinsic means, it doesn't matter how talented you are, you are going to lose. Phrasing things in different manners (like cruise control) is done so that you can reach a kid by saying something a different way and letting the light click. Same with using different cadences of voice. All you are trying to do is have a message conveyed in a different manner that makes sense to a certain individual. [/QUOTE]

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