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[QUOTE="Cheriehoop, post: 3255422, member: 127"]
Personally I’m not a yeller but I know a few well known coaches who have told me that a player should worry the most when a coach stops yelling at them - that they have given up on the kid or have decided they aren’t capable of performing better. I’ve even heard the same from ex-players. Most use yelling as a last ‘wake up’ resort after numerous previous corrections, explanations at normal tones usually at practice, even games but they always know the player is more than capable. He also said that he knows some coaches who are absolutely crazy yellers at practices, in the locker room who sit almost like mummies at games.

One coach told me that he never yells at a kid who he knows is doing his absolute best, is working his tail off and just isn’t capable of improving right away - he saves it for the kids who he knows will in the long term regret not playing to his capabilities not just for the team’s success but his own personal development. He said wasted talent or effort really frustrates and saddens coaches and that if he himself as the coach didn’t truly care about the player and his team, he wouldn’t bother.  He did say that a coach with true anger issues needs to find another profession but they are usually very few and far between because they either end up fired or they just burn out. Coaches probably have to be junior psychologists to figure out the right buttons, methods to teach and motivate so many diverse individual players. Just a different viewpoint.
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