How Has Coach Kill Affected A Person's Life

People ask all the time, “Why does the NCAA put sanctions on football programs?” When I was young, my favorite football player was Eric Dickerson. I never understood why people criticized him about his college playing days, so I asked my dad about it. He said that Dickerson’s college was given the “Death Penalty”. The Original “Death Penalty” was put into effect at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.

John Gagliardi was a very decorated coach at St. Johns college in Minnesota. John is also the most winning coach ever in the NCAA with 484 wins. To coach this long and have the amount of success John had, is unbelievable. The amount of effort and time he put into his job is what made him accomplish so much. His style of coaching was unique and he found his own way to win games. Not tackling in practice, not using profane language were one of his techniques in coaching. John demanded a level of respect for his players, and in return John would respect them. St. John’s practices were always a fun time, as well as serious. John was able to find a good balance to keep his teams winning.

Joe Ehrmann describes how he has developed his philosophy of coaching by relating the story of his life in his youth, high school and in college describing two different types of coaches he had played for. The first are coaches who were impersonal, authoritarian, and sometimes abusive which he calls transactional coaches; this is in contrast to the humane coaches he calls transformative coaches. Coaches must face this responsibility because we all remember our coaches. “This is the awesome power and responsibility of coaching: You give your players memories, for better or for worse that stay with them until the day they die” (Ehrmann, 2011 p 46-47). Joe Erhmann goes on to ask, “What is the moral and ethical composition of their program?

Bobby has coached many star athletes during his tenure as head coach including Florida State’s first Heisman Trophy winner Charlie Ward, Warrick Dunn, arguably the most popular college football player of the 90s, and Chris Weinke, the

Of the multitude of reasons that exists why the Ole Miss football program was so delayed in its integration process comes the necessary role the football program played in keeping the university open during the integration of the university itself. As the entire university went into turmoil, the football program stood strong. During the 1962 season, which was played parallel with Meredith’s appearance on campus, the team went undefeated and still is considered one of the greatest teams since. In his essay explaining the parallel between the integration of Ole Miss and the ’62 team, Wright Thompson states, “The 1962 Ole Miss football team fascinated me. That year, perhaps because of the school’s near self-destruction over integration, or perhaps in spite of it, the team managed the most remarkable season seen in Oxford before or since” (1). This strong and winning team, lead by coach Henry Vaught, kept the university running when it looked as though it would implode on itself. Many turned to the idols of the campus, the football players, to keep

Although, he may not have ever thought of this if his brother, Billy, hadn’t passed away from cancer. When this happened, Joe had a complete turnaround from a life of partying to becoming more humble and learning about religion. This led to Joe becoming a minister and a great football coach. When coaching, the players thought of him more as a teacher and role model than a coach. Joe’s teaching style was very different than many coaches. For example, instead of winning being the main priority, Joe wanted to make sure the boys were being formed into true, respectful men over anything else. Although this may have caused losses to the team, it was the right way to coach and teach the players the right way to

On one fall morning, my mom and I arrived at the Hulmeville Soccer Tournament. There were so many teams that had great potential to win. My teammates and I Were excited to play theses teams and push our skills to the limit. Our soccer team won all five games that we played. Therefore we made it to the championship angist Hulmeville, one of the best teams in the tournament. The game started and there were no goals scored. Since it was the finals, we went

​The world spun as I got up off the ground, it felt like someone had hit me in the back of the head with a sledge hammer. I knew the play had moved down the field but I could not find it. The seconds seemed to take years to pass me by. I think I spun in a circle three or four times to find the huddle forming around the goal line for the field goal attempt. I half jogged, half stumbled my to the huddle barely keeping myself on my feet. I put my hand in the dirt, and watched the ball sail through the uprights. I miraculously made it back to the sideline, where the trainer could see that I was struggling just to stand. She made me sit on the bench and put me

As we traveled from Winner to Rapid City, we made many stops, from Pine Ridge to the Bad Lands. As we pulled into Rapid I started getting excited but also getting a sick feeling to my stomach, like stomach had butterflies but also was in knots. As we got to the Civic Center, I was more nervous than excited, then I saw some old hand game friends and went to scrimmage with them. As my team and I were scrimmaging my sponsor was in a meeting, a few minutes later, being team captain or head guesser, I

Coach x has made a positive impact on my life by making us run a bunch. The reason this makes a positive impact on my life is because it gets me I better shape so I can run harder and faster. Before I couldn't run far because I wasn't in shape now I know how to breathe right while i'm running and the proper stance for running. If you're running stance is wrong you can waste energy. While running you try to save as much as energy as possible so you can keep going. Coach x has taught me the easiest way to save my energy and he has taught me to keep going even when everything gets tough. Coach x has made a huge impact on my life.

When I was in seventh grade we were introduced to our new head coach, Steve Poff. No one knew much about him other than me, and the only thing I knew was that he played some high school football with my uncle and was supposed to be a “psycho.” This all changed when we started playing for him. We learned that he was a perfectionist who

It was the sixth grade and I was at the lacrosse championship. All season we lost almost every game. My family had planned a vacation for the second day of the championships, it was clear that we would not be competing after our initial two games the first day. Something happened that first day that was very unexpected; we won our first game, and then we won our second game and in the afternoon, we were put into a third game. The third game we were playing a team that we had played before the team was called storm. We had played this team twice during the season and each time we had lost by a large margin. The players were huge and towered above us, I had a chill running up my spine just seeing them walk on

I remember this night very vividly up to a certain point. So I will try to keep all the good detail in this paper. Ring, ring. I answer the phone at 5:30 p.m. thinking who could be calling me. I have no plans for tonight so this is weird. The person on the other end is a girl I know from class named Tiffany. She says that she is having a party at her place before the game and that everyone is going to Melanie's after the game to keep drinking. I wasn't going to go, but then Tiffany reminded me that Heather was going to be there and that she was horny and thought that I was hot. This convinced me to go out. I arrived at tiffany's around 6:30 p. m. and we started off with shots of Malibu, I know I was a wimp, and Rumple Minze. This was a very bad idea. We continued this up until the game started at 8. I would say that there were about ten to twelve of us at Tiffany's. Another guy, named Marc, and around ten girls. When we got to the game we were pretty drunk. We sat, we saw, we left when we were down by two touchdowns with around five minutes to go. With our pathetically potent offense this was not enough time for us to score more than fourteen points.

For the coaching observation project I observed the head coach of the Ohio State Buckeyes, Urban Meyer. I watched him on TV when Ohio State played Penn State. The reason I selected Urban Meyer to do my coaching observation is because he is the coach I decided to model my coaching philosophy after. The reason I chose this game specifically is because this is a very important game and I want to see how he handles his team in high-pressure situations.

The second anyone steps out of their car on a Friday night at the Southside High School football field, they can smell the concession stand popping popcorn and feel the pump up music ready to go. This is the night Southside would play Cross County. Earlier in the day, all of the football boys had geared up in their uniforms and went to the elementary school because this game would be dedicated to all of the kids at the elementary. When I walked in, I could see all of the posters the little kids had made for the team, with sloppy handwriting and misspelled words that would just make anyone's heart melt into a thousand pieces. I walked up into the stand and took a seat on the far right side just one bleacher up from some people with whom I go to church. My mom and I were talking to them as well as the people around us and it makes me think of how lucky I am to live in a town such as this one. We all are more like family and and it shows through everyone's actions.