Loosing Coach Performance

Competition is a unique situation in life to analyze. If you can focus on the small details outside of the game, there’s a possibility that you can understand the way an athlete is performing and why a coach is behaving a certain way. In the heat of the moment, if not properly trained, one can not perform to their potential due to the pressure that the moment of competition can place on an individual. This can be just as much for coaches and how they react and act as much as it goes for player. Effective coaches know how to use the situation to their advantage and know what to do or how to react at the appropriate time. In this paper, I’ll examine the competition of the University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh Titans and the St. Thomas Tommies in a NCAA Division 3 playoff game. I’m watching this game from the UW-Oshkosh side, so I will be observing the UW-Oshkosh football team for the most part. With this competition between UW-Oshkosh and St. Thomas, I’ll break down this paper into four talking points and the effects of said points. These four points are pre-competition routine, feedback and reinforcement by coach, game flow and interruptions and then other thoughts and factors that I noticed during the game.

This is creating an athletic burnout which is the too much athletic training stress joined with too little recovery time. The three factors that create the athletic burnout are the emotional and physical exhaustion, the sense of little to on sports accomplishment, and sports devaluation. These factors are creating a burnout effect in young athletes generating a feeling a low self-worth and not enjoying the sport anymore. The parents, as well as the organization, are creating the psychological stress that comes with the sport by the standards that they are pushing onto the child. With the organization and the individuals, they are creating images that are exhausting and the child will no longer want to be in athletes by virtue of the psychological distress put forth by the individual and the organization. The burnout theory is explained by the three dimensions, which are largely responsible for the burnout in athletics. The theory describes the burnout as an outcome of psychological stresses of sports as the cognitive-affective model. The NCAA conducted by Division I Universities and a study, the study was three years long and had 573 participants (student Athletes). Another part of the study was conducted on AAU athletes, they used a group of 10,000 athletes, and there were 1,317 injuries (Hughes, Pamela Brook). This article reinforces the idea that with too little

In the book Anthem by Ayn Rand the city has several rules that everyone must follow or they will be held to serious consequences. These rules exist for many reasons even though some of them are a little extreme. The rules do have a lot of purposes, many are to keep the community safe. The City Council has created many rules and restrictions for things and there is a possibility of execution if you break or don’t follow one of those rules.

Sports management is a really broad field, therefore I decided to focus on my minor and one of my major interests of this field: coaching. In this paper I will be explaining my personal five building blocks that make up a well-rounded coaching philosophy and coach. Those blocks are; leadership, organization, attitude, respect, and resiliency. Each of these five aspects are equally important and balance each other out. Leadership, the action of leading a group of athletes towards a goal. Organization, being able to organize a team and have a plan in order to help the team achieve goals. Attitude, it is very important for a coach to have a winning and positive attitude that is contagious to the players. Respect, there has to be a good

It goes without saying that coaches and many of their student-athletes are highly competitive individuals. I know from my time as a student-athlete, along with eleven years as a coach, that on game days I was a little bit edgy, tunnel-visioned, and ready to compete. Competition, after all, is what makes sports exciting; it keeps the games fun for the players & coaches and exhilarating for the fans. However, there is a balancing act that all coaches and athletes face between having a ferocious will to win, while also displaying appropriate body language, speaking the right words, and being a part of a positive team culture.

Donald Delahaye, a kicker for UCF you may have heard of him. Lost his NCAA eligibility for making and profiting of his YouTube videos. Another name you may know LiAngelo Ball. Couldn’t profit or promote his family made business of Big Baller Brand (BBB) because of NCAA eligibility rules. His little brother LaMelo Ball could lose his NCAA eligibility for making and profiting off his own signature shoe. These athletes all have something in common. All these athletes, these people have either had their eligibility taken or in jeopardy because they were profiting off their image, content, or likeness. College coaches, programs, and schools make millions off their student athletes and the NCAA billions off the student athletes. As more people

However, when we talk about youth sports, our main concern is with providing players with a positive, character building experience. Winning is not the only acceptable outcome for youth players, and coaches need to understand this principle. “With a winning philosophy young athletes may lose out on opportunities to develop their skills, to enjoy participation, and to grow socially and emotionally. Well informed coaches realize that success is not equivalent to winning games, and failure is not the same as losing.” (Enhancing Coach-Parent Relationships in Youth Sports, 15)

However, the coach can change their mindset and priorities to reflect the concept of a player’s health and safety being more important than winning. In the past, our culture has made winning and being number one a glamorized achievement. As the players come out more often saying that they were abused by a coach in the name of winning, it proves the point, that pressures to succeed are taking precedence over the wellbeing of those attempting such a feat. This mindset can be defended by NFL Hall of Fame coach Vince Lombardi stating, “ Winning isn’t the most important thing. It's the only thing.”

Research proved that athletes found their coaches training as well as instruction behavior and their style of coaching did have an impact on individual performance. This was important research for me in understanding how those I coach perceive my leadership and whether or not I am effective as their leader. My teams’ outstanding performance or lack of performance can be a direct link to my type of leadership skills in addition to my training. The primary role of any coach or athletic leader is to help their athletes and improve on their individual performance. “Several sport studies exploring the coach-athlete relationship claim that effective coaching includes basic ingredients such as empathic understanding, honesty, support, liking, acceptance, friendliness, cooperation, caring and respect” (Moen, Hoigaard, & Peters, 2014, p. 76). The challenge for me is finding the balance between being supportive and meeting the individual needs of team members while also enhancing their ability and understanding of the sport. Understanding how to lead and coach various personalities within the team is essential to the team’s

Taking the time to reflect on why it is someone coaches is beneficial for personal growth, and for creating an awareness of one’s changes in motivation, which affects behavior. Therefore, changes in motivation can be reflected in someone’s behavior and his or her well-being. Those who feel that they are coaching because they want to, will be successful, and feel that coaching allows them to acquire relationships with their players, and display more motivation for coaching. Being aware of why someone coaches their sport is an important part of reflective practice. One person’s

In contemporary American sports, coaches can, at times, be extremely temperamental and my resort to bullying tactics to try to motivate their players to get them to perform at their highest possible level. This may take the form of face-to-face confrontation in which coaches challenge individual players in private, or it may take the form of publicly humiliating individual players or groups of players in front of the rest of the team to motivate certain players by exploiting their fear of criticism or the loss of respect from their teammates.

Coaches have a huge impact on the sportsmanship and behavior displayed by their team. According to Churdar (2015), “The coach bears the greatest burden of responsibility for sportsmanship. His influence upon the attitudes and behavior of the players, the student body, and the fans is unequalled.” (p. 2). Coaches have a huge influence on the behavior and attitude of their athletes. According to John Wooden, “Profound responsibilities come with teaching and coaching. You can do so much good-or harm. It’s why I believe that next to parenting, teaching and coaching are the two most important professions in the world” (as cited in Matheny, 2015, p. 99-100). This is a very weighty but true statement. The majority of athletes look to their coaches for guidance not only in athletics, but in life.

According to ESPN, 61 percent of boys and 34 percent of girls say that sports are a big part of who they are. Additionally, there are over 21 million kids between the ages of 6 and 17 that play sports (Kelley). This enormous number not only represents children playing a sport but it also represents something that each of those kids have in common: they each have a coach. There are three key things involved in every sport: the players, the competition, and the coaches. Each of these parts of the sport are important and necessary. Sports are not only a great way to exercise and keep fit, but they also teach kids a lot of important qualities that they will need to be successful for the rest of their lives. They teach them how to exercise, how to compete, how to work on a team, how to work toward a goal, and how to develop and manage relationships. No relationship, however, is more important than that between a coach and his/her player. A coach can be a player’s role model and inspiration but, unfortunately, a coach can also be a player’s work enemy and can ruin a sport for an athlete. Likewise, a player can either make a season enjoyable for his/her coach or can make the season miserable. I will explore the importance of the relationship between coaches and players and the effect that it can have on both parties.

In this scholarly article, Tough Love for Underserved Youth: A Comparison of More and Less Effective Coaching, a West Virginia University student collaborated with a few students from Michigan State University students to explore coaching behaviors onto students. In the study, 12 coaches from 6 different youth sports were interviewed and background check to have a better understanding of their coaching methods. An analysis showed that out the 12 coaches, 6 were more effective and 6 were less effective. More effective coaches challenged players while being supportive, attempted to develop close relationships along with a positive team climate, and promoted autonomy and the transfer of life skills from sport to life. Less effective coaches who

At their finest, coaches perfect their player’s flaws to push them to their potential ability, improve their skills, and create determination within the team. They can expand the importance of such a sport to intensify motivation and the value of good sportsmanship for the sake of not only their reputation, but the outcome that comes from it. Coaches must not lag when it comes to hardships that comes about; they must stay connected. The closer the connection between a player and a coach the better they are moving forward and continuing on the love of the sport and job.