Module 4: The Rise And Fall Of The Basketball Team

Coach Boone uses his power that he gained as a Coah to bring the black and white community together by putting mixing the races when they are in the camp. He needs each race to understand how each race or individual can acquire an alternate perspective or can act as a helping hand that would profit the team in the future. Bill Yoast likewise utilizes his power by concentrating on completing the works, unlike Coach Boone, he is willing to lose his Hall of Fame nomination in the Regional Final game. He sees Coach Boone's goal and in order for it to happen, he does this so that the players have a fair chance at winning the game and wouldn't miss out due to prejudice.

According to the film, Hickory, Indiana is a place where “basketball players are treated like gods”. The town takes basketball very seriously, it is literally a way of life for them. The Hickory Huskers may not be the best team in the area, but the community is very supportive of the team. Every week the whole town comes together for the games to cheer on the Hickory Huskers and the townspeople have meeting to try coming up with solutions to help better their performance. However, the towns approach is aggressive and their strategies to win are different from Coach Dales. For example, a group of men from the town barge into one of the team’s practices and criticize Coach Dale that they should be practicing with the ball instead of doing strength exercises. Coach Dale believed that for the team to improve he needed to

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?

Coach Dix believes that this style of coaching helps him motivate his young team. Being that crazy, funny, heady, and intense coach gets the young teens pumped and ready to run through a wall for him. When we talked about the difficult situations he has had to endure while coaching, Dix described two situations that occurred during his tenure at East Hall; Coach Dix mentioned a time when his star player who happened to win the Georgia Player of the year the previous year, kicked a ball during practice and broke out a window in the gym. He stated this was a difficult and sticky situation because the team played its big rival in two days. He said he did not sleep well the next few nights because of the impact a suspension would have on his squad. Another situation Dix had to deal with was a parent during a game, walked to the bench, grabbed their son and told the player to get dressed, we’re transferring from this school. Dix said that this was new territory for him and at that time he did not know what to do. To conclude the interview, I asked Dix two final questions. I asked him what were his ultimate goals for his team and what advice would he give to a first year coach? “Championships and graduation,” Coach Dix stated. As for advice for a first year coach, Dix said “Preparation was KEY.” “Great coaches are always prepared for anything and everything!”

     When hearing that Norman Dale was going to coach a high school basketball team, I figured it was worth a shot to see

They must clarify values. Norman Dale valued teamwork. He believed that no player was more important than the other and he expressed this during practice and showed it by changing the way the Hickory Huskers practiced. Unlike the town who wanted to get their star player back and keep the basketball in his hands and not confuse the boys by changing their routine, the new coach wanted to break these barriers. He “modeled the way” by sticking to his values and ignoring the pestering from the fathers and other townsfolk who invited themselves to practice and by kick out players who did not want to listen during practice.

In my opinion, coach Boone had many leadership strengths: He had his goal to make the team a winning team, and to do that he knew he would have to overcome many obstacles, to make the players a real team and a group of players.

Before Mark Dantonio took charge of his new football team, the previous coach, John L. Smith, was slowly leading the program downhill. Smith’s last season at Michigan State lead to Athletic Director Mark Hollis replacing him with Mark Dantonio. His previous role as an assistant coach in the program would allow for a smooth transition into the program (Hollis). Suddenly, Dantonio was confronted with a long to do list. He must find a way to rebuild a previously existing winning culture to surround the program. Accomplishing this means finding success over local powerhouses such as Michigan, Notre Dame, and Ohio State. Dantonio relied on player development to compete with these teams but eventually he had to start drawing in talent. His tenure

Coach Kill has affected the lives of many football players and the people affected by them. He suffered from many health complications, but through it all he kept putting the football team and the players first. He coached the game of football, but he also coached the young players how to be a good person. He believed that football players needed to put their studies first and made sure that everything that a player did he put it to his fullest effort. He was also a big believer in faith while coaching the game. He didn’t care what religion that player believed in but that he believed in something. He may have not coached any team to the national championship or had any Heisman players, but he still changed countless player’s lives on the field and off the field. He believed everyone should have an opportunity. Coach Jerry Kill affected the Gopher Nation by turning the program positively around, and coaching them to three bowl games.

According to James Clawson Level Three of Leadership 5th edition, there are 6 steps to effective leadership. Those steps are Clarifying your center, Clarifying what’s possible, Clarifying what others can contribute, supporting others so they can contribute, being relentless, and measuring and celebrating the progress. In the 1986 film Hoosiers there is a coach by the name of Norman Dale. Norman Dale was a college coach who was hired by the principal Cletus Summers to take the place of the basketball coach that had passed away. Norman Dale and Cletus Summers meet many years ago at a teacher college, Summer tracked Dale down and offer him the coaching position. Throughout the movie Dale demonstrate these six characteristic of leadership once he was hired to coach the Hickory High school basketball team.

Coach Bill Yoast had a servant leadership style. He was flexible, supportive of the team, confident, committed and compassionate. He believed that putting emphasis on his player’s needs and personal interests would result in their success. He used his leadership techniques as the to help the team members use their full potential individually and while working together as a team. Coach Yoast leadership was one of empowerment and self-management. Through the leadership of both Coach Boone and Coach Yoast, they produced two other leaders Gerry Bertier and Julius Campbell.

In his coaching it was not all glamour, on March 15, 1963 Arizona State defeated UCLA 93-79 the first game of the NCAA Western Regional Tournament. John had just created a new dimension of a 2-2-1-zone press that was designed to force teams to shoot the ball quickly. The final score did not discourage Wooden for at the end he announced that he liked what he had seen. John Wooden worked with his players and on March 20, 1965 UCLA won the second consecutive National Championship using Wooden’s zone. Determination in any sport is crucial and that is what John Wooden had in every practice and game. This trait of John Wooden’s was by far the strongest and the earliest developed. When John graduated from the 8th grade his father gave him a card with three rules, don't wine, don't complain, and don't make excuses. From these rules John knew that the only other option was to succeed. He built a Big Ten University from what was once an organization without a home court. His players saw the determination in there coach and displayed it as well. By showing determination and instilling it in his player John taught that the people who do work the hardest will receive the glory and the ones with natural ability can only strive so

Coach Boone had an excellent follower or Co-leader. Coach Hines’ co-leadership abilities seemed to be the conscious for Coach Boone. He steps in and positively influenced Coach Boone decision. Also, Coach Yoast is excellent as a co-leader. The success of an organization or team is incumbent upon the abilities of everyone and all successful leaders have highly effective co-leaders.

Coach Carter also displays transformational leadership. Transformational leadership is the ability of a leader to get people to do more than they originally expected to do in support of large scale innovation and change; the leader inspire and excite followers to high level of performance (Nelson & Quick, 2013). According to Marquis & Huston (1992), there are five key qualities of a transformational leader. One of the qualities is having the passion and ability to inspire. Transformational leaders show passion in their work and have the capacity to pass this passion on to others. Coach Carter is successful in achieving this through setting clear expectations and demonstrates passion when doing this. At their first team meeting, Carter hands each student a contract, setting out his expectations of the contracts. If they do not sign and follow it, they do not play. Coach Carter aims to pass on his passion to the players enabling them to succeed in playing sports and succeed in their education. Another quality transformational leaders possess is the ability to pass their values on to others. According to Marquis & Huston (1992), people admire leaders that support their own values and beliefs by enabling others to understand how their own values make them who they are. Coach Carter encourages a team ethic throughout. Carter ensures his team takes this on board by stopping everyone from playing – academic achiever or not. He’s teaching that successful teams succeed because of

Basketball teams need a coach that believes in them. The team needs a coach that will work hard to help them achieve the goal of winning. They need a coach that communicates and shows interest in each of the players. On the other hand, they need a coach that can be directive, but also supportive. In the case study this week, Shirley was quite the opposite. Conflicting enough, by all appearances she did not have a total grasp of the concept of leadership in coaching basketball. Factors that could cause the lack of leadership could be confidence or even lack of knowledge (Cohen, 2000). In this paper, Shirley’s leadership style and behavior will be discussed, along with looking at situational factors and other leadership styles that