Coaching This Generation
Coach Frank Martin is known for being a tough, hard-nosed, old school basketball coach. He was asked how he has changed his coaching style and philosophy and mindset while working with today's athlete. He said that he hasn't changed his style and what he believes in, but he has had to find PEACE in having more PATIENCE today. Kids transfer and leave earlier and more often today, and parents don't make their kids stay and go through adversity like they once did. We have to be more PATIENT because they haven't been prepared to handle a tougher environment. Young people learn DIFFERENTLY now than they used to. They now have so much information and they don't know what to do with it all. They don't care how we grew up, what we had to go through, and what and how we had to learn. They want to know that we CARE about how they learn, and we have to ADAPT to comprehend and learn about THEIR environment, THEIR learning styles, a...