A Coach's Diary

Tom Brady Celebrates Another Touchdown The article below is full in excerpts from a Sport Illustrated article that you can find here .  I originally came across this article on Facebook through a Huffington Post article.  My biggest takeaway is this: - You have to make a decision on what type of person that you want to be.  Do you want to dedicate your life to this and be the best, do you want to put in the work to be great, do you want to go with the flow and be average? - In all things, you have to find balance and stability while still searching for the best practices available to help you grow and become your best self.  Don’t settle for status-quo ‘just because.’ - Its important to have stability in a world that is constantly changing.  The Patriots having a constantly changing roster, but have stability at the key parts of the organization: ownership, head coach and quarterback.  Though all the pieces around Brady on the field is cons...

The following article is one of the legendary coach Pete Newell.  It is an old Sports Illustrated article that covers so much information about teaching the game and the life (and stresses) of being a coach.  You can read the article in its entirety here .  Below I have posted some of the key points that I took away. A GAME OF MISTAKES "Basketball," says Newell, explaining the reason for his malaise, "is a game of mistakes, and the team making the fewer mistakes generally wins." Despite his worry, or perhaps because of it, California rarely makes more mistakes than an opponent. In fact, California on the average makes only six ball-control errors a game compared with an opponent's 15, and since Newell figures control of the ball is worth about 1.5 points, that gives Cal a 14-point head start before the teams even take to the court. ON CONDITIONING At all three schools, Newell has used the same approach. Basically, he has a "for want of a nail the ...