I was a college coach, and I messed up. And I found a way to deal with the consequences and be better.
Can't blame the coaching staff for everything. It's mutual, of course. Players mess up, coaches mess up.
I think coaches sometimes foul their own players out of game by benching them too long when in foul trouble
The biggest mistake coaches make is taking borderline cases and trying to save them. I'm not talking about grades now, I'm talking about character. I want to know before a boy enrolls about his home life, and what his parents want him to be.
There's no perfect coach in the world. Coaches are human, too. Mistakes are made. But, fundamentally, if you're sound, you eliminate as many mistakes as possible.
In one of the largest studies ever done on the effects of executive coaching - over 70,000 respondents - we learned that the biggest mistake coaches make is in not following up. It didn't matter who the coach was or what method they used. Failing to follow up made any approach to coaching ineffective.
I'd like to think I am a good coach but I've called bad plays. I've coached bad practices. I've made bad substitution choices.
The biggest mistake we usually tend to make with young players is over-coaching.
