3 C's

Calm, cool, and confident. Do you think that only players learn from their coaches? I want to tell you what I have been learning as a coach over the past couple of weeks. I am learning that this group is willing to do what it takes to be successful and they are proving that to me over and over again. Some days we are very hard on them and others we are not but they are trying and that is all that matters. There has not been one eye roll, shoulder shrug, or question about what or why we are doing something. As of last Wednesday, we had not had ONE day off since the beginning of the season. We felt like for us to just have a chance to compete we had to teach, teach , and teach but you can only go to the well so many times w/out it drying up. After we lost to St. Thomas Aquinas last Wednesday night, I wanted to see what the attitude was the next day. I knew our team was physically and mentally exhausted but they came in the next day willing to do whatever was needed to correct the mistakes from the night before and in my book, attitude is everything! That showed me how special this team has become. Bottom line, we gave the kids off for 4 days and this week they have come back recharged and ready to go. It is a fine line with the difficult schedule we play because we are not going to have the best record that we have ever had but we want to keep their confidence high too. I think our players know that without that schedule, we would not really know where we stand. A team that comes into districts with a 25-0 record doesn't truly know how they will react under pressure. The more times a team is in the pressure cooker, the higher chance that they will get used to it and like it. The players and coaches just need to let the learning process run its course and be calm, cool, and confident.