Hooskins Presents the "Who Needs to Step Up" Poll

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Originally Posted by Mattyk72

Gtripp, so what seperates the average coaches from the great ones to you? Seems that you're ruling out things like motivation, leadership, trust, and respect. So does it just boil down to pure x's and o's and playcalling??

Have you ever had a really bad manager at work? Have you ever had a really great manager? What seperates the two?

The greatest coaches manage their personel better than any other coach. Not only will they nearly always have the best 11 players on the field for the situation, but they do it in a way that keeps all 46 active players involved and happy. This is nearly impossible to do, but it's so very crucial to sustained success.

While motivation, leadership, trust and respect are all vital things to the morale of any team, the head coach is hardly any more responsible for these things than the last guy on the team with no name and an irrelivant number. Just because the media douses the HC with all credit and blame does not mean hes deserving of any of it. If he's been saddled with a team full of crappy attitudes, his reputation is going to be one of little discipline. Nothing he can do about it.

I would say the difference between the great manager and the bad one from my perspective would be held in his personal relationship with me. But just like a head football coach, what defines him to me (as a player) would be irrelivant to somone else (such as a fan).