Welcome to the world we live in as coaches. You've got to figure out what you can do best and better to get these kids a chance to be successful. I think that comes through a lot of things - confidence, improvement, recruiting.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Developing better people should be the number one goal for any coach when dealing with kids. In trying to develop better people, we are going to develop more and better pros.
And then ultimately what I tell the kids is: coaches can give you information, they can give you guidelines, and they can put you in a position. But the only person who can truly make you better is you.
Every kid I've been around as a football player, they want their coaches to make them better as men and as players.
I'm sure at some point I will get back into coaching, but right now I need to focus completely on my kids.
I think training of better Youth Coaches is essential.
As a parent, you have to be good coach and bad coach, and I think in the college-application process, I didn't want to be bad coach. 'This is amazing! I'm so proud of you!' That's the role I wanted with my kids.
I had a lot of coaches growing up that were very hard on the kids in the name of building character, but it could have the opposite effect on kids.
I think in order to push kids and coach kids the way we want to coach them, we've got to have their trust.
I've got the best coaches in the world. I've got confidence in them, and they've got confidence in me.
I always felt if you were going to be successful, make sure you get good people. You win with great players. Coaches don't win games. Players win games.