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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.

So if the players trust the coach, it's not a problem. If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

I think we, as pro coaches, should have a consciousness towards having an image and a role model mentality for kids.

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.

What is a coach? We are teachers. Educators. We have the same obligations as all teachers, except we probably have more influence over young people than anybody but their families. And, in a lot of cases, more than their families.

I do have some young coaches, but I don't really believe that is the biggest problem we have here.

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.

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.

Every kid I've been around as a football player, they want their coaches to make them better as men and as players.