Setting The Record Straight

I wonder how in the heck has Robin Dotson collected so many wins at Kelly. I know for a fact he never played girls basketball [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif[/img]
(had to have a little fun with that)

Nice comeback!!! If coaching is in your heart and you do it for the right reasons, then it doesn't matter if you flip burgers, rack cell doors, or coach professionally. We do it because we love it, we love the sport, and we want to help teach the kids about that aspects of sports and a few life lessons.

Great post Indian_Dad.. nothing angers me more than hearing someone shoot down someone's opinions just because they haven't played or don't currently play a sport. There are many ways to know about and grow to love a sport - playing them is only one.

There is naturally an advantage to having played a sport. That being said, there is a disadvantage that many really good players have when they go into coaching. What was fun for them, what was something they loved, or something that came to them easily, they can't understand why it doesn't just 'happen' for other players. Even though it didn't end up applying, in a Larry Bird book I read, that was the thing that most feared with him being a coach. For a guy who would bust his hump so much, and just wanted to be in the gym all the time, how would he react to guys who didn't have that drive. Something that seemed second nature to him, how would he react when someone just couldn't do it, when he did it without even thinking.

All that being said, I think it does help if someone played to coach. But there is very few absolutes, and that definitely isn't one.