How do you like your coach?

[Fine Vol]

Rate on a sliding scale.

Conservative-Aggresive
How would you rate your personal taste 1 being conservative 10 being aggresive?

Offensive minded- Defensive minded
1-10

Young-older
1-10

Calm(cpf)-yeller(lou Holts)
1-10

running-passing
1-10

[TXVOL07]

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8
depends on recruits but 7

[superdave1984]

8 Not so agressive he would go for it on 4th and 25 from his own 3 yard line, but he would at least think about it for a second.

7 Defense. I don't care how good your offense is, if you can't stop anybody you are Louisville.

5 Old enough to have significant experience, but young enough to be able to connect with these 18 year olds.

6 Sort of calm, but in a scary way. Like he's thinking of a way to make you kill yourself instead of him having to do it. Yeah psychotic. That's the word.


7 Everybody loves to see the D get shredded by the passing game even though we all know it's the ground game that usually gets it done.

[droski]

9
8
2
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5

[jakez4ut]

i don't know about the scale or anything, but i was watching sports science the other night and they actually put this to the test........does an aggressive, demanding coach get more out of players than a coach that uses more positive reinforcement......

and the winner.......the aggressive coach.

they had some great stats. they used Bobby Knight and Coach K as examples, i'll let you guess which one was in which category. in pressure situations.....for this study they used f/t % and games decided by 3 pts or less as the data........Bobby Knights teams have a 10% better performance from the stripe and a 20% better w/l performance in games decided by 3 pts or less.

pretty cool.......they also did a live demonstration with a kid shooting f/t's, one coach all over him about his technique, attitude...really challenging the kid...the other coach being very encouraging and understanding.....now this was all happening while the kid was shooting......when the kid was with the aggressive coach, he made 80% from the stripe. with the less agressive coach.....he only made 70%.

pretty interesting stuff.

[Business]

In my years of playing sports I've always played better and also been on better teams when the coach was agressive as hell and demanded only the best from the team.

[jakez4ut]

Originally Posted by Business

In my years of playing sports I've always played better and also been on better teams when the coach was agressive as hell and demanded only the best from the team.

it's true. it's science.