Can't say I am surprised.
@MizzouSoftball's Ehren Earleywine Relieved of Coaching Duties - Missouri Tigers
@MizzouSoftball's Ehren Earleywine Relieved of Coaching Duties - Missouri Tigers
You can be tough on people and lead without demeaning and embarrassing someone and yelling at them constantly isn't leadership or some life lesson. The only lesson you are giving is that you are an a**hole and a bully when coaching.
Do we know for sure this is what happened?
I have written this three or four times now.... I may edit it again....
I am always torn with these cases because I don't know all these details and I don't want to say this particular case meets this issue. But from everything I have heard and the statement he made, it is probably the case.
Coach - it isn't everyone else. It isn't 'soft' coaching or some conspiracy to weaken the youth of today. It is you. It is your issue. It is your unwillingness to look at yourself along with the latest information about the best coaching methodologies and change how you go about things. Just as some people are not willing to change how they teach hitting or pitching or anything else based on new information, things have changed and the methods of coaching have passed you by.
You can be tough on people and lead without demeaning and embarrassing someone and yelling at them constantly isn't leadership or some life lesson. The only lesson you are giving is that you are an a**hole and a bully when coaching. If you behaved this way in 99% of normal workplaces, you would be fired quickly.
I know there is this tradition of the 'tough football coach' in this country For the most part it is bogus and overly dramatized.
OK, so what is worse now...
A hard nosed coach who scares his players, who are much"softer" than they used to be?
Or "soft" players who scare the coaches. Who are fearful of saying, or doing anything, to discipline or coach them... otherwise the player's (or parent's) feelings will get hurt?
We see this at the High School level alot nowadays... that is obviously starting to show up in College Sports as well.
I have written this three or four times now.... I may edit it again....
I am always torn with these cases because I don't know all these details and I don't want to say this particular case meets this issue. But from everything I have heard and the statement he made, it is probably the case.
Coach - it isn't everyone else. It isn't 'soft' coaching or some conspiracy to weaken the youth of today. It is you. It is your issue. It is your unwillingness to look at yourself along with the latest information about the best coaching methodologies and change how you go about things. Just as some people are not willing to change how they teach hitting or pitching or anything else based on new information, things have changed and the methods of coaching have passed you by.
You can be tough on people and lead without demeaning and embarrassing someone and yelling at them constantly isn't leadership or some life lesson. The only lesson you are giving is that you are an a**hole and a bully when coaching. If you behaved this way in 99% of normal workplaces, you would be fired quickly.
I know there is this tradition of the 'tough football coach' in this country For the most part it is bogus and overly dramatized.