2000's
Johnnie Bryant
Andrew Bogut
Marc Jackson
Tim Frost
Travis Spivey
Tony Harvey
Chris Burgess
Nick Jacobsen
1990's
Trace Caton
Andre Miller
Alex Jensen
Hanno Mettola
Phil Cullen
The entire 98 team
Ben Caton
Keith Van Horn
Brandon Jesse
Ma Jian
Mark Rydalch
Josh Grant
Walter Watts
Paul Afeaki
Jimmy Carroll
1980's
Craig Rydalch
Byron Wilson
Phil Dixon
Jimmy Soto
McKay McGrath
Sunday, March 01, 2009
Saturday, February 14, 2009
The Art Of Managing
Arsene Wenger, Arsenal Manager, on Guus Hiddink shortly after his promotion to manage Chelsea for the remainder of the 2009 season:
He has a strong knowledge of the game and strong personality. He has big experience and he always gets his teams to play the kind of football he wants to play. This is the real art of a good manager.I found this quote interesting because its quite lofty praise from one coach to another, with both party's operating at probably the highest level of football in the world. But it was also the specific praise of getting a team to 'play your way' as an indicator of a good manager that I found quite informative.
Saturday, February 07, 2009
Ownership and Investment
I just finished watching the Utah-Wyoming basketball game, and there was a featurette on Ute head coach Jim Boylen and his 3 assistants, and a behind the scenes look at one of their practices.
The thing that he said that stuck out to me most is how he delegated responsibilities to his assistant coaches. Now delegating responsibility in and of itself is no great revelation. It was more the attitude that coach Boylen set with those responsibilities, saying that the more he gave them, the more 'ownership' they had in the program.
Now I have to say, I love that shit man. Former Utah football head coach Urban Meyer used to say the same kind of stuff, calling for 'investment' in the program from his staff and players. I even hear it coming out of mouth of BYU football coach Bronco Mendenhall, although I think he just stole it from Meyer after he left for Florida.
But you look at the track record of the coaches mentioned: Boylen has (as of this minute) the Utes atop the MWC with a 7-2 record, 16-7 overall with an RPI of 12th in the country; Meyer won 2 consecutive conference championships at Utah, busted the BCS, and has continued on at Florida with 2 national championships in the last 5 years; Mendenhall won 2 consecutive MWC conference championships and turned around a floundering BYU program. It's hard to argue with the results, so maybe we should listen to the common tune these guys are singing.
I think if you have a staff that feels ownership in what you are trying to accomplish, and you have players that buy in to the system and are invested, you'll have a team that is at the very least competitive every single time they step between the lines.
The thing that he said that stuck out to me most is how he delegated responsibilities to his assistant coaches. Now delegating responsibility in and of itself is no great revelation. It was more the attitude that coach Boylen set with those responsibilities, saying that the more he gave them, the more 'ownership' they had in the program.
Now I have to say, I love that shit man. Former Utah football head coach Urban Meyer used to say the same kind of stuff, calling for 'investment' in the program from his staff and players. I even hear it coming out of mouth of BYU football coach Bronco Mendenhall, although I think he just stole it from Meyer after he left for Florida.
But you look at the track record of the coaches mentioned: Boylen has (as of this minute) the Utes atop the MWC with a 7-2 record, 16-7 overall with an RPI of 12th in the country; Meyer won 2 consecutive conference championships at Utah, busted the BCS, and has continued on at Florida with 2 national championships in the last 5 years; Mendenhall won 2 consecutive MWC conference championships and turned around a floundering BYU program. It's hard to argue with the results, so maybe we should listen to the common tune these guys are singing.
I think if you have a staff that feels ownership in what you are trying to accomplish, and you have players that buy in to the system and are invested, you'll have a team that is at the very least competitive every single time they step between the lines.
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