When I coached, I thought the most important thing, at a MACRO level, is making sure I was as balanced in telling the players what they were DOING RIGHT as much as correcting what they were doing wrong. That way, they would REPEAT what they were doing right as well as correcting what they did wrong... Teaching at any level requires patience and not everyone comprehends at the same level or in the same way at the same time. It is a process.. But when the "LIGHT TURNS ON", I feel that the player needs to know that so that same action, routine, process continues. I didn't mind being positive on a consistent basis IF....IF... it was warranted.
We have a culture that NEGATIVE is equated with being honest and POSITIVE is equated with being naïve, if it becomes habitual. Being NEGATIVE helps you sound educated on the matter. This board is analytical yet humorous with our negative circumstances and, Heaven knows, the Twin Cities press will not allow us to forget every transgression of the program, especially for men's basketball, football, and maybe hockey. We have so many threads, and I am as guilty as anyone else, of bringing up the negatives and how to solve it.. It creates purpose for us, to a degree, plus allows us to think we are participating in the program in a productive way. But a positive outlook that is habitual is almost dismissed as a person wearing "rose colored glasses" and not accepting of the reality.
I have often pondered helping to participate and in a small way, help finance a 30 minute radio or TV news show with NOTHING BUT GOOD WHOLESOME NEWS!! Put human interest stories like the days of Charles Kuralt. "Feel Good" news. Maybe we are so jaded that people would be bored with it. Maybe there is not enough content to fill a 30 minute segment for days upon weeks upon years. Maybe advertisers would not pay for the air time.. But I have pondered this and its potential success,
On this board, it is no different.. I have seen positive posts so I know they exist. I do like to participate in some negative posts to just add some stupid comment that is either over the top or as some silly observation.. I like the straight, serious recruiting news, no doubt... But I would love to dig up some of the good things, either historically or what is currently happening, that puts Gopher athletes in any varsity sport, in a POSITIVE LIGHT so we can be proud of them.. I know its out there but it takes A LOT OF TIME, work, determination, and focus to get those stories.. I think we need some of that here at GI and in the Twin Cities in general.
We have a culture that NEGATIVE is equated with being honest and POSITIVE is equated with being naïve, if it becomes habitual. Being NEGATIVE helps you sound educated on the matter. This board is analytical yet humorous with our negative circumstances and, Heaven knows, the Twin Cities press will not allow us to forget every transgression of the program, especially for men's basketball, football, and maybe hockey. We have so many threads, and I am as guilty as anyone else, of bringing up the negatives and how to solve it.. It creates purpose for us, to a degree, plus allows us to think we are participating in the program in a productive way. But a positive outlook that is habitual is almost dismissed as a person wearing "rose colored glasses" and not accepting of the reality.
I have often pondered helping to participate and in a small way, help finance a 30 minute radio or TV news show with NOTHING BUT GOOD WHOLESOME NEWS!! Put human interest stories like the days of Charles Kuralt. "Feel Good" news. Maybe we are so jaded that people would be bored with it. Maybe there is not enough content to fill a 30 minute segment for days upon weeks upon years. Maybe advertisers would not pay for the air time.. But I have pondered this and its potential success,
On this board, it is no different.. I have seen positive posts so I know they exist. I do like to participate in some negative posts to just add some stupid comment that is either over the top or as some silly observation.. I like the straight, serious recruiting news, no doubt... But I would love to dig up some of the good things, either historically or what is currently happening, that puts Gopher athletes in any varsity sport, in a POSITIVE LIGHT so we can be proud of them.. I know its out there but it takes A LOT OF TIME, work, determination, and focus to get those stories.. I think we need some of that here at GI and in the Twin Cities in general.
