| div class="googleright"> | | | | very much, despise their coach.⨠⨠|
| I know what you are thinking, �Youth sports | | | | If youth sports coaches could learn coach |
| coaches can learn tons of things from the greatest | | | | Wooden�s methods, there would be many |
| coach of all.� That is, of course, so true. But | | | | less confrontational situations in youth sports. Most |
| the one thing that sticks out in my mind is not the | | | | negative incidents happen because players and/or |
| most obvious one. Coach John Wooden often said | | | | their parents do not feel like the kids are being |
| that he felt like he became closer to his bench | | | | treated with respect. Parents feel like their kids are |
| players than he did to the players who received | | | | not getting any positive esteem building from being a |
| most of the playing time. This is not a situation that | | | | member of the team and so often, they are right. |
| occurs very often in youth sports. More often than | | | | Unfortunately, by the very nature of sport, this |
| not the reverse is true - players, who do not play | | | | situation can never be solved completely. |