We start our conference play this week in the tough GCAC. Our dream as a team is to be the best team we can possibly be. This has been a very interesting team to coach from the time this year started.All great men are dreamers. Some, however, allow their dreams to die. You should nurse your dreams and protect them through bad times and tough times; to the sunshine and light which will always come. Woodrow Wilson – U.S. President
Yesterday we had a long day together. Our team meeting went for an hour, our video tape session for about 30 minutes and then we practiced for two hours. With no classes going on we have to keep our players busy.
We had an emotional and power packed family meeting. I told them they had to have a “safe place” where they could talk about issues with each other. This group has talent and ability. The issue is how well they can mesh the ability and the team aspect. It seems like they are all on board and they agreed that they only way they can reach their dreams was to put their ego and their pride at the door.
Some players even admitted to not being able at the first of the year being able to do that, but now they are making progress because they see that for us to be a good team we all have to be on the same page.
It is a battle for each of us in the program to put our ego and pride at the door and be in it for each other. With an 18 game conference schedule it will be an interesting journey to watch how this team marches on.
No team that I have been part of in the past has the tools like this one. No team in the past has as many strong personalities also, so our work is cut out for us as a group.
There will be joy in the journey.
