Coaching takes mental strength.
Coaching takes humility.
Coaching takes strength of what you're doing is right.
Coaching is reflecting and seeing if what you're doing actually works.
Coaching is holding yourself and your players accountable.
Coaching is having the ethical courage to admit your failures.
Coaching is having the ethical courage to meet with kids face to face...for good and for bad.
Coaching is behaving like a parent (we don't have it all figured out and we need to apologize to our children sometimes)
Coaching is elevating players publicly even when they can and will let you down...publicly and sometimes worse...privately.
The more you make coaching a sport about you, the more you fail despite wins or losses.
With all of that said....
They keep score for a reason and that means that winning is important.
If winning matters, then do what it takes to win.
If winning doesn't matter (I cannot even begin to wrap my mind around that) then be consistent.
And if this all seems too much for you, then get out or be an assistant who doesn't have all the pressure on them.
