You could be cynical and say that you is providing a tool to treat a condition that her coaching expectations are causing, but I celebrate her for actually carrying into practice what looks like a very valuable tool with broad applications beyond xc. I expect they'll make a mint on this eventually.
They're not saying that tracking mood on the smart phone will improve mood, etc. by itself but rather give them an indicator for athletes that need professional help, and they do have staff for that purpose.
every complaint about Taylor comes from runners who couldn't make her team or parents of runners who couldn't make her team. yet those who thrive there love her.
the world is filled with delusional sub par athletes who blame their college coach for destroying their dream. probably the best thing a coach can do is cut a player and save them years of their life chasing something that they'll never get.
there's probably an Alabama football message board filled with nasty comments about Nick Saban written by no talent walk-on's who got cut after the first practice yet are convinced Saban is the reason they're not on an NFL roster.
Yeah, who’d want to run at a top-5 program at elevation with a top tier coach.
You either don’t like Taylor’s style (even though you don’t know her) and/or you’re a BYU/LDS hater. Appears to be both.
The only thing cringey is the soft bigotry of your post.
are you surprised something seemingly good and potentially life saving is getting this kind of reaction here? the number of curmudgeonly attacks and anonymous pot shots by angry cowards on letsrun should be a measure of something's actual worth in the real world. should also be a measure of how much jealousy there is for someone as talented and successful as Coach Taylor. these are the same losers who would have been slamming the invention of the seat belt for being intrusive and only necessary because cars are designed to go too fast and a bad idea because it would encourage more young people to spend more time in their cars...
I have no idea if this thing is scientifically effective (and those are good questions to ask) but the need for help with the mental health of athletes is significant right now so why would we immediately jump all over this attempt, sight unseen exactly? if you are complaining about this, what are you doing to help athletes with their mental health?
Props to you for at least acknowledging where you’re coming from, which unfortunately, is still highly prejudicial and inaccurate.
Look at results from BYU Women’s distance from 2005-2015 compared to when Taylor came onboard. I guess Utah runners just got mysteriously better all of a sudden in 2016 moving forward. Crazy coincidence, at least according to you.
You’re absolutely creating worst case scenarios in your mind (projection) and then applying them to Taylor and BYU because as you admitted, you don’t like them, when the reality of the evidence actually suggests the opposite.
Yeah, who’d want to run at a top-5 program at elevation with a top tier coach.
You either don’t like Taylor’s style (even though you don’t know her) and/or you’re a BYU/LDS hater. Appears to be both.
The only thing cringey is the soft bigotry of your post.
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They're not saying that tracking mood on the smart phone will improve mood, etc. by itself but rather give them an indicator for athletes that need professional help, and they do have staff for that purpose.
Everyone gets in a certain mood during different times and stresses during life....it's called life. Now we baby everything and classify some things as mental health.
Mental Health throughout history was someone that was crazy and had schizophrenia, which affected 0.07% of the population. Now we use it for kids who are feeling a certain way because of disappointment and delusions of grandeur.
Thanks for posting - I think you’re missing the general idea of the app. A student athlete is of course under immense pressure in a lot of ways and that’s even assuming that their personal life is at least “okay” in any given moment. This app takes a few seconds for a student to select one of three colors corresponding to their mood. It’s not therapy. What it should do is help recognize trends that student athletes are often too busy to sit and recognize themselves until they are already drowning in the pressure. Should everyone practice healthy coping skills? Yes! Can they do that without an app? Also yes. But the number of people who constantly keep that in mind when life is super busy is very small, even therapists who study the importance of it get caught up in the flow of life and forget to practice healthy habits.
Having attended ASIST training in the past I can say that just having someone else recognize and talk to an individual going through a hard time is already proven to help mental health and save lives. To your point about over-awareness: The mental health field is desperate for people to acknowledge their feelings and explore why they feel that way instead of just shrugging their shoulders and saying “that’s how I feel and that’s all there is to it”. In my professional work I would say over-awareness would be fantastic compared to historical trends on mental health awareness.
That's historically inaccurate. People have always experienced the gamut of mental issues from mild depression to schizophrenia and they've adopted various tactics to deal with them from changing spouses to moving, changing diet, sleep patterns, jobs, drugs, etc. Diljeet Taylor obviously recognizes that her mostly conservative, Mormon athletes are under a great deal of pressure and suffering under the weight of very hard, altitude training, which affects hormones and thus mood, and cannot perform optimally when they are not in top mental condition. That's why pro athletes, whether football players, basketball players, golfers, or tennis players, all use therapists of some kind or another. For instance, the NAU xc team goes to a team counselor for sessions on a regular basis.
It's obvious Diljeet is way too controlling over the girls. . . So she identifies the problem and to their supposed benefit creates an app to track their daily emotions. Then Diljeet will get the data and who knows how she will use it.
Yes, exactly. They should be keeping the relationship professional. Especially because BYU is a religious school, the girls on the team are not going to question this, but just blindly trust authority. (I'm not saying the girls on the team are dumb people, not at all. It's just that's the way religious communities are. too trusting of authority
b/c I believe there is a very in the Bible that says, "authority is from God," or something to that affect.) Doesn't mean one should just blindly follow authority though! and abandon all reason.
Coach Taylor has such a superiority complex. She always portrays herself as the wise one with all the answers. Is it really the wisest choice to have the coach playing therapist? This seems like a situation ripe for abuse.
It's obvious Diljeet is way too controlling over the girls. . . So she identifies the problem and to their supposed benefit creates an app to track their daily emotions. Then Diljeet will get the data and who knows how she will use it.
Yes, exactly. They should be keeping the relationship professional. Especially because BYU is a religious school, the girls on the team are not going to question this, but just blindly trust authority. (I'm not saying the girls on the team are dumb people, not at all. It's just that's the way religious communities are. too trusting of authority
b/c I believe there is a very in the Bible that says, "authority is from God," or something to that affect.) Doesn't mean one should just blindly follow authority though! and abandon all reason.
Wow, people are out of touch with reality. It’s a simple set of questions to identify trends that someone might not be sleeping well or feeling great. A coach-athlete relationship is more than just saying “Go run”. If the coach/relationship is so strained that it’s too awkward for the coach to know you aren’t sleeping (and therefore can’t adjust your training) then something is wrong with the “professional” relationship.
Also, I don’t know if you’ve been around humans before, but the majority of them simply want other people to care about them. So when you’re lacking motivation, depressed, not sleeping, feel all alone in the world and your coach says “hey, I care about you- you doing okay?” and then listens to you and helps you get help you may need, that’s typically perceived as a good thing (assuming it’s not some weird grooming situation). But maybe you’re right and it’d be better for them to suffer, start to fail their classes, stay depressed, and eventually have a mental breakdown.
*You likely think my statements are ridiculous because you simply refuse to acknowledge every statistic about the mental health of college students. It’s certainly not ideal. Honestly it’s sad and frustrating and there’s many times I’d like to pretend they’re just all doing fine too. But you can’t ignore reality.
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