malmo wrote:
Mr Hinkley, you were supposed to take your medicine when we let you out. You promised!
malmo, took my meds and posted this on the coaches are gods thread--didn't want you to miss it:
Who would want to say I have a degree in coaching? What schools would want to have claimed Bob Knight or Dave Bliss or Jackie Sherrill or Jim Harrick as graduates of their schools of coaching? Should coaches have to pass proficiency tests and be licensed like MDs? Is a long formal education and an advanced degree at all related to success in coaching?
Some of the coaches who post here act like they have PhDs in exercise physiology, sports psychology, nutrition, and women's menstrual periods. Why do we need to bestow them with degrees if they already know they know everything?
Oh, then we get into "Okay, smarta$$, how many Olympians have you coached? How many NCAAs have you(r athletes) won? Have many Super Bowls have you(r players) won?" Well none, but there've been plenty without even college degrees.
I know plenty of smart athletes that got into med school and plenty of dumb ones got into coaching, but not many vice versa. When you show up for treatment in my emergency room with a gunshot wound, you'll care a lot less about how many Olympians I've coached than about how well educated, tested, boarded, certified, and licensed I am.