How else would you identify them?
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Hat and....sunglasses. strong UV in southern hemisphere.
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I think whomever wins the NCCA championship should be gifted an Australian slouch hat with the school's logo and be mandated to wear it for next season.
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I'll give it to you youngsters straight:
- To protect my eyes from the sun.
- To cover-up my hair thinning & balding.
- Tradition of coaches wearing ball caps
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because their dream of being an MLB coach has failed and trying to keep the dream alive by coaching an obscure sport.
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Personally, I always wear a top hat and a full suit. Gotta let the athletes know who’s boss.
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Relaxed baseball hats are perhaps the most functional item there is. Don't forget their service in wind, rain, and snow. Indoor meets I wear one from the bus to the track, then take it off. Plus how you wear it can give a message. Pulled low over your eyes gives that serious look. Pushed back can give a mellow image.
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I’m more of an athletic supporter than a coach. I like a hat because it keeps sweat out of my eyes. headband could work. But nah
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It’s where we hide our snacks.
wooly hats are an acceptable alternative during XC season, provided a sufficient standard of crustiness is maintained. If you don’t look like a disenfranchised 1930’s dock worker it upsets the local ecosystem and the pack start fighting each other.10 -
Urohawk wrote:
I think [whoever] wins the NCCA championship should be gifted an Australian slouch hat with the school's logo and be mandated to wear it for next season.
Hmm. Having spent years in the Pacific, and decades Stateside, I have to say that every single non-Aussie (whom I've known) that wore the slouch hat was an asshole. No exceptions.
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The answer is easy.
Coaches are almost by definition simply older people relative to the subjects of their work: younger athletes.
Narcissism and insecurity lead them to hide their balding/grey heads in the workplace, spaces which are generally showcases of people in their youth/prime. (A period that is very much in the past for most coaches.)
See Salazar and his ever-present hat. Classic example.
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Han Solo wrote:
Don’t forget about the small but mighty group that wears bucket hats.
Are you Brian Patrick Carroll?
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I started coaching college athletics when I was 22. It was a way to help distinguish myself from the athletes. I looked younger than quite a few of them.
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I wear a yarmulke and a visor. Together, they create the illusion of a full ball cap. Only I know the truth.
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HRE wrote:
all good coaches fallacy wrote:
But it does mean they aren't any good, or you would have seen them.
So all good coaches wear baseball caps.
Lydiard never wore one. I never saw Harry Groves in one.
Harry wore a hat occasionally
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HRE wrote:
all good coaches fallacy wrote:
But it does mean they aren't any good, or you would have seen them.
So all good coaches wear baseball caps.
Lydiard never wore one. I never saw Harry Groves in one.
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