In 24 hours, I had been transformed from Jack Roberts to Coach Roberts. And it gave me a very special feeling.
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A student involved in such an experience as this could not help but provide glue and grace to a student body.
Praise is often heaped upon the innovative person who thinks “outside the box.” But thinking “inside the box” is equally praiseworthy.
The greatest disappointments I experience in the administration of educational athletics are when I observe the program miss the opportunity to educate students in ways that will instill positive character traits.
In “the good ol’ days” order was kept, not just because people prayed in school or taught morality, but because students understood there were consequences for breaking rules.
As an athlete, I dreaded the days. Even when I was a returning starter, I approached with anxiety the page taped to the locker room door that would indicate who made the high school basketball team . . .
At the middle school level, coaches have an opportunity to look down the bench for substitutes without first looking up at the scoreboard.
These parents were almost sick with worry that if their sons and daughters did not play one sport year-round, starting now, they wouldn’t make the team in high school.
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