DON MEYER CLINIC NOTES

Thanks to Creighton Burns for sending over these notes from Don Meyer's recent clinic talk in Lansing, MI Creighton is a great resource for young coaches like me who are learning and he sends out a great newsletter with motivational info, set plays, clinic notes, quotes, and tons of other awesome things! You can email him at hoosierceb1@yahoo.com to ask to be added to his newsletter group.

THOUGHTS:
All Great Empires Are Destroyed From Within
We are always SELLING (the window to our school, the team, the players, our philosophy, etc.)

Player Plug Ins:
Players take notes (write things down / they will not remember VERBAL)
Please & thank you / be courteous, it pays (Bear Bryant story)
Everyone picks up trash
On a GREAT team, EVERYONE does the “dirty work!”

Keeping a coaching EDGE:
If we have to try hard to “try hard,” we are already beaten
Clean the “hog house” every day when coaching
Use a “soft reign” every day
(a coach needs a 3rd place to go / a place where the job & family can’t touch you)

Humility comes before honor!

Leadership starts at the top:
Lead vs. criticize
Real leaders won’t “take revenge” (paybacks) / it’s not on their agenda
Leaders (Wooden): for the “player-leaders” to do……………….

Be our hardest workers
Take care of STUFF “off the floor”
Leave everything else to the coaches
You can tell a lot about somebody by the way they treat people that can’t do anything for them or to them.”

The ‘F’ Words:

Faith, Family, Friends, Forgiveness, Fitness, Finances, Figure It Out (come up with an answer – you know better than anyone else!)
 
Comfort zones are often WELL BELOW ones potential