11-15-2016, 04:52 PM
(11-15-2016, 02:10 PM)Wyche Wrote: You don't have to bench guys permanently, but if you think that it doesn't get a player's attention from time to time, then I really gotta question if your stories about playing are true......or you played for sackless coaches that wouldn't bench pets when they effed up.
Yes benching can "get a players attention", but it is not that simple to fix poor play.
If all it took to make a player great was to bench him then I could be a great coach. Benching a player without addressing the reason he was benched does nothing.
Same thi8ng with all the guys who claim all our coaches need to do is yell louder or criticizes the players in public. Neither of those tactics does anything to fix most problems with poor play. There are very few guys who have made it to the level of starting in the NFL who are playing poorly just because no one is yelling at them.
BTW in college I played for a great coach. Ken Sparks made the playoffs 25 times as a head coach winning 5 National Championships (NAIA) and playing in 4 other Championship games (Div II). He is the all-time leader in wins by a Div-ll head coach. He did not think he could fix every problem just by benching whoever messed up each week. Instead he tried to look at why they were playing badly and address the problem.
