Even a good coach gets tuned out sometimes by the end of the season. The kids are thinking, "Been there, heard it before Coach." This is where leadership by experienced players is helpful.quote:After about the first month, when the coach starts acting crazy, he is lucky if half the players are actually listening to him. They may be looking him in the eye and nodding their heads, but they aren't listening. By the end of the year none will be hearing a word he says.
A crazed coach is just cutting his throat. I coached with one last year. The players told me they had already tuned him out when I told them to hear the message and take the behavior as a sense of urgency instead of craziness.