This board has had many, many topics about coaches over the years. This one is no different. The article I have posted dates back to 1979 when Bill Campbell left his post as the head coach of Columbia Football, with a losing record, as noted.
Yesterday, our dear friend, mentor to our son, and the Godfather to our Grandson passed away.
Every child and every person should have an experience to be "coached" by a true coach. Since he left football, Bill coached in different ways, in anonymity, until his death allowed this very private person to be recognized by all of those he coached, from the most powerful CEO's like Steve Jobs to an 8th grader playing powder puff football.
The world, through the media, will capture and remember Bill through amazing articles such as this one in the NYT:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04...tars-dies-at-75.html
Outside of business, this beautiful article captures a coach who coached to win, to demand the best and to reward each player with his investment of emotion and love for them:
http://www.mercurynews.com/opi...was-coach-tech-stars
It would be foolish for me to think we can all be Bill Campbell as a coach. That is not the point of this post. Hopefully, the point which can be taken is we can all be better as coaches and as parents. Hopefully, a secondary part is to appreciate that in 1979, Bill had a "losing" record in terms of W's and L's. Even then and especially since, so many have had W's in their lives even though they were coached by one with an L attached to college sports.
"Bill was able to do the impossible with these boys — scare them to death and love them to pieces, all at the same moment. The magic that resulted was that each boy wanted to get better, wanted to please him, wanted that bear hug and the tousle on the head, that gravel-voiced reward: "I love ya, kid."
