Excited Coaches v Calm Coaches

Force_Balk,

I think the way you carry yourself on the field has a lot to do with each individual's personality. When I am between the white lines and if there is no scoreboard you would not know if we were winning 20 to 0 or losing 20 to 0. But I can tell you this, after a big win I can celebrate with the best of them.....I am 50 years old.

You ask for thoughts/opinions; I believe you are just fine. Keep giving back to the game that has given all of us so much.

O42

I am an excitable coach. I'm a yeller, screamer, thrower of objects. etc. However, after the game, I get ahold of myself and make sure I walk out and shake hands and compliment the opponent whether we win or lose. BTW, I try not to scream, yell, etc. anything I wouldn't want my child to hear.

Force Balk

Keep doing what you are doing ! I for one like coaches who are into the game

I am an excitable and explosive coach--that is why I have two calm and serene coaches working with me. As I tell ther kid I am the expendable one --the other coaches are the key--I do the screaming and yelling and all the arguing

Well, I am on the calm side. That is not to say I will not get loud, and after we finally clinched a play-off spot last year I was the first one out of the dugout.

I do not want my players to see me as a fan....clapping and praising when playing good and screaming and griping when things go bad. I am not saying that all excitable coaches are that way, that is just how I felt I was coming off. That is not to say I am not high energy. I think that there is a difference in high energy and excitable.

Force Balk

As with everything else if there was one way to do it everybody would coach the same. Makes for some pretty boring stuff. Be yourself.

Will great advice "Be yourself". I for one am very high energy at practice. I like go get after it and teach the game. I love to praise kids that get after it and are focused. I want to make sure that every minute we have to get better we are spending our time getting better. At the games I am very quiet and focused thinking about strategy and listening to my gut feelings. Its just my personality. I love the pressure situations and I love to feel in controll by staying relaxed and focused in the heat of battle. Now I will go off thats for sure if we dont compete and stay focused. But I do it in the privacy of our dugout. Everyone is different. I never celebrate a win openly in front of my opponent. I always wait untill they have left the field or we have left the field on the bus. I make my players do the same. It hurts like hell to loose. I just dont want to rub it in because I sure hate it when someone else does. That is just my opinion it does not mean that I think people are trying to rub it in when they celebrate a win. I just think that it is not the time and place. Just my opinion.

I'm generally pretty intense, but calm.. Haven't celebrated many times out loud and let the players do most of it.. In 04 we won our 9th consecutive playoff game to make the State tourney. We had to beat a couple perenial powers and i simply pumped my fist a couple times, smile and went to a knee..I think i was to **** mentally drained to celebrate much..Be yourself coach.. Just try not to show up an opponent.

My nickname as a player was "psycho"...any questions? ha ha
I am a very intense person who loves the heat of battle. I am very vocal, although I am not big on public displays of aggression (throwing things, kicking dirt, etc.). I do, however, thoroughly enjoy a big celebration, and I don't mind taking part in it. If it truly is a "TEAM", than everyone involved with the team on a daily basis should enjoy the successes as much as they struggle with the failures, right?

its gotta be family.
steve
http://www.leaguelineup.com/raiderbaseball

i think you have to follow your personality to a degree. i am alot more calmer now than when i was a young pup. now that i am an OLD dog i usually just pace now. my assistants are vocal and excited enough for me. as long as your personality/ excitement doesn't take away from your teams focus you should be okay. and as long as it is not too offensive to the other team.

the first several years i coached i coached on emotion and we played on emotion - thats a good thing as long as its good emotion. but when you play on emotion unfortunately there is also alot of bad emotion and this causes composure to be loss. the last several years we play with enthusiasm instead of emotion. you can play through the bad that way. i usually just sit on my bucket. now i expect the enthusiasm to be there. we dont allow anybody but our pitcher to sit while we are hitting - we are standing at the edge of the dugout into the game. dont get me wrong - we have prayer meetings when we need to adjust our enthusiasm but thats different than the high/low emotional thing. my teams started to play well in big games with the change. we like to play emotional teams in a big game. theres nothing wrong celebrating with your team after a big win. yuo can be emotional then. hope this made some sort of sense. its just one of those things i believe in but cant explain.
steve
http://www.leaguelineup.com/raiderbaseball

raiderbb,
i agree. the head coach definately needs to keep calmness about them. i have noticed the players feed off that. if you are calm in bad situations then they are calm. i let my assistants be more emotional. if the enthusiasm is not there then we will have as you say a "prayer meeting"

I asked my Wife this question..she said super intense..lol.. She said you never look happy even though you win most the time.. guess I look at like we can always improve. We haven't played many perfect games.

i would say i am an intense coach, but i think there are times to be intense and times to be calm/poised. my guys know i will pump a fist in excitement, or i might show disgust in situations where i think my guys might should have come excelled. i never show disappointment/emotion when i know we should win, or when we get beat and we played well. there are lessons to learn in defeat and we preach that along with winning with class. never the less, i tend to agree that your players will normally aclimate to your style of coaching if it is done fairly, and with compassion. i can't stand people that say coaches should not show too much emotion. i just believe there are certain parameters with which emotion should be showed or not.