Great coaches distill

Posted on January 13, 2010 by CoachJay

Great coaches take complex ideas or complex situations and distill them into one or two elements. With that in mind I suggest you read Vern Gambetta‘s post on Mark McGuire and his steroid use. It’s short and will take you 60 seconds. If you love track and field you have to be honest about the role of drugs in our sport…and the role at every level?

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  • http://pacewheel.com/jjohnson.aspx Michael Pollard

    The link to the post is here: http://www.gambetta.com/blog.html

  • http://coachjayjohnson.com CoachJay

    Yikes. Links are now fixed. Hopefully I can coach better than I can type html

  • Rhymenocerous

    It didn't surprise me that McGwire trotted out the “drugs don't help you hit a baseball” line, but it would surprise me if he expected people to believe it.
    First of all, hGH improves your eyesight – which helps you hit a baseball.
    Secondly, yeah you've gotta make contact first but drugs are the difference between long fly balls and home runs.
    Tony La Russa has to be seen as the Trevor Graham of baseball, or whoever the Russian guy was that was responsible for Soboleva, et al.

    Fortunately Bob Ley saw through the facade and chose not to pander to McGwire (a la Tim Kurkjian), instead skewering him on 'Outside the Lines' and exposing the fact McGwire just has a bunch of prepared statements (“I wish I never played in the steroid era” – “The hardest day of my life” – “Just did it to stay healthy” etc.) that he'll repeat over and over, no matter how irrelevant they are to the question that was asked (“So you said you used drugs in 97, 98, and 99 – your most productive years. How can you say they didn't help your performance?”).

    What a crock.