Motivation is a Big Factor:

PROPER MOTIVATION RESULTS IN MORALE:

I consider this the MOST IMPORTANT AREA IN BUILDING A FOOTBALL TEAM. You've got to have the MORALE (psychological approach) to just stay in the game and make a reasonable showing. You're not going to get a damned thing out of your kids if you don't control the mind first. You've got to get control of the mind first and the body second.

The dictionary definition of what the psychological approach meaning, or what morale is: “THE SCIENCE WHICH TREATS OF THE MIND IN ANY OF IT'S ASPECTS – THE TRAITS, FEELINGS, ACTIONS, AND ATTRIBUTES COLLECTIVELY OF THE MIND”. We discuss these things as a staff. We wanted to know what we could do to improve it. What we could do to control that boy's mind but make sure that we still had him completely on our side, to give everything that we had even though we weren't the equal of our opponents. Here, we felt if we controlled the mind, we could get the maximum out of that kid. How many times have we gone into football games with everything encompassed around COACHING and STRATEGY even though we are aware of this MORALE aspect? It's kind of like falling in love, it's natural (you don't know why it happens, but it does). BUT, I think as a coach you can control it.  We work very hard on this.

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