That shows you how paranoid I am that somebody's going to steal my wisdom. I mean, really, when I look down our schedule, I'm not arrogant enough to think I'm going to outcoach somebody. Others achieve a similar effect through scaled-down flash cards, study of videotape and continuous repetition in practice. We like to place them in a classroom setting and we'll give pop quizzes to make sure everybody knows their assignments. There's more stuff in there than I expect any teen-age kid to remember,'' he said.
Coaches can get way ahead of themselves sometimes.
They say you only know as much as your kids do. It doesn't do us coaches any good to come up with all these brilliant ideas if the kids can't remember them. Coach Eric Tudor said only he possesses the complete Dublin Coffman playbook. His assistants receive abridged versions. Years ago, I used to give them out to the kids, but I determined through the years that they really don't know how to read them, anyway,'' he said.