They have to see that the values we talk about are real. Along the same line, one of the things that has really helped me professionally in dealing with frustrations and failures is that I've become a lot more concerned with the process than with the end result. There was a time not too long ago when if we didn't win X number of games, if we didn't win a championship, if we didn't advance so far in post-season play, I regarded the whole year as a failure, a personal failure. Then I learned that the way we went about our business was a lot more important than how many games we won. I get real discouraged, too, when I think about the end result and not the process.
Coaches often put pressure on themselves to change lives.
Really though, it's God that's going to do it. The New Testament also talks about the things that so many of our students face. Many times they don't realize that Christians realistically struggle with many of the same problems. I have been told before to never take a job you can't improve on. In a year, I'll take over as head coach of the Lady Bulldogs.