Keeping Score

Relationships

by Gene | March 6, 2009

Now, looking at the title, you may think I’m going to go into dating relationships, but thats not what I’m going to talk about in this blog, maybe later haha.

No, This post is going to get into a piece of great advice Pete gave me once. “There aren’t a lot of good people you come across, so build relationships with people who care.”

This advice is great to follow because good people are hard to come across. I have met people in the coaching profession who I want to continue build relationships with. Three of them, I work with currently. Coach McMillin, Coach Hayes, and Coach Crislip have been nothing but great to me. They have shown me some of the early ropes in coaching, and have trusted me in many tasks, such as cutting film, meeting teams that come to use the gym for practice, being a liason from the other managers to the coaching staff, and even helping with drills. 

This past summer, I met numerous coaches who I have stayed in touch with who I enjoyed working alongside and hope I get the opportunity to do so again in the future.  Josh Postorino and Mike Morrell at Clemson, Scott Robinson and Brian Settle at Memphis, Jordan Watson at Barton County Community College in Kansas, and of course Pete Gash at Indiana. I know that all of them will be bright stars in the coaching community.

Gene