Players Are Not Allowed To Respond To Criticism

We didn't have a lot of chatter in practice either.  It was a learning session.  If I criticized an act, the player wasn't allowed to respond.  He would have spent the time trying to convince me that he wasn't wrong.  "That might work with your parents," I'd say, "but not with your coach."  I told the players, "I will be in my office after practice.  If anybody doesn't understand something we did today, com on by." 

In my years as head coach, maybe three or four players took me up on it.

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