West Virginia head coach Wealthy Rodriguez has been within the teaching business a very long time.
And with that he’s seen loads of adjustments over time not solely with the sport however the gamers that he’s teaching. Up to now, Rodriguez may merely inform his gamers to run by means of a wall and they’d try this however it isn’t as simple of a promote in at the moment’s local weather.
“Now they’ll nonetheless do it, however they wish to know why? And in the event that they don’t give the appropriate reply they’ll say, effectively that isn’t what it says on Google proper right here,” Rodriguez stated on The Triple Possibility podcast. “The rattling guys are smarter than us.”
Immediately’s gamers are extra knowledgeable than ever which requires coaches to be ready to grasp and the right way to talk the why when doing something.
“You higher know why that is the why. And so, I’ll inform them, so that is the why,” he stated.
Now Rodriguez nonetheless coaches his workforce laborious, like he has over the course of his profession however there’s simply extra clarification wanted than up to now.
Nonetheless, even with these minor changes there is no such thing as a room for sacrificing what’s vital.
“I inform our coaches if there’s one play in apply or a recreation however in apply, particularly, as a result of that’s the place soccer groups get made, the place a man is loafing or he’s delicate and also you don’t say one thing while you see it instantly you’ve created an issue,” he stated.
And that correction have to be rapid with a purpose to drive house what Rodriguez needs out of his workforce.
“I say it after I see it. I say it, then it’s over with,” he stated.
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