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The 4th ND Season: Make or Break!
You’ve all heard that stat coming into this last season.
Charlie seems to have gotten a bit of a reprieve from his judgement though.
What is it that Charlie needs, or does not have, that all the great ND coaches with winning records exhibited?
IMHO it is heart!
Let me explain…
The 2007 or third ND coaching season has arrived, the unlenting pressure to win, so extreme, has taken its toll and the lucky charms have long since worn off.
I believe an intangible factor that came to weigh heavily and unrelentlingly on our ‘07 ND team was the fear of losing and the crippling anxiety it bred.
Surely Charlie, and every talented and losing coach in ND history, would recognize this 'unmentionable thing'. In point of fact sports psychology is increasingly part of most major program budgets in order to effectively resolve this question. ND?
So it has been said that “you have nothing to fear but fear itself.” Why is that?
Anxiety is that normal companion on the battlefield or on the playfield (as the locker room) that if left unchecked over long periods of time will inevitably produce an invisible and contagious poison that can silently overwhelm and cripple the human spirit.
(This may very well be the reason why our team could perform as such wimps, far beneath their conditioning and motivational level, as clinical studies of the effects of extreme stress actually do show.)
But just as fear and anxiety can cripple, so heart and courage can transform both the human body and spirit into accomplishing heroic feats of physical strength and motivational power. Consider the strength/motivation of a small Rudy or Anello.
So I believe the great ND coaches of our famed history came to rise up against this insidious little monster called anxiety as it surely had weighed over their coaching programs. The great ones went on to transform this fear, first excorcising it from within themselves and then their teams, making them into powerhouses of victory and football excellence.
Can Charlie do this?
I pray that if not I hope he canget out of the way (like we saw at the Honolulu Bowl) and select gifted assistants with such qualities of leadership that will enable them and the players to do just that.
You’ve all heard that stat coming into this last season.
Charlie seems to have gotten a bit of a reprieve from his judgement though.
What is it that Charlie needs, or does not have, that all the great ND coaches with winning records exhibited?
IMHO it is heart!
Let me explain…
The 2007 or third ND coaching season has arrived, the unlenting pressure to win, so extreme, has taken its toll and the lucky charms have long since worn off.
I believe an intangible factor that came to weigh heavily and unrelentlingly on our ‘07 ND team was the fear of losing and the crippling anxiety it bred.
Surely Charlie, and every talented and losing coach in ND history, would recognize this 'unmentionable thing'. In point of fact sports psychology is increasingly part of most major program budgets in order to effectively resolve this question. ND?
So it has been said that “you have nothing to fear but fear itself.” Why is that?
Anxiety is that normal companion on the battlefield or on the playfield (as the locker room) that if left unchecked over long periods of time will inevitably produce an invisible and contagious poison that can silently overwhelm and cripple the human spirit.
(This may very well be the reason why our team could perform as such wimps, far beneath their conditioning and motivational level, as clinical studies of the effects of extreme stress actually do show.)
But just as fear and anxiety can cripple, so heart and courage can transform both the human body and spirit into accomplishing heroic feats of physical strength and motivational power. Consider the strength/motivation of a small Rudy or Anello.
So I believe the great ND coaches of our famed history came to rise up against this insidious little monster called anxiety as it surely had weighed over their coaching programs. The great ones went on to transform this fear, first excorcising it from within themselves and then their teams, making them into powerhouses of victory and football excellence.
Can Charlie do this?
I pray that if not I hope he canget out of the way (like we saw at the Honolulu Bowl) and select gifted assistants with such qualities of leadership that will enable them and the players to do just that.
