{"id":7116,"date":"2024-05-20T09:20:32","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T13:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=7116"},"modified":"2024-05-20T09:20:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T13:20:34","slug":"who-to-trust-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2024\/05\/20\/who-to-trust-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Who to Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><em>So this one isn\u2019t about politics.&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s the championship season in high school track and field.&nbsp;&nbsp;I\u2019m a literal bystander now, the official calling \u201cmake or miss\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;But I see what\u2019s going on, and high school sports are changing, not always for the good.&nbsp;&nbsp;And there\u2019s a larger story here about education, and the twenty-first century.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Forty Years<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">I was a public school track coach for forty years.&nbsp;&nbsp;For many of those years we had big teams, with sixty or more boys vying to get onto the \u201cvarsity\u201d squad.&nbsp;&nbsp;I didn\u2019t \u201ccut\u201d kids from the track team, mostly because I saw the changes that impacted boys from a fourteen year-old freshman to an eighteen year-old senior.&nbsp;&nbsp;The kid that \u201cdidn\u2019t have a prayer\u201d of making varsity as a freshman, might be a State Qualifier three years later.&nbsp;&nbsp;It was worth the wait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">I did my best as the Head Coach, to get the most qualified assistants I could find.&nbsp;&nbsp;But my primary criteria for hiring wasn\u2019t necessarily technical knowledge.&nbsp;&nbsp;The most important factor was how did the candidate work with kids.&nbsp;&nbsp;Was he or she, a positive role model, the kind of coach that inspired as well as instructed.&nbsp;&nbsp;I could teach an assistant \u201ctechnique\u201d but I couldn\u2019t make an assistant inspirational.&nbsp;&nbsp;As time went on, I found that the great assistants not only learned the \u201cnuts and bolts\u201d of their events, but were able to get their athletes to achieve far beyond what they thought possible.&nbsp;&nbsp;Many of them are still doing so today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Negotiations<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Athletics has changed in the past couple of decades.&nbsp;&nbsp;Not to be too cynical, but parents are willing to \u201cbuy\u201d improvement for their kids.&nbsp;&nbsp;I guess it one way they show they care and support their child, by putting their \u201cmoney where their mouth is\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;So \u201cprivate club\u201d coaches are more and more a part of high school track and field.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And since parents are paying a lot for their services (as much as $500 a month), that coach has a great deal of influence on what the parents, and the athlete, will do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The axiom, \u201cYou get what you pay for,\u201d still sounds true in the mid-twenty-first century. So, that $500\/month coach must know more than that \u201cfree coach\u201d at the school, I guess.&nbsp;&nbsp;As I watch my friends coach teams today, I realize that public school coaching is no longer just going out and \u201cteaching\u201d track.&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s also a series of negotiations, with the athlete, with the parent, and with the \u201cclub coach\u201d \u2013 the one that has to justify the parents\u2019 huge expense.&nbsp;&nbsp;The \u201cmy way or the highway\u201d head track coach of my day probably can\u2019t get away with that any more.&nbsp;&nbsp;The parents, the Administrators of the public school, the kids, won\u2019t go for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Championship Season<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">One close friend has coached state and national contenders.&nbsp;&nbsp;She\u2019s highly educated in her events, as well as being a former highly skilled collegiate competitor herself.&nbsp;&nbsp;And, in her own way, she inspires athletes to try new techniques and events that leads to even greater success.&nbsp;&nbsp;But she\u2019s a woman in a \u201cman\u2019s world\u201d in track and field, the \u201cweight\u201d events, shot-put and discus, (and hammer and javelin).&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">In the final weeks of high school track, the best compete in a series of meets to get to the culmination of the season, the State Championship.&nbsp;&nbsp;Unlike other sports, there aren\u2019t usually fences and security personnel keeping spectators far away from the competitors, especially in the throws.&nbsp;&nbsp;Parents, teammates, friends and just spectators have the same access to the athlete as coaches do.&nbsp;&nbsp;And since \u201cclub coaches\u201d want to coach \u201cthe best\u201d (success breeds success breeds, more kids at $500\/month), some see these competitions as recruiting opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Don\u2019t get me wrong, it\u2019s not all club coaches.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Many are very ethical, taking kids (and parents) that come to them, and staying out of the way of the school coaches.&nbsp;&nbsp;There were a couple of years when I had both roles, a school coach and a club coach. I worked hard at&nbsp;&nbsp;knowing my place, and being an ethical coach.&nbsp;&nbsp;But there are some that give the whole group a bad name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chicken Hawk<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">They try to \u201cchicken hawk\u201d athletes, right in the middle of competition.&nbsp;&nbsp;As a kid tries to focus on getting their best effort, listening to the coach \u201cthat brung \u2018em\u201d, all of a sudden there\u2019s another voice pitching their abilities and making suggestions.&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s all about sales, and it tells a lot about what kind of coach the \u201chawk\u201d is.&nbsp;&nbsp;Maybe they know about the technical event, maybe they took other athletes to higher success.&nbsp;&nbsp;But the kind of coach I want to hire, the kind that inspires kids as well as technically coaching them \u2013 that kind of coach would never interfere in competition, never take that most delicate moment and try to interpose their sales pitch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">And in the throws, a definite \u201cmale bastion\u201d of track and field, there is a \u201chawk\u201d, who has no ethical problem interfering with a highly qualified, highly successful coach who happens to be a woman.&nbsp;&nbsp;Sure it\u2019s unethical.&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s also something that wouldn\u2019t go on in other sports.&nbsp;&nbsp;No one comes out of the stands at the basketball game, or onto the sidelines at the football game, and calls another play.&nbsp;&nbsp;But in track and field, it happened.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Preparation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">I had the privilege of coaching my team\u2019s pole vaulters for decades.&nbsp;&nbsp;We developed a whole pole vault \u201cculture\u201d and had tremendous success.&nbsp;&nbsp;One of the issues we actually had to deal with was other pole vault coaches \u201ckibitzing\u201d in, making suggestions to my athletes in the middle of the competition.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;They weren\u2019t trying to steal my kids, or sign them to their \u201cclub\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;A lot of&nbsp;&nbsp;the time, they really just wanted to help, to be a part of the success.&nbsp;&nbsp;I prepped my kids for it \u2013 be polite, nod affirmatively, then walk away.&nbsp;&nbsp;It wasn\u2019t that \u201cwe were right and they were wrong\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s that our \u201cprocess\u201d included making corrections, and we usually were right.&nbsp;&nbsp;Other folks didn\u2019t know our \u201cprocess\u201d, and might literally be fixing the wrong thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Of course, my friend has established rapport with her increasingly successful student.\u00a0\u00a0He knows who to listen to in a meet.\u00a0\u00a0But the focus required for maximum athletic performance is  fragile, and easily disrupted.\u00a0\u00a0The \u201cchicken hawk\u201d is just one more factor to \u201cprepare\u201d for.\u00a0\u00a0It shouldn\u2019t be.\u00a0\u00a0She shouldn\u2019t have to make that part of her \u201cregional prep\u201d, the last meet before the State Finals.\u00a0\u00a0But in \u201cmodern\u201d track and field, it\u2019s just another cost of success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this one isn\u2019t about politics.&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s the championship season in high school track and field.&nbsp;&nbsp;I\u2019m a literal bystander now, the official calling \u201cmake or miss\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;But I see what\u2019s going on, and high school sports are changing, not always for the good.&nbsp;&nbsp;And there\u2019s a larger story here about education, and the twenty-first century. Forty Years I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2024\/05\/20\/who-to-trust-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Who to Trust&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Who to Trust : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2024\/05\/20\/who-to-trust-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Who to Trust : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"So this one isn\u2019t about politics.&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s the championship season in high school track and field.&nbsp;&nbsp;I\u2019m a literal bystander now, the official calling \u201cmake or miss\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;But I see what\u2019s going on, and high school sports are changing, not always for the good.&nbsp;&nbsp;And there\u2019s a larger story here about education, and the twenty-first century. 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