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Cake day: October 25th, 2023

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  • Twofold. First, coaching isn’t something you can just casually walk into. It takes years and years of study and practice and getting the little things right before being able to take that to the next stages. Every year spent staying on top of the game as a player and athlete is a year not spent learning personel management and how to draw up plays.

    Second, top end athletes tend to not understand the limitations other players might have. Michael Jordan and Wayne Gretzky are prime examples of GOATs who can’t coach or teach or lead, because “just draw a double+ team and slide the puck between the defenders right onto the tape for a one timer” is a strategy that only works for the elite of the elite.

    Third, there’s a necessary component of hunger that is needed to truely grind your way up. Someone who has made millions of dollars and racked up accolade after accolade may think starting from the bottom is “beneath me”. Not to harp too hard on Deion Sanders, but he’s a good example of this. He did good-not-great at Jackson State, won by recruiting more talent than others but would lose big games against better coached teams, and then the first P5 coaching offer he received he jumped ship because coaching in the lower leagues wasn’t prestigious enough. He didn’t learn the fundamentals of coaching and assumed he would be successful anywhere, because he’s been successful anywhere as a player.

    Most coaches are players in the sport that they coach in, but very few are successful. Tom Izzo and Coach K played basketball, but once their limitations were reached they managed to use what they learned overcoming limitations to teach better players how to overcome limitations.