Communication During the game.

You hear from across the field your coach yell at you and your teammates to talk to each other and why is is no one saying anything. Honestly, you and your teammates don’t understand what he means. You’ve tried talking to each other but someone takes a demand as rude and becomes mad at the person who was trying to get the team to work together.

In sports one of the MOST important elements and can often a game breaker is communication. Without it, games will not go as planned and it’s guaranteed they won’t. Yet, something I don’t understand is the coaches when it comes to communication, they continue to say what the athletes aren’t talking to each other but normally they aren’t even trying to see why they aren’t correctly communicating. If the coaches don’t even teach players how to communicate why are they sitting there yelling at them. If your players can’t communicate, teach them, sitting their just spitting out the same words has ZERO affect on communication. Coaches are one of the keys to a players success. If you aren’t teaching them every aspect of the game, then you aren’t doing enough and there’s no excuse for that. If you aren’t teaching your athletes to communicate then it’s your fault that they aren’t prospering during the game.

They best teams you’ll see is where the coaches do anything and everything it takes to make sure their players are prepared to be in a game situation. Even if it means just sitting down and talking about what the athletes feel they need to work. The best athletes aren’t just about the game. They are about learning plays, situations, and rules. If you can’t get your players to communicate even after talking about it them and seeing how they could better talk to each other, then change your strategy and keep changing it until it works. Because that’s what a good coach does.