DON MEYER: "You feel important when you're coaching your team. Put a shell around them and protect them."No question that coaches understand what this means. It's yet another reason we all continue to pray for a speedy recovery for coach. His team needs him, no doubt -- but he needs his team as well.
Protect them does not mean shelter them. It means to teach them. Expose them to those things that will not only make them better players but better people. And expose them with your giudeance. Coaches are like training wells on a bike for young players. As they advance, if we have taught them properly, the training wheels can be removed and they will be able to enjoy a nice ride -- even if there is an occasional bump in the road.
