Standards of Competence LO10427

Michael McMaster (Michael@kbddean.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 10 Oct 1996 20:50:13 +0000

Replying to LO10394 --

John raises some points about coaching that strike a chord with me.
First, I'm clear not only that you don't have to have been a player let
alone a star to be a great coach. The coach that created state
championship basketball teams for a number of years in a row - which I was
fortunate to play on - never played basketball.

The standards against which a coach measures are the coach's own. Of
course! Who's else could they be? Certainly not "objective" ones. (At
least not any coach I'd hire or play for.)

The standards against which a coach is measured, however, are a lot
clearer. Winning! Turning teams with losing records into teams with
winning records. This is the kind of "objective" standard that I like.
Surely in the end, it's a measure against a market or socially mediated
standard.

>if there is to be any element of "fairness" in the standards.

In the matter of producing results, I don't think there is a matter of
"fairness". There are matters of results, of reality, of measureable
improvement.

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