KarensCoaching-January 23, 2025 - Lesson i

THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 2025 - COACHING AND MENTORING Last Monday was the final game for college football (for the 2024 season), with Ohio State beating Notre Dame. This weekend is the championship for the American Conference and the National Conference of the National Football League - with the Super Bowl in two weeks. Some teams have fired the old coaches - hoping to get a better season and a better record. Of course, coaches don’t throw or run the ball; they don’t block and tackle - their players do that. So, why are they being fired? Sports are a zero-sum game. The number of wins for all teams and the number of losses are equal. In every game - there is a winning team and a losing team. (Some sports do allow for ties -but even then the number of wins in a season equal to the number of loses in a season - when all is considered. An adage - “An army of rabbits led by a lion will defeat an army of lions ...