Everyone Think's They Can Be Champs

Summer practice is the time when every player regardless of sport thinks that they can win the state championship.

Coaches depending on the number of years they have coached are selling be the best you can be. Most know their weaknesses and will do everything they can to cover them up. Their job this time of year is have their players prepared.

Confidence will come the more the players preforms and the more success they have doing it. Winning sometimes escalates the confidence and losing slows it down.

Every team is 0-0 right now. In every game there is a winner on the scoreboard and a loser. Individually each players level depends on how they did their job. Players know if they played well or not. How each player preforms together is where the winning and losing separates itself.

If there is one aspect of sports especially for a high school player that is difficult to watch is injuries. Unlike college there is no red shirt rule. Sit out this year with an injury and play next year to make it up. No, a high school player only gets the games on the schedule. If he misses one game or all the games they are gone foreever.

There is nothing sadder than to say, look at what he could have done if he hadn't had those injuries. This is the reason for those hot practices. Learn the plays, get in shape. to be able to compete.

Good luck to all to stay injury free. It is a big factor in winning.

Put this down on your calendar for Sunday night. "Stretchlon Sports Show" live this Sunday. The Tar heel State Champs. The Rocky Mount all stars will be live in studio with me from 8.00 pm until 9.30. Watch the next batch of high school stars that will be on your team in 2012,2013 and 2014.

High school coaches get a lot of credit for winning championships. Those championships are developed in recreational ball.

The biggest problem with recreational sports is fathers and mothers are there because their child is there. Some coach because there is no one else to do it. They move on when their child moves on.

Sunday night I will get a chance to talk to two of those coaches that have didicated themselves to the youth of the Rocky Mount area. Sam Toler and Norman Chambliss. When I moved to Rocky Mount in 1995 one of the first names I heard was Sam Toler. My Son Brooks played for Norman. Both are what I wish every coach was.

Teachers of the game, why because they love it and want others to love it to.