Now, I probably don't know much about the college level. I've only coached a few kids who have been there, and I personally never got any college mat time. My teams are not in the top ten in the state, and perhaps that is due to my coaching ability. That being said, I am a head coach and a former wrestler who won several matches on guts when I was clearly outclassed. Ike said, "I think the biggest factor of all is motivation though." Sometimes, you gotta throw em a bone. Do I think my teams performance last weekend met our potential? Absolutely not. Do I think it was our best performance of the year. From a technique perspective, yes. Several of our young kids were working exactly what we've been practicing, and the returners looked much sharper than our previous outing. So you say something like Coach Stovall said. However, when you get back in the room you tell them from the standpoint of utilizing the new technique we're trying to implement, this was a great weekend BUT in now way was our team placement acceptable. You just don't want to blast them in the media. What happens in the room stays there and is much easier to deal with because you don't have the eyes of an entire community now looking down on you because of a lack luster performance. I would imagine Stovall didn't let them believe that they fulfilled his expectations this weekend, but they did show improvement. I can't speak for the man, but that's my two cents worth.
