If a team doesn't perform, it's the coaches fault.

@pilbara (1436)
Australia
August 7, 2007 7:38pm CST
What do you think of this? Recently there have been a few high profile coaches sacked because of the performance of their teams. Most people agree that the teams were pretty lack lustre to start with. In a way this is the same mentality of a person who says if a child doesn't do well it is the teacher's fault. In both cases I understand that it is a combined effort, but I still believe that a persons performance is based more on their own efforts and if you are part of a team then the teams performance is more based on the individual and how that group of individuals acts as a team than it does on the coach, as long as that coach is putting in an effort themselves of course.
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• New Zealand
8 Aug 07
I too think that the performance of a team is a combination of the ability of the coach(-es) and players. I think it is unfair that often almost all the blame is on the coaches if a team under performs, and that if a team was the favourite to win X world cup, but lost after the first round, that it is the coach who gets blamed and probably fired, not the players.
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@pilbara (1436)
• Australia
8 Aug 07
Thanks for your reply. Exactly it is a team effort. However, i don't think even the best coach in the world could do much with a team if they aren't good to start with and don't want to apply themselves.