Reply to thread

Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 2238316, member: 199"] If I were taking something from Uconn to TN I would have chosen the Marine boot camp that they have been running the last five or so years. I don't have a problem with the sports psychologists concept, but I just don't think it is a great team building process - putting people into physical and mental stress and making them have to rely on teammates is more real life and creates both self reliance and reliance on others that is deeper than friendship and 'better communication'. It strikes me that from the outside looking at the product on the floor, that kind of boot camp is more of what TN needs. On the returning seniors - Nared is the one who impresses me. With less skill and fewer physical attributes than the others she showed to be more consistent and dogged in her game - I consider the other two to be underachievers compared to her overachieving. I don't really see this new approach as being in the mold of CD - yes Geno and CD stress communication and CD has rules to limit use of electronics in public situations, but the process of team building and the psychology of winning is an integral part of the day to day coaching of the team, and (a big advantage) integral to the way the program gets handed down from one group of upper classmen to the next. [/QUOTE]