0-12: How To Deal With Losing

We embrace winners. It’s in our DNA. But the other side of winning is losing, and it can be a painful pill to digest when it happens so often. Perhaps that is no more evident than in coaching. But, inevitably, every coach will experience that pain at some point in his career. How a coach deals with the negative aspects that accompany losing is a matter of perspective and having faith in what he is doing will reap rewards in the face of adversity.

Bob Davie, the former coach at Notre Dame who now is a college football analyst for ESPN, recently spoke about the amount of stress that accompanies the job of being a head coach at the college level. One of his comments pretty much sums it up. “The lowest of lows are brutal. The highs are euphoric,” said Davie, who endured his share of adversity during his five-year tenure at Notr....The full article can only be seen by subscribers.
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