My joy in coaching football and other sports was based in my joy of teaching. Seeing a young man "get it" and respond in the correct fashion was and is immensely satisfying.
My time coaching high school sports, specifically football, taught me that there was and is a great need for father figures. A large number of my students had fathers who were either absent physically, mentally, or spiritually. Many of these fathers were just as mature as many of the high school guys I taught and coached.
Many young men in our high schools are on the cusp of becoming men, and completely unsure of what it means to act, think, or behave as a grown man. Sports went a long ways in teaching many of these fatherless young men what it means to be responsible, to be committed, and to follow through with proper actions. However, my impression was that football took these things a step further and inspired young men to learn how to be warriors. Not violent, arrogant killers, but warriors in a chivalrous sense.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
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