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Creating a culture of values that will promote sustained excellence in competitive football
Citation
Brunner, David.. (2009). Creating a culture of values that will promote sustained excellence in competitive football. Theses and Dissertations Collection, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections. https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/etd/items/etd_392.html
- Title:
- Creating a culture of values that will promote sustained excellence in competitive football
- Author:
- Brunner, David.
- Date:
- 2009
- Keywords:
- Coaching (Athletics)--Moral and ethical aspects Football coaches--Interviews
- Program:
- Education
- Abstract:
- Coaches in highly competitive football programs at the collegiate level are often under immense pressure to produce winning programs for the institutions that they represent. Further, the expectation that winning will occur quickly is continually increasing, making the organizational and cultural decisions that the coach must make more critical in nature from the outset of his tenure. Consequently, often coaches in programs of this nature will look for the "quick fix", seeking to develop the on the field skills that will promote performance while ignoring the development of the off the field skills that will promote long term moral growth in the participant.;It is the contention of this document that by seeking long term moral growth in the participants, the coach will enhance the opportunity for a culture to develop and sustain excellence. This study examined the perspectives of ten practicing Head Coaches in college football; nine of whom coach at the Division I level. Their perspectives regarding competition, belief systems and missions, and mental toughness were solicited. Their responses were compared and contrasted with the theoretical frameworks that exist in the literature on the aforementioned topics. A working model of how an idealistic perspective as a theoretical framework might be practically applied to assist coaches is presented in the concluding chapter. This is done with the intent of transforming the virtue oriented perspectives that practicing coaches might well possess; however, are unable to actualize.
- Description:
- Thesis (Ph. D., Education)--University of Idaho, May 2009.
- Major Professor:
- Sharon Kay Stoll.
- Defense Date:
- May 2009.
- Type:
- Text
- Format Original:
- viii, 139 leaves :ill. ;29 cm.
- Format:
- record
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