It’s born in a place no one else can get to.

We like to think we have so much control. It is, simultaneously, a glorious and terrifying concept to grasp. As close as coaches are to the heartbeat, even they aren’t inside the veins. It’s not that coaches are irrelevant, it’s just that their jobs are external, to a certain extent. The life is breathed into the design by the people in the space.Ĭoaches get way too much credit when teams succeed and probably, likewise, a bit too much blame when they fail.

But the architectural plans only set the stage. At last, it progresses to the color design board- the way you hope it will look and feel to be a part of it.

Then the scope and the lay-out are determined by players’ skill sets and ability levels. You start with a rendering, the bare bones tenants on which your program stands and the way you believe the game should be played. Unfortunately, it’s hard to know the difference until you stand inside.Įvery year, a coach’s job is to build a team. Looking at a thing is not the same as looking from a thing. A shape you didn’t even know you didn’t understand until you stood there. Once you’re in, the pictures and the rhetoric have a form. You can look at pictures, stare at replica’s, read about Michelangelo’s process and genius, but it’s not the same as standing under the canopy.

Flat stanley pictures