Sentences with phrase «coach of the winning team»

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The «winningest coach in America» is Larry Gelwix, the former Head of the Highland High School rugby team.

We're hard - pressed to say which is best: Duke's Coach K (above, right), who has developed players for decades with a mixture of toughness and love — in the process becoming the winningest Division I men's college basketball coach in history and leading the U.S. Olympic men's basketball team to a pair of gold meCoach K (above, right), who has developed players for decades with a mixture of toughness and love — in the process becoming the winningest Division I men's college basketball coach in history and leading the U.S. Olympic men's basketball team to a pair of gold mecoach in history and leading the U.S. Olympic men's basketball team to a pair of gold medals?

Despite this — perhaps because of this — he led a spectacular CFL career, obliterating records, and winning Grey Cups with the Toronto Argonauts, as both a player and the team's head coach.

This approach of letting excuses come to mind has an antithesis: «We have enough to win» is a favorite phrase of Tom Thibodeau, the 2010 - 11 NBA Coach of the Year and expresses the fact that the team will find a way to win with what it has.

The article [from Harvard Business Review] is on Sir Alex Ferguson, the most winning coach of any soccer team in the world, and I was interested in reading about his success and management ethos.»

Games are play, for example, except for the coach of the team (usually) and perhaps for those who feel an overwhelming need to win.

Tom Carlin jumpstarted his culinary career in his hometown of Kansas City, Missouri by studying culinary arts at Johnson County Community College and coaching the school's award - winning culinary competition team.

Most ridiculous prediction: Mary picked Jared Bednar to win coach of the year for a team that finished with 48 points.

But last year against this team Robinson notched his 400th career win (no other coach has won as many games), and that was a piece of football history the Delta Devils had wanted no part of.

Most teams will be forced to expose a lot of high - priced players in the expansion draft — as baseball teams did in the major league expansion draft last year — and the Bottles and the Cakes, with decent coaching, should win some games early.

The fact that we're still in reasonably good shape in a brutal West with Kawhi missing basically the entire season is good evidence that 1) this team has some really good players, 2) LaMarcus is a beast, 3) Pop can coach like no one else, and 4) that your entire point is invalidated by our winning record despite not just Kawhi being out but the brutal string of injuries to LaMarcus, Rudy, Danny and others.

but, im ok with this vardy transfer... it shows us many things: 1) wenger is changing, something some of us have been demanding for a long time; 2) it shows that wenger is taking risks: think about it, he is buying a men for a not cheap price, knowing he could not getting anything after, with a future sell i mean... this is an act that shows wengers intentions to win something, the buy is not motivated by any financial or economic reason but only for a «get the f epl once again» reason... this is an act that shows us hungry, even if we fail, we could said we try... first ever, we really try; 3) finally but very important... vardy is the kind of player we need... he is a warrior, a fighter... he has character... look at how he celebrate his goals... full of energy... he, like alexis, can motivate the team when the things are not going in our way (something wenger cant do because of his age and because he has never been an active coach on the pitch)... the vardy transfer, if it finish well, is a demostration of a change, and a good one... lets take care of winning things and do nt look the economic side for once... vardy is a bit old, but we can give a chance to welbeck after maybe, or akpom... u are not thinking about the future when we talk about ibra... guys: u complain when wenger do nt spend or because he is always looking for the bargain when u are the guys who has to pay the very expensive tickets... u complain when wenger buy the always for the future guy... like morata... stop to complain for everything and be consequent with yourself... i would love auba, but it is not going to happen... lukaku is awesome but the asking price is stupid... lets try with vardy, give us the throphy..

For he can't seem to win a Coach of the Year award, his team doesn't get first - place status in a single weekly poll and his players aren't named to All - America teams.

I do think the next manager could be the catalyst for the def to get that leader needed and install some confidence in the teams ability to defend (by coaching them to defend) and I think some of them could win you over if given the time.

CLOVIS WEST KEYS TO VICTORY: Against top teams the Golden Eagles have been near or above their 74.1 points per game scoring average, and if they can score at least 70 points and play solid team ball with the kind of defense they have shown — except in the second game against Centennial - Las Vegas when they lost 70 - 46 at the MLK in Stockton — coach Craig Campbell and his girls should win again just like they did in a 70 - 67 overtime victory over Poly at the Nike TOC.

The coaching staff has decided to give personnel looks to the opposing offense to encourage running the ball against them and is willing to play the percentages of them being able to stop enough multiple play march down the field drives and be stingy enough about stopping touchdowns to allow this team to hold others to a low enough score to allow an average offensive showing by our offense to score enough points to win.

Four of the top five teams in the USA Today Coaches Poll remained the same in Sunday's latest edition, but there was some shuffling after the Kansas St. Wildcats and Notre Dame Fighting Irish won and the Florida Gators lost.

our overall quality is not doubted in all of Europe, (all clubs respect our teams quality many times pep (top coach) has praised our team) its our ability / mental strength, to overcome / win the biggest trophies, is what everyone else knocks us for we should readdress this problem next season and make our way to the top again.

The first step to be taken if any team wants to be a champion is to hire and maintain the service of a coach who knows what it takes to be a title winning coach.

I with all my heart felt Arsenal had the best team in years to win the league and then crap started to happen, Cazorla injury, players / manager - coach contract disputes, media spotlight on anything negative with arsenal, arsenal ridiculous board and fans adopting the negative attributes of the media and running with it.

And if we're in a win now kind of movement then why shouldn't we have a coach that is also ready instead of somebody that is still learning... and at this pace may it may take 10 years and 3 other teams before it clicks.

-- Buffalo coach Nate Oats on emptying his bench in the final minute of his team's win over Arizona

We can track where Izzo ranks among all tournament coaches in the 64 - team bracket era1 by comparing his actual wins to the number we'd expect of a team with the same seedings and pre-tournamentSimple Rating System (SRS) ratings.

I'm sure Rockets coach Kevin McHale is saying something nice and touching to Josh Smith, who was unceremoniously dumped by the Pistons and is understandably pumped about now being an integral part of a top team that just won a playoff series against one of its rivals.

The No. 23 Wildcats had all of those aspects come together late to beat Mississippi for a victory coach John Calipari suggested his young team had to win.

But whilst he is doing all things GOAT like, he's also saving his coach and owner a shed load of cash so that in theory they can round out the team with players that can help him to win.

Arizona State's Frank Kush produces winning teams every year by espousing the Lombardian theory of coaching — hit, sweat, fight, take a couple of laps up the side of a mountain and then whip somebody 66 - 7

Did Phil Jackson win with Kurt Rambis» team or did it take a better coach to get the most out of the players??

One of the first things new Head Coach Charlie Weis did was make sure his team knew how to celebrate a last second win.

Florida State coach Bobby Bowden, one of the game's most famous bridesmaids, has groomed a team that should finally win the national title

Gibbs started the Motocross / Supercross team in 2008 and his hot pursuit of Stewart shows just how committed and serious the three - time Cup champion owner and three - time Super Bowl winning coach is about the program.

There are several teams falling well below expectations already — the Buccaneers and Giants, most notably, and the Browns are still searching for their first win after earning one victory a year ago under Hue Jackson — and with a limited pool of coordinators and potential first - time head coaches emerging, Harbaugh will be in demand, according to sources with some front offices where a coaching change is expected.

At the end of each Super Bowl, the winning team gets to hoist the Lombardi Trophy, which is named after former Green Bay Packers head coach Vince Lombardi.

Each team is breaking in a first - year head coach who can wash the bad taste of a regular season - ending loss with a key bowl win.

But I'll keep coming back to the point I make about franchises that make changes regularly: Show me one with nine coaches in 17 years, a succession of would - be franchise architects, and no steady, winning quarterback, and I'll show you a team that never wins.

Does the team win or lose more games because of the coach.

Kurt Russell (above, left) as Herb Brooks, coach of the 1980 gold - medal - winning U.S. Olympic hockey team in Lake Placid, in the 2004 film Miracle.

Mississippi State has won outright or shared (with Kentucky in 1962) the Southeastern Conference championship three years in a row, but its splendid qualifications and Coach Babe McCarthy's frequent pleas never got the team into the NCAA tournament because of a Mississippi policy prohibiting athletic competition against Negroes.

I don't really blame any of those players at all, first mistake from Wenger was his team selection and secondly wrong players in a wrong position,, its quite sad with all their mouths and boasting of starting the season strongly and aiming for the league just a waste of energy and wishful thinking, am putting the whole blame on Wenger, where is Belerin, why Ozil, Cazorla played out of positions, you should know their weaknesses and strength as a coach, why must we pass and pass to score a goal, many opportunities came from shooting distance but the players will always be looking for the next person to pass the ball to, its quite unfortunate that a big club like arsenal is relying on a scrappy Giroud to lead an attack of a team aiming to win the league.

i have read that he is not scared to get rid of the coach of his teams if they are not performing to the winning goals they set so josh kronke on the board (if he gets enough support) could the king maker and breaker for wenger reign, he might just be what we need on the board someone who is more worried about how successful we should be also with wenger talking so openly about his successor and what he is leaving him behind, this is not very wenger like at all could be another indicator of things to come in the summer maybe we will have to see.

After Blankenship kicked the go - ahead field goal from 30 yards with 3:34 remaining in the Bulldogs» win at Notre Dame, Georgia coach Kirby Smart told his kicker to break some good news to the rest of the team.

SPECIAL (NE @ SEA)- What color will the Gatorade (or liquid) be that is dumped on the head coach of the winning Super Bowl team?

Monaco are currently sitting top of Ligue 2 and are set for a return to the French top flight this summer, but their ambitious owner wants his team to win the Uefa Champions League and for that to happen, he believes he needs the world's best coach.

Guess the atmosphere, style of play, stadium, fans, world class coach, and great team capable of winning hardware this season was too much for him to comprehend at once.

Following Dayton's win over Syracuse in the round of 32, Morgan Miller, the wife of Dayton's head coach, Archie Miller, was shown reacting to her husband team's upset.

These players were in a team coached by THE most successful side (s) in British Football History.Their Manager DEMANDED and EXPECTED nothing less than TOTAL SUCESS.His players had drummed into them that nothing but winning would be acceptable.It was common to hear of all Manure players taking control of their team and with this brought years of domination of the EPL and contention in the CL on a regular basis.

The only thing the so called modern age knows about Wenger and arsenal is a team and a coach who crumble at the slightest of pressures and a team that has not won a major title for 12 years....

Mind you, I don't support wenger or any coach, I am a fan of Arsenal and I want Arsenal to win irrespective of anyone managing the team.

Coach Louis Landrum's team, in its second year of varsity competition, had won four of 10 games and qualified for the Louisiana state playoffs against powerhouse Evangel Christian of Shreveport.

The claim that what we saw was us not turning up is as pathetic and utterly unacceptable an excuse to use because we've been down this road before, WEEKS were spent hyping Arsenal up, players, fans and coaching staff alike spent weeks in advance talking about our real chances winning the league, our players back from injury and on the first game of the season, where we had renewed optimism and were swelling with expectation we cracked under the pressure to a team you expect to finish no higher than 8th.