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| Yes | 71% | 177 votes | Total: 248 votes | |
| No | 29% | 71 votes |
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A loose definition of a coach is someone who teaches, guides, criticizes and nurtures an athlete. The responsibility, whether coaching t-ball or the Indiana University basketbal...read more
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Any coach who feels that they are immune from criticism needs to wake up and smell the roses. This is real life. These days, sport is business and teams are reliant on adverti...read more
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RESUBMIT: Should coaches face criticism when a team loses? What a question! Coaches receive criticism on every play. In baseball; why didn't he bunt? Football; why didn't the...read more
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March Madness just ended. The Kansas Jayhawks and Tennessee Lady Vols won their Division I, national titles respectively. Coach Bill Self achieved his first. Coach Pat Summit...read more
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by Sean Curtis
A frequent subject of debate in the sports world is how much responsibility a coach should bear when his or her team loses. There's no denying that the coach is usually the scap...read more
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by Kevin Blum
Yes, I do believe coaches should take some criticism when their team loses; that's their job. It's a tough job, I know from experience, but it's still their job to produce a wi...read more
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by Bill Whitney
This is another one of those it all depends on the circumstances subjects that we all like to debate. I think that coaches get a lot of unfair criticism in a lot of cases when...read more
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by Dr.Liew
A coach is the mastermind behind a team's performance so naturally he or she should bear the responsibility if the team loses. I am not saying that he or she should be blamed 10...read more
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Criticism can be a very frustrating thing especially when it's given in a media conscious environment where everybody wants to look their best and is driven by material gains to...read more
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by Zach Bigalke
Major spectator sports in the United States and, indeed, around the globe are centered around teams of athletes competing with some variant of a ball and trying to score into a ...read more
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by lori W.
The ultimate measure of a coach's job performance is, of course, the ability of the team to win. Yes, a coach should face critisism and be prepared for that eventuality. That ...read more
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by Todd Pheifer
Whenever our beloved team loses, we always want to blame someone. We blame either the referee, or the player who made a mistake on that one play, or in some cases the coach or ...read more
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Of course coaches should be criticized for their team losing. It is called accountability. An occasional loss will not prompt much criticism. Nor will a loss because of some ...read more
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It seems obvious to me that all coaches come under criticism at some point in there careers no matter how good they are, but that is not the question is it. The question is, sho...read more
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Normally I try not to read articles on a topic before I write my own. This time, however, is different. I came across this topic while rating and since I have been on the team s...read more
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by Lisa Ricco
Should coaches face criticism when a team loses? If a coach calls in a play, and because of that one play, and only that one play, the team loses then yes, the coach should ...read more
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by Chad Morgan
In making the agument that coaches should be criticized when a team loses I am going to look at it a professional football team persepective. Obviously if you are talking about...read more
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If you loose a game, If it doesn't hurt, there's something wrong. Especially a football game. That goes for the team and the coach. All year, they work as hard as they can, and ...read more
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by TRL
There is no I in team. There seems to be an abundant amount of pressure on high school coaches and expectations of presenting a winning team each year. My son came home from pr...read more
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by Wilfred Cook
At first glance many unpaid sport critics will take their blame and place it upon the coach no matter what sport is involved. These arm chair coaches who more than likely never ...read more
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No, a coach should not be criticized when his or her team loses, but will a coach be criticized? Yes, every single time. The reason is you can't please everybody. When you're a ...read more
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by Raven Lebeau
If we're talking pro sports then, yes, by all means reprimand the coach for failing to please the customers. It's a business, and wins are the product. However, the job of...read more
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I think that it is ridiculous to blame a coach for a team's loss. The coach of a team has a job to do, as well as every player on the team has a job to do. A coach's role is to ...read more
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Amateur and professional coaches are driven by a different motivation. In the latter case it is a career choice. While the former could be an aspiring student of sport or a civi...read more
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