Today at practice I noticed we were having some issues.The issues seem to be whether blacks are naturally faster and can get by with less effort. Well today I 'm going to address those issues by giving you some information quoted by an author named Malcom Gladwell. Who wrote an article called The Sports Taboo. I 'm also going to give you my input, with hopes of ending this argument and bringing unity to this team. Gladwell and his brother were from Canada, they were apart of the high school track team. Where the rule of running around there was if it was under a quarter mile it belonged to the West Indians. This didn’t mean white people didn’t sprint, just that they didn’t win often (109,110). He suggest that the anatomical and physiological
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How is that information going to help us? What does Gladwell 's story have to do with us? Well this is a story of a black man who believed he was faster and didn’t have to put in the effort to be so, but his two white friends had to put in the effort. He considered them equal to him because of the effort they put into being fast. He quit at the age of 16 and one of his white friends went on to have a distinguished running career in college (120). This information is important. As you guys argued at practice and day about why the blacks are faster you wasted a lot of time that you could have been training to get better. As a coach do you really think that I care who is faster? I 'm more concerned with who is the best player to put in that spot. Lets say Jamal over here is the fastest kid on the team but cant catch a ball. Do you think im going to start him as my receiver ? What about leveon over here, he is fast too, but if he cant hold onto the football do you think he will run the ball for me? This is a team sport, it takes all of you doing your job to make this team successful. Lets just say Jamal is the starting wide receiver and Steve is his back up. You both need to work just as hard at practice. I need both of you at the top of your game. what if Jamal got hurt and couldn’t play the rest of the game. This is where your hard work Steve will come in, you will be able to fill in and contribute to the
How is that information going to help us? What does Gladwell 's story have to do with us? Well this is a story of a black man who believed he was faster and didn’t have to put in the effort to be so, but his two white friends had to put in the effort. He considered them equal to him because of the effort they put into being fast. He quit at the age of 16 and one of his white friends went on to have a distinguished running career in college (120). This information is important. As you guys argued at practice and day about why the blacks are faster you wasted a lot of time that you could have been training to get better. As a coach do you really think that I care who is faster? I 'm more concerned with who is the best player to put in that spot. Lets say Jamal over here is the fastest kid on the team but cant catch a ball. Do you think im going to start him as my receiver ? What about leveon over here, he is fast too, but if he cant hold onto the football do you think he will run the ball for me? This is a team sport, it takes all of you doing your job to make this team successful. Lets just say Jamal is the starting wide receiver and Steve is his back up. You both need to work just as hard at practice. I need both of you at the top of your game. what if Jamal got hurt and couldn’t play the rest of the game. This is where your hard work Steve will come in, you will be able to fill in and contribute to the