Talk about a household full of sports and coaching strategies! Today's Boston Globe article (http://www.boston.com/sports/colleges/baseball/articles/2007/05/30/marriage_has_good_game_plan/) chronicles the life of a softball coach @ Tufts and a baseball coach @ Bryant Univ who are married to each other.

The stresses associated with coaching such as road trips, late practice times, pressure to win must be magnified in this household.

John Thomas, Assistant Director of Coaching Education for US Youth Soccer, posts a weekly blog on coaching and coaching ed issues for soccer coaches @ http://usyouthsoccer.blogspot.com/2007/05/jts-blog-california-norths-presidents.html

Several longtime high school sport coaches were recently fired or temporarily suspended due to their use of foul language in front of their athletes. According to the Bergen Record on May 12 (http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk2JmZnYmVsN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk3MTMyMTI3), the issue of profanity and verbal assault in high school athletics has sparked a debate as to what is unacceptable vulgarity and abuse; what is appropriate, time-tested motivation; and what is just understandable frustration.

It is clear to me that quality coaches do not swear or use foul language when communicating with their teams, parents, members of the media or school administrators. Vulgarity is not an option for leaders which sport coaches are.