By Thursday night, write a paragraph using most of the material.
1. Start by deciding on a topic sentence, which should state an argumentative point that allows you to use most of the material.
2. Remember, you are developing your own main idea and the arguments that support it. Don't just paraphrase or quote the authors' ideas.
3. Integrate the source material into the structure of your own arguments. Use a source as evidence after you have developed a given argument. In other words, downshift.
4. You'll also have to decide what not to use. One or more of the passages is/are clearly inappropriate to use. We'll have to make some difficult decisions when we discuss your paragraphs in class on Friday.
Recruiting is the key to success of any college athletics program. Recently, athletic directors have realized that the coaches need to be better recruiters than anything else. As Kenneth Denlinger, author of For the Glory, put it, “It is an athletic maxim that a man with no special coaching skills can win games if he recruits well and a tactician without talented players is a man soon without a job.” Coaches are becoming more aware of the importance of recruiting as well, “you don’t out-coach people,” Paul “Bear” Bryant of the University of Alabama said, “You out recruit them.” In the long run, Steve Sloan of Texas Tech says, coaches must acknowledge the importance of recruiting, or deal with fiery alumni. He continues, “Recruiting is the crux of building a championship football team.”
ReplyDeleteRecruiting is the most important task that a coach at the college level must perform. The players play the game, not the coaches, so the quality of players and the ability of a coach to recruit quality players is important. A coach “with no special coaching skills can win games if he recruits well” (Denlinger). A coach is the person responsible for building a winning team and a winning team is made of the best players. In order for any coach of any coaching skills to win games, he/ she must be able to put the best team on the field or court. The best team is made of good players, so a coach must be able to recruit the good players. According to Paul “Bear” Bryant, to win games, “you don’t out-coach people, you out-recruit them.” The best coach in the world will lose games if he/ she is not able to recruit players to coach and to play the game.
ReplyDeleteIn order to have a successful college team, coaches must wisely recruit players. A team is nothing without the best players, and an outstanding coach realizes they must bring in those athletes. Kenneth Denlinger believes that “a man with no special coaching skills can win games if he recruits well” because the players are the foundation of the team. Without at least decent players, a team will fail. Therefore, it is the coach’s main job to recruit players that can bring success. To win, “you don’t out-coach people, you out-recruit them” (Bryant) so the players are better and able to beat all others. Every coach must recognize that recruiting is the first step to building a winning team (Sloan), and without doing so a team a team will never win.
ReplyDeleteRecruiting has always played a dominant role in terms of college sports but recent recruiting violations by college coaches has brought to light the need for more recruiting regulations. There have always been enormous amounts of pressure on coaches to recruit the top performers out of high school and as Jim Calhoun, head men’s basketball coach at the University of Connecticut, just found out there can also be a downside to recruiting if you get caught for committing violations. Recruiting in college sports is a necessity but when a mistake is made if effects everyone involved. Dale Brown, Louisiana State University’s men’s head basketball coach from 1972-1997, points out “Athletics is creating a monster. Recruiting is getting cancerous.” College recruiting plays a major aspect in all sports and when a program gets the top athletes the coach’s job becomes much easier. With talent comes wins and as Paul “Bear” Bryant, head football coach at the University of Alabama from 1958-1982, states
ReplyDelete“You don’t out-coach people, you out- recruit them.” The pressure to recruit top athletes has caused some coaches to take drastic measures in order to win games. However, committing recruiting violations is something the NCAA shouldn’t tolerate and therefore more recruiting regulations should be put into place.
Pressures placed on recruiting in football have become an issue for coaches. Many coaches are not seen for their skills in directing players anymore. Instead, they are seen only for how many talented players they can get their hands on in a year. As Paul “Bear” Bryant from the University of Alabama explains, “You don’t out-coach people, you out-recruit them.” Furthermore, if coaches choose not to enter the fight for the highest quality players, they may be faced with continued failure. Steve Sloan from Texas Tech acknowledges this principle and expresses that recruiting is an essential key in order to have a football team that can win championships. Recruiting is hurting the integrity of the coaches and making the game of football based completely on whom the coaches can hire, not their tactics or knowledge of the game. According to Dale Brown from Louisiana State University, “Athletics is creating a monster. Recruiting is getting to be cancerous.”
ReplyDeleteIn the college athletics industry, recruitment brings competition to a whole new level. By giving the coaches the ability to pick the finest and fittest for their teams they are able to therefore compete at a higher level by simply bribing players on board. With no real talent, coaches with no real skills of their own are able to win games by recruiting those they can use to dominate whatever playing field they manipulate (Denlinger). Others oppose the use of recruitment and how it has become a terrible manipulation of the potential college athletes. Dale Brown, of Louisiana State University, states “Athletics is creating a monster. Recruiting is getting to be cancerous.” Coaches and alumni are discovering the awful use of recruitment and are now fighting to ban it, even though it is used to create competition and dominance in most athletic fields.
ReplyDeleteRecruiting is the key to creating a winning athletic team. Coaches use innovative recruiting methods to attract the best players and create a winning team. As the famous football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant said, "You don't out-coach people, you out-recruit them." Recruiters often try to find the biggest, fastest, tallest or most talentad athlets. For instance, if one team is average with normal players and a good coach, while another is full of super-human creators with a medicore coach, it is more likely that the team with "better" players will win. They can easily muscle their way to the top. Therefore, it becomes essential that a coach learn to recruit well (Sloan). any coach who wishes to keep his job quickly discovers that the key to winning is through recruiting the best players possible.
ReplyDeleteSports coaches in every field must realize this— no matter how professionally competent they maybe, recruiting (good athletes) plays a crucial role in creating a successful team. In fact, as Texas Tech football coach Steve Sloan puts it, “[recruiting] is the crux of building a championship football team.” J. Robert Evans says that the practice occurs “in varying degrees” in every college sport. Though he seems neutral on the issue, he points out that even the Houston golf dynasty and South California University (which brought in sprinters from Jamaica) depend upon recruiting to better their teams.
ReplyDeleteThe main opposition against recruiting is that it cripples college athletics. Dale Brown of Louisiana State University even calls the practice “cancerous.” However this is not true. According to the Carnegie Foundation in 1929, the main causes adversely affecting college athletics are excessive commercialism and “negligent attitude[s]” towards college academics. Reports made in Collier’s magazine (1905) confirm the above claims—All-American quarterback Walter Exercise enrolled at Chicago University “three credits short of the entrance requirement.” Moreover, the University of Minnesota paid an astronomical sum to two players for playing against Nebraska in a single game. The above arguments point to commercialism and academic negligence as the root negative causes of college athletic problems. Recruiting, contrary to certain beliefs, is actually benefiting college sports.
The recruiting process is the most important aspect of constructing a good collegiate team. Therefore, it is the coach’s responsibility to find quality players, as their reputation and careers are dependent on their team’s performance. As famous football player and coach Steve Sloan said, “Every coach must recognize this basic principle, or face the alumni firing squad. Recruiting is the crux of building a championship football team. Consequently, a coach should posses the skill to ingeniously acquire desired players and keep such players or suffer the consequnces. As a result, the fight to present quality players becomes an arrogant and desperate mission, one in which amplies the sinister and aggressive characteristics in a coach. Furthermore, many coach’s have learnt that the aim is not to have the best coaching style but to have a good recruiting tactic (Bryant).
ReplyDeleteA successful collegiate sports team depends on one thing, recruiting. Consequently, coaches must realize the significance of there recruiting process. Paul "Bear" Bryant, a legend at the University of Alabama and a previous record holder for winningest coach in collegiate football, emphasizes the significance of recruiting, "You don't out-coach people, you out-recruit them." Furthermore, a college may have the best coach there is in a given sport, but without talented athletes there is no success. Kenneth Delinger, author of For the Glory, explains that "a tactician [coach] without talented players is a man soon without a job." Therefore, a talented coach that has recruited talented players makes a talented team.
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ReplyDeleteEver since the beginning of collegiate sports, creating an ultimate team is the main goal. To assemble this ideal brigade, coaches search and recruit individuals with raw talent from all over the globe. Besides the fact that this wanted athlete will have the satisfaction of playing on a college team, some universities will add incentives to ensure a students commitment, but will abstain from looking into academic status. As a result, some students will be given substantial financial aid, even full rides, to enroll in a college to play a sport and to further their athletic, not academic, career. Accordingly, "the fundamental causes of the defects in American college athletics are too much commercialism and a negligent attitude towards the educational opportunity for which the college exists" (Carnegie Foundation, 1929). If coaches wish to have a dream team, they should distribute the search for both athletically and academically savvy members, that way individuals will receive a college education they can handle, along with enriching a team with their talent
ReplyDelete“You don’t out-coach people, you out-recruit them.” stated Paul “Bear” Bryant. Without a doubt Bryant is correct. A coach has the ability to spot talent in the players that they recruit, which are ultimately going to be playing on the field. If a player does not have the skills that the coach requires, then the player will not be able to produce on the field. A player that knows the game well has instinct that no coach can instill Kenneth Denlinger insists, “It is an athletic maxim that a man with no special coaching skills can win games if he recruits well and that a tactician without talented players is a man soon without a job.” A coach cannot win a game without players that know the game.
ReplyDeleteRecruiting is one of many important aspects to coaching any sport at the college level. It gives the coach a chance to build a balanced, winning team, and Steve Sloan from Texas Tech refered to “Recruiting [as] the crux of building a championship football team”. People from all over the country are competing for spots, and the coach can choose the players with the best strengths to contribute to the team. For every intercollegiate sport there is a certain level of recruiting (Evans). Overall, recruiting is not a negative thing, but some coaches use any means in order to get the players they want. Joseph Durso from Collier’s magazine reported that, “Walter Eckersall, All-American quarterback, enrolled at Chicago three credits short of the entrance requirement and his teammate, Leo Detray, entered the school before he even graduated high school”. It is unfortunate that coaches ignore the many qualified and talented athletes that deserve to have those positions.
ReplyDeleteAlthough recruiting is significant to the construction of a victorious sports team, recruitment of athletes has drastically changed to a competition of which coach can most skillfully attain the best players causing athletes to be treated as objects. Sloan asserts that coaches have realized that in order to have the best team they need to recruit the best players. The ideal shifts the importance of a coach’s skill of strategic game planning to the how skillful a coach can attain an athlete. As coaches become fixated on the recruitment of the best players, athletes are treated more as desired objects. Coaches are now marginalizing the importance of an athlete’s educational needs in order to compose a victorious team. For instance, Joseph Durso writes “Walter Eckersall, All-American quarterback, enrolled at Chicago three credits short of entrance requirement.”
ReplyDeleteIn order to build a strong football team, you must recruit new players to fill in the shoes of seniors that are going to leave at the end of the season. Each and every coach searches all across the country for the best high school athletes in every high school football program. Paul “Bear” Bryant once said, “you don’t out-coach people, you out-recruit them”, and that is one of the main tactics that college football coaches utilize. College coaches offer all different kinds of compliments and guarantees to their recruits, such as “you have the opportunity to see playing time right away”, “you could start as early as your freshman year”, “you have great speed/power/blocking/hands/arm”, or “you are our number one recruit”. Football recruiting is a huge game; coaches know who they want to give an offer to, but they say things like those to every single high-interest recruit they come into contact with to ensure that they do not look somewhere else. Unfortunately, some coaches will do anything to get the players that they really want to be part of their team. Back in early March, the University of Oregon’s football program came under scrutiny by the NCAA of possibly committing a major recruiting violation. The Oregon Ducks were suspected of paying Texas-based athletic trainer Willie Lyles, and Badgers Sports Elite 7-on-7 director Baron Flenory; these two men were allegedly paid to be boosters for the Ducks’ football team. Lyles was suspected of being connected to the recruitment of redshirt freshman Lache Seastrunk, and Flenory was suspected of aiding in the recruiting of running back DeAnthony Thomas and defensive back Cliff Harris. College coaches need to do what is necessary in order to maintain a strong football team—as long as they play by the rules.
ReplyDeleteAlthough collegiate sports depend on recruiting, it takes away from other aspects of the game. Recruiting will put talented athletes on the team, but the importance of coaching is often overlooked. Coaches that are merely mediocre are winning major games because of the players they recruited. Kenneth Denlinger captures this feeling when he stated “a man with no special coaching skills can win games if he recruits well.” The coaches have less pressure to perform to a decent standard. They just have to be decent recruiters and they will succeed. Paul Bryant from the University of Alabama states “You don’t out-coach people, you out-recruit them.” Recruiting has taken the focus away from the game strategy. People look less at who has the best coach and focus on who recruited the best players. Recruiting has taken the spotlight in sports. Building a championship team used to take hard work, lots of practice and a good game plan, but according to Steve Sloan from Texas Tech “recruiting is the crux of building a championship football team.”
ReplyDeleteRecruitment has evolved over time to be more important than the actual coaching of collegiate athletes and their education. Coaches are using their resources and skills to recruit the best players in order to have the best teams. Pressure is put on these coaches in order to produces the best players in their drafts but lose out on their coaching abilities but some people say that coaching isn’t as important as recruiting. Paul Bryant of University of Alabama says that “you don’t out-coach people you out-recruit them.” Recruitment is an essential building block to making any team a championship team. Without recruitment you can’t have good players.
ReplyDeleteIn order to have a winning sports team, one must take the process of recruiting very seriously. Calling "dibs" on the best athletes has become such an important part of the sport. Coaches are now able to put whatever talent and strategy that they possess on a back burner. However, this emphasis on recruiting is not a factor of modern day athletics that many have agreed with. Sports writer Dale Brown says that "Athletics is creating a monster. Recruiting is getting to be cancerous." Emphasizing the importance of recruiting has caused the value of the coach's ability to coach decrease. University of Alabama's legendary coach Paul Bryant tells the world that "you don't out-coach people, you out-recruit them." Recruiting is straddling the fence of importance and ridiculousness.
ReplyDeleteTime and history have proven that good recruiting more frequently leads to successful sports teams than good coaching does (Bryant, Denlinger, Sloan). Teams with more talented players are nearly guaranteed to be favored to beat a team with a good coach (Denlinger). The fact that good recruiting leads to success became evident as early as 1929 when the Carnegie Foundation claimed that successful athletic programs were overshadowing "educational opportunity." People wouldn't feel so strongly about recruiting if it was ineffective. With any effective technique someone will abuse it like the University of Minnesota in 1902 (Durso). Moreover, there has never been a complaint about a coach training his players so well that it was unfair. It's obvious that "you don't out-coach people, you out-recruit them" (Bryant).
ReplyDeleteGetting an education is the main reason for attending college. Although recruiting for college athletics is very important in creating a team, the real reason to attend college is neglected; achieving academically. The Carnegie Foundation notices that college athletic teams are for commercial purposes only and have a “negligent attitude towards the educational opportunity.” Athletes are sacrificing a chance at a good education by solely focusing on sports. Finding the right athletes is key to a team, but more scholarly athletes need to be recruited to fulfill their potential. Sports writer Joseph Durso, for the New York Times, points out that many colleges will cut corners academically to recruit players they want to join the team. Walter Eckersall was “enrolled at Chicago three credits short if the entrance requirement.” Many sports are recruiting players that do not have the skills it takes to be a successful college student.
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