kmspeaks
11-16-2007, 05:13 PM
Today on FSN SportScience they were exploring factors that athletes have no control over. They included coaching style as one of these factors. They were doing an experiment to determine whether a intimidating dictator type coaching style or a nurturing father figure coaching style gets better results from an athlete.
They had a college kid shooting 10 free throws while being coached by two different style coaches and he made 7 when coached by the encouraging positive guy and 8 when coached by the screamer.
The show then posed the question how would this experiment play out over time. They compared Bobby Knight and Coach K. The show stated that over the last 5 years Knight's teams shot 71% from the line compared to 68% by K's teams and Knight's teams won 66% of games decided by 3 points or less (i'm not totally sure about this number but i think it was around there) while Duke only won 45% of these games.
First, anyone with better information than me know how those numbers would change it we took 5 years excluding last season? I'm thinking they would be different but I'd be interested to see how different.
Second, what do you think about these "conclusions"? Obviously there are many factors contributing to the numbers above but how much do you think K's coaching style factors in?
They had a college kid shooting 10 free throws while being coached by two different style coaches and he made 7 when coached by the encouraging positive guy and 8 when coached by the screamer.
The show then posed the question how would this experiment play out over time. They compared Bobby Knight and Coach K. The show stated that over the last 5 years Knight's teams shot 71% from the line compared to 68% by K's teams and Knight's teams won 66% of games decided by 3 points or less (i'm not totally sure about this number but i think it was around there) while Duke only won 45% of these games.
First, anyone with better information than me know how those numbers would change it we took 5 years excluding last season? I'm thinking they would be different but I'd be interested to see how different.
Second, what do you think about these "conclusions"? Obviously there are many factors contributing to the numbers above but how much do you think K's coaching style factors in?