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Dave Hurley

Teaching Fellow & Sport Psych Consultant at Stonehill/almost-doctor at Boston U.

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Coaching clichés (part 1): Are they useful? Only if they’re truly heard.

According to dictionary.com, a “cliché” is “a trite, stereotyped expression; a sentence or phrase, usually expressing a popular or common thought or idea, that has lost originality, ingenuity, and impact by long overuse.” Anyone who has spent even a short time involved in sport, at any level, knows that the...
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Rethinking the pregame speech

I was recently re-reading Terry Orlick’s In Pursuit of Excellence, and in the chapter on Coaching Relationships, Orlick was discussing coaching communication and wrote that coaches’ pregame pep talks don’t motivate the athletes, but instead serve as “a method of tension release for the head coach”(p.276).  While Orlick wrote this to...
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