Yep. I think you’re exactly right. His mentality is “this ain’t our first rodeo. I’ve been good with these processes and these coaches before, so we’ll obviously be good again. Just gotta grow kids up.”
Problem is he’s sticking to what used to work with assistant coaches that are stale and out of touch. Meanwhile other programs are adapting and innovating.
Sigh
I agree with this completely. As a teacher, I've worked with others and for admin that have that mentality. "My kids scored great on the state exams for the past few years, I don't know why these kids aren't getting my lessons!"
Well, it's because they're not the same kids. At the risk of sounding like an old fogey, kids these days are truly different; they learn differently, they process things differently, and they react to adversity differently than kids from different years. I can stand in front of a group of kids and teach them how to write a compound sentence, but not everyone in the class will get it. Some of them will learn by looking and analyzing the words, some will learn by using magnetic letters and punctuation on a white board, some will learn by hearing the pause in the sentence as it's read out loud. And that's just kids within the same year, same class. In the past, if kids didn't get the lesson as provided, they got left behind, and weren't able to achieve their full potential.
Worse than that, however, are the admin that have been out of the classroom for 20 years and have no idea that kids are changing drastically. Times change, so do the kids, and so does how they learn and get better. We gotta change and figure it out, or we'll get left behind.