This is a responsibility that coaches have to make, which is good use of the power they have as a coach to reach and teach young people about issues and ideas that will carry them not only through a season but through a lifetime.
We owe them our very best and when they leave us, we must ask ourselves, are they better or worse. They are now living records of our own failures and successes.
I am so grateful to have had the privilege of being a coach for 33 years and being associated with so many fine young men and women .