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Steelers Coaching Profile: Todd Haley
Posted: February 16, 2012 at 5:28 pm
An interview with Arrowhead Pride's Joel Thorman on the Steelers' hiring of former Kansas City Chiefs head coach Todd Haley as offensive coordinator.
Feb 15, 2012 - A clean-shaven Todd Haley was introduced as the Pittsburgh Steelers' new offensive coordinator last week, bringing the Upper St. Clair High School alumnus' football life full circle.
Now 44, Haley grew up around the Steelers when his father, Dick, was the team's director of player personnel in the 1970s and '80s. And as he told reporters as his introductory press conference, those early memories have shaped his football life.
"All my early memories in life somehow revolved around the Steelers," Haley said. "My earliest memory was watching the Immaculate Reception. Those things have stayed with me, and they are a big part of who and what I am.
"In my mind, this is the greatest organization and the greatest team in the NFL.
"And that comes from the heart."
(Link: Gerry Dulac, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Now, Haley is back in Western Pennsylvania after a long journey with several NFL stops.
He began his career in the scouting department with the New York Jets in 1995 before working his way up to an assistant's job in 1997. From 2002-2003, he coached wide receivers with the Chicago Bears, then moved to a similar job with the Dallas Cowboys in 2004.
Haley got his first big opportunity with the Arizona Cardinals in 2007 when he became the team's offensive coordinator, and he thrived in that job. His offense that season finished ranked No. 7 in the league in scoring and No. 12 in total yardage. A year later, with stars like quarterback Kurt Warner and receivers Anquan Boldin and Larry Fitzgerald leading the unit, the Cardinals improved those rankings, finishing No. 3 in points and No. 4 in total yardage en route to a Super Bowl XLIII berth opposite the Steelers.
His success with the traditional doormat team landed Haley the head coaching job with the Kansas City Chiefs beginning in 2009. The first season was a rough one as the Chiefs struggled to a 4-12 record, but in 2010, K.C. bounced back to win the AFC West with a 10-6 mark.
Offseason injuries brought misfortune this past year, however, and Haley was fired after starting the season 5-8. A reported poor working relationship with the Chiefs' front office and lack of success on the field proved to be his undoing.
Now, Haley will replace Bruce Arians as offensive coordinator in Pittsburgh.
And so, for perspective on Haley's time in Kansas City and what he might bring to the Steelers' offense, we turn to Joel Thorman of Arrowhead Pride, SB Nation's Chiefs blog. Check out his responses to some of our questions about Haley below.
AB: Generally, how do Chiefs fans feel about the job Todd Haley did? Is there a consensus, or are there competing opinions?
JT: I think we all agree on a few things -- Haley's firing of Chan Gailey late in the preseason hurt the Chiefs in 2009 and Haley did a very good job as the head coach in the 2010 division title season. It's in the 2011 season that we see some competing opinions. Some point to all the inconsistency the Chiefs had all year, especially offensively. Others point out that the Chiefs were still in playoff contention as late as Week 16. So some people feel he got a raw deal by getting fired before the end of his third season and others feel it came at the perfect time.
AB: Could you break down the offense he ran in Kansas City? What worked and what didn't work?
JT: Haley came from Arizona, with that high-flying passing attack, so we initially thought we'd see something similar. Instead, Haley worked with what he had, and that was a solid running game. They kind of stumbled into Jamaal Charles being a great player and added Thomas Jones in 2010 to lead the league in rushing. Haley will utilize the talent that's available to him -- he's not a pass-only guy, or a rush-only guy. He's had success at both.
AB: How would you rate Haley's quarterback development with the Chiefs? How do you think he'll work with a guy like Ben Roethlisberger?
JT: Roethlisberger is an established quarterback, so I think this is less of a concern for Pittsburgh than it was in Kansas City. Haley worked with Matt Cassel, who was up and down in their three years together. At his height, Cassel was a Pro Bowl quarterback with a 27:7 touchdown to interception ratio. But there were reportedly issues with Haley interjecting when the offensive coordinator was calling plays and creating confusing situations for the quarterback. That would be the negative on him, I think.
AB: The Steelers reportedly let Bruce Arians go to find a coordinator who will re-institute the "blue-collar," power run-based attack with which the team is often associated. In your experience, how well does Haley fit that profile?
JT: I think he can definitely do that. Haley had the No. 1 rushing attack with the Chiefs in 2010. They ran the ball a ton during his tenure. Haley shouldn't have a problem establishing a solid rushing attack.
AB: The Steelers boast an excellent young wide receiving trio in Mike Wallace, Antonio Brown and Emmanuel Sanders. How do you think Haley might get those guys involved in the offense?
JT: Go back and look at Haley's career and you'll notice receivers have often had great years with him. Haley is a former receivers coach himself and has worked with guys like Keyshawn Johnson, Larry Fitzgerald and Dwayne Bowe. I would feel good about the development of Pittsburgh's receivers in the coming years with Haley running the offense.
AB: The word "paranoia" has come up in some stories about the bizarre details of Haley's departure from K.C. What's your take on the work environment there and how Haley fit into it?
JT: Eh, it's a he-said, she-said type of situation. Haley indicated to a reporter (before he was fired, by the way) that he thought the Chiefs' management was bugging his phones. The Chiefs have adamantly denied that. It's hard to tell, right now at least, whether this is more about Haley or more about the Chiefs' management.
AB: Do you think Haley is better suited to be a coordinator than he was to be a head coach?
JT: That's hard to tell. He's had success at both. There were many factors in Haley's tenure where you could say, 'Well he was successful only because of this.' Or, 'He got a raw deal because of this.' It's strange in that regard because there really wasn't a consensus in KC that Haley was a really good or really bad coach.
AB: Any general thoughts on Haley in Pittsburgh?
JT: He loves Pittsburgh and talked about it often around Kansas City. I think this is really a dream come true for him, considering how things played out in KC. I think he will do well in Pittsburgh as he continues to rehab his image.
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Trio to help college-bound students
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Phil Sloan, a Swampscott-based sports lawyer, has teamed up with his former Harvard College classmate, an independent educational consultant and life coach, Steve Maislin, and Marblehead-based financial consultant and college planning expert Jim Femia, to launch CollegeBound Coaching and Campus Connections.
The new company will help high school students with preparing for college as well as the admissions process.
“We differentiate ourselves from other college admissions advisory services in that we believe that teenagers are more in need of ‘student life coaches’ than high-priced babysitters to walk them through the college admissions process,” said Sloan. While they offer traditional college admissions counseling, financial aid consulting and essay-writing services, “it is our ‘student life coaching’ approach which makes us different; that, and the fact that we employ college students to provide more relevant, more affordable college preparation and admissions services.”
“When we began working with high school seniors over the past year,” Sloan explained, “we heard over and over again how much they wished they had begun focusing themselves sooner to what it was going to take for them to get into college. We decided to focus ourselves on helping teenagers as early as possible to set and achieve measurable goals along the way.”
Working closely with Maislin, a certified life coach trained in college admission counseling, Sloan has developed a new and innovative methodology to setting and attaining measurable goals through core life skills such as prioritization and time management. Their inter-disciplinary approach, which they have termed “student life coaching,” combines extensive research in educational consulting, adolescent and sports psychology, leveraging the combined experience of their growing network of professional partners.
“We are not claiming to work miracles,” said Sloan. “We simply work closely with teenagers and their parents to figure out how best to help them to meet their goals, in and out of the classroom. In today’s world where students are pulled in so many different directions, so much of that a result of social networking and texting, maintaining focus and working towards goals can be nearly impossible for the average teenager.”
“Many parents are frustrated that they are unable to communicate more effectively with their teenage children,” Sloan said. “We strive to connect with this often difficult-to-reach age group, underlining the importance of balancing their time between schoolwork, athletics, community service and other extracurricular activities, with social time, so as to better position themselves in the fiercely competitive college admissions process.”
In order to help parents to better communicate this message to teenagers, and to help them to cope with the stress of gaining admission to college during the often turbulent adolescent years, CollegeBound Coaching is currently hiring and training high-achieving college students to work closely with their clients. “Campus Coaches” partner with the CollegeBound Coaching professional team to provide middle and high school students with the individual help, support and guidance they need.
Further leveraging this fast-growing network of college students, CollegeBound Coaching is launching a new and innovative college visit service, “Campus Connections,” to provide high school juniors, seniors and their parents with personalized, customized campus visits at schools across the country, beginning this spring.
According to Sloan, “We are not trying to replace the official college admissions tours conducted by the schools themselves. Instead, we are offering to provide high school students and their parents with a low-cost way to gain access to real college students on campuses across the country who can answer their real questions as to what it’s really like to go to that college. We are also providing college students with much-needed, on-campus, part-time jobs.”
“With transfer rates and tuition costs rising so dramatically over recent years,” Sloan continued, “we are helping college applicants and their families to make the best possible decision the first time around. With parents spending so much time and money on visiting colleges with their high school-age children, we have created Campus Connections to serve a growing demand for increased productivity of these campus visits.”
For more information on CollegeBound Coaching and Campus Connections, you can visit http://www.collegeboundcoaching.com. To speak with Phil, Jim or another member of the CollegeBound Coaching professional team about their student life coaching, college admissions, financial aid, college visit or other consulting services, you can call 800-689-5195 or you can send your inquiry via e-mail to info@collegeboundcoaching.
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Being Congruent – A Life Coach Antony Birks Video Affirmation – Life Coaching – Video
Posted: February 15, 2012 at 6:47 pm
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SBEC baseball coach Lee Hall challenges coaches at the Alabama Baseball Coaches Association convention with "Don't Let the Scoreboard Run Your Program: Invest in the Lives of Your Players."
Vickie Christopher (fourth from left) holds the title to the car made available to her by the SBEC baseball team.
Southern Baptist Educational Center baseball coach Lee Hall was the featured speaker at the Alabama Baseball Coaches Association convention recently held in Birmingham, Ala.
Hall, who was a college and high school coach in Alabama for 19 years before coming to SBEC in 2010, addressed the coaches on the seminar "Don't Let the Scoreboard Run Your Program: Invest in the Lives of Your Players."
Coaches from across Alabama embraced the challenge to look beyond the wins and losses in the game of baseball and help prepare the young men for life.
Hall has modeled his message to the coaches. In December, he organized the SBEC baseball team to secure, help repair, clean, wax and polish a used car for one of the very valued lunchroom workers at SBEC. Vickie Christopher, who needed an automobile for transportation but did not have the money to purchase one.
"We were thrilled to be able to help out Ms. Vickie," Hall said. "She does so much for our students, faculty, and staff each day serving in our lunch room. We just thought it was a great opportunity to teach our young men that giving is so much greater than receiving.
"It was a true blessing for our team to see Ms. Vickie's reactions when we presented her with the car."
George Carnall is the director of development for SBEC.
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Spain's Mengual eyes coaching after retirement
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BARCELONA (Reuters) - Spanish synchronised swimmer Gemma Mengual has said she is considering going into coaching after announcing her retirement Wednesday following a career that made her one of the Iberian nation's most successful athletes.
The 34-year-old, who is known as "la sirena," or the "the mermaid," won almost 40 medals in European, world and Olympic competition and originally intended to make her comeback at the London Olympic Games after taking time out to have a child.
She told an emotional news conference in Barcelona on Wednesday she had reversed her decision because she no longer felt fulfilled in a sport which she said had given her more than she could ever have hoped.
"In the long term, definitely yes," Mengual said when asked about a coaching career.
"I am retiring now from a sport that has made me happy and through which I have made others happy and I am retiring without suffering any injury," she added.
"There are still some things I have not achieved. I have never won an Olympic gold, but that's life."
Mengual won two silver medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, in the duet and team events, and the London Games would have been her fourth.
She also led Spain to gold in the free combination event at the 2009 world championships, after which she took time out to have a son.
(Writing by Iain Rogers in Madrid, editing by Justin Palmer)
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Episode 86 – Backslide – What You Must Know To Avoid Failure – Joe White – Get Life Coaching – Video
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Adoption affects life, coaching style
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Texas State Softball Head Coach Ricci Woodard knows about tough love. She is a mother, after all.
The woman entering her twelfth season at the helm of the softball program has experienced a lot in her tenure, but nothing has had as big of an impact on her as the adoption of two young boys, Joey and Alex.
“It changed my approach to life,” Woodard said. “It has made this more of a job instead of my life. We’ve won multiple conference championships in a row since I adopted them, so maybe it has helped me learn how to separate my job and my life.”
Since Woodard was named head coach in 2000, the softball team has never placed lower than third place. The Bobcats have appeared in three straight National Collegiate Athletic Association tournaments and won five Southland Conference regular-season titles.
Assistant Coach Patti Brun has been with the Bobcats for six seasons, and noticed a change in Woodard from the time she started with the program and after the adoption.
“Some former players have said they think she is so much softer now,” Brun said. “But it has changed her perspective. It used to be much tougher in the day-to-day operation. Now, the little things don’t matter as much.”
While the little things may matter less, the big picture is still very much in Woodard’s mind.
“What I look back and see is all the second-place finishes we had that could have been first place finishes,” Woodard said. “And that’s not a knock on the players. The only way the team is not successful is if they don’t push themselves to the next level. This year, this team has the ability to do something special.”
Chandler Hall, senior pitcher and outfielder, is a big reason for the team’s recent successes, and has played for Woodard her entire college career.
“To me the greatest thing about Coach Woodard is how much she actually cares about each player,” Hall said. “She constantly checks on me on and off the field to see how I’m doing, and at the end of the season she tells me how much she appreciates me.”
The Bobcats have big expectations for this year as they look to advance past the first round of the NCAA tournament and earn national recognition. Their schedule opened against several national powerhouse programs. Woodard knows that to be the best, you have to beat the best.
“For us to go to the next level, we have to beat (Texas, Baylor, and Texas A&M),” Woodard said. “We break it down. Focus on winning this game, this inning, this pitch.”
Even though her focus remains on the game of softball, Woodard said she likes to keep things in perspective.
“It’s easy to get caught up in the passion of this game, and maybe I was too passionate and forcing things,” Woodard said. “Now that I’m a little more relaxed in my coaching, the players are more relaxed in their play. Maybe I’m not as intimidating anymore. Adding kids to my life changed my life.”
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Appreciation – A Life Coach Antony Birks Video Affirmation – Life Coaching – Video
Posted: February 14, 2012 at 11:10 pm
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