PTI just reported that Oregon coaches don't yell, because millennials don't respond to yelling. They believe in horizontal leadership where everything is collaborative. I'm with Wilbon that if this is true I hope that tOSU beat them 100-0. Then Oregon coaches give them orange slices and trophies for a great effort. Yuck
If they don't yell their Gatorade bucket must be spiked with Valium. I have never met a coach who didn't yell
I don't know how they would do it either. Maybe out west the cool weather mellows you out. I coach my kids and don't yell but they are 10 and under but it takes everything in me not to yell at the 10 year olds.
Speaking as a long-time teacher, this is actually pretty true. Kids don't respond to yelling; they tune it out if it happens too often (probably always have.) I've taught for 23 years now, and when I was in my 20's, I would regularly fly off the handle at a class. But that didn't yield desired results, necessarily. These days, I rarely even raise my voice with my classes. I laugh with them and have an easy rapport with them, and consequently, I have very few discipline problems in the least. Kids these days seem to respond much more to an easy-going atmosphere, not feeling stressed out. Or maybe I have fewer problems with the kids now because I'm "old," and kids tend to expend their energy trying to torture the new teachers in their 20's. Who knows for sure?
I hear what you are saying and yet a classroom is not a football field. YawYaw knows how to motivate and he's not doing it horizontally or asking nicely. You want the animal to come out and leave the opponent decimated. Hearts and flowers are for Hallmark, not the hashmark.
