Seeing a player go backwards can't be all on them. As an educator, I think educators have to see when they are failing to make the needed connection to support success. Yes, its up to IW to make the internal connections - I'm in no way saying he should be coddled, but I'm seeing no interaction with the coaching staff during the game. At least Izzo connects, pleads, yells at all his players when they screw up - taking advantage of teachable moments. I'm not really seeing anyone on the coaching staff engaging. Have they given up? Maybe that was Ben Johnson's role.
I agree with much of that. Furthermore, unlike academic educators, these athletic "educators" have the following factors going for them:
1) they're not having to educate just anybody who enrolls (they invited and persuaded these kids to come to their program);
2) they have multiple educators teaching the same subject to a class of only 13 students (not counting walk-ons); and
3) because they are doing something they love and are being paid (through full scholarships) to do it, these students have a higher level of motivation than most students enrolled in the academy.
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