Hoyt 's day begins at six in the morning, and he ends up at the college by seven. He writes down exactly whet he needs to get done for the day, and won 't leave until everything on his list is crossed off. During the offseason, Hoyt may not return home until eight or nine, where during the season, he may not return home till one or two in the morning. When he shows a potential recruit around campus, the Oak Pavilion is always the final stop, as Hoyt likes to save the best for last. Once the recruit leaves, Hoyt starts goes back to work and in never stops.
“I am constitutionally on the phone and constitutionally working,” Hoyt said. “I have to keep moving to get things done. There are always questions that I have to answer, and I turn into
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“I turn into an animal. That 's just how I am. I am very competitive. If I play a board game, if I 'm not bleeding at the end, I didn 't play hard enough. I will have two different relationships with my players. There is Rob. As Rob, I want to have the best relationship I can with my players. I want to be there at graduation, and be at their wedding dancing with their mom. I want the best for them in their life, and I honestly do. It 's not just a saying and I don 't want to sound like a Hallmark card. And then there is Coach Hoyt, and that is a separate relationship. That is about basketball. That is my business, my company, and I am going to run it the way I want to run it to make it successful. I will do whatever I have to do to make that happen.”
Hoyt has come up with schedule that insures his players have something to do everyday, as to not get into trouble. Players are required to check in with him at his office every day. The team will gather in the morning, and then lift weights. They spend time together in the classroom watching film, will attend practice and have individual and team meetings. Then they need to make their schoolwork a top priority. All their time is accounted
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“My loyalty was to those people on that interview committee who hired me. But, being part-time is trying to take scraps into meals. You are trying to make things work, but it is more difficult to spend the time you need to be more successful. It was just a wonderful feeling when they rewarded me with a full-time position. There is so much that is positive about being here. There isn 't a better spot for me. I 'm planning on getting 279 wins, which would be the all-time wins record at Columbia. Right now, I 'm at 28. So I’m still a ways away, but that 's the
“When I got the job, I looked at the program as a bus,” said Hoyt. “I am jumping onto the bus. The program and school already exist, and there is a recent history of not having a successful basketball program. How do I change that for the better and make it my own? The first thing is get rid of all the people that you don 't want on the bus, and that is what I did. Then I looked at it as a scorched earth theory, where you burn everything that preexist to the ground. We got new jerseys, new players, and everything else is dead. We brought in new freshman, and those freshman were going to be foundation of what 's going to come down the road.”
This reflective essay will lay emphasis on one of the learning needs I have developed during my two week taster placement in hospital. Reflection helps an individual build upon their skills and makes room for self-criticism as he or she can contemplate upon actions and make relevant changes (Taylor, 2000). I will be applying the “What”, “So what” and “Now what” model of reflection by Driscoll (2000) in this piece of work because it is a more coherent and comprehensible approach to follow when writing a reflective account and is also an easier guide to writing reflections. The learning need I chose to reflect on from my learning plan is having a better understanding of diabetes and the 6 basic medications used in treating the condition since it is a common illness on the ward I am have been allocated on for my first placement. The timescale set for achieving this objective was by the end of my two week placement that is from 27th January to 9th February and I achieved it with the help of a host of factors. In this assignment, all the names of the patients and wards have been omitted and indicated with letters and numbers for confidentiality reasons as stated in the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) code of conduct (2008). The paper will primarily touch on the type 2 diabetes and furthermore on the achievement on my learning need.
The emotion is intense. Everyone in the gym is on the edge of his or her seat. Time is expiring as the final shot for the win sails through the air. The buzzer sounds… Athletics are a critical element of high school lives--whether it be playing for or supporting one’s team. In order to accomplish success in a season, these supporting individuals are forced to rely on a select few of premier athletes. From day one of tryouts, these athletes are crafted and molded based on their hard work as well as their ability to play in accordance with the coach’s style. At a varsity level, where victory has his or her job on the line, coaches should not be required to play every member of the team equally.
My sixteen week class in English 111. I was really nervous about this class. Because English has never been my strong point. This class has hard, but fun all at the same time. I learn a lot from this class. Meanwhile,the first day of class you handed a paper with a question on it. “The first thing I want to say to you who are students is that you must not think of being here to receive an education; instead, you will do much better to think of being here to claim one.” Even though putting my all in what I have learned, claiming my education with hard work because using the skills of the meal plan, as we write to different audiences and learning to be a Critically thinker as I start becoming a critically-Literate Citizenship.
Coach Carter understood by the immature and unwilling nature of the basketball players that their follower readiness level was low. Needing to provide specific instructions and closely monitor their success, he established a contract for each player that was required before being allowed to play with the team. Coach Carter used this telling style approach to set boundaries concerning player behavior including grade point average, class room attendance, and appropriate dress code on game
The emotion is intense. Everyone in the gym is on the edge of his or her seat. Time is expiring as the final shot for the win sails through air. The buzzer sounds… Athletics are a critical element of high school lives--whether it be playing for or supporting one’s team. In order to accomplish success in a season, these supporting individuals are forced to rely on a select few of premier athletes. From day one of tryouts, these athletes are crafted and molded based on their hard work as well as their ability to play in accordance with the coach’s style. At a varsity level, where victory has his or her job on the line, coaches should not be required to play every member of the team equally.
In the book Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card he introduces Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, the third in a family of child geniuses, is selected by international military forces to save the world from destruction. Before being chosen Ender wears a device called a monitor that allows the heads of the military to see things as Ender does. Ender's brother Peter and his sister Valentine also wore this monitor, although neither was selected, and they didn’t have it for as long as Ender, and Peter hates Ender for this. Peter hates Ender, and even when the monitor is taken out it does nothing to decrease Peter's anger. The same is true of Ender's schoolmates, and he is forced into brutally beating the leader of a gang of bullies in order to protect himself. Although Valentine tries to protect Ender from Peter, he is only saved from his brother when Colonel Graff of the International Fleet comes to take Ender away to Battle School. Ender leaves behind Valentine, who loves him, in order to help save the world from the buggers.
As seen in Coach Carter, the coach is using extreme tactics in order to get his team to succeed and win. When the coach first met the team, the coach took it upon himself to not only improve their skills but to make them improve their grades in order from them to go to collage. This is unique because normally coaches do not care about how well academically their players are doing. This allows Coach Carter to step in and take immediate action by getting each member of the team to accept and sign a written contract. He aims to motivate the players by no longer allowing them to play basketball until their grades have improved. This is seen as unheard of because the principal keeps on telling the coach to forget about improving their grades and
Educational field. It is better to be done at the beginning of the educational year. This is
In my visual I did specific artistic styles to reflect the quote, for what it means for me. I did a globe as the overall idea because this quote mainly meant for me was moving, so I showed it through a globe. Also this relates to anyone who has moved from another country to find a better home for their family, whether it was to Canada or anywhere else in the world because at the end we are given better opportunities to a better life. For the colours, I did the water dark blue to show the idea of moving is hard because we leaving our loved ones and our home behind, but I did the countries in light green to show that though we a moving away from our homes, we are building better ones wherever we choose to move. For the water I coloured it in
The Lego Movie is a 3D computer animated film directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. While the film features a few live-action scenes, it is primarily an animated film. Based on the line of Lego toys, the story revolves around an ordinary Lego named Emmet, who out of sheer luck finds the piece of resistance and turns out to be the ‘special ’. He and the master builders band together to stop Lord Business from gluing everything in his vision of perfection. In the film everyone in the Lego world lives by instructions, from the moment their day starts till the end.The film poses a good question of identity, of who we are without the ‘instructions’ of society .This is not just a great children's movie, but it borrows many philosophical concepts
Nine years ago, when I was in kindergarten, I always looked up to my sister as a role model. If she liked a certain food, I would like it; if she did something, I would want to do it also. So, it only made sense that when she started to play piano, I would want to play too. For months, I was like a mosquito to my dad, asking him when I could start playing piano. Two years later, my wish came true. When my sister went off to college, my dad asked me, “Do you want to start playing piano?”
Ever since I was little I remember playing games where I would fight the bad guy and win the girl in the end. This never seem to affect me or make me wonder what small effect it had on my thought process. In games such as Zelda, call of duty, assassin creed, gears of war, Mario, and even halo you play as a white heterosexual male. The idea of playing this way never seemed to phase me as a young child. As I grew up and became more aware of the difference of people and the need for other as well as myself a need to be able to connect and find one 's self in different place such as games, movies, and TV shows. I became aware of the one sided views that video games seem to have. Then I realized that it was seen as acceptable to only have the one sided displayed due to the lack of speaking out on the need for change.
Being a professional basketball player requires intense training. Players have to practice a great deal on the court. Willingly, the players spend hours lifting weights, running sprints, and shooting baskets. Even after hours of practice in the morning, players sometimes return in the evening to practice again. It is difficult for players to see their families. There are no set schedules for professional basketball players, so sometimes they have to work on the weekends and holidays. According to Jason Kidd, a professional basketball player, “A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you’re going to the gym, those ...
I will fund my exhibit through donations and sales. I would reach out to the community, explain my exhibit and ask for donations, but I would primarily generate revenue through selling items related to the exhibit like prints of the works being shown, creative posters, key chains, t-shirts and other mementos. Additionally, I would have bake sales and fairs and other activities of a similar nature.