Chapter 10- Teamwork . Should I HIit The Recrulting Trall? based on just one pri

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Chapter 10- Teamwork . Should I HIit The Recrulting Trall? based on just one principle- get assistants and scouts would Your life as a college basketball coach used to be fairly easy, since it was the most talented players. A few months every year, you and your army of comb the country, looking high and low for the best players, and convincing them your program was where they belonged. Even if recruiting didn't go your way one year, you could expect the players you did get would be a part of your program for three or four years. Times have certainly changed. You still have to go recruiting, but the allure of playing big time college basketball for four years has faded. At first, your players started leaving for the NBA before they graduated and some as early as their sophomore years. Elite high school players decided they didn't need to go to college at all and went straight into the pros. To try and revitalize the college game, the NBA passed the "one and done" rule in 2005, requiring its players be one year removed from high school graduation. This made your job even tougher-even though the best high school players came to play for you, they only stayed one season. This left your program with little continuity and stability. What's worse, you were left with little margin for error-if you didn't recruit well each and every year, your team would be quickly passed by the competition. There have been a number of basketball approach to team building. Rather than aiming for top talent who might be at school for two years, if lucky, coaches at smaller, lesser-known schools, often called the "mid-majors," recruit lesser-known, complementary, role-players who have little ambitions for the pros and will likely be a part of the team for four years. Even though these coaches won't be working with the next Michael Jordan, many have created cohesive teams that had great success. Gonzaga University has made the NCAA tournament every year since 1999, while Xavier University has reached the "dance" every year since 2001. George Mason reached the "Final Four" in 2006, while Butler University made it all the way to the championship game in 2010. It's not just that these teams are lucky. They're the product of an approach to team building which emphasizes cohesion, cooperation, and commitment to the team. programs which have found success using a completely different Which approach to team building do you think would be your sanity? Will you continue to look around too long? Are you willing to pay more attention to complementary role players? the best for your program, and more importantly, for as many superstars as you can, knowing they may not stay Questions: 1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each type of team? If you were to decide on the superstar-player approach, how would you deal with the instability within your organization? 2. 3. If you were to take the team/role-player approach, what steps would you take to help the its members, and outsiders deal with the perceived lack of talent?

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1. The advantages and disadvantages of both type of teams are:

Star-based team

Advantages:

Disadvantage

Role player team

Advantages

Disadvantages

2. The only way to go ahead with the superstar-player approach is to be prepared for the future knowing that the instability would happen. I would follow two approaches to reduce the instability:

3. I would take the following steps if I were to take team-player approach:

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