Basketball coach leadership

While watching the NCAA basketball tournament I came to think about how a coach has to be a great leader. Coaches get so much recognition for how well their team does even though they cant contribute anything on the floor. For a coach to be great they have to be able to draw up plays on the fly, read what the opposing team is doing and being able to relay it to his players, and be able to motivate his team. You need to be a good leader to be able to do all of these things but most coaches who make it to the college level are able to do these things. So this made me wonder, what is it that makes some coaches the best in the business. I came to the conclusion that what brings coaches to the next level is being able to develop other leaders. What makes Coaches like Mike Krzyzewski the best is the ability to develop leaders like Greg Paulus. A coach is unable to step on the floor and lead his team to victory so he must be able to develop one of his players into a great leader so he can run the game on the floor. If you look at the history of Duke Basketball coach Krzyzewski has always developed great leaders on his teams and they are one of the greatest programs of all time. This is the reason that I think the thing that makes a good coach become great is the ability to make some one else a great leader.