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Show f if1 - -' - ' f r $ High school coaches shore philosophies LARRY WALL "Many high school athletes wouldn't even finish school if it wasn't for the sports programs," he said. Haning feels the criticism of ineligible players being allowed to play is unwarranted. He explained ex-plained that a student who does not have the right GPA is sometimes some-times put on probation and given a period of time to bring the grades up. "Many kids have hard times and you shouldn't give up on them. Sometimes their only motivation moti-vation is sports," he said and added that he felt the suicide of one young man he knew might have been indirectly related to the fact that he was ineligible to play football during his senior year. Complaints from parents are not a problem for Coach Haning. "Usually when parents complain they are just making sure their kid is getting treated fairly. The thing about parents is that if their kid goes home happy they are happy," hap-py," he said. Bountiful High School Coach Larry Wall has been head football coach at the school for three years. The most important thing JOHN HANING for his players is commitment. "I want them to put the time and effort in to do something and do it successfully." He said he feels that high school football gives kids the "fellowship and com-araderie com-araderie you can't get elsewhere." else-where." "For the major portion of kids who are committed there will be a positive gain for their involvement involve-ment in sports. I ask my players to look in the mirror after a game and evaluate themselves. If they've given it all they can then they've succeeded whether we've won or lost the game," said Coach Wall. He said every coach should "coach within their own personality." person-ality." "I see some guys trying to be Vince Lombardi and it just doesn't work," he said. Coach Wall doesn't view himself as being a "hard line type of coach. I want my players to be accountable, account-able, but I'm not a tough guy," he said. Coach Wall said it was his high school football coaches that got him interested in becoming a coach. He played on the Vicw-mont Vicw-mont High School state cham- JIM DICKSON pionship team under the direction of Coach Steve Dangerfield and went on to play at the University of Utah as a linebacker from 1973 to 1977. "My high school coaches could do no wrong in my eyes," said Coach Wall. He said his assistant coach in high school, Paul Waite gave him his first coaching job at Bountiful High several years ago. "It was their leadership that was an inspiration in-spiration in my life. They taught me never to quit and tried to relate football to real life." Coach Wall said he hopes to instill those same feelings in his players. Davis High School head football foot-ball coach Jim Dickson is now in his fourth year at the school. He said the thing he wants his players to develop most is a "good work ethic." Coach Dickson said he feels that can be developed through hard work at practice. His team practices three hours a day on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and IVi hours on Thursday. In addition to that they watch films three or four times a week. DAN YANOWSKI He said he is also interested in his players' academic performance perform-ance and the entire team attends a 6:30 a.m. study hall on Wednesday. Wednes-day. On Saturday the team participates parti-cipates in an aerobics class that is taught by Coach Dickson's wife. He says she enjoys getting to know the boys by more than a number. "Football is a great extracurricular extra-curricular activity and it makes the kids more well rounded for other aspects of their lives," said the coach. He added that the 110 kids in the program have learned that, "there's a tradeoff." "The kids who play realize it takes commitment com-mitment and they don't always get to do all the things they want to do." Dan Yanowski made his debut as head football coach at View-mont View-mont High School this year. He said he hopes all of his players will emerge from his program with a "positive self-image, that's the most important thing." He said he realizes the important impor-tant role a coach can have in a young man's life, "I can have a Continued on page 6 Football season is in full swing at area high schools and each of the coaches have designed what they hope will be a winning program. prog-ram. Part of that program is the individual coach's philosophy of football. What is important and what works in molding a great player? Woods Cross High School head football coach said he wants his players to learn about self discipline. disci-pline. "I want them to have the will to prepare to win, not necessarily neces-sarily to win at all costs, but the will to be ready to be successful. I think this carries over into the rest of their life." Coach Haning said his players practice about 2Vi hours a day. "Not all of that is spent on the field," he said and explained that some of the time is spent in conditioning condi-tioning and "watching films and chalk talk." The coach said he is satisfied with high school sports the way they are. "Being a high school athlete in general is one of the most rewarding things a kid can be involved in. It teaches them how to get along in life," he said. disciplined as they were 10 years ago. That is simply not true. Today's To-day's kids are great kids." real impact on their lives. They are voluntarily giving me all of their free time and I hope they can develop a positive attitude that . can carry them into life." Coach Yanowski said he feels that too much emphasis is put on sports in our society, especially the win-loss totals. "If you teach kids to be totally committed and dedicated, to be on time and to be "class" individuals, then winning will take care of itself." He explained ex-plained that only one percent of the kids who play high school ball will go on to play after high school; therefore, he feels the emphasis in a high school program prog-ram should be on developing the individual. "I'm not one of those guys who believes in year round football," explained the coach. He said his team practices two hours a day two days a week, Vi hours on Wednesday and about 45 minutes on Thursday. "There are too many other things in the kids' lives right now. We don't practice in the summer because that's the time for them to be kids," he said. Coach Yanowski was the assistant assis-tant coach to Chuck Stobart at the University of Utah and has also coached in Toledo, Ohio. He said he feels, "everybody's down on kids today saying they are not as |