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October 8, 2002
I have always been proud of the fact that I am honest, sometimes brutally, and that I am not afraid to say anything to a person that I would ever say about them. It’s all that, “Know the truth and the truth shall set you free” stuff that I preach. Occasionally the [...]
October 4, 2002
I think I will always have one player on any team who is like a John Riggins. John Riggins was a great fullback/freight train for the Redskins back when they were winning championships in Washington two decades ago. This guy would basically spend the week in therapy or traction until Sunday, at [...]
September 28, 2002
Losing is painful. Only on the rare occasion has losing felt good, and then because perhaps we had accomplished something great as a team, or gone farther than we had ever been. Even so, losing is, by nature, tormenting to some degree. I always blame me. Generally speaking, I will do far [...]
September 18, 2002
For the past few years I have started by teaching team defensive concepts based on preparing us to defend against the one-on-one style of offensive lacrosse. I have always wanted to keep individuals on other teams we play from really hurting us or worse, taking over a game by themselves, as Steve [...]
September 10, 2002
Working on basic fundamentals must build skills and teach as well. It must do both. If a lacrosse “fundamental” doesn’t teach you how to do something fundamentally better in a game, then this particular fundamental is, to me, fundamentally useless. I feel confident right now that with this team I will be [...]
Coach Flip Naumburg’s Journal
Saturday, September 7, 2002
We have had 3 pre-season scrimmages so far. I even threw in a drill or two before they played. They have been about as demanding as “non-practices” could be in my program. There were probably 40 playing out there yesterday on an awesome pre-fall kind of [...]
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