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What makes a team succeed?

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hope1000

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Hello all,
I am doing a class project where I have to pick a successful team and give 5 observations on how that team pulls together as a team. I am a OSU fan so I have chosen the Buckeyes for my assignment. Unfortunately I am able to find all the great stats for the team but am having problems finding what the team (football) does to pull together and work so well with each other. Does anybody have any input to help me out.
Thank you,
Leanne
 
I think that a good start would be to review JT's "The Block 'O' of Life." It provides the entire organization with a vision and purpose. There is a brief review of it in the foreword to the book What It Means To Be A Buckeye. There may be more in-depth accounts elsewhere. Interesting topic for a class project.
 
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gregorylee;859377; said:
There was the trips they used to take to the Hartsock farm...
I am sure that they do stuff like that every year, I just don't remember hearing about anything since.
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I hear they still do. If you check out Coach Tressels' site you will see the bowling night out and the Buckeye softball game. Most recently was "date night at the Woody". I hear it was a success. I think Coach Tressel thinks of many different things that builds the team into one unit. I have also heard of their own track meet and swimming pool parties.
 
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It all starts with the team having a singleness of purpose. All are committed to achieving the same purpose as a team. That's what we saw for sure in '02 and '06.

That is where you get each individual willing to give 100% in every little thing they do throughout the year - film study, lifting, good grades, not getting into trouble, etc. The list goes on and on. Having the same goals as your teammates - team goals - is a much stronger motivator than individualistic goals. And much more conducive to winning.

In other words, maturity.

Players are more open to playing whatever position the team needs for them to play. They are more open to doing things the way the coaches teach, not how they want to do it. They build trust among their other teammates that if they complete their own assignment each play, that their mates will take care of theirs as well, and each play will be successful.

What the great coaches are good at is getting their players to buy into the team's objectives, and putting their players in the best possible situations to allow them to obtain them.

JT is pretty good at that, don't you think?
 
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hope1000 said:
Hello all,
I am doing a class project where I have to pick a successful team and give 5 observations on how that team pulls together as a team. I am a OSU fan so I have chosen the Buckeyes for my assignment. Unfortunately I am able to find all the great stats for the team but am having problems finding what the team (football) does to pull together and work so well with each other. Does anybody have any input to help me out.
Thank you,
Leanne
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one thing ive learned in my time on this earth that i can count on nearly every time is that sports come down to one major key: the team who scores more points will win the game (granted this doesnt always work for real sports like gymnastics, tennis golf etc) but it works well for the silly sports that i prefet (basketball, hockey and football)
 
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