Top ten for when your team has a bad game (and all coaches have those every now and then):
1. Man up - don't get wimpy, and whine... and blame players, refs, the weather, and Ole Smokey for your loss.
2. Only hire or promote men who are qualified and experienced to serve as your OC or DC... mentor them, as needed, in order for them to become better coaches.
3. Reflect on what you did wrong as a coach - talk with assistants and let them mentor you on how to correct your mistakes.
4. Reflect on player mistakes - lead your assistants in coaching players on how to correct their mistakes.
5. Build good relationship with players and with the fan base - do not be abrupt and abrasive, like Dooley.
6. Never berate or strike players or assistants - be ethical and professional on the sidelines and in your private life (unlike Tuberville, Leach, Petrino, etc...)
7. Have enough common sense to call timeouts whenever appropriate (like when you have 2 or 3 timeouts, and there is over 40 secs on the clock).
8. During your pressers, do not keep saying, "...Man, its bad. Really bad..."
9. Also, during pressers, do not keep repeating, "... I don't know, I just don't know..."
10. And above all else - you may wear orange shirt, orange cap, orange shoes, orange earphones, orange suspenders, and even orange underwear... but DO NOT wear orange pants!!!
