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As the coach, what would you do differently?
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<blockquote data-quote="illineuron" data-source="post: 1268047" data-attributes="member: 3799"><p>I appreciate your thoughtful response. Sometimes that doesn't occur on fan boards. If therapeutic intervention were to be utilized it would be individually, starting with the coach(s). Given the absence of response from the AD and staff, including coaching staff, my assumption is, for whatever reason, there is insufficient interest. </p><p></p><p>Actually the absence of response is not a surprise. When someone offers information that is contradictory to your beliefs about how the world or humans function, the powerful tendency is to reject that information.That rejection occurs regardless of the scientific/research support for the information or idea. </p><p></p><p>As an example, check out the history of H. pylori as it relates to the development of ulcers. One of the researchers, Marshall, became so frustrated with the persistent 'skepticism' they encountered he drank a beaker containing H. pylori to identify the bacteria as a causative agent. The revisionist history downplays the 'skepticism'. Regardless, Marshall and his co-researcher, Warren, were awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine in 2005. </p><p></p><p>The point is, this pattern of rejection of paradigm shifting ideas is not new and not unique to this situation. And that pattern is imbedded in humans. So the absence of response is not in any way shocking but actually what I expected. As an Illini fan of about 60 years it frustrating but at my age frustration doesn't affect me like it used to. My wife thinks I don't know when to shut up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="illineuron, post: 1268047, member: 3799"] I appreciate your thoughtful response. Sometimes that doesn't occur on fan boards. If therapeutic intervention were to be utilized it would be individually, starting with the coach(s). Given the absence of response from the AD and staff, including coaching staff, my assumption is, for whatever reason, there is insufficient interest. Actually the absence of response is not a surprise. When someone offers information that is contradictory to your beliefs about how the world or humans function, the powerful tendency is to reject that information.That rejection occurs regardless of the scientific/research support for the information or idea. As an example, check out the history of H. pylori as it relates to the development of ulcers. One of the researchers, Marshall, became so frustrated with the persistent 'skepticism' they encountered he drank a beaker containing H. pylori to identify the bacteria as a causative agent. The revisionist history downplays the 'skepticism'. Regardless, Marshall and his co-researcher, Warren, were awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine in 2005. The point is, this pattern of rejection of paradigm shifting ideas is not new and not unique to this situation. And that pattern is imbedded in humans. So the absence of response is not in any way shocking but actually what I expected. As an Illini fan of about 60 years it frustrating but at my age frustration doesn't affect me like it used to. My wife thinks I don't know when to shut up. [/QUOTE]
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