Facing the Giants
Recap:
Accepting the position as head coach at Shiloh Christian Academy: Grant Taylor thinks he can create a winning team and completely flip around the football program for the Shiloh Eagles. After six years, the program is worse than it has ever been; the players are getting into trouble in class and are more worried about everything happening outside of practice instead of what is happening in practice. Both the players and parents are frustrated with the amount of losses accumulated over the years. However, Coach Taylor is also worried about other aspects of life over football; as he has a car that continues to breakdown, a leak in his house, a dryer that doesn’t always work, and fertility trouble with his wife. As the …show more content…
He actually writes on his page “what’s the purpose of this team?” Astonishingly a number of coaches would not even ponder this idea. Unfortunately we do not get to see what Coach Taylor writes underneath the purpose of the team memo; nevertheless we do see a change in his coaching philosophy. Whether or not we see this change in individual coaching points that lead to developing skill, we do see that he has started to integrate his faith into the team. Faith being Coach Taylor’s top core value brings viewers to see a sports team in a different form. He integrates his faith by meeting with his players and talking to the team about their attitudes, including how if they play with faith then God will support them on the field. Grant tells them that they are to praise the lord not only when they win but when they lose too. The next core value I believe Coach Taylor has is to better yourself on and off the field. Coach Taylor is looking to develop his players into mature young men by giving each player the skills they need to develop on the football field as well as a few skills they may need in life, especially finding their …show more content…
Any coach would know the difficulty with parents because they are often the voice of their children until they are old enough to have a strong voice for themselves. Grant Taylor doesn’t appear to be very active in communicating with the parents of the Shiloh Eagles football team. Caught up in his personal business and the number of losses over his 6 years of coaching at Shiloh Christian Academy. With few interactions seen between Coach Taylor and the parents in this movie, I do not think he handles his parent section as well as he handles his communication with the players. This being said the one parent we see the most with an issue chooses to go through the assistant coach to get rid of Coach Taylor. I cannot help but wonder if this could have been avoided had Coach Taylor a) been less distracted by his personal life b) opened a better bridge of communication between himself and the parents. All in all I am sure at one point or another, coaches all over have wished that some of the parents did not exist because it would take away some of the unnecessary added stress.
Conclusion:
Over all Facing the Giants was a good a movie; I enjoyed watching Coach Taylor and analyzing some of his coaching aspects. He is proof that you do not need to win to be a good coach, as he never gives up on his team. His strong core values of faith,
Recap:
Accepting the position as head coach at Shiloh Christian Academy: Grant Taylor thinks he can create a winning team and completely flip around the football program for the Shiloh Eagles. After six years, the program is worse than it has ever been; the players are getting into trouble in class and are more worried about everything happening outside of practice instead of what is happening in practice. Both the players and parents are frustrated with the amount of losses accumulated over the years. However, Coach Taylor is also worried about other aspects of life over football; as he has a car that continues to breakdown, a leak in his house, a dryer that doesn’t always work, and fertility trouble with his wife. As the …show more content…
He actually writes on his page “what’s the purpose of this team?” Astonishingly a number of coaches would not even ponder this idea. Unfortunately we do not get to see what Coach Taylor writes underneath the purpose of the team memo; nevertheless we do see a change in his coaching philosophy. Whether or not we see this change in individual coaching points that lead to developing skill, we do see that he has started to integrate his faith into the team. Faith being Coach Taylor’s top core value brings viewers to see a sports team in a different form. He integrates his faith by meeting with his players and talking to the team about their attitudes, including how if they play with faith then God will support them on the field. Grant tells them that they are to praise the lord not only when they win but when they lose too. The next core value I believe Coach Taylor has is to better yourself on and off the field. Coach Taylor is looking to develop his players into mature young men by giving each player the skills they need to develop on the football field as well as a few skills they may need in life, especially finding their …show more content…
Any coach would know the difficulty with parents because they are often the voice of their children until they are old enough to have a strong voice for themselves. Grant Taylor doesn’t appear to be very active in communicating with the parents of the Shiloh Eagles football team. Caught up in his personal business and the number of losses over his 6 years of coaching at Shiloh Christian Academy. With few interactions seen between Coach Taylor and the parents in this movie, I do not think he handles his parent section as well as he handles his communication with the players. This being said the one parent we see the most with an issue chooses to go through the assistant coach to get rid of Coach Taylor. I cannot help but wonder if this could have been avoided had Coach Taylor a) been less distracted by his personal life b) opened a better bridge of communication between himself and the parents. All in all I am sure at one point or another, coaches all over have wished that some of the parents did not exist because it would take away some of the unnecessary added stress.
Conclusion:
Over all Facing the Giants was a good a movie; I enjoyed watching Coach Taylor and analyzing some of his coaching aspects. He is proof that you do not need to win to be a good coach, as he never gives up on his team. His strong core values of faith,