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Thanks, Coach Mac, for "The Most Important Lesson"
Assistant Athletic Director Matt MacMullan delivered the following tribute to his dad and mentor, Jack "Coach Mac" MacMullan, at Athletic Awards Evening last Sunday.
This has been a very tough few weeks for Coach Mac.
Many people spend a significant part of their careers counting down the years, months, days, and even hours until their retirement, when they will then be free to do the things they really enjoy.
Not Coach Mac.
This retirement thing has been so difficult for him because teaching and coaching is what he loves to do more than anything in the world.
The reason for this is simple--he cares about people.
That is his great gift-–he has an ability to connect with kids and adults that is extremely rare, and the coaches up on this stage and many of you in the audience who have been around Coach Mac will agree that we’ve never seen anyone better at it.
Since this is an athletic awards night, I wanted to share with all of you something Coach Mac wrote a long time ago. Naturally, I found this in an old file written almost illegibly with a dull pencil on a crumpled envelope.
It is a part of his philosophy about coaching, and what makes it so special is that Coach Mac lived this philosophy every single day he was around kids for the last 40-plus years.
“A coach must teach young people how to get along with one another. There are tremendous differences in personalities among players on all teams, and the degree to which these players trust and respect one another will play a significant role in the success or failure of the team.
"The coach must have the players honestly feel the strength and importance of the TEAM is much greater than the strength and importance of any individual. Something really special can happen when kids buy into this idea. Some people call it chemistry, some call it spirit. I do know that when people get along, a comraderie develops. Out of this camaraderie will come a respect for one another, and in many cases, friendships that can last a lifetime.
"Teaching children to see the value in putting aside personal agendas for the good of a group is not an easy thing to do. However, I really do not think that there is anything, in any curriculum, in any discipline, more important than this lesson.”
We thank you, Coach Mac, and are grateful for your legacy to us, which is to give our best each day, to love what we do, and to care for one another.
Assistant Athletic Director Matt MacMullan delivered the following tribute to his dad and mentor, Jack "Coach Mac" MacMullan, at Athletic Awards Evening last Sunday.
This has been a very tough few weeks for Coach Mac.
Many people spend a significant part of their careers counting down the years, months, days, and even hours until their retirement, when they will then be free to do the things they really enjoy.
Not Coach Mac.
This retirement thing has been so difficult for him because teaching and coaching is what he loves to do more than anything in the world.
The reason for this is simple--he cares about people.
That is his great gift-–he has an ability to connect with kids and adults that is extremely rare, and the coaches up on this stage and many of you in the audience who have been around Coach Mac will agree that we’ve never seen anyone better at it.
Since this is an athletic awards night, I wanted to share with all of you something Coach Mac wrote a long time ago. Naturally, I found this in an old file written almost illegibly with a dull pencil on a crumpled envelope.
It is a part of his philosophy about coaching, and what makes it so special is that Coach Mac lived this philosophy every single day he was around kids for the last 40-plus years.
“A coach must teach young people how to get along with one another. There are tremendous differences in personalities among players on all teams, and the degree to which these players trust and respect one another will play a significant role in the success or failure of the team.
"The coach must have the players honestly feel the strength and importance of the TEAM is much greater than the strength and importance of any individual. Something really special can happen when kids buy into this idea. Some people call it chemistry, some call it spirit. I do know that when people get along, a comraderie develops. Out of this camaraderie will come a respect for one another, and in many cases, friendships that can last a lifetime.
"Teaching children to see the value in putting aside personal agendas for the good of a group is not an easy thing to do. However, I really do not think that there is anything, in any curriculum, in any discipline, more important than this lesson.”
We thank you, Coach Mac, and are grateful for your legacy to us, which is to give our best each day, to love what we do, and to care for one another.