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Originally Posted by Ivan Malik
If every team is sustaining excellence then what is excellent? .......Good bye green dots, hello red ones...
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You won't see any red dots from me. I was hoping for this discussion.
What I am about to say comes from someone that was tired of losing. I know the sting of missing the playoffs and packing up early. The difference is that we did not just accept it or blame someone else.
Sustained Excellence is YOU trying your hardest in every possible way. Period.
Sustained Excellence does not guarantee a desired result. Olympic hockey coach Herb Brooks called this
"sacrificing for the unknown." You have to work your *** off under the strong possibility that you may never see victory. There is no short cut. In the end what you achieve from Sustained Excellence is a deeper satisfaction for doing your absolute best, not what you tell yourself is your best. If you do this you will put yourself on that trajectory towards the "carrot". Every year our team has the goal of making it to
Einstein. We have made it
once in 14 years. In our one appearance (10 years ago), we
flipped on our back and died. Yet we set this as the
only acceptable goal every year. Fools? Maybe. But we will continue to "sacrifice for the unknown" and strive for excellence.