Ron Wilson May Need Some Lessons on Motivation in the Workplace - FanHouse - AOL Sports Blog

Ron Wilson May Need Some Lessons on Motivation in the Workplace - FanHouse - AOL Sports Blog:

Between periods in one game, he wrote the names of Matt Carle, Marc-Edouard Vlasic and Milan Michalek on the board in the dressing room.

Jabbing at the board for emphasis, he said, "These are the guys that are letting us down."

Yup. Somehow I don't think I needed to take all those Management classes in college to learn that probably would not go over well.

Of course, it wasn't intended to. It was supposed to piss them off. And they from watching them play deserved it.

Why do I keep getting the feeling that people writing about sports never played it at a serious competitive level? I maxed out in high school, but god. Locker rooms aren't exactly kindergarten, and coaches aren't your nanny. I've seen a lot worse, and GOOD players don't crawl into a hole and whine, they raise their level of play in response. Even if it's an "I'll show him" reaction -- that's what he wanted, folks.