It is Finished!

The rough draft for our research paper was due today. I got mine done third period. It ended up being 8 1/4 pages. I've realized though I need to find citations for the information I am using. I have grown up  playing and watching basketball, so I know a lot of random facts about basketball. I have used a lot of these facts for my paper but I do not have sources to back them up. My quest for this next month is to find sources to back up the facts I know. I now have the next month to polish up my draft and have one beast of a research paper!

The Final Thesis

My final thesis is as follows "Having positive reinforcing attitudes rather than negative reinforcing attitudes by coaches in college basketball generates a better winning percentage and sends more players to the NBA because it allows their players to build confidence and better character while developing their players into men and preparing them for the rest of their lives." As I have said before I am finding some very supportive material on my thesis. Not only will I look at how many of college coaches coach positively today but I will also look at past coaches. I will compare the winning percentages of both negative coaches such as Bob Knight with positive coaches such as John Wooden. Both of these men were very good coaches but the question is who was better. These are not the only 2 coaches I will compare, and I will show which is more succesful by each coaches' winning percentage and how many players each of them have sent to the NBA. Other coaches I will compare are Adolph Rupp, John Calipari, Rick Pitino, Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Boeheim, and others.

Doin' Work

I finally got most of my books for my research. The book before got me 29 note cards and I'm finding some really good stuff in these other books I'm looking into. So yet again things could not be going better for this research paper. I talked to Coach Welborn this week and we are going to try to get a scrimmage between Oakbrook and Eddlemon. Everything is coming together very nicely! Also my Oakbrook boys  soccer team will be playing in the state final. GO KNIGHTS! And no matter what happens, win or lose, glory be to God and him alone!

Finding it all out!

So I found out this week that the basketball season will start in January. This is good because it will give me time to work on my paper more. I can't wait to get started with the project and my mentor is very excited. I also started to research for my paper and I couldn't be finding better information. One of the books has a chapter entitled "Always Be Positive." So I'm stoked, but ready to get this all over with.