We analyze the promotions and firings of NCAA Division 1 college basketball and college football coaches to assess whether these coaches are rewarded for the academic performance of their players in promotion and retention decisions. We find that an increase in Academic Progress Rate, as measured by the NCAA, for a college team in either sport significantly reduces the probability that the coac...

Do team managers and coaches make rational decisions? In the era of big data one would expect coaching decisions to always be rational with respect to the maximization of the expected points scored. In order to examine this hypothesis we use data from the National Football League for the past 7 seasons to analyze two specific discrete decisions/choices that coaches face several times during a g...

Few behavioral parent training (BPT) treatment studies for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have included and measured outcomes with fathers. In this study, fathers were randomly assigned to attend a standard BPT program or the Coaching Our Acting-Out Children: Heightening Essential Skills (COACHES) program. The COACHES program included BPT plus sports skills training for the chi...

A long-standing issue in higher education in engineering and other technical fields has been that of recruitment and retention of female students. The arguments for this are many, and here we will restrict our interest to recruitment with the support of virtual coaches. Baylor and collaborators demonstrated (Baylor & Plant, 2005; Baylor, Rosenberg-Kima, & Plant, 2006) that the use of virtual co...

The past 20 years have witnessed a rapid growth in youth and school based sports. With about 60 million American youth participating in organized sports, the need has never been greater for coaches that understand the rapid physical and emotional changes that occur during adolescence, especially during peak height velocity. The purpose of this commentary is to advocate for applying scientific p...

This study examined the integration of professional judgement and decision-making processes in adventure sports coaching. The study utilised a thematic analysis approach to investigate the decision-making practices of a sample of high-level adventure sports coaches over a series of sessions. Results revealed that, in order to make judgements and decisions in practice, expert coaches employ a ra...

The purpose of this research is studying and regulating indices of talent detection in the game of volleyball according to views of prominent volleyball coaches in Khuzestan Province. So, the researcher assessed opinions of all 100 active coaches in this province. The methodology is descriptive survey research which has been carried out with field method. Measurement material was five-value que...

Managing organizational reputations is a central strategic challenge for public and nonprofit managers. Because an industry reputation is a collective good, individual organizations do not always have the incentive to promote their industry’s collective reputation. As in common property settings generally, individuals have greater incentives to boost collective reputations when consumption of t...

The aim of present study was to analyse how decision and planning styles of a coach are influenced by intrinsic variables: age, gender and experience of the coach, and by extrinsic variables: gender, age and competitive level of the teams trained. The investigation carried out focuses on the analysis of the characteristics of the coach and a number of actions linked to coaching, specifically de...

The present study examined personal and social correlates of poor sportspersonship among youth sport participants. Male and female athletes (n = 676) in the fifth through eighth grades from three geographic regions of the U.S. participated in the study. Young athletes involved in basketball, soccer, football, hockey, baseball/ softball, or lacrosse completed a questionnaire that tapped poor spo...