The 'Where's Tarantino' Question

Is it the right question?

“If Einstein did not question Newton’s understanding of how everything worked, we would have been stuck with Newtonian physics. We wouldn’t have gotten relativity. And if people did not question Einstein, we wouldn’t have gotten quantum physics. Everything comes through questioning.”

-Aravind Srinivas

Things you’ve heard me say before:

• Cody wrote a great article

I’m going to highlight some of it, but strongly consider reading the entire piece:

Cody’s main question is, where are the Tarantino’s in coaching?

That might not be the right question.

Is the better question, are there no Tarantino’s IN coaching because you don’t get into the game if you are him? To stick with the filmmaking analogy, if you have to be a ‘copy’ to get a job, no originals make the cutting room floor in coaching.

Is the coaching space homogenous because the coaches that ‘make it in coaching’ are all the same because the game shuns ‘different’?

In hockey, there ARE Tarantino’s, you just don’t know they exist.

They aren’t visible.

Tarantino doesn’t get into the game.

Have a unique perspective, don’t say the soundbites everyone else says, and think about the game ‘outside the box’ and you’ll find yourself outside the coaching game for 5 years.

And if he does slip through a crack, he gets insecurity demoted to the press box, drowned in paperwork, or fired midseason by an ego-manic, stuck in his ways…

Question the status quo and you might find yourself questioning if you have a job tomorrow…

IF they let you in…

“Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital, quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change.”

-Bobby Kennedy

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