Types of Players

Spartan Nation

4 Types of Players:

1.     Unconscious & Incompetent -  These types of players “don’t know that they don’t know”. These players aren’t going to contribute on a winning team.

2.     Conscious & Incompetent – These players now realize that “they know they aren’t getting it, they know they are not doing it”. These players know they aren’t doing what’s being asked of them, they know they are not contributing to a winning team.

3.     Conscious & Competent – At this level of development, the player is able to perform various skills (competent), but SHE must think about everything that she is doing before performing the skill; i.e. catch the ball, go into triple threat, direct drive. YOU KNOW, BUT YOU DON’T FLOW. VERY ROBOTIC.

4.     Unconscious & Competent – The most difficult level to reach, this player can perform the skills without having to think about them. For this type of player, the game naturally “flows”.  

BLAME NOBODY. EXPECT NOTHING. DO SOMETHING.

Don Meyer

· Completed his career in 2010 at Northern State, 923 – 324 (.740).

· “How Lucky Can You Be” – Buster Olney

· Pat Summit’s Mentor – “He Taught me how to teach others how to play the game. When I started coaching at Tennessee, I was 22 years old. I had four players 21 that were seniors. And I never coached a day in my life. So did Coach Meyer help me? Tremendously” (2009).

· Don Meyer had cancer discovered in his liver and intestines during emergency surgery after a car crash on September 5, 2008. His lower left leg had to be amputated below the knee due to injuries from the car crash. During the surgery they found cancer and later operated on it.

· In 2009 he won the Jimmy V Award for perseverance.