{"id":2218,"date":"2005-09-28T10:49:39","date_gmt":"2005-09-28T10:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2005\/09\/28\/we-can-get-better\/"},"modified":"2005-09-28T10:49:39","modified_gmt":"2005-09-28T10:49:39","slug":"we-can-get-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2005\/09\/28\/we-can-get-better\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We can get better!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'\">Jim Amidon<\/span><\/i> <span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'\">\u2014 As the home game photographer for Wabash&#8217;s athletic teams, I like to shoot more than just game action. Some of the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/photo_album\/home.cfm?blog_photo_album_id=7\">best shots<\/a> I get come after a game, when the Little Giants are taking off their uniforms and preparing for their coach&#8217;s post-game comments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/Coach.jpg\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" \/><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'\">So, after games, I tend to stick close to the players. After Saturday&#8217;s 50-2 win over Earlham, most members of the Wabash football team were in great spirits \u2014\u2020high fives and hugs were exchanged by all. Coach Creighton gathered the team together and one of the very first things he said was, &quot;We can get better.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'\">Coach Creighton is successful \u2014 and makes his men successful in sports and in later life \u2014 because, like faculty, he always challenges his student-athletes to improve. And he knows that being overly congratulatory after a 50-2 win would go straight to the heads of his players. Instead, he focused on the penalties the team made and a few things on which the team needs to improve this week at practice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'\">Having spent a good bit of time in the classroom this month, I know faculty have precisely the same approach: &quot;We can always get better.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Amidon \u2014 As the home game photographer for Wabash&#8217;s athletic teams, I like to shoot more than just game action. Some of the best shots I get come after a game, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}