Dave Sez

Pressurized Bunting

The News & Observer has a pretty article about stress on head coaches, focusing on the pressure on North Carolina coach John Bunting. Bunting is coaching for his job this year. He does a pretty good job of hiding the stress, but it's clearly there. This article talks a bit about how and why coaches internalize their stress. I'm not buying the claims by some coaches that they don't feel any additional stress when their job situation gets precarious. Sure, all games are stressful, but you can't convince me that it doesn't get worse when you feel that if you lose you're fired.