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Reaction to a Few
Stein’s Blog Reaction of the Few During my first coaching stint at Doane College (University), I usually allowed my players to decide where we ate. To this day, every one of those players will tell you that...
Fall Sports – A New Beginning
Stein’s Blog Fall Sports – A New Beginning This is a really exciting time of the year for a college coach. The students just arrived on campus. The parking lots are a now full. I have to watch...
Al Papik
Stein’s Blog In 1955, Al Papik returned to Doane as a coach after a teaching and coaching stint at Crete High School. Al had a twin brother, Ervin. Ervin’s son is Dan who owns and operates Ace...
Motivation for a Star
Ryan Baumgartner is the women’s basketball coach at Doane University. He was named the head coach about Christmas time three years ago. Things were in a mess. A new coaching hire didn’t work...
Summer Baseball Coach
Baseball. That’s all that needs to be said for me. You don’t have to have a lot of words like the weather is warming up, the grass is getting green, or the leaves are popping out on the trees. If you say baseball, I know all that is true. I am pretty jealous […]
A Doane Icon
You don’t see Tom Hood in Crete often these days. He told me he has coffee once a week with a bunch of his former Doane College (University) colleagues. I hear representatives from past science and math departments can be found in this gathering. I...
A Ritual of the Fall
The fall is a time for worry among college coaches, especially those that have a winter or spring season. There are so many things that can go wrong for their new student/athletes. It’s important to get them busy right from the start. In my first stint at...