Rodd's ramblings: Coaching is about a lot more than winning

The last few weeks have been more than a bit of a whirlwind.

As an assistant coach with the Cloquet softball team, I had a chance to be part of something special with the team picking up a Section 7AAA championship — in the most incredible of ways — and then heading down to the Minnesota State softball tournament in Mankato where Cloquet finished third.

This isn’t a column about coaches, but more so about all that coaches face and must do in order to achieve great things. Unfortunately, there are also things that all of us coaches do wrong — because we are human — and wish we could have done d...