How Do You Measure Success?

By the time you receive this issue of AFM, there will be 333 high school teams which have completed their seasons as state champions in various divisions. Champions in the FCS, D-II, D-III and NAIA will have been crowned and the BCS National Championship will be right around the corner. Coaches on all of these teams would likely say that success is measured by championships, trophies and undefeated records. They would be right. No one would deny that these championship coaches and their players are winners and have, collectively, been successful. In our society, we are conditioned to celebrate winning and equate that to success. Whether it’s a team achieving the best record in a sport, a business making the largest profit, an individual acquiring the most wealth or an entertainer taking home the most awards, we call that success. And it’s certainly not wrong to do so. But there are