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Post by bulldogoption on Dec 15, 2006 7:18:53 GMT -6
Coaches:
Interested in your opinions on which is best:
1. Coaching multiple sports to develop relationships with players and help your program.
2. Coach only football and using the offseason to develop your football knowledge to the maximum.
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Post by sls on Dec 15, 2006 7:48:18 GMT -6
As an assistant I coached both MS basketball in order to recruit and Varsity track to do football. Now as a head coach I do not do the other sports, just to be home a little more. I still hang out with track. I encourage my assistants to coach other sports and almost insist that my unmarriede assistants coach basketball.
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Post by mib36 on Dec 15, 2006 8:19:26 GMT -6
As an unmarried assistant, I have plenty of free time. However, I coach multiple sports because I'm a junky. I can't get enough of coaching, of athletics, or of being around our kids. I coach Wrestling, as well as overseeing both the men's and women's Track teams. I love being around the school and our kids. I think it's my responsibility to be there for all of our athletes; we ask them to sacrifice so much for us, why shouldn't I spend a little time around them at school to show that I'm committed too?
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Post by superpower on Dec 15, 2006 8:40:04 GMT -6
Last spring I coached middle school track, and now I am coaching middle school basketball. I hate to admit this, but I took both jobs for the $$$. However, both situations turned out to be very rewarding, and I am building relationships and doing some recruiting.
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Post by knighter on Dec 15, 2006 9:06:03 GMT -6
If you have not figured it out all the schemes in the world (knowledge) won't get you anywhere if you have not firmly fostered a realtionship with the players you have.
I coach track, just so I can be with the fellas and get to know them away from lifting, SAQ, and football. Have convinced many a kid who has never played FB to try it during track season.
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Post by bluecrazy on Dec 15, 2006 9:19:29 GMT -6
I'm thinking of helping with track, "I want my football players, that don't play baseball to run", but what I have found, is that now I'm a head coach, I don't really see allot of down time. Took 2 weeks off after season, but now is weight lifting & foot work. Also have to tweak play book on both sides of the ball. Will attend clinics, and oh yes, spend time with wife, and grandkids!!
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Post by knighter on Dec 15, 2006 9:53:29 GMT -6
Blue- I know how you feel. I take my 2 weeks off after the season, and right back to work. I try to spend as much time as I can with my wife and daughter, but I know sometimes they get shafted.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2006 13:06:40 GMT -6
For me personally, I'm not sure I would have the energy to do another sport because of how much I work on football. Besides, I enjoy working in the weightroom with players and make appearances at almost all of the basketball games so I'm no stranger to the other sports.
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Post by larrymoe on Dec 15, 2006 14:15:35 GMT -6
2 years ago I was the head coach of three sports- football, wrestling and tennis. I would NEVER, I mean NEVER, recomend that to anyone. Was head of 2 last year- football and wrestling. This year I'm just an assistant for football at a different school. For me the perfect combo would be football and track (I've coached it in the past). I'd like to turn track into football conditioning and lifting.  |
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Post by fort on Dec 15, 2006 14:29:43 GMT -6
As an unmarried assistant, I have plenty of free time. However, I coach multiple sports because I'm a junky. I can't get enough of coaching, of athletics, or of being around our kids. I coach Wrestling, as well as overseeing both the men's and women's Track teams. I love being around the school and our kids. I think it's my responsibility to be there for all of our athletes; we ask them to sacrifice so much for us, why shouldn't I spend a little time around them at school to show that I'm committed too? I feel the same way. I was an assistant for MS football, and now I'm an assistant for MS wrestling. I think I need to pick up on another sport so I can stick around for the spring. This was my first year coaching and I absolutely love it. I love working with the kids. I think I can say I'm officially addicted to coaching. Now off to find another sport to help out with... |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2006 15:14:48 GMT -6
I guess I should have also said that I don't really have the knowledge to coach anything else. I could probably handle youth league or grade school basketball, but that would be it. And besides, a lot of the parents fell I don't have enough football knowledge so why try something else!!! ;D
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Post by bluboy on Dec 15, 2006 16:28:05 GMT -6
I am an assistant vartsity coach. In the winter I help run the weight room with the head coach and one other assistant (other assistants coach winter sports). I coach lacrosse in the spring (the head football coach is the head lacrosse coach).
I think any time you are involved with the kids (outside the classroom) you develop some great relationships. By the way, many of our football players are also lacrosse players.
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Post by coachdawhip on Dec 15, 2006 16:49:44 GMT -6
1. Coaching multiple sports to develop relationships with players and help your program.
I do both Asst. Head Football Coach and Head Boys Varsity Track Coach
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Post by coachjblair on Dec 15, 2006 18:32:49 GMT -6
Right now I am just doing one sport. My schedule goes like this.
August-November Football Season
December-Most of January away from the team spend time with family and start my yearly off-season project.
January-March Speed and agility and recruiting calls and coaching clinics.
April Spring Ball
May-July camps
If I worked at the high school level I might try and do more then one sport, but now time does not permit.
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Post by coachf on Dec 16, 2006 21:31:35 GMT -6
2 years ago I was the head coach of three sports- football, wrestling and tennis. I would NEVER, I mean NEVER, recomend that to anyone. Was head of 2 last year- football and wrestling. This year I'm just an assistant for football at a different school. For me the perfect combo would be football and track (I've coached it in the past). I'd like to turn track into football conditioning and lifting. You could coach like a man we both know from my days in high school. "OK, sprinters- 4 -400's and 5 -200's, long-distance 4 miles. Football players go run patterns." Not to knock it, I would do the exact same thing...except I would tell them to hit the sled, too. ;D |
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Post by superpower on Dec 17, 2006 13:02:56 GMT -6
TRACK = SPRING FOOTBALL
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Post by groundchuck on Dec 17, 2006 13:06:09 GMT -6
I run the wrestling team strength program 2-3 days week. It is just 90 minutes a week so it is not like a huge daily committment. I know most of the kids from football. But have had a chance to get to know them better. I have also been able to be in contact with other kids who I did not have in football. I think we will be picking up a few new ones next fall...maybe we'll see I guess.
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Post by phantom on Dec 17, 2006 13:13:45 GMT -6
I used to do indoor and outdoor track in addition to football and it got old. Not only did it cut down on clinics but there were invitational meets every Saturday.
"The only thing more boring that Track is Field"
Dan Jenkins
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Post by CoachMikeJudy on Dec 17, 2006 13:39:26 GMT -6
The relationships are the most important aspect of coaching- despite the wins/losses. I was Asst Head Coach Football, Asst Track Indoor, and Asst Track Outdoor as well as S&C Coordinator for all sports. I was a coaching junkie and loved it- I like the stipends but I'd do it for free anyway...
As you can imagine that only lasted 1 year (with pressure from the wife), now I am still Asst Head Coach Football and strictly S&C Coordinator in the off-season, and it works out well. I set up a weight room schedule for all teams, with in-season programs getting priority times. It was hectic at first but it's all good now. Our wrestling program is pretty good and practice starts later in the day (4:00-6:00), so now I find myself up there working out and wrestling with the fellas 2-3 times a week after I'm done in the weight room.
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Post by champ93 on Dec 17, 2006 21:05:18 GMT -6
Back in BC (before children) i was an assistant coach in both football and wrestling and loved it. But by mid-March I was about dead.
14 years later and going into my 4th year as Head Coach, I can't imagine coaching 2 sports. The time demands as head coach are too much. I run the weight room after school for High school and jr hi football players, then rush off to my kid's jr hi basketball games, jr hi track or summer baseball (which seems to be played in April & May?).
I, like many of you, have 4 full time jobs--Dad, Husband, Head Football Coach, & teacher. Sometimes I don't know which one comes first.
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Post by Coach Huey on Dec 17, 2006 21:08:18 GMT -6
coaching in Texas, pretty much requires you to do 2 sports. some coaches have to do 3.
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