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How do I become a head coach?

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MoDawg

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My dream is to become a high school football coach some day and I was wondering if anyone had some tips on how I could do this?

 

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Svhick0

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Begin by volunteering if you have to. Help with the middle school, freshmen, whatever you need. Be there as much as you can and learn not only offenses and defenses run by your school, but practice preparation, motivation, game planning. Ask as many questions as you can and soak up the information.

oneijoe

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My friend, go to college and get your secondary school teaching certificate. That's, by far, the best vehicle to get you where you want to go...

Watusi

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My friend, go to college and get your secondary school teaching certificate. That's, by far, the best vehicle to get you where you want to go...

 

Absolutely. And while you are in college, try to become an assistant coach on the football team. If not, volunteer at a local high school. When you do your student teaching, try to do it at a football school and volunteer to coach.

 

After you have your teaching certificate, when you start job hunting, don't just apply at the local school in your hometown. Apply at various other football schools around the state. Try to get the best experience under the best coaches possible, it will make you a better coach and also help your coaching resume`.

CoachJ

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Fastacker, I developed something a while back for coaches on our staff that were wanting to be a head coach and/or coordinator one day. Don't know if you're at the stage they were (certified to teach, have a little HS coaching experience already, etc.), but I still think it might be helpful.

 

It's too big to post on here, so email me at mjackson@pikeville.k12.ky.us and I'll send you the attachment via email.

 

In the meantime, I think by your profile you'd still be college-aged...

 

1) get your teaching certificate -- even though there's a rule that says non-teachers can be head coaches, most administrators won't hire a non-teacher as a football head coach. Also, most systems can't hire ANYBODY to coach AT ALL unless they have about 60 or so college hours under their belt.

 

Try to get your teaching certificate in something there's a DEMAND for (be careful about majoring in PE or History...they're getting to be a dime a dozen and administrators aren't crazy about over-stocking their faculty with PE teachers when there's no PE section on the CATS tests); I always recommend science, math, or special ed. (almost a LOCK to get a job in a lot of places if you're special ed...but you need to have a desire to work with those kids...in some ways, it's more work, in some ways less, but it is DIFFERENT than any other teaching job...do some real research, observe some actual teachers of the different subjects you're interested in, talk to veteran teachers of any subject you'd be interested in).

 

2) either play college football where you are or VOLUNTEER to help in some way in the football program AND tell them you have a desire to coach one day. May not be the most "glamorous" position, but it'll hopefully get you in the door, and unless it's at a D-1 or 1AA program, small colleges usually are very short-staffed. Work your butt off for that coach so he'll give you a good recommendation one day (and, just because you should work your butt off regardless!).

 

3) if you can't help at the college, volunteer to be an assistant at a HIGH SCHOOL nearby. Might have to be an unpaid volunteer, might not -- depends on the school system's rules. Either way, get the experience NOW...it'll make you MUCH more marketable to get an assistant/teaching job once you're done with college and hopefully help you get an assistants job at a GOOD high school program.

 

4) And that's probably the NUMBER ONE thing you should be concerned with -- getting that first real assistant coaching job at a place that DOES THINGS RIGHT! Try to hook up with a program that has a Head Coach that's willing to TEACH you the finer points of the game (rather than just a guy that will boss you around and make you learn everything on your own). Try to get established in a program that's viewed as "a winner." That way, when you apply for your own head coaching job, they'll think you maybe have learned some of the "secrets" to building a winning program.

 

Good luck.

All Play No Work

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1. Go to a first grade class and practice eveyone wanting all your attention all at the same time.

 

2. Go work the Complaint Desk at a store.

 

3. Practice filling out forms for hours at a time.

 

4. Watch a lot of D 1 football games so you can say yes I know what a D 1 athlete looks like, and your son is not one.

 

5. Learn lawn maintenance, how to fix weight equiptment, how to run a washing machine.

 

6. Practice answering the phone at 6 AM and then at 1 AM and hoping it is just a parent complaining and not a player in trouble or in an accident.

 

7. Take a class so you can become a videographer so you can make highlight tapes, and take a sales class so you can convince some graduate assisstant that your star senior LB does run a 4.6 and does weigh 240. Take a morals class so you can tell some graduate assistant that your 2nd string OT is not 6'4", 265 with 4.9 speed and is really 6'1 280 with 5.3 speed.

 

8. Find a wife who likes football and doesn't mind hearing how you run when you should pass, you pass when you should run, and everybody knows what the next play is.

CoachJ

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1. Go to a first grade class and practice eveyone wanting all your attention all at the same time.

 

2. Go work the Complaint Desk at a store.

 

3. Practice filling out forms for hours at a time.

 

4. Watch a lot of D 1 football games so you can say yes I know what a D 1 athlete looks like, and your son is not one.

 

5. Learn lawn maintenance, how to fix weight equiptment, how to run a washing machine.

 

6. Practice answering the phone at 6 AM and then at 1 AM and hoping it is just a parent complaining and not a player in trouble or in an accident.

 

7. Take a class so you can become a videographer so you can make highlight tapes, and take a sales class so you can convince some graduate assisstant that your star senior LB does run a 4.6 and does weigh 240. Take a morals class so you can tell some graduate assistant that your 2nd string OT is not 6'4", 265 with 4.9 speed and is really 6'1 280 with 5.3 speed.

 

8. Find a wife who likes football and doesn't mind hearing how you run when you should pass, you pass when you should run, and everybody knows what the next play is.

 

:laugh: true...true.

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