Our head coach I'm not going to mention the school or names got his first hate mail last week calling for him to be replaced. Before he arrived the best they had done was a 3rd place finish in the district and a 56-0 thrashing in the first round of the playoffs. All of this is since 1990 they had been fairly succesfull for a long time,but since 90 the best regular season was 5-5 and that first round playoff loss. This is his fourth year and the only changes made his first two years were him as the head coach and one assistant line coach. His first year was 9-3 and the second round of the playoffs the worst they have been since he came is 7-4 and a 1 point loss in the first round. This year he is 4-2 with the two losses being to top 20 AAA schools,and he coaches A ball. He's been district runner up every year to a traditional state power and the players truly like him. Of course whomever wrote this letter didn't sign it. What do you think is time for a change? :confused:

Sounds to me like an upset parent sent a letter. If the players like him and he has been somewhat successful I don't see a problem. No coach, and I speak from experience, is going to please everyone.

Sounds to me like an upset parent sent a letter. If the players like him and he has been somewhat successful I don't see a problem. No coach, and I speak from experience, is going to please everyone.

 

I agree with you 100 percent -- there's no way that any coach will ever please everyone. Maybe this person that wrote this hate mail needs to study the terms teamwork and character.:thumb:

Our head coach I'm not going to mention the school or names got his first hate mail last week calling for him to be replaced. Before he arrived the best they had done was a 3rd place finish in the district and a 56-0 thrashing in the first round of the playoffs. All of this is since 1990 they had been fairly succesfull for a long time,but since 90 the best regular season was 5-5 and that first round playoff loss. This is his fourth year and the only changes made his first two years were him as the head coach and one assistant line coach. His first year was 9-3 and the second round of the playoffs the worst they have been since he came is 7-4 and a 1 point loss in the first round. This year he is 4-2 with the two losses being to top 20 AAA schools,and he coaches A ball. He's been district runner up every year to a traditional state power and the players truly like him. Of course whomever wrote this letter didn't sign it. What do you think is time for a change? :confused:

 

 

If they where serious about wanting the change they would have signed their name to the letter IMO!

He needs to take it for what it's worth, NOTHING!

Geting letters,phone calls and hearing negative comments from unhappy parents or alumni are part of what goes with being a head coach. No matter what he does someone will not be satisfied with what he does. The coach has to stick with his program and do the things that he & his players believe in. If the kids & the Administration believe in what he is doing & support him then he has no worries. I would ignore the lettter but would file it away for safe keeping. It may start with a letter & end up being something else if the said person is not capable of controlling his or her emotions, this way if somethig does occur ( and I pray it does not) then the coach has a record of the incident and can prove his actions. He needs to stay the course and do what he believes in to make the program a success.

If there were a real problem this person would come out and be a man and not hide behind an unsigned letter.

This is the bad part about coaching, but is normal I am sure you would have trouble finding any coach out there that has not got a letter, email, or phone call that wanted him fired or done away with.

This ticks me off...Knowing the town that is being discussed this doesn't surprise me in the slightest. At some point parents need to realize that the coaches can only do so much...They are there to provide the essentials necessary to winning the game that week, and after that, it is out of their hands...It's up to the kids to excute what they have been told during the week. Maybe instead of writing hate mail to the coach, that person should look at their kid and ask them why they are terrible...

And another thing....If you're going to write a letter of that sort, be a man about it and sign the letter...That reminds me of prank calling someone in middle school, telling them you want to beat them up, but not saying who it is...Very cowardly, IMO.

Unsigned complaints should be immediately filed in the trash.

 

The obvious exception would be concerns regarding the well being of student-athletes and harrassment type issues.

Cowards take approaches like this and if the writer has issues, he can voice them privately to most coaches, provided their tone is civil.

 

I have no respect for those, who have the wherewithal to write a letter, but lack the courage to sign it.

On a lighter side, at least it's not as bad as the old Jim Valvano story.

 

He said after he arrived at NC State they had some rough years. He got a letter saying that the fan was so mad at Valvano that he was going to come by and kill his dog if the State program didn't start winning soon.

 

Incensed by the anonymous threat, Valvano mentioned it on his coaches show and said, "I don't even have a dog."

 

The next week the UPS guy showed up at his door and delivered a box to the NC State Coach. Inside he found a cute puppy.

 

A note was attached that read:

 

Here's a dog just for you Valvano. But don't get too attached to it.

When the coach won't play my 5'2" 120lb son at starting fullback, even though he does the 40 in 6.3, you can bet I'm going to write a letter every week calling for his removal. And don't you forget that I know important people. Heck, I even shook the superintendant's hand once. And yes, I mail all of my letters from West Virginia. Unsigned too.

I would offer this head coach some advice,

 

**In this business, you have to "Circle the Wagons and say To HECK with the rest!!".

 

This is a biproduct of the college and NFL hiring and firing circus that is now the norm. Unfortunately, it has trickled down to to the high school level. When a guy gets a loss or two it time for a change and everyone seems to have the right answer. I would also add that some of these schools who have large hiring committees with kids and parents involved, open the door for things like this.

 

Since this letter is anonomious, I would trash it, move on, and stay the course. It seems that every outsider and fan thinks that they know when the trigger should be pulled on a head coach's job. Every high school in the nation has a stand full of head coaches and offensive coordinators. However, they are not around during the off-season, cleaning the locker rooms, striping fields, mowing grass, washing uniforms, doing work on Saturday or Sunday, etc.