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Post by midsfan on May 5, 2008 20:03:06 GMT -6
All right guys, how many of you have to do it? I am about to move and will not have to next year. However, a coaching buddy of mine informed me that now a days if you accidently bump into the car in front of you and you don't have something checked off on a list it is $1200 that YOU have to pay. If someone hits you the same rules apply. Not $1200 overall it is $1200 a piece, for each thing you did not have checked. Example: If they find that you did not have a Air Break check, that is $1200. What do you guys think? Should coaches have to drive a bus? What is the policy where you guys are at?
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Post by airraider on May 5, 2008 20:10:12 GMT -6
We get off pretty good.. we have bus drivers as well as an activities bus that picks our kids up after practice.. that is GOLDEN my friend..
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Post by onthemarkfootball on May 5, 2008 20:21:13 GMT -6
Last year we had to drive buses. We had those little "short" buses and it took 3 of them to get our entire team to a game. 12-15 kids per bus. Not exactly what I wanted to do and dreaded it after hearing the horror stories of accidents ect.
My bus was hit in a parking lot. No one on board but the paperwork was a bit crazy. School district was pretty good about it.
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Post by biggroff on May 5, 2008 20:46:29 GMT -6
I used to work at a high school where we had to bus the entire football program to practice each day (around 140 kids for 3 levels). The practice fields were about 1.5 miles from the school. Needless to say we had 4 or 5 coaches that were certified to drive a bus. Thus the coaches drove the bus to games.
The nice thing is that the coaches that drove got paid the entire time they were at practice and at the games! Talk about double dipping!
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Post by catoc on May 5, 2008 21:06:51 GMT -6
We drive a bus. No extra pay. Some schools in Texas pay the coaches $10-$25 extra per trip to drive. Ours falls under the heading of: "and other duties as assigned".
Of course 3 of us have wreaked the bus so we may get out of it like that. Not likely.
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Post by fatkicker on May 5, 2008 21:29:00 GMT -6
you could lie......."i went through the pretrip check-list dr. jones.....coach smith was standing there with me."
who's to say different........but it is a scary operation if you think about it......of course we're all suppose to do the check list......any body walk around the bus and check all 50 something items before every trip? especially you coaches that only drive a mile and a half one-way.....
i'm sure as he!! not a mechanic....i wouldn't know if something was broken anyway.....
that's not the scariest part to me though........it's driving a bus after a tough loss......my mind isn't on the road......and now that i have a 2 year old.....i know that i have 30 something of somebody else's babies on board.....it's not safe for anybody........but sometimes our district is too cheap to pay somebody else an extra 40 dollars to drive.......
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Post by knighter on May 5, 2008 21:41:52 GMT -6
Keep it quiet...I have my CDL/Bus License...don't tell! Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
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Post by k on May 6, 2008 9:48:48 GMT -6
We don't have to drive. In fact I'm the only one who does. But I drive every away freshman/JV/Varsity game. $100 each game.
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Post by olinecoach61 on May 6, 2008 10:31:35 GMT -6
Are you guys covered under the school's insurance policy? I would be afraid of getting in a bad wreck and having 15 kids suing you. Up here were told to not even give the kids rides in our cars in case of accidents, etc.
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Post by k on May 6, 2008 10:48:59 GMT -6
Are you guys covered under the school's insurance policy? I would be afraid of getting in a bad wreck and having 15 kids suing you. Up here were told to not even give the kids rides in our cars in case of accidents, etc. I am. Here you need a special license to carry the kids in your car. I have that. Further you're told they need to sign a waiver. I get that. No waiver needed for the bus. |
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Post by coachmathis on May 9, 2008 9:01:45 GMT -6
Wish coaches at our school didnt but the head coach usually does and sometimes the principal(Small privae school). We were in a situation the last couple of years where we often drove kids in our own cars because of a lack of a bus driver.
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Post by airman on May 9, 2008 14:09:26 GMT -6
i would never want to drive the bus. I am glad I have never had this type of problem.
after what happened to my friend I would never want to drive a team. back in 1978, my friend was taking his softball team to state. it was a small school and they had to drive. well, he an d4 girls packed into his car. his car was the last car in a convoy of 4 cars. the girls thought they would have fun. they made a sign up which said kidnapped. a cop managed to see it and well you can imagine, it was a fiasco. they had my friend down on the ground, handcuffed while they figured out what was going on. remember, this is 1978 so police were not very organized outside of their area. the girls said it was a joke and it was when every thing got straightened out.
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Post by coachjolly on May 9, 2008 21:09:05 GMT -6
Our District is making in MANDATORY that all coach drive buses. They are trying to save $. They are not paying us and I DO NOT want to drive. I would not want to drive regaurdless
If I were a parent, I would have a problem with someone driving a bus full of 30 or so kids, who did not really want to drive the thing.
If they push it, I plan to fail the driving test over and over and over and over. They are trying to save money but they will keep paying to sending my fat butt to take the test, we'll see how long that last.
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Post by wildcat on May 11, 2008 7:12:54 GMT -6
The AD at our school wants coaches to get a bus driver's license. The school will pay for the whole thing and then pay you to drive to games. Our problem is not being able find enough people who want to drive a bus.
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Post by oguru on May 11, 2008 12:26:59 GMT -6
I have never had to drive a bus for a game. However this past season. I had to drive from the south side of town to the east side of town to pick up our defensive coordinator,and then drive back to the south side of town for the last 45 minutes of practice two days a week.
Our DC who was a security guard at the school I coached at pissed off the principal,and then got transferred schools, and during the summer his car got repossed, he missed two weeks of practice,and all of the coaches told the HC to fire him, but he wouldn't, then I was volunteered to pick him up.
It was a pain in the butt, and not being at practice hurt the time I could have had weith the jayvee offense seeing we got 10 reps a week five reps a day tuesday and wednesday we played on Mondays.
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Post by fbdoc on May 11, 2008 14:18:43 GMT -6
THe school I've been at for the past 7 years had 1 small bus (14 passenger) that anyone could drive if needed - XC, tennis, softball, etc. Everyone else used charter buses (yellow and motor coach) with drivers. It was just a cost of doing business. My new school - start in July as AD - has a similar system except they have 2 of their own (14 and 28) and they also have individuals on campus who drive for the coach. It is just not a good idea for a coach to also drive for all of the reasons previously mentioned. Coaches should not drive!
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Post by CoachDaniel on May 11, 2008 15:15:39 GMT -6
I used to drive the 14 passenger bus on wrestling trips. Thursday night, 9:30pm making an hour trip home from JV wrestling... not safe. Can't even imagine doing it after football on a Friday.
Of course, at one wrestling tournament the bus driver's son cussed an official and I pulled him from the tournament. She threw a fit, threatening not to take us home. Only time I've ever wished that I was driving the bus (I refuse to get on a bus with that one now).
They did bring up the issue of coaches driving buses a couple of years ago, but it has not been brought up lately. There are only a few coaches that can drive them and they try to keep it hush hush.
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Post by WTR on May 12, 2008 11:45:08 GMT -6
Coach/driver here. I can testify, it sucks. Especially those long trips and we do not have an activity bus so its 55mph tops all the way.
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Post by fatkicker on May 12, 2008 19:09:54 GMT -6
coachin buddy of mine had the buses in their district governed down to 48.......
it took 'em 4 hours to go anywhere.......
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