What to do during coaching change?

Who is manning the weight room?
Any clinics you and the others would like to go to? If so, organize those.

Same situation here.

we are in the same situation. Like others have mentioned, we worked everything out through the AD. Our last year's OC is taking "control" of the weight room as a point person to organize things. We are all helping him out. All of the coaches in the program are getting with the AD to discuss what we would like to do for clinics/visits in the offseason. He is taking into consideration what every one would like to do and taking control over the budget during this time.

In the weight room, we don't talk about possibilities of potential coaches to be named. We just focus on the fact that we are here for the program and trying to get the team and program ready for next year, regardless of who the next coach is. Can't really do much more than that. (But if there is something, I sure would like to know so we can help our kids)

Didn't apply. I do not have any head coaching experience and from the looks of the search/hiring process they are looking for an experienced HC.

I agree with Larry, I was in a situation like that, and I manned the weight room, got the juniors on the recruiting schedule, went to clinics, and I applied for the job. I got it, so I guess showing what you can do was very helpful!

All good suggestions -- the one thing I would add is to make contacts, as appropriate & necessary, to keep your program plugged into opportunities that involve other programs. For example, there is a passing league with a full slate of games that runs every summer in our metropolitan area. When we had a HC vacancy about 5 years ago, one of the things I did was make sure I made contact with the coach who organizes that league to let him know that we planned to continue to participate. As the O-line/D-line coach, I'd been responsible for organizing a Linemen's Challenge competition for the same evening that we hosted passing league "games," so I continued those preparations. If your program has traditionally attended a team camp, for example, you might want to take steps to secure your program's place at the team camp this summer.

In my situation, I did apply for the head position but didn't get it for reasons still not completely clear. After the hiring of the new HC, I drove to a clinic 2+ hours away that he was speaking at to meet him. I then served as the line of communication between him and the rest of the coaching staff until he could get moved into the area that summer, including implementation of the spring practices. And I helped him move in to his house, including recruiting players to help with the move.

I guess my point is: regardless of whether you're an applicant or not, and regardless of any concerns you may have about who the new HC may be, I would encourage you to commit yourself to the good of the program and the players in it and look to do whatever you can to help ease the transition for the good of all involved.