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Post by oregoncoach on Jun 23, 2009 10:56:22 GMT -6
Do you recruit your own coaches and/or have the same assistants year after year?
Does your organization assign you assistants?
How does your organization, or how would you, deal with a shortage of "head" coaches?
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Post by jc25 on Jun 23, 2009 11:16:25 GMT -6
My assistants are assigned to me, all of them are dads of kids on the team. If their kids stay on my team for their 2nd year and the dad wants to coach again then I get him back as an assistant.
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Post by coacht16 on Jun 23, 2009 12:09:04 GMT -6
It is me and one other Dad, then we draft the rest of the kids, hopefully picking up a couple of Dad's we know we can work with. Thought about getting a non-Dad assistant, but have not done so yet.
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Post by coachguy83 on Jun 23, 2009 13:33:11 GMT -6
My assistants are assigned to me. A couple of them are dads and a couple of them are young guys like myself that just love the game.
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Post by cyflcoach on Jun 23, 2009 16:28:38 GMT -6
I recruit my own assistants. Several have coached with me for years and do not have kids playing. The remaining coaches on our staff do have kids on the team.
Our league assigns a Head Coach and Assistant Head Coach to each team. The Assistant Head Coach plays an important role if the Head Coach is unable to coach the team for any reason. There are few things worse than trying to find a parent to take over coaching a team during the middle of a season. Lots of guys want to "help", but unfortunately, there are not nearly as many willing to accept the responsibilities of becoming a head coach.
Dave Hartman
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Post by coachdoug on Jun 23, 2009 17:40:18 GMT -6
In our program, the board interviews and selects head coaches for each team. The board also reserves the right to place assistants on teams (or remove them), but in reality, they rarely exercise that right. In general, once the board selects the head coach, it is up to him to then put together his staff. Most head coaches take several dads on their staffs, but most also have non-dad coaches that they keep on their staffs.
For instance, on our staff this year, our head coach will have a son on the team. Myself and 3 other assistants will not have a son on the team, and another 3 assistants will have sons on the team. Of those 8 total coaches, 3 or 4 of us will do most of the coaching and the rest will be bag holders and otherwise assist the other coaches.
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Post by chadbartlett on Jun 23, 2009 18:30:37 GMT -6
I was given the head coaching position of our little league team here in town. The league coordinator told me that I could find my own assistants. Living in Cedar Falls, Iowa, I looked to UNI football team for some help. Got myself two great coaches with a lot of experience with the game.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2009 19:46:24 GMT -6
We have an administrative panel that has to approve anyone who wants to become a head coach. As a H/C we are allowed to recruit anyone we want. Though when taking the head position, with a new team, often there are coaches that stay on, from the past teams.
I always recruit, I'm very selective and shameless about it too
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Post by justryn2 on Jun 24, 2009 8:38:26 GMT -6
Our board picks the head coaches for each team. If a head coach already has guys lined up as assistant coaches, he can bring them along although they still have to complete a coaches application, ASEP training and a background check. I've been a head coach for several years but don't have a set group of assistants. So, I get whatever dads want to coach along with any "non-dad" assistant coaches the board assigns to me.
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Post by CatsCoach on Jun 24, 2009 8:59:36 GMT -6
For us the HC recuits his staff. Most are dad's that have kids on the team and some dont have any kids on the team. For this coming season most likley we will have staff we had last season with maybe one new guy, this works out well for us.
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Post by jhanawa on Jun 27, 2009 17:58:52 GMT -6
Most of our coaching staff has been together for 12 years now, a few new guys who've been with us for about 4 years who had boys play for us and stayed with us after their boys were done.... we rely heavily on our staff, each position coach takes his boys and gets the job done. I've said it before and will again, having a good solid coaching staff is an absolute pleasure, we are very fortunate to have the guys that we have. I've been on a few staff's where it wasn't cohesive and its frustrating.
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Post by schultbear74 on Jun 27, 2009 18:38:37 GMT -6
Our HC chooses his coaches and tries to get a good mix.
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Post by headtrip on Jun 27, 2009 20:06:59 GMT -6
most of the head coaches in my league start with the youngest age group and move up with the team through the age groups. there is an application process for any head coaching position that comes available. technically every coach, head or assistant, must apply for their positions, but i've never heard of an assistant being turned down (cya i think). assistants are picked by the head coach and "approved" by the org.
what to do about a shortage of head coaches? the first thing is to find out why no one wants to be one. certainly if you have teams that need a hc, then there are atleast a few dad's out there that would want to coach their son's team. so what's the problem? why are you putting them off?
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Post by jhanawa on Jun 28, 2009 18:27:32 GMT -6
All of our assistant coaches also have to fill out a form and pass a background check, which in this day and age is a good idea IMO. I think its important to encourage kids at any age to play as many sports as possible, football, wrestling, track, basketball.....in that order....to develop athleticism and talent........sorry, baseball doesn't make the athletic list...LOL...
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Post by headtrip on Jun 28, 2009 18:39:11 GMT -6
my league is trying to get everything in place for background checks for this coming season. all this after one of the head coaches in the league was arrested after police found cocaine in his car at a baseball game he was coaching.
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Post by coachdoug on Jun 28, 2009 19:06:20 GMT -6
We've been doing background checks for 5-6 years now. Very good idea in my opinion.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2009 19:38:04 GMT -6
We've been doing background checks for 5-6 years now. Very good idea in my opinion. Absolutely, we also have a reqirement that states that at least 1 person on each coaching staff be certified in First aid/CPR |
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Post by coachguy83 on Jun 28, 2009 21:06:15 GMT -6
I agree that background checks are a must. Our organization has been performing them for years and if you have any kind of violent crime, sexual crime, or crime against children you are out the door. Anything else you must go before the board and be voted in. We as an organization believe in a policy of second chances and also that public service builds character. Our league also requires at least one person certified in CPR and first aid at every practice. In most cases that means one person per team but in the case of our organization we all practice together so there are always one or two guys out there in case something happens.
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