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Post by bigm0073 on Dec 14, 2009 7:51:11 GMT -6
Coaches,
I would love to hear your feedback on some of these questions.
Do you like your role on your staff? How would you like to change it?
Do you want more in-season / out of season responsibilites... Do you want to be an OC/DC.... Do you want to run the weight room? Do you want more?
Why do you think your head coach does not give you more? Is he a control freak?
Now it does go both ways...
If you want to move up can you handle the additional duties?
Weight room year around...
Off-Season breakdowns and cut ups.... Off-season scouting reports..
Camps and 7 on 7....
Love to hear feedback from other coaches.
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Post by mariner42 on Dec 14, 2009 8:22:23 GMT -6
I'm a young guy (24, two weeks from 25) and I've always had aspirations of being a HC. After this past season, I'm in no rush to be a HC. Dealing with parents and admins and all that drama is just something I'm not ready for yet, because my personality at the moment is too abrasive or callous or indifferent on so many issues. Just thinking about doing all the inventory makes my head spin, but at the same time I've watched our interim HC do it this last season and know there's got to be a better way. I hate the way the weight room has been run and organized, but making really, truly good workouts is time consuming and I have to teach the kids how to do them before they can even get to the lifts.
Shoot, at this point I'm the ranking staff member and people are taking their marching orders from me and I'm HATING it because I just want to do my own stuff. I'm working with a former summer camper of mine to make her a better sprinter and I feel bad every time I have to leave her at a lift in order to go correct someone or fix something or boot someone. This isn't even to mention how tired of making highlight cut-ups and whatnot I am.
I miss being able to defer responsibility. I'm having fun with this stuff, but I'm not being paid to do it, which in my present situation is a big deal. I'm SO ready to have a new HC so they can take care of the stuff I don't want to and I can just be the plucky young defensive whiz.
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Post by gdn56 on Dec 14, 2009 8:32:22 GMT -6
My role as an assistant at my current job is quite limited. Its not because of a lack of ability or a lack of aspirations or that my HC is a control freak...he just doen't believe in doing any of the little things in season and out which assistants at most schools are responsible for. For instance...no playbooks, no practice scripts, no off-season cut-ups, etc...
Now, the last guy I worked for...we handled all of that stuff and all had a very clearly defined role in the weightroom, facility maintanence, etc.. So I have been a part of both and I can honestly say I prefered the total method of the last coach, total organization, as opposed to the Do Nothing approach...which is I guess why the first guy I worked for was able to leave and take a college job.
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Post by olinecoach61 on Dec 14, 2009 8:46:50 GMT -6
I'm on the opposite end. I am the OC, I run the weight room with another assistant, HC is also baseball coach, I run 7 on 7, I organize the staff for clinics, etc. It gets a little old.
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Post by touchdownmaker on Dec 14, 2009 8:53:04 GMT -6
Ill tell you why I absolutely HAD to be a header.
* I could not stand someone else setting the schedule. I worked for one guy that set the most ridiculous meeting schedule (every month on a sunday) but he wouldnt show. Another guy wanted 6-8 hour film and game planning sessions often wasted with shooting pool and playing video games or talking about fantasy football and another guy, a really good header, liked sunday evening meetings but my issue with that was us getting off topic and extending the meeting to the point of NO FAMILY TIME ON SUNDAY EVENING. That stuff really bothered me.
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Post by bigm0073 on Dec 14, 2009 8:58:29 GMT -6
Do you wish you had MORE to do?
What responsibilites do you want added to your plate?
Weight room ?
Inventory? Equipment?
7 on 7?
Team Camps?
Off-Season Film breakdown
Off-Season cut ups
Fundraising
Off-Season academic support - study hall
Off-Season Scouting reports/breakdowns
Off-season cut ups...
Practice Scripts
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Post by craines10 on Dec 14, 2009 9:15:40 GMT -6
As an assistant my responsibilities grow every year, and I am enjoying it. I am co-offensive coordinator, and coach a defensive position. I just do my part. I dont need more or less, cause I do alot as is and it really doesnt bother me. The next step for me is HC and dealing with admin, parents, booster club, and the other nonsense that our HC has to go through.
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Post by coachcb on Dec 14, 2009 10:13:03 GMT -6
I love my role as an assistant within our program. This is mainly due to the fact that communication is excellent and very professional. Issues, whether they are major or minor, are resolved quickly and in an adult manner. Also, all of the assistants' input is valued on the staff, which is a huge plus.
I enjoy my current duties as an assistant; I coach soph DBs and run the soph defense. So, I have a fair amount of responsibilities. I would like to be more involved with our athletic period, but I am not in the building so that is not always a possibility.
We do a lot of throwing in the winter and the spring and I always enjoy coming in and working with the kids during these sessions. It gives me a good look at what kind of kids are coming into the soph program; if they show up for all of them then I know what the commitment level is like with the class.
Honestly, I don't know that I still have aspirations of becoming an HC anytime soon. I would like to take over a program, install my own philosophy and run things the way I want to. However, in the current program I coach in, things are done in the same way I would do them. Also, people don't realize how much taking on an HC role entails; it goes so far beyond the Xs and Os and whatnot. Many of my friends that want to take on HC roles really only want to do so because of the schemes.
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