Wives or Girlfriends & Coaching...?

Yeah, the nomadic lifestyle you mention is well put for wives/girlfriends, can we use w/g from now on?

Nomadic, coaching high school is much different because you are not required to move as much, but college and pro, yes, much tougher on the w/g.

Amount of time put into off-season stuff. I try to make it easy as possible on my staff by having our in-season or off-season staff meetings on Sunday nights from 6pm - 10pm, most of the time.

Figure that gives coaches an opportunity to spend time with family and friends on the weekend and/or take a quick vacation to supplement their regular breaks.

The nomadic aspect though is hard to get across to young w/g because I believe the latest figure is the average coach in football changes jobs at least 5 times in 20 years.

KB

1. How do you keep your wife/girlfriend totally happy during football season?

I think that if I show a complete effort to do as much as I can with my two young sons and stuff around the house I'm fine. And I want to do this. I think if my attitude was, "o man....I have to do ________" it wouldn't be so good. Here is the kicker. My wife knows what football means to me and what I do. She understands that I teach and coach and that it's my job.

2. How do you do the same during the off-season?

Easy - more time for everything else. I don't have to ask my wife about going to a clinic, I just tell her that I'm going. I don't want that to come off like I just tell her and that's the way it is. There is an understanding, again, that this is what I do. I go above and beyond for my own kids and she knows this so the balance is easy.

3. What comprises do you have to make and/or sacrifices do you make so you can coach?

See above. Why compromise? Fit everything in. If something doesn't fit, prioritize and see if you need to get rid of something from your schedule. Make sure the right priorities are at the top of your list and it shouldn't be a big deal.

I think it is key that they see what the season is like before you get married. My wife and I started dating when I played college football and then I went stright into coaching. The busy fall is the only thing she knows.
It is also helpful that football is pretty much the only thing I do. I don't do guys night out, or go hunting or fishing. Use to golf some, but once I had kids I gave that up, the past 2 years I have went twice.
So I am busy through football season, but pretty much the rest of the year I do what she wants.
It is important that she feels involved, she is at all of the events and knows the boys and the team.
She also goes to thingwith me, she is going to the AFCA conention and has been involved with the Wife's Association, that made her realize that as a wife of a HS coach, she has it pretty easy compared to a college coach.

Married for a year and a half, I've been a coach the entire time we've been together.

1. How do you keep your wife/girlfriend totally happy during football season?

Win games.

2. How do you do the same during the off-season?

Show her my new ways to win games and take her to a clinic or two, she loves to eat at new places. The guys I coach with don't go as much as I do anyway (most not at all), so it's much better than going alone.

3. What comprises do you have to make and/or sacrifices do you make so you can coach?

None that I can think of.


We don't have any kids yet, and I'm sure that this will change when that time comes. For now, she is the team's biggest fan. As long as I seem happy with my coaching situation then she is happy.

Spos21Ram
I DO NOT mean this as an attack on you, at all. But IMO, once a dedicated football coach is married, this is something that a coach can give up to spend more time with wife and kids.

my wife loves football. In fact our first date was on a Friday night when I was going to evaluate some local high school players then out for supper. I have made sure my wife is involved with some of the things we do with our program. She organizes the post game coaches parties, pre-season picnic, post - season staff appreciation meal, paid staff because she washes our game uniforms, I'm sure I'm forgetting a ton of things my wife does for our program!! We knew going into our marriage what both of our professional careers were all about.

FUNNY!

kb

You aren't married....

To each is his own. Softball is very very close to importance to football for me. I'm not talking about your average fool around beer league. I'm talking about serious softball traveling all around the country.

Once I get older I'm sure my priorities will change a little bit but right now If a girlfriend asked me to chose her or softball, I'd say cya later

i just try to make mine not look like this





i usually fail
so my plan is to put these motivational posters all over the house until she realizes how cool i am

My answer is easy--she's a coach too though she's at a much smaller school (mine is 2,300, hers is about 80). Volleyball takes time and as head coach she's pretty busy too.

But when the season is over we relax and spend a great deal of time making up for the season. We always take a December trip, this year we're going to a clinic with football and volleyball in February.

And she's pretty good about all of it.

My wife is awesome when it comes to coaching football. She don't complain because in her opinion she would rather have me coaching football than running the roads. She said at least I'm not going to get into trouble coaching football. She attends everything and brings the kids, so that I have some time with them. She tollerates all my obssesive habits when it comes to football; TV, Video games, and constantly writing things down on notebooks when I get new ideas. She keeps supplied with pencils and notebooks, never complaing. I guess instead of you adjusting to them, they need to adjust to you.

For those of you that take your Wife or Girlfriend to a clinic with you, what do the ladies like to do while you are in sessions?

KB

Tog, Herky is going to hurt you!