What do you do good - what do you wish you could improve on.

I am an excellent X and O guy, and I'm energetic and a pretty good motivator.

Sometimes I get to excited, and lose a notch in communication in my drills, which hurts the teaching. I have gotten far better at this though.

I consider my self pretty good at x & o and in game adjustments. Have gotten better as I age at controlling my emotions in game.

I wish I could get better at being more consistant with the practice script. ie. sticking to it. Have a tendency to stray from it sometimes and that hurts us as a program. Have gotten a WHOLE lot better at it that I used to be but know I still have a long way to go!!!!

This is me, very organized and knowledgeable about my positions and how they fit in the scheme of things as far as practice goes.  Always prepared for practice and any extra work a kid may need.  And also the program details that I would take care of for the HC.  

But for the life of me I struggled with being able to not watch the game on Friday night like a fan.  I think it was because I was on the sideline and had defensive duties and offensive duties, we all coached both sides of the ball.  When I first started I was in the box and only helped on game night with defense.  Was able to pick up game time tendencies and what not, but once I got to the sideline I couldn't focus on specifics, it was like I had a case of Friday Night ADD!

I need to be a better game day coach.

Strength: Good attention to detail, such as fundamentals and rules, and really good at communicating those to the kids.

Major Weakness: Handling problem players, players who talk back; the rebellious types.

I have 100% confidence in my ability to coach schemes and adjusting them. Not so keen at teaching fundamentals as schemes (but I see my self improving every year with fundamentals), and I really need to learn/work on being an assertive/no BS coach when it comes to rebellious players. My tendency whenever a player talks back or acts rebellious is to lock up and I end up not saying anything.

I feel I prepare well and I am very calm and collected on the sidelines.

I have a hard time critiquing my coaches. I don't let things slide but is difficult for me.

I have changed the view of football in our building. What once was a culture of soccer players teasing football players has changed. Its now cool to be part of football in high school and cool to seek out college ball. We have our core and know who we can trust.

I think I do a good job of identifying the weeds that need to be weeded out. I am patient and a teacher, will try to rehab them.

I need to do a better job of holding kids accountable with rapid consequences when the don't do their job in a game. Its our top priority this year. wed sometimes forget and things would slide by.

We do a good job teaching the game but I want to see my freshmen doing more tough physical things such as Oklahomas.

I think my greatest strength is that I coach every snap in practice. This has taken me a while though. I used to try to fix stuff here and there but now every play I am coaching someone. I always try to have my guys that aren't in with me so I can coach them while we watch reps.

My greatest weaknesses: I am a little bit of a spazz at times. If a kid makes a physical mistake/error I correct it without any issue, but when a kid does stupid stuff, especially during a game, I freak out a little. For instance, I want my rotation guys right next to me during the game. I coached Dline this year and when I tried to put my 3rd down rush guy in and he wasn't wasn't there I ripped him pretty good, no cussing or anything but I let him have it Bo Pelini style. As I get older I hope that I can learn to correct these situations without so much yelling. I have gotten much better but still a little ways to go.

My other weakness: I have a hard time trusting kids to do more complicated stuff. I always wanted to do some pattern reading when I was a DC but I never trusted that my kids could do it so we played a ton of man instead.

According to my head coach I am an excellent OL coach and run game coordinator...

he also says that I lack enthusiasm!

I am going to be honest, I am not a yeller never have been and I doubt that I ever will be. I do agree that I could be more enthusiastic, even as a player in HS and college I did not enjoy a coach yelling, it was not motivational at all. I do believe that some may respond to that type of coaching... But I once heard an opposing coach make a comment that has struck with me since I started coaching, he said "coaches normally yell at kids because they failed to prepare them! If the kid was prepared he is less likely to be yelling at the kid."

If any one has any ideas on how to be more enthusiastic without being a coach that yells I am all ears.

I think I'm very good at my practice organization.  Our HC does the plan every day and it rarely cahges, but I know each and every day and each and every drill what I want my lineman to do and get out of the drill. We don't do film sessions of practice--not every day anyway--so as a part of that I feel I'm good at communicating the next day some pointers from the previous day if I don't get a chance to before then.

I need to be more forceful when it comes to jumping players who need a fire lit under them. I'm a very calm person and I feel for the most part that is a strength but sometimes outbursts are needed. Although, based on an incident the other night, my 7th grade basketball players may feel I'm improving in this area!

Yes we have kids who hang out and try give excuses. What's your method of weeding them out? We can't officially cut until August but would love to get rid of kids ASAP.

this is the exact opposite of how i feel about our lower levels haha

I hear you - I think we are all on the same page and I do communicate to my staff - being critical just doesn't come natural to me. I've definitely improved but if I am analyzing things this is one of the things that I need to get more comfortable with. 

If they can't do it right, then they can't do it. You're good, coach.

I know what you mean, but I'm more CDO.

CDO is a lot like being OCD, but the letters are in alphabetical order like they're supposed to be.