on the field or in the box?

I have been an assistant coach for my first three years at my school and my role during games is to sit up in the box with our OC and chart plays as well as watching the defensive front seven and relay info to our primary OL coach down on the field. That being said I don't think I will ever want to go down to the field. I would like to be an OC one day myself and being up in the box to see the whole field and being away from all the craziness down on the field is the only way I could imagine doing it.

Field... I like to get a feel for the game and players, can make adjustments faster, and I like to look those kids in the eyes and see which one I wanna depend on in crunch time.

It all depends to be honest. I really like being in the box when calling plays. Can see everything develop and not get distracted. However, I have been around some coaches that can not draw on a board or explain adjustments, so I needed to be on the field.

I prefer to be in the box.

There are issues with all of the coaches being ob the field in HS ball. We don't have GA's. On a lot of HS staffs that would mean putting some inexperienced coaches in the box.

Looking at LSU's staff I'm not sure that both coordinators will stay on the field. The DC doen't coach a position so there's no real reason for him to be on the field (unless that's the way he prefers it anyway). The OC coaches QB's so he only needs headphones to communicate with his players.

I don't know what's best, but I do know that it doesn't matter to me that wherever I am I'm probably not seeing everything right. I don't know how many times I've watched the film the next day and had no idea that something was going on out there. I think it's really hard to make good smart in game adjustments, so we try to keep them to a minimum. What's the point of practicing all week if we're going to change everything up in the 2nd quarter? Dance with the one that brung ya.

My first 3 seasons I was in the box.. hated it at first. Felt so removed.. but coaching QBs, it was fine.. get them on the headset and make corrections and I came to love the ability to see the game differently. When I became OC at my new place, I felt like I had to be on the sidelines. New system which our staff knew well, but I didn't know if they could make all the adjustments we needed to.. plus I wanted to be able to look those guys in the eyes. I've toyed with going up to the box now that I have a lot of confidence in our assistants. I've also learned that if you do your job during the week, they arent going to throw a ton of new stuff at you (unless you get a funky defense of the week) that you haven't seen on film already.

The problem I'm struggling with, as a high tempo team (without a lot of headsets) I have to make the call to a coach, who then relays it to a player who signals. I could have the coach signal, but that's one more thing they have to worry about, when I'd rather have them keeping eyes on the defense for me. I don't know if I'll ever feel really comfortable calling with tempo upstairs.

box ....if I need to be on the sideline coaching and talking to kids during the game, then I didn't do my job during the week

I am on the field and like to see the look in the kids faces.. coachd5085 We have sideline video so I am showing video tothe kids..telling them hey line up wider here..you need to get over the top of this down block..lets run more of XX instead of XY this coverage instead of that..lets run Y blitz from Z front..you rememeber that from camp..here lets review it on the grease board brophy I don't think thats necessarily true..the other team has chalk too.up to us to see what they are doing and adjust...All that being said our sideline video didn't work last week..my coaches in the box said the LB's were getting blocked by the backers..we need to take the DT and have him cut the Og and OT..??..the other coach said nothing..I turned out the OLB was over pursuing..the OLB coach was at the beach for that game..Long story..anyways...we lost 16-10 losing 3 turnovers only getting 1

I look these in 2 categories
-simple alignment issues or technical corrections IE Safety too far off the hash, NG needs to be in a shade not a 2i, CB is over playing the screen, etc..

-Game management issues IE We just took the lead with 3 1/2 minutes left in the half, they can't handle our pass rush but have had success with their run game; What are they going to do here?