Assistant Coaches on Gameday

Thanks,

We are all volunteers coaching in the UK and therefore don't have a booth (or a stadium) unfortunately

What would you like to do if you had more coaches?

Who would normally speak to the officials?

The head coach, as far as accepting or declining. But, asking for clarification on penalties or things of that nature, we all do that.

Our "get back" guy usually follows pretty closely to the officials, just to keep everybody out of the way, so he usually ends up having random conversations with them.

We have position coaches control their own rotations. They're subbing guys in and out for breathers and making sure they know if a guy is banged up or just needs/wants out. That's about 6 different coaches for us doing that OL, RB, WR, DL, LB, DB. Those guys are on the field.

We also have 2 guys that signal plays. OC and DC call the plays from the field. HC is down there motivating and controlling the overall game. He usually has offensive headset on. He works on the officials and prefers the rest of us don't including the players.

We also have a HUDL coach that is showing plays on ipad to players or position coaches for corrections.
Strength coach is mostly "get back".

We have 3 guys up on the booth spotting. They also use the ipads.

We have a lot of coaches. Several of them are volunteer. Not all of these people are involved in daily practice.

HC controls the game and Officials (including yelling at us for talking to the officials lol). He also calls the Defense
OC is up top calling plays
DC is up top calling formations and players
SC is down on the field doing that plus coaching his positions as well as signaling
Assistant 1 is signaling and looking at safeties on offense
Assistant 2 is watching OL/DL stuff
Assistant 3 is watching OL/DL and dealing with equipment issues
We also have a trainer dealing with player needs.

We do a couple of different things than many folks do. Our play offensive play charter has a neon highlighter pen that he underlines every play that goes for 8 or more yards. He tells the OC at halftime or other breaks, what plays have been "winners". The Freshman HC is in the box charting "hits", by down and distance. We find that teams find a groove each game and it helps to have a feel for their tendencies tonight. By the 3rd quarter, we nearly always have a good pattern figured out. I wont say anything about sign stealing other than if we can't read you by the 2nd Q, it isn't going to happen. I also really like the idea of having an injury updater who personally goes to each sub and tells him he's now in on KOR for Billy. No timeouts wasted getting a substitute Guard in on PAT team.