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Post by lbedwards on Dec 14, 2017 17:04:11 GMT -6
Now that the season is complete in most places and the Coaching Carousel is getting cranked up, I wanted to ask: What makes a good coach in high school football?
Each situation has different needs and fits as one coach who did great and one place might bomb at another. Also, each classification is different in the makeup of a coach. The larger the classification the more likely it is to be an urban job with urban needs. The lower the classification the more likely it is to be a rural job with rural needs. So, given that each situation and context is unique, let's make all things equal and, for the moment, remove wins and losses and championships. Are their certain qualities common to all good coaches? What would you say those qualities are?
To me, good coaches are great communicators. They know the ways to install their program, interact with the school's faculty and staff, treat parents with respect (while also knowing some parents are irrational and self-absorbed), and how to generate enthusiasm from their respective community. They know how to communicate.
Also, good coaches are great motivators. Working with young, teenage men is a task. Keeping them inspired through an off-season training program and during the season when things aren't going well tests their ability to keep everyone on the same page. The good coaches keep the train on the tracks.
I'll add others later, but I would like to read what you would add. What makes a good coach in high school football? Are their certain qualities common to all good coaches? What would you say those qualities are?
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Post by coachklee on Dec 14, 2017 18:39:55 GMT -6
They love the game. They teach kids to love the game (which means they get kids to be confident in their roles both in a strength & technique aspect necessary to play with the physicality & love of physicality needed to compete in the game). They get organized in getting kids to believe in & come out to join the team which starts with off-season or at least summer weightlifting & conditioning.
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Post by coachjm on Dec 14, 2017 18:50:51 GMT -6
Great Coaches:
Have a mastery of their scheme and Coach it well
Have a mastery of fundamentals and Coach it well
Have a gift to inspire others to achieve more in life
Live a Selfless life.....
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Post by Coach Vint on Dec 15, 2017 8:02:23 GMT -6
Building relationships with your players and loving them unconditionally is a vital component. I have been lucky to have worked for and with some tremendous coaches, and they all are great relationship builders. They all also build kids up. Great coaches get kids to see the greatness they have inside. Because they have strong relationships with players, they can hold them accountable without the player being disgruntled. Mastery of the game is important. Being able to communicate is vital. But when your players know you care about them as much off the field as you do on the field, that is when magic happens. When they know you care you can coach them harder. You can demand a little more out of them than if they think you are just using them to win games. We have to win or we will get fired where we are, and I believe the more we care about our players, the more they will care about each other, and the more games we will win. The most important result of the work we do is that our players will be better fathers and husbands.
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Post by gators41 on Dec 15, 2017 8:37:44 GMT -6
This is a really tough question. I am going to try and have a simple answer.
1. Care- It shows. Everyone will know. I am talking deep rooted cant live with out it caring for the entire program.
2. Cant be a complete Dumb Ass. Scheme is irrelevant, know what you do and be able to coach it and get them to buy into it. If you can do that it doesnt matter. Its the people trying to run stuff over their head that get in trouble.
3. Put in the Time- I dont care if you are Bill Walsh and Saban illegitamte love child. Think about how much time it takes to really watch film. If you arent watching it 2-40 hours a week you cant convince me you are right. (Your Game, Their Games, Your Practice) Not to mention everything else involved with a program.
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Post by morris on Dec 15, 2017 9:01:59 GMT -6
2-40 is a pretty broad of a length of time. Dub Maddox along with some other R4 gameplanning guys might disagree with huge amount of film study.
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Post by coachdmyers on Dec 15, 2017 9:13:19 GMT -6
1) You have to like working with All kids
2) You have to like working with ALL kids and be able to build positive relationships with them
3) You have to like working with ALL kids, build positive relationships with them, and want to use football to make their lives better
4) You have to be open to criticism that's constructive, and block out the insults, and be able to tell the difference between them
5) You have to work to improve your craft every day/week/month/year
6) You have to be reflective enough to know when things aren't working because of you, not because of the kids.
7) You have to try learn to "know what you don't know". Figure out what are your own gaps in knowledge, and be humble enough to admit them.
8) Remember that you are in this position to serve the students.
9) Be able to conceive of how things should be or could be, not just how they are.
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Post by gators41 on Dec 15, 2017 9:41:36 GMT -6
2-40 is a pretty broad of a length of time. Dub Maddox along with some other R4 gameplanning guys might disagree with huge amount of film study. Normal Week for me Friday After the game 1.5 H Saturday 2 H Sunday 6-10 H Monday 5-8 H (Got practice as well to watch) Tuesday 3-5 H Wednesday 2-4 H Thursday 1-2 H Friday Maybe 1 H Maybe 40 is too much. But 30 is definitely obtainable. And I dont feel like I over do it. Maybe I am wrong. I am a stickler for practice film, watch it 2-3 times, |
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Post by chi5hi on Dec 15, 2017 10:04:13 GMT -6
Gotta look good in a visor and headset.
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Post by gators41 on Dec 15, 2017 10:18:56 GMT -6
Blowup Tunnel
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Post by coachklee on Dec 15, 2017 14:47:00 GMT -6
2-40 is a pretty broad of a length of time. Dub Maddox along with some other R4 gameplanning guys might disagree with huge amount of film study. Normal Week for me Friday After the game 1.5 H Saturday 2 H Sunday 6-10 H Monday 5-8 H (Got practice as well to watch) Tuesday 3-5 H Wednesday 2-4 H Thursday 1-2 H Friday Maybe 1 H Maybe 40 is too much. But 30 is definitely obtainable. And I dont feel like I over do it. Maybe I am wrong. I am a stickler for practice film, watch it 2-3 times, My Hudl time ranges from about 15-30 depending on the amount of schoolwork I have & our opponent. I’m starting to value practice film perhaps even more so than game film. We’ve done a better job playing the right guys in our defensive rotation because by Tuesday evening we’ve seen who is doing their job during Inside Run Group & Team. Just as important is that the guys that ended up in the rotation actually take time to watch & evaluate themselves. |
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Post by joker31 on Dec 18, 2017 1:58:31 GMT -6
Paul Johnson from Georgia Tech has said that every coach needs to have one of the following three things and I agree:
A) Fear or Respect
B) Love
C) Superior Knowledge (he specifically states not just knowledge, but teachable knowledge)
Good coaches have two, great coaches have all three.
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Post by Defcord on Dec 18, 2017 8:13:04 GMT -6
I think a good assistant does the things they ask their players to do:
A. Know your job
B. Do your job
C. Do it with a positive attitude
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Post by aceback76 on Dec 18, 2017 8:24:30 GMT -6
To me, it means the "Good" Coach will have the "4 MUSTS":
1. The coach MUST have a definite plan in which he believes, and there MUST be no compromise on his part.
2. The football coach MUST have the complete cooperation and support of the administrators and the administration, who MUST believe in the head coach, his staff, and his plan.
3. The coach MUST not only be dedicated to football, but he MUST be tough mentally (you MAY go thru some "trying" times).
4. The head coach MUST have the sole responsibility and authority of selecting his staff of dedicated men, who MUST believe in the head coach and his plan.
THEN, you have a CHANCE for success!!!
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Post by aceback76 on Dec 18, 2017 9:48:30 GMT -6
This information from our Coaches' Manual FOLLOWS the "4 MUSTS" I listed in ny last post:
WHAT CONSTITUTES A GOOD COACH:
1. He has a thorough knowledge of all fundamental techniques employed and of the structure of team schemes of offense, defense, and the kicking game.
2. He makes a thorough preparation for carrying out his responsibilities at the practice session. He PERSONALLY ASSUMES THE RESPONSIBILITY for preparing any necessary check-lists and drill situations to accomplish smoothly and efficiently, the teaching expected of him on the practice field.
3. He is constantly probing his own thinking in order to assure he is covering effectively all phases of the game for those players over whom he has direct teaching responsibility. The use of written records is an essential in carrying this out.
4. He constantly seeks to improve his own teaching methods. Does not employ an inferior teaching device because it is "easier" to administer.
5. He comes to the practice field in a frame of mind which indicates he really enjoys the coaching of football. This means an attitude which reflects cheerfulness, and an attitude of patient persistence towards correction of honest play mistakes.
6. He is willing to devote his time tirelessly to all phases of the program - practice, counseling, film review, out-of-season work - with the realization that Winning Football results from keeping these areas controlled. He fully realizes that in that territory where a lot of extra time and effort is spent in order to gain a small bit of excellence lies the margin of difference between the champion and the also-ran.
7. He has a strong WINNING attitude and FULLY understands the difference between the application of that attitude from a coach's
standpoint as distinguished from player's standpoint. In other words, the great competitor as a player is not NECESSARILY a great competitor as a coach. This is an attitude which must be developed separately, and usually is best reflected in the devotion of time and the extent of effort to which a coach WANTS to go in order to attain winning results.
8. The really determining factor between the outstanding coach and the average coach is found in his desire to personally assume responsibility for thinking out an assignment and for creatively attacking problems in all phases of the program. That is the mark of the outstanding coach. The average coach acts only on direct assignment, waits for an exact spelling out of the assignment, and functions only for the exact extent that an assignment is literally spelled out.
9. Above all, a good coach is 100% LOYAL to the other coaches on the staff whether he be the head coach or an assistant. here is NO PLACE on our staff for a disloyal member!
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