Role of Wife in Program

My wife takes care of the kids during the football season and comes to the games. That's it.

My wife is assistant AD and PE teacher. She is good as GOLD. Does eligibility, paperwork, buses, refs, ambulance, gets police at games, puts out fires, keeps basketball and baseball gate, sometimes works baseball concession stand, sometimes cleans up overflowing toilet, restocks paper products sometimes, was basketball team mom, ordered our food for spring jamboree last night, helped with physiclals yesterday (I scheduled physicals and spring game on same day - dumbass), also has a son who coaches, son who plays, and daughter who is ball girl. During bball, son and daughter play and older son keeps books, during spring son plays baseball and daughter plays softball.

Oh, and she usually handles cheer problems.

The elementary kids love her. She is a rock star. When she walks the hall, all the little kids call her name and run up to her to steal a hug. All the football players call her Mamma. They love her too. As sweet as she is, she will set anyone in the whole school straight including adults in second.

And she does it all smiling and laughing.

I have no idea how I got her or keep her.

My wife does an amazing job taking care of our son and basically being a single mother from August until late October. Granted my son isn't even 2 years old yet so if they can make it to a game or dinner thats a bonus. Its not an easy life for them because especially as the HC, my job never ends, between recruiting, lifting, camps, meetings, clinics, and being a father figure to kids. I am thankful she is understanding cause its not the normal life compared to coaching other sports with all due respect to those who may coach another sport.

Besides the things already mentioned (especially family-oriented):

My wife hosted post-game celebrations or commiserations.

She hosted our "Good Bye Dear, Football's Here" cookout for coaches and families Saturday before first practice.

She hosted our get-together after last summer workout for varsity players.

She brought cake and beverages to our June Parents' Meetings.

She did laundry (scrimmage vests, towels, etc.) when necessary.

She did some film exchanges on Sundays when I was in staff meeting because some opposing coaches were too incompetent to do them Saturday mornings when they were supposed to (in the days before HUDL).

She sang the National Anthem at the state All-Star Football game (which she was eminently qualified to do).

If I did not have my wife I don't think I would be able to coach, there is no way i could take care of my kids, feed them, do laundry, get them up in the morning, off to school, take them to their extracurricular events, etc...

The one thing within the football program she helps with, she loves to sew. The amount of jerseys, game and practice pants, girdles, she has repaired I couldn't begin to count. The baseball coach (my FB asst.) brings her pants to stitch and sew...

About the only thing she gets for it is a free meal and acknowledgement at our banquet...

Have any of yall had problems with your wife wanting to move? I got a great opportunity to be a DC, signed my contract and all already. We go to look for houses and she straight up says "I am not living here"....mind blown

I have moved around a bit in my career and also always take my wife to check it out.   When I was trying to get my first job (teaching and coaching) I was offered it in a school that had a little rougher community she had one more year of college to get done, I accepted the position because it was a full time teaching job (assistant football) we drove up the following weekend looking for rentals and she said we aren't moving here.   I think between the roughness of the area and the challenge we would have had for her finishing her schooling (prior to on-line schools) it wasn't worth it to her.  Within two weeks I got a job at a school in the area and was named the HC there two years later, it was a nice school and a great place to work.

I love that too, she's in bed sleeping and the film is up on HUDL so I can watch it a few times before I goto sleep.  Great night am I right....

thankfully I'm like most of the rest of these guys and my wife pretty much just runs the house, makes the money, and comes to the game..she doesn't involve herself in much else

The coaches wives thing can be a pretty weird dynamic it its own right at times. I know there have been a few tense moments in the office due to tension between the wives, sometimes the head coach or coordinators wives will try to boss around the assistants wives, as if they somehow outrank them when it comes to what kind of dip should be at the party or whatever, it's weird.

I did know of a guy whose wife's role in the program was getting him fired...he'd go home and complain to his old lady but what an idiot the HC was and how things would be way better if he were in charge....so she started telling people around town the stuff that he told her....next thing ya know he gone

My ex-wife refused to move to a town where I was offered an HC gig. She was all for it initially until we visited and then she said "no friggin' way." Even though she's my EX-wife, I don't regret the decision to turn down the position as keeping a family happy and together is far more important than a football gig. 

This thread is a good one for single coaches as well; never take a good coach's wife for granted because they're hard to find. And, if your current significant other isn't kosher with you coaching and you love it, you've got some decisions to make. LOL.

These threads were freaking EPIC when he was on them!!!

I thank God every day that my wife was able to cut the umbilical chord long before I met her.

Wait a minute: "Wheeled in"? You guys really hit it, huh?