qbguru
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Post by qbguru on Jan 23, 2007 20:38:42 GMT -6
this is a question I have been thinking about hard.. How do you know when it is time to move on from your current staff?
I work for a great head coach, and have no conflicts at all. He encourages us to think of new ways to improve the program.
I am the OC.
Lately though, I find myself more and more thinking I would do things differently than he is doing as the head coach. is that a sign?
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Post by knighter on Jan 24, 2007 18:08:19 GMT -6
To tie in with this question, how do you know it is time to go if you are the head coach? How do you know you have gotten the present school as far as they are willing to go/are going to go?
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Post by fbdoc on Jan 24, 2007 18:27:04 GMT -6
Most good Head Coaches WANT their assistants to have a desire to be a head coach. Be up front and tell him that you're feeling a tug in that direction and ask his advice.
As far as moving on from another head position, if there is no obvious reason for wanting to move on, my advice is take an inventory and see if there's anything else within your power that could be done to improve the program. If you find that you've taken them as far as possible, maybe it is time to look. Just make sure you don't fall for a Grass seems Greener situation just for the sake of change.
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Post by CVBears on Jan 25, 2007 1:03:36 GMT -6
For a current HC needing to know if it is time to move on:
-when you start thinking "is practice over yet?"
-when you run a system that isn't the best for your talent, but it's what you like to coach
-when you don't care about your kids lifting in the offseason
-when you say you don't need to prepare for wrinkle X of your opponent and get beat by wrinkle X
-when it is about you and not the kids
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Post by superpower on Jan 25, 2007 8:09:01 GMT -6
It is time to move on when your wife tells you so!
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Post by coachd5085 on Jan 27, 2007 16:18:38 GMT -6
I found myself in a similar situation this season. However, rather than thinking about leaving the staff for another, I wrestled with leaving coaching. I love my current teaching position, great age group, fun outdoor PE settings...etc. But as the season went on (and we were successful, league champs, high seed in the playoffs, advanced to regional round, best regular season in school history, best winning percentage in school history) I just kept finding myself bored with it.
I asked myself--is it the X's and O's? Havign coached college ball, were the x's and o's i was dealing with on a weekly basis too simple and boring
Is it my role on the staff? I was unquestionably the best X and O guy on my side of the ball...and probably on the staff as a whole. Concepts such as run fits, field spacing, coverage/front combinations, motions and trades...call sheets... (don't get me started) were all mysterious to this group. However, I really couldnt have much of an impact on these areas as a position coach.
Is it the staff in general...this one was pretty easy. They were great guys, so I knew that wasn't it.
The kids? I liked our guys, but I also didnt seem to truly bond with them like I had in other situations.
Lifestyle? This was the bigge, and the decision maker. I guess I reached a point where after 12 years of coaching both 1AA and High School ball, I wanted more out of life than teaching and coaching. I wanted that free time to explore new things. So, this combined with a couple of other factos mentioned above... pretty much led me to leave the profession for a while. Taking a Hiatus as they say in TV land. The fact that I hadn't visited this site or bought any new DVD's or vids or books this offseason leads me to believe I made a good choice, but I wonder how the season will get to me.
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Post by pegleg on Jan 27, 2007 16:43:45 GMT -6
its time to move when they offer you a big time 5a job oozing with talent.
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