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Post by mackball on Feb 20, 2019 6:57:20 GMT -6
I possibly have a good place to be a Head Coach, but it's 40-45 minutes from my house. The job is only football and does not come with a teaching position. Wondering if 40-45 minute drive to and from is worth it everyday. Every weightroom session, 7v7, camps, etc.
How far to you guys drive to Football?
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Post by coachlesko on Feb 20, 2019 7:07:48 GMT -6
I'm an assistant and am lucky to coach at the HS in the city I live. I am not a teacher, so I commute in each day. However, the HS can be on the way home from work and is 7 minutes from my house.
Before this I coached at a school 20 minutes each from work and my house. At the time, my job required some weeknights after practice... that was a lot of back-and-forth. Honestly, that was the worst part of the situation, up to an hour in the car in a day.
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Post by bluboy on Feb 20, 2019 7:26:26 GMT -6
Bad day 12 minutes, good day 8 minutes, most days 10 minutes. Hitting a deer is more of a concern than the drive.
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Post by RunThePistol on Feb 20, 2019 8:34:38 GMT -6
I drive 30-35 minutes everyday as an assistant coach. In school is easy because I'm in building. I leave my house every morning at 5:30 school starts at 7:15, we have morning workouts that I lead start at 6:30. In the summer we start at 8 am, so I leave my house at 7 am so I can be there to get the food setup for our players. I am a morning person though, and to be honest every job I've ever had required at least a 30 minute commute.
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Post by newhope on Feb 20, 2019 8:42:32 GMT -6
30 minutes as head coach. But in my area, unless you live right near the school (and it's not likely a teacher can afford to live near here), then pretty much 30 minutes to get anywhere with traffic. It's not bad. However, is it financially worth the drive if you're not teaching?
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Post by jcamerot on Feb 20, 2019 9:15:28 GMT -6
Agree with 'blb'---I think the issue is more being the HC and not being in the building rather than length of commute.
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Post by canesfan on Feb 20, 2019 9:41:35 GMT -6
2 minutes....
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Post by fantom on Feb 20, 2019 9:47:00 GMT -6
I taught and coached, as an assistant, in different districts and my commute was about 40 minutes. In my case it wasn't difficult because my teaching school got out an hour before my coaching school. Scheduling plays an important role.
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Post by Defcord on Feb 20, 2019 9:55:38 GMT -6
I was a lay coach for a D3 for three years. I had about 35 minute drive from where I taught and where I coached. I was paid as an independent contractor so got to write the miles off. It softened the cost of driving a little.
I currently drive 35 minutes. It's not bad but once I go home I hate coming back. This has meant I come to very few extracurricular activities, which isn't a huge deal sense I am an assistant coach. I felt obligated to come to as much as I could when I was a head coach so the commute would not be ideal for me.
I have had a range of commutes my favorite is right around 15 minutes. It gave me time to breath on the way home and didn't feel like it was eating significant amounts of time from my life.
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Post by hsrose on Feb 20, 2019 10:09:49 GMT -6
Did 2 years of a 75 mile round trip in the SF Bay area. Home to work (west), work to school (east), school to home (west) was a total of 75 miles. Most of it was early in the day before the commute so traffic generally wasn't bad. Not sure if I was dedicated or stupid.
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Post by MICoach on Feb 20, 2019 11:46:11 GMT -6
I used to live downtown and drive out to a suburb where I coached. The city I live in has grown to have a pretty bad traffic problem/commute time in recent years so that was a bear.
My shear coincidence my wife and I bought a house close enough to the school that I could probably drive a golf ball and hit the middle school. I spend more time driving through the parking lot than the road to get to practice.
I was not, however, teaching in that district. So next year I'll be coaching at the same school I teach at, so zero extra commute from school to practice but about 18 minutes to and from work. Country roads when there's no snow so it's a pleasant drive.
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Post by ogre5530 on Feb 20, 2019 11:47:31 GMT -6
2 minutes away. I work at the public high school and coach at the catholic school across town.
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Post by TheOlBallCoach on Feb 20, 2019 13:27:54 GMT -6
About 15 minutes for this job
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Post by wolverine55 on Feb 20, 2019 13:31:13 GMT -6
I currently teach and coach about two minutes away and have considered buying a house to where I would simply walk. I sometimes do anyway. For strictly coaching, I once took a job that was a 25 minute one-way drive. I doubt I would go further than that if no teaching was attached to the coaching job.
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Post by KYCoach2331 on Feb 20, 2019 14:00:14 GMT -6
It’s like 22 minutes from the time I walk out the door,
I’m in college so I don’t teach.
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Post by RunPeopleOver on Feb 20, 2019 14:07:21 GMT -6
My commutes have been interesting. Lived in county "a", while coaching in county "b". Moved to county "b", then ended up coaching in county "a". My first commute was about 45 minutes, now it's about 25.
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Post by goldenbull70 on Feb 20, 2019 14:50:03 GMT -6
My commute is about 10 minutes on a good day and 15 to 20 minutes on a bad day.
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 20, 2019 14:56:30 GMT -6
Currently 17 minutes. Moving in April and then the commute will be 10 mins
But i am a teacher, What do you do for a living?
working, then commuting, then commuting back home seems like a LONG day, unless you can find a job in the city you are going to be coaching in
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Post by byuwolverine on Feb 20, 2019 15:23:32 GMT -6
If it were a teaching position in the building, it would be something to consider even with the drive. In your situation, if you were to take the HC job, I would make sure to have 2-3 trusted assistants in the building as teachers to help fill the void.
I currently drive 10-15 minutes depending on traffic.
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Post by stilltryin on Feb 20, 2019 16:19:29 GMT -6
That does seem like a long commute, although when I worked another job I savored the drive home as "alone" time, and a chance to think without distractions or interruptions. The real question, no matter how far you have to drive, is whether you're able to get to school well before practice to meet with coaches, talk to kids, or hash out problems that may have cropped up during the day when you weren't there.
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Post by agap on Feb 20, 2019 18:05:10 GMT -6
It's about 15 minutes for me to get to practice and about 25 minutes back home. I teach in a different district.
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Post by 60zgo on Feb 20, 2019 18:14:38 GMT -6
45 minutes each way. Sometimes a little longer.
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Post by taguilar on Feb 20, 2019 20:03:31 GMT -6
8-10 minutes and it is very nice.
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Post by mackball on Feb 21, 2019 6:29:29 GMT -6
I am a PE teacher, was a HC for 5 years, went to be College Asst for 5 years (part time still taught), now and getting the itch to go back and run a program again. College is 20-25 minutes from home and I think that is the max I will travel.
That new opportunity is a Great school, but just too far, need to be at WR, Hoop games, want my kids at prax w me, etc all the time if you want to be fully "in" imo. Thanks for the insight guys. This board is the best.
Feel free to keep letting everyone know your commute, it may help others feel good about their short commute, or make them think they might need to be closer!
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Post by doubletight305 on Feb 21, 2019 7:02:30 GMT -6
10 minutes in the morning, 5 minutes not peak time. Close enough that I can "work from home" during my planning periods in the offseason. In fact its faster for me to drive to the main office than it is to walk from my classroom to the main office.
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Post by Fridge on Feb 21, 2019 7:04:54 GMT -6
I coach, don´t get paid (fuel only), drive 60-75min each practice.
It´s just for fun here in Germany.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2019 7:31:05 GMT -6
I possibly have a good place to be a Head Coach, but it's 40-45 minutes from my house. The job is only football and does not come with a teaching position. Wondering if 40-45 minute drive to and from is worth it everyday. Every weightroom session, 7v7, camps, etc. How far to you guys drive to Football? I've drove a little over an hour before for 2 years. It was originally a 2.5 hour commute until I got to relocate closer after a couple of months. My other jobs were all 45 minutes-1 hour before I got my current one. Now I commute 20 minutes. The thing is that all of these also had a teaching position, which made it worthwhile to me but it was still rough at times. It's going to be a grind, especially if they aren't paying you much, and it will get tiresome very quickly when you're driving home late after road games during the season. Long commutes open the door to transportation problems: cars wear out and break down on you, you spend a lot on gas, wrecks or bad weather are a lot more likely to happen somewhere and screw up your day, etc. Then you're probably going to be missing sleep and living on fast food because you have less time to eat. It adds up. As for whether or not it's worthwhile, that's really a question you have to ask yourself. I'm not sure how you're going to be supporting yourself (unless the coaching stipend is extremely high), but you get to be a HC. That's a decision you'll have to make on your own. It's a lot harder to stay involved in the community and build relationships with players when you're living so far away.
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Post by bobgoodman on Feb 21, 2019 8:32:11 GMT -6
Growing up in the Bronx, after I'd been thru much of my working life there I was shocked to read nationwide statistics on how short the avg. commuting time is! In a major metro area, if you're self-employed you might have a short commute -- even just downstairs in some cases -- but if you're doing work that's at all specialized, you can expect to commute an hour each way or more. That's the thing about being in an urban area: things you need to get to frequently are either within walking distance or take a fairly time-consuming drive or subway ride. When I was coaching kids there, I was lucky enough to be within biking distance (almost all the way a bike/ped path), but if I'd had a paid coaching job the odds are it'd've been a fairly long commute, just because chances are the schools that happened to be near me wouldn't've had the job open at the time, & it'd be unlikely for there to be a housing vacancy much closer.
Now that I'm out in the country, nothing's in reasonable walking distance, but most things I need to get to -- including where I coach -- are just 10-15 mins.' drive. For a few mos. I was stuck here w/o a car, but lucky to have sr. citizen jitney available.
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Post by coachkeating33 on Feb 21, 2019 8:41:45 GMT -6
I possibly have a good place to be a Head Coach, but it's 40-45 minutes from my house. The job is only football and does not come with a teaching position. Wondering if 40-45 minute drive to and from is worth it everyday. Every weightroom session, 7v7, camps, etc. How far to you guys drive to Football? lol...my first years coaching....I was dirt poor, drove 45 min to football, and slept in the office on game nights to save gas money(we scouted or watched film saturday mornings).......
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Post by mackball on Feb 21, 2019 9:52:42 GMT -6
No teaching position, it isn't worth it. My first few years were similar to that as well. I coached at a D3 school and loved it even though it was almost an hour away and spent many nights there, but I'm 40 years old now and absolutely would not love that anymore! I withdrew my application.
Crazy thing is it seems to be happening a lot in my area that there are a bunch of openings each season and none of them seem to have teaching positions with them. They wonder why HS Football is becoming a mess in MA, low numbers, low attendance, teams now make playoffs with 0 yes ZERO wins, and they keep playing the season after they lose in the playoffs, they play other playoff losers and no one goes to the games!! Tons of turnover, tons of guys not tied into the community.
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