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Post by resdeal on Oct 13, 2024 12:38:46 GMT -6
What percent of the boys in your high school play football? This question is directed toward smaller schools.
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Post by IronmanFootball on Oct 14, 2024 13:02:01 GMT -6
When I was a head coach it was ~30%. Of ~100 boys we had 25-35 on the team.
I instituted a higher cumulative unweighted GPA than the athletic dept did. I said 2.25 vs 2.0.
If you were 2.0-2.25 we could work out a contract IF you had limited disciplinary issues.
We also have behavior contracts in place.
We had only 2 referrals over my last 24 months as HC and a team cumulative unweighted GPA of 3.5 while going 7-4 my last season there.
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Post by jstoss24 on Oct 15, 2024 9:48:47 GMT -6
I went to, and began my coaching career at, a school with ~750 students and we were consistently able to carry a Freshman, JV, and Varsity team, with a total of about 90 football players. The last school I was at had about 1400 students, with about 70 football players between JV and Varsity. The school I am at now has right around 2000 students, and carry 53 each on JV and Varsity, but had to cut about 15 kids total due to not having enough jerseys for everybody who came out.
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Post by cwaltsmith on Oct 15, 2024 10:05:52 GMT -6
about 11% for us ... only had football for 9 years as a school ... would like it to be over 15%.
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Post by irishdog on Oct 17, 2024 10:40:59 GMT -6
I spent most of my career working in small (private) schools. Two of them were just under 400, just under 200 boys. My ultimate participation goal in those schools was 35-40%. Reached that goal in two of the schools, fell short (only 25%) in the other. The fourth school had a HS enrollment of 750. In that school I set the goals differently. We had a middle school (200 students- 7th and 8th grades), with just under 100 boys in both grades. I set the MS participation goals at 25 boys per grade in order to have separate 7th and 8th grade teams. The HS numbers were 325 boys total. The participation goal there was to have at least 60 boys playing football at the varsity/JV levels.
We were very close to reaching (or exceeding) those numbers each of the 7 years I was there.
I was able to have 5 coaches (varsity/JV) in the schools with just under 400. One volunteer. In the schools with just over 300 I was able to hire 5 coaches (varsity/JV). Two volunteers. In the middle/high school I had 6 MS coaches w/2 volunteers, and 6 HS coaches w/1 volunteer. Altogether I found those numbers to be more easily manageable.
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Post by blb on Oct 17, 2024 11:14:37 GMT -6
Are you at a "football school" where because of history-tradition, community attitudes it's important and kids want to play?
Do you have Soccer in the fall?
Is it a basketball and-or baseball school where kids choose to specialize?
Do you have a "feeder program" that encourages kids to keep playing or "burns them out" before they get to HS?
Even if you have adequate numbers (how ever you define that), doesn't mean you will have enough "football players" to meet your competition.
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Post by nhsehs on Oct 17, 2024 11:23:47 GMT -6
I think it really depends on how important football is at the school and how many coaches you have.
There are places in TX that have 400-500 kids in the football program, but they have 20-25 coaches in the building.
Where I'm at, we got a non-football school to 80 players with 6 coaches. That was getting tough to manage.
I always thought a good rule of thumb is if you have 10% of the male population playing football, you're doing well.
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