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Post by runtheball86 on Jul 16, 2006 18:32:28 GMT -6
Why do you coach football?
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Post by tog on Jul 16, 2006 18:40:28 GMT -6
Why do you coach football? I like seeing kids grow up into men. I like how the game teaches life's most important lessons better than any other sport. I like the strategy involved. The camaraderie among the coaches and being on a team are not something you can find in other lines of work. |
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Post by shakdaddy3 on Jul 16, 2006 18:40:47 GMT -6
It was the first love of my life, it is still the love of my life, and always will be the love of my life. There are 3 things I love and need to live: my family (which includes the closest of friends), football, and food. The 3 f's  All of the aspects that football brings to connect people for a lifetime is simply amazing as well. |
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Post by Yash on Jul 16, 2006 18:51:31 GMT -6
"A life has no meaning except in the impact it has on other lives." Jackie Robinson. Football is how I can teach life lessons.
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Post by phantom on Jul 16, 2006 19:05:57 GMT -6
I couldn't even tell you. All I know is that I feel like I was born to do it even though I do not come from a family of ahletes or coaches. I don't remember wanting to do anything but teach and coach (and I love each equally).
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Post by groundchuck on Jul 16, 2006 19:08:56 GMT -6
I coach to help young people develop into mature adults. It is a way to teach life's lessons through sport. After God and family it is #3 on my list. I am passionate about football and helping young men.
The best I can do in 50 words.
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Post by runtheball86 on Jul 17, 2006 5:49:27 GMT -6
A good start ... thanks (so far), coaches .... and you have 11 word left, groundchuck!  |
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Post by blb on Jul 17, 2006 5:55:16 GMT -6
To give back to others, as my coaches gave to me.
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Post by kcbazooka on Jul 17, 2006 6:53:22 GMT -6
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Post by coachveer on Jul 17, 2006 6:58:02 GMT -6
God has given me the opportunity through football to teach young men how to do " the next right thing".
Someone told me once that the key to success it to find something you love to do and someone dumb enough to pay you to do it.
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Post by brophy on Jul 17, 2006 7:02:06 GMT -6
I coach football because it is one of the few things that I feel natural at (and good) - where everything is "right". I coach out of genuine altruism of teaching, developing TEAMS, competitiveness, and probably ego as well.
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Post by fbdoc on Jul 17, 2006 9:46:52 GMT -6
I love the life lessons, the scheming, the feeling of being a part of something. I lvoe the rush I get from helping someone get better, within the confines of the "team" atmosphere that exists ONLY in football. The whole Band of Brothers feeling - "he who stays and sheds his blood with me today shall be my brother..."
And coachveer - my dad told me that many years ago. He worked his butt off (General Contrator) and loved every minute of it! Working summers and weekends for him as a kid - I hated it, so he shared those words of wisdom with me.
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Post by coachnicholson on Jul 17, 2006 10:16:02 GMT -6
I coach football for the relationships I build with other people. The friendships I have with current and former coaches, players and teammates are simply priceless! Its all about the people, give everything you've got to the game and it will always give something back to you.
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bighit65
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Make a statement without saying a word.
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Post by bighit65 on Jul 17, 2006 17:07:04 GMT -6
I coach because when I was young and my family wasn't really around I could look to the guys that I went to battle with every week and knew that that was a family that will always care for you and will never leave you. Keep extending the family.
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Post by runtheball86 on Jul 17, 2006 17:57:11 GMT -6
hey kcbazooka - i HOPE you are joking .... you coach for the money??? WHERE???
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Post by kcbazooka on Jul 17, 2006 19:20:14 GMT -6
Definately not kidding -- making dang near upper $30,000's! only hurts when going house shopping -- unfortunately my administration knows I'd work for nothing - love coaching- seeing kids improve, mature, make good decisions or fight through bad ones.. I'm sure along with 99% of the coaches on this board - I feel blessed to be paid for something I love to do.
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Post by coachcalande on Jul 17, 2006 19:46:41 GMT -6
Why do you coach football? Not paying attention to the 50 words or less part... God puts us where we are needed most, bloom where planted...i wasnt much of a player but I want to be the very best coach. I want to help young people become something bigger than the image they have of themselves. Making the difference in just one boys life by being a teaching, loving coach instead of the typical stereotypical jerk, makes my own life meaningful. Winning games builds and feeds my ego ( I am not afraid to say that.) |
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Post by jhanawa on Jul 17, 2006 22:01:06 GMT -6
Its the greatest team sport in the history of mankind, bar none. It is a full contact chess match, no other sport offers the strategy, intelligence, skill, athleticism and agressiveness like football. IMO, its the best method for molding young men that there is. I love watching it, playing it, coaching it, thinking of it. Football rules! It is the KING of all team sports!
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Post by goldenbear76 on Jul 17, 2006 23:34:29 GMT -6
Because its fun. I was always told you should strive to do what you enjoy. I enjoy football. I enjoy coaching young kids and teaching them lessons not only in football, but off the field as well. I enjoy talking with the other guys on my staff and having a beer after a hard fought game. Win Or Lose..but its always nice to taste victory. I enjoy watching hours of film and thinking.."Why did my offensive tackle pass set on a jet sweep?" This is fun to me.
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Post by gamedog on Jul 18, 2006 13:24:25 GMT -6
Free clothes
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Post by los on Jul 18, 2006 13:34:58 GMT -6
Ha, Ha, lol. Thats a good one gamedog! I was gonna say for the money, the chicks and the glory, or was that why I wanted to be a rock star, can't remember? But free clothes is good too and its fun lol!
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Post by gamedog on Jul 18, 2006 14:00:32 GMT -6
It is fun for sure!
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Post by eagled on Jul 25, 2006 22:54:46 GMT -6
I coach football because I love the game, love working with the best kids in the school, love Friday nights, love hanging out with the other coaches, and it gets me through the first 1/3 of the school year. Still enthusiastic and excited about the whole thing after 25+ years of coaching. O forgot the perks - $, fame, chicks dig coaches, all the gear, etc.
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Post by pegleg on Jul 26, 2006 17:02:33 GMT -6
i coach because its the only place where i can still be a guy. doesn't matter if i'm loud or rowdy, in fact it helps most of the time. plus the other guys i work with are just as loud and rowdy as i am. its a testosterone thing, men being men. plus it alows me to feed the competitive monster inside me.
oh and that other stuff you guys said.
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Post by redfish on Jul 26, 2006 21:26:49 GMT -6
I love the game. I love starting in January, building the leadership among your rising seniors and the strength and confidence of your rising sophomores. I love the testing at the end of the 3rd quarter, where kids gain 25 pounds on their bench-press, clean or squat. I love seeing the former ninth grade turd get his act together, make his grades, and finally have something in his life where he is accountable for his actions and receives the love and praise from those who knew him before. I love spring practice, where you get to teach the most basic of fundamentals and finding who your leaders are. I love summer workouts, where the only thing that matters is working hard and getting better – no school, no discipline issues, only the prospect of new opportunities to win. I love the season with the passion, intensity and honor that comes from working as hard as you can and knowing that you left it all out there. I love the sadness or the unbridled joy that comes from your last game of the season. Win or lose, laughing or crying, it’s the living of life with all the passion that makes life great and so worth living. Then, starting all over again after Christmas.
162 words over? Sue me, I’m in FACA, they got me covered.
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Post by superpower on Jul 27, 2006 7:19:17 GMT -6
It is in our blood...we have to coach football or we don't exist!
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Post by fbdoc on Jul 27, 2006 11:29:03 GMT -6
redfish. If you are in Florida, where do you coach?
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Post by dacoachmo on Jul 27, 2006 15:27:20 GMT -6
It turned a dumpy 8th grader into a future leader of young men.
The whole challenge of getting boys ready for the game and life.
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Post by PSS on Jul 28, 2006 5:48:50 GMT -6
It's the on profession where I can have an impact on the lives of young men. Football is the one sport in which several if not all lessons of becoming a responsible man can be taught. It is an awesome job to not just being able to coach the X's and O's of football but also to teach young men integrity, honor, character, and the many more that could be listed. I know I couldn't do anything else.
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Post by hchscoachtom on Jul 28, 2006 7:20:32 GMT -6
Having a positive impact on young men is my passion, and football is a great vehicle to do this.
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