posted in other spot, but will here too...
jimmies n joes brother....x an o doesnt matter if you cant______
your not gonna run spread with no qb
your not gonna run the I with a small OL
your not gonna run 4 man front with 3 DL kids
find out who you have personnel wise, what they do best and then fit scheme around that. from the sounds of it, you dont have alot of kids.
in my years of coaching, your going to need a ball control offense and play smart, simple, sound defense. keep away from the other team, shorten the game to possessions, not time. run the play clock to 1 and snap, type of game. make it a 10 possession game.
with that being said,
im not sure you know exactly what your getting yourself into. the things you have written above all seem like things that need to be done, but honestly.....the head coach is
CEO, President, COO, fundraiser, field painter, laundry guy, order of equipment, equipment guy, grass mower, stat keeper, hudl operator, community liason, head of rectuiting, dean of discipline, dad to all, father of none.
your looking at your life being pretty much flipped upside down in terms of time committment, caring for a program, fixing what seems to be broken. your home life will be turned around as well. kiss personal time good bye. you will be texting kids, talking to coaches, watching game film, turning laundry over, mowing the field, for weeks on end. friday night games turn into saturday morning films to sunday gameplans for a solid august thru november. throw in offseason workouts, both 3 and 4 day variety from jaunary to july and now you are a football coach fulltime and a husband/father/golfer/pickup hoops/business man part time.
you will be selecting coaches, debating with them for hours on end about what to do with joey who was a jerk in class today and whether or not you should run the wing T and have a shot or hunh like those guys in oregon.
if it were just coaching monday thru friday from 3-6 and playing friday nights, would def be the best job ever....
but its not that. its alot more. more than I have said here... this is just a taste.....
being the HC isnt all its cracked up to be, but also is 1 of the greatest things I have ever, ever done. and the hardest....
good luck.