Mercifully, season comes to a close

Thanks coach, beleive me I'd love to , especially alongside someone like yourself but I have a hard enough time convincing my wife to move anywhere around here (east coast) but I appreaciate the offer.

This season was a career-ender for me...

We had three-and a half hour practices that started an hour after school was over. We had no coherent offensive philosophy. Our practices were haphazard and unorganized and there really was no discipline at all. Head coach was a very stubborn guy who didn't accept any suggestions at all and really wanted assistants to be "yes" men.

By the end of the season, I sat in my classroom dreading the start of practice and then spent the next three and a half hours checking my watch every five minutes. Couldn't WAIT for the season to get over.

Told the head coach less than a week later that I was done. Not sure where that leaves me...in all likelihood, my spurs are hung up for good. I really like the place where I am teaching and I'm not going to look for another teaching gig. I like to think that I will get back into it eventually, but there is no way I can work for the guy who is there now.

OJW -

Sage words...

I've been around enough to have worked on staffs where there are those 1 or 2 guys who are just pissed off, bitter, and negative all of the time...those guys are complete cancers and just not any fun at all to be around.

I saw myself becoming "that guy" towards the end of this season. Told myself a long time ago when it got to the point that I was turning into "that guy", it was time to get out. That's basically where I am at right now. I know that I am going to miss it and and my wife doesn't believe that I'm done, but right now, it looks pretty good that I will be buying a ticket to see games next year. But, like you said...you never know what the future holds.

19Delta, like I told kell you are more than welcome out here in Arizona.

I don't even know if I want to coach again after that, I'm the "screw me over once" type. The VP emailed me asking that I return, I told them it's up in the air, but unless MAJOR changes are made not likely.

I still can't beleive all the BS that went on this year it was like a friggin TV dramma

Sitting here at 0-9 right now, easily possible that we will be 0-10. Funny season (my first HC gig) started by holding one of the top teams in the state to 7-0 at the 1/2, lost 35-10. Moved on played a lower classification powerhouse and hung around, but lost 30-14. Week 2 regular season played well on d (Duece would disagree, but they did) and lost 23-6 to an undefeated playoff team. Next week we are favored to win by 10 and lose 37-0! We couldn't get out of our own way on offense and the d really hurt us w/big plays. We had a bye week at which time we had 4 kids, seniors, quit. We then faced a grueling schedule of teams whose overall record at this point is 26-10 and got the brakes beat off of us. Had 1 good game where we held a wing-t team to less than 1/2 their avg. rushing yards but lost 15-3. We hung in there against the 6th ranked team in our classification going in at 1/2 time down 19-7 and actually made it 19-14 at one point only to lose 39-14. The last 2 weeks have been pitiful though, lost 47-7 and 59-6.
On the practice field had huge drama, started off with 7 coaches total (including myself) now we are down to 4 total. 2 quit me and 1 is never here so he might as well have quit. I think that is the biggest reason for our lack of success is that kids see that we need more coaches. I will say this, the way we practice sometimes you'd never know we were 0-9. It's sad though, our seniors are the one's who are pouting and moping around, the juniors are lost (we only have 8) and our 12 sophomores are really our leaders. I still don't know where I went wrong though. I guess it was hiring such lame assistant coaches. Still, I never thought I'd be 0-9 in my first year, it just never crossed my mind. Really doing some soul searching right now to see what I can do to improve, but this board is a great place for just that! Thanks all.

We just finished up our worst season ever at 1-10. We felt going in to the season we had the ability to be 500. However, we felt like we didnt get the most out of our kids until the last two games,which we lost 35-26 and 40-28 to much better teams. We actually held the lead in both of those games at the end of the 3rd qtr but couldnt hold them in the 4th. (last team was 9-1) On the bright spot our JV team tied for the conference crown. I think two years from now we will be very good again like we have in the past.

Remember, being out-concieved doesn't make you a bad coach. Don''t make any decisions for a month or two.

I was the (oc/dc/stc) "everything"coordinator until week 3 when the head coach quit, prior to a game. Being the only one with HC experience, the presedent of the Org. asked me to take the team till the end of the season.

Saint is actually in far northern AZ- I an actually about two hours North of Sahuarita.

So what do you think they will do without a head coach? What will you do?