|
Post by phantom on Jun 15, 2007 14:04:09 GMT -6
My opinion is that any of your head guys/frosh head, soph head, coordinators, should not miss a beat. I pride myself in "putting in my time. I don't schedule things that interfere with our summer workouts. Too often I've seen guys that are satisfied with just showing up year to year. They do nothing to prepare themselves in the off season. I am constantly looking for ways to enhance my knowledge. Some guys don't get that coaching is teaching. It's not enough to show up. IMO, it is another full time commitment in my life. I take it as seriously as I do my full time job. I, unfortunately, realize that not everybody takes their responsibilities as serious as I. I believe there is no excuse, short of health or family issues, that a coach should take a vacation during training sessions. Usually the summer is chopped up enough before August that one can get a vacation in with his family. In our state we have a limited amount of contact days that our teams can have before our official practices in August. I may be confused. Are you saying that a coach shouldn't miss weights/conditioning for a vacation?
|
|
|
Post by dolomite on Jun 15, 2007 14:21:10 GMT -6
My opinion is that any of your head guys/frosh head, soph head, coordinators, should not miss a beat. I pride myself in "putting in my time. I don't schedule things that interfere with our summer workouts. Too often I've seen guys that are satisfied with just showing up year to year. They do nothing to prepare themselves in the off season. I am constantly looking for ways to enhance my knowledge. Some guys don't get that coaching is teaching. It's not enough to show up. IMO, it is another full time commitment in my life. I take it as seriously as I do my full time job. I, unfortunately, realize that not everybody takes their responsibilities as serious as I. I believe there is no excuse, short of health or family issues, that a coach should take a vacation during training sessions. Usually the summer is chopped up enough before August that one can get a vacation in with his family. In our state we have a limited amount of contact days that our teams can have before our official practices in August. I may be confused. Are you saying that a coach shouldn't miss weights/conditioning for a vacation? No I am not saying that at all. I am saying that if you're assigned to it, then no, you should plan your vacation around your responsibilities. Usually there is a couple of people that can and will cover for you in the event that your vacation ends up on a weight lifting or conditioning day. The message that I was trying to get across was, you can't preach hard work and dedication, and then take a trip during a camp or 7 on 7!!!
|
|
|
Post by ajreaper on Jun 16, 2007 9:23:02 GMT -6
LOL, vacation ends up on a weight lifting of conditioning day? So what do they get 24 hours? Vacations are generally several days maybe a week or more- everyone from the players to the coaches needs some time away, some family time, some time to recharge the battery's so to speak and neither the players or the coaches are generally the soul determiners of when they go and for how long. Most coaches and players do their best to work around camp and 7 on 7 dates but geez a grandparents 50th wedding aniversery or a wedding likely is not scheduled around those............ but maybe they should be;)
|
|
|
Post by coachdawhip on Jun 16, 2007 9:43:55 GMT -6
I would expect for my assistants to be there along with myself. We currently have Weight-lifting and walk throughs every morning from 7-10. Assistants will miss, from time to time. I have missed a lot of the morning workouts because of a class I had to take for my teaching job, but other than that I am there, when there is anything on my schedule.
The question that has to be asked is two-fold.
1) Why is this assistant missing? because he doesn't want to be there or because of other issues. 2)How do you feel as a coach about it? Did you lay it out when you hired him that he needed to be their and if they are getting paid during the summer should they be there?
|
|
|
Post by coachcb on Jun 16, 2007 10:41:29 GMT -6
Most of the guys I have worked with are good about getting to 7-7 stuff and camps; obvious stuff.
However, they're terrible about making the weight training sessions with any consistency. Some guys are great about it; always there, always helping out. They made it a part of their daily schedule and it was great to have them around. There were other guys who just didn't feel an obligation.
|
|
|
Post by CoachDaniel on Jun 16, 2007 11:48:11 GMT -6
Our basic expectation is if you're in town, you should be there 6-8am. We set that time because nothing else shoud be going on 6-8am in the summer, kids or coaches. BUT, if a coach plans a vacation, or as mentoned earlier has some special occaision, its not a problem and the rest of the staff can cover it.
Are we talking about a coach who lives 10 minutes down the road but consistently just doesn't feel like getting out of bed that early? That would be a problem.
|
|
|
Post by dolomite on Jun 17, 2007 22:17:15 GMT -6
;D ;D
|
|
|
Post by hemlock on Jun 18, 2007 20:05:24 GMT -6
This is amongst the most difficult issues in coaching high school football. What a H.C. may expect I really believe depends on the region of the country in which he coaches. I have coached in New Jersey, the Midwest, and the Deep South and all places value the sport of football differently. New Jersey, albeit a gold mine of talent, I believe is a horrible place to coach. Although people like football, it is not a real part of their CULTURE. Consequently, what you could expect in terms of administrative support and dedication on the part of your coaches was never great. Most the assistants that I worked with, and I was a coordinator and coached at a few significant college programs earlier, were good people, but they were essentially doing it to have fun and contribute to the community. Few really new anything about football. This itself is not the end of the world so long as such individuals are willing to learn, but most found my policy of having two offensive staff meetings a month from January to June to review the system, exchange ideas, discuss personnel, and review game films from the previous year to be an anathema and flat out refused to do it. My H.C., who supported me, basically told that I was not coaching in South anymore and that this is what I could expect. It continued on into the summer because most of the assistants who taught in the school took the whole vacation thing a little too seriously. They failed to understand that in reality our season on June 15 had just begun and that they needed to be there and that it was in essence b---ls to the wall until December regardless of how good the team was going to be. The upshot of this is that in communities in which football is not ingrained into the culture's deep grammar a coach has to alter his expectations. Needless to say, I resigned after two years to pursue a career in academia and have vowed that if I coach H.S. football again it will only be in a part of the country, which really values the sport.
|
|