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Post by NAG on May 23, 2021 23:24:59 GMT -6
Question for those with experience. At my school the head football coach is responsible for the following duties on game day:
Field set up (down markers, chains etc, moving soccer & LAX nets)
Chain crew parent sign up
Ticket / Gate parent sign up
Concession worker parent sign up
Scoreboard operator parent sign up
Is this typical at most schools? We are a school of over 1,400 students with 3 athletic directors.
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Post by morris on May 24, 2021 3:37:04 GMT -6
I don’t know if it’s typical but I’m roughly the same size school. Add to the list
Announcer
Spotter for the booth
Paying for law enforcement
Paying for EMS
Cleaning the stadium (stands, pulling trash, etc) after the game.
The goals I don’t have to mess with anyone more but when I did I complained about that. I just bugged the AD and the other coaches until they started taking care of their goals.
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Post by blb on May 24, 2021 5:37:17 GMT -6
I never had to do any of the things on those two lists.
Those were all AD's responsibilities.
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2021 6:14:00 GMT -6
Our AD cant and shouldn’t. My boss is the defacto AD. And I am pretty he does all of that and then some. We have a police escort on road games. And at least one police i.e robocop officer on our side line who is much bigger than anybody else in the building most of time. And considering who mentor is...that is pretty impressive.
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Post by MICoach on May 24, 2021 8:39:09 GMT -6
First, I've never heard of having three AD's...what do they all do on game day? Or any day for that matter?
In my experience most of what you listed would be either the AD or the HFC depending on the school. I think at my current school we let other sports programs run the concession stand for a percentage of the take, and also have a school employee who does the gate for almost every event in the stadium. I believe the AD handles field set up and chain crew, HC gets a guy for scoreboard.
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Post by wolverine55 on May 24, 2021 8:51:46 GMT -6
Most of my experience is at small schools and even then it has not been the coaches responsibility to do any of those, except at one job we did have to line the field and set up the markers. I was a JV coach and we basically did that while the varsity coaches were putting the varsity players through pregame practice on Thursday.
Even when I taught and coached at a school of 1600, we only had one AD and coaches didn't have to worry about these things listed.
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Post by newhope on May 24, 2021 10:52:07 GMT -6
Question for those with experience. At my school the head football coach is responsible for the following duties on game day: Field set up (down markers, chains etc, moving soccer & LAX nets) Chain crew parent sign up Ticket / Gate parent sign up Concession worker parent sign up Scoreboard operator parent sign up Is this typical at most schools? We are a school of over 1,400 students with 3 athletic directors. I've been at some schools where the FB coach was responsible for those, most though the AD. At my current school (and at a couple of others), we passed all that on to the football families organization---except for field set up. Our in the building FB PE teachers do the field set up generally. So....I don't do any of that. If it wasn't getting done by the others, however, it would fall back on me probably My role in the parent sign up is to sometimes send something out to parents "encouraging" them to sign up |
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Post by coachdavekeller on May 24, 2021 13:40:22 GMT -6
Question for those with experience. At my school the head football coach is responsible for the following duties on game day: Field set up (down markers, chains etc, moving soccer & LAX nets) Chain crew parent sign up Ticket / Gate parent sign up Concession worker parent sign up Scoreboard operator parent sign up Is this typical at most schools? We are a school of over 1,400 students with 3 athletic directors. Nope. The athletic director handles these tasks. I pitch in here and there. |
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Post by bluboy on May 24, 2021 18:27:30 GMT -6
Custodial staff takes care of field set up (down markers, chains etc, moving soccer & LAX nets). We (coaches) take care of anything we need on sideline (tables for water, phones, kicking net). AD and assistant AD take care of people working security, police and ticket takers. Concession stand was operated by booster club, but not now. The senior class runs the concession stand.
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Post by carookie on May 24, 2021 20:45:02 GMT -6
Ive been at big schools, 2,500+, and small schools, just above 100, and a number of places in between. At each of them pretty much everything you listed has been the responsibility of the AD, sometimes helped by the DFA. Head coach may provide info or connections, but the AD does these things, that is his job.
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Post by blb on May 25, 2021 5:07:35 GMT -6
Ive been at big schools, 2,500+, and small schools, just above 100, and a number of places in between. At each of them pretty much everything you listed has been the responsibility of the AD, sometimes helped by the DFA. Head coach may provide info or connections, but the AD does these things, that is his job. What is a "DFA"? |
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Post by coachcb on May 25, 2021 10:17:05 GMT -6
Question for those with experience. At my school the head football coach is responsible for the following duties on game day: Field set up (down markers, chains etc, moving soccer & LAX nets) Chain crew parent sign up Ticket / Gate parent sign up Concession worker parent sign up Scoreboard operator parent sign up Is this typical at most schools? We are a school of over 1,400 students with 3 athletic directors.
I had an AD (I've described him in numerous other threads) try to dump field set-up, chain crew, gate and scoreboard operator on me. He tried to make all sport HCs responsible for for filling ancillary game-day jobs our problem. We all "respectfully" declined and the principal agreed.
We all helped tear down the field after the games. Well, until he called two kids "idiots" for not "stacking the yard markers properly in the shed." There wasn't a mess; just not done according to his less-than specific instructions. Then it was just he and I cleaning up the field while the assistants got the kids out of the locker room.
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Post by larrymoe on May 25, 2021 11:29:25 GMT -6
I was a HC at 3 different schools and none of those things were ever my responsibilities.
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Post by fantom on May 25, 2021 11:36:36 GMT -6
I was a HC at 3 different schools and none of those things were ever my responsibilities. I was curious about the answers because I've only coached at schools that share city stadiums. I do wonder what the 3 ADs at the OP's school do. |
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Post by carookie on May 25, 2021 19:43:28 GMT -6
Ive been at big schools, 2,500+, and small schools, just above 100, and a number of places in between. At each of them pretty much everything you listed has been the responsibility of the AD, sometimes helped by the DFA. Head coach may provide info or connections, but the AD does these things, that is his job. What is a "DFA"? Director of Football Activities- fancy name for team mon who sits in on meetings |
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Post by blackknight on May 31, 2021 12:48:03 GMT -6
We did this is during our walk through on game day in our Athletic PE (injured players) - Field set up (down markers, chains etc, moving soccer & LAX nets)
HC (but it was the same guys every year) - Chain crew parent sign up
Vice Pincipal - Ticket / Gate parent sign up
Touchdown Club - Concession worker parent sign up
AD (Girls Basketball HC did this) - Scoreboard operator parent sign up
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