Lessons learned from the season 2022

Amen to that.

I will be VERY particular about coaches I bring in, if I am in the position to do so. I have been called a dictator before, so be it. When its my job/kids food on the line I'm gonna be very certain that the people I allow to be a part of the program are gonna do what I tell them to do

6 am meetings, practices along with no college football on saturdays and meetings after church will do the job on douche bags. Along ith having to do things other than just show up for practice and meeting, like help with the end of year banquet.

There not many “good” coaches who are hireable

Amen.

That said, some guys need developing before they can really be an asset.  I've got a guy who needs a lot of guidance, but he really WANTS to be there and is a good person who will be loyal and dedicated.  I'll get him to be an effective coach eventually.

Negative presences/influences need to be excised ASAP though.  Just can't have it.

The same HCs that say they want good, "Christian" men on their staff also tell their assistants "get your ass up here right after church so we can watch the same clip of GT counter 157 times"

It is finally starting to seem like the 9am to 1 pm Saturdays and 1pm to 6pm on Sunday thing is going by the wayside. We are gone by 11 am on Saturdays and meet from 1-3 on Sunday. If you can't make it, make contributions via text or the live Google Sheet. Seems to have worked for us the last 3 years.

How many coaches with families would move to the middle of a ghetto, or any place where there is zero chance to win, or the hc is a moron? With a 10k stipen. Good coaches do not just take any job, hence part of the reason why they are good coaches.  And you can put head coaches in that discussion as well.

Good coaches can do that without wasting time.

This is why I am pulling for the Indianapolis Colts now, though I have no other rooting interest in them. Jeff Saturday got the head coaching job with no NFL or college coaching experience (he was a few games over .500 as a high school HC). The pundits ripped into the team, the owner, the coach, etc. How can you hire someone to be a HC who hasn't paid their dues, spent years in the grind, worked their way up the ladder?

Can you imagine the arguments you can lay foundations for if he wins, if he is successful? Maybe all the beliefs the media and society as a whole try to spew about the coaching profession are wrong? Maybe you don't need a decade of 16 hour days grinding your way up to be a good HC? And if those long help beliefs can be challenged, or at least re-analyzed, what else could?

He is an NFL guy. This isnt really all that off the books. His route was different, but its not unprecedented.

Our situation was very different this year. The HC that was hired in the spring had to leave 2 1/2 weeks into season (on a Wednesday of week 3) for personal reasons due to insurance with his disabled son. When he left, it was in thoughts that he will return after Jan 1st when supposedly his insurance deal gets solved, but that is not 100% guaranteed.
I was only one during the spring for workouts cause he stayed on at his old school for remainder of the school year. He came down and we did spring together just me and him.
Over the summer we picked up 3 volunteers after me and him started most of June together.
When he left, I took over. One volunteer wanted to be a coordinator but we had different philosophies. We were SBV and he wanted to go spread and power wishbone running. I wanted to continue running Veer of course, so we did. We did make a change from SBV to Flexbone due to injuries in the backfield.
With the former HC we met on Sundays for couple hrs and talked about what changes needed to be made and everything was discussed from wishbone/spread/power I, to more SBV…I was DC and other volunteers would always suggest changing something, and HC was a SUPER GOOD GUY, and would let them speak their peace. We would try a little bit and struggle all around cause we wasn’t good at anything.
After I took over, we met twice more on Sundays again in person, and they wanted to talk about changes, and I told them Veer was what we are going to do. We just needed to work on the fundamentals of football. I guess they got butt hurt cause they felt like they didn’t get a say in anything. Since I was only one that knew what we were doing offensively and defensively I called both sides, but gave each a special teams they could be in control of. Guess some wanted more, and thought I was trying to do everything myself.
We met after that on Google meet on Sunday nights for about an hr and half, we would go over small details of things that we needed for that week, and discuss who to attack with our options. Kids would get on afterwards and we would go over everything and watch film with them.
The volunteer that wanted to be a coordinator was willing to drive down 35 min to meet at school, but wasn’t willing to drive
10 min to get on Google meet at his church where we could get wifi service.
I would still ask him his thoughts in the coaches group text and he would always send back doing something completely different than what our offensive and defensive philosophies are as a game plan, and talk about the opposing team. After the second week of me being in charge, I decided to see how much film he watched after he said something about a team i didn’t think was right. Well he only had watched 9 min of film combined for the past two week. Were I personally don’t get a good feel for a team until I watched them for at least a couple hrs and sometimes it takes me longer. Like I thought, he had no clue what the opposing team was doing.
He made the comment a couple weeks after that a teams DL was weak and not very good. Our OL came off the field after the second series and said that was the strongest and best OL they played all year. That team went undefeated in our region…
I would have gotten rid of all the volunteers and just had former player volunteers I coached help me, BUT I did not, and it was a miserable staff for both them and me.
If our HC does not come back, I’ll tell them we have different mindsets and philosophy differences, not saying ones right/wrong, or better than the other… but they won’t be helping, and I’ll have former players help me that I trust.

If you're putting in all that time you described, you're wasting an enormous amount of time.

I would argue that in the NFL, they aren't necessarily giving jobs to guys who have just stuck around a long time.   Just a few seasons ago, if  you were in the same room as Sean Mcvey for more than a few minutes, it seemed you got an interview to be a HC.   Vrabel rose through the ranks pretty fast didn't he?    7 NFL head coaches were born after Dwight Clark's "catch".    20 of the 32 head coaches that started the season were under the age of 50.  

I have a record of what I think on this, not directly, but I do. You are not going to get the good ole days though, and I will suggest the good ole days is still killing this game.

No, 6am every day, Sat and Sunday is a waste of time.