Why do you Coach?

Easy...for all the money and fame duh

...and the women. Don't forget the women.

I did say "women," not "girls."

Wish I could say something noble but the fact is that I loved football and realized that there was no professional future  for an unathletic linebacker or a 5'9" lineman. 

I didn't want to become a "real adult." I get to watch movies, draw, and play outside all day.

In all seriousness, my coaches had a tremendous impact on me growing up and I wanted to be a positive influence to future young people through a game that I love.

For 7 on 7 practice in the cold and the wind on 2/26!

I couldn’t have said it any better than this. There are a lot of things I love/enjoy about the game. The reason though is exactly what blb stated.

I coach because as a 9 year old who lost his mother to a battle with breast cancer, I was a pretty wayward soul. I found football and was fortunate enough to have coaches that gave a damn about me and cared for their players and those men taught me values that could not have been taught in any classroom. They also were working with me at an age where my father could do no right in my eyes (he's a great man, I was just a hardheaded teenager who thought he knew everything) and they somehow were able to get through to me when my old man could not. When the light clicked for me was when I was signing to play college football and realizing what all they did to help me out, I remember telling my head coach, at the time, I would come back and help him coach. 10 years later, I was on his staff and was fortunate enough to coach with him for 4 seasons before he retired. On that staff were three coaches I had also played for, and I got to coach with them as well. They also took a young "thinks he knows it all coach", and helped mold me into the coach I am today. The older I got and the further I got into coaching, I realized how big of an impact they had on my life and that at the time I was coaching for what was on the scoreboard and not who was on the field. When I changed that perspective, to coach to change lives rather than outcomes on a scoreboard, my whole life changed and my whole perspective on coaching changed. Since then coaching has been a very rewarding experience for me. Don't get me wrong, there is nothing better than the chess match of a Sunday through Friday of trying to stop your opponent, I absolutely love that. But what I was lacking was caring about WHO I was coaching. When I learned to do that, football became fun again. Now, the joy I get from seeing our players succeed and become great husbands, fathers, employees and employers is worth every minute of it. Maybe it's cliche to say all that, but it's true for me. I wanted to give back what I got as a young man and I hope like hell I have. I thank the big guy upstairs every day for blessing me with great coaches and great mentors, and I'd like to do everything in my power to follow in their footsteps. So, that's my "why" I guess you could say.

Got into it BC i loved the game. I loved the contact. I loved the Xs & Os. I also loved the thought of being off every time my kids were off. The competition was a draw as well. I always have said, when I quit getting butterflies on Friday night, I will hang it up.

I am and basically have always been "consumed" by the game. I love teaching the game and working with the players...but am consumed by the game...

Who doesn't love having hundreds/thousands of people telling them each week how much they suck at their job?

I always liked Xs and Os, and the more I learned the more I liked the game. Also, my old JV HC needed a OL/DL Coach a few years after I graduated and I decided to help him. As I got older I realized what football and the weightroom did for me and wanted to pass that along, now the development of young men is the main reason I coach. I'm also very competitive and like my ego stroked from time to time: I like beating other coaches on the field, I like comments on how prepared my teams are, how well behaved they are.


I'm actually leaving my current program(probably) because the ability to instill discipline and structure isn't supported by administration, and if it's just the game idk that I'm interested in continuing here or anywhere, there has to be more.

I came from humble beginnings, but was told from an early age that I was GOING to college and I could be anything I wanted if I tried.

I started little man ball in 1st grade and played until I was told I couldn't play anymore.  I loved all my coaches and even as a lad appreciated that they  gave up their time and volunteered to coach.  I thought I might be a lawyer or doctor or something, but would do my turn as a little league coach to give back.

I always had a head for the game - I understood my job, but also understood the guy beside me and guy in front of me's job too.  In high school I doodled plays/fronts/blitzes, and even tried to figure out the Miami 43 back in its heyday.  

In college I was the guy that organized the fraternity flag football team, and organized/coached the 11 man full tackle, no pad, annual rival fraternity game that a kegger was wagered on.

After several lackluster years of college and much dreading of potential jobs in store, I chose getting my teaching credentials so I could coach because I just couldn't see myself doing anything else.