Post by Schmee on Feb 2, 2003 14:33:09 GMT
(Sorry, I double posted this to get more feedback)
Dear Coach Campbell and other coaches out there
Hi, my name is Dustin and I am a 19 year old freshman at U.T. Austin majoring in communications at the moment. Anyway, Iâ??ve been seriously considering a football coaching career and Iâ??m trying to get advice from various coaches. Iâ??ve played football for much of my life and I started at strong safety on the varsity my junior and senior years. I was a captain my senior year and being somewhat intelligent I was given some freedom in the on-field running of a very complicated defense. I love the game with an overwhelming passion and over the years Iâ??ve worked with some younger kids in sports from ages 8-12 and very much enjoyed it. Well, as Iâ??ve said Iâ??m giving some serious thought to changing majors and pursuing coaching and would hope to some day be a head coach or a coordinator of some sort. However, I have a problem. Iâ??ve noticed that a lot of coaches today have played at a collegiate level and I was curious as to what your opinion was about that. Would you rather hire a coach that played at a division 2 or 3 school (Iâ??m still in great shape and I think I could play at one) and had a lesser academically standardized degree, or someone who didnâ??t play in college but is very ambitious and has a degree from somewhere a little more academically sound such as U.T. Austin?
Thanks for your time.
Dear Coach Campbell and other coaches out there
Hi, my name is Dustin and I am a 19 year old freshman at U.T. Austin majoring in communications at the moment. Anyway, Iâ??ve been seriously considering a football coaching career and Iâ??m trying to get advice from various coaches. Iâ??ve played football for much of my life and I started at strong safety on the varsity my junior and senior years. I was a captain my senior year and being somewhat intelligent I was given some freedom in the on-field running of a very complicated defense. I love the game with an overwhelming passion and over the years Iâ??ve worked with some younger kids in sports from ages 8-12 and very much enjoyed it. Well, as Iâ??ve said Iâ??m giving some serious thought to changing majors and pursuing coaching and would hope to some day be a head coach or a coordinator of some sort. However, I have a problem. Iâ??ve noticed that a lot of coaches today have played at a collegiate level and I was curious as to what your opinion was about that. Would you rather hire a coach that played at a division 2 or 3 school (Iâ??m still in great shape and I think I could play at one) and had a lesser academically standardized degree, or someone who didnâ??t play in college but is very ambitious and has a degree from somewhere a little more academically sound such as U.T. Austin?
Thanks for your time.