Head Coach - Tough Times

You need to push your OWN starter button. Tought times don't last - tough people DO!

Always remember (in coaching): You didn't exactly "sign on" for a "bed of roses"! It's a tough darned profession (if it WASN'T - hundreds of people would be lined up waiting for your job at half what they pay you)!

HANG TOUGH (& best wishes)!

PS: If you want to talk via phone - call me at 804-378-0116 (up to 10 PM/EDT).

I'm sure Tiger-1 (Jerry) would talk with you as well. We have both been thru all this ourselves before!

Winston Churchill once said...

"If you are going through hell...keep going."

Christ will not give us more than we can bear. You will get through it.

Coaches,

I am a young coach, 4 years total experience, and I am just amazed at the wisdom that can be gained through just listening to other people's problems. For the longest, I thought that I was the only one that had these type problems. I would just keep it all to myself and stay bottled up with the pressures to succeed. I didn't walk into the best situation, we are in the midst of a terrible turnaround, Supt, is nonrenewing the principal that hired me and he has it out in the community that they want another guy for the job. I have brought this program more than it has ever experienced, i.e. first winning season in 5 years, best record in 5 years, first postseason play in 5 years, more athletes to receive scholarships in two seasons than the previous 10 years, etc... I don't know what they expect of me. I find myself in a position where I don't really know what to do. My players come and ask me daily what is going to happen next and my response is, " I don't know, but for the time that I am here, I will give you all that I have." I hate the situation, but I know that it comes with the profession. I just don't remember my high school and college coaches ever having that worried look.

I know that this is not a venting spot or anything, but I just wanted to get those things off my chest and share them with some that have been in the business far longer than I have.

KR7263, you are in a situation that on the outside looks as if it is a dream. They are feeding your needs to physically turn the program around. My faith and a wife that listens to me go through my thoughts are all that I have. I have friends that coach other sports in other places, but they have never had to experience what I am dealing with now. Your faith will carry you, as mine has me, to great things. I know in my heart that GOD put us here for a reason and I am more than willing to accept the challenge.

Coach Mitch

Whatever you do, do not allow your principles to be comprimized! Good luck coach!