Post by blueadams on Jun 17, 2008 13:36:19 GMT
Dear Coaches,
I am a 21 year old, junior-to-be, division III college football player. I am an education student, majoring in Social Studies (with an emphasis in History), and minoring in English. It is my dream to some day be a head football coach at the high school or collegiate level. I discovered this forum about a month ago and have since become somewhat addicted. I think I am ready for my first post. I will provide a little bit of background about myself, to give all of you an idea of who I am, where I'm coming from, and where I hope to go. I know its long, but please, if you have time, I would really appreciate it if some of you guys took the time to read my post and let me know about your general thoughts/advice. Thank you very much in advance!!
In high school I wasn't a great athlete, but I made the most out of what the good Lord gave me. Through countless hours in the weightroom and on the track, I turned myself into a 5'7", 190lb 1st team all-area defensive end. The same is true of my academics. I was never the smartest student, but I studied as much as it took, and turned myself into a summa cumme laude graduate. As you would imagine, I basically had my choice of any university and I chose to attend our state's most prestigious public school. I wanted a career in which I'd be able to A) Earn a good living wage, and B) Help people. So, becoming a Doctor seemed like a great idea. In particular, I wanted to become a psychiatrist, because I'd always been the guy freinds came to in times of need, and I was almost always able to come through for them.
During my first year as a pre-med student though, I shadowed with my first psychiatrist. It became obvious to me that the majority of the patients he saw were just too far gone to be helped. He made a great deal of money doing what he did, but I began to believe there had to be a better way of helping people. I remember at that point I started to think about the people (parents and friends aside) who had most helped me through life - - - an easy answer, my FOOTBALL COACHES AND TEACHERS. It was at this point, about two years ago today, that I made the biggest decision thus far in my life, I changed my major and chose to become an educator. I transferred to our state's most prestigious liberal arts school and joined the football squad (which wasn't hard to do because they'd recruited me out of high school).
I KNOW that I made the right decision. When I was younger, status and salary were the most important things to me. But as I've matured, I've realized that these things mean nothing. My family will need to eat, of course, but so long as I'm doing what I love, and more importantly, making the world the best place I can, I know I'm doing the right thing. And as a football coach and teacher, molding young boys into great men, I know that I will be doing the best I can do for the world.
So, in two years I will graduate, and I will forever be done playing this game. I want to work as a graduate assistant, not necessarily because I want to coach college football, but because I want to LEARN as much about the game as possible. I've talked to both my high school and college coaches about how to go about getting a graduate assistant position. Both of them have told me, essentially, the same thing - - - It's all about WHO you know. Aside from my high school and college coach, I don't KNOW anyone. So, I got on the computer one day and shot Lloyd H. Carr an email. He replied with his home phone number. I gave him a call and had about a half-hour discussion with one of the wisest and greatest men ever to be involved in the game of football.
I asked him what I needed to do in order to impress a big time college coach and get a graduate assistant position coming from a small school. He told me that it doesn't matter at all where I'm coming from (in fact he said that coming from such a prestigious academic school would actually help me out a lot). The most important thing is that I have EXCELLENT letters of reccomendation and that I really impress upon coaches during interviews that I will work my A$$ OFF!!! He also expressed the desire to meet with me when I return home to the states (from a third world country in which I am currently volunteering/studying). I am returning home in less than a week. I plan to meet with coach Carr and to BEG him for an opportunity to do volunteer work for him, or for ANYONE he knows in coaching. I'm willing to work 18hrs/day for FREE!! I just want the chance to IMPRESS anybody who's anybody in coaching.
So, that is my background, that is where I'm coming from, and that is where I hope to be going (p.s ~ I'm going to be getting my masters degree in educational administration. If there was ANYTHING I would rather do than coach football, I would love to lead an entire high school or school district as a principal or superintendent). I don't know much about coaching. I've read some of the basic books on philosophies...Bo's Lasting Lessons, Coach K's book, John Wooden's book, and some coach of the year books that my college coach gave me to read while abroad.
I see myself becoming a bit of an old school coach though. I'll run simple schemes (at least to begin) and really emphasize the fundamentals of the game (stance, tackling, blocking, etc). On defense, we'll stop the run first and ask questions later. On offense we'll run to set up the pass. I'll run the toughest off-season program in the state. I'll run a classy program, that emphasizes discipline and academics, and participation in other sports. MOST OF ALL THOUGH, I will emphasize FUN!!!! Although this game is very important to me, it is STILL JUST A GAME, and should be, if nothing else, A HE!! OF A GOOD TIME!!!
I'm just a young man, and I know I don't know sqaut. There are hundreds and hundreds of years of coaching experience in this forum. I want to know what you think about me, my goals and my plans to accomplish them. I want to know what you coaches wish you knew when you were my age. Any help would be greatly, greatly apppreciated.
Thank you very much for any help!
Sincerely,
Blue
I am a 21 year old, junior-to-be, division III college football player. I am an education student, majoring in Social Studies (with an emphasis in History), and minoring in English. It is my dream to some day be a head football coach at the high school or collegiate level. I discovered this forum about a month ago and have since become somewhat addicted. I think I am ready for my first post. I will provide a little bit of background about myself, to give all of you an idea of who I am, where I'm coming from, and where I hope to go. I know its long, but please, if you have time, I would really appreciate it if some of you guys took the time to read my post and let me know about your general thoughts/advice. Thank you very much in advance!!
In high school I wasn't a great athlete, but I made the most out of what the good Lord gave me. Through countless hours in the weightroom and on the track, I turned myself into a 5'7", 190lb 1st team all-area defensive end. The same is true of my academics. I was never the smartest student, but I studied as much as it took, and turned myself into a summa cumme laude graduate. As you would imagine, I basically had my choice of any university and I chose to attend our state's most prestigious public school. I wanted a career in which I'd be able to A) Earn a good living wage, and B) Help people. So, becoming a Doctor seemed like a great idea. In particular, I wanted to become a psychiatrist, because I'd always been the guy freinds came to in times of need, and I was almost always able to come through for them.
During my first year as a pre-med student though, I shadowed with my first psychiatrist. It became obvious to me that the majority of the patients he saw were just too far gone to be helped. He made a great deal of money doing what he did, but I began to believe there had to be a better way of helping people. I remember at that point I started to think about the people (parents and friends aside) who had most helped me through life - - - an easy answer, my FOOTBALL COACHES AND TEACHERS. It was at this point, about two years ago today, that I made the biggest decision thus far in my life, I changed my major and chose to become an educator. I transferred to our state's most prestigious liberal arts school and joined the football squad (which wasn't hard to do because they'd recruited me out of high school).
I KNOW that I made the right decision. When I was younger, status and salary were the most important things to me. But as I've matured, I've realized that these things mean nothing. My family will need to eat, of course, but so long as I'm doing what I love, and more importantly, making the world the best place I can, I know I'm doing the right thing. And as a football coach and teacher, molding young boys into great men, I know that I will be doing the best I can do for the world.
So, in two years I will graduate, and I will forever be done playing this game. I want to work as a graduate assistant, not necessarily because I want to coach college football, but because I want to LEARN as much about the game as possible. I've talked to both my high school and college coaches about how to go about getting a graduate assistant position. Both of them have told me, essentially, the same thing - - - It's all about WHO you know. Aside from my high school and college coach, I don't KNOW anyone. So, I got on the computer one day and shot Lloyd H. Carr an email. He replied with his home phone number. I gave him a call and had about a half-hour discussion with one of the wisest and greatest men ever to be involved in the game of football.
I asked him what I needed to do in order to impress a big time college coach and get a graduate assistant position coming from a small school. He told me that it doesn't matter at all where I'm coming from (in fact he said that coming from such a prestigious academic school would actually help me out a lot). The most important thing is that I have EXCELLENT letters of reccomendation and that I really impress upon coaches during interviews that I will work my A$$ OFF!!! He also expressed the desire to meet with me when I return home to the states (from a third world country in which I am currently volunteering/studying). I am returning home in less than a week. I plan to meet with coach Carr and to BEG him for an opportunity to do volunteer work for him, or for ANYONE he knows in coaching. I'm willing to work 18hrs/day for FREE!! I just want the chance to IMPRESS anybody who's anybody in coaching.
So, that is my background, that is where I'm coming from, and that is where I hope to be going (p.s ~ I'm going to be getting my masters degree in educational administration. If there was ANYTHING I would rather do than coach football, I would love to lead an entire high school or school district as a principal or superintendent). I don't know much about coaching. I've read some of the basic books on philosophies...Bo's Lasting Lessons, Coach K's book, John Wooden's book, and some coach of the year books that my college coach gave me to read while abroad.
I see myself becoming a bit of an old school coach though. I'll run simple schemes (at least to begin) and really emphasize the fundamentals of the game (stance, tackling, blocking, etc). On defense, we'll stop the run first and ask questions later. On offense we'll run to set up the pass. I'll run the toughest off-season program in the state. I'll run a classy program, that emphasizes discipline and academics, and participation in other sports. MOST OF ALL THOUGH, I will emphasize FUN!!!! Although this game is very important to me, it is STILL JUST A GAME, and should be, if nothing else, A HE!! OF A GOOD TIME!!!
I'm just a young man, and I know I don't know sqaut. There are hundreds and hundreds of years of coaching experience in this forum. I want to know what you think about me, my goals and my plans to accomplish them. I want to know what you coaches wish you knew when you were my age. Any help would be greatly, greatly apppreciated.
Thank you very much for any help!
Sincerely,
Blue
