Post by Option Coach on Mar 11, 2004 17:33:50 GMT
Our football program has been steadily improving over the past two years, and I believe next year is our chance to change things for good. In college they always said that winning and losing are habits, and I've always beleived if we could just get the kids to experience some success (along with good kids and coaching!) it would snowball into something good.
I've recently learned that I may be losing my entire staff. We are a small school, and there are only four of us. One of the coaches is moving to the jr. high program where I feel he will do us more good there. He's great at organizing and teaching fundamentals. The other two coaches are looking for other jobs closer to home. In our particular area, we have a hard time finding good teachers, let alone good teachers who want to to coach football, and when push comes to shove our administration is going to hire the best teacher, but require them to coach. Having someone on my staff whose being required to coach doesn't sound like the best scenario.
I'm concerned that now that we've made this progress and are poised to make a giant leap, this new development will be a obstacle. I'm looking for some philosophical advice on how I should approach this. Will the challenges of trying to teach not only the kids, but my new coaches be a problem? How will my kids react? I want to look for positive things about this change, but I can't see the benefits right now. Any insights are greatly appreciated.
I've recently learned that I may be losing my entire staff. We are a small school, and there are only four of us. One of the coaches is moving to the jr. high program where I feel he will do us more good there. He's great at organizing and teaching fundamentals. The other two coaches are looking for other jobs closer to home. In our particular area, we have a hard time finding good teachers, let alone good teachers who want to to coach football, and when push comes to shove our administration is going to hire the best teacher, but require them to coach. Having someone on my staff whose being required to coach doesn't sound like the best scenario.
I'm concerned that now that we've made this progress and are poised to make a giant leap, this new development will be a obstacle. I'm looking for some philosophical advice on how I should approach this. Will the challenges of trying to teach not only the kids, but my new coaches be a problem? How will my kids react? I want to look for positive things about this change, but I can't see the benefits right now. Any insights are greatly appreciated.