What a bad coach needs

Look at teams who have had this problem. Coach tended to have excuses, be horribly disciplined, refused to learn. I have also seen favoritism kill teams.
 
Who decides when to give up on a coach? A lot of coaches that you might consider bad have 0 talent to work with. It truly is hard to make a silk purse out of a sows ear.
 
On further reflection: Is he a good teacher in the classroom? Does he seem to be teaching solid life lessons to the kids he works with in sports? If you answer no to both questions, send him on down the road. If the answer is yes to both questions, then you have a coach who will be an addition to the community no matter what. You try to hang on to those kind. Now you have two more questions. Will he be willing to stay with the school system as an assistant? This would give him time to gain experience without be on the firing line of the community. The other question would be is he willing to go to clinics to help him fill out areas of his coaching that he lacks at this time. If the community is patient he could remain as HC while he grows in knowledge and experience. Most communities are not that patient.
 
Not open for suggestions, or running an offense because you want to and not because it fits your teams talents.
 
Blue Bird, you prompted me with another question. I know that talent is a huge part of the whole thing, however, what if a coach thinks that they have no talent and a new coach comes in and is able to develop good core football skills and increase his players' level of talent? Is talent an excuse for having a losing record/season or is it a fact? I think that either case could be true. Have successful teams always had talent and have teams without as much talent beaten those successful teams because a coach utilized the talent he has? Another question this brings to mind, do we give coaches credit when they are successful or do we give the young men the credit because of their talent? Once again, I think it could be one or the other or a combination of both. I am not asking because I know the answers to any of these questions but just for perspectives since someone posted on the message board about What a good coach needs. I know that there is so much involved and so many factors that we use to determine a good coach and a bad one. Thanks for getting my wheels turning.
 
I started coaching at an 11 man school that had won 9 games in 9 years as an assistant. Part of a brand new coaching staff, I knew nothing. We went 7-3, missed playoffs by less than a touchdown and our head coach was south plains coach of the year. He beefs up the pre district schedule to help program "move to the next level", we go 4-6, then 3-7, then 3-7, by now the community believes they have another "bad" coach. I move to Sundown as assistant coach and start coaching 7th grade football. I am LOADED (my qb is a walk on at tech as a linebacker now). Our high school was LOADED. Girls and boys regional track champions same year. All of the sudden, people are approaching me telling me how great a coach I am, and blah, blah, blah. Didn't know how to react. I knew I wanted to be thought of as a "good" coach. Was I all of the sudden a "good" coach? I have done a lot of research on the question, "What makes someone a "good" coach? Talent? Knowledge? Attitude? Work ethic? Being at the "right" school in the "right" district? Pre established tradition? Here was my conclusion. Not saying it's right.

What makes someone a "good" coach? You just can't be an idiot. The game isn't complicated. Kids aren't complicated. Finding resources to help you out a little isn't complicated. But none of us have reinvented the wheel, I haven't anyway.

There are now only a few people I care about if they think I am a good coach or not. The kids I coach and my family. The whole notion of calling someone a good coach or bad coach no longer makes sense to me. What if the "bad" coach is LOADED and they beat us, what does that say about me? No comments necessary
 
My dad had a saying about the curse of coaches at a small school. "They do good, they leave... They do bad, they leave." Thankfully, this doesn't seem as true of sixman football as it is in normal 1A or 2A.

I think a good coach knows how to use good talent and not waste it. Many can do that. But a great coach can make a great team out of mediocre talent, and make some great young men in the process.
 

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