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Post: Does experience = great coach?
Posted by Michael on 7/27/08
Hello everyone.
I am a second year assistant high school football coach.
Last year (my first coaching) was a great experience, and
now I feel like I have the BEST job in the world.....being a
teacher (business courses) and a coach! I am a lateral entry
coach (two years in the teaching and coaching field after
abandoning corporate America). I coached a Jr. Pee Wee Pop
Warner team 3 years ago, and that really drove me to become
a teacher, and later, a coach.
However, I do feel inadequate because of my past. I played
sparingly in my 9th and 10th grade year of school 24 years
ago before a hip injury sidelined me permanently. I have
always considered myself a student of the game and I feel
like I do make a competent coach (I am always researching).
We have coaches that played more in high school and college,
so I do feel like I really missed out.
Are there any of you here on this board who feel like it is
a handicap not to have played the game you coach extensively
to be a good coach? I would like some of your opinions on
this. Are there alot out there like me, or am I an exception
to the rule?
Thank you all so much!
Posts on this thread, including this one
- Does experience = great coach?, 7/27/08, by Michael.
- Re: Does experience = great coach?, 7/27/08, by Patrick.
- Re: Does experience = great coach?, 9/19/08, by RSL.
- Re: Does experience = great coach?, 9/25/08, by Sara.
- Re: Does experience = great coach?, 9/26/08, by Michael.
- Re: Does experience = great coach?, 10/23/08, by mac.
- Re: Does experience = great coach?, 10/26/08, by Marty Hughes.
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