How to Coach - Working For a Common Goal

My philosophy, basically on Assisting Coaches is, I want them to feel like they are coaching with me and not for me. So I think if you take that approach even if it's eighth grade football, or seventh grade football, or 100-pound, or 60-pound football, even all the way to the NFL; I know there are coaches in the NFL that have the same philosophy, you want to have make your assistants feel a part of it. You want to make them, and I think I tell my assistants all the time when we get started, that we are working together here, you don't work for me. We have a common goal, a common mission, and we are going to work at this together. So I think that's important to do. And I think again, setting up pre-practice before the season starts, what everybody's responsibilities are as a coach? What the roles are, practice time, game time, after the game; who talks to their parents; who does this? Well you have that organized, it makes life so much easier for you.

So I think once the coaches bind in and they realize that we are all together, and everybody does the grunt work, and we all are going to take credit, and we all are going to take blame, even if it's multiple layers; seventh grade football, eighth grade, JV football or if it's ten weight ball football teams. And I think if all the coaches are on the same page working towards a common goal, it makes life much easier as a coach.




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