Improve/takeover HS team
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Anonymous
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My son goes to a sporty public school that has a long tradition of athletic excellence. Unfortunately, one of the teams he plays for is poorly coached and organized.
It’s truly unfortunate seeing our team, which was clearly in better shape and more athletic that most of our competition, struggling in games. Both parents and athletes agree the most of the problem is the Coach. He’s a nice enough person but he doesn’t know the game very well and his practices and the team in general are poorly organized. It seems to us that the coach (who is a teacher at the school) has been required by our A.D. to coach this team. And he approaches it with all of the enthusiasm you’d expect from someone who has been volun-told to do a complex task. Pretty much all of the Dad‘s have tried to help out at least a little - some of us helped coached JV. Does anyone have any advice about improving or possibly taking over the team? |
Anonymous
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Can you talk with the AD? The AD isn’t likely to dismiss the current coach and probably doesn’t have the resources to hire someone else. I would be shocked if the school invited a bunch of parents in to coach.
At a private school you might be able to force the issue a bit more (although they still would be unlikely to okay a parent coaching unless there was already a strong trust/relationship between the AD and parent). |
Anonymous
Yeah, it needs to go through the AD. I think the best you could do is asked for a specific person/parent to be brought on as official assistant coach. If the head coach doesn’t really want to do the job, you’ll likely get all the responsibility with little pushback. Then the following year you’d be in a better position to offer to be head coach |
Anonymous
| My kid would be horrified if I did this. |