Club Coaches

[Anonymous]

Do clubs typically announce prior to tryouts who their coaches will be for each team? or is it hidden until the season starts?

[Anonymous]

Great question…any news on Capital 29 yet?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do clubs typically announce prior to tryouts who their coaches will be for each team? or is it hidden until the season starts?

Most of the time it is the same coach from last year. Sometimes there is some changes for a variety of reasons - maybe a coach only like coaching younger players or only older players but generally it is the same coach on the sideline year after year for that age group.

[Anonymous]

It's surprising to me that at least some clubs don't have coaches stay with the grade instead of staying with the team. Obviously it's difficult with parent coaches, but it seems it would be good for the kids to play under different coaches every year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's surprising to me that at least some clubs don't have coaches stay with the grade instead of staying with the team. Obviously it's difficult with parent coaches, but it seems it would be good for the kids to play under different coaches every year.

That would only work if clubs had standard offensive and defensive sets regardless of age level. Most club just let their coaches do as they please, so switching coaches often means going back to zero.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's surprising to me that at least some clubs don't have coaches stay with the grade instead of staying with the team. Obviously it's difficult with parent coaches, but it seems it would be good for the kids to play under different coaches every year.

That would only work if clubs had standard offensive and defensive sets regardless of age level. Most club just let their coaches do as they please, so switching coaches often means going back to zero.

Correct. It also takes time for you to learn what the strength and weakeness of your players are and where there is chemistry and where it needs to be built.

[Anonymous]

Agreed. There is more to coaching than installing O and D. It is likely that a coach who is familiar with how their players respond to in game scenarios has an advantage over another; still learning their players tendencies (under performance stress).

[Anonymous]

A good time to switch coaches is just before HS some coaches have better recruiting contacts and know to best showcase top players which is what it is all about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's surprising to me that at least some clubs don't have coaches stay with the grade instead of staying with the team. Obviously it's difficult with parent coaches, but it seems it would be good for the kids to play under different coaches every year.

That would only work if clubs had standard offensive and defensive sets regardless of age level. Most club just let their coaches do as they please, so switching coaches often means going back to zero.

Correct. It also takes time for you to learn what the strength and weakeness of your players are and where there is chemistry and where it needs to be built.

On the flip side, it could help solve for bias and coaches playing favorites. Every kid has to earn their spot every year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's surprising to me that at least some clubs don't have coaches stay with the grade instead of staying with the team. Obviously it's difficult with parent coaches, but it seems it would be good for the kids to play under different coaches every year.

That would only work if clubs had standard offensive and defensive sets regardless of age level. Most club just let their coaches do as they please, so switching coaches often means going back to zero.

Correct. It also takes time for you to learn what the strength and weakeness of your players are and where there is chemistry and where it needs to be built.

Ehh, any coach worth their salt can identify that stuff pretty quickly. The issue with constantly changing coaches is that constant turnover would likely mean to players that it's largely a different team/way of going about it every year. No connection with coaches as it's short term. So you'd be much more prone to have player turnover. i.e. "I'm not going back to the same team/keeping that constant." Sure, there'd be more teammates that you know in theory by staying, but it wouldn't take much for that to change. And you're going to be coached by a stranger every year, not just strategy but all of it.

Really the ONLY way it could work out is if you had the "worst" coaches at earlier ages, and every year had progressively "better" coaches that they'd look forward to play for the following year. Anybody could see there'd be pitfalls to that also. Getting more/different ideas can be beneficial, but they're going to be getting that anyway with H.S., etc coaches, attending other events, and on and on.