Have you coached before?

Calheel said:
Kinda like when Ray, Rashad and May left in 05. Ole Roy didn't look quite as smart in 06. Did you have a freshman Hansbrough on your middle of the pack team?
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Sadly, I did not. It's probably good I didn't or I might have been convinced I was actually a good coach. :ROFLMAO:

That team had a number of decent players but no really good ones. We played hard and really hustled on D, but we were very much shooting challenged and didn't have great height.

I think that year might have been my best coaching job of the 3 seasons. The other 2 years I had 3 of the best 5 players in the league and there were probably games where my biggest contribution to winning was driving the van safely to the game.
 
I had teams that went undefeated and teams that barely won a game with the rec league basketball teams I coached. I think I liked coaching middle school age the best. They are more athletic and skillful than elementary age, and it was frustrating sometimes coaching the high school kids because I never had all the players at practice or games. They usually had to work around part time jobs and some were even playing on travel teams or school teams. When I coached middle school kids they always had enough show up at the draft that I could pick every player for my team. Hardly any of the high school kids showed up for the draft so I only got to pick two or three players and the rest of the team was pretty much chosen at random by the rec department. I never knew what kind of team I had going into the season. Last season I coached high school boys and we had a great team when most of our players were there. The problem was most of the games we were missing our second or third best player. We started 1-5. Lost two of those in OT and one by 3 points. We ended up going 6-2 after that.
 
Coached my son's travel soccer team for 11 years and was one of 4 coaches that helped with the All-star team that combined the best of the travel team players for post season tournament play. Each coach was added bc they had more experience in certain areas. My focus was on offensive strategies since I played forward through college. Other coaches were for goal keeping (my son was our starting keeper), defense, and the designated HC wss for overall game strategy but we all gave our input.
 
I came home from work one day and my wife informed me that she had signed our first child up to play soccer and signed me up to coach. I knew nothing about the sport. I attended a couple of coaching clinics, watched a couple of vhs tapes, read some stuff about practice plans on the internet. The best advice I got was at the coaching clinic where they told us the goal was for the kids to enjoy it so that they wanted to sign up again next season. I tried to teach the fundamentals while letting them have fun and play multiple positions. I coached one year of travel soccer and quickly realized the kids needed professional training. I coached several kids who went on to play varsity high school soccer and 2 that played in college. One of their parents thanked me several times over the years for focusing on fundamentals.

I took the same attitude when I coached little league and youth basketball.

I've used lessons learned from Coach Dean Smith (and others) in raising my children and managing people.

As an amateur analytics nerd, I've picked up on things regarding Carolina two different seasons in the last seven years. I assumed that if I could figure it out, Carolina's coaching staff already knew it, and they had good reasons for not changing what they were doing. We don't see practice every day, we don't have access to the analytics that they have, and we don't know about hundreds of other factors.

It's silly for me to think that I know better than Coach Davis and his staff. The best I can do is say I don't understand why they're doing such and such.
 
Way to go coaches!
And as we all know… it ain’t the X’s and O’s…
It’s the Jimmy’s and Joe’s
 
Centerpiece said:
At any level. Have you coached a sport before? Team sport or individual (like golf or tennis)?
Did you coach Rec league ball? Travel ball? Youth? Coach pitch? YBOA?
Adult league softball?
Did you coach girls (soccer, basketball, softball, track)?
Or boys? Both?
Have you coached in a public school? What level? High School? Middle/Jr. High?
Did you or are you now a coach at the post-secondary level? Ju-Co? College? University?
Were you an assistant coach or head coach? Maybe both depending on the sport?
How many years have you coached?
Did you or are you now a football coach?
Baseball?
Basketball?
Do they still call you “coach”?

Just curious to know who our coaches are…
Check in.
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I am a youth soccer coach. I’ve coached for 8 years, ages 3-16, recreational and travel. The rec coaching, U12 and younger, was coed. My travel coaching is all boys.
 
I'm not sure you can actually classify what I did as coaching, but I coached my daughter's soccer team and basketball team when they were young. I also assisted with their t-ball team.
 
Rainbow Soccer in the early 1990’s count? Knew nothing much about strategy so drew a diamond on the yellow pad! I explained or at least tried to explain to 7 y/o players that when the ball was on our side we kicked to the side line and when we got it on their side we kicked towards the middle!
We were killing the competition to the point Vickie(who ran Rainbow) told me Rainbow wasn’t about winning or losing? I played every player pretty much equal minutes but that was my last season as a coach! My daughter went on to letter in Soccer/Basketball/volleyball at East CH and was also the “Powder Puff” QB!

She understood it was about winning!
 
SmilingJack said:
Rainbow Soccer in the early 1990’s count? Knew nothing much about strategy so drew a diamond on the yellow pad! I explained or at least tried to explain to 7 y/o players that when the ball was on our side we kicked to the side line and when we got it on their side we kicked towards the middle!
We were killing the competition to the point Vickie(who ran Rainbow) told me Rainbow wasn’t about winning or losing? I played every player pretty much equal minutes but that was my last season as a coach! My daughter went on to letter in Soccer/Basketball/volleyball at East CH and was also the “Powder Puff” QB!

She understood it was about winning!
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I remember playing Rainbow Soccer back in the ‘70’s.

The ethos from Kip Ward and others who ran the league was its non-contact and winning wasn’t important…….learning the game and having fun mattered.

I don’t think they realized how competitive a bunch of university brats could be.

Then, some families went to Europe on sabbatical and came back having played European football for a year (David and Steve Scott) or a European or African family moved to Chapel Hill (Louis Edozien).

We kids definitely knew the score and the score mattered to us.
 
Zoo_View said:
I remember playing Rainbow Soccer back in the ‘70’s.

The ethos from Kip Ward and others who ran the league was its non-contact and winning wasn’t important…….learning the game and having fun mattered.

I don’t think they realized how competitive a bunch of university brats could be.

Then, some families went to Europe on sabbatical and came back having played European football for a year (David and Steve Scott) or a European or African family moved to Chapel Hill (Louis Edozien).

We kids definitely knew the score and the score mattered to us.
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I coached our Switchboard Rainbow Soccer team back in the 70s. I knew next to nothing about soccer but I knew more than my players. It was fun and my main goal was to keep my players from hurting each other and the players on the other team 😄

On an individual basis I coached/trained my grandson for basketball when he was a novice as a 9th grader and having never played basketball. He is now a senior 12th grader and is the leading scorer in his conference averaging 27 pts/game... I give myself all the credit for his success:p
 
heelinhell said:
I coached our Switchboard Rainbow Soccer team back in the 70s. I knew next to nothing about soccer but I knew more than my players. It was fun and my main goal was to keep my players from hurting each other and the players on the other team 😄

On an individual basis I coached/trained my grandson for basketball when he was a novice as a 9th grader and having never played basketball. He is now a senior 12th grader and is the leading scorer in his conference averaging 27 pts/game... I give myself all the credit for his success:p
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Hombre...that's a healthy ppg right there. Is he tall? What position? I'd think he can play somewhere after high school with those kind of numbers.
 
donbosco said:
Hombre...that's a healthy ppg right there. Is he tall? What position? I'd think he can play somewhere after high school with those kind of numbers.
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He is a 6'1'' PG who is a very good 3pt shooter and close to a 90% FT shooter. He is quick and gets points beating the opposition down the open court for layups. He is not going to be DI player, but a couple of DII coaches have expressed interest.

He will be attending UNC next year and his hope was he could end up as a JV player and maybe earn a walk on spot as a blue steel player in his Senior year. Unfortunately, the JV team is no more:(

The conference he plays in is made up of private high school teams so the competition is not one that attracts much DI coach attention.

I would work with him and the ritual was he could not leave the workout until he hit 9-10 FTs at the end of our session. In his last game he scored 26 pts in 24 minutes, but he was 12-12 from the FT. I was so proud:)

Of course , he loves his last game from last year. He scored 55 points and was 10-13 from the 3 point line. He loves shooting the 3 but I am old school and keep pushing him to value the mid range jumpers and making foul shots.
 
heelinhell said:
He is a 6'1'' PG who is a very good 3pt shooter and close to a 90% FT shooter. He is quick and gets points beating the opposition down the open court for layups. He is not going to be DI player, but a couple of DII coaches have expressed interest.

He will be attending UNC next year and his hope was he could end up as a JV player and maybe earn a walk on spot as a blue steel player in his Senior year. Unfortunately, the JV team is no more:(

The conference he plays in is made up of private high school teams so the competition is not one that attracts much DI coach attention.

I would work with him and the ritual was he could not leave the workout until he hit 9-10 FTs at the end of our session. In his last game he scored 26 pts in 24 minutes, but he was 12-12 from the FT. I was so proud:)

Of course , he loves his last game from last year. He scored 55 points and was 10-13 from the 3 point line. He loves shooting the 3 but I am old school and keep pushing him to value the mid range jumpers and making foul shots.
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I'm pretty sad that the JV team was ended as well. I tried out when I was a freshman...there were about 100 guys for try-outs. I made it down to the last 30 standing then they cut us in half and I was a goner. That's when I got a bunch of guys together and hit the rec league and began my player-coach career. My team was Clockwork...we wore bright orange jerseys.

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Bet your boy could play some DIII and do well. If he's thinking about professional school or graduate school he might do himself a favor by attending a small college...just some thoughts. Sometimes I wish I had gone to a little place and played some ball. Other times I'm glad that I went to Carolina.
 
donbosco said:
I'm pretty sad that the JV team was ended as well. I tried out when I was a freshman...there were about 100 guys for try-outs. I made it down to the last 30 standing then they cut us in half and I was a goner. That's when I got a bunch of guys together and hit the rec league and began my player-coach career. My team was Clockwork...we wore bright orange jerseys.

IMG_2738.jpeg

Bet your boy could play some DIII and do well. If he's thinking about professional school or graduate school he might do himself a favor by attending a small college...just some thoughts. Sometimes I wish I had gone to a little place and played some ball. Other times I'm glad that I went to Carolina.
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UNC has been his dream school since he was a 9th grader. He is so excited that he was accepted last week ( as was I ). He is a smart kid and understands his future is not in basketball. He has a keen interest in sports medicine and physical therapy, but his dream is to go to medical school so he can eventually be there for the under served in rural NC ( chip off the old block ) ;)
 
My involvement with team sports (baseball basketball and football) ended at high school but I encouraged my 2 sons to play and joined the parent membership of youth league sports.

My younger son joined a soccer league at 5 and participated for a few years after. We signed him for the fall season at the 7-8 year level. We arrived at the first meeting/practice and were informed that the league was one coach short. Against my intentions I was cajoled into filling that coaching vacancy - someone who had neither played the sport nor followed it.

What was quickly revealed was that all the other coaches were established and had their teams essentially preselected while I had to fill a roster with the leftovers.

My team consisted of a motley collection of kids, most of whom had never played at the league level. I mean, this was as unlikely a unit as imaginable - every color and flavor including several who were on the autism spectrum and one whose underprivileged parents were waging a custody battle that spilled onto the pitch.

I knew that my approach had to be oriented toward skills-building and the social benefits of group sports. At season end, our record was a surprising .500 and we had a lot of fun doing it.

Mission accomplished and retirement achieved. And I still can’t tell you what’s offsides.
 
sunnyheel said:
My involvement with team sports (baseball basketball and football) ended at high school but I encouraged my 2 sons to play and joined the parent membership of youth league sports.

My younger son joined a soccer league at 5 and participated for a few years after. We signed him for the fall season at the 7-8 year level. We arrived at the first meeting/practice and were informed that the league was one coach short. Against my intentions I was cajoled into filling that coaching vacancy - someone who had neither played the sport nor followed it.

What was quickly revealed was that all the other coaches were established and had their teams essentially preselected while I had to fill a roster with the leftovers.

My team consisted of a motley collection of kids, most of whom had never played at the league level. I mean, this was as unlikely a unit as imaginable - every color and flavor including several who were on the autism spectrum and one whose underprivileged parents were waging a custody battle that spilled onto the pitch.

I knew that my approach had to be oriented toward skills-building and the social benefits of group sports. At season end, our record was a surprising .500 and we had a lot of fun doing it.

Mission accomplished and retirement achieved. And I still can’t tell you what’s offsides.
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Ted Lasso
 
I just remembered
When my boy played Little League in Pittsboro I was a a dad that showed up at practice and games and helped
No way those boys that were coaching would call me a coach- a helper Dad
 
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