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.
 
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!
 
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