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    Rotation of coaches

    With the age group change lurking and upheaval imminent with coaches and teams, how do you feel about a club switching coaches very few years?
    Good or bad practice?

    #2
    Excellent practice. It exposes kids to different styles of coaching. Like teachers, your child will click better with some than others, and you won't know until they work together.

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      #3
      Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
      With the age group change lurking and upheaval imminent with coaches and teams, how do you feel about a club switching coaches very few years?
      Good or bad practice?
      Poor, poor, poor GPS parents. I'm sure your coach has some awesome accent.

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        #4
        Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
        Poor, poor, poor GPS parents. I'm sure your coach has some awesome accent.
        Wrong, wrong, wrong.
        Coaches are extremely proprietary if they have good squads, not so much if they don't.
        Should a coach be willing to give up the a team when the age groupings go into effect for the good of the club? Should the club boss handle team breakup and new selection and keep the coaches out of it?

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          #5
          Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
          Wrong, wrong, wrong.
          Coaches are extremely proprietary if they have good squads, not so much if they don't.
          Should a coach be willing to give up the a team when the age groupings go into effect for the good of the club? Should the club boss handle team breakup and new selection and keep the coaches out of it?
          We're losing our coach so we're changing clubs.

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            #6
            Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
            Wrong, wrong, wrong.
            Coaches are extremely proprietary if they have good squads, not so much if they don't.
            Should a coach be willing to give up the a team when the age groupings go into effect for the good of the club? Should the club boss handle team breakup and new selection and keep the coaches out of it?
            Not at our club (which is not in Massachusetts). Our club has a policy of coaches staying with a team for 2 years, and then rotating off, and a new coach coming in for 2 years. Works well, though only if all the coaches are good.

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              #7
              Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
              We're losing our coach so we're changing clubs.
              Why?
              Is the club coaching philosophy the same throughout the club or does it differ by coach?

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                #8
                Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                We're losing our coach so we're changing clubs.
                That's the danger of going to a club for the coach, not the club overall. You should be content with just about any coach they have because things can change and do. Problem is many clubs don't have decent DOCs who hire and train coaches and try to develop a club philosophy. They just hire mercenary style - individual hired guns. Stay away from that if possible.

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                  #9
                  If your kid is just looking to have fun then I suppose it might make sense to follow the coach around if the kid is really comfortable with the coach. Of course there is a risk that you'll be buying new uniforms every year as the coach jumps around (and then that the coach won't actually be able to coach the kid because of the relevant rules). But if you want your kid to develop, then you'd want to play for different coaches over time, and I'd imagine any decent club is going to have the coaches for a given team change periodically.

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                    #10
                    MHO (for what it's worth) is two years max for a coach to have a team. Different styles, different training techniques, personality, etc. It's all good. A coach with one team for too long can become complacent, always going for the same standby plays, certain players in the same position all the time, etc. Often times it ends up being much less than 2 years because things change - often not always under a club's control. But if you hear a club loses coaches a lot be very leary. They probably either don't pay well or don't treat them well (or both).

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                      #11
                      Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                      MHO (for what it's worth) is two years max for a coach to have a team. Different styles, different training techniques, personality, etc. It's all good. A coach with one team for too long can become complacent, always going for the same standby plays, certain players in the same position all the time, etc. Often times it ends up being much less than 2 years because things change - often not always under a club's control. But if you hear a club loses coaches a lot be very leary. They probably either don't pay well or don't treat them well (or both).
                      The majority of coaches who don't believe in rotating are selfish due to having a quality squad. It's not complacency, it's ego.
                      Ask a coach with a struggling squad and they can't wait to get a new team.

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                        #12
                        Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                        The majority of coaches who don't believe in rotating are selfish due to having a quality squad. It's not complacency, it's ego.
                        Ask a coach with a struggling squad and they can't wait to get a new team.
                        op here - you're probably on to something there as well

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                          #13
                          Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                          The majority of coaches who don't believe in rotating are selfish due to having a quality squad. It's not complacency, it's ego.
                          Ask a coach with a struggling squad and they can't wait to get a new team.
                          Of course, the parents of a winning squad are even willing to put up with an a-hole if they win...
                          Results, unfortunately, often override eveything else

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                            #14
                            Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                            The majority of coaches who don't believe in rotating are selfish due to having a quality squad. It's not complacency, it's ego.
                            Ask a coach with a struggling squad and they can't wait to get a new team.
                            I guess high school coaches make the best coaches . Their squad changes every year.

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                              #15
                              Coaches should switch every 2 years and if these clubs got it together they would see that. For example Coach a takes a group at U9 and U10 then Coach B takes them at U11 and U12. Clubs could then put the coaches in place that work best with those age groups.

                              Unfortunately most clubs can't figure that out and they put a coach that should be working with older players with a group of young kids and vice versa.

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