Coaches Toolbox

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Author: Jerry Campbell
Philosophy
What do you do with seniors once the season comes to an end?
Staff development / all sports
Educational philosophy
Offensive philosophy
Defensive philosophy.
Off-season philosophy

● Tell us about your strengths.

● Organizational skills must be evident.
● Tell us about your weaknesses.
● How would you get the faculty involved in the athletic program?
● What is your primary concern when developing your basic offense and defense?
● Explain your methodology of handling disciplinary cases?
● Why do you want his job? What do you know about the school district?
● How will you handle your football coaching staff assignments and organize your staff
among the teams we promote – Varsity, Jr. Varsity, and freshman?
● What steps will you take to insure the academic eligibility of the athletes? What plans do
you have for study halls?
● How do you see yourself with the administration at being important to the success of the
overall program?
● How should the booster club be set up and should there be one club or a separate club for
each sport? Is a school official part of the booster board? Who holds the boosters
accountable?
● If we were to watch a practice what we would expect to see?
● If we were to observe your off-season program what should we expect?
● Do you encourage athletes to play other sports?
● What about the coaches on staff here now.
● Experience with budget
● Discipline procedures
● Getting support of community
● High school program philosophy
● What does your wife do?
● Evaluation of coaches
● How do you balance your teaching & coaching responsibilities?
● Monitor no pass-no play
● Are you a good teacher-examples
● Punishment for kids who break team rules/district athletic rules
● Practice times and schedule (show an example)
● How will you handle the transition and opposition of your hiring
● 5 year plan (educational & coaching goals)
● Will you live in our community?
● How do you teach fundamentals?
● Install equity as AD/HC
● Elementary school involvement
● Kids smoking and drinking
● Girls program-relationship/policies/rules
● Why are you successful?
● Why should we hire you?
● Football in playoffs-kids goes to basketball/wrestling?
● Staff organization-top to bottom
● I am a 7th grade parent convince me my kid should play football.
● Team is 1-6 how do you approach the rest of the season
● 1st thing you will do when you get here
● Alignment of program 7-12
● Is all competition good
● What do you want graduated players to say about you and program
● Seniors after football season-how do handle them and situation?
● College scholarships-procedures etc.
● SAT prep/State Mandated Tests.
● Why you want come here
● Process of hiring staff
● Wife’s role
● Title 9-how will you be legal
● Computer / Video Tech Skills / HUDL.
● How do you have equity in budget with all sports and justify football money?
● If we had an emergency at 10 o’clock on Sunday morning-where would we find you?
● 7th grade athletic periods, your feelings on this.
● Master schedule for athletics.
● Chain of command and who are you accountable to.
● What is a player’s coach?
● Booster club guidelines, please explain.
● Coaches social gatherings?
● Goals of your family?
● Teacher/educational community involvement.
● Date of hire to 1st practice plan.
● Would you like to teach a leadership class?
● Homecoming/parents night/ plan.
● Alumni relationships
● Relationship with middle school principal & P.E./coaching staff?
● Due process of students. (leadership council, players’ cadre)
● Passing State Mandated Tests or winning football games-which is more important to you.
● Do you schedule wins or high competition? (pre-season philosophy)
● High games winning or participation?
● Demonstrate knowledge of State Football rules for athletics and academics.
● Community service activities.
● Board meeting attendance
● Upset parent after the game handling the situation-other coaches involved.
● Relationship with local law officials.
● Steroid prevention.
● Management and leadership-what styles do you use?
● Local youth coaches-How do you handle them, involve them, and communicate to them.
● Travel Itinerary and transportation issues-rules for bus.
● Activity fund management.
● Student trainer and manager policy (girls)?
● Pep rallies-players involved or not and why.
● Wednesday night church and practice.
● Method to get numbers up for participating in athletics.
● Monitor other sports-how?
● Fundraising efforts? Why, how, how much -relationship with other school programs
efforts
● Concession stands.
● Band relationships and communication -halftime; parent nights, traditions, football
player’s play at halftime.