wabashalwaysfights Posted December 22, 2024 Posted December 22, 2024 3 hours ago, hondo17 said: Create an assistant principal or dean of students type role and hire the coach. If you have the available finds to do so, sure. Like I said, most corporations would find a way... Quote
Sparty Posted December 23, 2024 Posted December 23, 2024 21 hours ago, wabashalwaysfights said: If you have the available finds to do so, sure. Like I said, most corporations would find a way... Every school has the “funds”. As Muda says, these are government (tax payer dollars) schools. 1 2 Quote
jets Posted December 23, 2024 Posted December 23, 2024 On 12/20/2024 at 1:08 PM, wabashalwaysfights said: My saying that it's not always as easy as it seems to get any coach in the building had nothing to do with funding, but everything to do with a number of other issues. It may be easy to find the money, but if a school wants "Coach X" who teaches math for example and all they have are English openings, that may be a bit of a problem for "Coach X." It's not hard for the school: emergency licenses are easy enough to come by, but "Coach X" may want no part of teaching English and may well reject the job because there are no math openings. And it isn't always as easy as simply creating a math position for "Coach X:" at a larger school this is likely easier, but the smaller the school gets, the harder it is to just create a position from whole cloth if you already have a department that is fully staffed. And you can't always just shuffle the teachers you already have to make room, an administration would need to consider the internal dynamics of the teaching staff and how they would react. No doubt that many, if not most, administrations would and do pick their top candidate, regardless of teaching certification, and make it work; and no doubt that many coaches, who want to be at a given school, would and are willing to teach whatever is available; but to act like it's just as easy as the snap of a finger ignores a number of other important dynamics. Lol…you should spend some time and see actually just how many (few) head football coaches are actually CORE subject (classroom) teachers anymore. At smaller schools sure…but I would bet of the 320 (or so) football playing schools, it’s less than 20%. I tried to do an informal poll of this once. PE/Strength were obviously the most popular positions held- followed by some “Admin” responsibilities (AD, Dean of Students, etc), Study Hall/Lunch monitors was another popular way to fill time. Quote
Donnie Baker Posted December 24, 2024 Posted December 24, 2024 22 hours ago, jets said: Lol…you should spend some time and see actually just how many (few) head football coaches are actually CORE subject (classroom) teachers anymore. At smaller schools sure…but I would bet of the 320 (or so) football playing schools, it’s less than 20%. I tried to do an informal poll of this once. PE/Strength were obviously the most popular positions held- followed by some “Admin” responsibilities (AD, Dean of Students, etc), Study Hall/Lunch monitors was another popular way to fill time. He’s a coach so he probably has a little knowledge about it. I swear to God he is Quote
wabashalwaysfights Posted December 26, 2024 Posted December 26, 2024 On 12/24/2024 at 11:56 AM, Donnie Baker said: He’s a coach so he probably has a little knowledge about it. I swear to God he is And I'll say it right to your face! 1 Quote
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