What makes a coach successful?

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If you read the Western Reserve Thread there is a discussion in there about what makes a person think a coach is successful or not? Obviously wins and losses play into it but what else can be used to evaluate a coach as being successful or not? Is a .500 coach successful?
 
 
LorenzoDean said:
If you read the Western Reserve Thread there is a discussion in there about what makes a person think a coach is successful or not? Obviously wins and losses play into it but what else can be used to evaluate a coach as being successful or not? Is a .500 coach successful?
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A .500 coach who has .250 talent is absolutely successful.
 
vikings4life said:
A coach that gets the most out of the current talent pool is successful.
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Every once in a while, I'll read about the coach that turned around a program and it will start with recruiting the halls. Seems the coaches that have the most success turning around an apathetic school do it off the field as much as they do it on the field.

On the flip side, I've seen coaches that wait until the Summer to see who signs up for the team that year. Way too many of these coaches have very little success.
 
A successful coach is one that can inspire the players. I saw it first hand at Desales with Tony Pusateri. He could get the players to do things no one else could. We would run through a wall for him!
 
One who protects himself and his image above his own players, even if they are dealing with known criminals. It is not the coaches job to worry about his players, as long as he wins.

That is the definition of a great man, leader and coach!!!
 
The most important in being successful at Macro level:
Player Development
Player Evaluation/Position Fit
In Game Situational Awareness

At a Micro Level:
Strong Strength & Conditioning
QB Development
Having a philosophy on Offense and Defense, but being able to tweak your schemes to fit personnel
 
scbuckeye99 said:
This is pretty much the answer regardless of sport. Now the question becomes "How does a coach do that?". What do the great ones do that the bad ones don't?
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How does a coach get the most out of players? Get them to CARE about the person next to them. Every set/rep/sprint that you do in the gym is performed so that you do not short change your teammate, yourself and, thus, the team. Every drill and practice play is executed with not letting down the player next to you in mind. When people CARE, they will take responsibility for their actions, they will give great effort, they will be more mindful of details, and they will trust that their teammate will have their back.
 
Mostly talent. Everything even, coaching matters. Jimmies and Joe's majority of the time, not ever going to change.
 
Expectations. Having a charismatic, yet forceful personality to get kids to buy the expectations he is selling...then coaching everyone UP to that level...which is usually well beyond what most kids thought they had in them. In most years, everyone's good/great players will even out. It's getting those average players to be better than the other team's average players that really seperates programs...My 2 cents.
The other thing is never crater to the prima donna player. He gets treated exactly the same and he'd better also put forth equal the effort...or he is gone. Otherwise he's a cancer to the team...
 
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