Do teachers get priority when hiring a coach?

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We have a coach that I would call a participation coach. The coach seems to put participation over trying to win. This would be fine, but there are enough games for both. Thus, this coach has cost this team chances to get to and go far in state. That does not seem fair to the players.

This coach might be better suited to be a jv coach and not the varsity coach.

Thus, my question is do teachers get priority when filling school coaching positions?

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I'm sure it depends on the school, but there are a shortage of educators, coaches and everyone else in the labor pool right now. For most schools, the priority is finding someone with decent knowledge of the sport who doesn't have a criminal record. My 19 yr old college student got paid to run summer practices in another sport for a local high school because there was no one else

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I fully understand what you are saying, but that is not the issue with this team. There are plenty of club coaches that would love to coach this high school team. Unfortunately, this coach and AD have cheated numerous graduating class out of the chance to compete in state.

if you philosophy is to play all, you should state that up front. Again, there enough games for all girls to get plenty of playing time. But win you have to win a game to help your position to try and get to state, l you have to play the right player and the right format.


This would would be a great jv coach and that is were she should go.

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I fully understand what you are saying, but that is not the issue with this team. There are plenty of club coaches that would love to coach this high school team. Unfortunately, this coach and AD have cheated numerous graduating class out of the chance to compete in state.

if you philosophy is to play all, you should state that up front. Again, there enough games for all girls to get plenty of playing time. But win you have to win a game to help your position to try and get to state, l you have to play the right player and the right format.


This would would be a great jv coach and that is were she should go.

if other parents feel the same you should organize and discuss with the AD. this is not a unique situation, there are plenty of entrenched sub par coaches in HS sports not just soccer

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Does is really matter. The level is poor

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Yeah. I don’t have a problem with a HS coach putting “participation over winning.” Almost every team, club included, with the exception of the actually elite ones should be doing this. This is high school soccer. Our daughter got pulled up to Varsity as a freshman. She’d be way better at JV. Varsity is just a bunch of girls getting frustrated when she does a feint and swatting her legs out from under her.

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Why keep score then?
Why crown a state championship?
Participation rules.

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Why keep score then?
Why crown a state championship?
Participation rules.

Good questions. Next you can tackle why we have State Cup for 10 year olds.

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Ok, we just played a team that does not believe in participation and we got killed. We have the talent to compete, but because of the participation philosophy we got killed.

Also, the lack of tactics based on the team skill does not help much. The coach is not putting the team in a position to compete.

The coach is causing a spot light to be put on weaker players. It is not the weaker players fault. In certain situations, they should not be put in those situations.

So in the end, does this participation philosophy build a team or break a team?

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Lack of tactics? It’s HS soccer.

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The other team seemed to have a tactical play and did it work, lol.

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Ok, we just played a team that does not believe in participation and we got killed. We have the talent to compete, but because of the participation philosophy we got killed.

Also, the lack of tactics based on the team skill does not help much. The coach is not putting the team in a position to compete.

The coach is causing a spot light to be put on weaker players. It is not the weaker players fault. In certain situations, they should not be put in those situations.

So in the end, does this participation philosophy build a team or break a team?

your kid ended up with a bad hs soccer coach, it's kind of luck of the draw not much you can do. it's like having a bad hs calculus teacher. so it goes

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We have a coach that I would call a participation coach. The coach seems to put participation over trying to win. This would be fine, but there are enough games for both. Thus, this coach has cost this team chances to get to and go far in state. That does not seem fair to the players.

This coach might be better suited to be a jv coach and not the varsity coach.

Thus, my question is do teachers get priority when filling school coaching positions?

Depends on the school I guess. At my kids high school it’s all nepotism. The old long time coach finally quit but instead of advertising for a new coach the school just gave the job to the assistant coach who’s also a teacher at that school. Watched a few of my daughter’s games. Terrible coaching. Couldn’t adjust tactically during games. Girls team didn’t even make it out of bracket in first round of playoffs. Unfortunately I knew several premier club coaches who would’ve loved to coach my kids team but were never given a chance to even apply. It’s definitely not about giving the kids the best experience. Oh and on top of that, the AD is good friends with the old head coach who recommended his assistant to take the job. Again, not about finding the best qualified coach it’s about nepotism.

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It is about winning and competing. Too many people
worry about participation rather competing

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It is about winning and competing. Too many people
worry about participation rather competing

Is it? I'll be devil's advocate and say high school sports are about generating positive and memorable experiences for the students.winning is a part of that but so is participation and camaraderie