Good vs Better Coach?

[Guest]

What are all the things you look for?

How can you tell the difference between two nice positive coaches (let's assume that the two hypothetical coaches are baseline good people at heart, and avoid all the obvious red flag stuff).

What are some primary indicators of the more competent coach?

[Guest]

I think there's two big things to review if you are looking between two good coaches:

1. Game Day - how do they manage the game, do all players get meaningful opportunity? How do they instruct (tone and specificity of instruction)?
2. Training - can you tell what the team is trying to accomplish when you watch? does the coach have a theme during the session or are they all over the place with instruction? Do they keep the exercises moving while providing instruction within the exercise or do they use a lot of stoppages and speeches?

Then personality - does it fit with your kid?

[Guest]

A few things...

1. At training, how much time is spent with a ball vs standing in line
2. Is the coach looking at areas that need improvement and creating drills/ games to work on these areas vs doing the same things every training no matter what
3. Is the coach able to to both look big picture ( tactics the whole team needs to work on) and also see where individuals need specific work and be able to simplify their instruction so that they can see quick improvement.

I think the last one is one of the most important. I have seen coaches who have a great tactical mind, but are never addressing individual issues that should be able to be drastically improved in a short time.

[Guest]

Does the coach take favors from parents and give players more playing time? Does the coach teach private lessons?

[Guest]

does the coach take favors from parents and give players more playing time? Does the coach teach private lessons?

tacky