IMO:

The best coaches are the ones who get the very most out of their talent every year. One great example is Coach Henderson at Artesia. Most years they are not incredibly talented but even in the "down years" they compete for state titles. When they do have really talented groups come in......they simply destroy teams. Another one who I think of is Coach Carroll at Academy. That man consistently puts together a top 5 football team in 3A and does it with a Varisty of 20-25 players. ( probably only 30-35 in the entire program).

Great coaches win all the ones they are supposed to win and even win a few they probably shouldnt.

That is IMO how you can tell the really legit guys from the others.....

A great coach is someone that produces great citizens, with great integrity and work ethic, and uses football to accomplish that end. Someone whose players, later on in life, remember that what he was coaching in football, was really about their life. A great coach knows it's not about the wins and losses, unless you're talking about winning a kids heart and mind.  

HoosiermaninNM wrote:

A great coach is someone that produces great citizens, with great integrity and work ethic, and uses football to accomplish that end. Someone whose players, later on in life, remember that what he was coaching in football, was really about their life. A great coach knows it's not about the wins and losses, unless you're talking about winning a kids heart and mind.  

Very well stated and welcome to the board!

JBACA wrote:

 

HoosiermaninNM wrote:

A great coach is someone that produces great citizens, with great integrity and work ethic, and uses football to accomplish that end. Someone whose players, later on in life, remember that what he was coaching in football, was really about their life. A great coach knows it's not about the wins and losses, unless you're talking about winning a kids heart and mind.  

Very well stated and welcome to the board!

In the end, I want that guy to coach my sons.  I would add this: Great coaches are able to KEEP players playing who may not start as sophomores or juniors but give them as much time as possible, teach delayed gratification, see the best in kids, thus being able to reload each year and yet do what is quoted above, in fact you cant keep kids who are late bloomers UNLESS you teach life lessons, skills, manners, etc. A kid who feels you care about him will do just about anything for that coach! That is what seperates the best from the good...and for many coaches, good is the enemy of great.

I heard Jim Tressel at a clinic and he said "they dont care what you know, until they know that you care"