As a future career the thought of being a high school football coach to some people might sound
crazy, but to me it would be the perfect fit, I love football and if I don’t make it to where I want to with
football, I want to be able to give my knowledge to the younger kids/ teens. I am out there with the kids
prepairing them for life, the next level of schooling or football whatever these kids decide to do I have to
get them ready for it. I’ve never had a football coach who told me wrong or led me in the wrong
direction not all but, most of my coaches where stand up guys and set a great example. There are also
many problems that come with coaching from the outsiders view by outsiders I mean parents and
people who don’t play football and those problems are a lack of leadership and discipline, and
concussions in football. These two problems are very common issues and are brought up frequently, but
with every problem there’s a solution.
The outsiders argue that High school coaches are too soft on their players and they want to be
more of their friend instead of their coach. This could cause players to talk back to coaches, act out
during a game, and just have no respect while on the team. “Players attacked a ref at a coach’s request,
one student clocked an opposing player in the head with his own helmet and another tried to stomp out
a helmet-less opponent when he was on the ground” (Adam Silver). The outsiders hear this and feel as if
it’s because the coach don’t have any leadership or discipline. When I asked my old high school coach
Michael Pitts about the situation of lack of leadership and discipline and he stated “As a coach we can
only lead so far. Now as far as leadership goes we try to show the players that you have to have fun but
you also need to know when to handle business. It is our job to teach these kids that when you are in
public you aren’t just representing us but that you are representing yourself and yourself image is the
most important thing. We also want to teach our athletes that it’s not just about one player or person if
one person fucks up we all fuck up. Football coaches discipline their kids everyday honestly, we just
discipline in a different way we require kids to come to study table which is a study session with coaches
and we help with homework and those whom don’t show up on time sit out a quarter and if you miss
you sit out the game. I couldn’t tell parents (outsiders) why football players act out off the field or in
non-related football activities, because when I tell them to do something or to show up on time they are
there early and they do it fast”. (Micheal Pitts) For me as a football player I have never seen anybody
take action and speak with the coaches about the situation to resolve this issue outsiders are just going
to keep assuming until somebody steps into our shoes and see what really goes on.
I do believe we all need to be disciplined for the bad discussion we make whether we are on or
off the field our coaches should hold us to certain standard, because we are a part of his
team/organization. Berry Temkin asked the questions of when coaches do discipline there players how
far that discipline should go. In the article he stated that “ And at Georgia Tech coach George O’Leary
showed a mistake-prone offensive lineman what poor pass blocking looks like through a quarterback’s
eyes by having four teammates charge him at full speed. Two of them leveled the player, who quit the
