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Post by TOBC on Jan 15, 2016 10:31:15 GMT -6
best thing you could have ever done. loved coaching wrestling, but being gone for about 4 weekends in a row wore my a$$ out. plus the winter was momma's off-season too.
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Post by bigern809 on Jan 15, 2016 10:32:26 GMT -6
It won't be too bad since this is the old man's busy season as well. But almost every weekend going to a meet or tournament will be rough.
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Post by Hands11 on Jan 15, 2016 10:33:19 GMT -6
Not only the ALL DAY 2 DAY tournaments on the weekends, it's the matches on Tuesday and Thursday nights as well. Here, we have so many kids we have enough for like 5 teams so someone is having a match ALL OF THE TIME!! Sundays were literally the only day I was home for 4 months!
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Post by TOBC on Jan 15, 2016 10:33:29 GMT -6
whole reason why i went down to 2 sports. too many weekends away from the kids.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2016 10:57:35 GMT -6
Stipends for 4 sports might be great, but quality of life would be low. Doesn't seem to me that the kids would be getting quality coaching in EVERY sport. How could a coach be an expert in 4 sports? You could be the supe, principal, AD and English teacher, but you probably would not be good at any of them. Am I wrong?
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Post by bigern809 on Jan 15, 2016 11:05:33 GMT -6
Not wrong. And, unfortunately, no stipend for every sport. We were supposed to but the supe shot it down, which SUCKS big time. The JH sports are easy, I have enough knowledge to do that. Softball is my #1, played in college. I've been around PL long enough to know the ins and outs. It's not hard, just time consuming. Give kids their workout and they just lift.
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Post by kennywayne9 on Jan 15, 2016 11:13:30 GMT -6
Not wrong. And, unfortunately, no stipend for every sport. We were supposed to but the supe shot it down, which SUCKS big time. The JH sports are easy, I have enough knowledge to do that. Softball is my #1, played in college. I've been around PL long enough to know the ins and outs. It's not hard, just time consuming. Give kids their workout and they just lift. I'd have a hard time coaching four sports and not getting paid for four sports. That's just wrong, IMO.
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Post by bigern809 on Jan 15, 2016 11:21:35 GMT -6
I'm definitely not happy about it. But it is what it is right now. There will be some changes around here soon enough...
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Post by jmstreeter on Jan 15, 2016 11:26:08 GMT -6
My last spot I did football and basketball at a 5A school. We were average at best in football during my 3 years there, but pretty decent in basketball. It was brutal though going from August through Spring break basically, stipends were good, but had no time for myself and the family. Now I do football and track so I have a break when the football season ends.
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Post by TOBC on Jan 15, 2016 11:30:18 GMT -6
i wouldn't do a dayum thing unless i was getting paid for it. want me to coach another sport? pay me.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2016 11:36:19 GMT -6
I used to do football and wrestling too.. Our school is a wrestling school and our HC is a Hall of Famer, so I was all in.. It was a grind from the time football was out to the state tournament. Finally had to give it up when we had our second kid. Too much consecutive time away. Love wrestling and miss it, but also love not having 3-a-days over Christmas break. Track is way easier schedule.
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Post by tonymontana on Jan 15, 2016 11:36:35 GMT -6
i wouldn't do a dayum thing unless i was getting paid for it. want me to coach another sport? pay me. I agree. One of the reasons for teacher shortage is people are sick of the things we do in education for free. We do it because it's "best for the kids".
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Post by kennywayne9 on Jan 15, 2016 11:45:17 GMT -6
i wouldn't do a dayum thing unless i was getting paid for it. want me to coach another sport? pay me. I agree. One of the reasons for teacher shortage is people are sick of the things we do in education for free. We do it because it's "best for the kids". Absolutely. We do way too much for free. We should be getting paid for all practice time BEFORE school starts like they do in TX.
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Post by TOBC on Jan 15, 2016 11:54:53 GMT -6
I agree. One of the reasons for teacher shortage is people are sick of the things we do in education for free. We do it because it's "best for the kids". Absolutely. We do way too much for free. We should be getting paid for all practice time BEFORE school starts like they do in TX. i've told them i won't do shat for free. was asked last week to drive a bus for a junior high wrestling tournament during a school day because we were short bus drivers. asked them if they were going to pay me as a bus driver or as a coach since i don't coach wrestling (way it is here, if you drive the bus for a sport you coach, then you only get paid by the mile you drive. bus drivers get $10 per hour for the whole trip). they told me that i would be paid as a coach because if they paid as a driver it would be considered double dipping since it was during the school day. told them to find someone else, because i wasn't going to drive a bus to a wrestling tournament and sit around on my a$$ all day for free since i didn't get a coaching stipend for wrestling anymore.
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Post by tonymontana on Jan 15, 2016 11:58:07 GMT -6
I agree. One of the reasons for teacher shortage is people are sick of the things we do in education for free. We do it because it's "best for the kids". Absolutely. We do way too much for free. We should be getting paid for all practice time BEFORE school starts like they do in TX. I know an old coach that(back when coaches negotiated their contracts) before taking a job would insist on he and his assistants getting paid if they made the playoffs. He said he!! no one wants to work 4 more weeks for free. In education you are looked at cross-eyed if you ever mention $$. Just supposed to do it. Was told once by an AD all summer work was "just a part of being a football coach" easy for him to say he was making over 100K!!!!
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Post by Hitch on Jan 18, 2016 13:56:22 GMT -6
Get paid for practice time BEFORE school??? ARE YOU NUCKIN FUTS?
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Post by tonymontana on Jan 20, 2016 7:46:42 GMT -6
TTT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2016 10:12:49 GMT -6
The AD is really good with helping out ern with her schedule conflicts, i help cover the weight room after school most days. with baseball and softball coming up it will be interesting to see how it works out. but they really do take good care of us here. my jh principal is great, the HS one is easy to talk to, but gets flustered (spelling?) easily. really do have some good kids. and like ern, i love the area. planning on sticking around, but if there is no light at the end of the tunnel in football, this might not last real long. but i'm sold for another year for sure.
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Post by fbs on Jan 20, 2016 11:52:53 GMT -6
you need to come back to centex...
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Post by Hitch on Jan 20, 2016 15:19:55 GMT -6
I'm gonna try to get some lawns to mow this summer with another coaching buddy. Interested to see what we can make. stud can get you set up selling insurance part time....its air conditioned and pays a lot more! Hitch likes that idea. Stud needs to get Hitch set up.
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