Professional Documents
Culture Documents
ACADEMICS
2. What steps will you take to insure the academic eligibility of the athletes?
5. Do you believe in having the smarter athletes tutoring the academically challenged athletes?
6. Do you agree with the MHSAA rules for academic eligibility? If not, why and what would you change?
BIO/HISTORY
1. Who is the best coach you ever coached with or played for? Why?
3. Why did you resign from your previous position? Why isn’t that head coach listed as a reference?
BOOSTERS
1. Do you think it’s important to attend boosters sponsored football banquets at the end of the season?
2. How should the booster club be set up and should there be one club or a separate club for each sport?
BUDGET
2. How will you raise the funds you need to operate your program?
COLLEGE RECRUITING
1. Is college recruiting important to you and how would you help my son get recruited?
DISCIPLINE
1. How do you handle individual player discipline?
INJURIES
1. The health of our kids is important. How do you see yourself handling injuries, especially concussions?
MEDIA
METHODOLOGY
2. How do you coach? Are you demonstrative? Are you laid back? Have you ever been profane?
5. How do you handle learning support football players? How do you teach them when others understand
and they don’t?
MISCELLANEOUS
1. We want our coach to live in our district. Would you be move here?
5. Will you use social network websites for your program? What safeguards will you use?
OFF-SEASON
1. Describe how your off-season strength and speed program will work.
2. What are your thoughts on attendance during off-season workouts and involvement in practices and
how that reflects to playing time on the field?
3. How does your weight room program deal with the multi-sport athlete?
PARENTS
4. Tell us what the roles of the parents might be and what you would talk to them about in the pre-season.
5. How would you handle a parent who threatens you physically? Who wants to handle the issue with a
fight? Our former head coach actually had this happen to him.
6. How do you respond to the parent that thinks football is too big of a time commitment?
7. If a parent calls you and yells at you about why his son is not starting, how do you handle the situation?
8. Dealing with parents is a major factor that comes with coaching today’s high school athlete, what is
your philosophy on fielding complaints, phone calls, emails, etc from disgruntled parents?
PERSONAL INFORMATION
4. Body language is interpreted by parents and fans, what would your body language on the sidelines tell
us?
5. Would you be willing to attend clinics? If so, what would you expect to gain?
6. What subject areas are you qualified to teach?
10. If we call a former coach or employer, how would they describe you?
11. What are two mistakes you made in your coaching career?
12. What are your long-term goals? Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
13. If offered the position, are you prepared to accept the position now?
15. What type of a coach are you in terms of perception by your players?
17. How do you handle the other opposing coaches of whom you compete?
20. If you are not hired as head coach would you remain on the coaching staff?
PHILOSOPHY
7. Define success individually for each level of the program (9th, JV, Varsity).
PLAYERS
1. What will kids remember after they are done playing for you?
2. How would you purposefully go about developing players on and off the field?
5. How would you develop the football players throughout all age groups in our system?
6. What do you need to know about your students in order for them to be successful?
7. What are the most important criteria you look for in a player?
10. What is your opinion about specialization, and the multi-sport athletes in high school?
12. Since you do not have a faculty position at our school, how will that affect your relationship with the
players in the program?
14. If a player is openly badmouthing the coaching decisions that you have made, how do you handle the
situation?
15. You learn of a party being planned following an upcoming game, how would you handle the situation?
16. How do you handle players who criticize, complain, degrade, or use foul or abusive language, or have
trouble with teammates or being part of the team concept?
17. Do you have a plan if a female student wants to come out for football?
PRACTICE
3. What time would you start practice and dismiss practice? How long will practice be?
4. What is your overall practice structure? How would you describe a typical week of practice during the
season?
PROGRAM
8. How will your program differ from your rivals and opponents?
9. If time and money were not concerns. What would you do to make us state champions?
11. How would you get the faculty involved in the football program?
12. What is the head coach’s responsibility and role in the community?
13. How do you see yourself with the administration as being important to the success of the overall
program?
14. We are having a difficult time getting people to attend our games. How would you create excitement
for our program in the community?
16. There is a possibility that you could go 0-18 over the next two years. What would you do to remedy
that?
17. How does your weight room program deal with the multi-sport athlete?
18. When we watch your team play, what are a few things that would show this is “your team” or “your
program”?
19. What would you say at your first team meeting?
RULES
1. Will you bring in your systems for offense and defense and expect players to adapt or will you base what
you do on offense and defense upon the talent you have available?
2. What is your primary concern when developing your basic offense and defense?
4. You have been a defensive coordinator. How will you handle the offensive side of the ball?
5. How will you transition your offense and defense systems into ones that our kids are running now and
understand?
16. What are the overall defensive skills that a great defense needs to have?
17. What are the things that a great defense must do?
18. How do you handle special teams at practice?
STAFF
1. What kind of staff will you put together, who will you bring with you?
3. Assistant coaches are important. What attributes of an assistant coach are most important to you, and
why?
4. What qualities do you seek in assistant coaches, and how will they be handled?
6. How will you handle your football coaching staff assignments and organize your staff among the teams
we promote? (9th, JV, Varsity)
14. What qualities do you feel are important for an assistant coach and head coach?
15. We are working hard to develop a staff that trusts each other, how would you develop relationships
with the coaches/teachers in your building?
WHY YOU?
1. We have 10 candidates applying for this job. What makes you stand out from all the rest?
2. Our last head coach was loved by the whole school system and we didn’t want to see him go. Our next
head coach will have to follow in his steps. In one sentence, tell us why you will or won’t be that coach 10
years from now?
3. Why are you the right person for the job?