Coach and Support Staff
Roles and Responsibilities
A Football Program requires more than just a person who is going to come up with the football schemes, practice plans, and gameday organization. The position requires someone who is able to develop a plan for academics, recruiting, future football players, motivation, record keeping, media promotion, and many other responsibilities. It is impossible to expect one man to be able to do that all by themselves. That's why it is crucial that the head coach builds relationships and empowers the quality people around the program so he can delegate responsibilities to people who can do the job well. The following are a list of support roles that are excellent opportunities to empower on and off campus staff in order to make sure a program runs efficiently.
SUPPORT COORDINATOR JOB DESCRIPTIONS
- Recruiting Coordinator
- Database Maintenance (Current ACT/SAT; height weight, core lifts, speed
- Supervise Highlight Tapes
- Master List
- Contact college coaches for prospective athletes (twitter)
- Newspapers
- Magazines and recruiting services
- Area organization
- Game Day Visits
- Weekend Visits
- Database Maintenance (Current ACT/SAT; height weight, core lifts, speed
- Academic Coordinator
- Advise and assist in counseling players towards degree
- Obtain current schedules
- Player eligibility
- Summer school
- Freshmen Orientation
- Approval of all drops and adds
- Pre-registration
- Liaison between teachers and football office (check with teachers for struggling students)
- Academic Awards
- Monitor academic progress
- Get mid-semester and final grade reports
- Study table organization: Attendance, Location, Make-ups and discipline, Who is on
- Academic Top Ten
- Senior graduation check
- Advise and assist in counseling players towards degree
- Strength and Conditioning Coordinator
- Organize off-season and in-season weight training, conditioning and speed program
- Attendance & Tardiness
- Keep records on body weight, strength test results, and progress charts
- Recommend purchasing of new weight equipment
- Recommend and facilitate the refurbishment of weight equipment
- Motivate the players in the program
- Summer conditioning test
- Provide individual coaching in the program
- Organize off-season and in-season weight training, conditioning and speed program
- Director of Football Operations
- Supervise and direct student managers
- Assign laundry duties
- Assign practice duties such as running the period clock, water distribution, equipment repair, ball spotting, officiating, and field apparatus set-up and take down
- Assign varsity home game duties such as equipment repair, head phone cord holders, ball boys, and water boys
- Maintain accurate records of lockers, locker combinations, jersey sizes, and issued equipment
- Maintain accurate records of player address, telephone, and emergency contact information
- Track equipment inventory and recommend new purchases
- Reconditioning
- Organize and facilitate the annual player and coach Adidas order
- Supervise and direct student managers
- Incentive, Motivation & Pride (IMP)
- Weekly awards
- Season awards
- Records
- Trophies, decals, T-shirts, etc.
- Locker room décor
- Coaches offices and meeting rooms
- Picture Day
- Help with signs and posters
- Control and direct helmet award stickers system and distribution
- Fields & Facilities
- Fields lined, marked, cut & cared for
- Field equipment
- Game practice and field equipment maintenance
- Video and Projectors
- Coordinate filming of practice and games
- Load practice game film into Hudl
- O/D/K
- Coordinate video crew members – practice & games
- Responsible for video equipment
- Charge cameras, ensure batteries for remote
- Purchase & maintain all video equipment
- Maintenance of video equipment
- Coordinate and direct film exchanges
- Coordinate filming of practice and games
- Media Specialist
- Coordinate with gameday photographer and videographers
- Update team website, social media, and update statistical information
- Graphic designs, posters, and game hype.
- Coordinate with other media, newspapers and high school websites such as Maxpreps
- Coordinate with gameday photographer and videographers
- Community Relations
- Meet with community members and promote our program, games, and community projects
- Set up community projects, arrange for guest speakers, and others who can help the program.
- Instruct recruiting staff on office recruiting duties
- Assign recruiting staff members to coaching staff
- Obtain recruiting staff uniforms
- Sign co-curricular credit forms for recruiting staff
- Creatively exhibit appreciation to recruiting staff for their hard work
- Meet with community members and promote our program, games, and community projects
- Nutritional Coach
- Monitor and advise athletes in their nutritional habits
- Check teams food logs and calorie counts
- Ensure Athletes stay hydrated and are putting right things in their bodies
- Advise on supplement use and keep our athletes clean of illegal supplements.
- Nutritional seminar for parents/athletes
- Work with community relations to try to get food donated to our players
- Equipment Manager
- Manage equipment room, maintain inventory of equipment
- Fix equipment issues, during and after practice
- Responsible for extra man bag and tool kit
- Booster Club / Fundraising and Event Coordinator
- Plan and manage fundraising events, get them scheduled on calendar
- Work with media coordinator in order to get flyers, web promotion etc.
- Contact our friends of the program in order to help
- Work with community relations manager in order to take advantage of resources to help us put on successful events.
- Future Football Coordinator
- Correspondence with our feeder schools.
- Recognition for athletes and teams at our feeder schools and the club level
- Work with our gameday coordinators to get recognition at games
- Responsible for promoting and coordinating the Future Panther Football Camps
- Run Future Panther social media, communicate, events, dates, etc.