As I wrote in May, I recently resigned from my decade long head coaching position at Foothill High School and accepted the associate head coach and offense coordinator job at Shasta College in nearby Redding. The transition from high school head coach to college assistant coach has actually been easier than expected. It certainly helps that I am familiar with both the college assistant role and the Shasta College program as I previously spent six seasons (1997-2002) as an assistant coach there.One of the interesting things in my full circle experience is the perspective that it has given me regarding the similarities and differences of coaching at the high school and college levels. I am sure there are plenty of you that have spent your entire coaching career in one or the other. I want to share with you a few things that I find similar and things that I have found that are different in
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