Game Planning Your Coaching Career (Part I)

(This article is written to discuss career planning in the coaching profession and this is by no means the only way to pattern your pathway. The experience of one coach, while addressing many issues, does not include all scenarios. However, the organization of the material is well-known to all coaches as it is structured just as all of us would game plan against an unfamiliar opponent. It is hoped that this discussion would have us in the coaching profession talk about these changes with younger coaches entering this vocation).  By Gene DeMarco, Head Coach, Geneva College Pre-Game  A generation ago, college students were educated to prepare themselves to enter a Fortune 500 company and stay employed with that company throughout their entire career. Those who studied education did so with the idea that they would land that first teaching job and grow as the school district