Erasing A Decade of Disappointment: The Transformation of the Mustangs

A lot of coaches like talking Xs and Os, which is the easy part of coaching. The scheming and game planning is the chess match we all signed up for and love to do. However, as head coaches, we take on a little more than just the scheme these days. When you get your shot to be a head coach, for most of us, we don’t inherit a program that wins and is used to winning. Rather, it is usually a challenging program, one that has not won or doesn’t do so consistently. This presents us as with an entirely different challenge aside from Xs and Os. What I am hoping to do in this article is present young coaches, like myself, with insight on what worked for us turning a program around, and diving into practice organization as well. As a new head coach at a school that is not winning, you have several challenges - our main one being structure. I really believe that discipline solves many issues.