Terrific Advice For Climbing The Coaching Ladder From Two Terrific Football Coaches
You treat every job like it’s the last job you’ll ever have because you never know--it might be. From that standpoint, whether you’re a GA, or your a coordinator, or you’re a head coach, whatever level you’re at, you want to put everything you’ve got into that job. If you do that and concern yourself with that and you’re at a good place with good people and have good fortune, everything will work out fine for you. I’ve always told our guys that. Wherever you’re at or whatever role you have just put all you have into that and people will notice.--Rich Rodriguez, Head Coach at Arizona
One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was actually something I read. Bill Parcells has an excerpt from something he wrote on how to lead a team, one of the things he said in that, and I’ll paraphrase, “If you want to be a leader, then lead.” What he was saying was when he was a young coach he basically tried to earn the ability to lead and waited until people wanted to listen to him. He finally made the decision that was just going to lead and do it his way and see if people followed. I think as a young coach that’s the one thing I tried to do. When I was a GA I didn’t want to act like a GA, I wanted to act like a full-time coach and carry myself that way, in the staff meetings speak up if I have something to say, if I had a question, ask it. With the players I tried to deal with them as a coach and not just as another one of the boys. That takes confidence and that takes courage. That’s something that I read from a guy that I look up to. I think that’s carried me very well and that’s something I encourage our GAs to, don’t wait to be a full-time coach to start acting like a coach. Carry yourself like a coach, act like a coach, work like a coach and then eventually you’ll be a coach. That really sticks with me.--Matt Rhule, Former Head Coach at Temple University; New Head Football Coach at Baylor
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