Football Staff Development for High School Football Programs Dan Mortier Head Football Coach New Trier High School

How to put a staff together * Develop an interview process * Get people interested in wanting to coach * Try to bring in people you know * Do your homework prior to the interview

How to handle people on staff who applied for and did not get the job * Make them feel important to the program * Get them involved in the planning process if they want. * Give them a position of power if possible * Take advantage of their expertise

Hire good teachers --The x an o's will come * Select quality people first * Select persons you would want to coach your son or daughter * Not important what they know but how can they get it across to players * Select People that Love Working with Kids * Select People that are involved in School * Select People with great work ethic

Where to put your best coaches * Varsity Coordinators * Offensive Line Coach * Head Freshman Coach

Process in which to hire coaches * Defensive/Offensive coordinator * Offensive line coach * Head Freshman Coach * Head Sophomore Coach * Varsity assistants * Rest of the assistants

Make sure your expectations and theirs are the same * Assign administrative duties * List all football duties * Assign tasks according to individual strengths * Make sure all understand what they are responsible for * Make sure you have similar philosophies * Samples from our playbook

Staff improvement * Spend time with younger coaches * Watch the practices of all other coaches in the program * Read * Film exchange program.

Set up a mentoring system within the program * Pair more experienced coaches with inexperienced or young ones * Assign and allow for time for them to meet * Check in with coaches being mentored to make sure the program is meeting their needs

Clinics * Put on clinics for your staff * Promote going to outside clinics * Make if financially easy for coaches to attend * Hold conference clinics * Go to local colleges and universities * Involve feeder schools and youth programs

Program evaluation * Create effective tools and procedures * Evaluate staff at end of every season * Create evaluation form for end of year conference * Create evaluation form of assistants * Create Head coach evaluation form * Encourage feedback from assistants on what can further help the program