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Tyree Ward
HHP 324
Rebecca Buchanan
4/5/16

Coaching Philosophy:

Its been a long life dream of mine to become a coach. I want to

become a college football coach someday, yet I know I will have to start off
small and work my way up, but the sky is the limit. What makes a coach
different from any other coach is his/her coaching philosophy. The coaching
philosophy a coach possess is the foundation in how they run there team.
Which include your rules, the way you coach, style of play and ethics you
abide by? The coaching philosophy can dictate a lot of things when running a
team, especially the success and failure of a team. There are many different
coaching philosophies and Im sure that mine will rank among the top
percentile in the world of coaching.
In coaching you can be successful in two major ways. You can be
successful in winning and the skills you provide to your team, or you can be
successful by doing whats morally right all the time no matter what

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(Hardman & Jones pg. 45). I want to be remembered as a coach who was
successful in both of these areas and not just one. If you are successful in
just winning and not doing whats morally right, then youre not teaching
your players how to mature and to follow rules. I know as a former player it is
very hard for a coach to do the right thing all the time, yet when it comes to
my coaching philosophy I take pride in doing whats right. I never wont to be
remembered as a coach who let his players get away with a lot of things and
there was no discipline what so ever in his program. In my coaching
philosophy I want to turn my players into mature adults and by doing so they
will have to learn how to follow my rules. With always doing the right thing, I
will also strive to be very successful in the winning aspect of the game not
only on the field, yet off the field as well. Winning is a key component of my
philosophy, I feel that I have the right tools to install a winning attitude into
my players and I have the knowledge that will help them win. Ive studied
the game for a very long time and picked up a few things on a long career of
many wins and many losses.
In Hardman & Jones, the book stats that sport provides coaches the
opportunity to realize a range of [1] technical, [2] physical and [3] moral
excellences (Hardman & Jones, p. 72). I fine this to be very true, in order
to become a great coach you have to be great in all of these categories. My
coaching philosophy aligns with this statement perfectly, for I feel that when
coaching, it allows us to see things in many different ways and forms. The
technical part being your game plan concept, the physical part being the

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actual practice and games and all the training that goes into consideration,
and the moral excellence is the highest of them all, this is the process of
following your morals and making sure your team follows them. When I step
foot into the coaching world I will make sure that I set great examples for my
players and make sure to never break my core values in which I set, for if
they see me breaking rules and not following them, that will make them
think that its okay to do the same.
Also in Hardman & Jones it states that the coach, as a central cog in
the sports environment, has moral responsibilities reaching far beyond the
purely technical and tactical (Hardman & Jones pg. 72). My coaching
philosophy lines up perfect with this statement, for I know that when
coaching its not all about the game itself. As a coach you have to ask
yourself how are you helping this athlete become a better citizen at life? And
thats one thing I want to help my players do, become great at life. I will treat
every individual on that team like they are my own child, for when playing
football it calls for a long time without your family, especially in college. I
want to be the one that can help them with any problem they have on and
off the field, for at the end of the day they cannot play football forever, it has
to end sometime. And I want to make sure that they are in the perfect shape
to go out and make a positive difference in the world, and that all starts with
the way that I as an coach treats them.

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I have picked up a lot of secrets on becoming a successful coach from

well-known coaches, for you can always learn a thing or two from coaches
who have created winning programs. A thing I learned from Roy Williams is
that caring about a player is huge into getting success, he says that I tell
every youngster that when you sign with North Carolina Im going to be
concerned about you for the rest of your life (Seven secrets of successful
coaches). That is something that I will take into my coaching philosophy, for
that brings me back to everything not being about the game its self but
about the athlete as a person. I want my athletes to know that I care about
every little thing they do and all I want is to see them be successful and that
I will always be there for them no matter what. Another big thing I took from
Roy was consistency, and that made me realize that I have to be consistent
when enforcing rules and my coaching ethics, for if I start to change them all
the time, players will never adapt to my philosophy and my coaching
philosophy will never be set in stone. I took a lot of notes from Mike Krzyzeski
as well; he has been at duke for a while and has turned the program there
into an elite power house. His biggest point that popped out to me was
confidence building, he says that If an athlete knows you believe in him or
her, then when that kid goes through dark moments, he or she will know
they are not alone (Seven secrets of successful coaches pg. 42). This
helped me seal the deal on my coaching philosophy, for I am very big on
confidence. I want my athletes to know that they can do anything possible if

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they put the work and time into it. And I know that starts with me building
there confidence.
I have a ton of abilities when it comes to coaching football. I am a
student of the game and have been for many years. There will not be
another coach on earth that will care more about his players than I will. Im
very confident in what I do, yet I know there is room for improvement, so Im
always looking for a way to get better. Im the type of coach that will make
the athlete feel they are having fun rather than being stressed from the
sport. My strength when coaching football is my ability to run the offense to
be proficient. I have played offense my whole life and my playbook is like
none other. I will create a family like atmosphere within my team, and if they
follow along, they will become champions on and off the field.

Works Cited
Hardman, Alun, and Carwyn Rhys. Jones. The Ethics of Sports Coaching. Milton Park,
Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2011. Print.
Janssen, Jeff, and Gregory A. Dale. The Seven Secrets of Successful Coaches: How to
Unlock and Unleash Your Team's Full Potential. Cary, NC: Winning The Mental Game, 2002. Print.

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