Does playing the game mean you can also coach the game?

[NewarkCatholicFan]

Let's hear your thoughts on this.

[centerback]

Nope, some people just lack the skills needed, personal skills, dealing with kids, orginization, etc...

[steveinmo]

a good coach will have had to play to be bale to have any credibility!! he doesn't have had to be an all american!!

[Junior]

a good coach will have had to play to be bale to have any credibility!! he doesn't have had to be an all american!!

haha glad not everyone takes your side, good teachers could be good coaches, wonder if we found a wobegoner

[CrazyTurkey]

a good coach will have had to play to be bale to have any credibility!! he doesn't have had to be an all american!!

I've gotten along pretty well having never played at this level.

Sincerely,
Bill Belichick

[scooter1369]

I've gotten along pretty well having never played at this level.

Sincerely,
Bill Belichick

Charlie Weis agrees

Chris Speilman would like to counterpoint.

[NewarkCatholicFan]

I've gotten along pretty well having never played at this level.

Sincerely,
Bill BelichickAwesome post.

[lmavcch3]

No. Just because one knows the game does not mean they can TEACH the game. MOTIVATING players is the other point that just because you played doesn't ensure success.

Actually I think many who played the game at a high level struggle to teach. Many of them can't understand why players can't do something well that was easy for the former player. Average players who coach often had to rely on fundamentals, etc. to succeed when they played. That often times helps them to understand players better.

[wesser27]

Being a good players doesn't always mean there is a transition to being a good coach. Some players/coaches struggle with relaying their knowledge of the game and can't understand why some players ''can't figure it out." It comes down to knowledge of the game and being able to teach that knowledge to your players.

Now, like tOSU has done, bringing in a guy like Vrabel to coach the LBs has an instant credibility with the players previous to the players ever playing for the coach. But from here on out, credibility has everything to do with your coaching ability.

[defense wins]

isiah thomas...no more needs to be said

[wesser27]

isiah thomas...no more needs to be said

I laughed pretty hard on this one. haha.

[covercorner]

It is not mandatory, but I think if the coach played it can help him understand certain things.

[doublerods]

Disagree. Mike leach. Never played and is a mastermind

[buckeyedan]

can help
might not

like anything else it's a case by case and there is no magic formula

[Tigers61]

Most Coaches are ex players, though. You bring up Leach, who does he coach? Mastermind? Hal Mummee maybe, he taught Leach the game.

http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2009/08/06/the-hal-mumme-coaching-tree-more-of-a-shrub-really/


Leach is atypical among NCAA Division I head football coaches in that he did not play football at the college level. He was one of only six such coaches, with Paul Johnson at Georgia Tech, David Cutcliffe at Duke, Charlie Weis of Notre Dame, George O'Leary at UCF, Bobby Hauck at UNLV and Chip Kelly at Oregon.

[Royally nuts]

Just my 2 cents, I can see in this modern era where playing the game (especially if you played under a good organizational, motivational coach) would be a big big plus. But the name Vince Lombardi comes to mind as well.