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Life of a sports coach
Jan 13, 2023, 7:31 AM
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Amazes me how they just pack up their lives and leave from one team to another in a split second. I know this is how the business works but on a personal level leaving the life and friends you created and then the next day you are living in a new town hundreds or more miles away. You now not only gotta new team to coach but a family you have to figure out school for your kids, a new house to live in and getting all your possessions shipped from one place to the next. Gotta be hard for the kids that grow up in this lifestyle and the significant other but the money or position is too good to pass up. On the flip side like Streeter one day you have a job the next day you gotta figure out your next life move. I can’t image living this way. Props to these guys.
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I agree it must be weird sometimes. But…
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Jan 13, 2023, 7:37 AM
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if you get paid a couple million $$$ a year…somehow things probably work out okay.
Such as…wife doesn’t have to go to work. She can help full time with getting the kids in school, etc.
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Think of all the military brats
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Jan 13, 2023, 7:38 AM
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change every 3/4 years and daddy don't get million$$
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Re: Think of all the military brats
Jan 13, 2023, 7:56 AM
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Amen, I’ve forgotten how many times my dad moved us from country to country and state to state. You make it work.
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Football is their life.
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Jan 13, 2023, 7:40 AM
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It’s what they do. Their wives sign on to be football widows. And don’t forget, they have hundreds of thousands to millions of reasons a year to move from place to place.
With that said, Riley will be headed back out west in a couple/few years to be hc. It won’t take him as long as it took CBV (we really miss that coach).
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Re: Life of a sports coach
Jan 13, 2023, 7:44 AM
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It can be the same for anyone in reality. I worked in manufacturing as a technician and since 1987 lived in 5 states throughout the south due to plants being closed and moved to China or Mexico. Any job is not promised unless maybe you’re daddy owns the company ?. Now in a coach wanting the moves that is his choice as would be for someone in the private sector wanting to move up in title. The coaches make a lot more money than most of us could even dream about. Riley I am sure at his young age has already made more than myself in my entire life and I just retired a few days ago. Getting your wife and kids to buy in now that is the difficult part. Probably why I have had 3 wives now that I think about it ?. Well, that’s my excuse ?
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From the standpoint of moving from one job to another, I
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Jan 13, 2023, 7:50 AM
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don't think it's all that different from industry, on the way up. The thing that IS different, is that college coaching is most definitely NOT a 7:30 to 4:30 job. It can be almost 24/7 at certain times of the year, when recruiting is at a fever pitch.
Now, the other end of it, where you get sacked and fired for poor performance, IS different from industry. I worked for 3 different companies (not many, in the modern world, young engineers move around a LOT before they settle into the job they stick with), and one thing was evident.
The people who make personnel decisions do NOT readily admit when they are wrong. So, enept employees can survive for a long time, because if their superiors admitted they screwed up by promoting them, it would reflect badly on THEM. Ironically, that is exactly the reason a whole lot of TNET figured Streeter would survive, at least another year, because Dabo would not want to admit to making a mistake. He fooled us yet again.
To me, what will be of interest is whether Riley is allowed to bring in his own assistants on the offensive side. THAT will be of interest in the days and weeks to come.
AIR RAID!, AIR RAID!, AIR RAID! Let's see just how effective this offense can be with top tier talent running it! (And, regardless of what some seem to think, the talent we have on campus, and coming in, is not chopped liver. Next year just got REAL interesting.)
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