Develop a positive relationship with the athletic director:
A. Do not be fooled. There is not a "Jeremy Foley" athletic director at every school.
B. Work your ass off to establish a great relationship with your athletic director.
C. You need to have a mutual understanding with your athletic director.
D. The athletic director is key when looking for your first or next head coaching job.
Kevin O'Neil came up with the "five & dive" philosophy:
A. Take a program that is down, work hard for five years, build the program up, and the "dive" for another rebuilding job, for more money.
B. Leave when you are doing well, it's hard to find another job when you're losing.
C. Biggest mistake coaches make is staying at one school for too long.
It's hard to sustain a program when you are constantly trying to figure out how you are going to play:
A. Take a job where you can recruit the kind of athletes you need to play your style.
B. Recruit athletes who fit the way you want to play.
C. Create a brand of play, it helps you recruit.
Recruit Shooters
A. They will win games
B. Get your best players on the floor.
C. Play Small
D. If you can put four shooters around one low post scorer, they are unselfish, move the ball, and move themselves, you will be successful.
Advice to young coaches:
A. Never be held hostage: when you become a head coach, you want to be successful, don't play a guy who will not do the things you preach and believe in as a coach. Sit down any player who has his own agenda and does not play with the team
B. As a young head coach, hire and older, former head coach who knows a lot of the issues.
C. Players will play their hardest for a coach who develops the best player-coach relationships.
D. If you can't go to practice every day and enjoy seeing your team and have fun coaching, then you should not be coaching. Enjoy your players.
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