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more difficult to coach: football or basketball

  • If you are in a D1 program, which would you say is harder to be a head coach in: football or basketball? You can pretty much divide it between offseason and season.

    Football: In the offseason you have to recruit more bodies. A more demanding job but you have an army of assistant and position coaches that you can delegate to. During the season you have 1 week, sometimes 2 to prepare for an opponent. In football, the coach generally isn't very "hands-on" during every play but is controlling the big picture. They normally defer the playcalling duties to the coordinators.

    Basketball: In the offseason, way less bodies to recruit so it's less demanding. One hot recruit can make your entire season. I would argue that there is more competition in basketball recruiting (Coach D wouldn't lose a recruit to Butler or Xavier). During the season, you have less time to prepare for games. A basketball coach is also generally more hands in shouting plays and sets to run for his team.

    I would give the slight edge of difficulty to basketball.

    If anybody here is a coach at any level, would love to get a perspective.

    Papa Shango

  • Depends on the school

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    419Spartan08 ●

  • Football. And for one reason... A basketball coach can have a successful team with one or two talented players.

    KC_SPARTAN

  • Football would be more difficult, and I don't think its close. Life's axiom--more people equals more problems.

    Its five o'clock somewhere.

    Hematoma

  • Hematoma said...

    Football would be more difficult, and I don't think its close. Life's axiom--more people equals more problems.

    No Doubt... 10x more kids, more assistants to keep happy, more academic coordinators, and just more people in general have to be on the same page to be successful. Also I would say that motivation is a lot easier for basketball; Your team gets drilled in football and things are bad, you have 6 more days until your next game and you have to be motivated to practice and prepare. Your team gets drilled in basketball and the coach says "that is one game of 30 and we play again in 3 days". Also in basketball no matter how terrible you are you have the motivation of the conference tourney in which you can make a run and salvage the season.. In football once you lose a certain amount of games your season is done.

    CarlsonSPARTY

  • Football hands down. You have to recruit for 22 different positions. You have to babysit over 80 kids. One game per week and alot more practice time involved.

    This post was edited by Spartan8Ball on 1/25/2012 at 1:45 AM

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  • I'd say football only because there are so many moving parts.

    For any other argument, it cuts both ways.

    For example, a basketball coach can greatly improve a team with 1 or 2 great recruits. Well, he can also see a team fall apart if 1 or 2 guys get hurt, play like crap, or simply get disgruntled for reasons the coach can't control.

    Basketball coaches don't need to recruit as many players, but if they whiff on 1, it could mean that that position goes unfulfilled, or you end up taking a roster spot with a guy with a lot less talent than the guy you were hoping to bring in.

    Which early defection will have more impact on their respective teams, Marcus Taylor, or Edwin Baker?

    Rodeo Burger

  • Papa Shango said...

    If you are in a D1 program, which would you say is harder to be a head coach in: football or basketball?

    I think that football also has an edge when it comes to Xs and Os. You make a schematic mistake in football and it might result in a TD given up by your defense or your QB getting sacked and losing the ball or throwing a pick 6. That TD can change the outcome of the game.

    In basketball one mistake can have the same effect but I feel like you have much more chances of making up that mistake. Of course if its the last second or something, then you're fucked.

    Overall I feel like coaching football would demand much more preparation and be much harder.

    spbullet

  • Football is more difficult to coach, however an elite basketball coach can make more of an impact than an elite football coach in my opinion.

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