POTENTIAL QUESTIONS

1. What should the top priorities of a HS athlete be?

2. What are some Team Building Activities that you do?

3. What is the Purpose of HS Football?

4. What is your Program Philosophy?

5. What is your Practice Philosophy?

6. What is your Offensive Philosophy?

7. What is your Defensive Philosophy?

8. What is your Special Teams Philosophy?

9. How do you communicate with your athletes?

10. How are captains chosen?

11. How do you handle parents?

12. What is the role of administrators/faculty in your program?

13. How do you handle the media?

14. How do you motivate your athletes?

15. How do you develop your assistant coaches?

16. How do you win football games?

17. How do you handle your trainer and injuries?

18. How do you run your strength and conditioning program?

19. How do you evaluate players?

20. Will you have student trainers and managers?

21. How do you get your athletes into college?

22. How would you describe a typical week of practice during the season?

23. Being that our players are student-athletes, what mechanisms do you have in-school to help support the
success of the student-athletes on the football team? If not, would you be oppossed to a mandatory study hall
period or tutoring sessions to help ALL our student-athletes to be successful in all endevours?

24. What are two mistakes that you made in your coaching career?

25. If a parent calls you and yells at you about why his/her son is not starting, how do you handle the situation?

26. What is the role that the athletic director and principal have in your program?

27. How do you increase participation in our program?

28. If a player misses practice, what is the punishment?

29. How much do you plan to delegate within your program?

30. If a player is openly badmouthing the coaching decisions that you have made, how do you handle the
situation?

31. What are two mistakes that you made in your coaching career?

32. If a parent calls you and yells at you about why his/her son is not starting, how do you handle the situation?

33. What is the role that the athletic director and principal have in your program?

34. How do you increase participation in our program?

Summer camps for younger kids. Creating an environment where the team is seen as an elite organization.
Being available to anyone who might be interested. Make practice enjoyable (as much as possible) and get the
word of mouth thing going.

35. Tell us about your strengths.

a. Organizational skills must be evident.

36. Tell us about your weaknesses.

37. How would you get the faculty involved in the athletic program?

38. What are some of your strengths?

39. If we where to watch a practice what we would expect to see?

40. If we where to observe your off-season program what should we expect?

41. Is winning the most important thing?

42. Define your Vision for the program, where do you want to go
-Turning out quality young men
-Organization

43. how you would handle discipline

(My thoughts- individual basis, every situation is unique. Use my captains)

44. Define success individually for your frosh,jv and varsity programs. This honestly may have been asked
twice in two similar forms. I believe it was, they just reworded it a little differently.

45. What are the three most important criteria you look for in a player?

46. Why should we hire you?