How to Become a Better Football Manager

Video Transcript

"Hello, this is coach Byron Walker, I'm the Athletic Director, head football coach at American Heritage School in Plantation, Florida. Let's talk a little bit about how to become a better football manager. As a head football coach here at American Heritage, I'm responsible for the overseeing of the entire football program. Our management style is different than some, we are really a family oriented group as a football team. I kind of, function as the father, my assistant coaches as the big brothers, and we try to treat our players as if they were members of our own family. That doesn't mean that sometimes corrective measures don't have to be taken. So like in a family, you need to establish expectations, establish goals, demand discipline, be demanding, and love and promote your athletes. Do everything you can, so that they know you're on their side, make football a positive experience for them and you will save yourself many, many problems. In the other spectra, there's the team manager. The young man or young woman who carries the water for you, gets the equipment out for practices. If you want to do a great job there, we have kind of, an unsaid written law here, be early and leave late, have everything prepared, be accessible to your coaches and your athletes. And take care of your grades and you can do a great job in that position. Here at American Heritage, our managers have a very important, unfortunately, thankless job. They have to maintain getting fluids out for the players, setting up equipment for practice, seeing to the needs of the players. But our players do appreciate it and if someone wants to get involved in football program and they're not very athletic person necessarily. It's a great way to get them involved and make them a part of the team."