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<blockquote data-quote="Rodney Kent" data-source="post: 24482" data-attributes="member: 923"><p>Ben Jones: How do you know that Nate and Lil Joe would make good coaches? Being a player does not make one a good coach. Being a great player does not make one a great coach. A good coach generally has a very good analytical brain. These two might fit that, but you do not know this. Just being a great or well known football player does not guarantee a coaching genius. Many times those who are not as good, and sit on the bench, become great coaches. The reason is they normally do not have the natural talent, but have become pretty good at the game because they think and excel at the mental part of the game.</p><p> </p><p>Sometimes these secondary or scout team players love the game so much and understand the analytical part of it that they stay with the game through the coaching process. Both of the players (Nate and Lil Joe) should start off coaching in High School or small colleges to see how successful they would be as Head Coaches. Starting off as an assistant might work, but still you do not know how they would turn out as a coach because they do not have all the responsibilites of the entire program.</p><p> </p><p>I had an employee in a telephone switching center who was one of the smartest switchmen in the State of Georgia. He could find any problem and fix it. If I tried to get him to help some of the other switchmen to learn from him, he was unable to explain the process to them, although he knew it. He wanted to be a supervisor very strongly. We finally got him into an assessment center to gauge a person for supervisory skills and he flunked out. He knew how to do his job, but he did not have the skills to teach or pass it on to others. This is the same with football players. A great athlete might go to the NFL become All-Pro, make more money than all the coaches put together, but might not be worth a toot as a coach.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rodney Kent, post: 24482, member: 923"] Ben Jones: How do you know that Nate and Lil Joe would make good coaches? Being a player does not make one a good coach. Being a great player does not make one a great coach. A good coach generally has a very good analytical brain. These two might fit that, but you do not know this. Just being a great or well known football player does not guarantee a coaching genius. Many times those who are not as good, and sit on the bench, become great coaches. The reason is they normally do not have the natural talent, but have become pretty good at the game because they think and excel at the mental part of the game. Sometimes these secondary or scout team players love the game so much and understand the analytical part of it that they stay with the game through the coaching process. Both of the players (Nate and Lil Joe) should start off coaching in High School or small colleges to see how successful they would be as Head Coaches. Starting off as an assistant might work, but still you do not know how they would turn out as a coach because they do not have all the responsibilites of the entire program. I had an employee in a telephone switching center who was one of the smartest switchmen in the State of Georgia. He could find any problem and fix it. If I tried to get him to help some of the other switchmen to learn from him, he was unable to explain the process to them, although he knew it. He wanted to be a supervisor very strongly. We finally got him into an assessment center to gauge a person for supervisory skills and he flunked out. He knew how to do his job, but he did not have the skills to teach or pass it on to others. This is the same with football players. A great athlete might go to the NFL become All-Pro, make more money than all the coaches put together, but might not be worth a toot as a coach. [/QUOTE]
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