Imagine being a 6A (highest division in AZ High) football team in a major competitive division and having to appoint your fifth coach in five years. This is the curse of Desert Vista. Over the time we’ve had kids in place the school has gone through a slew of coaching changes. Now we are on #5, the Freshman coach and holdover assistant coach from the past few regimes. And he’s only being given a 1 year interim tag as the school seeks a new AD (also a revolving door). We haven’t done a single thing to establish a culture in this school because not a single HC sticks around for it. They stay a year, take their losses, and leave for greener pastures. It reminds me of that epic moment in the Expanse novel series when the characters realize that the years spent terraforming Mars are going to waste because nobody wants to stay long enough to finish the project–because they’ve discovered other readily inhabitable planets.
We are Mars.
Mars needs Coaching.
What I worry about this situation is visibility. The key to recruitment is getting tape in the hands of coaches and getting coaches in the stands. He has the skills and can compete anywhere. He wants it pretty badly, but he is young and addicted to the games and the friends and the distractions overall. That being said, there are pros and cons to being on yet another HC. CON: nobody wants to come play for the school now. PRO: He has a better opportunity to be a starter as a result. He wants to stay a year and then figure it out. I support that. We will see what that year looks like.