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Joined up with a school in NoVa two years ago.
Our program is . . . not good. We've won one game in the two years that I've been assistant, and 6 games in the last 5 years. The biggest challenges are 1) keeping morale high when we're losing. 2) doing enough teaching to make sure that we have a program, and not just one or two good players, while still offering strategy to make the best of the guys that know the sport. 3) spotty attendance. Part of this is that the school district is lower income compared to its surrounding area, and the kids get jobs.
The head coach I was working under just resigned (after an interest session in which we had 9 kids show up, and I found out that three kids that were going to make up the spine of the team transferred out or are opting to play elsewhere). I'm still debating whether to put my name forward for the head job. I know that there are some things we can do differently. The outgoing head coach was probably too much of a red-ass for this team. But, with the second child born this July, IDK that I can put in that extra time (though I was doing a LOT of the admin work for the team).