Hoops

Junior Coaching Appointments

Do Associations/Boards have guidelines/criteria and transparency as to how they go about selecting their teams?
Some do, usually they explain it in simple terms before try-outs in an email or flyer.

And should the DOC's when not appointing coaches to their preferred team sit down and explain why or do/should they just leave em hanging?
I expect coaches can ask to have a chat at any time and they would be able to do this.

And is it the DOC'S or Junior Chairpersons responsibility to communicate why they they have missed what they wished for and what they need to do to be considered in the future??
Well, my experience is that a good DOC would do this but it may dpend on how many applications they get, therefore I would also expect a coach can ask the DOC for a chat over a coffee too...

You say there is no communication but you go onto a forum to whinge about no communication instead of actually communicating with the club. If you are wondering why you are not coaching it may be due to the fact that you would even considering venting on an open forum.
It is not a good look

This is not a knox thread. I assume the person having the five or six post conversation with themselves is the coach who is so good and loved by everyone but lost their job.
If you are as good as your five personalities say you are you will have other clubs knocking the door down.
I notice no mention of the players getting you to champ it was all your doing, so i assume you played for them as well

Not all ex players make good coaches.

They may have skills when playing but trying to teach them is not as easy sometimes.

If they can read the game they can sometimes make good coaches provided they can teach skills and communicate well.

Anonymous #641, not knowing your club, but having come from a small/medium club to a larger one I may offer you some advice to pass on, should you care to.

1. Small clubs still have parents who want to help, they are actually everywhere, you just need to look for them.
2. Most parents of under 10-12 age kids also want to be involved in what their kids are doing but may be new to all the basketball hype, so they just need to be approached the right way and 'hey presto' you have a team manager or someone who wants to help the caoch on game days.
3. These helpful and enthusiastic parents will be contained in at least one parent per team and they may even possess some sporting nouse and leadership skills.
4. Find that parent and devlop their skills, foster them into coaching domestic and doing basic basketball level 1 courses, attending seminars and take an interest in them.
5. By the time their kids are in the under 18's these parents will turn into something you are seeking (front line coaches).

Cheers...

Even more ridiculous is throwing it and not getting it in the round hole...

Ivar your original post expresses concern at how junior coaches are selected at your Association. You have stated they should be chosen based on performance and you think this isn't the case.

I was merely suggesting that if this isn't the case and you have observed direct evidence of nepotism, then someone has failed to follow a process that in fact would have been written in part to avoid this situation.

Not knowing additional circumstances and of course not taking into account all the variables that present themselves (like #617 has posted), if you in fact have observed this over a number of years perhaps it is time you either said something or applied for a position on the board to fix the issue of 'jobs for the boys'?

We have no idea if those coaches being picked are in fact good or bad, just your opinion of the way they are selected and that other have had more successful results, yet it is plainly presented before you that the criteria for a good coach islikely to be far more than results alone.

Ivar, I don't know where your Association is but I am sure they have By-Laws and Policy about their processes.

That being the case, the process in appointing coaches should be covered.

That being the case, if they are not following the process and there is nepotism, they are going against the policy and possibly the specified By-Laws.

Nepotism can occur in any aspect of dealings with people, especially where selections like this are involved, however I am sure it isn't part of the process, more a complication hindering it's perception of integrity.

Ivar, you are comparing nepotism with a systematic process, two different things.

My problem is that any objective measures for evaluating coaches are resisted in most coaching appointments. One simple measure would be to see the difference between the preseason ranking and the postseason finish for coached teams, not for one year, but over a period of seasons, so that random events (good luck and bad luck) are smoothed out. This could, at least, be one of the starting points for a conversation.