How Does an Assistant College Football Coach Spend a Workday?
Recruiting College football programs have scouts, but they also rely on their assistant coaches to do a lot of the work. During the months that do not involve practices or games for their college football program, assistant football coaches are involved in scouting. Scouting as an assistant football coach involves a lot of watching of videotape. Assistant coaches need to recommend to the scouts the players they are interested in for the positions that they coach. The scouts will then make the first contact between the team and the player. The assistant football coach will then review the scouting reports and choose his top recruits. He will then visit that player’s school and make contact with the player. If he is still interested, he will meet with the head coach of the football team and review the players he would like to have play for his team. He will then travel with the coach for another recruiting trip, and introduce the coach to the player and possibly the player’s family to he
