number of coaches

Sometimes in large HS programs the sub Varsity coaches are in the dugout for Varsity games. A school like Flower Mound Marcus has a freshman team, 2 JVs, and Varsity. Add 3 V coaches to one coach each from the sub varsity teams and you get 6.

I've seen some schools with 7+ coaches. As long as they each bring value I don't see any issues with it.

I will go out on a limb and say that no HS has 7 baseball coaches that all bring value to the program. In Texas the sub varsity coaches are usually football coaches that coach baseball for the additional stipend it pays. Same often applies to varsity asst coaches if there is more than one. These guys often know nothing about the game and don’t care to. They are literally in the game only for a paycheck. I believe this to be one of the main reasons that the freshman year of HS is so frustrating for players and parents alike. They have spent 10 years, and thousands of dollars, preparing for HS baseball only to find out there is no pot of gold under the rainbow.

Most of my asst. coaches have been baseball guys, but I have had some "football coaches" as asst. and all but one of those added value except for one, and I had him gone after one season.  When I was at larger schools and had 5 or 6 asst. they were all baseball guys and the sub-varsity coaches were always welcomed to suit up and join us.  So it may have seemed like we had lots of coaches at some games, but our players gained a ton from having quality bench coaches at the game and our younger coaches gained from being around the varsity coaches and players.

Good for you @d8. Your program is the exception. In fact, I have never seen a HS baseball program in Texas as you described. Not saying it isn’t true - I have just never seen it. Would love to know in PM where you coach.

The school that I am coaching softball at has 3 varsity coaches, 2 JV and 2 Freshman coaches on the baseball staff.  All are baseball people.

For the softball program, there are 4 of us on the Varsity and one for JV.  One of the varsity coaches helps the JV during some games on a rotation.  A lot, but not all JV games are played after the varsity game so we are all there.

My son’s high school had four varsity coaches, two JV and two freshman. They all played college ball.

At my first high school I had a former football coach as a baseball coach. The high school was large and loaded with talent. The baseball program carried a clueless coach all the way to the state high school coaches hall of fame.

Son's school has 5: head, asst. head, hitting, and two pitching. This is average for our area, it seems.

Adbono..... I am an old guy that has coached in big cities and small towns from extreme East Texas to a school in New Mexico and several spots in between.  Even in my last stop (we moved back to my wife's hometown), I started a program, built a field, and put a better than expected team on that field at a small 2A school that did not even have  a baseball program before I got there, and my asst. coach was a guy from the maintenance dept. He showed up and worked because that was the atmosphere we created.

Speaking of building a field, the first two years we played every game on the road.  I still chuckle thinking about walking off the field after beating a top 10 team that was huddled up for their post game talk, and the coach was ripping into them. I heard him say, "How the F do you get beat by a team that doesn't even have a field".

@d8 posted:

Adbono..... I am an old guy that has coached in big cities and small towns from extreme East Texas to a school in New Mexico and several spots in between.  Even in my last stop (we moved back to my wife's hometown), I started a program, built a field, and put a better than expected team on that field at a small 2A school that did not even have  a baseball program before I got there, and my asst. coach was a guy from the maintenance dept. He showed up and worked because that was the atmosphere we created.

Speaking of building a field, the first two years we played every game on the road.  I still chuckle thinking about walking off the field after beating a top 10 team that was huddled up for their post game talk, and the coach was ripping into them. I heard him say, "How the F do you get beat by a team that doesn't even have a field".

I like old guys that are old school. I’m one of those guys myself.