Just a curiosity question. I know some people will never stop coaching. Some of you may have already retired. Some are more or less a few years from doing so. What do you/are you going to do with all your free time?
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Golf......lots and lots of golf. I'm halfway through with my teaching career but not sure when I want to give up coaching. I would actually like to get back to coaching. Since I've become AD I'm too busy to coach but its driving me nuts not coaching.
What about coaching golf, while the AD? That way you kill two birds with one stone.
I think "what will you do with all the free time when your kid stops playing" also applies.
I am still coaching Girl's Golf. I have a good time but it is not the same as baseball or softball. I've been a head coach in 4 HS sports and golf is definitely the most laid back. I should never have been allowed to be a basketball coach and so, don't miss that although one of my former A.D.s believed that of all the sports I coach, I was best at basketball. I hated what it did to me. Gosh I miss coaching baseball. It seems like a big part of my life is missing. I resigned to watch my girl play HS softball and now can go watch her play in college. That is great but I think I have so much more I can achieve with baseball. I became the Head Coach for softball during her senior year and that was nice as well. However, the parents didn't like the intensity I brought to the program. (Really 3 vocal parents who thought I was too tough. I considered one of them a friend.)
I believe that I will not be given another chance to coach baseball at my present school and so, if I want to coach baseball again, I'll have to leave. With 5 years left before I retire, that isn't possible. I will coach Girl's Golf until I retire. I have 8 girls out this year and every year I have to sweat it to see if I have a team. We do not have a golf course in our community and the closes one (our home course) is 13 miles away. Still, we seem to have a winning season every year. I have 3 freshmen this year and so, with the 2 sophomores I have, I'll make it to retirement with a team. From there, I'll play a lot of golf.
BTW, I have been asked to help create a position as "Head Practice Coach" for the TB program my daughter played in. I might do that. I will run practices for 2 16U and 2 14U teams. I will also be in charge of identifying weakness of players and create specific goals for improvement with those players. That will involve practice and film work. I won't be a games coach but can attend any/all games that I want. Ok so I've rambled enough.
I'll steal a line from a local legendary HS coach who said in the newspaper article upon his retirement, "I think I'll hang out in the stands...thats where I hear the best coaches are anyways." 
going to a chiropractor and getting un-twisted from so many fungos. can't say no to a kid who wants more reps after...
I coached for close to 30 years and I enjoyed most of it. I never really looked to forward to it but having been out of it for some years and listening and talking to people still in it I know I would not last too long. I would say the wrong thing or tick some kid off because I might have hollered at him(yes I confess I might have a stern word for a player on occasion) maybe I would bench a kid who was not producing to have one of his parents get on me. I know I would tell them something they would not like and be called on the carpet by a school administrator for being mean or something similar. At that point I would give that administrator my fungo and tell him practice is after school and to be there at 3:00 I was lucky as they let me coach and to be honest the kids were tough and the parents knew what side of the line they were on. So I enjoy not missing what some coaches put up with today.
Yeah coaching golf would be pretty nice but I'm terrible at it so I would probably have to fire myself after a while. Plus we got some pretty good golf coaches.
We had a football scrimmage last week and I was standing there watching but going crazy not saying anything. Last three years I was the offensive coordinator and I was pretty good at it but the guy who replaced me makes me look like a big dummy. It was the best move for the team but I still have that drive to prepare, teach and execute.