How many o you know what is paid to your coach/coaches for the season ?
Do you pay into a required fund for the team or a monthly pay or how does the team do it?
how much do you think the coach should make for the time & effort of practices -meets - meetings required to run the team?
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Ok, let's look at the large program you sometimes swim with that is run for masters by masters. The last that I heard they have a substantial bank account from their long history of successfully hosting large meets. If, for the sake of argument, we accept your assessment that there is a lot of room for improvement, my question is, what can they do to improve the quality of their coaching? And from my own perspective, what can MSC do to help them improve the quality of their coaching?
Should they buy a video camera and possibly a video display/monitor? I know of at least a couple clubs that have video equipment that goes unused. What are the factors that determine whether video is used and how effectively? Off hand, I think one issue is the coach is kept busy keeping all the lanes progressing through the set and it is hard to stop and take video and play it back to a swimmer without other people being left waiting. Perhaps the solution there is to have an assistant who really only has to know enough to be able to explain the sets to the swimmers while the most knowledgeable coach spends their time helping individuals? In some sense this approach might apply regardless of whether you are using video.
Anyway, I'm getting too much into potential answers, what do YOU see as the answers?
Ok, let's look at the large program you sometimes swim with that is run for masters by masters. The last that I heard they have a substantial bank account from their long history of successfully hosting large meets. If, for the sake of argument, we accept your assessment that there is a lot of room for improvement, my question is, what can they do to improve the quality of their coaching? And from my own perspective, what can MSC do to help them improve the quality of their coaching?
Should they buy a video camera and possibly a video display/monitor? I know of at least a couple clubs that have video equipment that goes unused. What are the factors that determine whether video is used and how effectively? Off hand, I think one issue is the coach is kept busy keeping all the lanes progressing through the set and it is hard to stop and take video and play it back to a swimmer without other people being left waiting. Perhaps the solution there is to have an assistant who really only has to know enough to be able to explain the sets to the swimmers while the most knowledgeable coach spends their time helping individuals? In some sense this approach might apply regardless of whether you are using video.
Anyway, I'm getting too much into potential answers, what do YOU see as the answers?
