A head coach, senior coach or manager is a professional at training and developing athletes. They typically hold a more public profile and are paid more than other coaches. In some sports such as association football, the head coach is usually called the manager, whilst in other sports such as Australian rules football they are generally termed a senior coach.
Other coaches are usually subordinate to the head coach, often in offensive positions or defensive positions, and occasionally proceeding down into individualized position coaches.
Head coaches in American football have different responsibilities depending on what level of the sport they are coaching.
The head coach has a much more complete hold on the intricacies of the team. He may have to perform the duties of a defensive or offensive coordinator.
Often, high school head coaches have to do more work off the field than on. It is important that head coaches in high school hire a competent and proactive coaching staff because when the head coach is pulled away from practice then he must be confident that his team is in good hands with his other coaches and staff. One of the most difficult issues, off the field, that head coaches must deal with is the parents. He must be able to handle any issues that parents may have with the way that the head coach is running the program, all along while staying professional and not being demeaning. Furthermore, a high school's head football coach often serves as his school's Athletic Coordinator or Director, which adds even further responsibilities to his job. In some jurisdictions, a high school head coach must also have a paying job within the school, almost always as a teacher.
JaMarcus Trenell Russell (born August 9, 1985) is an American football quarterback who is currently a free agent. Russell played college football for the LSU Tigers where he finished 21–4 as a starter and was named MVP of the 2007 Sugar Bowl. The Oakland Raiders selected Russell with the first overall pick of the 2007 NFL Draft. Russell held out until the Raiders signed him to a contract worth $61 million with $32 million guaranteed. In three seasons with the Raiders, Russell finished 7–18 as a starter before his release on May 6, 2010.
Russell was born in Mobile, Alabama and attended Lillie B. Williamson High School. For all four years under head coach Bobby Parrish, Russell started and never missed a football game. In his freshman year, Russell completed 180-of-324 passes for 2,683 yards and 20 touchdowns as Williamson reached the state championship game. By the next season, Russell had grown to six-foot-three and 185 pounds, had received his first recruiting letters and was becoming more adept with the playbook. Russell passed for 2,616 yards and 20 touchdowns during his sophomore year and led the team to the semifinals.
Mike Dunlap (born May 27, 1957 in Fairbanks, Alaska) is currently the head coach of the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats. He was hired in 2012 to replace Paul Silas after the Bobcats' 2011-2012 season, in which the team had the worst winning percentage in NBA history. He previously served as the interim head coach and assistant coach at St. John's University, and head coach at Metro State.
He also served as the assistant coach for the Denver Nuggets from 2006 to 2008.
While at Metro State, Dunlap led his team to NCAA titles in 2000 and 2002. He posted an overall record of 248–50, leading the Roadrunners to nine NCAA Tournament appearances in each of his nine seasons as head coach (1997–2006).
Dunlap also served three seasons in Australia (1994-1996) as head coach of the Adelaide 36ers in the National Basketball League, taking the team to the NBL Grand Final in 1994 and the semi-finals in 1995 and 1996, compiling a 59-36 record before returning to the USA just weeks before the 1997 season following the sudden death of his father, though it was incorrectly reported at the time the move was because of a fallout between Dunlap and 36ers management. Dunlap is credited as the coach who started the NBL career of the 36ers all-time leading home grown player Brett Maher in the 1994 season (Maher would go on to be the leading point scorer (8,941) and games record holder at the club (526), captaining the team to 3 NBL titles as well as having a distinguished international career for the Australian Boomers before retiring in 2009).
The Epic Behind-The-Scenes Story From Deep Inside The Lions Camp
In life, some lines need to be crossed.
Coach Harlan: [after separating the girls from their fight] What is this, gangster volleyball?
Gabby Espinoza: Man, my feet are killing me. [looks over to Becca] What, you too good to dance with us?::Becca Watley: No, I just dance too good.
Laura McDonald: [gesturing to table] There we are.::Becca Watley: [looks shocked] I didn't know we had a table::Kaitlan: Don't we always?::Becca Watley: [giggles] You're right.
Becca Watley: I just had to hear from the coach because of you.::Gabby Espinoza: Excuse me?::Becca Watley: [easing down the steps] Yeah... you're trash. You're never going to college. Look at your hair::[flings strand of Gabby's hair]::Gabby Espinoza: Don't touch me --
Plot
Runaways is Steve Moore's story. He's sixteen and lives with his younger sister, mother Cheryl and her boyfriend John, in a modest house in Bakersfield, California. An abusive and often intoxicated man, John rules the household, and though his attacks on Steve result in emergency hospital visits, Cheryl's loyalty is to her boyfriend. To protect her relationship with John, she "ditches" her son, having him arrested and locked in a correctional "mental" facility, before coercing her older brother Burt, who lives in Hollywood, to take him. Steve quickly discovers that Burt cannot even provide temporary lodging, but an administrator at his new high school directs him to a shelter for runaway kids where he soon learns to navigate his way. At the shelter which offers only a two to three month respite from the streets, counselor Tony Perez tries to provide guidance to Steve and his roommates Mike and Andy. While encouraging them to try to reconcile with their parents, he insists that they take charge of their own lives and believe that a better life is possible. Angry and confused teen runaways come and go at the shelter, as Steve learns he is not alone in his predicament and that the streets offer a harsh reality. Postponing his desire to play basketball on the school team, Steve finds an after-school job to support himself and pursues a relationship with the affluent but unhappy Sally. Andy spirals down into crack addiction and becomes a homeless prostitute and Mike gains stability in his life once he moves in with his loving and supportive aunt. Mike's aunt soon opens her home to Steve as well, and the two celebrate their good fortune at having the opportunity to get their lives on track.
Keywords: abusive-stepfather, brother-sister-relationship, child-abuse, crack-addict, domestic-violence, drugs, group-home, high-school, independent-film, junkie
Your Life Can Change
Andy: You wanna be my friend? Help me score some fuckin crack!
Tony Perez: One step at a time.
Plot
Andre Carter (Dre) a seventeen year old boy, accidently kills a man and gets away with it. A year later, after feeling guilty and remorse, Dre decides to turn himself into the police, but before doing so, he confesses to the dead man's family. He looks for them and discovers that because of their loss, they've hit hard times so he decides to help them first. He helps the wife get a job, befriends his thirteen year old son and falls in love with his eighteen year old daughter. The questions is... how could he turn himself in now?
Zach: Don't call me Zach, my name is Zachariah!::Zach: Say it with me now, Zachariah.
Plot
A down and out cynical detective teams up with a down and out ex-quarterback to try and solve a murder case involving a pro football team and a politician.
Keywords: action-hero, action-violence, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, adultery, african-american, alcoholic, alley-fight, ambush, american-football, anti-hero
The goal is to survive.
They're two fallen heroes up against the gambling syndicate in pro sports.
Everyone had counted them out. But they're about to get back in the game.
Alley Thug: All right, you want it in the chest, or the head?::Joe Hallenbeck: Yeah, that's what your wife said.::Alley Thug: Hey, would you stop with the wife shit?::Joe Hallenbeck: Ask me how fat she is.::Alley Thug: Fuck you, man! How fat is she?::Joe Hallenbeck: She's so fat I had to roll her in flour and look for the wet spot. Motherfucker, if you wanna fuck her you gotta slap her thigh and ride the wave in. Now I'm not saying she's fat, her high school picture was an aerial photograph.
Joe Hallenbeck: This is the '90s. You can't just walk up and slap a guy, you have to say something cool first.
Joe Hallenbeck: The sky is blue, water is wet, women have secrets.
Jimmy Dix: I figure you gotta be the dumbest guy in the world, Joe. You're trying the save the life of the man who ruined your career, and avenge the death of the guy that fucked your wife.
Joe Hallenbeck: Leather pants.::Jimmy Dix: Yeah.::Joe Hallenbeck: What's something like that run?::Jimmy Dix: Six-fifty.::Joe Hallenbeck: Six hundred and fifty dollars?::Jimmy Dix: Yeah.::Joe Hallenbeck: They're pants.::Jimmy Dix: Yeah.::Joe Hallenbeck: You wear them?::Jimmy Dix: YES.::Joe Hallenbeck: They don't, like, have a TV in them or something?::Jimmy Dix: Nope.::Joe Hallenbeck: I am very old.
Milo: Can we do a formal introduction here?::Joe Hallenbeck: Who gives a fuck? You're the bad guy, right?::Milo: I am the bad guy.::Joe Hallenbeck: And I'm supposed to be trembling with fear, something like that?::Milo: Something like that.::Joe Hallenbeck: Fine. I'll start trembling in a minute.
[Jimmy is being approached by a bunch of goons]::Jimmy Dix: Right now, I'm trying to figure out which one of you looks the most like my dick. If you got something to say, say it. Otherwise get the fuck outta here.
Jimmy Dix: Feel like I've been rode hard and put away wet.::Joe Hallenbeck: What the hell does that mean?::Jimmy Dix: It's horse talk, man.::Joe Hallenbeck: They got the brothers ridin' horses now, huh?::Jimmy Dix: Yeah, cars're gettin' too hard to steal.::Joe Hallenbeck: You ever wear, like, a little cowboy hat?::Jimmy Dix: [laughs] I'm really good, man. Maybe I could take your daughter out. What's she like?::Joe Hallenbeck: She's like thirteen years old, and if you even look at her funny, I'm gonna stick an umbrella up your ass and open it.
Joe Hallenbeck: I swear to Christ, Junior, if I survive this fuckin' case I'm gonna dance a jig.::Jimmy Dix: What?::Joe Hallenbeck: I'm gonna dance a jig, I swear to Christ.
Jimmy Dix: You're a real bastard, ya know that, Joe?::Joe Hallenbeck: And then some.
Plot
Terry Brogan, an aging football player in L.A., is cut early in the season; he needs money, so he takes a job from a shady friend of his, Jake Wise, to track down Wise's girlfriend, Jessie, who's somewhere in Mexico. She's also the daughter of a very wealthy land developer, who owns Terry's team. He heads for Cozumel, finds Jessie, and promptly falls in love with her. He thinks it's mutual, then without warning, she heads back to L.A. and Jake. What's going on with her, and what's the connection between Jake's hold on Jessie and the various politicians, lawyers, and environmentalists who seem to be converging on some sort of land deal? Terry keeps looking for answers.
Keywords: american-football, atmosphere, bare-chested-male, based-on-novel, beach, car, fatal-attraction, female-nudity, femme-fatale, gangster
She was a beautiful fugitive. Fleeing from corruption. From power. He was a professional athlete past his prime. Hired to find her, he grew to love her. Love turned to obsession. Obsession turned to murder. And now the price of freedom might be nothing less than their lives.
From the director of "An Officer and A Gentleman" comes a different kind of film.
Sometimes love is the most dangerous game of all.
Jake Wise: What the hell made you think you could handle Jessie? I bet you used to bring her home flowers.::Terry Brogan: No, you don't have to do that when you're living in the jungle. You just take her outside and show her what tree you're going to do it under tonight. Hell, we had lots of trees.
Terry Brogan: So what is it you don't like exactly, football players, tacos, or beer?::Jessie Wyler: I like tacos and beer.
Jessie Wyler: I think about you.::Terry Brogan: I think about you too lady. Let's leave it at that.
Jessie Wyler: He said the only way I'd get away from him would be to kill him.
Jake Wise: It's simple: either you want to play football again, or you don't.
Jessie Wyler: [Upset] Jake hates me. My family hates me. Everyone hates me! I don't believe you've come all this was just to find me.::Terry Brogan: Guys are crippling themselves for you, lady. I could give a shit what you believe.
[first lines]::Terry Brogan: Señor! Have you, uh, seen this woman?::Taxi driver: Oh - no, sir.::Terry Brogan: Gracias.
[last lines]::Ben Caxton: Remember, Brogan - you're out of her life.::Terry Brogan: Figure that's up to her. You're not going to control us forever.