An investigation of the administrative and organizational aspects of a collegiate Division II football program with emphasis on the head coach

Being the head football coach of a division II collegiate football program demands a reasonable amount of administrative ability. Breaking down the actual amount of time coaching as compared to the amount of administrative duties would entail a rough estimate of seventy-five percent of these responsibilities dedicated to administration.;Throughout the league many coaches and administrators alike have stressed how difficult it is for a head coach to take over a failing program and reach a satisfactory amount of success in any given amount of time.;Football, being most collegiate institutions major sport, accompanies tremendous pressures placed upon the head coach to win games. These pressures may come from alumni, avid fans or maybe even from within the athletic department. In turn these outside pressures are placed upon the head coach to produce results in the form of wins. Regardless where the pressures come from it is imperative to establish a good working relationship with such outside entities, if suitable to your program.;The qualities that a head coach should have originated from a philosophy that is created from a compilation of ideals and axioms that come from other sources of experience. Once he establishes this philosophical reasoning, he can now convince an athletic director that his ideals and approaches would be the best for that particular program.;This paper examines the administrative and organizational aspects of a collegiate division II football program with an emphasis on the head coach. Interviews were conducted with several experts in the field of sports administration and college coaching to determine how the administrative aptitudes of a head coach could, and ultimately would, affect the success of a football program. Many questions exist about the numerous distinctions between a division II program, a division I-A, I-AA program, and a division III.;The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) plays a sometimes, overwhelming role in the life of head coaches and athletic administrators. The legality, amateurism, and integrity of collegiate sports, upheld by the NCAA, takes on the duty of watchdogs to guide institutions into rules compliance. These rules, established and placed into a manual of operation laws and bylaws, have established a so-called bible of collegiate athletics. In order to be member of the NCAA, the rules must be adhered to with violations punishable by a wide array of restrictions, in particularly, loss of scholarships.