Football Coaching Intellectual Property
Merriam-Websters dictionary defines intellectual property in several ways. Intellectual Property: A work or invention that is the result of creativity. It is also defined as: property (as an idea, method, or written work) that derives from the work of the mind. As a football coach, this is a part of your life every day you go to work. High school football coaches…you too.
In other words, if you have ideas and you want to claim a right to those ideas, you can do this. The problem is that most assistant football coaches do not. Now, before I go any further, I am not talking about exclusive rights to these ideas. There is no such thing in football.
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I have been told that “Intellectual Property” is too sophisticated of a word to use when talking about assistant football coaches and playbooks. I respectfully disagree. Ask anyone who is new to the game of football and they will tell you that they had no idea how many moving parts are involved. They will also admit they had no idea how complex it can be.
Most Assistant Football Coaches Do A Poor Job Of Protecting Their IP
This is why football is constantly evolving and football coaches are coming up with new ways look at it. Does it recycle itself at times? Absolutely. However; even when it does, the new recycled version is often slightly different than the original. Our point today is that a lot of coaches do not protect their coaching history or their football coaching intellectual property.
What I am talking about is when a young assistant football coach is on a staff and they get another job and they walk out of the building empty handed. That young coach has been a part of a system. He or she should take at least some of that work with them. It is his “intellectual property” too. They should claim it
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As an assistant football coach, every time you go for an interview, you will wish you had this. When you have a chance to offer input to your staff with your offense, defense or special teams, same thing. This is where FirstDown PlayBook can help.
We offer football coaches “Full Team” memberships for the entire staff, team and feeder schools. However, we also offer coaches “Single User” memberships. For $200.00 a year you can organize your football coaching intellectual property and it can grow with you as you advance in the coaching profession.
