Free End Of Season Evaluation Forms Available

Now when you say end of season evaluation, you have said a mouthful. What I mean by that is there are a lot of different things and different ways to measure what went well and what could have gone better.

Of course, here we would strongly encourage you to look at how you are teaching your players. If you are not using FirstDown PlayBook you are likely short changing your players and your budget. However; we also understand the value of evaluating your staff, players and yourself.

One head coach might want to have every assistant coach evaluate the program from top to bottom. This can add different perspectives because a football team is often a sum of it’s parts. The quarterback room may have a different perspective than the secondary or offensive line room.

Another head coach may totally reverse engineer this evaluation. This head football coach may want to do an end of season evaluation on every assistant coach. When it is approached this way, it is comparable to a job performance review.

A third head coach may value the end of season evaluation input from the players and/or parents as much as anything else. There is a lot of merit in this approach when you stop to consider who actually plays the game as opposed to teaches it.

The most important evaluation of all is when a head coach or assistant coach takes the time to honestly evaluate their own performance. Any evaluation of any part of your football program without first looking at yourself is a mistake.

Regardless of how you or your head coach approaches your season’s end, it is important to give your coaches, players and yourself a few days or a week before conducting your end of season evaluation. Here’s why.

After 30 years of coaching I can tell you that you and everyone in your program will have a more rational perspective a week or so after your last game. You need to let the sting of the last loss or maybe a bad season subside a little before asking for or giving an evaluation.

Even the euphoria of winning a championship can get in the way if you conduct your end of season evaluations too soon.

The good news is that because so many head football coaches do end of football season evaluations there are plenty of free samples out there to use as a guideline for your program. So this morning I am including links to some that I think are helpful.

Here are three to consider and they don’t do the trick just google end of football season evaluations and you will find plenty more!