First head-coaching job
Feb
2007
Josh Centor, a former baseball player at Brandeis, runs the NCAA’s blog, called the Double-A Zone. As such, he is one of the few college sports bloggers (D3sports.com company excluded) who pays any attention to Division III and does so with any expertise whatsoever.
A recent post focuses on a former D-III baseball player, minor leaguer and assistant coach getting his first head coaching job. It’s Cliff Smith, who left his assistant job at Bowdoin and took over at Elizabethtown this past offseason.
Organizing a Florida trip, ordering equipment, managing a fund-raising budget, and finding qualified assistant coaches were just a few things that had to be accomplished in just a short three-week span. Add those things to the fun stuff of organizing practices, getting to know 27 players, and preparing to play a competitive schedule and the task can feel a little daunting. Personally you also have to adjust to being outside of you support system, with a family and girlfriend that are now eight hours away.
Read the full blog post here.
