Coach Zach Sims

@latsondheimer You say that like schools hire teachers to coach these days. Couldn’t be farther from reality!!

City Section football is in crisis stage. No Angelo Gasca. No Lorenzo Hernandez. Robert Garrett remains on administrative leave for ninth month. Need some young coaches with teaching credentials to step up and lead the City out of this crisis stage.

@chriscfore @SCFCA_ That’s what happens when administrators keep hiring 7v7 charlatans to coach high school programs! Can’t take a week off from the spring cash grab to actually get better.

I'm an honest fella. If you've been following me for more than a few months, you know that! I was disappointed in the turnout today at @SCFCA_. Coaches had a chance to hear from Matt Logan, Rick Garretson, and about 5 coaches who sit on the CIFSS Coaches Advisory Committee. We discussed the playoff format, and much more during that session. I know that clinic attendance is way down everywhere: AFCA was down big time this year, Glazier is down, this one was down. Maybe I'm just old school. But when I was a coach, I would pay about $300 to see Matt Logan speak for 90 minutes!! You could have done it for $52, and received $1 million liability policy today! There is something to be said for spending a day, or even 5-6 hours around a bunch of coaches. Even if you don't get something from a clinic speaker, you can get a whole lot from the brotherhood, and just talking shop with coaches. I wish more coaches took an active role in this profession as professionals. Coaches will jump and down to whine and complain about: 1. Playoff system 2. How they're treated by admin 3. Parents 4. Working conditions 5. Their pay But folks listen: until we take the profession more seriously, until we show up to events like today as an association of coaches, we will be on islands. I spent 3 years as the President of California Coaches Association. Happy to report we grew the association by 20% during those 3 years, and increased corporate sponsorships by about 300%! But still, we only had about 1,200 coaches FROM all over California, from ALL sports as a part of the association. Coaches will NEVER make a splash of noice with districts, with lawmakers in CA, without unifying and coming together. I'm passionate about this. When the state was trying to ban youth tackle football, I played a key role in bringing together a team of youth football leaders who led that fight. And played a role in doing so as well. It took WORK!! Hours and hours, days and days of selfless people who only spent their OWN money to fight that thing!! I leaned so much through that process about unifying and motivating others to fight against the government at a time I strongly believed in. Our association need to get stronger. The group of leaders leading SCFCA right now have never worked as hard to move the movement forward!! We need to follow their lead as coaches, if we care about the future of this profession. I strongly believe this.

@JamesSe34675290 @Mathieu_Era 285 pound limit here in California!

@CoachZSims @Mathieu_Era Heavyweight exists

If I was a high school football coach wrestling would be mandatory for all big guys on the team as track would be mandatory for all athletes on team.

@SosaTheWinner JaMarcus Russell

Who is the first player you associate with this Oakland/Las Vegas Raiders logo?

@BrandonClay88 I agree that it comes down to the ability to develop people is important - it just so happens that the people getting developed are always the sons or friends of the people doing the hiring these days!

Networking absolutely matters — trust and professional relationships have always been part of hiring. But the programs that sustain success also see coordinators, position coaches move up and move on. I still think it comes down to leadership, alignment, and the ability to develop people. Connections may open doors but real results keep them open.

Based on what I’ve seen this hiring cycle: Administrators aren’t just hiring play callers anymore. They’re hiring program builders. Can you align adults? Develop kids? Stabilize a culture? Scheme matters — but alignment determines whether scheme ever works. Coaches — what are ADs really looking for right now?

@chriscfore This literally happened to me a few years ago - got a rejection from a school in SoCal only for them to reach back out to me a month and a half later to re-interview and offer me the job (I turned down). Crazy thing it was and still is a really good program too!

I heard about a school in So Cal today who has been turned down by their 1st, 2nd and 3rd choices for Head Football Coach. Silly thing is, they already sent out their denial emails to everyone else. Back to square one because of a lack of administrative Human Resources common sense.

@chriscfore Agreed 100% - it’s shocking here in NorCal watching the same guys get job after job when we in coaching circles know what they did to lose their prior jobs. Admin needs to stop nepotism hiring and go through actual hiring processes!! Would fix a lot!!

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@AdamSchefter Nepotism Football League strikes again!!

A new generation of Ryans in New York: the Jets are hiring the Lions assistant tight ends coach Seth Ryan as their passing game coordinator, per sources. Seth Ryan follows his father Rex, who followed his father Buddy as the third generation of Ryans to coach for the Jets.

Don’t be misinformed!! JUCO years still count towards your eligibility!! I’ve ran into a lot of recruits lately saying, “they said I can come here and then have 4 more years somewhere else” Please do YOUR research, as of now, they count towards your NCAA and NAIA eligibility!!

@KurtBenkert I can tell you where to go if you want one!

I haven’t had a bad coffee in San Fran yet

@MaseDenver Must be nice - Nepotism Football League strikes again!

Former Broncos assistant Klint Kubiak is set to become Raiders head coach next week. But for Gary Kubiak's son, it might have all been different. For "about 2 weeks," he worked for an oil-field service company. But it was then he realized he wanted coaching to be his life's work:

@kurt13warner There are a ton of young, talented QB coaches/OC's like me out there looking for mentors!

There are so many things I would love about coaching… unfortunately none out weigh the blessing of “freedom of time”, that I now possess, to be there for my fam in ways I haven’t always & chase some of my other passions in the game… BUT man, I wish I could find a role to share the knowledge I have with the next generation of players/coaches!

@kurt13warner @KareemFoster79 I'd do whatever it took to be your first client!

@KareemFoster79 I’d love that if someone is interested!

@TomPelissero Nepotism Football League strikes again!

The Cardinals are hiring Nathaniel Hackett as their offensive coordinator, sources tell The Insiders. Hackett, 46, was the offensive coordinator for three seasons under Matt LaFleur in Green Bay. Now, he teams up with Mike LaFleur in Arizona.

@CoachMcCannERT @MisterJoJo850 Say it louder for the people in the back coach!!

@MisterJoJo850 Sometimes and a lot of times the coaches be telling them to hit the portal…

Smh to the people that be advising these kids to hit the portal cause how you go from Miami to Sacramento State

@CoachNickDavis They’re looking for specialists! It’s mostly for long snappers and kickers/punters.

I'm seeing this more than ever. How does it work with the 105‑man roster? Do teams bring in a big group for spring because of all the transfers and then cut players afterward? Are those kids getting a chance to transfer once they are cut?

@TBlazer5AS1 Not just in the Trinity League. Happening all over the place! Terrible hiring processes are rampant in football and so many brilliant, talented coaches are losing out.

We are now entering the “Fire solid humans because they aren’t big names & hire an ex-NFL player as our HC” phase in Trinity League play because it worked for Santa Margarita.

@ModestDayTrader @chriscfore You are correct about that - can confirm you are speaking facts about what people pay. My point is I'm sure those charlatan "coaches" don't want to give it up but it's an outlaw mudshow and it's out of control! If they're actual coaches districts will happily hire them!

@CoachZSims @chriscfore We know programs in the Bay where parents are paying 2K plus to play for. Not sure if some of those coaches want to give up that income

7 on 7 . . . . . sad. We need to completely eliminate "coaches" who consider this to be okay from our game. Period.