Program Evaluation

Program Evaluation

Head Football Coaches and Athletic Directors!!
There is NO better way to evaluate the state of your current program than by surveying your players.

It is best to do this survey as close to the end of the season as possible, while everything is still fresh in their minds.

I’ve surveyed my players EVERY year as a Head Football Coach. I’ve also surveyed more than 50 teams as an Athletic Director. This feedback is VITAL to make your programs better. Now, some coaches and ADs don’t like to do surveys like this because of their own pride. They don’t really want to hear what the kids have to say about their coaching, their season, etc. etc. I’ve never really understood that myself.

Here are some samples from a 2017 survey of a school here in Southern California.

A few reasons I think a survey of your players like this important

Allows them to have a voice in the Program

Most of us coaches think and say “it’s your program, I’ve got next year.” But do you really mean that? Is it really the kids program? Or are you the egomaniac center of it? I think that it goes a long way to give the kids a voice in the program.

Sometimes the Kids have some Great Ideas!

And these great ideas can make your program better. Listen, we don’t know it all. We may think we do, but we don’t. As soon as we stop listening to the kids we coach, we fail.

Confirms that you are doing things Right

It’s always nice to hear the kids say “Coach, you are doing everything right, don’t change a thing with this, or this, or this.” It’s not that we need a pat on the back, but you want to make sure you are on target.

Here is why it’s important to have a Consultant like me Survey your Players

They will feel free to write exactly how they feel about the program, giving you the best possible feedback possible. Kids will like that this information is going to a confidential third party. I don’t know who they are, and I won’t know who they are!

This process allows a fresh set of eyes and ears to help evaluate your program. You might get defensive and not really listen to what is being said. Using a third party allows for me to give a different point of view to what is being said.

SAVE TIME!! Coach and Athletic Director – you have way too many other things to do to wrap up a season than sit at a computer and go through all of these surveys one by one, put together the results, evaluate them, etc. Your time is more than worth the small investment required for a third party to do this survey for you!

The process

1. After you process your order, I create your custom survey via Google Forms after we discuss what questions you want on there.

2. You distribute the survey to your players via email, social media, or have them all come in to the computer lab at the same time.

3. I collect the data.

4. I write a report using the data. Most of the report will be the kids own words. I breakdown and organize all of their answers in a way that is very easy and precise for you to read, study and evaluate.

5. How long does it take? This will ALL depend on how long you leave the survey open for. I need approximately one week for every 30 kids in your program once the survey is closed.