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As a self-employed guy for a whole lot of years, I think I could manage people. And that's where it would stop.

I had ~150 students report to me as computer lab manager. I had to get real good at group speak and delegating. 
I don't know enough about football coaching to be any good or demand the athletes respect. I would have to have great people to delegate to. 

I'm really confident that given the chance to get mentored in coaching I could get really good at it, but right now I'd have no clue.

I'd have no business doing this.  I'd probably quit at halftime.

I’d be very bad at it. 

I’ve met people who became HS coaches because too early, even the young and precocious ones often struggle. 

I'd sign a multi-year contract at OSU with guarantee's and tell the they all need to take ballet to improve flexibility.   I'd also run the triple option and go back to the old 5-2.   Then I'd give my staff more time off, promote studies over workouts and work on a book.


but that's just what I'd do as the OSU coach.  

and you'd mysteriously find a way to lose to the Cornhuskers 

JMO, but given the staff and support personnel that are available even at mid-majors these days, the HC job is far more management than coaching. Make good strategic decisions on personnel and be a successful motivator, and you'll be fine. 

Those tend to be inherent traits IMO, as opposed to learned. There are guys out there (NU hired one a few years ago) that have been coaching for decades and still make basic mistakes in judgment. Then there are young guys, first-time HCs, who make the right moves most of the time. 

I'd be a terrible motivator...not a Rah-rah type of guy, and that's what most athletes respond to. 

I'd be catastrophic in terms of ... knowing football. Brut assembling and motivating a team is a trait I've built over decades. That and press conferences, I like to think I'd have down.

Then I think you would have the best chance at being successful.  You can surround yourself with coaches who know the game and can take care of the schematic part.

Pulling from my experience of coaching my daughter's soccer team, a lot of the challenge is just organizing everyone.  Think about the logistics of defensive subbing - you need to have subs ready to go in and players run off, often in a matter of seconds.  We focus on the easy stuff - playcalling and clock management, but that's just a drop in the bucket for the head coach.

This is another time-crunch issue that I was thinking about.  Think about everything that goes into this:

• Your defense gets an eight yard sack on 2nd and 4 setting up 3rd and 12.  
• The offense runs off a FB and a TE and replaces them with two WR's.  
• You need to identify the opposing players exiting/entering so you know what you are up against.  
• You need to grab your next two DB's and send them in with instructions to send two LB or one LB and one DL out.  
• Your two entering guys need to get on the field and into position AND your exiting guys need to get off the field prior to the snap or you are dinged for too many men on the field.  

Now add to that the fact that in addition to simply swapping LB's and DL's for DB's in nickle/dime situations a number of teams also have running down and passing down DL's and LB's so in addition to the LB's and DL's being swapped for DB's you also have running DL/LB being swapped for passing DL/LB.  You could easily have four guys entering/leaving all in a matter of seconds.  

I don't know the exact rule but I know there is some provision that offenses have to provide time for defenses to make substitutions IF the offense makes substitutions but they don't have to give them all day.  The coaches have to make these decisions almost instantaneously in order to provide time for the personnel groups to get on/off the field.  

Then add this consideration:  When we watch a game on TV or even in person we are generally up pretty high so it is easy to see the #'s on the offensive guys who exit/enter.  Thus, we can pretty easily see that (for example), a FB and a TE left and two WR's entered.  The HC is at field level with his 11 guys and the other team's 11 guys between him and the opposite sideline.  It has to be difficult sometimes just to know what people the offense deleted/added.  In the 3rd and 12 example that I listed above this is probably not important since it is an obvious passing down but what if it is 3rd and 4-5?  That is a passing down for probably most offenses but if the defense brings in a dime package it would make sense for a lot of offenses to bring in extra TE's and just try to overpower the smaller defenders for those 4-5 yards.