Firing for just cause is an easier decision in many ways than firing a coach for other reasons because the decision is clear. The coach has crossed a well-defined line: he broke the rules, committed a serious crime, violated a contract, or committed some other similar action. The importance of each of these factors varies depending on the length of the head coach's term in office in your organization. Keep in mind that none of these factors include goals that are so difficult to achieve, such as “Winning the Super Bowl” or even “Winning the division.” Our research here suggests that a head coach will be safe as long as he achieves quiet mediocrity.
Extremely negative deviations away from that quiet mediocrity are a key factor in a head coach being fired in the middle of the season. A longtime NFL club executive who requested anonymity said that, in some cases, firing a coach during the season can be beneficial to a team if it eliminates the cloud of doubt and uncertainty that accompanies a coach who is considered to be just waiting for his pink ballot. Coaches can face the line of fire, if club management and parents keep their eyes open, to realize that children between 6 and 7 years old need to play a variety of sports to develop different motor skills and mentally explore new environments, friends, rules and coaches. The average tenure of an NBA coach over that period was 2.4 seasons, the shortest of the 4 major professional leagues, meaning that coach changes are the most frequent in the NBA.
Next, we'll look at the coaches who are chosen to be interim head coaches until the end of the season. However, youth coaches often have different priorities and feel the need to win above all else, even when training in leagues under 6 years old. Sometimes the reason for an underperforming player is the coach himself; a change in training can often bring out the best in a group of players. However, the sad thing is that, often, these injuries aren't evident for a few years, causing coaches to lose the opportunity to “pay the price” for this type of intensive and unnecessary training.
Too often, these coaches are promoted because they win games and have an impressive track record as coaches, but they are eventually discovered and told to leave as more and more players, especially the most talented ones, begin to quit smoking or switch to less competitive sports with their friends. The longest-serving active coach in the NBA is Gregg Popovich, who has been the head coach of the San Antonio Spurs for 26 years and counting. The first looks at why youth sports coaches are fired, then the second part looks at why professional coaches are fired. These profiles depend on the seniority of the head coach and show that mid-season firing decisions are based on unique criteria the longer a head coach held his position.
If there are any positive points in what seems like a job with a permanent bench, it's that the coaches will get their money and they're also likely to find another head coaching job on another NBA team in due time. As a side note, some coaches resign before being fired because they feel enormous stress on the part of parents and club administrators for acting in a certain way, making it easier to stop training. If you coach a professional sports team, someone else is paying a lot of money for star recruits, venues and coaches.
