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If you think all it takes to become a football coach is a love of the game,
you might as well hit the showers.
Lou Deslaurier is a head coach. He says a post-secondary education is a
must.
"Minimum a BA," he says, "and if you have your master's, that's a definite
bonus. And then any coaching certification you may have past the amateur
playing or coaching experience, plus coaching courses."
"I think it would be helpful to have a kinesiology degree and a background
in those kinds of things," says Brian Towriss, head coach of a university
football team.
"And we've picked up a lot of those sport science things through the certification
program and through other outside training over the years. But I guess if
one wanted to embark on that career and say that's where they're going, certainly
a background in exercise physiology is helpful."
Towriss himself has a commerce degree. "The other side of this job has
so much to do from a head coaching level, at least with personnel relations.
A lot of the management skills we got out of the commerce program were helpful
too."