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I think A.D. handles Admin work such as making sure kids have the grades to play, and medical physicals. They also attend pre game meetings and pay the officials. I know of some schools that don't pay the A.D. A.D. should be a coach or former coach so that they can know what coaches deal with on a day to day.

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I feel like a role of an AD should be to hire quality people to run your athletic programs. Support the people you hire and help them be successful. Raise money for all athletic programs in your school and help grow facilities at your school. Unfortunately most schools uses this position to throw someone a bone that they like who has no athletic background and use it as a true admin role with many other responsibilities inside the building outside of sports. leaving very little time or effort being put into athletics or they give it to a teacher/coach already in the building who has a full class load that produces the same results. This is not always the case some schools do it right and those schools are usually successful in multiply sports, but not enough schools in Tennessee value that position.  

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I think what the role of an AD should be and what the role actually is are two different things. Like many have mentioned the AD role for most of the state is either a teacher that is being given the role as well as having teaching responsibilities or an admin is being given the role with admin responsibilities. Other states, like Texas for example, allow coaches to be the AD without having a teaching or admin responsibility. Their role is to be the liaison between athletic programs and the admin of the school as well as facilitate the needs of all programs. I don't think that is different from what is expected in Tennessee, but giving an AD role to a teacher or admin makes it very difficult to be an effective AD as well as being effective in their primary role. I know Knox County has made being an AD very difficult. 

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All gooder info. In my limited knowledge of ADs in the surrounding counties, most are either good guys or are said to be good guys. That’s important, but I also hear plenty of criticism about most. It seems the fundraising part of the job would be the best way for them to help. After all, that $50k salary could pay the $500 team fee for 100 athletes in the school. Or $250 for 200 athletes. (Showing my math skills!)

My point is that if they could just raise an amount equal to their salary, that could be a big help for most teams. If they can’t, maybe free up their salary for the teams? I’m not trying to be harsh, but just thinking about bang for the buck.

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2 hours ago, strongx said:

All gooder info. In my limited knowledge of ADs in the surrounding counties, most are either good guys or are said to be good guys. That’s important, but I also hear plenty of criticism about most. It seems the fundraising part of the job would be the best way for them to help. After all, that $50k salary could pay the $500 team fee for 100 athletes in the school. Or $250 for 200 athletes. (Showing my math skills!)

My point is that if they could just raise an amount equal to their salary, that could be a big help for most teams. If they can’t, maybe free up their salary for the teams? I’m not trying to be harsh, but just thinking about bang for the buck.

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7 hours ago, Missletow said:

In response to this thread. It’s A LOT!!!

Yeah. It has been all over the board regarding responsibilities. And it is odd that generally the A.D.‘s are the people who have gotten up there in age/experience. Makes me wonder if a young person might be quite a bit cheaper.

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Different roles for different size schools. Small schools cannot approach $50,000 for an AD salary...maybe three or four (average) for a stipend added to a coach's salary. Game administrator, overseeing all sports' budgets, scheduling, directing athletic field maintenance, transportation for programs, acquiring officials, some fundraisings, and participating in hiring/firing of athletic personnel are all interchangeable duties expected from an AD. 

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If schools ever want to see successful athletic programs across all sports in their school they need to hire a Full-time AD, give them 2-3 assistants, and then follow that up with a competent Athletic Trainer or two, lastly a full-time maintenance team that focuses on maintaining the athletic facilities. It would be the responsibility of the AD to oversee all these different operating bodies. This obviously cost a lot of $$$ and TN has proven to try and do the complete opposite! 

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16 hours ago, Random1234 said:

If schools ever want to see successful athletic programs across all sports in their school they need to hire a Full-time AD, give them 2-3 assistants, and then follow that up with a competent Athletic Trainer or two, lastly a full-time maintenance team that focuses on maintaining the athletic facilities. It would be the responsibility of the AD to oversee all these different operating bodies. This obviously cost a lot of $$$ and TN has proven to try and do the complete opposite! 

Go to Texas if you want to see high school athletics on large scale.  Even the small rural schools spend money

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