How To Become A Men's Basketball Coach: What It Is and Career Path

What is a men's basketball coach and how to become one

Updated January 8, 2025

3 min read

There is more than meets the eye when it comes to being a men's basketball coach. For example, did you know that they make an average of $21.06 an hour? That's $43,798 a year! Between 2018 and 2028, the career is expected to grow 20% and produce 48,800 job opportunities across the U.S.

ScoreMen's Basketball CoachUS Average

Salary

3.4

Avg. Salary $43,798

Avg. Salary $59,228

Stability level

8.0

Growth rate 20%

Growth rate 0.3%

Diversity

3.8

Race

American Indian and Alaska Native 0.22%

Asian 5.42%

Black or African American 8.80%

Hispanic or Latino 13.12%

Unknown 5.65%

White 66.79%

Gender

female 2.04%

male 97.96%

Age - 34

Race

American Indian and Alaska Native 3.00%

Asian 7.00%

Black or African American 14.00%

Hispanic or Latino 19.00%

White 57.00%

Gender

female 47.00%

male 53.00%

Age - 34

Stress level

8.0

Stress level is high

7.1 - high

Complexity level

8.4

Complexity level is challenging

7 - challenging

Work life balance

7.3

Work life balance is good

6.4 - fair

Key steps to become a men's basketball coach

Explore men's basketball coach education requirements

Most common men's basketball coach degrees

Bachelor's

74.2 %

Master's

17.3 %

Associate

6.5 %

Start to develop specific men's basketball coach skills

Skills	Percentages
NCAA	16.89%
Basketball Program	11.40%
Role Model	7.30%
Leadership	6.81%
Athletic Program	6.70%

Complete relevant men's basketball coach training and internships

Accountants spend an average of Less than 1 month on post-employment, on-the-job training. New men's basketball coaches learn the skills and techniques required for their job and employer during this time. The chart below shows how long it takes to gain competency as a men's basketball coach based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data and data from real men's basketball coach resumes.

Research men's basketball coach duties and responsibilities

Manage facilities, travel times, game film exchange, NCAA compliance, individual workouts, primary strength and conditioning coach.
Head coach - middle school; assistant coach - varsity & JV
Monitor NCAA eligibility for the team.
Team GPA has improve each year.

Prepare your men's basketball coach resume

When your background is strong enough, you can start writing your men's basketball coach resume.

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Apply for men's basketball coach jobs

Now it's time to start searching for a men's basketball coach job. Consider the tips below for a successful job search:

Browse job boards for relevant postings
Consult your professional network
Reach out to companies you're interested in working for directly
Watch out for job scams

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Men's basketball coach reviews

A zippia user wrote a review on Apr 2019

Pros

Working with individual players in one on one lessons. That's when I get a real chance to find out what knowledge the athlete is bringing to practice, who taught him that, and how and why it may work or not be the best technique available. I am about as nuanced a coach as you could get. The game of football is one of mental fortitude, discipline, and preparation. Raw athleticism, circus catches and big hits or helmet to helmet collisions.

Cons

I don't like parents getting involved or attempting to persuade coaching decisions such as play playing time and depth chart seeding. What I would allow for is any of my concerned parents (at any potential public school) who wouldn't ordinarily come watch practice and see the way the coaching staff interacts with your student athlete as we will go through a proper tackling methods clinic for LB/defensive backs, different types of blocking for the offensive and even the multiple defensive pash rush techniques that are now able to be implemented by a modern football coach.