Belichick required coaches to recruit and train replacements before earning promotions
Bill Belichick · Bill Belichick: 8x Super Bowl Champion on Winning, Leadership, and Discipline · May 27, 2025 · at 46:33
Former New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick explains his succession and promotion rule that maintained organizational quality control across his coaching staff.
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“If somebody has one of those jobs and they're really good at it and they say, well, I want to move you know, I want to move to more responsibility. And I said, well, I want you to move to more responsibility too. But first, you've got to train somebody to do your job, because what you're doing is really valuable, and that's when Brian Dable hired Josh McDaniels to replace him, and that's when Josh McDaniels hired Nick Asario to replace him, and so but it forced those guys to make sure that the person that was replacing them was not only good, but they trained them to do the things the way they needed to be done, and that really heightened our efficiency, but also enabled them to move up to responsibility, move up in responsibility, and so that really worked out well. I was, you know I thought that that was, for me, that was a good way to handle it, because those guys were very invested in making sure their replacement did a good job, because they knew they were going back to do that job if that person, if their replacement failed.”
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