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Looking desparate is never a good selling point. It may not happen this winter, but make your connections and do your groundwork in the summer so it can happen sometime. Do something different than those guys who have hit the ceiling based on advice from those who have gotten through that ceiling.
This is the same advice I give to people at work and to the people who work for me in the Navy Reserve that want to become a Navy Chief Petty Officer. Those who bother to listen, usually find it's worth their while! Patience, diligence, consistent professional appearance and conduct, continuous personal improvement, networking, finding a solid mentor, and excellence in job performance all combined will get you there. Leave something out, you are taking your chances - in reffing, in work - everywhere.
I ultimately want to be a HS coach, but I am currently building my skills and my contacts before I will try to make that move. I even have a timetable for making that move, which is when my MS players move on to HS (because I will have more experience and I will have the time to make that commitment during the winter). Meanwhile, I continue to work at improving my knowledge of the game, my practice organization skills, my game management, and my scouting ability. If I can demonstrate that I belong as a head coach at the next level, I certainly now have the contacts to take steps in that direction. I will look to start as an assistant, probably JV, so that I can learn about the next level, having daily practices instead of twice a week, and the issues in dealing with HS versus club athletics. If I have what it takes, I can take over a JV team or move on to varsity.
Good luck - you have the desire, so just take the right steps and you achieve what you want.
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