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Post by mhcoach on Jun 5, 2010 10:47:29 GMT -6
Ok, how many guys know what "Grandma's Sweater" is?
Every year the coaches & I bet on who is going to be "Grandma's Sweater". (Not a money bet) Remember when you were a child at Christmas, there was always that great looking package under the tree that you couldn't wait to open. Christmas morning would come & it was the first one you would grab. Only to open it & find a sweater from Grandma. Well to us, the first day of pads is like Christmas morning. We finally get a chance to see what our players can really do. Every year we find 1 or 2 "grandma's sweaters", they look great in shorts & a helmet.
BTW.......... Okay you guys are going to think I'm nuts(heck you probably already do). I can tell a football player when gets out the car in the parking lot. Maybe because I am as old as dirt, usually I right on the mark.
Joe
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Post by coachd5085 on Jun 5, 2010 11:47:00 GMT -6
Regarding player personnel issues and determining positions. I DO think it is important to recognize that this becomes significantly easier with experience. For those saying "how do you do it so quickly" it is probably because while each new kid is unique, the groups as a mass stay relatively similar, and the athletic abilities are similar. Coach a few years, and I bet during some drills you will think to yourself--"hey, that kid looks reminds me of Vinny from 4 years ago. Vinny could do ___,___,__ well". Or "Oh lord, that kid is as stiff as Bruce was from 3 years back"
Those great drills that coachcisar mentioned aren't necessarily productive because they gave you measurable data. They simply put the kid in an environment where you can observe their responses/reactions and then compare to the catalog in your brain of previous kids who responded similarly.
Bob..also keep in mind regarding youth ball...that generally your "best" are your best at everything. Peyton manning isn't the best of ANYTHING at Indy other than QB. But at the youth level, more often than not the best RB is probably the best WR, the best QB, the best LB, the best DE, and yes..the best Lineman. I would think that coach cisar described it well. It really is more stripping away... than trying to find what the kid does best.
Disclaimer--I say probably since I don't have a great deal of experience coaching youth, especially younger ages, but I DO have a great deal experience TEACHING phys ed to those ages. I know within two minutes of my lesson/activity who is going to most likely be athletic, who is going to most likely not want to participate, who is going to be the worst with respect to behavior, who is going to be the most "coachable" etc. Pretty sure football falls along those lines.
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Post by Chris Clement on Jun 6, 2010 14:22:20 GMT -6
In the early practices I take a regular assessment drill to see which kids can move or whatever and I get them to finish by taking a run up and crashing into me while yelling their name. This way I see which kids have an inclination towards contact and I get to learn their names, which I'm pretty bad at.
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