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Post by cnunley on Mar 28, 2009 14:28:42 GMT -6
I work for a small Group A school, roughly 400 students. Numbers are usually a problem for us and we have to battle the basketball team for some of the schools best athletes. Has any coaches out there held a school assembly for all male students. Adminstration has said they would let us do this. Have all 9th-11th grade boys come to the auditorium were we could talk football. Weight Room times over summer. 7on7's. Camp. Practice times. etc...Mainly sell our vision for the future of the program. Good idea? Bad Idea?
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Post by op4shadow on Mar 28, 2009 14:58:22 GMT -6
sounds like the only idea. i would also encourage your committed football players to actively recruit throughout the school. it is worth mentioning that i think it would be in your best interest to have a sit down with the basket ball coach (or all coaches for that matter) and try to figure out if there was a way to work together. let them know that you would encourage all players to play other sports.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Mar 28, 2009 15:05:06 GMT -6
Make a highlight film or show them some football highlights, get 'em excited, pump them up, make them think anyone can do this stuff. I think most guys want to at least try football, but they're either afraid of failing or - in the case of those baseball and basketball kids - have someone in their ear. Get in the other ear.
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Post by cnunley on Mar 28, 2009 16:00:45 GMT -6
I like the highlight film idea. I had thought of getting some play cut ups of college teams that our offense mimics along with our own past games. Also thought about having our Graduating Senior Captains speak to them all about why playing football is such a good idea. Anything to spark interest. My goal is 40 kids coming out next season for varsity alone. I know...low number for some of you guys but that would be amazing for a small school like ours.
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Post by airraider on Mar 28, 2009 16:45:02 GMT -6
I work for a small Group A school, roughly 400 students. Numbers are usually a problem for us and we have to battle the basketball team for some of the schools best athletes. Has any coaches out there held a school assembly for all male students. Adminstration has said they would let us do this. Have all 9th-11th grade boys come to the auditorium were we could talk football. Weight Room times over summer. 7on7's. Camp. Practice times. etc...Mainly sell our vision for the future of the program. Good idea? Bad Idea? I will be doing this right after state testing. Main point.. Come out in the spring to give it a try. Come see what its like. We only have around 130 boys in our school, so if we could get 60 out we would be doing good. |
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Post by groundchuck on Mar 28, 2009 17:07:37 GMT -6
I do that in the junior high and elemenary schools to promote our camps.
I was also at a school that had "channel one" every morning. I talked the admin into letting us show the highlight film one morning during that time. Another time we brought in a projector and big screen to the cafeteria during lunch time for the junior high and high school and showed the highlights at lunch.
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Post by cnunley on Mar 30, 2009 7:19:45 GMT -6
Thanks for all the really good advice fellows. Keep it coming
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Post by coachnorm on Mar 30, 2009 7:33:37 GMT -6
I work for a small Group A school, roughly 400 students. Numbers are usually a problem for us and we have to battle the basketball team for some of the schools best athletes. Has any coaches out there held a school assembly for all male students. Adminstration has said they would let us do this. Have all 9th-11th grade boys come to the auditorium were we could talk football. Weight Room times over summer. 7on7's. Camp. Practice times. etc...Mainly sell our vision for the future of the program. Good idea? Bad Idea? Funny, the differences in states. In Kansas, 400 students would place you solidly in the middle of 4A technically a BIG school. We have an assembly for all male students every year in both the high school and the middle school excellent idea to do what you said as well as get a little positive peer pressure going. |
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Post by bigm0073 on Mar 30, 2009 8:16:49 GMT -6
If I were you I would look more BIG PICTURE -
What I mean is yes recruit the halls at school but realize that more than likely those players will have minimal impact. I would focus on the following if I were you:
1. Youth League Orgnaizations - I would clinic them, do camps, be active.... They will be your lifeline. Have youth league nights, have them play their championship games on your field..
2. Middle School - Same as above.
This is where you will get your major help... You may not see this until 2 - 3 years but I think that would foster better results then a "cattle herd" of players who really may not want to play football...
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Post by gdoggwr on Mar 30, 2009 9:12:13 GMT -6
Sounds like a good idea. I second the meeting with other sport coaches as well. The best 'smaller' school programs have coaches that "play nice" with each other across the board. Meeting with Bball can also let you get a feel for whether the 'focus on bball' kids do so b/c of pressure from coaches, or b/c they're just pu$$ies.
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Post by gdoggwr on Mar 30, 2009 9:14:14 GMT -6
Another thought, when you talk with students and coaches have things ready so you can point out the benefits of football for other sports: toughness, teamwork, etc.
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Post by cnunley on Mar 30, 2009 11:41:02 GMT -6
I have had talks with some of the BBall players and have heard "I dont want to take a chance on getting hurt" Translation "I sit to pee" I typically respond with something that I've read/heard somewhere or quiet possibly dreamed up. "The majority of major knee injuries occur on a basketball court, not on the football field" Has anyone else read/heard this or dreamed it up as well?
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Post by gdoggwr on Mar 30, 2009 12:24:00 GMT -6
I've heard that the # of catastrophic injuries is pretty much the same between FB and BB. AND that neither sport comes close to the # of injuries that soccer has. I can't tell you where I've heard that, but I know I heard it referenced to some kind of study.  "I sit to pee" is the translation I get too. |
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Post by ccox16 on Mar 30, 2009 17:15:09 GMT -6
I know we like to rag on soccer but our starting FB/DE/P/K was a soccer player. That somab!tch is one of the toughest kids I have ever met. He turned down a couple D1 offers for kicking to play FB at Charleston southern (and kick). one time he was kicking onsides and laid out two kids with one hit and recovered the ball.
Now was I?? oh ya, We got together with the midget (or whatever the top classification is) in pop warner and now their going to run our stuff. also I second the doing an assembly in all the middle schools that feed into yours. our spring ball doesnt start up until mid may, at that time our HC and a few others go over to all the schools and "talk" (tell them to be at weights this summer) to the 8th graders.
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"I sit to pee" is the translation I get too.