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Oct 24, 2009 21:35:59 GMT -6
Post by k on Oct 24, 2009 21:35:59 GMT -6
my personal favorite is receiving gloves, i give our recievers two drops You ever put on a new pair and catch the ball? I'm not a fan of all the other things but I don't see how the ultra tacky gloves can't be a ridiculously good thing.
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Oct 24, 2009 22:18:29 GMT -6
Post by runandgunjt on Oct 24, 2009 22:18:29 GMT -6
In my first season as a young assistant, I could not believe the things I was seeing in the locker room before the game. The bands, the tape, you name it. I asked the HC why he puts up with it. He said let the kids do whatever they want, it's not gonna make them play any worse.
I heard a former player on a college football pregame show say, "Look good, feel good, feel good, play good."
I had one of those under armor kids on the team this year, he looked good, he felt good and he play like crap.
SPAT IT UP
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Oct 24, 2009 22:29:51 GMT -6
Post by brophy on Oct 24, 2009 22:29:51 GMT -6
+ we don't use wristbands, but our DEFENSIVE players fight over wearing leftover TFS (OFFENSIVE) bands that we used to use.(We don't even use the same terminology) + half dozen kids wear visors for god knows what reason, then when it rains or the field is a mud pit, they realize those have to come off because they can't see (holy crap triage equipment emergency) + belt towels on dry nights for linebackers?! What? - yet, no one with detachable cleats knows how to change them out without rubbing them to the nub
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Oct 24, 2009 22:35:15 GMT -6
Post by runandgunjt on Oct 24, 2009 22:35:15 GMT -6
Had two kids wearing custom belt towels. The reason I say custom is cause they were from momma's kitchen, with mushroom print and stains from whatever dinner was the night before.
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Oct 24, 2009 22:41:09 GMT -6
Post by coachnorm on Oct 24, 2009 22:41:09 GMT -6
Had two kids wearing custom belt towels. The reason I say custom is cause they were from momma's kitchen, with mushroom print and stains from whatever dinner was the night before. NICE!!!!!
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Oct 25, 2009 12:18:49 GMT -6
Post by tiger46 on Oct 25, 2009 12:18:49 GMT -6
In the spats thread there's a lot of talk about kids wearing them just for show and about kids being too worried about looking good. While I agree that we want to keep individualism from detracting from the team concept I don't think there's anything wrong with kids wanting to look good. Before a game, when the players are primping themselves into their usis, I'll sometimes hear a coach complain about it or even yell at them. Before every game that I ever played, though, the last thing I ever did before leaving the locker room was put my helmet on, go in the bathroom, and look in the mirror to see how I looked. Had to stand in line to get to the mirror, too. Kids today want the coolest looking facemask? So did I. They want a favorite player's number? Guilty here, too. Nowadays they wear wrist bands. We wore forearm pads, a totally useless piece of equipment even in the day of the forearm shiver. I know coaches who say that they never did that. I'm not calling them liars. I just think that most are victims of selective memory. It's all about being a kid. I too was that way. I HAD to have FOREARM pads. And they looked so sweet. Good Call Phantom. ;D Oh, yeah, the forearm pads! Our coaches would not issue them to anyone who didn't earn them. You had to earn them in practice. I was so happy when I earned mine. I was the only CB with a pair. As far as I was concerned, if you were a CB without forearm pads, you weren't playing hard enough. I thought the pads made me look more intimidating to WR's. I was also the smallest kid on the team. Looking back, I'm pretty sure no one was intimidated by the midget wearing forearm pads. ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) Of course, I wasn't above clubbing WR's- and, anyone else I could find- in the earhole with them whenever I thought the ref wasn't looking.
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Oct 25, 2009 12:57:31 GMT -6
Post by coachks on Oct 25, 2009 12:57:31 GMT -6
I'm a slobs slob and it takes me over half an hour to get ready for game day. Polo, pants+Belt, socks, shoes ect. It may be the only time all week I look in the mirror. Make sure it's tucked in properly, make sure the belt isn't sideways ect ect.
Why? Nerves. I'm in the box, nobody is looking at me but it gives me a little something to do before the game.
I'm sure it's the same for the kids. Play with the gloves, the wristbands, the eye black ect. so you aren't sitting their going stir crazy.
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Oct 25, 2009 13:25:38 GMT -6
Post by coachguy83 on Oct 25, 2009 13:25:38 GMT -6
Have you guys ever seen Braveheart? You know how the Scots take all the time to pain their faces and they go into battle with the bagpipes blasting? Players cranking their music and putting on their eye black just right is no different. You hear it time and time again that football is a war, well if it's a war let them prepare like it's a war. Let them do whatever it takes to get in the right mind set, but I agree that there needs to be a limit. I don't care if guys wear reciever gloves, if it makes them think they can catch. I don't mind visors if they think it makes them see better, or keeps them from getting poked in the eye. I don't mind neck rolls or cowboy collars if they think it makes them look like a badass. The one thing that annoys me more than anything though is primping instead of listening and not wearing matching socks. My players love to wear two different colored socks, and it drives me nuts.
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Oct 25, 2009 13:49:31 GMT -6
Post by M4 on Oct 25, 2009 13:49:31 GMT -6
I love looking good on game day when I played, I was a QB but I had to have the right face mask (same one as rex grossman) the clear visor, bicep wrist bands (thin) towel on the side, wrist coach on the belt (not on the wrist) and I played pretty well and cared. Coaches who worry about stuff like that under the guise of "we're a team" are usually anal anyways, coaches always care alot more then players and want to control every aspect of everything (thats why they coach). Kid's like to have fun, who cares. We have a colour code and allow alot of stuff as long as its team colours.
Oh ya, a nice white spat is the best looking thing a player can wear on game day, nice white spat with high white socks and white shoes, so clean and crisp, so fast looking
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Oct 25, 2009 13:59:11 GMT -6
Post by fbdoc on Oct 25, 2009 13:59:11 GMT -6
Our hed coach demands Navy Blue Socks. He will go nuts if a kid doesn't wear the right socks. Now two different colors, I think I'd go nuts! I finally go used to low or no socks.
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Oct 25, 2009 14:49:44 GMT -6
Post by coachguy83 on Oct 25, 2009 14:49:44 GMT -6
I only allow it because I'm coaching at the MS level and it's always been allowed. With these kids you have to learn to pick your battles and that is one I'm not going to pick. The best is the day a kid showed up wearing one short white sock and one long red one, because he couldn't find his other red sock.
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Oct 29, 2009 6:24:37 GMT -6
Post by razorback47 on Oct 29, 2009 6:24:37 GMT -6
Some of our players just did not care about the team style. They would wear whatever kind of socks they wanted, even brown ones. So we decided to impose fines on the three players wearing the ugliest socks for the game. Quick vote by the coaching staff, 7$ fine. This has produced some results.
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Oct 29, 2009 8:43:54 GMT -6
Post by pegleg on Oct 29, 2009 8:43:54 GMT -6
Two kinds of kids I don't want on my team.....
1. Those that do nothing the coach says. 2. Those that do everythig the coach says.
I don't want robots on my team. I want players that play for each other. If looking good makes them feel good......who cares?
Now, when we play badly, I have been know to freak out and not allow anything that is not issued to them. But that is a motivational tool to get them to play better the next week, and when they do, I let 'em pretty up the next week. If they don't, they remain on "probation" until they do play better.
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