cwrtlm
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Post by cwrtlm on Sept 24, 2009 17:26:55 GMT -6
We are a passing team and it is pouring rain right now and possibly tomorrow night. Any got any good ideas of how to keep footballs dry? Any good methods to quickly dry them out once they are wet? We don't have a ball drying bag or anything. Any redneck engineered thing I can string up to work for tongiht?
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Post by airman on Sept 24, 2009 18:10:07 GMT -6
1. stop using kids for ball boys. I advertise for adult volunteers(I give them a t shirt or sweatshirt) and they have to be at thursday night under the lights practice. I explain how important keeping balls dry are. kids are sloppy and they tend to watch the games first. I find adults will get the ball in faster which is what we want and they will make sure not to let the ball touch the wet ground.
2. we bring 16 balls just for the game. we put them into 4 rubbermaid storage containers. you can buy them at target or similar types at wal mart, kmart, home dept or lowes. we break out 4 dry balls per quarter.
3. we do not allow kids who wear gloves to wear them in warmups and get them wet. most kids we have have multiple pairs of gloves so we keep them in rubber maids.
4. ball dry
5. we use balls for warmups only. they are put in rubbermaid containers after we use them. we even have adults who uses dryers to get them dry.
6. we never let a completed pass touch the ground ever. rain or shine the wr hands the ball to the official. the officials spot the ball faster because they are not chasing balls and it promotes good sportsmanship. this way kids hand the ball of the official when they score as well.
7. we practice with wet balls during the week as the season goes along. they know how to catch a wet ball. Just like we freeze balls to practice with as the season gets into november.(state championship is the weekend of thanksgiving so it gets cold in the midwest)
8. we instruct the center to keep the ball on the point of the football to keep the majority off the ground.
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Post by hustleandheart on Sept 24, 2009 22:02:23 GMT -6
This might be the only problem I can help with. At UConn, we have a very LARGE, durable plastic bag, like a heavy duty trash bag that won't rip.
We have the QB's go through and pick 16-20 balls (on a dry day we'd use 8) but I'm sure you can pick the balls to use.
Keep 8-10 in the locker so you don't risk getting them wet during the first half. (You can always have the guy in charge of the balls run back to the locker.)
Now during the game, you need to have someone completely in charge, preferably an adult or someone who is aware of the situations of getting a dry ball in.
Keep many, many towels around that area in a trash bag too and constantly protect the balls from leaving the trash bag til the hands of the ref.
As soon as a ball is wet and you deem it unusable, switch it out for a new one, put the old balls in a separate bag.
For the USF game at home a couple years ago, their team didn't bring any equipment managers so we had our guys on their sideline just holding the ball out in the rain. The ball had to weigh 5 pounds and as we like to claim, the difference in the game hahaha.
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Post by John Knight on Sept 25, 2009 8:07:48 GMT -6
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Post by airraider on Sept 26, 2009 19:22:50 GMT -6
That is really a great price as well.. |
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Post by John Knight on Sept 28, 2009 20:01:03 GMT -6
That is just the bag, the dryers are a hundred bucks a piece
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Post by 1teammom on Apr 27, 2016 13:42:51 GMT -6
The way we dry out our footballs during practice and game days is by using a product called SuperBallDry. We dump the product into a 5 gal container with the ball and shake it for a few seconds and its dry. It works every time.
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Post by dytmook on Apr 27, 2016 15:57:04 GMT -6
The way we dry out our footballs during practice and game days is by using a product called SuperBallDry. We dump the product into a 5 gal container with the ball and shake it for a few seconds and its dry. It works every time. Since every post you have mentions this product all I am imagining is this scene from Clerks:
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Post by coachgunter on Apr 27, 2016 19:45:09 GMT -6
How well does the leather hold up after using the SuperBallDry? Is it fairly easy to get the tackiness and grip back out of the ball or does it relegate itself to a back game ball/practice ball?
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Post by chi5hi on Apr 28, 2016 6:16:58 GMT -6
We are a passing team and it is pouring rain right now and possibly tomorrow night. Any got any good ideas of how to keep footballs dry? Any good methods to quickly dry them out once they are wet? We don't have a ball drying bag or anything. Any redneck engineered thing I can string up to work for tongiht? Your team is a pass first team? You don't practice with a wet ball? If the forward pass is your money...you should practice with a wet ball at least once a week. What if you're playing away against your arch rival and they water the field before your bus arrives? Smart coaches are sneaky people! Trying to dry a ball during a rain storm is like putting the cart before the horse. If your people can play with a wet ball it is because their coach plans ahead! |
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