Anyone attending the Nor Cal Sports clinic?

Been the last 3 years... but the speakers get worse and worse each year... I am gonna save myself the 120 and save myself the sitting in the traffic to cross the bridge and not attend this year

Yeah, I'll almost certainly be at the Santa Clara Glazier clinic.

I learned a lot from Pollack(?) (CSM) last night, mostly about how he setup his program, the player leadership council, running practices, and team goal setting and working those goals down to individual player assignments on the plays. We ran the flexbone last year so his talk on the veer was spot on, but his presentation on play action passing was eye-opening on how he had simplified it. Couple of drills and how they ran the scout periods was like "Wow, I could have had a V8" kind of moment. Found it very worthwhile.

I'm also going to Glazier in Santa Clara, and the Nike COY in Concord. Tempted to hit these same clinics in Denver and Las Vegas (family in CO and wife vacation in LV).

But while I know the speakers may not always be the best (week before signing may be an issue), the the opportunity to talk (network) with coaches from Logan, Foothill, Dougherty Valley, Calaveras, CMS, Chabot, and Cal High in a short time in a local venue is pretty valuable. I was introduced to 4 coaches from schools that I've coached against and our common bond of competing against each other gave us a reason for talking with each other.

Glazier in SC was physically cramped last year. Nice facility, but having everything down that main hallway made the transition times very rush-hour like. I didn't see much of a difference in the topics or quality of the speakers and I've got to figure there are more vendors at NorCal than Glazier SC.

However, your mileage may vary.

Not this year..... Santa Clara Glazier yes.....

After going Saturday I can now say why this got negative vibes. The vendors closed and were gone at 2PM when the afternoon sessions started. The sessions were much weaker today than Th/Fri. The speakers were not as good and the topics were not as mainstream/of interest. Attendance seemed to be way down as well. If I were to attend Saturday only I would not come back. But I still managed to learn some things, stole some ideas, but it wasn't nearly as productive as the other days.

I think that going earlier/not so close to recruit signing might help get some more college coaches, but its the HS coaches I want to hear for details. I want to see the college guys for concepts. It might also be that folks want an excuse to take a day off from work on Friday but not give up a personal weekend day.

I'm going to add my 2-cents to the organizer as it needs help on day 3. I can't imagine how sparse it will be tomorrow morning.

Regardless, I have a notepad that is full and has just a few pages left. Ideas, vendors, drills, sayings, it was well worth the time and money.

I had similar issues regarding the changes, no-shows, etc. It seems this is becoming a bigger problem every year at this one. I'm going to the Glazier Clinic in Santa Clara in two weeks. Hopefully it's better, although the speaker changes are already happening last time I looked