Best Joke told at Clinic?

Last weekend David Wilkerson was talking about his time coaching at a JuCo and said once he got a really smart kid who got a 26 on his ACT. Wilkerson said his players usually have to take the ACT three or four times before their scores get to 26.

In Schaumburgh Illinois a couple years ago, Rick Trickett was speaking about O-line play and how much they use the cut block. Guy in the audience asks how they practice the cut block and Trickett responds "Hell son, we just grab some of them scout team walk ons and cut the piss out of em!"

If you've never seen Trickett talk I highly reccomend going to one of his talks at any clinic no matter what position/side of the ball you coach.

Herschel Moore

listening to mark speckman talk about giving his players high 5s, and playing rock paper scissors with them

Rocky Pentello, High School Coach from Westerville South speaking the year after he had coached Andy Katzenmoyer at OSU clinic.

"I had a coach come join my staff and I fired him the first day on the field. I look over and he has the OLBs doing Monkey Rolls. I said, Coach what are you doing? and he said "Monkey rolls" and I said "why", he said "well, blah blah blah" and "I said sorry coach, but we don't do animal drills at Westerville South! You're Fired!"

If it aint a football drill why do it was his topic!

The funniest guy I ever heard speak was Rich Rodriguez (Orlando Nike Clinic and Daytona Clinic 4-5 years back) talking about the "Cat" defense they used to run when he first began coaching. I believe he was the DC at this school. Some old, old-timer coach he worked with swore by the "Cat" defense and convinced him to reluctantly put it in. It went like this: a skinny DB (the "Cat") stalks up and down the LOS stepping at the OL and trying to make them jump offsides. The way he demonstrated the old guy trying to teach the "Cat" technique to him was priceless.

Well, they put in the Cat Defense and it worked the first couple of times and the old coach told Coach Rod, "See, I told you that Cat defense worked!" Then, they ran the Cat's butt over every time afterwards and sent him rolling 20 yards upfield.

So the old-timer tells him after practice, "Well, you gotta run the Double Cat." So the next day, there are two "Cats" prowling up and down the LOS trying to get the defense to jump. It might have worked one more time, but pretty much got steamrolled after that. He about had us in tears from laughing so hard.

That old guy, would be Corky Griffith! He was a pretty successful HS football coach and probably one of the funniest SOBs I have ever been around. I sure hope I am having as much fun as Cork is when I am 70plus!

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As I have posted here before - OHIO State fan since '62.

You may make fun of "Monkey Rolls" or whatever you want to call them, but -

Fact is a lot of young football players do not know how to fall correctly to avoid injury when knocked down or how to get up off the ground quickly and get back in the play.

So there is some practical football applications to that drill, at least at lower levels with inexperienced kids.

Not a joke but Lou Holtz said he'd never hire a guy with golf clubs in his trunk or who owned a camper.

I used to laugh at the concept of monkey rolls until I saw someone use it as a ball security drill,now monkey rolls are genius.

Used the primate ball security drills as punishment for running backs fumbling for years. One or two sessions and it was surprising how well they secured the football afterward!

Pat Fox- Tulsa Clinic- on how to teach WR's to block

"I just tell them to go out there and swing their purse as hard as they can at that defender..."

Don't remember who the coach was but he was talking about Moms who get too involved. Had a kid at practice and mom wanted to talk to coach about her son's playing time. This coach replied with "Ma'am I don't know {censored} about having a baby, and you don't know {censored} about football." Had the whole room going.