Why does your personnel suck???

Because some staffs do a poor job of developing players?

Because it ends the discussion of who's scheme is better? If you "don't have the players" it's over, you can't say the scheme is wrong, it's the only option.

Also, I think it makes sense to base your scheme on your personnel if you don't get to be picky about your personnel, but I see your point, it seems like every team is made of short small fat light players (yes, I see the irony of fat light players)

I think that may be because many coaches have a lack of one attribute on their team, and run their teams accordingly, but when you read the aggregate of their comments, it seems like every team out there is the worst possible.

Also, coaches are an insecure, paranoid lot. I mean that in its best sense, and include myself among them.

my athletes suck because if we lose then it is them - they suck, remember? if we win, then i'm one hell of a coach because i must have out-coached the other guy because my athletes suck, remember?

why else??

and, to further reinforce to everyone that my athletes are no good, i can only run this one scheme i know.. i know it extremely well and it is perfect for the type of sucky kids i have so there is no need to further develop it or change what i do. i can't get too complex or in depth with anything - get out of my comfort zone - because, well, i just don't have the type of kids for that.

my poor personnel justifies everything i do and validates it.





isn't this what we are wanting to hear? hahahahahahah

Ive honestly seen some schools just flat out get bigger kids... At my last school there were very few kids over 6 feet tall, in the entire student body.

More often than not the "weaker" schools just struggle getting their kids into the weight room from the day they come in as freshman through their last game as seniors

Which comes back to building a football culture. Which ultimately is a coaching issue (or at least a coaches responsibility).

Although It's certainly not an easy problem to fix in many cases, and there are always extenuating circumstances...

we run the spread because we always have great skill guys but can find 5 decent linemen, we start a tackle whos 185 and a tackle whos 210 a C whos 220

because of how our team is run we can't move players from DL to OL because they would not play for us and would go to our competetion so we have to make due

it's easy for you guys to say "cut them if they don't wanna help the team" but we simply can not compete with 25 kids on our roster, it just wouldn't happen

we don't have access to the players during teh off season except on a volunteer basis 1 nigth a week starting in 3 months before the season training camp opens

so we spread

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Some of the very best kids within walking distance to the very bad football school I mentioned almost always end up playing across town or the real good ones even go to private school- with the parents footing part of the bill- HUGE sacrifice, huge commitment.

In most cases it is not the god given, natural talent, freak of an athlete who craps muscle that's beating you- it's the other 20-25 normal everyday teenagers that someone (a coach) has developed into very servicable players through the use of a functional program designed to improves ones athleticism. You can wait around a lifetime to just "get" enough studs to be highly competetive or you can work your fanny off making the ones you have the best they can possibly be. You may not compete for a state title every other year but you will not "suck" ever.

When coaches make comments like that they likely have players and parents saying "we'll be good when we get some better coaches". Think about it.

I worked for a guy a few years ago who used to complain about how the top schools in the league had bigger, stronger, and faster kids every year.

You know what...the guy was right! The top teams DID have kids who were bigger, stronger, and faster. Those top teams also had a year-round, top-flight strength and conditioning program that featured Oly lifts and ground-based, compound exercises done in a full range of motion.

The guy I worked for...his weight program was a joke. No olys or deep squats. 10 sets of bench press and curls for the girls pretty much was the foundation of the program.

What a shocker that his players were small, weak, and slow...

Our personnel does not suck.

However we do have some challenges that I think are impacting our ability to get to the final four or state championship in the largest classification in our state.

Here are some of our challenges with personnel:

1. We have 37% Asian population. We only get one or two Asian kids out every year. Culturally they are very focused on academics. On the plus side we have a great golf and tennis team. If you subttracted those kids from our census, we would drop down two classifications and totally dominate!

2. We are a baseball community. We have a huge and very competitive Little league and select programs with great facilities. It has become a huge part of the social fabric for parents. We have one of the top regional select programs based in our area. They have great facilities and several teams per age group. We have three kids in the majors right now that are from our neighborhood, two played on the same team, one kid went to a neighboring school even though he lived in our district. Travis Snyder (Toronto), Grady Sizemore (Cleavland), Brent Lilibridge (White Sox). Another kid got drafted yesterday and he went to Texas. We won a state baseball championship. Our U13 through u17 select teams win national tournaments often. Parents in our school are have an unrealistic expectation about how far their kids will go in baseball, it is warped! This year we can't scrimmage very much or play in a 7on7 league because 5 of our best receivers, our QB, and two RB's have an 80 game summer schedule. They get told not to lift, especially upper body.

3. We are a white collar, medium income bedroom community. Someone said that there are only 6 low to moderate cost apartment buildings in our area. We have a lot of engineers and software, tech employees. I think it effects two things; size and general toughness of the kids we get. We don't have a lot of kids that came from "football" families. We don't have kids where a ton of the dads played football. A lot of our parents were in honors society, debate club, they probably recieved a lot of wedgies and are not really supportive of football. We have a lot of parents that don't want their kids involved in football, because it's "dangerous". Soccer, basketball, baseball, tennis, and golf are huge. Football; not so much.

We cannot stop coaching and quit. So we overcome!

So we develop players, support and promote the youth FB league by having camps, coaching clinics, youth night at a game. We try to support and keep an active booster club. We have a hip and motivational trainer. We have won a lot of game, and league championships the past few couple years and try to rally the community. We work with our senior players and family to get as many kids we can help get to DII and NAIA schools.

It's not easy, but we can compete, where in the past, this school has struggled. We want a ship, but can't seem to get over the hump!

usually, when we have a kid who isnt very good, its because he has not ever been in one of these before:

KyleM56. I think that's true in most cases. I think the best thing our program has done to build a successful football culture is to have a full time strength and conditioning coach. He relates well to the kids, is highly motivational, and really knows his stuff.

Strangely enough, our best player is a kid who shirks the weight room as often as possible. But similar to what someone else said earlier, it's not those couple of athletic/football freaks who make a program. It's the next 20-30 guys who buy into the program and are 'built' into football players. That's the kind of dedication required to make a program into a consistent winner.

we had a team in our league a couple of years ago....best offensive scheme I had seen in a while..knew just where to pressure you....we kicked their butt and shut them out..they had terrible players..coach got fired etc