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Post by coachpcr on Oct 13, 2010 8:33:07 GMT -6
We have had a few players quit this season and I want to not put their name in the team photo for the yearbook. The photo was taken when they were still on the team. Does anybody do something like this?
Otherwise I might name them all: Q. U. Iter
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Post by phantom on Oct 13, 2010 8:36:23 GMT -6
It's frustrating but take the high road. If you want to leave their name out I can understand that but don't do the Q.U.Iter thing.
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Post by rcole on Oct 13, 2010 9:14:26 GMT -6
See if the yearbook editor can put a big black X over their face and a strike through over their name. Just kidding. Being vindictive in this situation probably does not serve any positive function in program building. But it would be entertaining for all of us on coachhuey to read about.
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Post by JMC on Oct 13, 2010 9:21:19 GMT -6
Funny thing you mention that. One coach would put a team picture of every team in the weight room and every year he would take a black marker and color over their image. So you would see one player and then a black shadow of a figure next to the person who quit. Those pictures are still up in the weight room.
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Post by cnunley on Oct 13, 2010 11:07:55 GMT -6
Funny that this has been brought up because our players were just talking about this.
We've had around 10ish players quit this season. A couple of our players are also in the yearbook class so they mentioned that they were going to blur out all of the quiters faces. They said their teacher didnt have a problem with it, cause, after all it is reserved for the players of the team, not the quiters.
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Post by CoachCP on Oct 13, 2010 12:23:13 GMT -6
Our sophomore head coach once took a black market to all the quitters. It looked terrible too, it really made the photo look bad.
Honestly, who cares? In 30 years, IF I look at my high school football team photo, I'm not going to look for the quitters. I'm going to look for those teammates of mine who I made great memories with during that season.
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Post by coachwoodall on Oct 13, 2010 12:42:51 GMT -6
Don't take the picture in the first week of the season. When I had to option of deciding the date, I waited until about week 7/8. Plenty of time for it to get back for the year book deadline. Quitters were gone. Was a good time to take a day off.
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Post by leighty on Oct 13, 2010 14:54:17 GMT -6
Picture day is my second least-favorite day of the year.
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Post by kylem56 on Oct 13, 2010 16:41:46 GMT -6
just retake the team photo. we always take 1 at the beginning of the year for the newspaper previews then one during the last week of the season for the yearbook
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Post by buckeye7525 on Oct 13, 2010 17:12:18 GMT -6
Kyle, you guys do two team pictures? I might cry if I had to go through two picture days.
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Post by tothehouse on Oct 13, 2010 21:37:59 GMT -6
I saw some old pictures of teams from the 80's in our coaches office....the faces of quitters were Sharpied out.
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Post by rcole on Oct 13, 2010 22:05:35 GMT -6
The first head coach I worked for would tell the kids when they quit that he expected them to tell the team themselves before a practice and then he expected them to turn in every t-shirt or pair of shorts he ever gave them. He was an old school hard a$$, he wouldn't even look at them, much less talk to them, if he ever passed them at school. He took it a bit far, clearly.
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Post by macdiiddy on Oct 13, 2010 23:02:07 GMT -6
Win sectionals and take a new picture under the scoreboard
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Post by blue22 on Oct 14, 2010 5:56:10 GMT -6
My high school coach on picture day would stand infront of the team and ask if anybody wanted to quit because this was there last chance, no quiters were allowed after picture day.
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Post by sportdoctor on Oct 15, 2010 16:15:15 GMT -6
I know the trend is to use the team picture that was made for the season's Football Program, for a Yearbook photo - since we are in an age of digital cameras and memory-cards; and, many schools now use the same studio or photography for ALL school-related pix.
But, I still believe team pictures for the Yearbook should be made in the latter part of the season, for many reasons - one of the biggest being raised in the initial poster's scenario. If the school does contract with a studio for ALL photos throughout the year, you could have a team picture snapped on the day they come and take "Fall Pictures" for all the student body, every school I know of take student-body Fall Pictures and Spring Pictures with seasonal backgrounds on a green-screen as a money-maker - these could be taken before school on that morning, or after school and practice will be a little late(r) that day, or they could take the team picture during school (especially if there is an Athletics Period).
If the school does not have a binding contract with a studio, then a local newspaper photog', someone from the School Photography Club, or an amateur photog' buff in the community (a parent maybe) could come and take the picture whenever you want it taken. I know this means possibly having a few players on crutches and in casts (maybe) for the yearbook photo, but the bitter taste of having quitters in the yearbook photo makes me nauseous.
I would not use the Media day pic or "program" picture for the yearbook if I could help it, given your situation.
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Post by jpdaley25 on Oct 17, 2010 12:32:12 GMT -6
just retake the team photo. we always take 1 at the beginning of the year for the newspaper previews then one during the last week of the season for the yearbook
Why didn't I think of that?
I used to work for a guy who would black out their faces. He would also write the names of the quitters in the urinals....so every time the guys would take a leak, they were peeing on a quitter.
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Post by phantom on Oct 17, 2010 12:50:50 GMT -6
just retake the team photo. we always take 1 at the beginning of the year for the newspaper previews then one during the last week of the season for the yearbook Why didn't I think of that? I used to work for a guy who would black out their faces. He would also write the names of the quitters in the urinals....so every time the guys would take a leak, they were peeing on a quitter. I remember you telling us about it and I can't shake the idea. I don't even think I hate Osama bin Laden enough to write on the inside of a school urinal. Maybe they clean yours better than they do ours but I don't even like peeing in ours.
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Post by mariner42 on Oct 17, 2010 15:55:29 GMT -6
I saw some old pictures of teams from the 80's in our coaches office....the faces of quitters were Sharpied out. Zero surprise about that...
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Post by airraider on Oct 17, 2010 16:41:06 GMT -6
I told a kid last year that he couldnt quit because we already took the pictures. He just said, "Ok, that makes sense".. and he finished the season.. lol
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