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Post by coachvann on Feb 28, 2011 7:27:08 GMT -6
I am at a school that has no traditions right now and looking to start some. One of the ideas I have is to put a wall of fame in our locker room-along side of our records.
The wall of fame will consist of players that go on to play at the collegiate level (all levels). My first year here we sent off 2 players to play at lower level schools (D3 and a NAIA). They both returned home after the first semester.
My question to ya'll is...do you put the guys who went up for one semester in playing college football up on the wall of fame or do you wait until the graduate college?
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Post by coachplaa on Feb 28, 2011 7:45:26 GMT -6
We have a wall of fame in our locker room, that has a picture of our 1st team All-League players. We also have the same type of honor on our website, along with current players in college. www.tdfootball.com/Tradition
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Post by winstate on Feb 28, 2011 7:47:52 GMT -6
Thought about the same thing, but we have kids just like you, leaving to go play college football and then home after one semester. There is no way you can put there picture up for dropping out of school. You might as well, put up pictures of the doctors and lawyers that played. At least they might give you money.
We decided more of a team wall. We hang the team picture on a wall for every year we beat our rival. It hangs in the hallway heading to the weight room, reminding players, why you are there.
They get a kick out of seeing players from the years past, and they want to be on that wall.
Plus it is pretty inexpensive. picture and frame- $20
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Post by coachvann on Feb 28, 2011 11:06:33 GMT -6
great idea...do any of ya'll put up your guys on a wall of fame for playing through college.
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Post by coachvann on Feb 28, 2011 11:07:11 GMT -6
Coach Plaa-do you honor the guys who only played one year of college?
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Post by coachwoodall on Feb 28, 2011 11:15:50 GMT -6
We put up photos of the college kids in the weight room on one wall. On another are banners of the kids/coaches that have played on all star games.
We have 2 boards from maxs, 1 is the current top 10 for each list from the latest max, the other is the all time top 10. We have a couple on the all time board that will never get broken and they have been posted for 15 years.
In the hall way, we have photos from a local photographer featuring action shots from the previous season. Each year they are updated. These make great money makers at the annual auction when they are signed.
A world famous local eatery (Beacon Drive In) has an annual BCS (Beacon Championship School) championship for a local team. They get a nice sign painted and display it at the restuarant. After they are done with them they give them to the school and we hang these in the locker room.
What we are missing is a nice trophy case to display our trophies in our field house. The trophies are up in the entrance to the gym.
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Post by Chris Clement on Feb 28, 2011 12:18:27 GMT -6
I'd try to honour all the former players who were successful in life, not just in football. Would you rather have as a role model the guy who played Panthers Ball and later cured cancer or the guy who played Panthers Ball, bummed around D3 and later got busted for coke trafficking?
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Post by TMGPG on Feb 28, 2011 15:06:12 GMT -6
I think that is a great idea. I wish we had something like that because our tradition really isn't too bad. Great idea!!
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Post by coachd5085 on Feb 28, 2011 17:54:27 GMT -6
I'd try to honour all the former players who were successful in life, not just in football. Would you rather have as a role model the guy who played Panthers Ball and later cured cancer or the guy who played Panthers Ball, bummed around D3 and later got busted for coke trafficking? That sounds good until you start trying to implement. What defines success...what is the time line..etc. Loving husband and father to 3 kids, does that get you a picture? I thought of the same idea around 10 years ago when I was thinking of applying for a HC job at my alma mater--a school with very limited football success. I thought that if you could get the ball rolling with a few kids up on the wall in their college gear, it might help encourage others to work a little harder. Never really pursued the position, but several other thoughts popped into my head regarding the idea. Things such as what to do about injuries, leaving the team etc... Best bet might be to have a policy that keeps the picture up as long as they are in good standing with the team--maybe frame it when they graduate etc.
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Post by coachvann on Mar 1, 2011 6:09:24 GMT -6
coachd-great point!! Even at that, what if loving husband and father to 3 makes a mistake...we all are human! I was talking to a coach about this last night and he suggested that you put it up for the sake of the program...the program has helped a kid get to the door of a college or university and you want parents, boosters and future football players to see that...I thought that was a great point-part of selling your program.
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Post by outlawjoseywales on Mar 1, 2011 13:10:02 GMT -6
Coach Vann, Hows it going? Good to see you are still "fighting the fight" over there. Know your situation very well, as you know. Do y'all have a trophy case area? Most schools do. They way our school's guy is situated, you can't get into the gym without being squeezed by the trophy case. Then we have banner in the gym. I know that y'all have had super success over the years in basketball, but that is just because of where you are located. Anyway, our trophy case is such a fixture where we are that it has given us alot of pub over the years. But, I also understand the difference between an urban environment where you are and the hick-city enviroment where we are. I would have killed to have some of your skill players, man. Wish we could've work out a trade for some of my plow boys. Good to hear from you, did you make it to the Orlando Nike COY clinic this year? OJW
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Post by runtoball on Mar 1, 2011 13:29:25 GMT -6
I like the idea, but I would say it has to be measurable. My original plan was any all-state players we had. The school I'm at now hasn't had one in 10 years. So my hope is we will have one in the near future and I can start the tradition.
I remember reading something about Pelini coming into Nebraska, and Brian Kelly to ND. About how the guy before them had tried to sell recruits on what former players there had done in the NFL. They had put up pictures of former players with their NFL teams, showed highlights of them making plays in the NFL during games, etc. New guys came in and wanted to make it more of a "what can you do while you're here, for this school" and wanted to sell the tradition of the school. So they replaced all that with pictures of those players during the college days. I also remember the college I went to, the first time I went into the coach's office on recruiting trip. In the secretary's area they had up pictures of all the players who had ever earned all-american awards. Pretty cool.
This is what I want to try to do. Show examples of guys who did great things for your program while they were in school. I'm just torn on how you define "great things". Like others said, what if the kid that makes all state is a bum that never reached his full potential, but was an extremely gifted athlete (Albert Haynesworth type). Do I still put that on the wall? Or do I put up a picture of the 170 pound tackle who will never be anything above honorable mention all conference, but works his butt off to get his job done.
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Post by phantom on Mar 1, 2011 16:17:01 GMT -6
I like the idea, but I would say it has to be measurable. My original plan was any all-state players we had. The school I'm at now hasn't had one in 10 years. So my hope is we will have one in the near future and I can start the tradition. I remember reading something about Pelini coming into Nebraska, and Brian Kelly to ND. About how the guy before them had tried to sell recruits on what former players there had done in the NFL. They had put up pictures of former players with their NFL teams, showed highlights of them making plays in the NFL during games, etc. New guys came in and wanted to make it more of a "what can you do while you're here, for this school" and wanted to sell the tradition of the school. So they replaced all that with pictures of those players during the college days. I also remember the college I went to, the first time I went into the coach's office on recruiting trip. In the secretary's area they had up pictures of all the players who had ever earned all-american awards. Pretty cool. This is what I want to try to do. Show examples of guys who did great things for your program while they were in school. I'm just torn on how you define "great things". Like others said, what if the kid that makes all state is a bum that never reached his full potential, but was an extremely gifted athlete (Albert Haynesworth type). Do I still put that on the wall? Or do I put up a picture of the 170 pound tackle who will never be anything above honorable mention all conference, but works his butt off to get his job done. Start small. Start with All-League players. As you progress, make the requirements tougher but keep the original guys-the guys who got you going-up there.
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Post by z on Mar 1, 2011 18:41:08 GMT -6
We have a wall of fame (photos of all of our kids that play/played in college). We also have photos (in a separate section of the wall of all of our kids that played in all-star games-in their all-star uniforms). One of our ROTC instructors makes name plates (like you would see on an office door) of all of our kids that made at least one All-State team. These are done in a brushed brass finish and includes their name, the position that they played, and the year that they made All-State. The name plates do not cost us (just the cost of the material that they are made of). Those can be done in a brushed stainless as well.
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Post by bighit65 on Mar 1, 2011 20:09:31 GMT -6
Seeing the other wall of fame thread, I remembered that we are putting one together for our weight room. So my question is if anyone knows where to get materials for a giant dry erase board. We are thinking that we can split the board into sections for players names and current lifts as well as all time records. Any help is very appreciated.
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Post by dcinfla on Mar 2, 2011 0:08:36 GMT -6
You can get an 8' x 4' sheet at Lowes or Home Depot for $10.00 to $15.00. They will even cut it for you at no charge.
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Post by bighit65 on Mar 2, 2011 10:26:44 GMT -6
Really? That is good stuff dc. Much appreciated.
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Post by mattharris75 on Mar 2, 2011 11:58:29 GMT -6
One thing we're starting to do is to hang up banners in our weight room of our yearly 'Top Cat' award winner, which is the kid who has worked the hardest in the weight room and off-season program in general. Like the one attached. I also like the idea of doing a plaque with all-state players too. I'll have to see if we can institute that. This was the first year we've ever had all-state players, so it hasn't been an issue before.
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Post by runtoball on Mar 2, 2011 13:21:26 GMT -6
My wife and I made the one we have up. Got a sheet of shower board from our custodians. Then we stretched electric tape across it for black lines to separate it into blocks. Used regular paint to paint numbers/words on it (wife did, I have no artistic ability). It's not the best I've seen but it looks pretty decent. Plus they've never had anything like it here so the kids think it's the best thing they've ever seen. If I had a picture of it on here I'd post it, but don't at the moment.
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