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Post by John Knight on Oct 18, 2011 12:34:06 GMT -6
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irish85
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Post by irish85 on Oct 18, 2011 16:04:02 GMT -6
Interesting. Anybody use this at the high school level?
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Post by fantom on Oct 18, 2011 16:25:47 GMT -6
We've done that. When we were getting ready for a team that we expected to be chippy we've told our scout teamers to talk a lot of smack. You do need to stay on your toes as coaches.
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Post by fballcoachg on Oct 18, 2011 16:58:21 GMT -6
We've done that. When we were getting ready for a team that we expected to be chippy we've told our scout teamers to talk a lot of smack. You do need to stay on your toes as coaches. It can be a beneficial practice but definitely stay on your toes. I pump up our scout O and let them gass the D up a bit, possibly adding some fuel to the fire from time to time. 2 main suggestions I would have, as Fantom said stay on top of it, make sure you are reading emotions and reigning it in when you have to. Secondly, make sure the other coaches know what you are doing, sometimes they can get as gassed up as the kids when a 9th or 10th grader gashes the varsity, I've seen that first hand a time or two! |
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Post by grouchy71 on Oct 18, 2011 20:48:29 GMT -6
We did this starting a couple of weeks ago when I wasn't pleased with how we were responding to a team that liked to chat a lot during games. I made an announcement that any player who was found to be talking trash to an opponent would be yanked from the game until I was no longer irritated with him. For example, a kid who was a model citizen all year, and had one slip up, I probably wouldn't be irritated more than a couple plays. A couple of the habitual head cases though, might irritate me to the point that they may not get in until the following week. To follow up on this we oriented the scout team to talk as much trash as possible and to let us know if the starters responded. Each time a starter responded, we'd have them run a lap. They figured it out pretty quick, and we've noticed a definite improvement in chippy games. Plus, it's a hell of a lot of fun for the scout team guys...
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