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Post by coachbuck on Aug 7, 2012 22:54:55 GMT -6
Man we looked so soft. Pillows hitting each other is best way to describe it. I don't ever recall a team so soft. 80% of my guys never played football. Been doing small groups all of july. I don't think these guys get big picture of football. Im not a big scrimmage all practice but im thinking this may help them see big picture better. I was simply stunned how soft we where today. Freshman team for what its worth.
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Post by jturner on Aug 8, 2012 9:42:05 GMT -6
Man we looked so soft. Pillows hitting each other is best way to describe it. I don't ever recall a team so soft. 80% of my guys never played football. Been doing small groups all of july. I don't think these guys get big picture of football. This is pretty much us, except for our guys have played for 2-3 years. Add that in with the Athletic Trainer handing out concussions and doc visits like she gets a commission. (She doesn't get paid by the school, but by the local hospital.) We had a kid who had a bump on his arm and she sent him in to get an X-Ray. The player told me that the doctor basically laughed when he saw it, and told the player to get out of his office, because he was fine. We started out with 36 players at the start of 2 a days. We are now only going to be able dress 25 people for the scrimmage this Friday night due to injuries, and having 1 kid quit after getting a separated shoulder, and another due to losing his eligibility due to poor attendance. Even worse, the header and I get a text last night from the same kid who had the arm boo boo, saying that he was going to miss the scrimmage due to a church function. So as the OL/DL coach, I started out with 11 people who could play OL and 7 to play DT. After concussions and other miscellaneous happenings, I'm down to 6 OL guys and 3 DTs. I'm at a 1a school, so this isn't terrible, but the school we scrimmage is double our school size and has 60+ kids. Add that with the fact that we play a team that made it to the state semifinals in Week 1...FML In conclusion, it could be worse. |
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Post by kyle on Aug 8, 2012 17:00:22 GMT -6
Man we looked so soft. Pillows hitting each other is best way to describe it. I don't ever recall a team so soft. 80% of my guys never played football. Been doing small groups all of july. I don't think these guys get big picture of football. Im not a big scrimmage all practice but im thinking this may help them see big picture better. I was simply stunned how soft we where today. Freshman team for what its worth. How is scrimmaging all day going to teach kids how to hit? |
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Post by wingtol on Aug 8, 2012 19:37:38 GMT -6
Nothing will ruin a program quicker than an over zealous trainer.
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Post by coachbuck on Aug 8, 2012 20:42:16 GMT -6
I feel a little better about our team, glad to see im not only one with these issues. About the scrimmage issue. I don't know if it will get them hitting better but if d is reading there keys and reacting they get a better picture of the game. We are a dw double te team, we ran super power literally for 2hrs.
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Post by fballcoachg on Aug 8, 2012 21:47:56 GMT -6
Dc I made a comment similar to that but being in the bible belt it wasn't met with much laughter either.
As for hitting, they are inexperienced freshman, some are going to be tentative by nature, teach them form and find some drills to progressively work on the skills and set them up for success. When they see it doesn't hurt that much and it's better to hit then be hit they should , hopefully, come around and be more comfortable. Hold them to high expectations but understand very few of us were wrecking balls as 9th graders.
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Post by jturner on Aug 8, 2012 21:51:06 GMT -6
This is pretty much us, except for our guys have played for 2-3 years. Add that in with the Athletic Trainer handing out concussions and doc visits like she gets a commission. (She doesn't get paid by the school, but by the local hospital.) We had a kid who had a bump on his arm and she sent him in to get an X-Ray. The player told me that the doctor basically laughed when he saw it, and told the player to get out of his office, because he was fine. We started out with 36 players at the start of 2 a days. We are now only going to be able dress 25 people for the scrimmage this Friday night due to injuries, and having 1 kid quit after getting a separated shoulder, and another due to losing his eligibility due to poor attendance. Even worse, the header and I get a text last night from the same kid who had the arm boo boo, saying that he was going to miss the scrimmage due to a church function. So as the OL/DL coach, I started out with 11 people who could play OL and 7 to play DT. After concussions and other miscellaneous happenings, I'm down to 6 OL guys and 3 DTs. I'm at a 1a school, so this isn't terrible, but the school we scrimmage is double our school size and has 60+ kids. Add that with the fact that we play a team that made it to the state semifinals in Week 1...FML In conclusion, it could be worse. Are you on my coaching staff? "Athletic Trainer handing out concussions and doc visits like she gets a commission." - Check. (although to be fair, since our 'come to Jesus' session she's been much better. That's a good story.) We had 47 kids on day 1, last monday. 27 at practice on saturday, 31 on monday...44 for the scrimmage on tuesday. Last friday 3 texted me telling me they wanted to miss practice to go to a church function - which was basically a swim party. I let them make their own decision, the skipped. I took their equipment. One's mother called me and didn't understand why I took their equipment because it was a church function. I told her "Jesus Loves High School Football and was disappointed the boys skipped practice to go swimming." - she responded "I don't think that's funny" and hung up. Damm...one less Christmas card this year... We are a D2 school (2nd largest in Ohio), we have just under 1000 kids in our school, less than 50 9-12 for football. We have 9 varsity linemen total. Skill kids out the wazu...but not really "skill skill" just skinnier kids who can't play O/D line. But we looked OK in our scrimmage on Tuesday. Not world beaters but better than last year. Though the bar from last year is more of a stripe than a bar. Stay healthy my friend. Thanks for the well wishes, and I must say that is spooky reading some of your older posts as we are going through the same things. I just wish my header had the same sense of humor. It would add more spice to the situation. |
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Post by rsmith627 on Aug 8, 2012 22:06:31 GMT -6
Our trainer is the same way. It's hard to stay mad at her though. She's very very easy on the eyes.
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coachriley
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Post by coachriley on Aug 8, 2012 22:36:47 GMT -6
Honestly coach, as you said it is a freshman team, i figured that was normal. Like it was said before it will just them getting use to contact and learning its better to deliver the hit.
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Post by coachbuck on Aug 9, 2012 1:29:24 GMT -6
Honestly coach, as you said it is a freshman team, i figured that was normal. Like it was said before it will just them getting use to contact and learning its better to deliver the hit. Sent from my MB865 using proboards Ive been a fresh coach a few years, this hasnt been my normal for me. In all fairness though I think I expected to much from my guys day one. |
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Post by IronmanFootball on Aug 9, 2012 9:10:15 GMT -6
We'll go into hit day with 13-14 kids there... Over a dozen kids have come for one day and disappeared. Just a painfully soft upper SES environment. We'll barely even have a hit day. Just more gear and quicker whistles...
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Post by coachbuck on Aug 11, 2012 15:21:00 GMT -6
Well a little better news, we played our jv today live scrimmage and we won 21. 7. Feeling better, still alot work.
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Post by coachbuck on Aug 24, 2012 7:19:44 GMT -6
Well we won our first game pretty easy. We scored everytime we had the ball except for one fumble. Our defense gave up 12 points. They need the most work, but our dw was devastating to our opponent. It will be interesting the next week. We play a school that has 3000 students, we have 1200. All in all the kids are gelling together and have improved alot.
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Post by coachbuck on Aug 24, 2012 9:30:23 GMT -6
I have ten plays on my team. We called six all game. It worked out, good luck dcohio!
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