flingt
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"We don't care how big or strong our opponents are as long as they're human.?
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Post by flingt on Nov 4, 2012 15:46:12 GMT -6
I need to work on translating what I learn through film study and applying it to game nights.
Anyone else want to confess?
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Post by jgordon1 on Nov 4, 2012 17:37:34 GMT -6
Taking a year off of HS football I found that I give way too little credit on how much the passing game has advanced at this level..with that being said, teams can't run the ball they way they used to..at least around here
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Post by amthd45 on Nov 4, 2012 19:27:48 GMT -6
Indeed Jgordan, same here. The passing game has advanced tremendously. When I played high school ball i was a Center in a Wing T off. In college, I played defense and we still saw the Power I, off tackle stuff. Now a days a good passing Team can tear you apart.
I have realized after 2 years of being a HC that I cannot do it all myself. I realize that just because a kid is an "athlete" he may not be a football player.
But the biggest confession is this.....Pep talks dont work for the most part. I was a very big believer in them for the longest time as an assistant coach. But they are not going to make a subpar team go out and beat a Goliath every Friday night.
Lastly I realize I have so much to learn about football, it isn't even funny!
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Post by rsmith627 on Nov 4, 2012 19:47:35 GMT -6
I have realized that I don't know it all. Had a stint as a freshman d coordinator last year and got humiliated (my players wouldn't play the way they were coached, so on some level we're all accountable). It was a tremendous learning experience, and next year I have a shot at being OC at the varsity level. We'll see if it happens and how it goes. Still waiting on the for sure nod from the HC.
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Post by td4tc on Nov 4, 2012 20:18:50 GMT -6
when i drink a little excessive, i can't help scheming up a bunch of new plays (or steal it off here) and try to put in too much for the kids to know...KISS principle is so boring
i should quit drinking and get back to basics
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Post by pirates2012 on Nov 4, 2012 20:20:52 GMT -6
spent the first year as a HC... learned a ton. Some what to do, some what not to do.
Was the offensive coordinator and I feel like I created questions where I was trying to find answers...
when something didn't work for a couple weeks I feel into a habit of installing another part of the play-book and trying that because I looked at some of the kids we had and said "Dude, we should be doing better"
we were okay, won a few district games, etc, but struggled at times...
as I reflect I realize it probably would have been better off if I had tweaked things maybe a little less and let the guys execute what we had in more and get really comfortable with it rather than trying to keep adding because I don't know how comfy they were with it at the end of the season...
if I could do something over again, that would probably be the big thing ...
oh, I agree on the film thing. I feel like I either talked too much and lost guys because of their attention span and I know guys sometimes thought I then went the other way and didn't talk enough.
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Post by mariner42 on Nov 5, 2012 3:09:32 GMT -6
I could've worked MUCH harder this year. Hate to say it, but I intentionally relaxed this season after the stress I put up with the last two years. I feel lousy about it, but at the same time, I know it's been good for me.
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Post by coachbuck on Nov 5, 2012 4:58:15 GMT -6
This was my first losing season in ten years. I USED to believe that I could coach any team to a win. Not anymore, I now realize you have to have talent. I have been blessed in my coaching career to have had talent. Hard lesson to learn. There is nothing worse than watching a talented team coached badly beat up on your well coached no talent team. I had my cup of humility this year.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2012 6:16:35 GMT -6
I need to see the game from the sideline better and make adjustments accordingly. Not sure where I lost this, and maybe it's a lack of good assistants around me (I only have one other coach with me) that's causing this, but I felt after watching film this season there was much more I could've done, esp. on defense.
I need to enjoy the season more. I'm coaching Jr. High and treating every game as the state championship...need to ease up a bit on that one. We went 7-1 this year, darn near won our league, best record in school history, and b/c of the one loss, and not winning the league, it means nothing to me. I feel as though the season didn't even happen. I feel as though we failed, and that I failed. Gotta let go, relax and enjoy coaching young men to do their best. I'm working on that though...
Duece
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Post by blb on Nov 5, 2012 6:52:00 GMT -6
I need to enjoy the season more. I'm coaching Jr. High and treating every game as the state championship...need to ease up a bit on that one. We went 7-1 this year, darn near won our league, best record in school history, and b/c of the one loss, and not winning the league, it means nothing to me. I feel as though the season didn't even happen. I feel as though we failed, and that I failed. Gotta let go, relax and enjoy coaching young men to do their best. I'm working on that though... Know exactly how you feel, Duece. Not easy to do. Don't know if it's competitiveness, pride, ego, or what. In my case it may be some type of perpetual and terminal immaturity or a psychological defect. But when you invest so much of yourself in something, it is hard to deal with any degree of failure at any level. |
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Post by fantom on Nov 5, 2012 9:42:39 GMT -6
In my case it may be some type of perpetual and terminal immaturity or a psychological defect. . Isn't that all of us? |
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Post by fantom on Nov 5, 2012 9:57:32 GMT -6
I need to learn more about some of the positions that I don't personally coach. I've been a DC and a DB coach for a long time. I've been blessed to have been on a veteran staff where we were all on the same page and had great DL coaches. That spoiled me. For over 20 years I just told the DL coach what we wanted to schematically and he did it.
This year I'm on a new staff. Our DL coach worked under a different system. It's not that he's a bad coach-far from it-but I did a poor job explaining how his guys fit in under this scheme. I couldn't help him because I haven't had to think about the DL for decades. That will change this offseason.
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wvcoach
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Post by wvcoach on Nov 5, 2012 21:27:53 GMT -6
I need to be totally unwavering.
If I establish a rule, I need to enforce it at all times. I didn't do that early on this year because I was often the only coach at practice and just didn't want to deal with the hassle.
I need to watch my mouth a bit more.
I need to keep parents out completely. If they want to be involved, they can join the boosters. No stats, no equipment manager, no water, etc. Find outsiders or other students for these jobs.
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Post by coachbuck on Nov 6, 2012 5:33:17 GMT -6
I need to enjoy the season more. I'm coaching Jr. High and treating every game as the state championship...need to ease up a bit on that one. We went 7-1 this year, darn near won our league, best record in school history, and b/c of the one loss, and not winning the league, it means nothing to me. I feel as though the season didn't even happen. I feel as though we failed, and that I failed. Gotta let go, relax and enjoy coaching young men to do their best. I'm working on that though... Duece That's where I am at too. We had a lot of crap going on this year and I should have risen above it and found better solutions instead of immersing myself in it. I realized this when I was basically chewing a parent out for "her and her son being distractions." But, I realized that I was letting them (and other parents/kids) distract me as well. I focused way too much on the PITA kids and not enough on the hard workers. And, the staff around me caused problems that I should have let go. I was p-ssed off at the world most of the season. This has been my year to a tee. |
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Post by bobdoc78 on Nov 6, 2012 15:25:11 GMT -6
I have been head coach/coordinator for a long time. This year coached oline and helped oc run option. I miss coordinating and want to do it again.
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Post by coachhart on Nov 7, 2012 12:34:05 GMT -6
Pass pro- I love to be creative with all of the concepts but if you can't protect it you're in trouble
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kyle
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Post by kyle on Nov 7, 2012 22:15:10 GMT -6
I'm not Catholic but...
We could use better mojo.
Our pregame was pretty bad in my opinion.
I wasn't an coordinator this year. I was just the guy who ran drills and took the left over kids during scrimmage, and that's a freaking blast. Not to mention, the kids who come with me have improved dramatically. It's really opened my eyes to what you can do when you're more focused on making football players than you are on running plays.
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Post by coachklee on Nov 8, 2012 8:37:30 GMT -6
I'm not Catholic but... We could use better mojo. Our pregame was pretty bad in my opinion. Are you talking about the pre-game locker room music? I was the new guy on staff so assumed that the players were allowed to listen to F#$& that B!#$&...F#$& that B!#$...because that was what they were going to do out on the game field in an hour or so. Not sure if that would be the same if I had more influence, but at least they always took time for a student led prayer just before we left the locker room... Aside from that, not having clear enough communication of what I thought we should be doing with the O-Line in front of the backfield and for not providing a more convincing argument that we were trying to do to much on the offensive side...maybe defensive side too. |
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Post by 33coach on Nov 9, 2012 12:46:49 GMT -6
I need to get better at coaching individual positions.
ever since i became a DC ive gotten worse at drilling individual positions, i attribute this to the fact that i am constantly looking at the big picture of the system but...i need to get better at it.
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Post by CoachCP on Nov 10, 2012 2:52:16 GMT -6
Season's not over yet, but I think the thing I need to be ready for next year is identifying safety run support and the box from the sideline. I regressed from last year. I much prefer the box, but I will need to be able to see on the sideline.
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Post by coachseth on Nov 10, 2012 4:10:22 GMT -6
I have learned that all the hard work in the world can't make teams magically win, you've got to have hard work from your coaches, your players, and support from boosters to make it run. The best scheme in the world can't work if you don't have the right horses to run it, and that's something I to this day have trouble understanding.
I also confess that sometimes I can be a bit arrogant, and slightly headstrong in my approach. I'm one of those kinda guys where I know it's going to work, and we're going to do it because that's the way it has been done for years and I dare the defense to try and stop us. One of these days that will bite me in the ass, I can just feel it.
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Post by champ93 on Nov 11, 2012 10:26:45 GMT -6
I need to get better at coaching individual positions. ever since i became a DC ive gotten worse at drilling individual positions, i attribute this to the fact that i am constantly looking at the big picture of the system but...i need to get better at it. +1 |
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Post by planck on Nov 11, 2012 19:51:46 GMT -6
I've got to learn that sometimes things go badly for us not because we didn't put in enough effort or weren't coached well enough but because the other team is trying to win, too. As crazy as it sounds, we're so used to just having our way with teams that it's easy to lose sight of the fact that weren't not in complete control all the time.
Sometimes the other team just makes a play. It doesn't have to constitute a global crisis on my part.
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Post by dbolen18 on Nov 12, 2012 3:17:45 GMT -6
Lastly I realize I have so much to learn about football, it isn't even funny! Yep this sums it up right here. As well as teaching fundamentals instead of trying to implement 5000 different things. |
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Post by mrjvi on Nov 12, 2012 6:24:40 GMT -6
I've been coaching 31 years 23 as a head hs coach. When we have a great off season strength committment we are very good. When it is poor, we vary depending on talent. This hasn't wavered. When our kids commit to strength we are very good even when we have low talent. DW? I also agree above with every time I try to get "fancy" with new stuff it always gets put second behind our tried and true basics. I am the opposite of a micromanager. I make my assistants accountable-I possibly need to shift a bit away from this because after 31 years there are some things that have to happen each year. I also coached line for the first time this season since a long time ago and I should have done that earlier.
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Post by emptybackfield on Nov 12, 2012 12:05:39 GMT -6
Just finished my first year as a coordinator, I need to learn to find the right balance between adding new wrinkles week to week and "doing what we do"
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Post by Chris Clement on Nov 12, 2012 19:59:56 GMT -6
I've got to learn that sometimes things go badly for us not because we didn't put in enough effort or weren't coached well enough but because the other team is trying to win, too. As crazy as it sounds, we're so used to just having our way with teams that it's easy to lose sight of the fact that weren't not in complete control all the time. Sometimes the other team just makes a play. It doesn't have to constitute a global crisis on my part. Poor baby! |
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Post by coachbuck on Nov 13, 2012 7:06:40 GMT -6
Was thinking about this question and reviewing the year I had. I dont take losing good. Let me clarify. None of us take losing good but I mean it affects my life to much. My mood around my kids, wife, friends and work. I need to follow the adage dont let the highs get to high or the lows get to low. If I cant manage this I wont be in coaching much longer or Ill be without a wife. I was simply miserable to be around after our H.S. games.
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Post by pirates2012 on Nov 16, 2012 13:10:26 GMT -6
Just finished my first year as a coordinator, I need to learn to find the right balance between adding new wrinkles week to week and "doing what we do" Lord knows I agree with this. I wanted to try to spread the field but still run a Flexbone this year and in rewatching film again we were far more spread than flex... something I hope to change next year |
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Post by jaylyman1 on Nov 16, 2012 22:52:15 GMT -6
I need to see the game from the sideline better and make adjustments accordingly. Not sure where I lost this, and maybe it's a lack of good assistants around me (I only have one other coach with me) that's causing this, but I felt after watching film this season there was much more I could've done, esp. on defense. I need to enjoy the season more. I'm coaching Jr. High and treating every game as the state championship...need to ease up a bit on that one. We went 7-1 this year, darn near won our league, best record in school history, and b/c of the one loss, and not winning the league, it means nothing to me. I feel as though the season didn't even happen. I feel as though we failed, and that I failed. Gotta let go, relax and enjoy coaching young men to do their best. I'm working on that though... Duece Dude this me... Just finished my first season as Freshman head coach/OC and we beat a team that had a 31 game winning streak in our league. Proudest coaching moment I've ever had... After that game went .500!! And now that my season is over I'm miserable... We were so skilled but so small and weak up front... Just want to rewind and fix my mistakes! |
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