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Post by coachirish on Jul 17, 2014 20:38:11 GMT -6
My first ever season as a head coach we had 26 on the team. This season we are at 26 again. I once saw a 18 player team have an 8 win season. We have about 200 boys in the school and have had success but for whatever reason playing football is not what alot of these kids want to do. however,ill take 25 tough, hard workers over 50 soft, lazy kids. anybody have low numbers more often than not?
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Post by fantom on Jul 17, 2014 20:43:01 GMT -6
My first ever season as a head coach we had 26 on the team. This season we are at 26 again. I once saw a 18 player team have an 8 win season. We have about 200 boys in the school and have had success but for whatever reason playing football is not what alot of these kids want to do. however,ill take 25 tough, hard workers over 50 soft, lazy kids. anybody have low numbers more often than not? As a player, once went to a JV game with 12 guys and one got kicked out. |
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Post by veerman on Jul 17, 2014 21:40:47 GMT -6
17, and only about 8 of them could line up. Needless to say it was an 0-10 team.
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orion320
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Post by orion320 on Jul 17, 2014 21:40:50 GMT -6
Smallest teams I've coached and final record:
Varsity - 24 (5-5)
JV - 23 - (7-2)
Frosh - 18 (5-4)
This year we have 41 at the varsity level. Best numbers in about 10 years.
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Post by biggus3 on Jul 17, 2014 21:41:18 GMT -6
I've always coached in larger schools. 20 guys sounds like quite a challenge. It seems to me that they would have quite a bit of accountability towards each other because everyone would notice if they weren't around. I don't think I would ever go live in practice though.
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Post by coachjm on Jul 17, 2014 21:46:34 GMT -6
We are at a small school now although I have coached at both large and small schools. Our first year at this school we had 17 JV and 17 varsity players. We are now currently at 27 Varsity players and 26 JV players and it almost feels like we have too many, not as much individual attention, harder to find roles for all kids, ect.
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Post by resdeal on Jul 17, 2014 22:20:21 GMT -6
One of our best teams in school history went 10-2 with 17 players total. As an assistant coach, I was the scout team QB and DB. We had about 80 boys in the school.
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Post by carookie on Jul 17, 2014 23:01:03 GMT -6
I am at a small private school (less than 300 with about 50 pf them being foreign born) come the start of the season we'll have about 40-45 all told in the program. Everyone suits up for varsity games, we all practice together so its only fair (and unfortunately a wise precaution); JV, thats another matter. We've rolled into some games with under 20.
Heck last year we took our 22 man JV squad into several games against big public schools who suited up over 60. It can get rough when injuries hit, or those Aug/Sep games with temps still in the 100s
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Post by Enrico B. on Jul 18, 2014 4:29:29 GMT -6
I coached an Under 19 team (9-Man football) in Italy with 14 players.
Finished the season 1-5, but we won our last game against the top team in our division. They finished the regular season 5-1.
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Post by blb on Jul 18, 2014 4:47:40 GMT -6
We are now currently at 27 Varsity players and 26 JV players and it almost feels like we have too many
Ha ha, that's the price of popularity (and success), J.
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Post by coachfloyd on Jul 18, 2014 6:24:59 GMT -6
When I was a senior we had 39 playing in the highest classification in GA. We went 8-3 but could have easily been 3-8. We just didn't know any better.
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Post by jsk002 on Jul 18, 2014 6:35:54 GMT -6
I've coached two teams that were 21 Kids (10 - 12th graders). The first team was awful and lasted only 4 games before injuries happened and we had to forfeit. The second team went 5-5 and made the playoffs.
JV is another story. We've taken 13 kids to games before.
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Post by shocktroop34 on Jul 18, 2014 6:42:00 GMT -6
Once had a team that started with 22 and finished with 17. Went 4-5.
Once had b-ball team that got hit with the flu. Got on the bus with 6. One got sick on the way. Another fouled out in the 3rd. Finished with 4. Lost by 8.
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Post by coachfloyd on Jul 18, 2014 6:44:57 GMT -6
One jv team I had played with no qb one time and we almost won. He quit the day before the last game and the principal wouldn't let us forfeit because of the cheerleaders. I didnt have a guy on the team that could take a snap. We were wishbone/flexbone and spent the whole game in the gun running Run Left/Right, Pass right/Pass left.
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Post by tango on Jul 18, 2014 7:15:40 GMT -6
Assistant coach and finished with the 12 toughest kids I have ever seen. Went 1-9 with one kid that was the backup at every position except center. We would call time out to switch his number.
Head coach the next year with 18 and finished 7-4. The kids would get mad when we put in a sub. Tough bunch and we were not very talented but hard nosed kids.
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Post by doublewing on Jul 18, 2014 7:17:01 GMT -6
My 1st head coaching job ever was at a small catholic school in SE Ohio. Had 76 kids top 4 grades. My second year we had 15 on the team, and still pulled off a winning season. Taught me a lesson I have always carried with me.......it's better to have kids that WANT to play and regardless of the size of the school you face, they can only put 11 on the field at one time, and they are all teenagers . Without question, still my fondest and most rewarding experience of my career
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Post by coachphillip on Jul 18, 2014 9:02:10 GMT -6
17 kids on the JV, we went 3-7. Had a practice on Halloween where there were five kids and four coaches. Had our starting QB pulled up the last game of the season, we went in with 16. OC installed three plays as our whole offensive package that game: 1) Peanut Butter - Pass block - verts. 2) Jelly - QB sweep left or right. 3) Peanut Butter and Jelly - QB sweep pass. It was awful. Our HC was incompetent. Our RB coach was a homeless buddy of the HC. Not even joking. Thank god that it's over.
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Post by bruceeien on Jul 18, 2014 11:17:31 GMT -6
I have coached a few years with 16-17 players. One year we went 8-3 and made it to the quarterfinal slowing to the eventually champions
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Post by freezeoption on Jul 18, 2014 11:48:28 GMT -6
one year had 11 on 8 man team, once played a team with 9, smallest number in 11 man was 17, one of the best teams in in the 80's or early 90s can remember, in this state, was a team that won state I think 2 yrs in a row with 15 players in 11 man football, one of the players ended up going to the nfl. I once had a girls bball team with 6 players, one game I had one on grade check so couldn't play, so had 5, was beating, a team at half, came out, had a girl foul out, had a girl get a concussion, played with 3, sobs pressed me and ending up winning,
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2014 12:55:36 GMT -6
When I was in HS, I played on a varsity team with 23 players at a school of 900. We did have a freshman squad of 13 and didn't combine them.
Last year, we played a team who started the year with 20 kids and brought 14 "healthy" to play us, then had 2 more get hurt in our game. Our state mandates 13 to kick off. They had 5 games left. School had around 300 enrollment.
We also played the smallest school with an 11 man program in the state (9-12 enrollment of 120). They dressed around 25, but half those were 8th graders and freshmen. They still beat us.
The years before that, the school I'd coached at started the seasons with 16 and 18 kids, respectively. That included freshmen.
All of this is 11 man football.
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Post by creid on Jul 18, 2014 15:48:04 GMT -6
Was hired as part if a new staff in late July at at D-3 school. We were given a list of 50-60 players in program. As we started to reach out, several were ineligable and a couple weren't even enrolled. Started with 24, finished season with 18 in uniform maybe 20 or 21 still on roster. Tough group of guys to play 10 college football games against squads with 100 players. Will always respect what those kids did that year.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2014 12:49:58 GMT -6
Played with 16 one time. Wouldn't call them all "players" (lol), probably had 5 players. Went 1-9 with them. Smallest HS team, was 24, we went 7-4 w/that group when nobody gave us a chance.
Duece
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Post by kboyd on Jul 19, 2014 16:58:08 GMT -6
18 warm bodies for 12-man football. Maybe 4 decent players. We went o-fer that year.
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Post by falcon44 on Jul 19, 2014 19:55:47 GMT -6
13-15 for 11 man HS Varsity and made it through the season. Didnt win a game but it was about more than that.Kids were Juvenile Del in a facility with the majority never playing organized football.It was about saving 1 life than it was all worth it.We did it for 2 years and it was the hardest thing i ever did. 2 of the kids were murdered and some ended up in prison but the majority are hard working citizens that keep in touch with me to this day.Best thing I ever did.Also the hardest!
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Post by coachguy83 on Jul 19, 2014 23:22:02 GMT -6
My first year coaching youth ball we had 15. We played a game on Labor Day weekend with 13. Luckily 3rd and 4th graders don't really get tired and they rarely get hurt.
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Post by bluedevils10 on Jul 20, 2014 19:22:57 GMT -6
1st year HC:
24 on roster, could easily see 3 not play. Had 3 not come back to play football this year from last year team. Just need to keep coaching the kids that want to be there
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Post by dlundberg on Jul 20, 2014 19:36:58 GMT -6
Have seen a team with about 40(if I remember right) win a state championship at the 3A level in AL
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Post by apacheblood on Jul 20, 2014 19:50:57 GMT -6
Made playoffs with 17 guys. Had 26 at the start of the year ,but injuries and a couple of grades hurt us. The bad thing was the JV team only had 13 guys as well. Never been so proud of a bunch of kids, but I sure would like to have 30 guys like the opposition.
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Post by coachrdc on Jul 20, 2014 21:15:55 GMT -6
My first year coaching we took a JV team of just 13 to an away game, our last one of the year. 2 got injured in the first 4 minutes... rough night. Kids played hard though.
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Post by flyinghelmet on Jul 20, 2014 22:08:45 GMT -6
All my life I have been on 5a/6a teams in GA. So, 200 kids in the spring was not uncommon. Now, I work at a single A private school in GA. 41 in the program, 9-12. MAJOR SWITCH.
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