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Post by dport on Apr 17, 2015 12:40:09 GMT -6
First time you are meeting with your team as a new head coach. What do you say?
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Post by blackknight on Apr 17, 2015 15:28:21 GMT -6
"Gentlemen, this is a football."
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Post by spos21ram on Apr 17, 2015 15:34:03 GMT -6
"Gentlemen, this is a football." Me being Italian thought you were being funny in a broken English accent. Took me 5 minutes to realize you meant it as a joke about showing the kids what a football is. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using proboards |
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Post by fantom on May 19, 2015 7:22:24 GMT -6
"Gentlemen, this is a football." Me being Italian thought you were being funny in a broken English accent. Took me 5 minutes to realize you meant it as a joke about showing the kids what a football is. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using proboards That's a-funny. |
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Post by natenator on May 19, 2015 9:01:47 GMT -6
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Post by WingTheT on May 19, 2015 9:07:20 GMT -6
Why do you play football? "Football is fun.....sir...." |
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Post by natenator on May 19, 2015 9:09:14 GMT -6
Why do you play football? "Football is fun.....sir...." It goes like... Boone: "Put your hand down. You're smiling. Why are you smiling?" Petey: "Because I love football. Football's fun"  |
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Post by blb on May 19, 2015 9:14:06 GMT -6
Our kids seemed to get a kick out of it when I would say, "This isn't Burger King, you don't 'Have it Your Way' here!"
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Post by natenator on May 19, 2015 9:20:20 GMT -6
Our kids seemed to get a kick out of it when I would say, "This isn't Burger King, you don't 'Have it Your Way' here!" Lol that's a good one! |
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Post by WingTheT on May 19, 2015 9:28:54 GMT -6
It goes like... Boone: "Put your hand down. You're smiling. Why are you smiling?" Petey: "Because I love football. Football's fun" The one quote that I use from the movie is "He's gettin' beat like he stole something!" I usually tell that to my players when they're getting beat (obviously) by the opposition. They don't pick up the reference but at least I enjoy it ha... but if it's still a problem, I tell them that if they keep getting beat, I'll beat them like a pinata..... They kinda of laugh but also have that "oh crap, is he serious?" look on their face and do better the next time  |
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Post by John Knight on May 19, 2015 9:47:21 GMT -6
I say he is getting beat like a Red Headed Step Child!!! I laugh a little inside every time!!
But I have threatened to "kick them in their JOHN BROWN Hind parts!"
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Post by shocktroop34 on May 19, 2015 10:03:46 GMT -6
Wally Pip.
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Post by fantom on May 19, 2015 10:18:58 GMT -6
I tell my kids the Wally Pipp story the first day every year. If I forget a veteran player will remind me. I guess they think his name is funny. |
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Post by realdawg on May 19, 2015 10:27:09 GMT -6
I reference Wally Pipp often. Actually just did it yesterday. We started our 10 spring practices yesterday and I have a returning starter at safety who starts on our baseball team which in in the 3rd rd of the playoffs. I told him not to be the next Wally Pipp then told him to go look it up. Lol
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Post by John Knight on May 19, 2015 10:52:22 GMT -6
I am retired and I had to look that one up.
It is a big myth BTW
PIPP THE MYTH
It’s true that Gehrig took Pipp’s job. It’s not true, though, that the veteran lost it because of an achy skull. (“Please don’t believe that aspirin story,” Pipp once said. “It just isn’t true.”) If anything, Pipp lost his job because the Yankees were playing terrible. The Bombers were 15-26 and had lost five straight. By June 2, Huggins had seen enough. He benched six starters—including a slumping Pipp—and gave the team’s youngsters a shot.
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Post by blb on May 19, 2015 10:53:39 GMT -6
I use Drew Bledsoe getting injured (instead of Wally Pipp and his headache), a skinny, low-round draft choice from Michigan named Brady coming off the bench to replace him, and the rest as they say being history.
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Post by fantom on May 19, 2015 11:42:10 GMT -6
I am retired and I had to look that one up. It is a big myth BTW PIPP THE MYTH It’s true that Gehrig took Pipp’s job. It’s not true, though, that the veteran lost it because of an achy skull. (“Please don’t believe that aspirin story,” Pipp once said. “It just isn’t true.”) If anything, Pipp lost his job because the Yankees were playing terrible. The Bombers were 15-26 and had lost five straight. By June 2, Huggins had seen enough. He benched six starters—including a slumping Pipp—and gave the team’s youngsters a shot. I know it's a myth but the kids don't know that. I also know that the "throwing snowballs at Santa Claus" thing is mostly a myth but I still bust my Philly buddies' nads about it. |
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Post by Coach Bennett on May 19, 2015 13:04:15 GMT -6
Be yourself.
Tell the kids you will be demanding but firm, fair and consistent.
From there, communicate your expectations.
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Post by John Knight on May 20, 2015 6:26:49 GMT -6
Is that like the Jersey Devil or Mothman, fantom??
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Post by fantom on May 20, 2015 8:13:01 GMT -6
Is that like the Jersey Devil or Mothman, fantom?? Oh no, no, no. Those are real. |
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Post by tcbxxvi on May 31, 2015 19:31:19 GMT -6
"I know you didn't choose me....but I chose you."
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Post by eaglemountie on May 31, 2015 19:33:20 GMT -6
We set the bar high and we are still working to meet those goals three years later.
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