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Post by backercoach on Dec 27, 2006 12:01:10 GMT -6
What do you guys find the most beneficial in the off-season to enhance your knowledge for the game and your coaching?
1. Clinics 2. Meeting with other staffs 3. This site! (everything about it, discussions, playbooks, links, ect) 4. Watching film (on us, other teams, college games that run our sytems) 5. Coaching Books (those are getting old though)
Never got into videos because they are too much money. So that is my order, I would love to see some others....
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Post by bluboy on Dec 27, 2006 12:10:37 GMT -6
#1 is meeting with other staffs/coaches. Doing this allows me to get everything I need to know and not just enough to shoot myself in the foot. #2 is clinics. I can get ideas and in many cases find people to contact. #3 is this site and a few others. I have gained a great deal of knowledge through this site. #4 is Bill Williams and the FCPGA. The reason this is 4th is that I no longer am a member. One school t hat I coached at paid for a membership. I got a ton of apes and learned a bunch. I highly recommend this if the $$$ is not a problem.
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Post by coachbw on Dec 27, 2006 12:59:45 GMT -6
1. Meeting with Staffs 2. This site and other communications with coaches 3. Videos 4. Clinics
The thing I really like about meeting with staffs is you can focus on exactly what you want to get better at. If you want to improve your screen game, find a school with a good screen game and go talk to them. With clinics, there is always something interesting to sit in on, but it isn't always something that you directly need to address in your program at the time.
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Post by brophy on Dec 27, 2006 14:52:37 GMT -6
1. Meeting with staffs 2. Clinics 3. Networking and being humble.
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Post by ocinaz on Dec 27, 2006 15:45:15 GMT -6
We did not make the playoffs this year, so after our season ended, I would visit a local school that had a good playoff run, so I got to see a lot...Great staff and very helpful. Just depends on the clinic topic, sometimes they tend to stray from the actual topic, but we are going to have 2 here in AZ and I will be at both...Really enjoy this site, it has helped me more than I could ever imagine, just to hear and see what other coaches are doing really helps me out.
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coachf
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Post by coachf on Dec 27, 2006 17:29:19 GMT -6
#1- Talking to my hopeful new assistant coach #2- Clinics #3- Talking to my old Head Coach so I can kick his butt next year (notice I said "I" not my team larrymoe, although I would like that to happen too.) #4- Videos & Books- I live off of these things #5- this site.
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Post by saintrad on Dec 28, 2006 0:10:56 GMT -6
I wonder if my district would pay for my "professional development" for a trip to Vegas for the NIKE clinic or to a Glazier Clinic? hmmm
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Post by Mav on Dec 28, 2006 10:50:37 GMT -6
#1 - this site- because it triggers ideas for further research with books, videos, etc #2 - Books - like to follow up with videos to confirm what I'm envisioning. FCPGA videos are like a book(very detailed), video(visually represented) and a clinic, rolled into one - great stuff. #3 - Clinics - especially break out sessions where you can get into the detail. This site has made clinics drop in importance -- it's like getting a mini clinic on-demand. #4 - Meeting with the staff - wish this wasn't 4th... Working on setting up meetings with other staffs this off-season.
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Post by fbdoc on Dec 28, 2006 10:59:26 GMT -6
Clinics are my favorite. The sessions - the formal ones and the informal ones over beers - allow for quite a bit of information to be exchanged.
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Post by larrymoe on Dec 28, 2006 18:08:33 GMT -6
#1- Talking to my hopeful new assistant coach #2- Clinics #3- Talking to my old Head Coach so I can kick his butt next year (notice I said "I" not my team larrymoe, although I would like that to happen too.)#4- Videos & Books- I live off of these things #5- this site. BITE ME!
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Post by coachcb on Dec 30, 2006 11:21:37 GMT -6
Don't forget to keep your staff in contact with the kids.
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