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Post by smfreeman on Jul 7, 2015 16:04:31 GMT -6
I'm new to Texas and blessed to be here getting a chance to coach football. I'm not an expert on Texas High School football but as an HC in a smaller state with limited coaches, kids, and resources I put in 80 hours a week easily. It is really easy to rack up hours when you are in season. Coach Huey is spot on and I have really been working on the aspect that when I am home I have to be "ALL IN" with family. I have to make time valuable with my wife as easy as it sounds its really hard when you are an ultra competitor and want to win so bad. Also it is easy for me to see that a AD and HC of a large 6A high school that plays in probably the best high school football area in the country with great teams that they have to beat putting in 90 hours.
For the OP I think that no matter where you go and what you do if you want to be great at anything you have to basically be addicted to it. You are going to put in hours to be great. If I want to start my own business and be a billionaire I am going to have to work long hard hours to be great. If I want to cure cancer I am going to spend hours on hours doing research and tests. I talked to my wife about how this is my calling and this is what it takes. My wife is apart of my coaching career and she sees that the hours I work are important. Out of season and off times I try to go all out with my family making it my priority for that time available. Hope this helps but never be worried about hours in the day just make the most out of every hour.
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Post by football365 on Jul 7, 2015 18:56:23 GMT -6
I think it's a matter of time management. I put in close to 90 hours a week, have 1.5 days off for the family on the weekends, and 2 hours a night with family Monday-Thursday.
There are sacrifices though: I do not sleep as much as I would like to, and I do not watch a lot of football in real time either. I watch NFL games on Game Rewind, I watch college games I recorded earlier in the day on DVR at night.... I really don't need to know anything more than score in real time, and I can rewatch plays or portions of games if I am really curious. I more like to watch to see what teams are doing.
I basically have traded all of the football watching I used to do for family time. That being said, I thought about taking time off from coaching, had an opportunity open up a month ago, and my wife was the one talking me into coaching because she knows I love it, even though it's a time commitment.... Building in time for family goes a long way to building goodwill in the house! (Also getting the family team swag/gear/etc goes a long way too!)
Here's my day in season if anyone's curious:
Monday - Wednesday 5am: Wake Up 6am - 7:30am: Make sure I have my lesson plan finished, materials printed, room is set up, etc., finish grading. 7:30am - 8:00am: Me Time 8am - 11:30am: Teach ( I only have 1 prep) 11:30am - 12:50: Eat lunch, go to meetings, look at practice plan coordinator sent me (sends one daily the night before or morning of) 12:50pm - 2:15pm: Teach 2:15pm - 3:30pm: Finish planning my Indy time. If time is left over, either plan or grade for tomorrow. 3:30pm - 6pm: Get to practice, practice, etc. 6:30 or 7pm: Home 7pm - 9pm: Time with wife and kids, no work 9pm - 11pm: Finish up any grading or lesson planning needed for the next day.
About 14 hours * 3 days = 52 hours
Thursday: Similar day as above, however I typically do not have to do any work from 9pm-11pm. On walkthrough day, I do not have to spend any time during my planning periods for football (we just do our pre-game routine, and team), so I can usually get everything set up for my classes on Friday before leaving for the day. I also do a lot of quizzes and tests on Fridays and often times I have my assessments already written.
12 hours * 1 day = 12 hours
Friday 7:30-11pm: Get to work, teach, grade, be planned for Monday before I leave. Then all of the gameday stuff and usually home by 11pm.
14.5 hours * 1 day = 14.5 hours
Saturday 5am: Wake Up 5:30am - 7am: Breakdown and grade film at home. 7:30am-9am: Finish breaking down and grading film with staff. 9am - 11am: Practice and film review 11am - 1pm: Opponent scout (I am responsible for 1 piece)
7 hrs * 1 day = 7 hrs
Sunday 7am-9am: Staff meeting to come up with practice plan for the week
2 hrs * 1 day = 2 hrs
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Post by cookiemonster on Jul 7, 2015 21:51:16 GMT -6
We use the same setup as Huey except we don't go past 2PM on Saturday (I'm usually falling to sleep at this time) and we come back on Sunday from 2PM after Church until we are done usually around 8PM. Offensive Staff has the Freshman in the morning on Tuesday and Wednesday and Defense has them on Monday and the second part of Wednesday. We meet with our Varsity Groups if we don't have the Freshman that day. I love getting them taken care of in the morning and then they can get extra help with academics after school.
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Post by gambler00 on Jul 7, 2015 22:20:15 GMT -6
Huey great point about time out of the office. The biggest area I see guys wasting time outside the office is not being prepared for meetings inside the office. I like how your staff embraces technology and resources to make meetings Efficient. I don't see how the average high school teacher coach can put in less than 80 hours a week working and do the job.
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Post by fantom on Jul 7, 2015 23:18:37 GMT -6
we had 8 coaches - 4 offense & 4 defense we had around 40 to 50 freshmen every year with another 85-95 between the jv & varsity...that's pretty good for a school with around 250 boys total, 9-12. freshmen don't come back after school except on thursday for their games. when freshmen were doing offense, it allowed the defensive guys to do whatever they needed to do - i.e. meet as staff, tend to classroom stuff, etc. when freshmen were practicing defense we might meet to discuss varsity practice from day before, hash out any particulars for that afternoon's practice, or simply get caught up on grading papers ... just depended. without walking in another man's shoes, it's hard to say a staff is inefficient or ineffective or type a, or whatever. i don't completely understand all the inner-workings of football across the country so i try to refrain from speaking on it as to it being "good" or "bad" or "inefficient" or whatever. do i find the title of "jv hc/oc" as laughable because titles such as those here are meaningless? well, i shouldn't because i don't understand the dynamics and workings of the athletic arena in those states. so, for those of you poo-pooing how we have done things the past 7 years with 8 coaches and around 140 kids while teaching a full course load, carrying 3 football teams, coaching 2nd and even 3rd sports--- oh, and helping with our junior program, well.... just like in other areas, things are a little different here. being "at the office" 12-13 hours a day during football season isn't really that much of a stretch and not that taxing of a workload. the key isn't the time at the office, it's how you maximize your time away from the office. I'm not pooh-poohing what you do. In fact, I think that the system there is the reason why you guys have such a huge workload. For a team that platoons with a rooster that size, eight coaches isn't enough. We have nine but some are volunteers (We only get five paid jobs, including the HC). In Texas you're not allowed to use volunteers. We don't have a frosh program but our JV's are separate, with a separate staff under the auspices of the varsity HC. Sometimes our varsity coaches get to JV games, sometimes we don't. We sure ain't riding buses and getting home after midnight. All in all-and I'm not impugning the quality of Texas coaching or Texas HS football, which are probably the bast in the nation-maybe Texas isn't the Mecca for HS coaches that many think.
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Post by coachguy83 on Jul 7, 2015 23:28:49 GMT -6
I am not a teacher, but I figured that last year I put in between 70 and 75 hours a week between working and coaching. I was just an assistant and coached freshmen lineman, so I can easily see how a coordinator or head coach could spend 80-90 hours.
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Post by huskerhoyahawk on Jul 8, 2015 18:50:51 GMT -6
I did an informal crunching of the numbers and came up with about 70 hours a week between teaching and coaching. The problem last year was I taught 35 minutes from home and coached about 50 minutes to an hour from home. Now I coach and teach at the same school that is 20 minutes away. However in that 20 minutes there is never any traffic and a total 5 turns including out of my neighborhood and into the school.
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Post by joker31 on Jul 8, 2015 21:01:32 GMT -6
First, a couple of questions for any Texas coaches on this board
1) I suspect a lot of the HC's are athletic directors at these big 6A and 5A schools? How many of these guys teach classes as well? If they aren't teaching, I'm sure there is some time to squeeze in film or deal with any admin things that would otherwise keep you from getting home?
2) Do a lot of these kids have athletic block or in-class strength and conditioning? What is the need to lift early in the morning?
Now a couple of comments... 1) Currently we do nothing on Saturdays/Sundays with our kids, they need a break. If I were in football crazed state where I'd need to keep up with the joneses, Saturdays do not need to be more than 4 hours if you've watched the film already. I'd hope the coaches would know enough about football where they need to improve... Team lift = 1 hr, 1.5 hours for meeting/film, 1.5 hours for staff meeting (30 mins on issues that need improvement, 1 hour on next opponent)
2) I'm not sure about you guys but by Wednesday of Week 1, I'm getting started on opponent of Week 2. If this is already happening, your weekend breakdowns of the upcoming opponent doesn't need to be as long... Giving you more time with your family
3) I feel bad for the kids, you can tell those kids love their father and miss his presence. The fact the girl wants to be a cheer coach is a sad deal at that age. I'd do whatever I could to have my kids at practice if I was him... Whether that's the boy snapping the ball to the QB in 7 on 7 periods, being water or ball boy/girls, etc.
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Post by cracker18 on Jul 9, 2015 14:38:02 GMT -6
Most coaches are athletic directors or coordinators at their schools. However, there are a few coaches who are only HFC. One example is Aledo (5a state champs 3 years running). To answer your question regarding weights and athletic period, there are many ways to do it. During the season, our kids come in every morning at 7:00 (1st period athletics). We do a variety of things during that time (video, meetings, weights, etc.). After school, we practice and watch video afterwards. I hope this answers your questions.
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Post by football365 on Jul 9, 2015 15:34:40 GMT -6
I am not a teacher, but I figured that last year I put in between 70 and 75 hours a week between working and coaching. I was just an assistant and coached freshmen lineman, so I can easily see how a coordinator or head coach could spend 80-90 hours. I think with teaching, the issue is of work done outside of the "official hours" For example, my day officially is 7:30-3:30pm with a 30 minute lunch. It's a typical 40 hr work week. Coaching officially is 2.5 hours a day after school 4 days a week + 7.5 hrs on game day which is 17.5 hours. Add in a 2.5 hr practice on Saturday and it's a 20 hr a week job. So on paper, it's a 60 hour a week commitment. The issue is when I teach, I have 180 kids' papers to grade and I have to plan lessons based on how the kids are doing. As a Varsity Coach, I need to grade my players after the game, and I need to input information on our self scout and opponent scout into HUDL. With both coaching and teaching, it's a lot of time outside the confines of the school day or the practice schedule. When I wasn't a teacher, I rarely had to work more than 40 hours a week and I rarely had to work from home. In fact the only time when I worked from home is when I couldn't get into the office. Teaching, you have your 40 hours, plus a bunch of crap to do, phone calls to parents, etc. I love teaching, but it's a lot more work than some people realize. When I coached freshmen, we didn't film those games, so I didn't have to grade anything. We ran base everything, so there really wasn't a game plan. Each week, we'd add a wrinkle or a new play, as kids could show they could handle it, but we ran our handful of plays on O and ran base D with an occassional 3rd down blitz. Overall, it's more work in teaching kids fundamentals of how to play football, as many it's their first year playing, so a lot more practice time is devoted to that compared to the older kids. As a Varsity position coach, I help out the coordinator a lot when it comes to film breakdown, game planning, etc. 1) It helps his load, and 2) it gives me an opportunity to learn in the event I am a coordinator one day. In that respect, I would say I work as much as the coordinator does because all of the assistants on our side of the ball help him out and share the load. Head Coach in theory should put in the most hours, and does, but if he's good he can delegate. There's budget, equipment management, booster club stuff, league meetings, meetings with the AD, etc., but if he has a couple of good assistants he can delegate those as well. Anyone who wants to be a HC needs to take those "other things" on so they can experience all the facets to a program.
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Post by tog on Jul 9, 2015 17:28:02 GMT -6
It has been at times for me. It has been much worse for me at times. Grinding for grinding sake is just plain dumb. Answering the questions you have and making sure you put your kids in the best position to win=that's our job.
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Post by runitupthemiddle on Jul 9, 2015 20:14:12 GMT -6
Coach Huey That was pretty much our schedule at my last school which was a small 2a, just so happens my head coach worked for Bob in Texas , and has 10 years college experience and is a grinder. But we were done by 3 on Saturdays. Sundays were 11-2, kids came in 2-4 lifted , ran and ate lunch. This is when we have them their scoutin reports and DVDs ( didn't have hudl, ) Now our regular days started at 7:00, and that was for the guys not in weight lifting class, and the rest of the team We watched film. On Fridays we started at 6:45, lifted, and the kids turned in their scouting reports and DVDs to get their jerseys and travel shirts. Then they went to read to kindergarten and first grade.
I agree with tog also, grinding to say u grind is dumb. Get in there and get it figured out and go home.
Where I'm at now, I work the least amount of hours ever. Saturdas are 7:30-9 our film, 9-10:30 is kids lifting and watching film , go home. Sunday 1- whenever its done. We don't meet very long on weekdays after practice either . But I watch way more film at home on Saturdays And Sunday mornings too on my own. I have been basically in charge of defensive personnel sxoiting report and helping develop the passing attack for the week. This year it will be more run game , Since we have a new header.
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Post by runitupthemiddle on Jul 9, 2015 20:22:03 GMT -6
For some reason I couldn't get the sound to play. But is this basically what was on football scoop last fall? I think a Dallas station followed him around for a week.
He actually works less hours then he used to. And does it talk about how he and his staff have the names and phone numbers of every college Program in the nation, and I believe his teams Average 35-40 college signings a year. Now this is at all levels, d3, NAIA, d1 etc We all know if a kid wants to play bad enough a school will Take him. He might have to pay to play, NAIA , d3, Even d2. By there is a spot for him.
Bob is a great guy and even helped me, when all we had was a mutual friend . When I was trying to make more Texas contacts and introduced me to tons of coaches. And I really appreciate him for that .
On delegating , u can delegate booster club , fundraising and things like that. But come on people Want to see the face of the program. The head coach, They don't want to see the wr or rb or db coach. They want the cheese. And if he doesn't make enough appearances then they question his desire .
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Post by gambler00 on Jul 9, 2015 20:26:19 GMT -6
Don't know if this is common or not but a friend of mine works on a staff where the head coach (special teams coord.) and the OC as well as dc are the only coaches that meet on Sunday. Saturday morning they all come in and meet until 1:00 to game plan and position coaches give input. Thoughts on that model? This program doesn't bring their kids in on weekends.
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Post by football365 on Jul 9, 2015 20:48:13 GMT -6
Don't know if this is common or not but a friend of mine works on a staff where the head coach (special teams coord.) and the OC as well as dc are the only coaches that meet on Sunday. Saturday morning they all come in and meet until 1:00 to game plan and position coaches give input. Thoughts on that model? This program doesn't bring their kids in on weekends. Most programs I have been at, Saturday was a day for guys to get treatment from the trainer if they needed it, do some light jogging, some stretching, and we watched film from Friday night by position group. If we had a Thursday night game, then Saturday was our install day for the gameplan for that week. So I guess for me my question is how are kids watching film? Do they do it before school on Monday, do they do it during practice on Monday? It seems to me like they are cutting prep for the next week short by a day or half day. But if it works for them and they are successful, then who cares, right?
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Post by olinedude on Jul 10, 2015 0:07:26 GMT -6
On average I've added my time up to between 90-100 hrs a week time spent on football/teaching as a 6a oline coach very close to Arlington Martin. I'd say that time was as efficient as I could make it, granted I can't control practice times or lengths. I've seen guys very good with way less time and way worse with more time, and a lot of the time it comes down to how established a program is and the kids they have.
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Post by agame on Jul 10, 2015 0:32:45 GMT -6
I do love these days in the loves of coach documentaries I had seen this one a while ago...
Anyone know of or recommend any more?
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Post by wingtol on Jul 10, 2015 13:20:48 GMT -6
Don't know if this is common or not but a friend of mine works on a staff where the head coach (special teams coord.) and the OC as well as dc are the only coaches that meet on Sunday. Saturday morning they all come in and meet until 1:00 to game plan and position coaches give input. Thoughts on that model? This program doesn't bring their kids in on weekends. We are kind of like that, don't bring the kids in on the weekends for the most part. We watch film on Monday since those are JV games and we end up with maybe 20 kids for practice Monday. Coaches meet Sat morning for game film, scout film, etc. usually done by 12-1. That's it for us on weekends. We don't get crazy with our game plans being a wing-t team we pretty much try and figure out how they will line up against us and how we will block our stuff vs it. As the DC I take care of any adjustments for the week which we try not to get too crazy with week to week.
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Post by buck42 on Jul 10, 2015 19:58:52 GMT -6
Just to add to the conversation I don't see this as that much of a stretch if your counting your teaching load.
Monday through Wednesday 7:30 arrive at school 7:45-2:45 teach, plan, game plan etc 3:00-3:30 study hall 3:45-6:30 practice 6:30-7:30 post prx meeting/planning for tomorrow
Wife goes to bed about 10
10-12 watch more film
3 x 14 = 42
Thursday is about the same except we have a JV game that's usually over about 9:30
Usually review script vs anticipated looks for Nother hour or so when I get home
17 hours on Thursday
Friday runs until 1am give it take for a total of roughly 19 hours
Saturday I spend about 6 hours working on game prep
Sunday we meet as a staff for about 4 hours but each coach puts in another 2 hours or so in breakdown and preparation
If my math is right that's exactly 90 hours...that could be off an hour or so depending on the week
If you take the 7 hours a day your supposed to spend on teaching a class its about 55 hours a week on football
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Post by gambler00 on Jul 10, 2015 21:21:06 GMT -6
Don't know if this is common or not but a friend of mine works on a staff where the head coach (special teams coord.) and the OC as well as dc are the only coaches that meet on Sunday. Saturday morning they all come in and meet until 1:00 to game plan and position coaches give input. Thoughts on that model? This program doesn't bring their kids in on weekends. Most programs I have been at, Saturday was a day for guys to get treatment from the trainer if they needed it, do some light jogging, some stretching, and we watched film from Friday night by position group. If we had a Thursday night game, then Saturday was our install day for the gameplan for that week. So I guess for me my question is how are kids watching film? Do they do it before school on Monday, do they do it during practice on Monday? It seems to me like they are cutting prep for the next week short by a day or half day. But if it works for them and they are successful, then who cares, right? They are highly successful. They run the I and do what they do and can with their athletes. 3-4 defense base. Players can come in for treatment Saturday. They watch film during block Monday and lift and do normal Monday stuff it makes for a longer Monday than other schools. Whenever I become the hc I want to be as efficient as possible with our coaching meetings because I have been in inefficient ones. Didn't know if anyone had done it differently than the status quo and gotten results.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2015 5:51:33 GMT -6
I went to an interview in southern part of GA, coaches were in a meeting at 7am until 830,9-11:30 kids were working out, every coach was their. Then the coaches would meet after to draw play card every single play of a given opponent. easily 25 hrs a week in the summer. And it wasn't coaches just standing in the office shooting spit.
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Post by fantom on Jul 11, 2015 7:25:10 GMT -6
Then the coaches would meet after to draw play card every single play of a given opponent. easily 25 hrs a week in the summer. Sounds like a helluva waste of time.
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Post by coachphillip on Jul 11, 2015 7:51:06 GMT -6
I'll bite. I have been on some staffs that don't meet at all and everybody would show up to the field on Monday and say "Is today offense or defense?" You can imagine how well that season went. I've also been on staffs that met every week for multiple hours and I would leave and think to myself "Why couldn't he just text us the practice schedule for the upcoming week and we can come in with it filled out?" Meetings are the biggest opportunity for there to be a time drain. Coaches should have watched film before coming in and should have ideas of what they wanted to work on after viewing the game. Coaches should have already watched the opponent scout film with ideas on what they need to do to win the next game. Coordinators should've watched the films and have a breakdown of the previous game and a general idea of a game plan for the next game. Head coach should have everything to discuss on an agenda and be in charge of the clock. Set the schedules for the upcoming week and get out of there. All of that shouldn't take longer than an hour a week.
Film is the next biggest time suck. It would save tons of time if assistants actually helped with Hudl data input. If one position coach went in and marked up ODK, Quarter, and Field Position while another position coach marked up D&D and Play Type. Then I would be done with data input in about ten minutes by inputting formation, motion, field/boundary, play. You have to get other guys involved.
Lastly, I wake up at 4:30 and work from 6:00 to 2:00. Then, I coach from 2:00 to 5:30 and drive a few kids home so that I'm home by 6:30. That is not that crazy. I think fantom is saying that leaving the house when it's dark and getting home around midnight is ridiculous. His kids are waiting in the driveway to say goodbye to him because they won't see him for another 24 hours. That's insane. I admire the guy's sense of work ethic and his success, but it's coming at a cost that I'm not willing to pay.
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Post by football365 on Jul 11, 2015 9:45:02 GMT -6
I'll bite. I have been on some staffs that don't meet at all and everybody would show up to the field on Monday and say "Is today offense or defense?" You can imagine how well that season went. I've also been on staffs that met every week for multiple hours and I would leave and think to myself "Why couldn't he just text us the practice schedule for the upcoming week and we can come in with it filled out?" Meetings are the biggest opportunity for there to be a time drain. Coaches should have watched film before coming in and should have ideas of what they wanted to work on after viewing the game. Coaches should have already watched the opponent scout film with ideas on what they need to do to win the next game. Coordinators should've watched the films and have a breakdown of the previous game and a general idea of a game plan for the next game. Head coach should have everything to discuss on an agenda and be in charge of the clock. Set the schedules for the upcoming week and get out of there. All of that shouldn't take longer than an hour a week. Film is the next biggest time suck. It would save tons of time if assistants actually helped with Hudl data input. If one position coach went in and marked up ODK, Quarter, and Field Position while another position coach marked up D&D and Play Type. Then I would be done with data input in about ten minutes by inputting formation, motion, field/boundary, play. You have to get other guys involved. Lastly, I wake up at 4:30 and work from 6:00 to 2:00. Then, I coach from 2:00 to 5:30 and drive a few kids home so that I'm home by 6:30. That is not that crazy. I think fantom is saying that leaving the house when it's dark and getting home around midnight is ridiculous. His kids are waiting in the driveway to say goodbye to him because they won't see him for another 24 hours. That's insane. I admire the guy's sense of work ethic and his success, but it's coming at a cost that I'm not willing to pay. I agree with a lot of these points. When I run a program, when we go over film, we will have all the data in HUDL already, and will have selected plays that we want to make as teaching points... So when we meet in group, we show them 5-10 plays that us as coaches already have analyzed that we are showing for an exact reason. I agree all the coaches should get involved with inputting different data in HUDL. Also to the other guy, going over the summer and inputting all of the plays on play cards is a waste of time. I don't know about that area, but here guys change things up based on their personnel. Plus coaching staffs change, etc. It's one thing to do it for your Week 1 opponent I guess, but to try it for the whole year seems like a waste of time.
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Post by coachphillip on Jul 11, 2015 10:14:51 GMT -6
Exactly. Film with the kids should be like a presentation. Here's an example of what we did well. Here's an example of what we did poorly. Here's their base runs and how we'll defend it. Here's a few pass plays and how we'll defend it.
Don't make a scout card for every single play they'll ever run. Instead, break down their tendencies and develop a script. Draw up the cards on that script. Have PowerPoint templates of formations with your base defense lined up ready to copy paste. If you want to flip the play, select all > group > flip horizontal. Toss left now becomes toss right.
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Post by fantom on Jul 11, 2015 11:19:58 GMT -6
Exactly. Film with the kids should be like a presentation. Here's an example of what we did well. Here's an example of what we did poorly. Here's their base runs and how we'll defend it. Here's a few pass plays and how we'll defend it. I disagree. I think that watching as a group is essential. It allows us to make coaching points, correct mistakes, and praise kids in front of the whole group when it's due. It would be better to break up into position groups but we don't platoon and don't have a way to do that since the HC is the only guy on the staff who teaches at the school.
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Post by coachphillip on Jul 11, 2015 11:26:35 GMT -6
I just don't like watching as an entire team because it seems like kids are listening to coaches talk about things that don't apply to them. We break into position groups for our film and do what I mentioned. We have access to four classrooms next to each other at the school. First, we go offense and the OL, RB, QB, WR go to their classrooms with the coaches. After 30 minutes, we go defense ILB, DL, OLB, DB go to their classrooms with the coaches.
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Post by tigercoach11 on Jul 11, 2015 11:38:47 GMT -6
I know some districts that might have Frosh games on separate nights than JV games, so I can see situations where you get back late multiple weeknights. Which is why they have frosh and JV coaches. I do understand that the HC in the video is also AD, as are most HC's in big programs in Texas. That doesn't make it less crazy. This^^^. I have coached in TX (been a couple of years) but, still have good friends in TX (HC's all the way down to JH coaches). The 90+ hours a week is pretty normal for a HC (at least that's what I am averaging). For me that includes teaching as well. HC's for the most part in TX are administrators (Ad's or campus athletic coordinators in big districts). I cannot speak for how their hours are divided up but I assume bc of the high pressure to win or youre out would consume them in coaching and all of their administrative duties. If they are district AD they have to take care of all sports and be in attendance of other sport games etc... As for lower level guys in TX, I have seen a broad spectrum from extreme hours to pretty decent. Most of the time it is normal for them to upload film and do all data input Friday night after the game so it's all ready for Saturday morning. One of my friends is a JV coach and says he usually plans on all nighters after varsity games on Friday night. But, his weekend duties are pretty much limited to that as the varsity coaches deal with game planning etc. He says they are on a rotation of lower level guys for laundry duty etc.. so every couple of weeks he has a bit more.
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Post by fantom on Jul 11, 2015 12:11:50 GMT -6
Also to the other guy, going over the summer and inputting all of the plays on play cards is a waste of time. I don't know about that area, but here guys change things up based on their personnel. Plus coaching staffs change, etc. It's one thing to do it for your Week 1 opponent I guess, but to try it for the whole year seems like a waste of time. It's not like you have practice time to rep every play that they run.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2015 15:31:35 GMT -6
Then the coaches would meet after to draw play card every single play of a given opponent. easily 25 hrs a week in the summer. Sounds like a helluva waste of time. Its run like a college program so take it for what its worth.
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