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Post by Wingtman on Jan 31, 2017 10:15:55 GMT -6
This is always one of my favorite topics every year. Who's the best speaker you've seen this year? Who's the worst? You don't have to give names, but why were they bad? My favorite is Johnny Chalkboard who tells me what his 6'8 350 pound war daddy does as a nose guard. Cool story, tell me what I can do with 5'8 165.
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Post by dacoachmo on Feb 5, 2017 10:12:30 GMT -6
Indy Glazier was outstanding! James Vint Shawn Liotta Desi Cullen Don Morel
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 5, 2017 10:16:43 GMT -6
Dub Maddox - the GOAT
No Speaker has ever made me feel so bad that everything i have been doing is wrong and there is a better, simpler way to do it
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Post by coach55 on Feb 5, 2017 10:38:57 GMT -6
Saw some good ones in Atlanta this year. Offensive line coach from Valdosta State did a good job. Defensive coordinator from App State shared some good drills and was decent.
The best by far was Coach Chennis Berry the offensive coordinator and oline coach from Southern University. He was very informative and enthusiastic. Did a great job with his material.
He is a little unconventional with starting his blocks using a flipper then transitioning to hands but it gave me something to think about. I also liked that he incorporates all type of footwork drills using a regular towel rolled up with athletic tape.
Each lineman has his own and bring to practice everyday. He said he used to use pvc pipes but likes the towels better. He gave out tshirts to the coaches that sat upfront that he contours ask to get up and help him explain the fits and things.
He calls his oline the nickel and he gave out tshirts saying this. Encouraged all oline coaches to put this slogan in place calling it a nationwide movement. You could just feel the passion he has for his kids and the game. I would highly recommend anyone who has a chance to hear him check it out!
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Post by mariner42 on Feb 5, 2017 10:58:37 GMT -6
This is always one of my favorite topics every year. Who's the best speaker you've seen this year? Who's the worst? You don't have to give names, but why were they bad? My favorite is Johnny Chalkboard who tells me what his 6'8 350 pound war daddy does as a nose guard. Cool story, tell me what I can do with 5'8 165. Worst I've ever seen was a DC from the CA Central Valley who was presenting his very stylishly named 3-4 defense. He had the #2 DT in the country, #7 OLB in the country, and a bunch of 4.5's in the secondary. Shockingly, they blitzed a ton and overwhelmed everyone in the backfield.
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Post by coachphillip on Feb 5, 2017 11:07:02 GMT -6
Watched the HC from American River College, a JuCo in CA, speak on some run Gap schemes. He was great. Very knowledgeable and pretty funny. I'm usually impressed with most OL guys.
Biggest pet peeve is guy who you watch in the first session and then you feel like you went back in time because the second session is 80% of what he said in the first session.
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Post by jgordon1 on Feb 5, 2017 11:11:14 GMT -6
I was a Baltimore this weekend. Didn't see him but I heard that John DiFilippo was excellent. I saw Malik Hall and Dave Wiemers and though they were good..Maybe I am getting grumpy but in general I thought the clinic was just... meh
** I was sitting in a RPO session, a coach (not me) asks the speaker hey how do you handle the scrape LB in this case..Oh the qb just has to outrun that guy...I walked out..come to find out his qb went to clemson as a wr..now this coach won his state championship and speaks all over the place as a guru..what an F'ing joke
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Post by ccscoach on Feb 5, 2017 12:02:28 GMT -6
Paul Alexander from the Bengals was great.
Bob Rankl D3 coach from Alfred University in upstate NY was also very good in his talk about power run game.
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Post by runitupthemiddle on Feb 5, 2017 20:06:40 GMT -6
Just heard a guy talking 4 verts, very monotone , and casually mentions, "oh yea this wr finished 2nd as a freshman in the 100 at the state track meet last year" Thanks, but what about my 4.8, 5 foot 7 wideout?
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Post by runitupthemiddle on Feb 5, 2017 20:09:57 GMT -6
Great speaker is , Bill Blankenship, if you get a chance to catch him do it. Upbeat passionate and great stuff that he speaks on!
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Post by mariner42 on Feb 5, 2017 21:39:01 GMT -6
Great speaker is , Bill Blankenship, if you get a chance to catch him do it. Upbeat passionate and great stuff that he speaks on! How's his special teams DVD?
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Post by dsqa on Feb 5, 2017 22:07:20 GMT -6
Dub Maddox - the GOAT No Speaker has ever made me feel so bad that everything i have been doing is wrong and there is a better, simpler way to do it So right coach...hopefully more will see what you saw very soon
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Post by ndcoach on Feb 5, 2017 23:36:29 GMT -6
Saw all Shawn Liotta's sessions in Phoenix. He was great, lots of great info, fun and engaging to listen too, stayed after to answer additional questions and chit chat a bit. He got right into the topics, didn't spend 20 minutes going through stats. He actually talked about how they do things. He talked about their practice structure, run game, installing the no huddle, how they call their plays, etc. He might of been more open because he was so far from home, but he was very candid with everything.
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Post by CoachFetty on Feb 6, 2017 3:30:13 GMT -6
Great speaker is , Bill Blankenship, if you get a chance to catch him do it. Upbeat passionate and great stuff that he speaks on! How's his special teams DVD? OUTSTANDING.
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Post by spos21ram on Feb 6, 2017 7:09:35 GMT -6
I was a Baltimore this weekend. Didn't see him but I heard that John DiFilippo was excellent. I saw Malik Hall and Dave Wiemers and though they were good..Maybe I am getting grumpy but in general I thought the clinic was just... meh ** I was sitting in a RPO session, a coach (not me) asks the speaker hey how do you handle the scrape LB in this case..Oh the qb just has to outrun that guy...I walked out..come to find out his qb went to clemson as a wr..now this coach won his state championship and speaks all over the place as a guru..what an F'ing joke To the victor goes the spoils....the years my baseball teams have had good records, won the divison, etc I feel like my "stock" as a coach was sky high and the respect level from other coaches, parents, fans, also. The years we weren't so good, I feel the opposite vibe even though my coaching wasn't much different. If you're coming off a great year, even if you had multiple D1 players, you get to puff that chest out a little bit.
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Post by **** on Feb 6, 2017 7:15:47 GMT -6
KC Clinic
Good = Farrell Shelton, Mike Mauk, Joe Quinlin
Bad = Steve Szabo, Greg Brown, Mark DeLeone
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Post by jgordon1 on Feb 6, 2017 7:48:39 GMT -6
KC Clinic Good = Farrell Shelton, Mike Mauk, Joe Quinlin Bad = Steve Szabo, Greg Brown, Mark DeLeone Just curious...Why did you think DeLeone wasn't good?
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Post by **** on Feb 6, 2017 8:24:28 GMT -6
KC Clinic Good = Farrell Shelton, Mike Mauk, Joe Quinlin Bad = Steve Szabo, Greg Brown, Mark DeLeone Just curious...Why did you think DeLeone wasn't good? Both sessions I went to he talked for like 20 minutes, asked if anybody had questions ( I asked one in each session, didn't get a great response ) and that was it. The second session was titled "OLB run technique" it was all stand up DE stuff.
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Post by jgordon1 on Feb 6, 2017 8:37:08 GMT -6
Just curious...Why did you think DeLeone wasn't good? Both sessions I went to he talked for like 20 minutes, asked if anybody had questions ( I asked one in each session, didn't get a great response ) and that was it. The second session was titled "OLB run technique" it was all stand up DE stuff. That's too bad..sorry to hear that. I have had a couple of great one on one conversations w/ him and found him to be very knowledgeable. That being said I could see how he wouldn't be great in front of a crowd. His father is one of the great clinic guys I have seen too
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Post by fantom on Feb 6, 2017 11:21:59 GMT -6
I was a Baltimore this weekend. Didn't see him but I heard that John DiFilippo was excellent. I saw Malik Hall and Dave Wiemers and though they were good..Maybe I am getting grumpy but in general I thought the clinic was just... meh The plus side is that I didn't feel bad about blowing off the evening sessions to have a few brews at Alewife. Good as always to see you, Jerry. Since I was in both sessions I agree. As I said, though, when you've been in it as long as we have there isn't much that we're going to hear that will WOW you.
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Post by bigmoot on Feb 6, 2017 12:25:17 GMT -6
Got to see Gerry Gallagher at the wing t clinic in pittsburgh...the one of the best...if you want to learn how to coach the wing t rb or qb, youve got to watch him
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Post by joelee on Feb 6, 2017 12:35:28 GMT -6
I see some venom in the thread i'm confused about. When a coach has great players and turns them loose using their abilities why is that upsetting? If a guy does something that fits his kids but doesn't fit yours do you want him to lie to you?
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Post by hsrose on Feb 6, 2017 12:58:09 GMT -6
joelee - It's not that he's turning his studs loose, it's like listening to the college coaches talk about what they do when they have players I never will. A lot of times HS coaches that are speaking are blessed with several great players for a couple of seasons that they basically turn loose and then come to the clinics and present as if they coached their a$$es off when all they did was turn their studs loose. Coach Johnson just won State and will be talking about his 3-4 today in session 2, which sounds really good, right up your ally. But you get there and discover that he had 3 225+ lb. DE's/LB's running 4.6's and a nose that was 6'3" and 300 lbs. Those guys, on average, are going to beat my guys running 5.5's. Not a lot of coaching needed there so what he is doing is great for his team, but has very little applicability to my reality. You end up feeling a bit mislead by what is being advertised. Not by what the coach did on the field, but on coming in to get details on his 3-4 when what he did was turn the big dogs loose on the sheep.
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Post by runitupthemiddle on Feb 6, 2017 13:03:36 GMT -6
Great speaker is , Bill Blankenship, if you get a chance to catch him do it. Upbeat passionate and great stuff that he speaks on! How's his special teams DVD? You know, I don't own it, but I have heard him speak on special teams at glazier clinics. Very good stuff, got some good handouts too
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Post by funkfriss on Feb 6, 2017 13:17:23 GMT -6
For those complaining about watching studs, I sort of agree with you. If, for example, a DL coach is talking "Hands, Hands, Hands" and you watch film of his war daddy pounding everybody with awful technique and not using his hands, then yes I feel your gripe. However, it's ok watching studs if you can see how the coach's teachings are making him better. This past weekend I sat in on Greg Vandagriff showing his LBs in games. He was very up front, saying "Yeah this kid's going D1, he's a stud," but if you watch the film you realize what makes him a great LB, and not just a freak athlete, is that he took what GV taught him and applied it. His footwork, reads, and reactions were amazing!!
Another example, I remember listening to a guy showing film and on one play his safety made an interception. A coach in the crowd asked, "Your safety just played that differently than the way you showed during your presentation. Did you have him do that on purpose?" To which the presenter responded, "Oh hell no, he's just a freak that's going to Oregon and he can do chit like that." I can appreciate that.
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Post by funkfriss on Feb 6, 2017 13:23:16 GMT -6
My "worst" right now after one clinic is watching two "RPO" presenters talk on package plays which the QB reads numbers pre-snap (i.e. IZ/Bubble).
Dude, THAT'S NOT AN RPO!
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 6, 2017 13:34:49 GMT -6
My "worst" right now after one clinic is watching two "RPO" presenters talk on package plays which the QB reads numbers pre-snap (i.e. IZ/Bubble). Dude, THAT'S NOT AN RPO! I still think most would consider that an RPO we break ours down into Pre Snap and Post Snap RPOs Those are just Pre Snap things
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Post by **** on Feb 6, 2017 13:50:39 GMT -6
For those complaining about watching studs, I sort of agree with you. If, for example, a DL coach is talking "Hands, Hands, Hands" and you watch film of his war daddy pounding everybody with awful technique and not using his hands, then yes I feel your gripe. However, it's ok watching studs if you can see how the coach's teachings are making him better. This past weekend I sat in on Greg Vandagriff showing his LBs in games. He was very up front, saying "Yeah this kid's going D1, he's a stud," but if you watch the film you realize what makes him a great LB, and not just a freak athlete, is that he took what GV taught him and applied it. His footwork, reads, and reactions were amazing!!Another example, I remember listening to a guy showing film and on one play his safety made an interception. A coach in the crowd asked, "Your safety just played that differently than the way you showed during your presentation. Did you have him do that on purpose?" To which the presenter responded, "Oh hell no, he's just a freak that's going to Oregon and he can do chit like that." I can appreciate that. Greg Vandagriff is legit. Not only is he knowledgeable, he is phuking hilarious
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Post by mattman2 on Feb 6, 2017 15:55:08 GMT -6
I was a Baltimore this weekend. Didn't see him but I heard that John DiFilippo was excellent. I saw Malik Hall and Dave Wiemers and though they were good..Maybe I am getting grumpy but in general I thought the clinic was just... meh ** I was sitting in a RPO session, a coach (not me) asks the speaker hey how do you handle the scrape LB in this case..Oh the qb just has to outrun that guy...I walked out..come to find out his qb went to clemson as a wr..now this coach won his state championship and speaks all over the place as a guru..what an F'ing joke I sat for 5 hours with Wiemers. (Mostly because nothing else was going on) thought he did a pretty good job explaining how his defense was forced to change over the past 5 years because of RPO's.
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Post by jgordon1 on Feb 6, 2017 15:58:23 GMT -6
I was a Baltimore this weekend. Didn't see him but I heard that John DiFilippo was excellent. I saw Malik Hall and Dave Wiemers and though they were good..Maybe I am getting grumpy but in general I thought the clinic was just... meh ** I was sitting in a RPO session, a coach (not me) asks the speaker hey how do you handle the scrape LB in this case..Oh the qb just has to outrun that guy...I walked out..come to find out his qb went to clemson as a wr..now this coach won his state championship and speaks all over the place as a guru..what an F'ing joke I sat for 5 hours with Wiemers. (Mostly because nothing else was going on) thought he did a pretty good job explaining how his defense was forced to change over the past 5 years because of RPO's. I liked how he kind of gave us both sides to the story..I felt like I was in a conversation
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