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Post by ryanculloty on Mar 10, 2017 6:53:09 GMT -6
Make your football kids be on the track team, problem solved! Throwers get more explosive, sprinters get faster, distance...well they are just special people. I would definitely do that but they have no system no structure. Kids do nothing for power and explosion. His solution to getting faster at the 100 is to "run 4x400's with no breaks at 100%" Great opportunity to ask for a Advanced Conditioning Class so your Football players (and all athletes) can lift during school. |
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Post by blockdownkickout on Mar 10, 2017 8:29:09 GMT -6
If I was told to leave the weight room for track my resignation would be on someone's desk the next morning. The football team has paid for 90% of the equipment in the weight room so that's ours. I will let anyone use it as long as they take care of it and work around my schedule. When ever we do any additions or upgrades to the weight room I pay for most of it so I can keep making that argument. Our track team is a joke so I have a couple kids run but I don't encourage it. They do their football workout and then wonder out to track practice where they waste time with the rest of the kids out there. This year our DL coach became an assistant track coach to coach the throwers. So we now have a few kids that go out with him after work outs and it doesn't totally suck. So... that's where I'm at.
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Post by mc140 on Mar 12, 2017 16:45:45 GMT -6
Here are Illinois' Top 10 track teams in 1A last year followed by their football records in 2015. 1 New Berlin 7-3 2 Peru (St. Bede) 4-5 3 Rock Island (Alleman) 6-4 4 Gibson City (G.C.-Melvin-Sibley) 11-1 5 Bismarck (B.-Henning) 9-2 6 Arthur (A.-Lovington-Atwood-Hammond) 1-8 6 Vandalia 4-5 8 Rockford (R. Christian) 0-9 9 Rushville (R.-Industry) 7-3 10 Dwight [Coop] 5-4 East St. Louis won the large school track championship last spring and won state in football this fall in Illinois. |
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Post by StraightFlexin on Mar 13, 2017 5:38:12 GMT -6
I would definitely do that but they have no system no structure. Kids do nothing for power and explosion. His solution to getting faster at the 100 is to "run 4x400's with no breaks at 100%" Great opportunity to ask for a Advanced Conditioning Class so your Football players (and all athletes) can lift during school. I brought this up last year but was told it would go to one of the non-coaching PE teachers because they would be short sections to teach. Would just be the same garbage with a different title. It does look like there is a possible change for next year thou |
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Post by StraightFlexin on Mar 14, 2017 6:08:17 GMT -6
Yesterday was the first session that track scheduled so we were not allowed in. AND THEY NEVER SHOWED UP!!
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Post by utchuckd on Mar 14, 2017 6:30:26 GMT -6
Yesterday was the first session that track scheduled so we were not allowed in. AND THEY NEVER SHOWED UP!!Oh my. |
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Post by blb on Mar 14, 2017 6:43:05 GMT -6
Yesterday was the first session that track scheduled so we were not allowed in. AND THEY NEVER SHOWED UP!!
Once could be a fluke.
Twice could be a coincidence.
Three times and I would say you might be a victim of a "power play" by your Track coach.
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Post by lions23 on Mar 14, 2017 6:52:18 GMT -6
F**K TRACK!! hahaha....kinda We paid for the equipment, as well as the upkeep. We allow other teams to use it, we make appropriate adjustments to our own schedule to accomodate teams...but it's our room. We have a machine room on campus anyone can use any time, but the squat racks, platforms, and dumbbells are ours. And really, as I mentioned in another thread, no coaches at our school REALLY wants to lift anyways. We are only having this issue because the track coach is upset that our kids do not run for him. I am not sure how he thinks this will solve getting more kids out. |
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Post by lions23 on Mar 14, 2017 6:52:48 GMT -6
F**K TRACK!! hahaha....kinda We paid for the equipment, as well as the upkeep. We allow other teams to use it, we make appropriate adjustments to our own schedule to accomodate teams...but it's our room. We have a machine room on campus anyone can use any time, but the squat racks, platforms, and dumbbells are ours. And really, as I mentioned in another thread, no coaches at our school REALLY wants to lift anyways. We are only having this issue because the track coach is upset that our kids do not run for him. I am not sure how he thinks this will solve getting more kids out. At the last stop we were having a similar problem. The similar program being off season programs running at the same time as in season programs. I will say that in my experience that it does effect numbers of those in season sports and that is unfortunate. I didn't pay much attention to similar complaints like your track coach has until intramural basketball starting effecting our numbers for football. We were pretty good at the time too. Intramurals moved their days to twice a week after school instead of the weekend. Semi-organized basketball in the air conditioning vs. a rough football practice in 95 degree heat. We were losing. The AD answered with a policy that ever since has seemed like a positive for all sports. No off season programs can run right after school until x amount of weeks into the in season sports' season. For example, we don't start weights until January in the winter. It gives the b ball and wrestling coaches plenty of time to recruit and set their teams. It forces us to take a break which is good too. I will say that it has been positive. Now we even have those winter sports sending us kids they cut or sometimes kids that quit which doesn't always happen. Technically when a kid quits a sport they are not eligible to participate in another sport in season or out until the sport they began has ended per our athletic code. Again a rule that is supposed to keep us from recruiting kids from other sports. I think it is a good rule. All of our major sports have had significant success in the past 5 years with these policies in place. Because we aren't fighting over kids everyone usually is okay sending a kid to another sport if it doesn't work out. We aren't recruiting against each other. It is good for the kids, the school, the athletic department, and the coaches IMHO. We have a football championship, basketball championship, wrestling champions, and track champions. All sports relied heavily on multiple sport athletes. We are a big school but not big enough not to share. To encourage track or baseball participation we go as far as to stop having weights in the spring. Our track lifts twice a week and techniques with is like a plyo workout at least once a week on top of all the running. If you pay a good trainer to get you more athletic, faster, stronger they essentially put you through a track workout. Our baseball lifts twice a week. All of this with the added bonus that kids get to compete. Plus everytime we have significant track success we also have significant football success like Moe alluded to with ESL. In the summer our HFC spends a bunch of time talking with hoops coach and figuring out their schedule so that we are only asking kids to choose as few times as possible. |
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