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Post by coolhandluke on May 19, 2017 9:14:08 GMT -6
News flash, boys. It ain't changing back to the way it was back then. You can either sit there and pine for the good old days, which is a waste of time and effort or you can figure out how to get the very best of those under your leadership. Get with it.
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Post by newhope on May 22, 2017 6:27:19 GMT -6
As to kids asking questions, I've noticed that "kids these days" just don't watch as much football and have a much more limited understanding of the fundamentals than they did many years ago. Typically, our kids don't ask questions because they don't want to look like a dunce in front of the other players. When I explain a drill or concept and ask if there are questions I usually just get a bunch of kids shaking their head "no". It's to the point now that I pick out a couple kids and ask, "Okay, why are we doing this?" or "Why do we do it this way?" It has helped tremendously. 25 years (or more) ago, we were practicing kickoff situations. There was an onside kick. One player we had was in his first year of playing football, and was known by everyone to be something of a genius. As the kicked ball rolled by him and he just looked at it, one of the assistants yelled, "haven't you ever even watched a football game on TV?". One of the other players replied, "They don't have football on PBS, coach". There have always been kids with low football IQs.
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Post by blb on May 22, 2017 6:36:26 GMT -6
Whenever we used a new drill we told the kids the name of the drill and what its purpose was so that when we used it again in the future it saved time setting up and they understood what we were trying to teach.
When installing a new play we tried to explain the theory of the play so they got the "Big Picture" and if defense was stopping something in a game they wouldn't lose confidence, that we would have something to counteract what opposition was doing.
Having said that, coaching Football is a fight against time, so I told the kids if we corrected them in practice (especially Team) the correct response was "Yes, coach (or sir)" but if they were still confused to see me-us afterwards.
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Post by NC1974 on May 22, 2017 7:09:55 GMT -6
Society is always changing and there are pros and cons. In regards to the "what is said in the locker room, stays in the locker room":
cons:
-kids might seem to be less loyal to the program at times -maybe gossip has become more of a problem -maybe parents have more influence than they should have
pros: -it's harder today for a bad coach/coaching staff to get away with blatant abuse of power -as a player, I heard/saw coaches (a minority of them for sure) say and do things to players that were clearly wrong and in some cases criminal....and everyone just kept their mouths shut about it -If anyone is familiar with the Lake Zurich scandal in Illinois, it's an extreme example of how bad things can result from a "what is said in the locker room stays in the locker room" culture.
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