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Post by coachcb on Jun 24, 2006 12:18:46 GMT -6
The coach that refuses to play kids that miss weight room time only asks for an hour to an hour and a half three days a week from his kids in the summer. He opens the weight room for several hours between the morning and in the late afternoons six days a week. If they're in town then they have no excuse for not showing up- he makes that very, very clear. From what I have been told, the FB that he sat for the season was trying to push this rule. He didn't have anything else going on in the summer and he decided that he was a high caliber athlete that didn't need the weight room. He was warned several times, the other kids were on the time were on him all the time, but he still didn't show. So he sat the season, period. The team felt that it was completely fair and backed the cpach up on it.
There was a situation this last August where a sophmore missed the first weekof two-a-days for a baseball camp. Not a scheduled Legion tournament, but a skills camp. Two a days had been on the schedule all year and he chose to go to this camp. We sat down as a team and voted on what to do- sit him or force him to make up the time. The team opted to let him make up the time, he stayed after both practices the entire next week and got his butt worked. If he missed any of the after practice work, he was off of the team.
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Post by clintonb12 on Jun 24, 2006 16:12:59 GMT -6
You have to have the back up ready to play no matter what. Give him alot of snaps at QB. When the real practices start see who earns the position. If they BB player still earns it thats fine becasue you have a stud WR. If the WR earns it then great, he earned it and probably will do good.
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zp5462
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Post by zp5462 on Jun 25, 2006 19:26:14 GMT -6
if you have an established system or rule where the kid has to show up a certain amount of times (80% or whatever), and he just disregards it, sit him or kick him off the team. If you don't have an establed rule then give the other QB a lot of snaps and see who earns the job in August. There is a team around here that workouts four days a week in the summer. You have to go to 80% of those workouts to be in good standing. They are very flexible with their workout times. If you don't make the 80% mark you have extra conditioning during 2 a days, and you start off on the bottom of the depth chart, and it is very hard to move up. Anyway, they have won our conference 8 times in the past 10 years with 2 state championships, and 4 title game apperances as well.
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Post by poweriguy on Jun 28, 2006 0:05:44 GMT -6
One thing I swore as a coach NEVER to do, was to hold against a player for not going to summer workouts.
Some kids have summer school, jobs, other parents,other sports ect.
But I say this comming from a school with a little over 400 students. Where kids are expected to play multiple sports. If they didn't, all the sports would be hurting.
Also as coaches we are thinking as adults and football is our job. These are kids, they have the rest of their lives to work. So let them do as much acivities as they like. As a coach, I can catch them up.
You'll always get the hardcore football players, but coaches bitch and moan over the few kids that play sports other than football? I think that's pretty sad.
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Post by coachjolly on Jun 28, 2006 4:54:12 GMT -6
If you establish a rule, STICK TO YOUR GUNS. If you don't, all rules are negotiable. One team one standard. Make them sit. You only have to do it once every few years. They will catch on.
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Post by wingtol on Jun 28, 2006 6:28:54 GMT -6
We have a simple philosophy to get our point across. We will start with summer work outs on July 5th, we are allowed to wear helmets and use bags and such, hand out helmets a week before to all the players. They kind of get the message there. We also tell them that we will be treating these work outs very seriously and installing O/D and working on fundamnetals. We do these 3 days a week for 4-5 weeks. We tell them they will be behind alot if they miss alot of the workouts come our two weeks of two-a-days/camp. Once the state offical start of practice starts they are in-season and are not allowed to do any thing related to other sports. We dont ask for anything during basketball/baseball seasons from our kids on those teams so we expect it the same way. The kids get the message and find ways to get there. They aren't stupid, all you have to do is get them to believe that these workouts are important and equal success in the season. We have had kids miss in the summer alot and guess what? They are behind once pads come on and usually take a few weeks to catch up.
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Post by groundchuck on Jun 28, 2006 7:44:06 GMT -6
Go with the kid who you trust. Also it is tough to start the kid who is not there.
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Post by coachcalande on Jun 28, 2006 13:46:11 GMT -6
WING T- WHAT SCHOOL DO YOU COACH AT? SHOOT ME AN EMAIL IF YOU WANT coachcalande@comcast.net We have a simple philosophy to get our point across. We will start with summer work outs on July 5th, we are allowed to wear helmets and use bags and such, hand out helmets a week before to all the players. They kind of get the message there. We also tell them that we will be treating these work outs very seriously and installing O/D and working on fundamnetals. We do these 3 days a week for 4-5 weeks. We tell them they will be behind alot if they miss alot of the workouts come our two weeks of two-a-days/camp. Once the state offical start of practice starts they are in-season and are not allowed to do any thing related to other sports. We dont ask for anything during basketball/baseball seasons from our kids on those teams so we expect it the same way. The kids get the message and find ways to get there. They aren't stupid, all you have to do is get them to believe that these workouts are important and equal success in the season. We have had kids miss in the summer alot and guess what? They are behind once pads come on and usually take a few weeks to catch up.
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