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Post by CanyonCoach on Oct 24, 2018 9:54:59 GMT -6
Our staff has traditionally gone to a Glazier clinic and enjoyed them...the down side for us is travel (7 hour drive)and the general expenses associated (days off for travel/food on the road/hotels/gas).
Other option is the 2 Universities in the area= the schedule is difficult for teaching and those are at least 3 1/2 hour drives and we don't run the base O or D of either of those teams. Fun trip, great coaches and some awesome information but not exactly in our wheel house.
This is leaving us with putting on our own clinic and bringing in people we want to hear...so far we have struck out getting quality coaches to commit. The coaches issue is the same issue that we have- travel.
So we are looking at a college visit or visiting a HS that has at least one side of the ball the same as us. What methods have you used to find those coaches/schools that would be willing to host a staff for a Saturday/Sunday visit?
Thanks
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Post by newhope on Oct 24, 2018 10:08:56 GMT -6
While we do the Glazier clinics each year and there is definitely value in them, we do try to visit a college that does something we're interested in looking at or something we're doing. We will get in touch with them and see when's a good time to come. They've been very accomodating in terms of letting us come and look at film, have assigned a coach to meet with us and answer questions, have opened up their spring practices and meetings to us. For example, one year we were looking at some people to give us some ideas on a 3 front on defense--we researched who was successful in that area, looked at what we could find about them on film, saw we liked it, and called them up. Another time, we knew a team was doing some things offensively that fit with our system. Again, we called them up and asked. We've had some where we had a prior relationship--that made it easier--but others where we didn't. We haven't had anyone turn us away yet. Do the research. Make the call.
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Post by Chris Clement on Oct 24, 2018 10:31:50 GMT -6
Where are you located?
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Post by CanyonCoach on Oct 24, 2018 10:35:17 GMT -6
North Dakota
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Post by Chris Clement on Oct 24, 2018 13:18:21 GMT -6
Ah. I see the problem.
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Post by coachcb on Oct 24, 2018 13:41:27 GMT -6
I'm in the same boat: traveling to clinics from where I live is prohibitively time consuming and expensive. I have an AFCA pass and talked the rest of the staff into picking one up so we can meet and go through videos on there. Not quite as much fun but it certainly saves time and money.
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Post by nstanley on Oct 24, 2018 14:49:55 GMT -6
Our staff has traditionally gone to a Glazier clinic and enjoyed them...the down side for us is travel (7 hour drive)and the general expenses associated (days off for travel/food on the road/hotels/gas).
Other option is the 2 Universities in the area= the schedule is difficult for teaching and those are at least 3 1/2 hour drives and we don't run the base O or D of either of those teams. Fun trip, great coaches and some awesome information but not exactly in our wheel house.
This is leaving us with putting on our own clinic and bringing in people we want to hear...so far we have struck out getting quality coaches to commit. The coaches issue is the same issue that we have- travel.
So we are looking at a college visit or visiting a HS that has at least one side of the ball the same as us. What methods have you used to find those coaches/schools that would be willing to host a staff for a Saturday/Sunday visit?
Thanks
My suggestion for what it's worth is to take advantage of the online resources out there to get an idea of what your staff wants to focus on and then fly/drive someone to you to do a deep dive. I did this a lot when I was the head coach of a program 3 hours from any clinics or colleges. I also had a majority of assistants who were walk-ons so getting them to take time off to go to clinics was difficult for two and three days, etc. We got a ton of info from our in-house clinics. I couldn't afford to bring in five coaches to do a two day clinic but I could pay for flight, hotel and two days of in-service from really good coaches. I had an 8A state champion coach from Florida two years, a 10 x state champ coach from Kentucky a TXHSFB Coach of the Year all to my high school and a Natioanal HS FB coach of the year all to our school in Central Oregon. I saved on the cost too by inviting other staffs to join us. I charged like $200 to bring the whole staff and we'd usually get 4 or so other local schools to join us. |
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Post by Chris Clement on Oct 24, 2018 19:14:50 GMT -6
You can buy clinic DVDs for cheap on eBay and watch them as a staff. Any topic you want, and even if the team pays for drinks and snacks it’s still far cheaper, and you can make sure that every speaker is on-topic and good.
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Post by cqmiller on Oct 24, 2018 20:18:23 GMT -6
I'm flying you into SLC to hang... tell your coaches to pony-up!!! Plus, Alabama won the NC last year!  That's a clinic story for the ages!!! |
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Post by CanyonCoach on Oct 25, 2018 8:58:53 GMT -6
I'm flying you into SLC to hang... tell your coaches to pony-up!!! Plus, Alabama won the NC last year! That's a clinic story for the ages!!! My staff is all 20 something, newly married, finishing grad school, still trying to get the bit out of their mouths so they can run free for a weekend. But I am looking forward to a great week in SLC...as for the young pups may in five years. |
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Post by OleCoach on Oct 25, 2018 10:13:12 GMT -6
Where's a good website that has clinics listed? Would love to go to one where S. Frost is at to here him speak on building a culture.
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Post by glazierprez on Oct 25, 2018 18:01:01 GMT -6
Hey Coaches...Bryan Blew from Glazier here. Thank you for coming to our clinics in the past. I totally understand the prohibitive cost of travel depending upon your location. Just wanted to let you know our football Vault has over 6,000 pieces of content (with over 500 more coming in January) and 1,100+ hours of material available online 24/7. We have multiple ways to get access to the content...with a Season Pass (https://www.glazierclinics.com/buy_your_pass) or a monthly subscription (https://vault.glazierclinics.com/sign_up).
Would love for you guys to check us out, or feel free to let me know if you have questions.
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Post by CanyonCoach on Oct 26, 2018 7:36:49 GMT -6
We have the season pass and individual coaches use it and it is a great resource.
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Post by jgordon1 on Oct 26, 2018 9:25:28 GMT -6
perhaps you could fly just one guy in from a really good D3 team or something like that.
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Post by CoachJohnsonMN on Oct 26, 2018 13:04:08 GMT -6
Our staff has traditionally gone to a Glazier clinic and enjoyed them...the down side for us is travel (7 hour drive)and the general expenses associated (days off for travel/food on the road/hotels/gas).
Other option is the 2 Universities in the area= the schedule is difficult for teaching and those are at least 3 1/2 hour drives and we don't run the base O or D of either of those teams. Fun trip, great coaches and some awesome information but not exactly in our wheel house.
This is leaving us with putting on our own clinic and bringing in people we want to hear...so far we have struck out getting quality coaches to commit. The coaches issue is the same issue that we have- travel.
So we are looking at a college visit or visiting a HS that has at least one side of the ball the same as us. What methods have you used to find those coaches/schools that would be willing to host a staff for a Saturday/Sunday visit?
Thanks
Similar situation for our staff. We're a nine-man program in western MN & not many relevant schemes for us (esp. defensively). We reached out to a ND nine-man staff & met in Grand Forks on a Saturday. We reserved the conference room & just spit-balled ideas off of each other. We exchanged film about a month prior to meeting so we knew what questions we wanted to ask of the other staff. It was an inexpensive weekend in which we gained quite a bit from a staff in a similar situation to our own. |
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