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Post by rbush on Dec 21, 2007 17:24:42 GMT -6
This coming semester I have the opportunity to do an in-depth research project. My professor has given me carte blanche; the only requirement is that it be over something I care about. She wants it to focus on either football or athletics though.....I can't imagine why ;D.
The question for everyone is this. What's an area you as a coach would like to know more about? Teaching methods, how many all-state QB's ran a certain drill every day, weightroom topics, motivation, all kinds of other good stuff. Even just a question you've had about something would help.
I'll be working with the HC from my high school and we've already got a couple ideas, but I want to see if there's anything I missed. And of course, if I find anything good, it'll go on here as quick as it can.
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Post by kylem56 on Dec 21, 2007 20:29:37 GMT -6
teaching methods could be interesting
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Post by coachcalande on Dec 21, 2007 20:51:58 GMT -6
Integrating technology with coaching
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Post by tog on Dec 21, 2007 20:58:40 GMT -6
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Post by coachcalande on Dec 21, 2007 21:01:03 GMT -6
coaching relationships on the internet- the good, bad and ugly
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Post by cmow5 on Dec 21, 2007 23:19:50 GMT -6
Dont know if this is what you are looking for, but here it goes
As I watched the FAU vs Memphis game I noticed that FAU blocked a punt and then on the next punt they got called for running into the kicker. I was wondering how often this happens? I would guess a lot. My reasoning would be the kids are so pumped up and jacked up that they got a block their adrenaline would be so high they would be more likely to make a mistake. I have no clue if that is what you are looking for, but I did not think we needed a whole thread for this and wanted to see if there was a pattern.
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Post by bigballsincowtown on Dec 22, 2007 8:44:49 GMT -6
as a grad student, i did a thesis on burnout level among coaches at the different levels of igh chool coaching in texas. it was pretty eye opening
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Post by Coach Goodnight on Dec 22, 2007 10:51:27 GMT -6
Why not do one over the burnout level of players. had a friend that had played since he was in the 3rd grade, when he graduated he got an offer to play at ASU went one semester and then quit, said he was tired of all the long practices ( in high school he said it was 7 days a week of some sort and about 3-4 hours a day during the "week". Wonder how many dont go because they are burned out on football?
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Post by tog on Dec 22, 2007 11:40:44 GMT -6
as a grad student, i did a thesis on burnout level among coaches at the different levels of igh chool coaching in texas. it was pretty eye opening start a new thread and tell us a little about your findings |
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Post by kboyd on Dec 22, 2007 15:12:20 GMT -6
as a grad student, i did a thesis on burnout level among coaches at the different levels of igh chool coaching in texas. it was pretty eye opening start a new thread and tell us a little about your findings Definitely, I'd love to see that paper or at least the key points. |
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Post by seagull73 on Dec 22, 2007 15:23:16 GMT -6
I would love to see some research on how the amout of time spent on the practice field translates to wins. I have worked for guys who spend 3 to 3 1/2 hours at practice every day. I spend about 2 1/2 & I think that's too much. I know of people who spend 1 1/2 and do just fine.
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Post by coachdawhip on Dec 23, 2007 9:41:22 GMT -6
I did part of my masters off the theory of practice time and grades and winning
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Post by gmccown on Dec 23, 2007 10:09:52 GMT -6
I don't know that it could ever be done...but...
I have always wanted to see some sort of a study on the success of various offensive schemes over time a the HS level. Which one has the best win %, which one scores the most points...a vast overall study of the effectiveness of varous systems. Are the big time systems the most effective across the entire population and that is why they are the big systems? Or is there a less known, less popular system...ran by less programs...that produces a higher success rate measured as a percentage of the total population running that type of offense.
Dang near impossible to do, but it sure would be interesting.
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Post by davecisar on Dec 23, 2007 10:58:32 GMT -6
I don't know that it could ever be done...but... I have always wanted to see some sort of a study on the success of various offensive schemes over time a the HS level. Which one has the best win %, which one scores the most points...a vast overall study of the effectiveness of varous systems. Are the big time systems the most effective across the entire population and that is why they are the big systems? Or is there a less known, less popular system...ran by less programs...that produces a higher success rate measured as a percentage of the total population running that type of offense. Dang near impossible to do, but it sure would be interesting. That would be one I pay for LOL. |
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Post by brophy on Dec 23, 2007 11:21:17 GMT -6
I don't know that it could ever be done...but... I have always wanted to see some sort of a study on the success of various offensive schemes over time a the HS level. Which one has the best win %, which one scores the most points...a vast overall study of the effectiveness of varous systems. Are the big time systems the most effective across the entire population and that is why they are the big systems? Or is there a less known, less popular system...ran by less programs...that produces a higher success rate measured as a percentage of the total population running that type of offense. Dang near impossible to do, but it sure would be interesting. FYI - but I believe AFM does this 'survey' every few years. Now that isn't a "historical" perspective, but it does give a capsulation of HS trends and win percentage over the last 10 years. |
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Post by Coach Huey on Dec 23, 2007 12:19:10 GMT -6
I don't know that it could ever be done...but... I have always wanted to see some sort of a study on the success of various offensive schemes over time a the HS level. Which one has the best win %, which one scores the most points...a vast overall study of the effectiveness of varous systems. Are the big time systems the most effective across the entire population and that is why they are the big systems? Or is there a less known, less popular system...ran by less programs...that produces a higher success rate measured as a percentage of the total population running that type of offense. Dang near impossible to do, but it sure would be interesting. FYI .... if everyone ran "the best system" then the winning percentage for "the best system" would only be 50%.... which is to say, what significance would this survey have on your coaching? |
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Post by gmccown on Dec 23, 2007 15:33:38 GMT -6
Everyone would always have their own taste, as i said a comparison is dang near impossible. I hear people ask all he time "what's best", it would be an interesting study to see which one truely performs best across the population. I wasn't aware there was anything like that out there.
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Post by spreadattack on Dec 23, 2007 16:16:26 GMT -6
The problem with the "best system" paper is that each team is unique. You might put a bunch of teams in the same category but they are not. Even Ttech and Hawaii are in many ways the most similar schools but should they be in the same category? What about West Virginia and Florida for example?
Anyway, to the original poster, what kind of "research" is this? Is this like a psychology/liberal arts paper, is it an economics/econometrics/statistics kind of paper with lots of data? I'd like to know more where you're coming from before I can give good suggestions.
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Post by carookie on Dec 23, 2007 17:20:37 GMT -6
I doubt it would be enough to fill a study, but I would want to see one that studies the corelation of successful high school football programs to scoio-economics of the student body.
I say this with my old HS in mind; they participate in a 6 team league from which the same 3 teams have made the playoffs (and finished 1,2,3) in each of the last 7 years. Two of the top three teams are significantly more wealthy than any of the lower tiered team; with the third top tier team being slightly wealtheir than any of the lower teams.
Now their are other factors; the top three teams have had the same head coaches for the past 15 years, while the others have averaged 3 apiece over the same time span ( although maybe thatalso has to do with $$).
Also student make-up plays a role; two of the poorer schools are primarily (more than 85%) hispanic- and having spoken to their coaches know that most of the mexican students don't try out for football (but they've won numerous titles in soccer).
Still, I think that it would be interesting to see the influence $$ has on a teams success both record wise and on the school's ability to produce collegiate athletes (if the belief that poorer students see athletics as their way to financial success).
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Post by phantom on Dec 23, 2007 17:44:09 GMT -6
I doubt it would be enough to fill a study, but I would want to see one that studies the corelation of successful high school football programs to scoio-economics of the student body. I say this with my old HS in mind; they participate in a 6 team league from which the same 3 teams have made the playoffs (and finished 1,2,3) in each of the last 7 years. Two of the top three teams are significantly more wealthy than any of the lower tiered team; with the third top tier team being slightly wealtheir than any of the lower teams. Now their are other factors; the top three teams have had the same head coaches for the past 15 years, while the others have averaged 3 apiece over the same time span ( although maybe thatalso has to do with $$). Also student make-up plays a role; two of the poorer schools are primarily (more than 85%) hispanic- and having spoken to their coaches know that most of the mexican students don't try out for football (but they've won numerous titles in soccer). Still, I think that it would be interesting to see the influence $$ has on a teams success both record wise and on the school's ability to produce collegiate athletes (if the belief that poorer students see athletics as their way to financial success). At first I didn't like this idea. We're not a wealthy school, we don't have great facilities, but we've had good success. I also think of Bob Shannon at East St. Louis. But, this study could provide some incentive for districts to open their pockets so I'm for it. |
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Post by rbush on Dec 23, 2007 23:17:48 GMT -6
Anyway, to the original poster, what kind of "research" is this? Is this like a psychology/liberal arts paper, is it an economics/econometrics/statistics kind of paper with lots of data? I'd like to know more where you're coming from before I can give good suggestions. Probably liberal art research. The paper is for an upper level speech class, but it's not actually part of the class. I have to do something extra in any one class to meet a requirement for an Honors scholarship. I asked this teacher if I could do the project for her class, she said sure, and we worked out doing research in the football coaching field. For example, we thought about looking at the HC's, OC's, and DC's with the best teams/units and seeing what subjects they taught/how many preps they had. Sweet set-up, huh? So the research can be as different as going through stats clear to trying new things out with local athletes. Did that help at all spreadattack, I'm not completely sure if that was what you were looking for? By the way, thank you to everyone for all the feedback. Still not sure what exactly I'll be looking into, my old coach and I are going to talk more after the holidays. There've been some great ideas so far though. Coachdawhip, would you be willing to share anything you came up with from your Masters work? I've been wondering how much is too much since fall camp. |
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Post by cc on Dec 24, 2007 1:21:14 GMT -6
As a coach in general or as a football coach specifically? I would like to know more about communication by O linemen at the LOS pre-snap. I would love to see how many tricks a 15 year NFL veteran O. Lineman have been taught / used / learned... I would like to see a study on how often QB's in option or zone read offenses get injured in comparision to pocket QB's. I think teams that use the QB as a runner a lot have less success than the conventional pocket QB. This is because those QB's often don't last the season. Thus the NFL using the pure passer more while college and high schools are using zone read more. Or it could just be there is more fan $$$ in the passing game. But why does the NFL have such vanilla offensive systems while there is so much more diversity at the college and high school ranks? I would like to see a study in the different styles and depths of audibling at the LOS. Can you audible too much? What are the different ways that have been done. From the sideline. By the QB. By other players??? I would like to see a study into the effectiveness of running as a consequence / punishment. this is the most common response coaches have for athlete misbehavior / mistakes. RUN HIM! Is it truly the most effective method? Just some Q's off the top of my head. Not sure what you are looking for but that's what I am looking for  (at the moment) |
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