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Post by warriorstrength on Dec 13, 2006 11:02:16 GMT -6
We have a lot of kids walking the halls that should be playing football but don't. The expectations are not there to participate whether it be from home or else were. I am trying to get our numbers up and I know that in order to do that we have to make football the 'cool" thing to do again. I know when I played, the football players were the "popular" ones. We had lots of people try out so we had a lot of talent to choose from. So that being said, what are some stratagies that could be employed to make playing football "cool"?
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Post by sls on Dec 13, 2006 11:40:39 GMT -6
Recruit every day. Every time you see thos kids ask them to play. Find out what they are interested in and create a relationship. Go the skate park or where ever they hang out and ask them to play. It has taken me 2 years with some kids but I finally got them as juniors.
Use the kids that are on the team. I had the 2 most popular kids on the foobtall team sit in the school conference room and then asked the Dean to call down the 10 kids that I wanted, they did not know what they were coming for, they thought they were in throuble. Came into the conference room and I was there with the 2 popular kids on the team and we siad we need you. This got 3 or 4 kids to plya.
I kinda of use a college mind set, anyday I don't recruit we are getting worse. There are several kids that hate to see me coming up to them, but so what.
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Post by sls on Dec 13, 2006 11:41:33 GMT -6
I would also suggest that you run an offense in which several kids are going to get touches. A wide open spread attack has worked to get athletes out at my school.
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Post by brophy on Dec 13, 2006 11:52:00 GMT -6
WINNING is cool. If you win they will come out. What is their incentive to come out and play? Are the coaches going to encourage their development? Is it going to be an atmosphere where their "culture" won't be accepted? If all a guy did was gripe at me, and tell me I should do such-and-such.....I'm likely going to AVOID doing such-and-such, no matter how much I like such-and-such. That's human nature. Recruit, Recruit, recruit with a smile and encouraging word.  I'll tell the kids what they want to here, just to get them to give them enough courage to get on the practice field. Once they get on the practice field..........thats another story. |
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Post by warriorstrength on Dec 13, 2006 11:53:31 GMT -6
Good stuff! Keep it coming.
We do run a wide open spread offence.
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Post by juice10 on Dec 13, 2006 11:54:31 GMT -6
What has been your tradition there at your school? I know that I have the same problem you do, seems like I have a better team walking the halls sometimes.
What we are doing and has seemed to help is to try to form relationships with every kid and show them that they mean something to your program. Make your practices and workouts as exciting, interesting, and fun as you possibly can.
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Post by jjkuenzel on Dec 13, 2006 12:16:35 GMT -6
I firmly believe that kids want to be a part of something exciting and special. It does not matter what it is, kids want to be a part of excellence. When I was in HS, we had a fantastic band director and band program. It was second to none. Because of this, band was not thought of as being uncool. We had about 80 kids in band at a school of about 375. Many of the top athletes were involved in band and no one ever gave them a hard time for being in band. It was cool and accepted because there was a level of achievement and excellence that went with it.
I think that the same thing can be said of football or any sport for that matter. Kids want to be a part of something special. Raise the bar and expect a level of excellence from yourself and your kids. In my opinion, kids will gravitate towards that. It may not happen over night, but little by little I believe that you will start reaping the rewards.
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