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Post by brophy on Jul 29, 2017 23:38:20 GMT -6
if the reports about what she said to him are true do you find it a coincidence that De'Andre Johnson, Deionte Thompson,Michael Moreno, Victor Rojas and Joe Mixon ALL encountered people with an affinity with hurling racial epithets? Is this a common occurrence today, so much so that it justifies violence? I honestly don't have a problem with De'Andre or Joe's response to someone being violent towards them (if you don't want to be hit, don't hit anyone else). I don't think words are a justification for it, though.
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Post by brophy on Jul 27, 2017 10:45:50 GMT -6
just when I was getting comfortable blaming my irrational anger on CTE.......
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Post by brophy on Jul 25, 2017 12:28:53 GMT -6
Study proves that people who exhibit symptoms of a disease, actually have the disease. The study even says it was a highly biased sample group, players who already had symptoms of CTE whose brains were donated by the families. sounds like something someone with CTE would say
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Post by brophy on Jul 25, 2017 11:11:33 GMT -6
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Post by brophy on Jul 25, 2017 8:57:41 GMT -6
speaking of "making sausage", try discussing the series with anyone not coaching. The uninitiated person would tell you that, "the coaches from Coahoma were really good and what the kids needed". You know....the team that finished 1-9. They all believe those kids were just misunderstood and needed someone to talk to them nicely, then they would be sufficiently motivated. They have no idea how fickle the life of a full-time college coach is (even though the DC of season 2 explains how they have moved 12 times)
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Post by brophy on Jul 24, 2017 13:44:13 GMT -6
football aside (because there really wasn't much football shown), what can be said that this documents the state of the majority of our high school graduates represent? I had problems distinguishing last season's players from the 2016 players featured this season. These were 19 - 21 year old men that were nothing more than mildly functional retards being controlled by emotional states of a toddler.
I know that is the world we've been living in, but every episode it was "____ player gets their feelings hurt, gets moody, pouts, needs 5-6 redirection / interventions from various people", cut to vignette that the player had a rough childhood....excuse after excuse....
Good for Stephens for making an effort to change his behavior and how he projected that 'changed' attitude for the majority of the season. Its a good lesson to learn that swearing on the field really isn't necessary.
Did that team ever wear the same uniform twice in a season?
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Post by brophy on Jun 29, 2017 19:25:33 GMT -6
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Post by brophy on Jun 28, 2017 13:37:29 GMT -6
This is fantastic. And true. Isn't this true of every "generation" of player though? there's a difference between going through physical hardship and getting your feelings hurt. Today's generation (some adults, too) don't make that distinction. Its one thing to have to run 50 laps vs 20 laps. Its another thing to equate running laps as the same as being told you shouldn't quit a drill anytime you're a little winded. When you're surrounded by an echo chamber of self-centeredness, I'd imagine it would be hard to make that distinction. There are tons of Huey archives if what this thread is just about the title of the thread. What the OP wrote wasn't about that.
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Post by brophy on Jun 28, 2017 7:07:35 GMT -6
20 years from now those kids will be telling stories of how coach made them run an extra sprint like they were the Junction Boys.
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Post by brophy on Jun 27, 2017 15:46:31 GMT -6
I refuse to believe that kids were tougher back then. because of THIS kids will just quit more now. You used to be able to be direct and point out errors and DEMAND kids get right or elseYou simply can't do that in today's world. You can be direct and point out errors today, but it REQUIRES endless stroking and coddling to buffer it. Why? I honestly believe its because we have a bunch of boys being raised like moody little girls, thinking they need to be validated at every turn. Long story short, everything you're seeing, all the opposition to leadership, all the fighting progress you encounter is borne out of unhealthy/incorrect processing of your environment measure these kids' interpretation of any given event with this road map and you'll have your answer If you're honestly equating "loud volume" to "aggressive reprimand", then have fun with your strawman
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Post by brophy on Jun 19, 2017 7:13:16 GMT -6
the school atmosphere, the immediate team/program support, and the larger community as a whole How are you all fighting the "can't work, won't work" communities with your culture? How are you handling the irrationally behaving fans with your own actions? Just like it is with changing players, with the community, Engagement is key. Talk and share the vision of the program with other teachers. What's in it for them? Most often the best way to get people thinking positively of you is to provide them a positive impression. What you're doing will have a benefit for their self interest. If kids are not behaving in their class, have that teacher contact you so you can put a stop to it. Let all teachers know that they shouldn't have any problems with football kids, that you hold players to higher standards of leadership. Offer to assist with discipline issues. Work with the Administration as well, so they can scratch your back with academic alerts so you can get kids in remediation/study hall periods/ tutors. With the community at-large it requires more politics. Fundraisers is where this is done most often. Use your volunteer events as team bonding exercises. The VFW is having a Jambalaya Cookoff for donations? Great, get your coaches and kids out there helping to set it all up. Get the faces of your program out in the community. Summer Golf Classic in town? Volunteer your kids to do 20 hours of free labor with each kid doing 3 hour shifts. Get people seeing your program's impact as being bigger than just football. In all things, ENGAGE THE PARENTS. Sometimes just one phone call will make the difference. Send out email/newsletter updates of good things going on in the program year long. Provide attendance alerts of who is attending off-season sessions and who isn't. When the fall hits, have a night to watch the game film with parents. Use it as an opportunity to showcase kids who aren't getting pub. Highlight second teamers that got to play and the impact they made. When done in front of a lot of parents, it fosters the bonding of each kid making a difference and wanting to contribute. The other good thing is when you win over the parents in a group like this, the groupthink/hivemind of agreement dissuades those lone wolves from piping up bitching about why this play was called and such. The more parents + community involved, the more fundraising money you're going to bring in. The more money you can bring in, the more uniform/camp/swag you can afford to be more attractive to future players. If it isn't evident by now, you need your entire Program Staff to be engaged as well. If you think the Head Coach is supposed to do everything, you've already lost
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Post by brophy on Apr 15, 2017 12:39:24 GMT -6
Has there ever been a thread about playing cover 0 all the time against the double wing?
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Post by brophy on Apr 7, 2017 15:15:34 GMT -6
bachelor parties......I can potentially skip a Friday practice on a non-game week and go but some are during scheduled game days.
this is going to be an epic thread. I'm curious how, after typing it out, you still didn't come to the realization of what you expressed I coach at the Pop Warner level. kids...you don't think coaching matters until Varsity, or something? Having coaches available is exactly what this age level needs I'm attending clinics and studying up in the offseason and putting in the time to.... help these kids who cares about ANY of that if you still feel like blowing practices is acceptable? The time you put in with the kids is MORE important than game day, itself I still feel like I've made a commitment to coach and be there at practices/games but at the same time it's difficult saying no to good friends. I don't think you're understanding the meaning of that word
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Post by brophy on Apr 5, 2017 4:23:26 GMT -6
OneNote
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Post by brophy on Mar 21, 2017 8:58:06 GMT -6
the wussification of America. How you supposed to motivate your athletes if you can't even do stuff like this?
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Post by brophy on Mar 16, 2017 19:43:02 GMT -6
I suppose it doesn't hurt that Bill Belichick's team plays the Buffalo Bills, Miami Dolphins and NY Jets twice a year, comprising 1/2 of their schedule doesn't hurt, eh? Belichick is afforded to leverage the Malcolm Butlers, Chandler Jones, Willie McGinest because he has enough (win) equity to stray outside conventional wisdom. Put up a 7-9 season and he'll get crucified for those same moves There's a bit of chicken and egg thing to both of those. The AFC East was a better conference before Belichick started beating the crap out of them. Coincidence? Or is he in their heads and they do stupid stuff to try to catch the Pats, and it blows up on them? He was 5-11 his first year with the Pats. Then he won 3 of the next 4 Super Bowls. So which came first - the winning or the leverage? And did the leverage create the winning? Hard to say. But the fact is, he's won multiple titles with dramatically different teams and coaching staffs. The only constant is Brady. So yeah, you can say Brady. Then again, the list of multiple SB winning coaches with non-elite QB's is pretty short - Parcells (who never made a SB without Belichick on his staff) and Gibbs - any others? And you have plenty of HOF QB/coach combos who didn't win 5 Super Bowls... well, to be fair, he was at NE with Parcells. The reason he went back there was because of his relationship with Kraft. He we pegged to be the NY Jets HC with his buddy Parcells running the show. He left Parcells in the lurch to take the NE job, which I think says something. In the end, I think the takeaway for High School coaches is 1) he has a solid relationship with his "boss". Mutual respect between them. He is afforded to do what he needs to without meddling and the expectations of excellence are a standard they share. Just because there is a HC vacancy and you want to be HC, doesn't necessarily mean you should take it. Belichick often remarks about how ownership in Cleveland would have undermined any success he built. 2) it helps that others in his division don't necessarily have ownership (administrators) that have been in power or maintained the same direction. 3) he has broken from the good ole boy network. Adams is nothing more than a former scout who Belichick respects, so he can call him on his {censored}. Don't surround yourself with sycophants. He also has respect for the investment he makes in his staff. You can't get something from nothing, so pushing guys into more and more responsibility helps them mature. He knows what he wants the program to look like and is smart enough not to do it ALL by himself, and wise enough to play the long game to develop guys he can eventually delegate to.
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Post by brophy on Mar 16, 2017 7:37:52 GMT -6
I suppose it doesn't hurt that Bill Belichick's team plays the Buffalo Bills, Miami Dolphins and NY Jets twice a year, comprising 1/2 of their schedule doesn't hurt, eh?
If you want to study Belichick, Alex Kirby's "Big Book of Belichick" compiles all his candid thoughts on organization, players, strategy in an easy to digest format.
Belichick is afforded to leverage the Malcolm Butlers, Chandler Jones, Willie McGinest because he has enough (win) equity to stray outside conventional wisdom. Put up a 7-9 season and he'll get crucified for those same moves
The time in Cleveland is some of the most fascinating football history. The book "War Room" goes into several stories about Belichick's experiences there
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Post by brophy on Mar 7, 2017 8:49:21 GMT -6
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Post by brophy on Mar 6, 2017 12:28:17 GMT -6
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Post by brophy on Feb 23, 2017 12:19:14 GMT -6
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Post by brophy on Feb 20, 2017 15:17:45 GMT -6
I'm gonna be the cruise director and make it a lil more exciting by being fun and excitable. eh, direct as in the act of conducting... I teach you how to A We rep A a lot, so you feel comfortable. You get a muscle memory. You develop pattern recognition for A. You make an error executing A, you get corrected. We prepare you to do A within the context of how you will see it on Friday. reserve this for Tues - Thursday.....not needed on Friday If I did my job sufficiently on M-Th, all I have to do on Friday is press "play". Everything you need to know about A on Friday, I would have fully prepared you for, already. You don't need a hype man to perform. If I find that Friday night has a lot of exceptions, requiring my intervention, I need to re-evaluate what I think I'm doing during the week. That doesn't mean to deny your emotions, just don't be fooled thinking the intensity of your emotions equates to anything productive towards performance.
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Post by brophy on Feb 20, 2017 13:31:11 GMT -6
coach during the week, direct on game night.
if you have to be spastic on game day, something didn't get relayed correctly while preparing. No problem, just fix what is going wrong during the week (maybe practices aren't efficient enough).
Always be thinking PEOPLE - PROCESS - PERFORMANCE. If you have the right people (who aren't sabotaging you), then check the process you're using to produce the performance you expect.
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Post by brophy on Feb 15, 2017 19:54:59 GMT -6
I liked football. Probably most coaches did, too. Who cares? I went out for football because I thought it would bring world peace. The bottom line is you showed up, gave effort and contributed.as long as kids do that, it doesn't matter. Not everyone we get will be diehard football jihadists. Once they show up, its our job to develop a relationship and keep them engaged. The MORE KIDS out means more families supporting the program. The more families the larger community and businesses that can support us. 99% of the kids participating (and families) have some expectation of seeing the field and not the bench. JV makes that happen
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Post by brophy on Feb 15, 2017 18:04:56 GMT -6
Unfortunately......some kids were only playing football to help with their Saturday night efforts with the ladies.
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Post by brophy on Feb 15, 2017 16:06:32 GMT -6
But isnt it also your job to teach them HOW to make the plays? If a kid uses poor technique, then you didnt coach him well enough on how to use techniques, if the DT didnt squeeze, you didn't coach him well enough to squeeze. Whatever they do, you either coach it or you allow it. So by that logic the players are never at fault. Any mistake made by a player ultimately comes back to the coach didn't prepare them well enough. I agree that coaching is all about being accountable for player performance. Completely. Unfortunately, it doesn't account for the makeup of a particular player, as a human being, which a coach, as dedicated as he may be, cannot alter/modify/account for 17 years of upbringing. A guy may be a great athlete, he may be the best at his position, he may be the best at executing his assignment.....but, he may have moments of weakness and {censored} the bed either due to maturity or indoctrinated selfishness that he was raised on and lets the team down.
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Post by brophy on Feb 15, 2017 12:55:44 GMT -6
JV makes a whole lot of sense if you're developing a PROGRAM. A PROGRAM is most often successful when you are 2-platooning, because now you're focused on developing specialized players devoting most of their time to a single position. If all you're interested is assembling the best 13 kids to play both ways, you end up with fighting to exist 1 season at a time. The 2017 team and your +10 games is all that matters. When the season is over, so is your momentum for subsequent season because your 'best' kids are graduating (because you aren't concerned about maximum reps). JV shouldn't be its own unit. It should be an offshoot of Varsity. Freshmen play freshmen ball. JV are exhibition games played for kids practicing with Varsity, coordinated by Varsity position coaches on their game day. Once that game is over, the JV coaches go back to being Varsity assistants and the JV players go back to being Varsity players. tl;dr the "two teams" is dead weight
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Post by brophy on Feb 10, 2017 17:20:33 GMT -6
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Post by brophy on Feb 10, 2017 15:43:19 GMT -6
redcoach, what does your school's Track program look like? EDIT :.....whoa.... www.maxpreps.com/high-schools/ridgedale-rockets-(morral,oh)/football/all_time_roster.htm doesn't look like a healthy program going back to 2006 if you can only muster 30-some kids out for football (Fr-Sr)
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Post by brophy on Feb 10, 2017 8:57:25 GMT -6
sounds like someone just got back from their first Psych 101 from the local community college.
We're talking about performance. It doesn't matter if its public speaking, playing pool, a free throw contest.... if you are prepared and focused on executing to the expectations of your ability you can tune that other garbage out. If you're just going through the motions to prevent your psychotic coach from yelling at you, you will freeze and {censored} the bed
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Post by brophy on Feb 9, 2017 11:04:14 GMT -6
considering no NFL team passed on Manning and EVERY NFL team passed on Brady....I think the choice is obvious.
Hindsight is crystal clear.
What NFL franchises want is a sure-thing franchise player they can give the keys to and sit back and collect merchandising money.
Peyton was the son of an NFL star quarterback, that was a high school stud, that was hyped for the Heisman once he committed to a school. He is the epitome of pedigree. My only contention is that he has been handed all this since he was born. Sure, he IS good and IS a great quarterback, but clawing his way to a starting position is something he never had to want for.
I'd take Brady knowing what we know now, though.
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