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Post by brophy on Feb 5, 2017 10:34:20 GMT -6
I have always thought that kids shouldn't play tackle football until 7th grade 6th at the earliest for several reasons. One being most of the kids font have proper fitting equipment. sounds like you agree with the bill, then
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Post by brophy on Feb 2, 2017 8:16:06 GMT -6
didn't someone bring this up in the "Team Bonding" thread last month?
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Post by brophy on Jan 31, 2017 9:09:33 GMT -6
clinics
* coaches that insist on public speaking with an entire pack of dip in their mouths
* coaches that punctuate every sentence with a call for acknowledgement "aight", "mmmmkay", etc
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Post by brophy on Jan 20, 2017 10:10:31 GMT -6
1. for self gratification
2. to find bullies. Anyone that disagrees with me is just an a-hole
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Post by brophy on Jan 15, 2017 22:41:20 GMT -6
if you could "win" in the first year, why didn't the last guy do that?
I assume, this is why you got the job in the first place.
If you're thinking you're going to turn a losing team into a winner in 2 months simply by calling different plays, I'm not sure you're talking about "program building" (i.e. building not a single season team, but a feeder-to-varsity PROGRAM).
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Post by brophy on Jan 12, 2017 14:04:33 GMT -6
Beer usually helps. Everyone getting together for the Super Bowl or National Championship does wonders Nothing brings guys together like boil
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Post by brophy on Jan 12, 2017 10:49:02 GMT -6
the issue really isn't single-parent, inasmuch as it means single-income. The root issue is economic and a culture of poverty that undermines education and contributes to crime / at-risk behavior.
Its hard enough raising children with two professional earners at home. It becomes increasingly challenging if those two earners have little education, limiting their earning potential. Now, take that limited earner and make it a single mother, with, at-best, only a high school diploma and you have a perfect recipe for perpetual poverty. You have a broke idiot raising broke idiots....what did you think was going to happen?
Kids are great. Raising kids is expensive. Marriage is an economic incorporation, many would say is vital for covering that business expense (of raising a child).
Regardless of feelings or moral beliefs, the economic bottom line is the truth here
So if you want to preach something to kids, preach the financial ceiling anchor raising kids is. Stop celebrating being broke. Embrace education and achievement. Nothing will rob both of those like more (economic) responsibility.
A 16 year old girl having a baby should be considered as dumb as that same kid purchasing a house (without the financial capital to do so). What BOWDEN is referring to in this article is the emotional and mental immaturity that boys pick up from adult teen girls who never grew up.
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Post by brophy on Jan 12, 2017 9:11:31 GMT -6
Its not that single-mothers can't raise kids/boys. I think what Bowden was saying, and I agree with, is many boys raised in these households are raised around a woman and groups of women so that boy takes on a lot of feminine social practices. He's catty, vain, self-absorbed and not willing to invest a lot when confronted with hardship. That is what Bowden was driving at when he made the earring comment. When you talk to those kid's mothers you see exactly where they got it from. What you get is some athletes that are more concerned about Instagram selfies than shutting up and putting in work.
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Post by brophy on Jan 12, 2017 8:54:47 GMT -6
cast a wide net. - Now is the time to have the head coach or assistants visit your feeder Phys Ed programs (they still have those, right?). Lagniappe if you can get that Phys Ed teacher to call a 10-minute after school meeting with their kids to tell them about your program (primarily for incoming freshmen to participate in your spring after-school lifting program).
- Wear your football swag and attend School Wrestling, Basketball games. Make your brand known/visible
- Meet with your players and give them off-season ownership. Have your leaders draft teams of all potential players (off-season conditioning participants) starting with the freshmen and work their way to Juniors. Your leaders will be accountable for the attendance / participation of the group they draft. Best group gets a big prize this summer.
- Work your hallways to see about getting that kid that might want to play or could contribute but has never gone out for football. Sell the brotherhood
- Off-season program should be fun and inclusive. Be organized and use a periodization program with a competition every month. Build the group
- Compliment your off-season participation (and competitions) with a cheap team outing/get together. Could be bowling, could be pizza night, could be dodge ball/basketball/Madden tournament at the school....get them together slapdicking and having fun.
- Push all your known kids to participate in the school's track program even if they aren't "Track Athletes". Kids play sports to be with their group of friends, infect other teams with exposure to your football kids.
- oh, and if the HEAD coach has to do all this stuff, you're doing it wrong....
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Post by brophy on Jan 11, 2017 13:52:29 GMT -6
more comprehensive article www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/18449983/new-pacific-pro-football-league-debut-summer-2018If it starts this summer, but not played until next year....sounds like they could have it set up for something for the long-haul. - FOUR teams in 2018
- 50 player roster ($10M roster salary for the league)
- 8 games / season
- Initial player employment offers are projected for Winter 2017 and will also include one year paid tuition and books at local community colleges
- Every team will have a counselor to help players develop their interests academically and/or vocationally,
- and assist with coordinating meaningful internships in their fields of interest
- Pac Pro will also be a development ground for coaches, officials, and executives and a 'football lab' for new technologies, smart apparel, and content distributors
If you look at what a Netflix, Amazon, Turner,FOX (whatever) shells out for budgets of television series, it isn't that crazy www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/expensive-netflix-original-tv-shows.html/?a=viewallNo one knows the gross earnings of Mississippi JUCO / All or Nothing sereis, but look at the investment they made there....practically nothing. Just a film crew who just was there. No script (that's done later in the Editing booth)...just a bunch of stock footage that they cranked out into 8 or 12 hour-long episodes they can sell for $2 a pop, then package and sell again for syndication You leave those cameras on when you get the players, go through training camp...then when the season hits you air crap like this.... audiences will eat it up and pay attention to their story interests every week = $$$
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Post by brophy on Jan 11, 2017 13:30:12 GMT -6
The money's just not going to be there without a sizeable TV deal and I can't see ESPN or even a regional syndicated sports network putting up that kind of cash. If they played it smart, they would set up the league with television in mind (Hard Knocks / All or Nothing / etc) to gain advertising dollars and effective branding, but also tax advantage of the state tax credits that can be very lucrative depending on where they film. Most Networks waste more for less (just look at what the History channel turned into). Its not like you're paying these coaches/players as 'actors'. www.filmproductioncapital.com/taxincentive.htmlIf it is done in the summer they scratch an itch that many have anticipating college/NFL seasons. The World League / NFLE was the real league that did it right, but didn't have a market in Europe to sustain viewership. The USFL and XFL failed because they attempted to grow too fast and/or compete with the NFL. As far as kids getting chewed up and spit out....when has that ever mattered? The logistics will be the most interesting issue. While this is geared towards the Cinderella story of a kid that doesn't go to college, what is the likelihood that much of the roster is NFL retreads and never-was(es)? The positives would be NO PLAYER UNION....without those restrictions, there is no telling what you could accomplish, particularly if you are paying these guys a living wage. What defines a living wage, though? $50k in coastal Cali can't buy you much. Are the organizations providing housing or a training table? What about workout facilities? If it is a developmental league, I would hope they provide those (I doubt it). If its about winning (meaningless) games and selling tickets, then I doubt they make the investment and this becomes a shitshow no one will care about.
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Post by brophy on Jan 11, 2017 8:20:33 GMT -6
very helpful link. Two questions it brings up... 1) Kid had CTE / brain trauma which likely lead to his physiological depression. The appropriate response to avoid his suicide would be to treat the depression, right? I assume there is nothing that can be done to reverse the damage to his brain at that point. 2) How did the kid get such brain trauma? What would make him, as it seems, such an outlier? This should lead to more investigation of his football experience.
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Post by brophy on Dec 23, 2016 14:18:54 GMT -6
It applies to jrk5150
Good luck getting anyone to have a nuanced discussion about subconconcussive hits and how to prevent them without eliminating the helmet
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Post by brophy on Dec 23, 2016 13:42:59 GMT -6
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Post by brophy on Dec 22, 2016 9:29:40 GMT -6
Today's equipment, proper coaching and concussion diagnosis protocols will cut back on these issues significantly. I agree these all will help. I suppose all this CTE information exposure/overload is good, too, so players can appreciate protecting their most vital organ. What I don't get yet is....I can remember at least 5 vicious hits in my career where I know I was out of it. I doubt I could've told you my name at the time (and I kept playing). I don't know if anyone would've noticed it even under today's protocols because I wasn't knocked out. In addition to those brain gangbangs mentioned, as a lineman, it is the sub-concussive hits that you get endlessly in practice and during a game that are the biggest contributors to CTE / TAU stain damage. Those are not measured. Now in this (article) situation, there is another issue at play from a Devil's Advocate perspective. Does football brain trauma cause abnormal behavior, or are people choosing to play this sport just messed up in the head to begin with? I say that because many of the things that make us (or used to make us) "good football players" was our disregard for healthy behavior (abnormally physically taxing workouts / explosive body work / playing with 'pain' / reinforcing hyper-aggressiveness). From where I sit / experienced, a lot of the things that made me a good football player (which is a stretch due to physical limitations) were the same things that would make you a bad human being in the real world. Maybe its different for quarterbacks and receivers, but for linemen the mentality is quite different. I would argue that this reinforced mentality would ostracize someone for getting help in the real world and taking the correct "real world" behavior. Now I say all that to say this, a 24-year old is very young. He stopped playing ball his junior year, but he had fully bought into the CTE diagnosis and convinced himself that is what he was suffering from [the GQ article from Omalu came out in 2009, which would have been around the time of his senior season]. He joined the Army. I don't know what his military status was, but I assume he did a 4-year stint and was discharged (?). Point being, if his whole self-identity at a teenager is "football player" then no longer can play (going into his senior year), plus an enlistment that may or may not have gone south, there are a lot of perceived social road-bumps (life changing events) that could trigger depressive episodes. You could be well-adjusted socially and emotionally and if physiological changes occur your biochemistry or your brain function (severe head trauma), none of that matters....I get that wholeheartedly. I'm just presenting another side that I'm unsure about because of the lack of evidence in this story. people will pay $70 to watch UFC fighting on TV. On top of that, more and more people are getting into that sport, but no one says anything about that. I get your point, but most MMA isn't strikes to the head, but actual grappling. Even guys that train, very little time is spent on strikes.
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Post by brophy on Dec 22, 2016 8:42:56 GMT -6
okay... HOW!?Parents are pushing for a bill to enforce medical trainers on athletic teams. All that will do will invoke concussion protocol (maybe) more than it is now. Is that really the problem? 24 year old committed suicide, apparently suffering from serious depression. twitter.com/twatterlesszwww.kcci.com/article/doctor-s-office-confirms-indianola-man-suffered-from-cte/6920425does anyone have a link to where his brain was actually examined to show the TAU stains? I'm all for exploring CTE and football, but you've got to do more than this (IMO). I feel for his parents, but the only thing clear was that the young man was depressed. Whether or not his concussions were the cause is anyone's guess I don't like articles like this because ..... I don't like it because I can't find any facts in any of the articles about the guy. I'm not even discounting the story, it just isn't supported by any facts or data.
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Post by brophy on Dec 21, 2016 8:39:43 GMT -6
his site still works and recently added content on 12/18
Unfortunately, most NCAA programs these days share TCU's level of doucheyness and will come down with the hammer of Lars Ulrich when it comes to their film. I can't blame Coach Light for being extremely selective
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Post by brophy on Dec 15, 2016 23:09:38 GMT -6
couldn't you just invite them to the gym to watch a day game together?
Throw some Little Caesars at them and bring them together as a team activity?
You might get more out of it understanding that football team is about bonding more than chalkboard
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Post by brophy on Nov 30, 2016 13:10:27 GMT -6
Top 25 college football has less to do with actual football and more tondo with branding. You need a figurehead to get the athletes and then solicit exposure on the ESPN
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Post by brophy on Nov 15, 2016 8:43:44 GMT -6
which brain type do I need to be to fall for mumbo jumbo?
I'd type more but I have a plane to catch....
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Post by brophy on Nov 4, 2016 17:41:42 GMT -6
A) Name it after the places I am coming from. kids don't care about your CV. This isn't about YOU B) Name it after what it does schematically. kids don't care about that and won't know what its supposed to mean to begin with C) Name it after whatever the mascot is at the place good start. I would spend more time concentrating on how I'm going to get kids out, developed and get their families engaged with the program rather than branding my whizbang schemes
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Post by brophy on Nov 2, 2016 13:20:16 GMT -6
no big deal.
Its like when we used to pass hot dogs between each other's buttcheeks after a game.
At what point would anyone think doing body shots off your players would be a way to celebrate?
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Post by brophy on Oct 14, 2016 9:41:40 GMT -6
find a skinny nerdy boy who loves sports in your class, have him do it Some columns anyone with some football knowledge can tag, but if you're going to tag everything like the play, formation, front, coverage, etc. A knowledgeable coach has to do it. You don't want to call a formation twins one week, then tag it slot the next week because it will screw up the data. Keeping everything uniform is difficult if you have amateurs doing it. which is why you should chart playcalls during the game ...either from the box or a JV player doing it on the sideline with a clipboard. All you need is a table with play sequence # and a spot for the play call. If you can get them to chart D&D, even better. Of course its made even simpler if your playcalls are on a wristband. PLAY1 - h1 PLAY2 - r13 PLAY3 - R2 PLAY99 - L7 h1 on the wristband is "ace left - Y cross" r13 on the wristband is "trips right - 38 stretch"....etc When Friday night/Saturday morning comes to chart in HUDL, you're just inputting whatever is on the playcall chart sheet.
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Post by brophy on Sept 20, 2016 13:21:33 GMT -6
eh.....shouldn't you know this BEFORE you get the job?
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Post by brophy on Sept 3, 2016 8:51:31 GMT -6
I agree with dubber and I'm certainly not saying kids today are dumb or unmotivated. I don't believe my team in the 80s could handle what we implement today (I was, and continue to be, a football idiot).
I will say there is an increasing challenge in delivering the tenets of football (teamwork, selflessness, perseverence, masculinity) that kids today (Generation ME) have no foundational understanding that you can build from. The game should always be about each other (your teammate) but many are raised to sell each other out quickly because its the easy route.
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Post by brophy on Sept 2, 2016 14:38:02 GMT -6
no offense, but I stopped right there. Running up the score in middle school.....for what? who cares?
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Post by brophy on Sept 2, 2016 8:06:42 GMT -6
I can't say its the kids, per se, but the way they are conditioned to passively participate, anymore. There is no real need to actively think or problem solve much anymore.
The classroom test is based on the answers I ell you about every day. You don't have to deep understanding of the material, you just need to memorize the glossary terms.
Don't like being uncomfortable for being awkward? Don't worry you're special and doing everything right...don't change anything
Not having much success playing in the playground? Don't worry, just stop going and play video games all day
Can't make it in your video game? don't worry you have unlimited lives
Its not their fault, this is the world created for them
So, how can you deliver data to your players that they can't screw up? How can THEY identify the concepts (because pattern recognition is something they are actually good with)
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Post by brophy on Aug 31, 2016 16:29:18 GMT -6
box ....if I need to be on the sideline coaching and talking to kids during the game, then I didn't do my job during the week
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Post by brophy on Aug 24, 2016 13:07:23 GMT -6
bull in a ring has been illegal for as long as I've been coaching.....but hey, its youth ball - let's get kids injured, amirite!?
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Post by brophy on Aug 24, 2016 12:16:48 GMT -6
thanks, coach.
one follow-up question...can you ship me one of them Casey pizzas? If not, I'll settle for HyVee (former Iowan)
In all seriousness, helluva offering and much better for businesses than the old school program. Way to go.
So, how do football fans get access to the media guide? Via email distribution group or can they download at the game? How do people that just show up to your game with no affiliation to the school see this?
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