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Post by coachfloyd on Jan 17, 2017 12:27:58 GMT -6
Ive had a few around here and they have ranged from legit D1 guy to worst guy on the team. We have multiple boys homes around here and like you said they almost always want to play. Some of their stories are just awful. One player we had lost both of his parents in a car wreck when he was little. He lived in the boys home until he turned 18. He still had one year left with us but when he turned 18 he had the choice to stay or go live with his sister. He left. The last game with us he rushed for about 240 yards. The last time I saw him he I took him to a weightlifting meet. He clean and jerked 275 and snatch 225 at 180lbs. He left us and went and started at another school that really didnt need him.
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Post by coachfloyd on Jan 17, 2017 12:23:53 GMT -6
Push ups and sit ups for an hour straight? Seriously? How is that going to produce a better football player? possibly if that kid quits and they give the scholarship to someone else.
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Post by coachfloyd on Jan 17, 2017 11:59:42 GMT -6
There are so many things you can do that suck that don't require hospitalization.
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Post by coachfloyd on Jan 12, 2017 8:39:06 GMT -6
Congratulations, but you are statistical anomaly. There's really not an argument. There's decades of research and results showing kids with two parent families overwhelmingly do better than one parent. Is there something that any of us can do about this? I think we can help the next generation not be like this. In my mind it comes down to premarital sex. its not politically correct to preach abstinence but its the only thing that works. Look at my avatar at the two smallest kids. When birth control says 99.9% when you use it right, that's what they mean. I know Im old fashioned and my beliefs are informed by my religion but I think it holds up. I always talk about doing things in order. Graduate, go to college and/or get a steady job, get married, get established, then have kids. If you mess up that order, its going to be harder. I did things in order and its still incredibly hard. The combined mileage on my 2 vehicles is 340,000. The only clothes I wear are clothes Ive been given for coaching. We eat peanut butter and jelly for half our meals every week. And I work in GA where the teaching and coaching pay is very good. I couldn't imagine what it would be like if I was still trying to finish school as a single parent with 4 kids. Its not supposed to work that way and thats why its so difficult. people can absolutely help getting into that situation.
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Post by coachfloyd on Jan 11, 2017 13:53:29 GMT -6
The only way they were "deficient" is in their start. It has nothing to do with them as human beings. I've spent most of my career in a low socioeconomic setting. 15 players over the past 3 years have been arrested or shot. Two were just arrested for murder last week. Ive seen this play out first hand. If fed players, picked them up, washed their clothes, bought underwear and toothe paste. This is an epidemic in this country and if people could maybe spend less time being offended we could actually start to fix the problem. What he was saying is that one parent households are not the ideal way to raise children. That really can't be argued with. He definitely could have said it better and without the earring comment but the meat of his point was very true. All kids need fathers but it's not a death sentence. But if there is not a dad in the picture, something will fill that void. Sometimes it's a coach but many times, especially around here it's gangs. I am right there with you brother and I work in a similar place. I appreciate what you have done and seen. I have had the same experience with my athletes. Others were asking why there are people who are offended or insulted. I am trying to explain or understand the "insulted" peoples point of view and explain it. Just because one says something that doesn't mean that it was heard the way it was intended. Everyone who is married understands that. My point is not that single parent homes are not ideal. I agree that if there are two loving normal parents at home things generally turn out better. Developmental Psychology and statistics point to the effectiveness of 2 parent homes under normal circumstances. I am not arguing facts as much I am trying to understand the other point of view. I agree with the general point Bowden was trying to make and yours about 2 parent homes. However, I think considering the success of his student athletes it may have seemed to them to diminish their families' resilience. The joke at the end that he used at the end might not have helped. One on one with players he had relationship with it probably got laughs but a blanket statement about young men with ear rings wanting to be a man like their momma probably seemed even more insulting. Now you have these tough young men he is teasing for being like women. Then there is the fact that most of his players he is talking about are black. Often the single parent absent daddy is used to describe the cause of problems within the African American community. Some responses to Bowden like Bomani Jones of ESPN have claimed that the absent father is too simplistic. He begs the question to why are there absent fathers and divorce within our society and that it is a problem within many demographics but often only applied as a problem within the African American communities. Jones points to the economic and financial struggle within our country as a bigger burden among families compared to single parents. So if we look at statistics the highest rate of single parent home exists among African Americans, but perhaps in correlation joblessness is also highest among African Americans in our society. Finances are among the top reasons for relationship strife and stress among families. This was Jones' arguement. African Americans also make about 3/4 compared to white men and 3/5 compared to white women. These are facts. We could argue that adding two parents the financial situation for the single parent student is improved. Agreed. There has been assumption for a long time in our society that the largest risk factor for black students is that of single parents and that may not be the case. Other risk factors including economics and parents' education level and total absence of biological parents might be bigger risk factors as far as student success is concerned. In other words-single moms may not be the problem. Thus the insult. The single parents are the ones stepping up. I don't think that is what Bowden was trying to say, but that is how it was heard by many. Also, there are arguments among the black community that the single black parent presents a much smaller burden on the society based on sheer numbers compared to white single parents. Though the percentage of single parents may be higher among black students, white single parent homes makes up a larger total number. Jones kept begging the question recently why didn't anyone question Grayson Allen's upbringing and daddy. Also, I think we have to be careful telling others who have a different experience or perspective that they are not allowed to be outraged. perhaps if we asked them why they were outraged we might find that we have similar values and solutions might be easier to come by. Starting from the premise that YOU are wrong is tough way to begin problem solving together. Also, I don't think that people are generally more outraged or more sensitive. The difference now is that everyone has a microphone. Everyone can share their opinion in many different forms of personal media. So to end my rant what I am trying to say is that single parent homes are not ideal. I agree. However, for many who are trying to understand or solve the issues within our society will claim that it doesn't fully address many of the other economic problems within the society and perhaps it even perpetuates the problem by ignoring the economic issues. Sincerely and genuinely I appreciate your commitment to help your student athletes Coach Floyd. You are truly living example of trying to solve the problem. Very good post. I do think there are many factors and some are generational. But fixing fathers can get things going in the right direction now! Not having kids when you aren't financially ready can help right now. My QB got offered by Army. I wanted him to go there and the biggest selling point was that this is going to change your family tree. Also not to nitpick but I never trust those pay differences that are reported. Ive never seen that with black vs. white but I know with men vs. women they take total money earned and divided it by the number working. They don't take into account people like my wife who stay at home on purpose. We may all come at it from a different perspective but I know we all agree that its a problem that needs to be fixed.
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Post by coachfloyd on Jan 11, 2017 13:46:22 GMT -6
I assumed the offensive parts were: -the part about guys wearing earings because they want to be women -implying that these young men grow up wanting to be like their mothers Incidentally, it has been my experience that single mothers are some of the toughest, fiercest individuals in this world and I mean that as a compliment I certainly have nothing against fathers...I am one . But I have to admit I felt that he was implying that women are too weak too raise sons on their own. I think hes wrong about the whole earring thing. I don't think that has anything to do with anything. I agree about single mothers but I can tell you there is a HUGE difference between how my wife interacts with our kids and how I do and they can't do anything if they are constantly working multiple jobs. I do think they are too weak to raise them on their own. For the record I think men are too. Thats my whole belief in a nutshell. It takes both to do it right. Honestly the cause of this is unmarried sex. Alot of these situations don't occur because of divorce. They occur in situations where the parents never have any intention of getting and staying married. And then many of these people do it again and again. My wife and I had twins. Two years later we had twins again. We figured out what was causing it and put a stop to that in a hurry.
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Post by coachfloyd on Jan 11, 2017 4:15:34 GMT -6
If you start with a major Division 1 student athlete who competes at perhaps the highest level or second highest level of the world simultaneously earning a degree how would you characterize that person? Smart, tough, ambitious, hardworking, etc... then where do you think those characteristics were instilled and developed? Perhaps through that person's family. Then you start talking about that same person and start talking about his family as somehow initially deficient because it is without a dad then you might understand the insult. Like Larry said that the mere fact that he brought it up especially surrounding such successful student athletes sort of implies that the kids he coached were somehow deficient. Also if statistics show that single parent kids are less likely to succeed and the kids Bowden coached would probably be considered at least over achievers then bringing this up seems upsetting to the hard work their mothers did to insure that these young men were successful despite statistics that might be damning. Bomani Jones had an interesting response on the LeBetard Show. It is worth listening to or reading. The only way they were "deficient" is in their start. It has nothing to do with them as human beings. I've spent most of my career in a low socioeconomic setting. 15 players over the past 3 years have been arrested or shot. Two were just arrested for murder last week. Ive seen this play out first hand. If fed players, picked them up, washed their clothes, bought underwear and toothe paste. This is an epidemic in this country and if people could maybe spend less time being offended we could actually start to fix the problem. What he was saying is that one parent households are not the ideal way to raise children. That really can't be argued with. He definitely could have said it better and without the earring comment but the meat of his point was very true. All kids need fathers but it's not a death sentence. But if there is not a dad in the picture, something will fill that void. Sometimes it's a coach but many times, especially around here it's gangs.
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Post by coachfloyd on Jan 10, 2017 7:37:50 GMT -6
I really don't see what the big deal is. I brought this point up at school one day and I could tell many people were insulted. I don't know how you could be insulted by someone saying its better for a loving father and mother to be in the home than otherwise. Its not a death sentence, its just not ideal. We had an assistant principal talking about how many single parents struggle to get their kids to read because they work multiple jobs and don't have the time to read to them (it was a meeting on low reading scores). I commented that one of the reasons it was so hard was because it wasn't supposed to be that way. It doesn't make you a bad person if you grew up that way or if your situation now is that way as a parent. It just means its not ideal and there are consequences for it. Since becoming a father I have read a few books on fatherhood and the research is really clear when people actually acknowledge it. Its not politically correct but its true. Girls and boys need a loving father in the home and it makes a difference. Does it work every time? No it doesn't but neither does toss read and its a great play. You dont have to point to this guy or that guy who made it even though they had one parent. Its pretty obvious that its not the ideal way to raise kids. Our 9th grade OC ran toss read to 3 unblocked defenders and they still scored. That doesn't mean it was the best way to do it. This is more of people just looking to be offended. One of the biggest things I am trying to teach my kids now is to not get their feelings hurt by what other people do or say. To me, its part of the toughness that fathers need to instill in their children. But then again maybe thats why so many people are offended?
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Post by coachfloyd on Jan 9, 2017 11:40:34 GMT -6
Don't be shopping for jobs while season ticket sells are plummeting. i meant getting fired.
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Post by coachfloyd on Jan 9, 2017 9:43:38 GMT -6
The life of a coach.
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Post by coachfloyd on Jan 5, 2017 17:13:15 GMT -6
Talking over the music was a pain in the butt for me too.
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Post by coachfloyd on Jan 4, 2017 12:05:27 GMT -6
the problem I have with the kids music is that even when edited is still alot of times talking about selling drugs, using drugs, gangs, degrading women, etc. I just had a former player arrested for a murder that was gang related. I would like to think I wasn't contributing to that as much as possible.
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Post by coachfloyd on Dec 19, 2016 11:57:51 GMT -6
One of the teams we played this year had a defensive lineman that would stagger his foot on the direction of his slant. Thats happened twice in my career and is something I always look for.
My one year coaching defense we played Trey Matthews who plays at AU. He was a WR and everytime he knew he was getting the ball he would adjust his gloves. Its really hard to catch a fast screen when the corner knows its coming. We blew up every pass they tried to him.
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Post by coachfloyd on Dec 2, 2016 13:54:19 GMT -6
Im going to the Georgia Strength Coaches Association 10th Annual Clinic in January!
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Post by coachfloyd on Dec 2, 2016 7:34:45 GMT -6
This might get pushed into the weightlifting area, but I feel it's general information. Our football program brought in a nutritionist, a nurse, and doctor in to talk to them about weight gain/loss, what to eat, etc. Without provocation they stood up and talked about how ridiculous it was for teenagers to play only one sport. How the most injured kids they see are "baseball only" kids or other one sport athletes. They also talked directly about weight training and gaining mass. They also talked about gaining mass compared to sport specific lifting. They mentioned that athletes can get more specific training after high school, but to focus on gaining mass. I swear...every coach in the school should have been there. Yet again...football coaches lead the way with bringing attention to the benefits of athletes. I'm not sure what goes on at your place, but my perception of the way other sports train (lift) their teams is that they do the minimum, but expect the maximum. Refreshing to hear all the information this morning. Im more surprised that a doctor, nutritionist, and nurse actually gave a good recommendation. The last nutritionist I talked to told me that my protein shake consisting of blended Milk Protein Isolate, Natural Peanut butter, and Oatmeal was unhealthy while grease dripped out of her quesadilla.
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Post by coachfloyd on Dec 1, 2016 6:44:41 GMT -6
To defend Glazier a little, I put my own strength clinics together. Its hard to get speakers sometimes. Plus once you advance in knowledge, it gets harder and harder to find something that really helps you out. There really is very little difference in what people do. As far as strength training goes now, Ive been around long enough and trained enough people to know what works and what doesn't. Im more interested in testing, motivation, and buy in than sets/reps/exercises.
But for a younger guy who is still trying to develop his philosophy, those more basic talks on how and why are more beneficial. I usually check out during those sessions and catch up with old friends. I remember last year at Glazier I went to a session by a successful FCS coach that talked about unbalanced spread. I fooled around with that a little the year before so I thought it might be good. Turns out everything he said was something I already did on my own. Its not because Im super smart. It just comes from more time experimenting. For a younger coach that stuff might have been ground breaking.
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Post by coachfloyd on Nov 17, 2016 13:25:29 GMT -6
I also once shattered the pressbox window pane onto all the people below. It was completely an accident but happened right after a bull crap helmet to helmet on a 3rd and long sack.
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Post by coachfloyd on Nov 17, 2016 12:16:23 GMT -6
Last year our headsets crossed over onto the radio. I never ever cuss, at least not out loud. We lined up wrong for the second time in a row after just fixing it on the sideline. I said, "Get that stupid mothergrabber off the field and dont put his stupid mothergrabbing a?? back in."
Except I didnt say mothergrabbing if you know what I mean. That Sunday, in the Sunday school class that I teach, a lady said, "We heard you on the radio Friday night."
It was the only game Ive cussed at in the past ten years. Perfect timing.
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Post by coachfloyd on Nov 9, 2016 11:33:04 GMT -6
I wonder if Steve Spurrier ever had to take a Junior who never played before from the Robotics team and in a year make him a starter on the oline. Or taken the Drummer from the band and made him region defensive player of the year? The UA and Army All americans I got to coach were really easy on a day to day basis. Figuring out a way with a 175lb tackle isn't. We all look for the best "situations" in which to coach, and you do the best you can wherever. None of us is ever FORCED to coach anywhere. In Spurrier's case = ALL SEC positions are good, and that is the environment in which he thrived! In my 6 Head Coaching jobs on the large High School level - there were some where you weren't doing a good job if you didn't win 90% of your games. OTHERS, you had to fight your a** off to win 50-60%. One of the best coaching jobs I have done was a year we went 3-7. I played with a 180lb LT(quit the year before and played SS the year before that), 205lb LG (couldn't do one tire flip his sophmore year), Center was pretty good, RG 195lb (started one game at SS the previous year, RT 235lbs and missed half the season with an ACL tear. The fact that we beat anybody was something to be proud of.
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Post by coachfloyd on Nov 9, 2016 9:44:24 GMT -6
I wonder if Steve Spurrier ever had to take a Junior who never played before from the Robotics team and in a year make him a starter on the oline.
Or taken the Drummer from the band and made him region defensive player of the year?
The UA and Army All americans I got to coach were really easy on a day to day basis. Figuring out a way with a 175lb tackle isn't.
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Post by coachfloyd on Oct 25, 2016 19:10:16 GMT -6
The first OC I once said that all coaches that wear shorts to a game can get schemed up. He won like 3 or 4 state championships in FL and was finishing up his career with us. Around 35 years coaching all together. I saw a team we were playing wearing shorts. Of course I was in the middle of my powerlifting career at about 285. I was hot all year. I said man we need to wear shorts. He said, "No, you can't wear shorts to a game. Any coach that wears shorts can get schemed up." Now just about any coach that I have coached with will say that or text that to me before a game if the other team is wearing shorts. He was full of stuff like that. Things like "Ned and the first reader." "Katy bar the door." "88 and out the gate." Learned a lot from him. haha. We wear shorts when it's hot and I've never been impressed by guys who think that can beat you by out-scheming you. I've mentioned this on here a couple of times and there is always someone who gets their shorts in a wad. It's meant to be freaking funny.
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Post by coachfloyd on Oct 25, 2016 16:45:51 GMT -6
don't mean to hijack the thread, butit getting to be that time of year when we DO need to talk about the guys that wears shorts when its freezing The first OC I once said that all coaches that wear shorts to a game can get schemed up. He won like 3 or 4 state championships in FL and was finishing up his career with us. Around 35 years coaching all together. I saw a team we were playing wearing shorts. Of course I was in the middle of my powerlifting career at about 285. I was hot all year. I said man we need to wear shorts. He said, "No, you can't wear shorts to a game. Any coach that wears shorts can get schemed up." Now just about any coach that I have coached with will say that or text that to me before a game if the other team is wearing shorts. He was full of stuff like that. Things like "Ned and the first reader." "Katy bar the door." "88 and out the gate." Learned a lot from him. haha.
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Post by coachfloyd on Oct 25, 2016 16:41:32 GMT -6
The person on the right in my avatar is my wife (with our grandson).
I'm pretty sure people have assumed for some time I'm a "success" regardless of how I dressed.
And she's probably been as big a factor in me getting some jobs as my interview, resume, or wardrobe.
They might have been fifty-fifty on me, but definitely wanted her in the community!
(She's as beautiful a person as she is on the outside). Thought for sure that was your daughter! Out kicked your coverage like all good coaches should do.
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Post by coachfloyd on Oct 19, 2016 8:21:04 GMT -6
No 15 Es to be found TJ Maxx. They always have huge cleats. I bought size 17's for on of my olineman once. They were less than $10.
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Post by coachfloyd on Oct 19, 2016 8:19:48 GMT -6
I have experience in journalism and taught English for 19 years. So I know my spelling-grammar and take pride in what-how I write. I have had articles published in magazines that were edited to the point the tone or voice was changed, or meaning became unclear. One cut so much material one play could not be understood, and in another one diagram was omitted and three others mislabeled. So it's not always the writer. This happens with Strength Books as well. I know one book I bought by a guy who's material I already knew very well and as I was reading I knew that there were things in there that were wrong. Ive also written strength articles online where they change alot of what I say around.
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Post by coachfloyd on Oct 19, 2016 8:17:18 GMT -6
We spell "dog" dawg. And I've always spelled "tight" tite. I've also noticed that I often have errors when I post on this cite because I'm usually doing it from my phone while taking a chit and I have fat fingers! you misspelled site. haha I spell Tight Tite also when referring to two tights.
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Post by coachfloyd on Oct 19, 2016 4:26:21 GMT -6
Our defensive scouting report had it spelled defesne two weeks in a row.
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Post by coachfloyd on Oct 6, 2016 12:12:38 GMT -6
The majority of times the position group will take on the personality of the position coach and the entire group of the coordinator. Thats been my experience. Must be why I have a bunch of pricks on defense. And douches at ILB.... Right nfcbeast ? Yesterday my RG looked at a backup tackle and asked him what it felt like to be weak. I was like dang Ive turned him into me.
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Post by coachfloyd on Oct 6, 2016 7:35:29 GMT -6
If a puppy doesn't bite, it never will. Ive found this to be false. The majority of times the position group will take on the personality of the position coach and the entire group of the coordinator. Thats been my experience.
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Post by coachfloyd on Sept 22, 2016 16:18:42 GMT -6
Yes had a guy with 240 yards I think on 12 carries. Lost by 12 I think. They had two scoop and scores.
Also in high school as a junior went into overtime and won by penetration with our RB rushing for 345 yards in the game. Could have easily lost that one.
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