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Post by coachwoodall on Aug 18, 2023 4:39:38 GMT -6
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Post by coachwoodall on Aug 11, 2023 19:42:37 GMT -6
'Under pressure, you don't rise to the occasion, you sink to the level of your training. That's why we train so hard. ' is attributed to an anonymous Navy seal.
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Post by coachwoodall on Aug 10, 2023 9:11:06 GMT -6
You can't take of others until you take care of yourself. Take the year off.
If you're peers don't understand, your at the wrong place.
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Post by coachwoodall on Aug 4, 2023 13:34:24 GMT -6
QB and center are the only asked not to wear these. It is harder to hear their calls with those types of mouth pieces I have never before thought about the communication difficulties caused by the over the lips mouthguards. Thank you for my new learning of the day. We don't make limitations on mouth pieces, but we do expect all our players regardless of position communicate........ though we do also have hand signals.... again something to think about.
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Post by coachwoodall on Jul 29, 2023 8:18:46 GMT -6
Just want to wish everyone still in the game (and I guess those who aren't) good luck this upcoming season.
We start next week, so I probably won't be on here as much... I'll try to not disappear for 8 years again though...
We start today best of luck to all
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Post by coachwoodall on Jul 20, 2023 1:07:48 GMT -6
If you are waiting until just before your first organized practice of the season to test the players you are way too late! You need to test right at the end of the school year to find out what you are dealing with, and to set goals for the kids to accomplish in the preseason. I always thought that a lot of times the testing led to disappointing results for me. You end up worrying about what you don't have. I guess I reached the point where, while I wanted the kids to improve and work at getting faster and stronger, come early August, I'd rather have kids who could learn assignments and play hard, and I didn't have to waste time worrying how they tested out. That kid who runs the 4.5 forty isn't as useful as the kid who runs the 4.9 forty if he is running in the wrong direction. Many moons ago, I was at a program where the HC tested kids at the end of the year/beginning of summer and then right before the season. One was the 40 yard dash. Beginning of summer marked off/painted a start and finish line that was 41 yards long. End of summer marked off/painted a start and finish line that was 39 yards long.
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Post by coachwoodall on Jul 17, 2023 15:12:26 GMT -6
I.E. OL running mile time.... depends on your definition of an OL/type OL you have.
If your OL is 6'1"+, 220 lb-ish+ versus your OL is 5'10, 155 lb-ish; then you have very different metrics.
Personally, I'd never do a running test longer than a set of 110's with specific recovery times. Times vary based on the distance, but it'd be something like 4:1 to 6:1 (recovery to running time)
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Post by coachwoodall on Jun 23, 2023 8:26:50 GMT -6
that was sarcasm, by the way. next time please use the sarcasm font
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Post by coachwoodall on Jun 20, 2023 16:18:15 GMT -6
I marked different but worse, but not because of any particular game style/penalty changes or technique differences. My take has nothing to do with football.
Kids today don't (as a whole) know how to collision their bodies, or even fall down. They don't know how to fall off a bike, roller skates, or how to tumble. They aren't taught those things and when they even try to 'rough house' aren't allowed to do so.
We played tackle football everyday on the play ground. Full blown football without pads. We did it in the morning waiting for the 1st bell. During recess. During 'PE'. If we didn't have time to divide up teams, we played Kill the Man with the Ball.
We also played games like King of the Mountain/Dock. I had a pair of boxing gloves and we take an egg timer and box. We used to practice our favorite 'wrasslin' moves on each other.
When were actually were taught a skill or discipline in PE, it included things like tumbling and wrestling. In HS my freshman year we had a full 3 week unit in gymnastics; dive rolls, flips, etc...
I'm not trying to impress anyone with a back in the day story, but when is the last time 3rd graders were allowed to allowed to roughhouse at all on the playground?
Tackling involves a collision. Those are not natural, you have to learn how to brace the body and use certain points of impact.
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Post by coachwoodall on Jun 17, 2023 23:01:34 GMT -6
How do you guys go about sharing a scouting report with players? Currently, I am using power point and convert it to a video and then upload to Hudl, but it burns a lot of time. I am considering creating an install every week as a scout report: type in personnel report, favorite formations, favorite plays, etc... then I can print the plays off from the scout report as scout cards for practice. Anyone else doing something similiar? Another way? Just trying to be more efficient. Thanks! The HC makes a Hudl cut ups of the daily script and shares with the team. Watch 5 minutes of film during lunch and you know what you will see today. Plus any film watched in position meetings before practice.
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Post by coachwoodall on Jun 17, 2023 12:32:33 GMT -6
I did not want to the derail the other thread, but I have seen this comment many times on threads; so are football fundamentals really worse/getting worse, or do we all have a skewed vision of what football fundamentals were in the past?
I know I see kids doing things exponentially better than when I was in high school in the 1980's. Let me clarify, I see athletes doing things better. There are still NAFs just like when I played that can't get out of their own way. I know for a fact that I coach better than I did 30 years ago. I know we spend more time on in season correcting schematic mistakes than fundamental mistakes. We still HAVE to work fundamentals, because they can always be better.
When I see OL execution of zone double teams, WRs running routes and catching footballs, DB manipulating their hips on change of direction, down field blocking, DL working to beat double teams; I see better execution than what my brain can remember from the past. Now I am talking about at the HS level, b/c I haven't watched more than a couple of lunch periods worth of college/pro ball games on TV in a over a decade.
Also, I do think that fundamentals have changed over the years. I was in HS when the Fed changed the rule on how offensive players could block by extending the arms/hands (vs the ole 'flipper' blocking). Also QB throwing technique/mechanics have changed drastically in just the last decade or so. I didn't bookmark it, but we had a pretty epic DB thread on backpedal vs shuffle a few years ago.
So with the changes in rules, schemes, etc.... what effect does that have on our vision of the level of execution of football fundamentals?
Also the schematic part of the equation is drastically different than in the past. Things are so much more complex than in the past so the parts/periods of practice have evolved as well.
Now I have a different take/theory on tackling that I'll work up for another thread.
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Post by coachwoodall on Jun 17, 2023 11:37:27 GMT -6
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Post by coachwoodall on Jun 17, 2023 11:29:36 GMT -6
I think parties involved would be more accepting of the hours put in, if they didnt start so early. Summers should allow for more sleeping in. There is big time school down the road from us that goes m-f 6:00am to 10:00am. Gotta be waking up darn near 4:45 all summer long just to get there on time?! I know a lot of southern school do it early to avoid the heat/PM thunder storms. Also rural areas do it so the kids can do farm work. Also, in areas where baseball is big, so the kids can go PM practice/games. American Legion ball used to be big and they used to play almost as often as MLB during the summer months. And there's also the rationale with day light savings time, you have a lot of day left to do other stuff......... what the heck am I talking about, there is no other stuff to do besides football!!!
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Post by coachwoodall on Jun 17, 2023 11:23:53 GMT -6
i actually have no idea what y'all are talking about. but i'm thinking that's probably a good thing. For the first 5 times or so through this thread, I thought it was Rob Gronkowski's kid, then got to thinking that I didn't think he was married/a father so had to look it up. kind is wish I didn't.......
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Post by coachwoodall on Jun 16, 2023 17:08:47 GMT -6
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Post by coachwoodall on Jun 13, 2023 15:03:20 GMT -6
We are in the 12 hour a week range as I mentioned earlier in this thread. I agree 100 percent with the guy who said dont do anything on Fridays in the summer. Everyone around here is on roughly the same kind of summer schedule. If you are not, your best players are probably going to leave and go to a school that is doing it and does "care" about winning and getting better. If you do it, you are going to lose some kids who are on the fence about playing and dont want to put that kind of time in. Mind you-at least in NC these workouts are not mandatory. So then you have to ask yourself, do you want to lose your better players, or keep the ones on the fence? ? This! You're going to have some kids who could probably help you decide not to play because of the workouts but you also probably have some pretty darn good players who would leave if you didn't have the workouts. Basketball and baseball off-season schedules are even worse. They jump into tournaments as soon as the season is over. I think this also hurts football participation because kids would rather play than practice and you can't play football year round. but... you can play play flag/7 on 7....
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Post by coachwoodall on Jun 9, 2023 19:19:41 GMT -6
That's the norm in California. I guess that's why we beat everyone else! Relax guys, I'm kidding about the 2nd part. No need to apologize. If that's what it takes to be the best at high school football you can have it. fantom speaks truth. If you have to keep up with the Jones to win, then you do. The after thought is do you HAVE TO.
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Post by coachwoodall on Jun 6, 2023 5:51:41 GMT -6
It is not hard to write back with a simple no we have a game already or no we are not interested in playing you. This could also extend to film trades. Well so far as the film trade, when was the email sent? That procedure should have been worked out long before game week.
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Post by coachwoodall on May 31, 2023 14:08:15 GMT -6
I'm not the ball guy, the QB coach is..... but he can put together a ball that will stick to your little finger if you want I'll check to see.... and to be honest I don't know what ball we use.... my DB ball bag is a half step above the kicker's practice balls Thanks coach, yeah I'd love to hear what you guys do. We do plenty of ball prep for our leathers, but nor for composites. Apologies, we don't have any composite balls.
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Post by coachwoodall on May 31, 2023 13:07:03 GMT -6
How much do state championship rings cost? What would stop parents from buying their kid a state championship ring on their own? I'm sure Jostens or whatever would be more than willing to take their money. Depending on whet they're made of they can be pretty expensive. Here's something that I wonder about: There's a pretty long lag time between when you start the process and when they get delivered. You have to get the rings sized and ordered. I get the idea that the kids quit fairly recently which means that the rings may have been made and delivered but the coach won't hand them out. When we won it all: championship games were 1st weekend in December, we played on Saturday, got sized on Monday/Tuesday, usually had to wait until mid/late February to have the banquet/ring ceremony...... so roughly 3 months at the best.
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Post by coachwoodall on May 30, 2023 17:53:56 GMT -6
There is no logical sense to this rule. I think the logical sense to it, is that it somewhat forces kids into playing the next season (or at least starting next season's activities). With the thought being that once they start they will continue; hopefully improving player retention.
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Post by coachwoodall on May 30, 2023 12:51:20 GMT -6
work on your prep on getting the right tack on the ball. If you condition it well, there will be enough water repellent to at least make them serviceable by being wiped down for a while What kind of prep are you guys doing on a composite? I'm not the ball guy, the QB coach is..... but he can put together a ball that will stick to your little finger if you want I'll check to see.... and to be honest I don't know what ball we use.... my DB ball bag is a half step above the kicker's practice balls
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Post by coachwoodall on May 30, 2023 12:11:30 GMT -6
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Post by coachwoodall on May 30, 2023 12:08:01 GMT -6
The composites get really slick when wet. They're borderline unusable in rain, even when being toweled off. If anyone has a solution to that, I'd love to hear it. work on your prep on getting the right tack on the ball. If you condition it well, there will be enough water repellent to at least make them serviceable by being wiped down for a while
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Post by coachwoodall on May 30, 2023 11:55:36 GMT -6
I am announcing my resignation as DB AC/DOFO at SCHS. It is time for me to move into the next phase of my life. I wish you all well and continued success. LINK
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Post by coachwoodall on May 28, 2023 17:19:59 GMT -6
An example of one was right in the middle of a great run was that we had a map of the state of SC cut up into a jigsaw puzzle. Each piece was our regular season games and the playoffs with the final/big piece at the capitol for the state title game.
Each week, that was put up on the meeting board for team meetings during the week, and on the locker room door as the kids left for each game.
The post game meeting was culminated by the HC placing that week's piece on the puzzle.
Another was a team that had lost a lot from the previous year and 'needed to be rebuilt', so we had our season motto lettered onto pieces of 4x4 blocks in the shape of a pyramid, and each week we built our pyramid all the way up to the finals.
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Post by coachwoodall on May 28, 2023 14:40:35 GMT -6
We have been put in a unique situation & we are struggling to develop a theme that effectively expresses our greatest need as a program. Long story short.....we are a small high school that has recently paired our program with a traditional rival. Our rival is a smaller school that was paired with a neighboring school for the previous eight years & was blindsided by the other school's request to end the pairing agreement. We had been football rivals but recently it's been in all other sports. We would like to develop a theme that expresses unity. Has anyone developed a theme for the season that may apply for our situation? Thanks! I've been part of this concept from time to time in my 30+ years. it works best (and I hate the term) when it is is 'organic'. You can't force it, it has to make sense to the kids, and the leaders have to buy in completely. Years ago, it just happened... not planned. We had a really good team, small school, close community, good staff.... all the cards lined up for us to go deep in the playoffs. One of the cheerleaders got into a horrific car wreck right before the fall camp and was in a comma for almost 2 months. That just kind of become our theme: let's get Sally to the the championship. The local news played it up when she finally came to, and the kids (really the ones who lead ti) ran with it. I've also been at places that we as a staff planned the season theme. It worked, but it had to be more than a tshirt, or a banner.... there had to be some real tangible thing the kids could attach to it. And also the coaches had to all really buy in. It had to be the focus of whatever was communicated each and every day. So obviously not knowing all the particulars of your situation, sounds like something like "Together We're All Better" type theme is what you're looking for.
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Post by coachwoodall on May 26, 2023 21:43:42 GMT -6
The meet/don't meet, Saturday/Sunday, 1 hour/5011 hour/etc... meeting debate is what it is.
You meet/plan/zoom/etc.... because it is what you do.
Whether or not it 'is necessary' is relevant to your situation. We all have our 'Jones' we have to beat......
Whether or not it is necessary is the debate...... at least at my take....
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Post by coachwoodall on May 22, 2023 19:56:24 GMT -6
Looking at the poll the thing that I find interesting is that two guys said that they don't watch any sports. there's so many alternatives today we haven't had a cable/satellite connection for 10 years now we don't even have an antenna my wife has her inter webs applications for cooking shows or home renovations, and about all I watch is youtubs videos of wood working or car renovations I love Braves baseball, but mostly follow the stream instead of the actual game.... right now I've got the site gameday going as I bounce around the interwebs
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Post by coachwoodall on May 16, 2023 13:19:58 GMT -6
Maybe this goes in the career advice column…but I need some help!!! What are the best compression shorts to protect against chaffing (don’t now how to spell it)? Idk I’ve tried all types. Nike and BCG have mixed results for me. We’re coming up on 7 on 7 season and I’m a bit of a sweater now that I’ve gotten older. I need direction here. grease up the ole sack with some antiperspirant ounce of prevention is worth a pond of cure and if you use the 24-48 hour kind, it is best to put it on the night before, the longer it is on the better it works
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