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Post by emptybackfield on Feb 7, 2010 8:53:08 GMT -6
What's your take on doing things solely because it's difficult? For example, if you had your kids to 300 V-Ups in succession. Or, have them duck walk a lap around the track.
Do kids benefit from this or do you think it's a waste of time? Obviously they're going to get some physical benefit from this but would this time be better served doing other things? The objective obviously is to get them to break/fail and build physical and mental toughness. Are there more productive ways to build this toughness?
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Post by emptybackfield on Jan 26, 2010 21:50:53 GMT -6
great clinic.love the villanova guys.First class program. No doubt, Coach Flinn did a great job. These webinars are amazing if you guys get the chance to check them out.
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Post by emptybackfield on Jan 24, 2010 13:30:13 GMT -6
We ordered about 4 of them this year. We put them on two defensive starters with previous concussion problems, and then our two bell cows (RB and WR). They're very nice helmets, but I think we paid $350 a pop for them.
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Post by emptybackfield on Jan 24, 2010 10:19:19 GMT -6
Hi guys we have our spring all-star season coming up. The league has told us to prepare for games on Tuesday and Wend nights. How would you arrange your practices? Would you go: thursday, friday, sat, monday? or thursday, friday, sunday, monday? Where are you located and what is a "spring all-star season"?
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Post by emptybackfield on Jan 19, 2010 13:14:39 GMT -6
Best I ever had is starting at Ohio ST right now. Mike Brewster started as a true freshmen at Center. Nicest kid off the field, meanest SOB when he puts on a helmet. I watched this kid's highlights on Rivals a couple years ago. I would agree with your last statement. I watched him pull and just toss kids 6 yards and drive kids 15 yards into the secondary and bury them.
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Post by emptybackfield on Jan 18, 2010 15:44:51 GMT -6
Former Bears and Clemson DE Gaines Adams died from cardiac arrest yesterday as a result of an enlarged heart. I guess I've been in a bubble for 24 hours, but I just heard of this tragic deal. What a terrible, terrible situation. I'll be praying for his family.
There was a southern Indiana basketball player that died last week due to the same thing. It seems there are a couple of athletes dying of this every year. Those of you that are up do date with sports medicine and athletic training...are there not tests that can be run to prevent this?
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Post by emptybackfield on Jan 18, 2010 12:01:58 GMT -6
Congrats coach!!!! Here's to hoping your boy lives a long, happy, and healthy life.
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Post by emptybackfield on Jan 18, 2010 10:16:19 GMT -6
Thanks coach. I checked out all your uploaded documents. I'm a big fan of your players manual. You have some great stuff in there.
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Post by emptybackfield on Jan 18, 2010 8:47:37 GMT -6
Thanks for the website.
I'm not a head coach but am interested in developing a character education program when/if I become one. When do you find the time to get this done? In the offseason? During team meetings?
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Post by emptybackfield on Jan 14, 2010 17:37:32 GMT -6
I'm an assistant and do not live in the community I coach in. I live in downtown Kansas City and coach at a suburban school.
Positives to this: 1) I can go to restaurants and bars around my place, have a beer or two and relax without worrying about running into parents, kids, etc. 2) In the evening, it's sometimes good to get away from everything for a while. Living in the community, I'm not sure you ever do that.
Negatives: 1) I spend 40 minutes a day commuting, which translates to about 2.5 extra hours a week on the road. 2) I can't just "pop up to school" and catch the basketball games, etc. 3) It makes it difficult to have my position group to my place for film, dinners, etc.
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Post by emptybackfield on Jan 14, 2010 17:27:27 GMT -6
An idea that always went over well at our auction was a dinner for two or four at different houses. If your wife is a good cook, or you can get it done on the grill, auction one of yourself. Hell, everyone wants to have dinner with the head coach so they can show them how much football they know. ;D
Our superintendent was a former coach and huge football guy. We could always count on him for a dinner for four to auction off. It would bring in about $800-$1000 bucks. Of course, he did it up right (steak, lobster, whiskey, wine, dessert, etc). Maybe your principal or another person in the school would like to help you out.
Another thing that might go well, is ask the local car dealers to maybe donate a 3 or 6 month lease on a car. Promise them some advertising at a game or something. That should bring in four digits for you.
Have your OL coach get a group of o-linemen and auction off a few hours of manual labor from them. People love to put good kids to work. There has to be some dude in the community that needs some rock hauled somewhere this summer or something.
Just a few ideas that were successful for us...
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Post by emptybackfield on Jan 14, 2010 17:12:53 GMT -6
I can't answer any of the other questions besides what they did offensively this year. I watched them in the Liberty Bowl vs. Arkansas. They were in the pistol, running inside zone quite a bit and I'm pretty sure they did some read stuff with it as well.
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Post by emptybackfield on Jan 13, 2010 19:47:39 GMT -6
I didn't attend but a buddy of mine did. He said Chris Peterson of Boise was phenomenal.
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Post by emptybackfield on Jan 10, 2010 18:50:15 GMT -6
I am curious how some bigger school with large staffs handle their breakdowns on the weekends? I'm on a staff of 12 guys at a very large school. I can't really speak for the defensive staff , but it usually went something like this on the good side: Saturday- Each position coach graded their own position group from Friday's game. OL and RB coach- scouting report of DL and LB personnel, fronts and blitzes QB and WR coach- scouting report of DB personnel and coverages TE coach- helped both groups Head Coach/OC- oversee entire process Sunday- OL, RB and HC- running game script for practice QB, WR and HC- passing game script for practice TE coach- types into script as other verbalize QB and TE coach- draw formation cards for scout defense OL coach- draw blitz cards for scout defense
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Post by emptybackfield on Jan 10, 2010 18:19:52 GMT -6
Better question: "What does your staff need to do in order to be prepared for Monday?" 1. Copy films 2. Exchange 3. Opponent film breakdown 4. Scouting report 5. Team stats 6. Shoot the breeze and BS Etc etc. Running into a pretty gray area with #3 and #4
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Post by emptybackfield on Jan 10, 2010 16:39:32 GMT -6
Here is the bigger question to me. How much total weekend time is needed? As I look at these posts, there is a pretty big range of total time spent by programs on weekends. Here are just a couple of comparisons: Redandwhite - 1.5 hours on Saturdays + 6-9 pm sundays = 4.5hrs cwood - 7-2 on saturdays + 1-5 on sundays = 11 hrs Now I'm just using these two posters as examples but this is a huge difference in time commitment. What gives? Are some programs just more efficient? Any thoughts? Regarding the efficiency difference in programs, I'm sure that is some. Another difference is the depth each program prepares/gameplans. An opponent's head coach we played came and dropped off trade tape after he was done on a Saturday at 11am. We're there until 4 every Saturday. I think some coaches are just fine with the idea that, "we'll run our stuff and do what we do, if they stop it hats off to them." Some staffs try and "reinvent the wheel" so to speak and just work harder/longer than others. I bet there would be some good discussion if someone started a new thread with the question that you ask..."How much is enough"?
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Post by emptybackfield on Jan 10, 2010 12:03:00 GMT -6
GIVE YOUR STAFF SUNDAY OFF FOR FAMILY TIME. {censored} straight. We've met on Sundays the last couple of years. We wouldn't get out of there until 4 or 5 on Saturdays, then turn around and go right back at 2:00 on Sunday afternoons. By the time you got back from church, had some lunch, it was time to head back to the office. Even as much as we love this game, it can start to feel like a grind in late October when you're at the office for 65 straight days. Coming from an assistant...break up the responsibilities on Saturday when you leave (Coach A- draw up their fronts and coverages on cards, Coach B- draw up their favorite blitzes, Coach C- inside run script for practices, Coach D- pass script for practices) and let them do it on their own time Saturday night or Sunday, then meet Monday morning for an hour before school if you have to. Of course, if you have to trust your assistants to do this. With today's technology it's just not necessary to have to be together all the time to work. If college staffs can get away taking a day away from the office, we can too.
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Post by emptybackfield on Jan 8, 2010 18:39:44 GMT -6
Why is it that our profession is damn near the only one in the entire world that people think they can do a better job than we can? We're all teachers as well, how many parents have you had call and want to discuss how you're teaching the Battle of Antietam to the kids or how you're teaching binomial factorization?
Everyone is an expert in football aren't they?
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Post by emptybackfield on Jan 6, 2010 20:30:58 GMT -6
FORWARD MOTION IS BACK!!!!!!!!!
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Post by emptybackfield on Jan 6, 2010 11:58:51 GMT -6
I'm just a young pup learning here and have a couple questions for you veterans.
1) Iowa played their OLBs basically in 90s. Did they do this to take away the arc block angle of the wing and to keep the QB from getting to the edge after the pull on ISV? 2) Wasn't there something GT could've done to combat this? I know they ran midline a lot but were unsuccessful. It seems like like they could've ran midline follow with the wing leading up to the OLB and had great angles and numbers.
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Post by emptybackfield on Jan 6, 2010 8:18:24 GMT -6
while i think what Paul Johnson runs down at G. Tech is a good offense and he knows it in and out very well... i dont see him winning too many bowl games with it...yea he will probably get 10 wins every year with it because not many teams run this offense, so Defensive coordinators adjust to it within a week and playing well is highly unlikely. But when it comes to the bowl where teams have more than 2 weeks to prepare for it.. i dont see him winning too many of them do to the fact of him only running a limited amount of plays. I thought the exact same thing when LSU hit them in the mouth last year. Then...I witnessed Air Force and Navy bending Houston and my Mizzou Tigers over last week.
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Post by emptybackfield on Jan 5, 2010 21:47:33 GMT -6
Yea. To Ga. Tech X over is unbalanced. Gotcha...I was thinking tackle over. I've seen GT get into what you speak of a couple times and run sprint out and load option.
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Post by emptybackfield on Jan 5, 2010 21:37:24 GMT -6
how about a little unbalanced to calm those coners down? SE over... Tackle over... They have to get out of that balanced split formation, Iowa's too comfortable. Unbalanced to calm to corners down?
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Post by emptybackfield on Jan 5, 2010 21:18:07 GMT -6
Why do they keep calling this the "spread option"?
I consider what Oregon and West Virginia are running as the "spread option"...not this stuff.
Is it because there are actually guys split out as opposed to the olden days wishbone triple option?
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Post by emptybackfield on Jan 5, 2010 21:11:46 GMT -6
94 is causing problems. Saw him slow play the dive and tackle Nesbitt. Yes...that kid is a playing B****
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Post by emptybackfield on Jan 5, 2010 20:35:39 GMT -6
Am I missing something? I'm seeing them in their base 4-3 playing the option how everyone else does. DE- dive, OLB- QB, S- filling inside/out, C- pitch. Are they doing anything special I am not noticing or just kicking their @ss? Maybe I'm missing something, then If 24 yards on 11 plays isn't getting you @ss kicked..... HAHA...I know they're getting their @ss kicked, I just didn't know if you guys noticed anything significant schematically. I know they're widening their OLBs to match the wings.
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Post by emptybackfield on Jan 5, 2010 20:23:39 GMT -6
Iowa is absolutely throwing the farm at it. Am I missing something? I'm seeing them in their base 4-3 playing the option how everyone else does. DE- dive, OLB- QB, S- filling inside/out, C- pitch. Are they doing anything special I am not noticing or just kicking their @ss?
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Post by emptybackfield on Jan 5, 2010 20:13:08 GMT -6
....You've got to be kidding me, Paul Johnson Having a hard time following you there Brophy.
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Post by emptybackfield on Jan 5, 2010 19:29:47 GMT -6
I'll admit, I had some doubts about how effective it would be in a BCS conference. Paul Johnson was both a ballsy and great hire.
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Post by emptybackfield on Jan 5, 2010 19:09:29 GMT -6
Very curious to see how Iowa defends this triple option buzzsaw. Especially since my Tigers got embarrassed by the same stuff last week.
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