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Post by hsrose on Nov 11, 2009 14:16:11 GMT -6
shaving cream seems to help. We don't get a lot of bad weather, some good rains but thats it. Rub a good amount in, any brand with lanolin, and they seem to last awhile. Not game ball condition by any means, but good enough for good practice balls.
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Post by hsrose on Nov 11, 2009 14:13:09 GMT -6
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Post by hsrose on Nov 6, 2009 14:30:18 GMT -6
I'm a new HC and we have our Senior night next Friday. Just found out that the arrangements for that ceremony are up to me. The mom's who used to do it took the year off so this falls to me. I wouldn't have know this unless I asked the AD, who told me to ask the mom. She then said it's all up to me, have a good time.
In the past this has been a line the players up, read their name & history, hand them a rose, run to the parents, give the rose to the mom/parents, stand with parents, take pictures, clear field, play game.
I'm not opposed to doing this again, but if there is something else that you have done I'd like to hear it.
Thanks
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Post by hsrose on Nov 4, 2009 13:52:58 GMT -6
I'm a first-year HC so dealing directly with this topic is new to me. I just had 2 Sr's quit this past week (week 8), and 1 at the start of the summer. Neither have talked with me or any other coach.
#1 - Good solid player, not a starter but #2, good kid, good attitude, etc. Quits because the message from the staff about missing practice and playing time is mixed. My bad, but he hasn't talked with me or any other coach at any time on this. Specifically in the last game he was supposed to play 3 qtrs at CB for a player that had missed practices. 1/2 way through the 1st qtr my DC puts the other kid back in. DB coach is reminding him about the suspension, but DC makes the move anyway. Overrules the DB coach. I didn't know this until yesterday when the DB coach talked with me about it. Although I'm responsible I can't take action on what I don't know about. So I can see the kid getting PO'd, but quitting without talking with anyone? I like the kid, and we've tried to get him on the field in a lot of areas, but he left the team. That's a quitter.
#2 - Been a cancer the past 3 years, we were worried he would continue that as a Sr. Came in with a new attitude and worked his way into a starting WR slot, much to our surprise. Does well for the first few games, then gets dinged, then a new receiver comes in and has a great game, and he's gone. Haven't seen him, doesn't return calls/texts, been at school. That's a quitter.
#3 - Starting C from last year, one of the team leaders, comes at the start of summer and says that he's quitting football to concentrate on water polo. (What does that tell you about the size of my OL if my starting C is a 3-year swimmer?). That's a quitter, but... He's going off in the right direction for him. His dad is coaching with me and it's been hard on him. I have no issues with this kid leaving as he made a positive decision and took action. He's still part of the family even though he wasn't here with us.
After this past week this thread is timed perfectly for me. The comments about the parking lot fight and the speech about the Sr. night are just what I need.
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Post by hsrose on Oct 28, 2009 20:27:17 GMT -6
Our HS program receives $2,500 every other year, $5,000 the other, for safety equipment, meaning helmets and shoulder pads. 5 coaches receive a stipend that is paid for by a $50 pay to play "donation" from the players. The district pays for the refurbishing of the helmets and shoulder pads for all 5 football programs in the district. The athletic program covers the cost of officials and the district covers the cost of the single stadium that the football programs share.
The athletics booster club will usually pick up 50% of the cost of uniforms and will spring for other items we request. Previous coach got a new sled, we got our headsets refurbished this year. But that is dependent on how well they do with their fundraisers so it varies from year to year.
But other than that we are on our own to raise funds for busses, footballs, knee pads, video tapes, hats, belts, decals, pants, mesh bags, shirts, etc.
My team raised $4,200 this year and I've got a balance of $400 right now. Looks like potluck in the cafeteria for the awards banquet. I'm supposed to be paying off a $9k debt from the previous coach but I just didn't get the funds raised this year.
How are you funded, what is your approximate budget, and what is the size of your program? We're a school of 2,100 students, we have Fr/JV/Var with 90 total in all 3 levels. My budget would normally be in the $7-9k range (I've got that $9k to pay back).
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Post by hsrose on Oct 17, 2009 8:31:54 GMT -6
General vs. specific - Yep, no contest there. Spending 2-3 days in the midst of a bunch of similar coaches, like the DW clinic I went to a couple of years ago, is a tremendous help. Anything you can question on the scheme or technical side can be answered. Problem is trying to find one. I've heard of the flexbone clinic, but I haven't found it yet. Problem there is I'm not likely to find a session on how to attack my offense/defense as its the brotherhood and we're not going to tell on each other. If I can find a defensive session on defending the flexbone, then I might find something out that I can use as I run the flexbone just a bit better.
I go to the clinics and pick the sessions I think will have some benefit to me. I figure that if I can come away with 2, maybe 3 items that can help then it's a successful session. Multiply that by 10 sessions and that's quite a few ideas that I can try. I can see how to setup/run a new program, 4-3 blitzes, how to run fast, OL drills, all in 1 spot.
So, to me, each has value and should be considered a viable option. Minor quibbles here, I enjoy both.
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Post by hsrose on Oct 16, 2009 9:33:12 GMT -6
My AD called me into his office yesterday and asked what clinics I want to go to and how many coaches and where and when and could I have that by Monday because they are looking at additional cuts and he wants to cover us to some extent but he's not sure he can justify anything unless he knows by Monday what we want to go see and by the way no more music a the home games and we need 200 rosters at the gate and....
Anyway, I am looking for a list of clinics that might be available. In the SF Bay area so west coast mostly. I know about Nike, Glazier, USA Superclinic, and the NorCal All Sports. Any others that anyone can think of out here on the left side?
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Post by hsrose on Oct 1, 2009 7:52:43 GMT -6
We're at 6% - 66 out of a school population of 2,100 in 9-12. Figure 1050 males. I have 22 sr's, 26 frosh, 11 sophs, 7 jrs.
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Post by hsrose on Sept 16, 2009 8:48:12 GMT -6
This kid is #2 son. #1 was a good kid but had trouble in school. Dad was able to get/force the school to drop all homework requirements for the kid. He still did the homework, sometimes, which was the problem in the first place, but it was removed from the grading criteria. The school is very familiar with him.
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Post by hsrose on Sept 16, 2009 8:45:42 GMT -6
Dave - My bad on phrasing it the way I did. He's getting letters for football, not baseball. At one stretch last season he was 0-23, like 5-6 games without a hit.
He's done well at football combines (speed, size, leaping, decent strength), well enough to get interest letters, but he's got a long ways to go to get that level. Problem is that he's going to have to focus on 1 to the exclusion of the other. He either needs bulk and strength to play LB, or a lot more hitting and fielding to get to baseball. I expect dad to keep him out of football next year.
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Post by hsrose on Sept 16, 2009 7:34:04 GMT -6
Ok, kid is a Jr. this season, played varsity last year as a soph, something not done very often here. Got honorable mention as a LB. Good, solid player. This year he's the starting Will and volunteered to play OT because the OL was hurting. Kid has played very well on both sides and is just a nasty stud. Kid is not the problem.
Dad considers kid to be a star baseball player (DH on varsity last season, hit .225 or so) and has done all the camps and travel squads, etc. That's his way into college. Kid has been getting letters from DI schools. Dad has been very active in supporting the team, raising funds, buying t-shirts, etc. Last Saturday before our 0900 post-game stretch/lift/film workout, he calls. In tears he explains how he is making his son quit the team, how he made the kid stand in the corner because he wouldn't quit, how he wasn't getting the recognition he deserved/earned (last year he was the FB, our Sr. FB just ran for 135 and 2 TD's the night before), and that this workout would be his last with the team.
Kid leaves the workout at 10, tells a coach that he has a Dr. appointment. Not me, but another coach. I'm not sure what the situation is, but talk with the coaches and we try to prepare for life without the player.
After our workout ends at 1130 I notice there is a baseball game at the hs field. Curiosity gets the best of me so I head on over. Kid is playing 1st base, not starting mind you, and dad is just down the line with some other parents. I stand right by the gate to the dugout and make sure both dad and player see me, talk with some players, and then leave. Kid is gone as far as I know.
Monday I start getting e-mails from dad. Kids back has been sore for the past few weeks, dad says it started when kid started "having to play linemen." Apparently he did go to the Dr. (chiropractor for the sore back) on that Saturday and now has a medical release from the Dr. saying that kid is cleared for football except for "linemen related activities". Dad's e-mails, there have been several, say not to talk with the player about it as he would be embarrassed because of the situation and the attention. Yesterday the paper Dr. note was delivered by the dad to a coach.
So I'm in a situation where I have a medical direction/note restricting the player from being in the trenches, I can't talk with the kid, and dad has gotten his kid off the OL. The kid is a great kid and is just getting pimped over by dad who has visions of glory for the kid.
This is the kind of season this has been.
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Post by hsrose on Aug 28, 2009 10:17:23 GMT -6
The Millineum Falcons from near Tracy, CA.
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Post by hsrose on Aug 20, 2009 8:35:35 GMT -6
A coach in our area just had the assignments on the bands. Had the number, alignment, assignment, and motion (for backs). They would have position-specific wrist bands. No mention of trap or zone, or lead or anything play-related. If they wanted to put a player in a new position all the player had to do was what was on the band, not learn a whole new set of assignments because he went from a TE to a G or RB to WR. Not that hard to setup and actually forces you to think about all the details of the play. They also did this to change their formations - they didn't really have formations, just alignments. They would run the same play (set of assignments) with alignments all over the place. Said it made scouting much more difficult.
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Post by hsrose on Aug 18, 2009 9:00:27 GMT -6
I don't see this as a stretch at all. Our team is not far from that operationally right now. The band comes to the games because they have to attend at least 1 game to get the grade. The cheerleaders use the games as a warmup for their own competitions. The team receives no funding other than $2,500 per year for safety gear. Our section "closes down" during summer so we could be doing whatever we wanted, as long as the school will let us use the facilities.
One possibility would be to expand Pop Warner/others to include the HS age players. Merge portions of the state organizations (CIF here in CA) with the PW/?? constitutions. The infrastructure is already in place. Fields are available from the high schools, for a fee (like the school pool was used all summer for swim lessons). You have a national structure, local organizations, can still be tied into the school with academics, mascots, and facility use. It's a matter of technical details, not creating something from scratch.
Rules can be expanded to provide for organized summer flag football, spring developmental leagues. PW has a national championship, this would be an extension. How much would ESPN pay to broadcast those games? How much do they pay for the Little League World Series. How about DeLaSalle vs. Aquinas at Disneyworld? May not be perfect but it works and teams hang those PW championship banners pretty highly.
My daughter is playing volleyball, she's a freshmen playing varsity in a school of 800. Been playing hi-comp for 4 years now. Coach tells her that hi-comp will get her noticed, but not the hs games. Same thing said to my older daughter and soccer - it's the club teams that matter, not hs. The Surf Cup in San Diego is supposed to attract more than 5k fans/coaches/recruiters to the championship games each year. That was always "the" tournament to get into. Just getting into it was a big deal as the competition was so great.
We have a local youth football league here. Independent, been around since 1960. Used to be the only game in town. A coach gets mad, leaves, and starts a PW team. Attracts the most athletic kids based on "if you're good, you want to play against the best. We have the best competition, that other league does not". Hit the league pretty hard, just now recovering after 4 years. All it takes is for a PW/whatever league to go to the HS level in an area and for a couple of kids to leave a HS, play for the new league, and get a scholarship offer and the door is open. HS's are now the training ground for the national organization.
In our city of 210k we have 5 high schools. We're in the same league and play each other in all sports. We share a single stadium. How about a PW league forms and gets the top 8-10 players from each team to play for them? They are now a very strong team, the HS teams are reduced but they're playing each other and don't matter, and the PW team is competing for a national championship. If we take that ratio of 1:5, there are 1,000 or so HS's in CA. That's 200 PW-type teams competing at a higher level just here in CA.
Higher competition level, possible national championship, visibility, what is not to like about this club football?
Not advocating this, just saying that I don't think that it's really that far off or hard to do. I'd hate to see this, but at our school I'm not sure that we're that far off from being independent from the school anyway. I see the way other coaches say things here and it's clear that HS football is still a big part of what the school and community is about. I think that's great. I just don't see it as the standard it once was.
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Post by hsrose on Aug 13, 2009 20:07:28 GMT -6
How? We will still run offense day, defense day, split day. Starters on O get the rep with #2's filling in. Scout D is the starting defense with #2's/best available. Reversed for D days. By limiting the number of 2-ways I'm betting that the other players will get more exposure and grow into their positions. On O days everyone is an offensive player, D days everyone is a defender.
If a player is a defensive starter, they will get playing time on offense, but they will rest on offense/take series off. Offensive starters will rest on defense when they spell someone if necessary. The 2-ways I'm looking at right now are a DT/OT (6'0", 200, rock solid), M/OG (5'10", 190, weakest of the 3 in overall fitness, but an animal in the middle and OL), and a wing back/SS (6'1", 190, 4.6 speed, pure angry stud). Possible of 1 other player who would be a back and FS. These players are all seniors and have played 4 years. These players will be able to get their work in on each side of the ball.
Is that more of a "How" answer? This is all new to me as I'm the 1st time HC so I may be talking out my backside, but this is what I'm going in with.
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Post by hsrose on Aug 13, 2009 10:39:23 GMT -6
My goal is to 2-platoon because 1) we're no-huddle fast as you can and the extra plays I expect/hope for will drain the kids, I've already seen it in summer scrimmages, 2) I want to grow the program and getting more players on the field may translate into more players coming out, 3) I'm trying to force the staff to really develop the B players into A players, and C's into B's. I've seen the past couple of seasons that the best player in the 1st qtr is not the best player in the 4th, but because he was the "best" when we started he's still in the game. Kids are dead tired, they're not as fast, not as sharp, and the fresh sub who is now his equal physically is on the sideline. I need to rest the players so they are still strong in the 4th. Going both ways with 60+ offensive plays might impact that (we're flexbone no-huddle). I've run them hard this summer, hit the weights hard, and it's paid off physically. Now we'll see if that translates into results this season.
Will I succeed in this - No. I know that a full 2-platoon system is not viable. I don't have the players and I don't have the numbers. However, am I going to go 9 2-way players, no. I'm trying to limit the number of 2-ways to 4. 4 studs on the field, 5-6 very good 1-way players, and 1-2 players that will need to be coached up and that they perform. I watch those same teams on TV and would have no idea how to deal with those numbers. Just law of averages would tell me that there should be sufficient players to 2-platoon if you have twice my numbers, 65 or so.
My goal is to 2-platoon, reality says that I won't.
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Post by hsrose on Jul 8, 2009 7:25:47 GMT -6
Wednesday (7/08) is day 3 of a 5-day full-contact camp at an area school. 8 teams each day, teams coming in and out, but very good camp. Full contact from day 1, but quick whistles and stay off the qb. We're there all 5 days.
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Post by hsrose on Jul 1, 2009 17:07:34 GMT -6
I'm the new HC so I get to make the call on this one for us this year. The past 5 we've been an "option" team but were heavily influenced by the local "Guru" (275+ wins, helped implement the offense and concepts) who ran option but would call it and whose claim to fame was the time he ran lead/iso 27 times in a row over 2 games.
Accordingly, the team ran option, but was always looking to run power (lead, trap). What happened is that we ran power ok, and ran option ok. Couple of good quarterbacks made it workable. But neither was as good as they could have been had they been the focus. I think that each took away from the other.
This year I'm going as an option team. 4 of my 6 base plays are option - triple, midline, speed, and trap option. Rocket sweep and trap fill out the other 2 slots. We're going to be a team that runs option, several types, and runs it well. We will power up with wishbone and run lead, but our strength will be running the option. We will be flexbone, wishbone, ace, and I/slot. Majority will be flexbone.
It will be an interesting year for us all with this change in focus.
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Post by hsrose on Jun 25, 2009 0:10:00 GMT -6
I don't have separate academic minimums for the players. I've set the expectation that 3.0 is the goal for every player, but I don't have to be the bad guy on grades, our AD does that plenty well.
The stuff below is the official statement on eligibility. In our school we don't have D's or F's. An I is the same as a D, but it has to be cleared or it turns into an NC. Students don't get out of the work in other words. Notice that an I has the same GPA affect as an NC meaning no points. The I's can carry over so you get an I this semester but as long as you clear it by the end of next semester you are fine and they recompute your GPA. In a couple of schools we compete with they would go by the 2.0 and no F's. Well, you take a TA in PE (A), a PE/football class (A), an art or something (2 C's), a math or english or history (any two, D's) and you meet the 2.0 and you play. Our school has the I's which have to be worked off and if not, can come back to bite the players as it goes to an NC. It's a bit different, but I personally like the having to work off the I's. The grading periods are the quarters.
Basically a player is ineligible if at the quarter grades they have 2 I's or 1 NC.
The Mission Valley Athletic League has established scholastic athletic eligibility as being enrolled and passing 20 units of course work. A 2.0 grade point average must be maintained, without having any NC's. Eligibility checks will be made at the end of each grading period. If an athlete has between a 1.75 and 2.0 or has one NC, he/she will be placed on academic probation until the next grading period providing the athlete wasn't on academic probation the proceeding grading period. If after the grading period he/she does not have a 2.0 or better and/or no NC's, then that athlete would be ineligible to participate in athletics. An incomplete is equal to an F when computing grade point average. If a student receives an incomplete in a grading period, that student has the following grading period to complete the incomplete work, and receive a grade or that “I” will turn into an NC.
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Post by hsrose on Jun 4, 2009 6:51:00 GMT -6
3 s's - haven't heard that phrase for a long, long time. Got that drummed into my pea brain a long time ago and it still makes sense.
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Post by hsrose on Jun 3, 2009 23:26:53 GMT -6
What do you want the funds for? How much up-front cash is needed? How will you get the vendors to participate? What will they need, in terms of documentation, to seal the deal? How many cards do you think you will sell? How much cash do you think you will raise? Is participation required of all the players? How will you handle the cash and accounting (cards and cash)? Will you be having a "cash bag" for the leading sellers? What will you do with leftover cards? What will you be putting on the front of the card?
I'm sure I could come up with more. Anything is easy if you break it up into tiny questions/pieces. Keep asking questions until you can't think of anything else and you will be prepared. Football, life, card sales - break it up until it's in small manageable pieces.
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Post by hsrose on Jun 3, 2009 12:55:43 GMT -6
We're doing this this year. Any number of places on-line to get cards. Search on "print plastic card" and you will find quite a few. I didn't find anything local but I didn't try too heroically.
Cards range from $.30-$.55 depending on qty and artwork. The .55 price includes 4-color printing, setup, and design service for qty of 1,000. Lots of models and ideas for layouts to choose from.
We are selling for $10 and look to keep $9.50 or so. Purchase 1,000 cards for $500 (or less) and sell 700-800. Net 6,500-7,500.
One of the moms is doing contacting vendors right now. There is generally room for 12-15 vendors on the back. Shes going through teen food, adult food, adult services for products. Says that shes not finding any resistance to being included. Some vendors have to put the request up the chain.
Lead time is about 2 weeks. Can get it sooner.
Again, I haven't done this but we are doing it this year.
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Post by hsrose on Jun 1, 2009 6:11:47 GMT -6
I'm trying to but have yet to be proven successful.
Reasons for using it include sending the players a quote of the day, last minute reminders of schedules ("Form xyz is due today"), and a way for them to send me messages about practice or school ("Meet in room 104 today instead of the weight room"). Separate account for the coaches for reminders and updates.
Why use it - Figure it will save me time when I need to get a message out to the staff and/or players and it's not practice time (time/location change). I won't have to make a calling tree or e-mail (which has no guarantee of timely receipt).
Problems - Seems that I'm having difficulty making the right setup so when I send a quote of the day it's not getting out.
Will this be successful? I don't know yet.
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Post by hsrose on May 31, 2009 9:14:19 GMT -6
Northern California, North Coast Section. We get 10 days of helmets and footballs. No competitions or anything. 2,100 students in the school. We still have 3 days left, we don't graduate until June 18. I'm a first year HC after 4 as an assistant and 3 at the youth level.
Got 71 names on the roster, lucky to get 45-50 each day. We are the drama and performing arts magnet school so I had my backfield missing for 3 practices because they had to attend their class dance recital. Baseball went into the NCS playoffs so I lost a week there. Next week I've got some players that have to practice their roles in the drama class for their finals. Couple of kids with grades, couple now at adult school.
We're moving from wishbone power & option to flexbone option. Targeted exposing the players to the formations and 5 base plays. Defensively we're moving to a 3-5 with lots of aggressive stunts - we don't have the size to stand and power with anyone. That has gone well so far. The kids are very enthusiastic and have been paying attention. So I've got no problems with the kids that have been there. I'm keeping attendance and those that aren't there are known.
I split the team into 2 teams, Blue and White. I split the coaches into offense and defense. First day was testing and combine, next 8 are put-ins, final day is make-up testing and a "scrimmage". One day the blue is offense, white defense, then the next day they switch. Splitting the team into the Blue/White has let the coaches focus on their primary positions, and has also given us better time with the players. Example, instead of 20 receivers each day I'm dealing with 10, and it's for a longer time. The players like it as they see they are getting more and better "face time" with the staff.
Bottom Line: Good kids, excellent energy, lower than desired attendance, getting done about what I expected.
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Post by hsrose on May 15, 2009 0:33:32 GMT -6
I grew up on a farm on the central coast of California. Raised Angus beef, almonds, alfalfa hay, and dry wheat. We were country.
My father chewed Days Work plug and dipped Copenhagen. Just bit the corner off of the plug and started chewing. Would pull out the cellophane wrapper a few minutes later. He would buy the roll of cans, open them all and fill each with Calvert's whiskey, then put them all in the fridge. Used to set the wad on the dash of the pickup when we went into the burger joint. I grew up with everyone having the white ring on the back pocket of their jeans. I was in high school before I realized that the left side of pickups didn't come streaked with brown. My dad kept the 2 teeth he pulled from the right front of his mouth in the desk drawer. As a kid I tipped over many a spittoon, talk about a gawd-awful stench and mess. Lost my mother to cancer after smoking since she was 16. Not lung, but it was accelerated by the smoking. She tried several times to quit but it is just too powerful.
It's illegal on school grounds. It's illegal for under-18 to have it/buy it. The school has a no tolerance policy on drugs, I'm not sure yet if that includes dip. Never seen anyone use plug. The former coach and his DC and a couple of coaches dipped all the time at practice, film sessions, in the office. They also brought in the f-bomb as acceptable part of coach-player dialog. Both ways. 3 players now have tattoo's, just like the HC and his DC. Great guys, probably would be better friends if I hadn't been in a difficult coaching position/relationship with them. I've got 1 coach on staff that dips during weights and will probably during practice, he did last year. I'll be talking to him about it as I don't view chewing as healthy or a proper leadership example for young people
We practice on grass but play on a turf field so seeds, gum, etc. are out. Nothing but X-ade or water.
Not trying to be preachy here or anything, I just don't think it is something that I want in my life or on my team. I've seen what it does first hand, I've seen how powerful it is, I've experienced loss, and I've seen how impressionable the players are to what we do. I've never had any inclination to try tobacco in any form. Each to their own.
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Post by hsrose on May 14, 2009 7:59:34 GMT -6
The official word on our eligibility. This goes with my earlier post. -----------------------------------
The Mission Valley Athletic League has established scholastic athletic eligibility as being enrolled and passing 20 units of course work. A 2.0 grade point average must be maintained, without having any NC's. Eligibility checks will be made at the end of each grading period. If an athlete has between a 1.75 and 2.0 or has one NC, he/she will be placed on academic probation until the next grading period providing the athlete wasn't on academic probation the proceeding grading period. If after the grading period he/she does not have a 2.0 or better and/or no NC's, then that athlete would be ineligible to participate in athletics. An incomplete is equal to an F when computing grade point average. If a student receives an incomplete in a grading period, that student has the following grading period to complete the incomplete work, and receive a grade or that “I” will turn into an NC.
----------------------------------- So this gets into multiple grading periods with probation carrying over. The AD is the one that determines eligibility for the players. If a player is not on his "good" list then the player is ineligible, end of story.
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Post by hsrose on May 14, 2009 6:14:38 GMT -6
We use "I" for "D" and "NC" for "F". I = incomplete and will go to an NC if not resolved. This means that the student has to complete the work, usually in the form of a contact with the instructor. Do X, Y, Z, take this test and get a 70+ and your grade will go to a C-. Good thing about this is that the student has to do the work, eventually, to get a grade. Not uncommon for a Sr. to have to get a contract for a Freshmen class in order to graduate. The contracts vary with the amount of work to get to the C, they can be simple or pretty difficult.
NC is No Credit. Same as an F but more clearly states the impact - no credit for the course. NC's are not eligible for a contract, they have to be worked to an I through class work. Once to an I they can contract to a C.
District eligibility rules are 2.0. School rules are 2.0 and no NC's, or 2.0 and no more than 2 I's. And once officially reported during routine 8-week grade check, at least one of the I's/the NC has to be cleared (in-class grades, not a contract) before the student is eligible.
So for us, no taking PE, TA for PE, art, and wood shop, getting A's, and then failing/getting D's in math and english to get a 2.0.
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Post by hsrose on May 2, 2009 9:55:53 GMT -6
I just took over a program and am off-campus. Only 1 of my coaches is on-campus and he teaches history.
Part of my application package was the position of Academic Advocate, a teacher that would act as the liaison between the program and the academic staff. This position would work with the school to get the players into summer school, collect and monitor the monthly progress reports, work with the kids on their grades, etc. Basically do the academic stuff that I would do (and what the previous previous hc did).
While this may not be exactly what you are asking about, it is what I'm doing for the same function.
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Post by hsrose on May 1, 2009 9:31:46 GMT -6
Sure, sounds like something fun to do. I just took over a program and found a box of shirts from last year. Nothing special, but got the school and year.
PM if you want to do this to exchange addresses.
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Post by hsrose on Apr 15, 2009 7:14:26 GMT -6
Not much of a connection at all. In our city there are 5 high schools. There is an independent football league that usually fields 8 teams in each division, there are 3 divisions (roughly grades 3-4, 5-6, 7-8). Because the teams are not aligned with any one school the HS's can't align with any one team. I can't go down and help/coach/support any single team in the upper division because there are kids on that team that will be going to any/all of the HS's in the city. They also get a lot of players from the two cities next door that have HS teams in our league.
There is also a Pop Warner team and an AYFL(?) team as well. Competition for the players is getting to be substantial. The independent league has been around for 45+ years or so, plays their games at 1 field, and is the less competition oriented (all the kids play, a lot, nothing past their own championship) than the others.
Bottom line is that we can't really establish any links to a single team. The league, yes, and we have done coaching clinics and such, but that's about it.
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