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Post by hsrose on Sept 17, 2019 10:56:54 GMT -6
Annddd... I'm out of here. The player that quit, his father went to the board last night, blasted me, school didn't tell me he would be there, so this morning I have been given the opportunity to resign. So I have submitted my resignation letter, am packing up, and heading out the door.
Not sure what my activity will be on the board for a time, trying to get things worked out and such.
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Post by hsrose on Sept 15, 2019 18:52:05 GMT -6
We played last Friday, lost 21-3. Dressed 16, but during warmups one of the players was not moving well. Seems he didn't quite tell the Dr. the truth when he was getting cleared for a groin pull. So we played with 15. We were ahead 3-0 with 8 minutes left in the 2nd. Got the ball on our 8 and drove to their 16, 2:30 left. Ran a lead and the back just never clamped on the ball, scoop and run it back to our 20. Score 2 plays later. So instead of being up 10-0 at the half and getting the ball to start the 2nd, we are down 7-3 and it's all different. They scored in the 3rd on a good pass, and then a 72-yard TD sweep late in the 4th.
Good game, kids never gave up. Gave up 5 sacks. Kid that fumbled the ball wants us to pass more. Also said he was done playing football in the 4th because he fumbled the ball, gave up the pop pass for the TD, dropped 2 passes that hit his hands. He fumbled last game as well and gave up a TD on a pop pass. He's a safety that can't read the TE.
End of the game, we try a pass. Soph QB gets sacked, hard. :43 left and the refs look at me, i look at them, we nod, they take their time spotting the ball, game over. After the game the grandfather of the best player on the team is yelling & cursing at a reporter about the end of the game, we should not have taken a knee (we didn't, they just didn't spot it), F-this, F-that, coaches suck. Very loud and ugly. Saturday the word at the youth games is that the dad is making his son, the best player, quit because 'all the coaches are doing is teaching the kids how to lose.' Dad has never talked with me about anything. He's been on the sidelines taking pictures for the local paper so he's been around the sidelines. The player has now called for a meeting tomorrow before school with the players.
I let the AD know what I thought was going on and she said that if a player quits a team in season they are blocked from competing for 1 week. 3 of my kids got suspended from school for 3 days and blocked from practice and games (anything non-academic) for 3 weeks for vaping.
So now it looks like the best player on the team will be leaving because of his dad.
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Post by hsrose on Sept 13, 2019 15:45:37 GMT -6
Never heard of Ripon but it sounds like a decent operating model. I'll be checking them out. Thanks
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Post by hsrose on Sept 12, 2019 9:10:40 GMT -6
I have been reminded, more and more recently, that the team used to have the player names on the back of the jersey. I see a lot of videos where the teams have the player names on the back. Right now I really don't care about why or why not to have the names, I'm looking for a practical way of doing this.
At a previous stop the Boosters paid to have the players names printed on a cloth tag that was sewn onto the back of the jersey. They kept the name tag and used it for multiple seasons. That worked as it allowed the team to keep the jerseys from year to year yet still have the players name on the jersey.
A coach here offered that he could get 'discount' jerseys with the players name on the back all printed up. Player would keep the jersey at the end of the season. So the team/Boosters would be buying less expensive jerseys each year.
Last year I had the names printed on the jersey for the last game for the seniors, and then they got to keep the jersey. But that was because the jerseys were 6 years old and Russell is no longer in the business, so I can't replace them. I figured that I may as well get rid of them because we have practice jerseys all over the place (I found a cabinet that had jerseys, folded, in cardboard boxes, never been used).
So how do you put the names on the jerseys without breaking your bank every year?
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Post by hsrose on Sept 11, 2019 7:33:12 GMT -6
So we haven't called it. If we can get through the game Friday we should be able to survive the season as we get 3 kids eligible with their number of practices and 3 kids coming back from their 3-week suspension for vaping. But, we have to get through this week.
Dressed 16 for the game last Saturday. Had no injuries, won 33-8 over a team that dressed 19 but had several players on the tail end of the flu, including their QB. But we got through it and got the W. As hard as it is ti imagine, our core 8 guys were better than their core 8 guys.
Had those same 16 set for this week, a tougher opponent. But Monday a kid slips on the field and pulls a groin muscle and is out until next week. That gives us 15 going into the game. Got a kid that has had a bad shoulder. Made it through the game, the weekend, no problems, and then tweaks it in PE class lifting weights. Can't get his arm above his head, much less lift anything. He misses Monday, is there yesterday. Another kid has a bum shoulder, strain suffered in the game. Didn't tell us about it and aggravated it hitting the sled on Monday. He's playing but slightly damaged. The kicker turned corner twisted his ankle on Sunday playing soccer. 3 weeks ago after the 1st game we lost a kid to a knee he hurt playing soccer after the game. Last week the JV lost a player to a fractured ankle he got at some wrestling practice he an his brother went to. Got a team captain back from an ankle sprain he got before game 1 which was nice, but he then proceeded to twist his knee a bit in the game last Saturday. So while we have 15 that will dress, 4 are damaged going in. Told the AD that if we lose another player before game we will forfeit, I'm not going into a game with 14. I see some schools have set a minimum number of 17, which I am thinking of setting something like that for next year.
The biggest issue, now that it seems the season will be viable with 22 players on the roster, is that we coaches don't know how to coach with 14, 15, 16 kids at practice. All the drills and such we have are based on having more players for reads and setups and such. When that is not viable we have had a tough time figuring out what to do. And with the numbers we sure aren't hitting very much. Doesn't seem to bother the kids during the games, they have been hitting well, not backing down from anyone. But running a regular practice has not really been feasible. That's been the hardest part of this, not feeling like we've prepared the kids because we haven't been doing what we have always been doing. This new world order is a bugger to figure out. And yes, we have been working with the JV, just can't practice with them all the time every day.
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Post by hsrose on Aug 27, 2019 10:21:27 GMT -6
17 - Anyone else have a line/number like that?
I've had that conversation with the coaches since I got here, 'What is the number that we cancel?' They never liked that conversation, never reached a real consensus on it. We were never close to that. But it was always in the 15-16-17 range. Now that I'm here at that number that conversation has a lot more meaning.
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Post by hsrose on Aug 27, 2019 8:14:16 GMT -6
I had a full on, 2-page, description of what happened last Friday. We lost, 48-7, but we held them scoreless until 9 minutes in the 2nd. Some good things, but not very many at all. I decided not to post that, no reason to. But I did want to post my summary notes that I got from the game.
NOTE TO SELF: When the numbers are low there is no such thing as a "position". Everyone has to know all the positions because you don't know which domino will fall and take out a whole set of other dominoes. And that means even more simple on the offense/defense. The issue with this is that the players are not created equal and putting players in these positions is not conducive to their success or to the teams, it only satisfies the need to have a body, any body, on the field. Some of the issue is mental, they don’t know what to do, the other is physical, they are not capable of playing the position.
NOTE TO SELF: When you have to call time outs to set personnel because of an injury or something, you’re in a bad way. I know about being prepared, playing the what-if games on the whiteboard, who is backing up whom, but now, when everybody is backing up everyone else and that makes it tough to figure out on the fly who to put where. We are so low on personnel that losing 1 player can have a lot of impacts which take time to figure out. Lose 2 and now we are talking permutations that my pea brain can't process on the fly. Lose 3 and I've got receivers playing fullback. When this happens with a larger team you can move Rooks and Bishops and Knights into similar positions. Now, we’re moving Pawns into positions that need Rooks and Bishops and Knights. It just doesn’t work. I'm putting kids into places they have never been and asking them to do things they have never done. I haven't trained them, they don't know the techniques, I'm dooming them to failure before they step on the field. I don't like that.
And, yesterday 3 seniors got popped for vaping in the locker room so they are suspended for 3 days and on Social Probation meaning they can have nothing to do with any non-academic activities at the school. Meaning they cannot be at practice or anything for 3 weeks. That means they will miss this week (bye) and the next 2 games. A Freshmen got caught vaping pot, on Friday, wearing his game jersey, in class. So in the last 2 days I've lost 4 players for vaping.
I must have been really bad in a former life or something. This is getting comical.
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Post by hsrose on Aug 22, 2019 15:40:41 GMT -6
I'm in CA as well. We just had two captains transfer to another school last week. They were at our practice on Tuesday, they were at the new school on Wednesday when school started here. They both claim VCR, but they are gone and and no longer my concern. The other school isn't happy about this either, they don't want the 'they're recruiting' tag put on them but they're winning in most sports so the players are drawn to the flame.
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Post by hsrose on Aug 20, 2019 9:34:43 GMT -6
How do you practice with low, as in 14-18 players, each day? I'm used to numbers in the upper 20's so I can have at least some kind of scout O/D/K. But with numbers below 18 how do you practice?
Yes, I'm doing half-line, but I'm finding that there are problems with that as well, namely I end up with the same guys on the same guys which means that if 1 is strong and 1 is not I get the same result regardless of what we're doing.
I'm looking at changing the emphasis to much more skill/indy and group instead of team. Can't do team unless it's offense on air. Special teams have nobody to even line up with much less have any contact.
I have a JV team with 28 or so players, but I'm not thinking I want to make them the scout team for the offense as that takes away from their preparation and they are the future of this program, I don't want to beat them into submission.
What are some tips, techniques, and concepts for running practice with low numbers? What do you guys do?
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Post by hsrose on Aug 19, 2019 9:20:20 GMT -6
UPDATE: Had our 3-team scrimmage on Saturday. It went pretty well, QB needs to look at the read key rather than the back, OL need some additional work on assignments, I need some DB's, but overall the kids played well. They were dead tired at the end but they had tasted first blood and they liked it.
I have 17 on the roster as of this morning.
RB/LB is down with a knee something from the scrimmage. He will be checked by the trainer today before practice but from talking with him over the weekend it does not sound good. Very painful, can't bend the knee too much. I don't have much faith that he will be cleared. He got hit but thought it was his calf, finished the scrimmage.
OG, all 5'9", #165 of him, comes out about halfway through the scrimmage, his arm popped out of the socket. It went back in but it was painful. Come to find out he has a torn ligament in the shoulder, the Dr. cleared him to play because he will go in after the season and clean things up. It's already damaged, football isn't likely to add to the carnage, so surgery after the season is fine with him. Trainer and I were not aware of this so it was kind of a surprise when he just casually mentioned 'Oh yeah, I've got this torn ligament so my shoulder pops out all the time...'
The two captains that left on Wednesday were sitting on the far sideline, just watching. Saw a couple of students walk by them. Apparently they were noticed by the parents under the pressbox so the team mom warned me about possible comments being heard on the video.
Got a kid that wants to come out, a soph. Apparently family life is the pits, has been in a lot of fights, sent to several schools including a 'lockdown school' because he is a runner. Back here now and apparently will be eligible to play football. I don't know how, but it may happen. Good eyes, shook my hand, good sized kid. Will likely bring him directly to varsity as the security officer here says that he has never had a mentor, never been involved with sports at the HS. So he might be viable. Or not. Officer said that his mom has been on meth for 15+ years but is now clean so he has a place to stay.
I have realized that I was being sexist in not wanting the girl to play on defense. I realized that she has to be a football player 1st, then a girl. So I am no longer going to try to hide her on offense. On her 1st play on defense the receiver she was covering had to be 1' taller than she.
So we're going into our game this week with 14, maybe 15 players. We're going to play this season as best we can.
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Post by hsrose on Aug 15, 2019 14:51:29 GMT -6
When do you call it a day and fold the varsity program? I know all the stuff about quitting, gutting it out, being heroic in the face of long odds, Spartans, last great act of defiance, hold the rope, all that. I'm a full-time drinker of that cool-aid. But that's in the abstract. I'm facing this here and now and it's getting damn hard.
I see posts where teams have 14 with 5 Fr/So and they play, others have 16 and they go to the playoffs. One of my coaches goes to the 'I played on a team of 15 and we went 5-4', but he's 68 from a small school in a galaxy far, far away. I'm sitting here right now with 18 bodies on varsity. 29 on JV. And I have tried to bring up JV to play but either the kid or parents refuse to come up, and I cannot force them to come up. I have 2 Sophs on varsity right now, both are likely to start both ways and special teams.
Of the 18 bodies, 1 is a 115# girl (5 older brothers, Marine Corp. dad, I'm learning new words and phrases from her every day), 2 are soccer players that have never played before and are #150 or so. I just lost 2 seniors that have transferred to another school. They were captains and 2-way players. That dropped us to 18. One of my other seniors hurt his ankle in a tackle drill (half-speed, onto bags) yesterday and is out for at least 2 weeks. Had 15 at practice yesterday - 2 were working, 1 had a Dr. appt. Ended with 14 after the Sr. twisted his ankle. Anyway, on the personal side both of my dogs just died (true), my house is in shatters (kitchen remodel, true), and the light was in my eyes (false). Its indeed a sad tale of woe and misery.
Legal Aspect: I'm in CA and yesterday I had to go to the dentist get a new crown done. They made me wear sunglasses/safety glasses during the procedure because somebody somewhere dropped an instrument on a woman that caused her to lose an eye. And, as explained to me by the AD if I knowingly put a player on the field that is not ready to fully participate, and that player is then injured as a result of playing, the (possible) lawsuit would be negligence and in the $5M range. I am not ready to take that risk. 3 seasons ago I almost lost my whole helmet inventory because a parent (also a coach) bought a 'safer' helmet (Virginia Tech document) and that would have made it "a safety equipment imbalance for the other players based on $$" so I would have had to replace the full inventory. The school attorney was about ready to impose that. The helmet sales rep was able to talk him down off the ledge, but it was very close. The school here is not fond of anything that sniffs at being possibly legal.
I am in the position of having a couple of injuries and then putting players on the field that are not ready to play at the varsity level. I can hide them on offense, I can't hide them on defense. I have no real prospect of getting any players from the JV. I have no real prospect of getting players from the school, the players hit the recruiting trail hard yesterday and got a sophomore who is in special ed, and a Frosh that is a national level speedster apparently and the parents have said won't/will not/ain't gonna happen play varsity.
When do you call it? Has anyone ever called it? I ain't looking for any Oh Poor Me stuff here. I want to proceed but that legal thing ($ payout x probability of happening is still a big number) keeps coming up as the ranks get thinner.
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Post by hsrose on Aug 2, 2019 8:30:25 GMT -6
Our Boosters used to to a golf tournament. Was tough on the adults trying to do the raffle stuff. Then I had the players team up, 3, maybe 4 per team, and come up with raffle baskets. That worked really, really well. Better baskets because they were a team/group effort, the adults didn't have to go out begging and have that worry, and they made a lot more on the raffle tickets.
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Post by hsrose on Aug 1, 2019 13:40:30 GMT -6
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Post by hsrose on Aug 1, 2019 10:52:31 GMT -6
I coach in CA so I don't know anything else but Frosh on Thursday, JV & varsity Friday (or Saturday) night. This normally has a Frosh staff, JV staff, and varsity staff. Generally operating as 3 separate staffs. We don't have a frosh team here anymore, no numbers to support 3 levels. JV leaves early on the bus, JV HC is on there with them. The team van takes the equipment and leaves around the same time, one of the coaches drives the van. Coaches get to the game, they do the game. As many coaches as we have available are helping with JV. Not always optimal as they may not know all the nuances of the JV players and what they have been taught. Varsity bus leaves, HC (me) on the bus with them. Get to the game, sit in the stands, go get dressed, warm up, play the game. All coaches are helping with varsity game. After the game players are allowed to sign out with HC to ride home with parents. Both busses leave at the same time.
Biggest issue is that this allows the JV staff to do their own thing to a certain extent. They run this play but because they are kings of their own world they do it this way instead of the way the varsity does. Or the opposite happens. I was the JV HC here for a year and my goal was to 'out varsity the varsity' in the offense and defense. That worked for about 4 weeks until I realize that the varsity was off on a different offensive scheme than what they started with and I had not been told about it. It's not unusual for JV teams to be doing something different from the varsity.
Right now I have myself and 6 coaches. I have 9 stipends from the district, but 3 of those are for a frosh team so I have 6 stipends that I can actually use. Last season the board had to hard allocate the stipends because of a teachers union agreement. Before that I was splitting the stipend pool as I wanted to cover coaches. Now I have to put names into the boxes.
So we can't play a JV game one night and then bring up bodies for the varsity game. This has never been a consideration for us but I think that there is a 10-quarter limit here in CA, but I'm not sure about it. May be just me not remembering gooder. My take is that I won't bring a JV up to varsity unless the kid can play, unless he can start somewhere. We can have juniors play JV and one of my former HC's would put his 2nd team varsity juniors on JV, especially his QB. His thought was that they would be playing every game and getting game reps and if they had a problem they would come back up the next game. #3 would get them through the game tonight if the #1 got hurt, and then next week the game-ready #2 would be up on varsity. A lot of other teams did the same thing so JV got to be pretty competitive.
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Post by hsrose on Jul 30, 2019 12:30:10 GMT -6
Go with the 7-pad, make it happen. I was 5-pad for several years but got tired of the kids not using the knee pads, forgetting them, etc. Much easier to take away that knee pad option/issue with the 7-pad models.
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Post by hsrose on Jul 25, 2019 7:39:58 GMT -6
Trying to post an image, lets see if this works. One of the players yesterday at one of our summer workouts. He's clearing lots which up here means he's cutting down brush and weed whacking stuff for fire breaks around houses. Poison oak, snakes, bugs, heat, moving logs, trimming trees, no water, all that good stuff. Talked with a friend of his in the same workout that works at the local foundry/metal shop. He thought he might be missing our early practices/workouts at 330 next week (we start fall practice next week) because he's on the 6AM-230PM shift. He comes in dirty from head to toe. www.dropbox.com/s/6sxlgsecm1hzux7/Boots.jpg?dl=0I also publish the calendar way in advance, it's on the team website, it's in all the handouts.
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Post by hsrose on Jul 24, 2019 16:59:29 GMT -6
We're a school of 650 or so and have the same issue. I have kids getting dressed in the parking lot coming in from work. Clearing mountain lots in 100 degree weather, cutting wood, running cattle/sheep/pigs/ranching, working electrical/construction with dad/uncle. One of my players was the acknowledged expert in pig breeding for the county, had been running his own pigs by the time he was 11. These ain't clerking at the Rite Aid, these are hard jobs. Come to the field dirty as hell, in shorts, t-shirt, carrying cleats, and wearing boots. They will go lift in their boots. They work hard when they are there, but they are working hard jobs and football is a diversion, not a priority.
I got 2 kids right now that have been tossed out of their homes. Couch surfing with friends. Makes it hard to get physicals and such when nobody will sign for them. Seems the scenario is kid starts working at 13 or so, by the time he's 17 he's been working hard and feeling his oats, feels that he's on par with mom/old man because he's working just as hard as they are. Mom & dad still see him as a kid so things start going downhill. Good kids, just the 'get out of the house' milestone gets reached a lot earlier.
I've had kids leave practice to go feed the sheep in the pens next to the field, part of their Ag program. When we have the local fair, they get 2 days off from school. This is spring practice time so the week of the fair is shot because they are setting up their animals for the fair. The week after is shot because they are delivering their animals to the buyers and getting everything back in order. Got 650 in the school, Ag has 375 or so in the program and FFA.
I tell the kids that if you are working for your family, I'll work with you. If you are working for gas for your truck and little Suzie you only got 4 years to play HS sports and you will be working for the next 50 and my patience is muchly lessened.
You want the team to be competitive and get wins and all that. But at some places it's just not in the cards.
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Post by hsrose on Jul 17, 2019 22:05:19 GMT -6
I have (generally) found that the vast majority of issues are already handled by the school/district rules. Anything that the student does that would be in the list above would be dealt with by the school 1st. I get teachers asking me to "run Johnny for being a jerk", but generally if a kid has messed up the school gets to him first.
My team rule is 'be at the right place, at the right time, doing the right thing, all the time.' That is sufficient to cover unsportsmanlike conduct, comments, being late, missing practices, skipping a class to bop the girlfriend, etc. I was the rules guy for a youth league some time back. What I found was that the football stuff was minimal, 80 yard fields for example (space limitation). The majority of the rules were there because some coach had done something to get around the rules so they added more rules. The more rules they had the more time the spent trying to get around them, and the more time the league administration had to spend to monitor and enforce the rules. By the time I got there everyone was watching everyone for everything. I more rules I have the more I have to look out for and the more attention I/coaches have to pay to watching and enforcing rules. With the 'right place...' approach it's a simple set of questions - "Were you in the right place? Were you there at the right time? Were you doing the right thing?" If the answer to one of those is 'No' then they spin the 'Wheel of Opportunity' to determine what they get to do to repay the team for their error.
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Post by hsrose on Jul 6, 2019 22:02:31 GMT -6
I do regular progress reports, mail merge the player info with the text of the report. Give it to them on Monday, back on Thursday. Give it to the teacher at the start of class, teacher enters their grade and social evaluation. Works well. Problem is there are some teachers that won’t sign them. Including the AD, who says it is a waste of time. In reality the teachers don’t know what the grades are because they don’t enter them into the system until the last minute. So while I try, I seldom have a real clear picture of how the kids are doing. This next season I won’t have any coaches, including me, that are on staff, meaning that I won’t have access to reports or anything. It’s fun.
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Post by hsrose on Jun 18, 2019 15:33:15 GMT -6
We have a 4-way tug of war that can be very competitive and very, very exhausting. Don't know where I got the idea but I built the thing sometime back. Set up a 5-yard square with cones, one more in the middle. The tug of war ropes (thick poly ropes with knots) are connected to a 8"/10" steel ring by chain and hitch. Bring one line out of each side of the square. 4-5 guys on each rope. 1st to pull the ring past their side of the square wins. The issue is that this is not just straight pulling, you can change the angle of the pull (force) so you can combine with your neighbors to offset a stronger team. And that means there needs to be a leader and communications. When one team gets near winning two other teams combine/get closer and they can usually out-pull the team that is winning. Then they split so they can win and the others combine. The record is 1:27 for longest pull.
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Post by hsrose on Jun 10, 2019 11:22:19 GMT -6
Our issue is always the JV team. We did away with our Frosh team 5 years ago. If we get to that point on the varsity we will bring players up from the JV and fold the JV. Which is happening in this area, hear about it more each season. So the question for us is what is the number to play a game at the JV level? I once cancelled a JV game when we had 16 but I knew that 2 OL would not last past the 2nd/3rd quarter and 3 of the players would be a risk to themselves and/or others if they were on the field.
The AD here is of the opinion that if we have it on the schedule we are playing it. Had a JV game last year, against a very good team, where our Frosh OLB, a girl, who was good, had to play C for us (we're Pistol) because the OL we had were 'hurt'. We had 17 active for that game and lost 3 during the game, kids that should not have been on the field in that situation against that team.
I understand that all it takes to play the game is the right 11, but that really forces the question of 'right'. When you are talking the younger levels it can be pretty harsh because you don't have the players developed to the point that you are confident that they will be able to Ironman the game.
I have this discussion each season with the coaches, and its one that they don't want to have, they all have that Ironman mentality. But as the HC there is a different issue when you know you will have to put kids on the field that are not ready for prime time to play the game. As I was told when I first started, you never want to be in the position of having to say "Yes, your honor, on several occasions I knowingly put players on the field that were not sufficiently prepared to be able to protect themselves or others..." Or any other phrase that begins with "Your honor...".
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Post by hsrose on Jun 4, 2019 16:51:44 GMT -6
Inventory them and figure out what you got - vendor, model, color, size, line/back/DB/QB/kicker/.... If they can be used with current helmet inventory you can put them aside. If they don't they to to the youth program or get recycled. If they can be used you can get them recoated with a new color if they don't match current design. I moved from purple to white 2 seasons ago. Costs a bit of $$ but it really cleans up the look. You can also setup special helmets for auction or something. www.greengridiron.com/ has some interesting ideas. Otherwise they are fodder for the recycle bin.
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Post by hsrose on May 11, 2019 11:42:44 GMT -6
We go M-T-W-TH, 5-7PM all summer. I expect the players to make 3 of the 4 each week. They get points for attendance that work into equipment/locker/jersey assignments.
June we go 1 group in weights and 1 in cardio/speed/technique. After that we have an hour of football, mostly passing. This is where we put in the majority of our pass offense. We do 4 7v7's. In July we have the same schedule but only weights and cardio. Fall practice starts the 1st week of August and is polish passing and install running.
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Post by hsrose on Apr 21, 2019 0:03:34 GMT -6
Sell the yard lines. $20 per Yardline or something. Then pay “rent”’to the owner at the end of quarter 1, 2, & 3. Whatever yard line the ball is on at the end of the quarte, the owner get $50 or whatever works.
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Post by hsrose on Apr 3, 2019 21:29:49 GMT -6
From the HUDL twitter account;
Great question, Coach. Your team will get 150 hours of storage. The average American football game is 40 minutes trimmed down; which means you could store about 225 games. With an average of 11 games a year would be ~20 seasons. We want you to store what matters to you! KK
And all video is now counted.
Another good question! Having two angles would double the amount of video and would give you ~10 seasons you could store. We'd be happy to talk over the phone with you for more details on your situation; give us a call when you have a chance. KK
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Post by hsrose on Mar 13, 2019 19:11:15 GMT -6
I'm in the same boat. I've been buying 5-8 new helmets every year, adding to the inventory, as the numbers have been declining. So I've got probably 20 helmets that I no longer need, reconditioned, that are sitting on the shelf. Not sure what to do with them.
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Post by hsrose on Mar 13, 2019 13:14:48 GMT -6
The school I am at now funds the coaches stipends, $5k for safety (helmets, shoulder pads, helmet reconditioning), field/game expenses, and buses. Everything else is on the team - uniforms, footballs, cones, decals, helmets, girdles, shorts, t-shirts, coaches shirts, hats, everything is on the team and the Boosters ($8k per year). We do not get the gate.
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Post by hsrose on Mar 12, 2019 16:55:29 GMT -6
Whiteboard for sure. As large of a TV/projector & screen setup as possible. Love Me Wall and bookshelves. I have a corner desk unit from Ikea that works really well. Central computer/screen area, printer area, drawers and shelves and cubbyholes. Works pretty well. Might want to consider a DVD player as there are still those running around out there.
Depending on how much you would want to leave the room when in a heated session to get a water or tea or something would determine your kitchen. I have a mini-fridge, microwave, and electric water kettle here. I make soup and tea, not a coffee guy. If you are in your house those are likely not needed.
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Post by hsrose on Mar 4, 2019 15:13:41 GMT -6
I've got the opposite problem. One of my soph kids was leaving for our rival school, they're better in most sports. Story is he & mom were tired of losing here and wanted to win so he was leaving. Kept waiting for the news that he was gone, but never saw him leave. Asked other coaches and one said that he was friends with the dad. Dad said that they had met with the other school but that 'the meeting did not go well' so he wasn't given the opportunity to leave.
So, at least here, the other schools don't want our kids.
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Post by hsrose on Mar 1, 2019 21:40:53 GMT -6
Since I work on, usually several computers, at the same time, all day long I consider writing by hand a welcome break. So I end up with notes all over the place. Clinics, videos, conversations, articles, whatever I can latch onto. Every so often I'll gather them and transcribe them into emails that I send to myself. That way I have them as text and can get rid of the paper. My nickname has been Tree Killer for a long, long time. My organizational structure, since I am a HC at a small school and don't have a lot of help, has been developed over time. Most of my files start with a number so that I can always figure out where something belongs. Once you get past coaching a single position you have to have some place to put things. Doesn't matter what the structure is, but there has to be a structure.
At the link below you can see a number of files that I will be updating soon. They are numbered so you can kind of see where they might go. Their numbers do not match the numbering below. thekesterfamily.com/Football/Links.htmlI have this structure on iCloud as my personal world is Mac-based. There is an Apple application for Windows that lets it access iCloud like from a Mac. That lets me have the files in 1 spot but still access them from where ever I might be. /<Mascot> Football //000-099 Program //100-799 Operations ///100 Strategies and Projects ///200 Communications ///300 Roster ///350 Schedule ///400 Finances ///500 Player Development ///600 Game Performance ///700 Open ///799 Supporting Materials //800-999 Schemes ///800 Offense ///900 Defense ///975 Kicking ///990 Open ///999 Supporting Materials
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