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Post by davecisar on Jul 17, 2009 6:49:57 GMT -6
What about the artificial turf people, they bear some fault in this tragedy. It get's hotter on turf than natural grass, they should have to put a sign up on the field that says the field is hotter than grass and could cause heat deaths.
When will this nonsense ever end? When jurys say no to the extortion attempts and when the losing party has to pay the huge legal bills/extortion attempt fees of the winner. It's all about the entitlement and lottery mindset many Americans now have, it's sickening.
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Post by davecisar on Jul 16, 2009 15:49:10 GMT -6
Coach Doug,
With your move to PW and losing so many kids, I guess I have no reason to whine compared to you. Best of luck as well.
Would love to have a season where every kid came back from all 3 teams. That's one we have a shot at maybe. With our new character dev program and other stuff in the works looks attainable as long as we dont get blown out very often with the 1 team. We only have 1 "striped" player there and the rest arent anywhere remotely close to the striper weight.
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Post by davecisar on Jul 16, 2009 14:58:35 GMT -6
Drew up some preliminary depth charts today But a bunch of kids on the list that I have no idea who they are or if they can play etc Man oh man 1 of my 3 teams REALLY needs some help and only 3-4 new kids on that one. Probably weakest team I will ever have fielded in 17 seasons. OTOH one team is very deep and looks pretty good The other one will have 1/2 new kids with an OK base to work from Today on paper they look like: 3-7 to 6-4 9-2 to 11-0 6-4 to 9-2 Who knows, everyone's undefeated now
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MMA
Jul 15, 2009 11:18:11 GMT -6
Post by davecisar on Jul 15, 2009 11:18:11 GMT -6
MMA is entertainment plain and simple. I love how some guys on here think just b/c they go to a gym and train with MMA guys they are going to have the baddest, toughest kids on the field, or you want to take it b/c you can take anyone out as someone mentioned above. If that were the case wouldn't every one of us have a state championship caliber team? I've got kids that show up to practice every day, haven't missed workouts, lift hard but will never find there way off the JV team. I grew up with a bunch of kids who took karate, brazilian jinjitsu, kung fu etc... but when it came down to a real fight, it doesn't matter all that much. The other guy isn't fighting like that - nor does he have to. Just like in real life when another guy steps up to you in a bar and wants to fight are you going to ask him if he's in your weight class? I'm not saying that I've never watched an MMA fight - I have, many. I've even participated in the Toughman contests in bars back before it was called MMA. The point I'm making is that this is just the latest bandwagon event that appeals to a certain demographic-which isn't all that far removed from "professional" wrestling. Rex Kwon Do anyone? MMA is a bit different than what you have described. The short skinny whimpy kids that gets picked on in school and no one listens to, they are still taking judo, karate etc and getting their butts kicked in a real fight. Still does the kids good, but the kid still gets his head knocked in in a real fight. Taking karate or judo, doesnt grow you a pair, being in the octagon with the MMA guys full go, builds up some heart. My guess is the MMA guys handle themselves just fine in a fight, no matter the size. Not so for many of the self defense, because Im small and afraid martial arts kids. The MMA thing is a real fight and anyone that can hang with those guys has some internal cahones.
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Post by davecisar on Jul 14, 2009 20:33:17 GMT -6
What about my warm winter cap? Shouldnt it have a warning that I shouldnt wear it when it's hot out? Extortion, plain and simple.
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Post by davecisar on Jul 14, 2009 11:05:50 GMT -6
These arent somehow mutually exclusive. I judge how well we do based on retention, which has consistently been at 95%+ But retention has many sub facets. Teams playing to potential, usually mean higher retention rates, kids having fun usually means higher retention rates, kids being developed as football players and people usually means higher retention rates, kids getting plenty of playing time usually means higher retention rates, coaches not wasting practice time usually means higher retention rates. Doing all the above well often yields winning teams, which usually means higher retention rates, a byproduct of doing things right. They are in no way magically mutally exclusive to winning, which is somehow in todays world a naughty word to some like in soccer etc
Team that blocks and tackles consistently the best is going to win 9 of 10 games in a good youth football league. That means they are being taught good fundys, it doesnt happen by magic.
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Post by davecisar on Jul 6, 2009 14:55:23 GMT -6
Maybe what this is trying to prevent is some innappropriate communication from teachers to children due to the social media craze. Most teachers (99%) probably have great myspace and facebook sites.
OTOH you have "backwards hat guy" coach, 35 going on 17 that has his drinking exploits and tail chasing exploits detailed on those sites. Maybe he loves being on his players level and loves life on the edge. Non school Messages back and forth from those sites lower the barrier from Teacher- student to peer-peer. My guess is that's where the problem is.
Maybe the intent is to also save those 1% of coaches from themselves and 16-18 year old females, as well as the impressionable students they work with. Myspace, facebook and twitter werent around 5 years ago, now students know more than ever about their teachers private lives and same goes for teachers knowing about students. We live in a different age.
In college I hung out with a 41 year old prof going on 22. He had new Vet, 1100 Motorcycle, went out to the bars every night, and all kinds of girls from his classes over etc. dangerous stuff, playing with fire.
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Post by davecisar on Jul 5, 2009 20:49:10 GMT -6
Maybe something that would allow them to fire teachers that blatantly come on to kids, now many schools cant fire them even when caught red handed. NYC spends $20,000,000 per year warehousing "broken" teachers for years, even those caught red handed, before they can fire them. In 2006 they were only able to fire something like 2 out of 80,000 teachers. Any entity that can only fire their worst 2 of 80,000 employees is doomed to failure. Zero incentive to excell. www.reason.com/news/show/33014.htmlMaybe this would help give them grounds etc. I don't know. But one would hope any teacher that comes on to a student via an overtly suggestive e-mail, voice mail, text etc would be terminated immediately. The facts are there are a handful of guys that dont feel they are doing anything wrong or maybe think right/wrong doesnt really exist.
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Post by davecisar on Jul 4, 2009 12:34:01 GMT -6
I've never had kids drift like many here describe, 17 years worth of it.
If all the kids are engaged and busy 100% of the time and having fun, it just doesnt happen.
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Post by davecisar on Jul 4, 2009 6:42:40 GMT -6
We are set in Cincy
The Charlotte clinic isn't mine, that is Mike Minters from the Carolina Panthers. I'm just speaking at it, thanks though.
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Post by davecisar on Jul 2, 2009 22:29:35 GMT -6
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Post by davecisar on Jul 2, 2009 14:45:49 GMT -6
Coach,
Hope there is some value in this: Ive had several of my former players help coach youth football. Good kids, smart kids etc. every one of them Ive had to really get after to COACH instead of watch etc. Super low key, not as instructive and holding kids accountable as I would have hoped, even with lots of instruction and encouragement, inviting them to our coaches clinics etc. giving them small parts, detailed instructions etc
Maybe Im doing something wrong, we've failed miserably at this so far.
We want as many kids coming back as we can get, but we need for them to be more effective.
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Post by davecisar on Jun 30, 2009 6:03:16 GMT -6
Coach,
A thought might be to be an asst coach at youth level and coach something most teams have a huge need for, the offensive line and kickers.
Do your thing with your group and make that area shine.
When he sees your kids having a blast, and executing well, he usually give you more say. Plus when the parents see what you are doing , they are going to lobby for you to get more input etc.
Best of luck
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Post by davecisar on Jun 27, 2009 8:06:49 GMT -6
Well, I finally got a whistle and the chance to run some drills today. I guess I'm slowly earning some respect in the HC's eyes after yesterday's meeting. Or maybe it was just beause we only had 4 coaches once again to run a 2 level program. Either way, all I wanted was an opportunity to coach and I finally got it. I'm considering this smoothed over now and I'm committing to this team for the next six weeks. I think I found out the reason we're not installing anything yet: 1/4 of the kids we drafted are busy with baseball until next week. I don't agree with letting 1/3 of our preseason slip by without installing the basic systems just so we can wait on some kids, but I can at least understand where he's coming from on this. That's all I need. I also found out that he's not planning to put a single pass play in all season. I'm going to lobby to put a bootleg or something in to run a couple of times a game, because I don't know how sound an offense is with no pass potential whatsoever. Plus the kids really want to throw it around some. I figure the least we can do is throw 'em a bone once or twice a game, especially since our best athletes are at QB. I also had my first run ins with parents today. One chewed me out when I made his kid run a sprint and then apologize for headbutting a teammate ("To be fair, you need to make 'em both run! Next time I want to see you making both kids run and not singling out my son!"). Then the teammate, who obviously does not want to be there, cries at least 4 times a day, and refuses to ever do ANYTHING, called his dad over as he cried. When I told him I was afraid his son doesn't want to play and might get hurt if he just tries standing around in a game, the dad layed in to me about how were going to "toughen up" his boy and that was that. Then a third dad griped about how his son (the heaviest kid we have on JV at 95lbs, who is already looking like a stud DL) needs to be a running back, even though he's 10lbs over the weight limit and not one of our fastest kids. Now those are the problems I was hoping for So thanks for the advice, guys. Win or lose this season, I think this might just turn out to be worthwhile afterall... This kind of things havent happened to me the last 11 seasons because I have a mandatory parents meeting before the first practice. We talk about what they are allowed to talk to me about and not/ I dont have discussions on position, discipline, etc A good HC with the amt of experience you say would have had that meeting or handout. Again, mt guess is this HC would be in the bottom 10% of your league.
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Post by davecisar on Jun 26, 2009 4:26:34 GMT -6
Coach,
Im always a listener when DP talks, I rarely disagree with him, but Im going to take a different approach.
Ive been doing this far longer than your HC and Im positive my W/L record and retention numbers would dwarf even his best season. Ive run orgs with 90 coaches etc etc Im not telling you stuff based on theory etc
We ALWAYS give our assistants real coaching work, even the ones that havent EVEN PLAYED FOOTBALL BEFORE> Especially when you only have 4 coaches. This guys is very insecure, and people are insecure when they arent competent.
Im always cognicent of coaching up our players and coaches, so our teams get better. Better asst coaches = better team. WE ALWAYS talk about our offensive and defensive schemes during the water breaks during the first week, even the first day, first water break, we put 4 kids into backfield positions and go over the numbering of the backs. Second water break same with the line holes etc.
In the last 11 seasons I have yet to have a practice where my assistant coaches did not have a copy of the practice plan. I value their time and efforts and Im not going to be coaching all 25 kids at the same time, so it's a must.
If you leave now, you dont put it on your resume, not smart guys, dont make for good references. Search out for another team to hook up with, you won't learn much from this guy, you will if you pony up to the coach that consistenly dominates in the league. There is always one of those in every league, you just have to find him. Talk to the local HS coach and tell him what you are trying to do, he will point you in the right direction. Because all you will learn from this guy is what not to do and all of the to dos, which will be few and far between will be learned through trial and error on your part. And with the short leash he has you on, that wont be much.
I always like coaching with young enthusiastic guys, we would put you on right away with us, doing real coaching, but under a reasonable watchful eye.
HEck during games EVERY ONE of my assistants is responsible for watching a set number of keys, we all have wrist coaches and all know the offensive and defensive play before it starts. Each assistant also does his own subbing, within pre set parameters set by the HC before each game. We let ALL our coaches coach and coach them up as well.
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Post by davecisar on Jun 25, 2009 12:06:50 GMT -6
Im only a youth football coach, but I have been threatened several times. In the hood, kid shows up late for practice, 20-25 minutes, comes walking down the hill. I ask him to "hustle" it up. HE continues to walk, gives me smirk as hes getting his gear on, very slowly, when asked to run a lap, he does so walking/running slow.I realize kids can have legit reasons for being late, but when you walk slowly for 200 yds as you approach the field late with an attitiude, that doesnt cut it.
This was one of my 16 teams I was HC of another team, this team was really strugglingm I was trying to right the ship. I took the kid off to the side, sent the rest of the kids off to do drills away. Then I let the player know I had no problem with him being late if he had an emergency, but once he neared the field he needed to be jogging and Im not tolerating any smirks or insubordination etc, then I helped him take his gear off and sent him on his way.
His dad showed up about 20 minutes later, screeching his car to a halt right in front of a grocery store someone had been murdered in front of several weeks before, fortunately a 10 foot fence topped with bwire seperated this street from our field. He said I had it in for his son, even though by my recollection it was first time I had met him and didnt know him by name. Said he would "be back" for me later that day.
At end of practice I made sure I was with the group, no lagging behind. I kid you not, just as I topped the hill right accross the street from the housing projects about 6 blocks away, I ran out of gas. ( this was in North Omaha, not in the projects of South Omaha where Im from) I was however able to coast down to the street to a gas station. ;D
Ive kicked parents out of games when they were coming onto the field after a warning, Ive held kids out of games until their parents leave the field ( never my own personal teams, my parents know better, always my orgs teams). Had many characters question who I was, what right blah blah blah etc
I always let them know playing for us is a privledge and the contract their son and they signed as a condition of playing for us gave us the right to hold them to that contract and to bar one or both from participating. I always have the phone numbers of competing orgs in our league and cash in hand to give refunds at ANY TIME. Scarcity is a great weapon.
My own parents know they have only a handful of things they can talk to me about and none will be discussed in haste, loudly or on the practice or game field. If it does, I'm getting the equipment back and issuing a refund. Once the parents see Im serious and holding them accountable, word spreads, there are rarely problems, People talk. I dont care who the player is or how many kids we have or what part of the game we are in etc.It goes without saying we pray a lot for safety as well and we moved about 4 years ago to coach a different demographic.
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Post by davecisar on Jun 25, 2009 10:25:29 GMT -6
Coaches, I need someone to work the door at my Cincinnatti clinic on July 11th from 9-3. You get free admin, lunch and full set of DVDs. It will be full house, only 8 seats left etc please PM if you want to come. If you say yes, I really need you there, last guy backed out, but at least he let me know
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Post by davecisar on Jun 25, 2009 7:19:06 GMT -6
It worked very well for us with the e-mail notifications to parents coaches, comments and new play analysis feature is coming soon etc. for $89 it was a good fit for us. Slow motion and other features made it better than the free stuff, plus when I called them up, I got to speak to a live human or got a call back right away. Heck I even got to meet one of their reps in Atlanta when I was there, he offered to come meet me and speak at our clinic there. That means something to me a non techi.
As a youth coach, I dont spend the time of breaking everything down and segmenting it etc
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Post by davecisar on Jun 25, 2009 5:55:21 GMT -6
Watched a great CWS again this year from Omaha. Both LSU and t.u. have a lot to be proud of. Saw Les Miles was in the stands cheering on the baseball team and 2 of his football kids were playing. How much of that happens at the HS level, the football coach going to the other teams games? I had the pleasure of working a clinic with coach Miles last year, very nice person and passionate about the game, even youth football tinyurl.com/mnl5bk
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Post by davecisar on Jun 25, 2009 4:54:59 GMT -6
We use watchgamefilm: We upload it to them- simple An email from them to all my coaches comes out Each of my 5 coaches, watches his piece of the film and adds text comments- Bobby on 16 power your head needs to be on inside of DE, Billy and Joey- your doubleteam has to take the DT to the second level, Mike- great seal block Once all the comments are done an e-mail goes out to all the kids, parents, grandparents- time to watch the game- Great tool , get's you another practice almost and only $89 for the whole team - they do a discount thing/coupon use the name "cisar" Ive never endorsed a product until this one Huge time saver for us and I HATE doing team film sessions in youth football- waste of time
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Post by davecisar on Jun 25, 2009 4:43:08 GMT -6
Coach,
I completely understand why you are doing what you are doing, makes sense. Never heard of full tackle "summer league".
Per coach Doug, if you approach him in the way our friend suggested, no feathers should be ruffled. If Im you, I ask him to let you do the "conditioning" for one night, 2 practices from now.
You come up with some real fun stuff that leaves everyone winded and no one standing around, stuff like Deer Hunter, Dummy Relay races, Towel Game etc They end up seeing a different way of doing things, kids have a great time, parents love you, then the honcho gives you more say etc
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Post by davecisar on Jun 24, 2009 6:44:55 GMT -6
DP,
Unfortunately yes.
I havent watched more than a quarter of an NFL game for more than a decade, it really has no application to what Im doing and it bores me quite frankly.
We play many of those NFL wannabe offenses at the youth level and they are usually just awful. In 2007 we played a team that threw 31 times at age 8-10, they did complete 2 of those passes, both of them to us.
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Post by davecisar on Jun 24, 2009 4:40:36 GMT -6
Coach, Coach Doug as usual had the right answer and the spot on approach. Ive seen teams like yours many times, if they are wasting practice time (2o minutes for cals is a HUGE waste) and have no written practice plans, they are usually cellar dwellars. These teams also usually have high turnover as well an turn a lot of kids off of football. I appreciate your apprehension, BUT if you do nothing, my guess is you have a pretty rough season. Where are you that they have to start in June in order to be ready by the end of August? I guess if they waste 2/3 of the practice time, they would have to practice 3x as much as the rest of us
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Post by davecisar on Jun 23, 2009 4:55:10 GMT -6
Make the drills fun AND compeititive while at the same time teaching great fundamentals. You can do all 3 if you get creative. Zero standing around, very qucik pace and be enthusiastic/encouraging. In many ways it is a much different game with much different goals than HS football. You are going to play everyone. Think of when you are doing any activity: How does this help me accomplish my mission of helping develop a love and appreciation of the game of football in the kids so they continue to play and gain the life lessons the game teaches?
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Post by davecisar on Jun 22, 2009 16:09:56 GMT -6
One of my coaches did it. He was a walk on at Nebraska and got a recommendation from the coaching staff there.
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Post by davecisar on Jun 22, 2009 6:00:23 GMT -6
That's why playbooks aren't worth much. What's important is what you need for that playbook to be successful, practice priorities, base techniques, progressions, blocking rules/progressions/drills, teaching methodology, practice plans, critical success factors defined, repping, fine tuning, adjustments etc etc all of which should fit the playbook
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Post by davecisar on Jun 22, 2009 5:33:07 GMT -6
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Post by davecisar on Jun 22, 2009 5:18:04 GMT -6
Bo Pelini went from QB coach at Cardinal Mooney to scout in the NFL (49ers), where when he impressed and moved up to assistant coach in that first season. His initial duties included a lot of video work and player scouting before being moved up to assist the defensive backs.
After he graduated at Ohio State, he was a grad assistant to Hayden Fry at Iowa.
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Post by davecisar on Jun 18, 2009 12:21:43 GMT -6
QB is a nice blocker for a kid that passes so well (not a DW offense QB)
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Post by davecisar on Jun 18, 2009 9:57:33 GMT -6
No prob, good stuff, no agenda etc
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