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Post by jg08mhs on Sept 21, 2019 13:56:40 GMT -6
No visor. But the look on his face said he sure was having fun reliving his glory days. If you zoom the picture way into the stands and can read lips, you can see a fan calling the guy a tool bag.
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Post by jg08mhs on Sept 21, 2019 5:58:02 GMT -6
Was looking on the local news website this morning at scores from last night, and with each game they often have several photos. I saw one photo with a team’s jack wagon of a coach leading his team through the banner before the game.
Da fuq?! Is this common in any area? It certainly isn’t around here. It may speak volumes that this team is a perennial bottom feeder that almost always gets a mercy clock after halftime.
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Post by jg08mhs on Mar 7, 2019 5:59:36 GMT -6
But why is it better? When back-to-school sales occur in August, I can get 120 notebooks x 70 pages / notebook = 8400 pages for the roughly $30 a comparable-sized, 30-page Rocketbook costs. I don’t want to have to erase 30 pages with a wet cloth, 280 times over, in order to get the same use. The main convenience I see is checking the icon at the bottom of the Rocketbook page to automatically tell it what electronic file to send it to when scanned, which would save maybe three clicks on my phone using the Adobe Scan app. In my opinion, that is not worth it.
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Post by jg08mhs on Nov 7, 2018 19:33:41 GMT -6
sometimes during a lull in practice when I need an energy boost I like to have a good fresh beet Whenever I am about to do something, I ask myself, “Would an idiot do that?” If the answer is yes, I do not do that thing.
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Post by jg08mhs on Sept 14, 2018 5:30:51 GMT -6
When I was in school we called them roach blocks (think about a roach on its back that can’t flip over). Think anybody has a version of that to celebrate?
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Post by jg08mhs on Sept 12, 2018 17:51:00 GMT -6
Anybody heard from Coacharnold in a while? I’m still here. I just changed my name. I’m taking the year off from coaching with a newborn baby who was born 6 weeks ago. It’s killing me to be away from the game, lol. Congrats on the baby! Football will still be around next year. Your kid will only be a baby once.
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Post by jg08mhs on Sept 11, 2018 19:54:46 GMT -6
Anybody heard from Coacharnold in a while?
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Post by jg08mhs on Jul 29, 2018 16:43:35 GMT -6
My school board has eliminated girl managers for boy sport team's, and boy's cannot be manager for girl teams. A "knee jerk" reaction because an off-campus JV basketball coach (male) was getting to "friendly" with a girl manager. I think he made suggestive comments, and inappropriate contact, I don't think there was ever sex. They did fire the guy (obviously) mid season. My problem, I have two girls that are starting their third year as a manger, they are reliable, I don't ask a whole lot of them just make sure the water jugs are filled before practice, cleaned after, hang and fold the uniforms Monday, and help set up the sidelines Friday night. I don't think I can find two reliable male students to do what the girls do. I would think they are setting themselves up for a Title IX, or a discrimination lawsuit. I told my AD, if the girls wanted to play football, I could not deny them, how can the district deny them being managers, he agreed but said that is the board decision. Just curious, if anybody has any insight or thoughts to my dilemma... You have reported your concerns to your superior, and it is now up to him to take it or not take it any further. I would personally document what was said in the conversation with the AD. Beyond that, if it were me, I would not feel comfortable pushing the issue further for fear of (1) going over the AD’s head and (2) stirring the pot with the school board.
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Post by jg08mhs on Mar 2, 2018 5:48:46 GMT -6
That still leaves at least a third of all classrooms. Right. I think everyone here would agree that if you have a reasonable chance to get you and your students out, you should take it.
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Post by jg08mhs on Mar 1, 2018 6:06:07 GMT -6
Imma throw this one out there - nobody has a window in their classroom? Some are interior rooms, so no in that case. I don’t see daylight all day in mine. Others may be elevated a few stories. Can’t run away if your legs are broken.
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Post by jg08mhs on Feb 23, 2018 17:39:32 GMT -6
Having cans of hornet/wasp spray in your room and spraying at the face of the intruder is decent idea if you do not have better alternatives. Maybe keep a bucket of baseballs in your room. Give each kid a few. Someone asked a sherif deputy about the hornet spray idea during a drill a few years ago. He said that the spray from a fire extinguisher to the face would be just as disorienting, would require less accuracy, and the fire exteinguisher could double as a blunt object for self defense.
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Post by jg08mhs on Feb 19, 2018 11:53:05 GMT -6
No, it's not. 438 people shot in schools in the USA over a few years, vs. 108,000 shot in general in 2013 alone in the USA. Yet we're not rehearsing all our lives what to do if someone's shooting at us anywhere we are. You think you'll make yourself safer by figuring out ways to escape the school? I'll just wait until a better time to shoot you. We drill fire safety because it works. Some things regarding fire run against some people's intuitions, so for instance the stories of people on fire running, fanning the flames, instead of rolling on the floor or removing clothing. People may not know to crawl under smokey air to escape. And so on. Because most fires are accidents, and even in a fire set deliberately the arsonist isn't usually trying to kill someone, and won't stick around to hinder your escape. Gun safety's a good idea too -- for the person holding the gun to know -- for the same reason: to prevent accidental injury. But it's damn silly to try to practice safety vs. someone who's deliberately shooting at you! If there's someone indiscriminately trying to shoot anyone among a bunch of people, their best tactic is to spread out; the next best tactic is to throw your neighbor out from under cover so that person draws fire instead of you! You want to practice given a reality like that? It seems the goal of your argument is to convince us that it is silly for schools to put any consideration into preventing an active shooter in the building or how to minimize casualties should an active shooting situation break out. There is no way you are going to be able to convince me of this.
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Post by jg08mhs on Feb 18, 2018 22:35:19 GMT -6
Not to threadjack, but am I the only one that thinks it's batsh*t that this conversation has to be had? I think it's insane it's being had! I don't agree at all that it has to be had. Of all the lousy things that could happen to you, where in likelihood does being deliberately shot rank? Even if people were being shot all the time, what makes you think you'd be more likely to be shot inside a school than outside one? If someone wants to get you, they'll get you. If someone really wanted to run up the body count specifically in a school (as if schools were cursed somehow), they'd poison the lunch -- and get away with it, because they could be miles away by the time you dropped dead. And of all the survival skills you might want to teach children, this is one they already know about. What child doesn't play war or cops & robbers or cowboys & Indians? They all know how to duck! You know the last year someone died in a school fire in the US? 1958. You know how many people have been shot in a US school since Sandy Hook alone? According to the following srticle, 438 people! This IS a problem worth addressing. www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/02/15/us/school-shootings-sandy-hook-parkland.html
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Post by jg08mhs on Feb 18, 2018 15:05:46 GMT -6
Not to threadjack, but am I the only one that thinks it's batsh*t that this conversation has to be had? Absolutely not! It royally sucks. I would rather have these conversations and go through these scenarios, praying to God that I never have to put them into practice, than to be blindsided one day and freeze like a deer in the headlights.
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Post by jg08mhs on Feb 18, 2018 14:55:16 GMT -6
Thinking more about it, the scenarios of the cafeteria during lunch and the gym during an assembly make me the most nervous. Way too many easy lines of fire to too many people there with mass bottlenecks that would happen with crowd flow. I will definitely be talking about this to our principal in charge of safety when I see him this week during my lunch supervision shift. Does anybody have ideas for these scenarios?
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Post by jg08mhs on Feb 17, 2018 14:36:54 GMT -6
Preface: This post is not intended to go into gun control, mental health, societal values, or any of that other stuff that is largely outside of our control.
With that said, many of us are also teachers. I would like to get a discussion going on what are some everyday things people do to be proactive in minimizing vulnerabilities in a school shooting situation. We are blessed to have an assistant principal in the National Guard who has even been deployed. He is always thinking and taking action to improve student and staff safety. Through conversations with him, I have come to realize that we always need to be on the lookout, because the reality is, any day one of our schools could end up on the news.
I will start. I always keep my classroom door locked, and every room in the building has a Nightlock security device for emergency lockdown situations. Each room has a cardboard window cover that goes on easily with Velcro strips for lockdown situations. About half of my student desks are not easily visible through the window limiting a clear line of sight. I keep a fire extinguisher in my room that can be used in multiple ways in a physical altercation. I also have a baseball bat hanging on my wall for display that could be used in self-defense.
In the halls, I am a strict pain in the @$$ about the no hat/head-coverings policy, because they could be used to hide someone’s face from our security cameras. I usually try to be in the halls between classes and pay special attention to when I see someone reach into their backpack, because you never know.
What are some everyday things others do to be proactive? Again, no gun-control talk. No ‘this generation has no values’. But legit things that any of us could do as part of our daily routine to maximize safety? The more response and ideas shared here, the more tools each of us could potentially have at our disposal should the worst-case-scenario ever happen.
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Post by jg08mhs on Feb 7, 2018 18:40:11 GMT -6
I think it will be interesting to see if any teams start to immitate the Eagles with their internal faith groups.
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Post by jg08mhs on Jan 31, 2018 19:25:27 GMT -6
How many of you guys are involved with PBIS? I’m part of our schools implementation team and I’m constantly thinking back to how this also applies to coaching. For those who are new to it or unaware, the basic gist is trying to create a system to positively (and socially) reward students for the kinds of behaviors we want. It’s the new hotness of culture building but for your school. It’s really got my wheels turning for how I could approach building a programs culture in positive way, curious if anyone else has gone through this process and made the same connections. We did this at a school I was at several years ago. It was implemented by a Teach for America guy and It ended up getting scrapped because no Teacher’s ever gave “merits” to the good kids. The teachers didn’t notice them doing those things because they already did and the goobers were getting all the awards. You could say that is a good thing but it kind of spits in the face of the kids who always do good things when it doesn’t get noticed Ditto. The squeaky wheel gets the grease.
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Post by jg08mhs on Oct 19, 2017 4:40:00 GMT -6
I have bought offensive systems so I know how to defend it as a DC. That's funny; I had you pegged as a kool-aid drinking visor wearing kind of dude lol
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Post by jg08mhs on Sept 30, 2017 18:45:32 GMT -6
Ive always thought it funky for a QB to have an odd teen number, even though I rocked 15. My brother used to refuse to play NCAA or Madden with an odd numbered quarterback. So much so that he would go and switch Tony Romo to #10 I know a guy who wore twenty something as a qb in high school. I've always thought it weird that that particular position usually limits itself to just 1-19.
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Post by jg08mhs on Sept 29, 2017 18:19:14 GMT -6
69 is usually a popular number. Though ironically it's usually taken by a Chris Farley look-alike.
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Post by jg08mhs on Sept 19, 2017 5:00:00 GMT -6
I could go into why I believe it, but I'll say that I think having a great pen is important, and gives a great impression when signing documents in person. It shows that you care, and it shows status. I'm about my reputation more than anything else, and something as stupid as using a crappy pen can subconsciously make people think less if you. No joke. Image is important in the long run. I lose pens all the time. Give me the ten-pack of Bics for a dollar any day. To me my favorite type is the one that I remember to take out of my pocket before washing so it doesn't get ink on all my clothes. Besides, the last three times I signed official documents (buying and selling a house), they gave me some fancy pen to do it with. And I am pretty sure the realtors and banks were already happy with me because me signing those documents meant they were getting a lot of my money.
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Post by jg08mhs on Sept 15, 2017 5:20:01 GMT -6
Edited (had veered off on a tangent). If coaching needs to take a back seat, do it. When you get back on your feet, then try to get back into coaching.
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Post by jg08mhs on Sept 15, 2017 4:46:24 GMT -6
there's more money in the illegal side of the border war...but probably more stability on the patrol aspect...good call, unless you're a crooked border patrol agent (light bulb) seriously man I don't mean to make light of your deal, good news is you aren't likely to starve to death, can you move back in with mom and dad? no shame in saying no because I definitely couldn't have in the same situation. My financial advice is typically horrible, but I wouldn't pay anything on student loans or credit cards until I got my living situation straightened out. They'll threaten you with all kinds of stuff but there's no such thing as debtors prison....eventually they'll negotiate down what you owe, better for the bank to get something rather than nothing, but that's a problem for a different time. once you get clear of all of this...follow the advice my father gave me (that I didn't listen to).....Marry into money Moving back home is an option, but not sure it's one I'd take. I'd first go homeless. There's a certain shame that comes with it at my age (24 1/2). Thought about not paying my credit card bills and others, but hope it doesn't come down to that. Are you worried about pride or are you worried about digging yourself out of the hole?! If I had the option to cut out rent for a while to get back on my feet, I would jump at it!
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Post by jg08mhs on Jan 25, 2011 21:31:18 GMT -6
I've read this a lot lately, but didn't want to hijack any threads.
From my very first day of summer practice in middle school, the offensive and defensive line is all I have known. The thought in the above subject line has never once popped into my head. I think it has a lot to do with the great pride my line coaches took in linemen. It was almost a cocky, arrogant attitude; "While those panzie skinny kids are over there dickin' around, were gonna have some fun over here in the chutes!"; that sort of thing. We ended every indy line session with a breakdown, yelling "HOGS!" on three. We had a skinny kid bus and a lineman bus. We had spontaneous lineman lunches. Etc. I guess my point is, being a lineman was never a "bad" thing. We were the blue-collar guys on the field, and we were damn proud of it.
Just hoping to start a discussion for some other coaches' thoughts on being a lineman. Fire away!
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Post by jg08mhs on Nov 27, 2010 16:39:57 GMT -6
As I'm watching a year-after-year contender simply route their state-final opponent, I wonder what separates them from everyone else. Every good team works hard in the weight room. Every good team works hard in practice. Every good team emphasizes fundamentals. But there are those few teams that just seem to dominate year after year. Kind of a broad question, but what do you think it is that consistently puts those teams over the top?
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Post by jg08mhs on Nov 26, 2010 9:18:19 GMT -6
I know this is a week or two premature. Like many of you, I love watching the state championship games from around the country in late Nov/early Dec. I thought it might be helpful to start a list of your states championship games that will be televised. I know many will be on the Fox Sports regional networks. We could get a nice little viewing guide going here. I will post ours when things after the semi's this weekend. List... 1. State/Region 2. Day and time televised (maybe replay dates and times also) 3. Teams playing and their level 4. Maybe the off/def schemes of the teams playing if you know those. 5. Network carrying the games, are they available nationally? 6. Particular power-houses to watch or premier players playing, anything to keep an eye on. www.mshsaa.org/Activities/Info/11ManFootball_News_Eleven%20Man%20Football_content.aspx?viewmode=story&storyid=81. Missouri 2. All day today and tomorrow 3. Listed in the link 4. 5. FSN Midwest, and also streaming on MSHSAA.tv
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Post by jg08mhs on Nov 23, 2010 22:58:57 GMT -6
Kirkwood vs. Webster Groves is the big one in St. Louis.
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Post by jg08mhs on Oct 20, 2010 7:10:33 GMT -6
io9.com/5585219/the-invisible-gorilla-returns-to-show-us-how-often-we-miss-the-obviousI thought this was pretty interesting. There are two videos in this link, but if you only watch one, watch the second one. It reminded me of what I tend to do during practice, games, film, etc. It's like whenever I try to watch for just one or two things, I miss everything else that goes on, but if I try to focus on too many things at once, then I miss most of the details that I should be focusing on. For example, when we run counter, I can watch for the proper first steps of the guard and tackle on the double team, or I can watch for the proper pull step from the pulling guard, but if I try to see both, then I cannot focus on either. Is this one of those things that gets better with experience? Or do you just have to get better at picking and choosing what you are going to focus on and what you might miss?
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Post by jg08mhs on Oct 16, 2010 12:14:17 GMT -6
(BTW, they're playing right now on ESPN3)
I noticed that, instead of player names on the backs of their jerseys, they have "West Point" on all of them. I really like it. I think it really symbolizes that they are playing for something greater than themselves. Does anybody else do something similar with their uniforms?
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