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Post by realdawg on Apr 23, 2024 10:43:19 GMT -6
Thats a really good list. I left off footballs. Duh. That is really important!
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Post by realdawg on Apr 23, 2024 10:03:49 GMT -6
First you need a place to practice. An area charter school is trying to start a program next year, and I heard second hand that they informed the coach last week, that as of right now, he doesnt have a place to practice.
Second, you are going to need all the necessary gear. Helmets, shoulder pads, girdles, thigh and knee pads. Practice jersey, practice pants, game uniforms.
Third, you are going to need some field equipment. Dummies, hand shields, step over bags. You probably dont HAVE it, put it would be nice to have a sled.
There are probably way more things that I didnt mention, but you said this was a brainstorm thread, so someone else may have them. Those were just some important stuff to have off the top of my head.
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Post by realdawg on Apr 18, 2024 17:24:43 GMT -6
Pixellot is the camera that we installed during COVID for the games to be livestreamed. It is one solid shot. Not downloaded in clips. Their version of hudl, and hudl sideline is called vidswap. Its owned by pixellot. In the 2 years I had it, I was not very happy. Not very user friendly in my opinion. Very difficult to trade and upload to hudl if you need to (maybe not difficult, but time consuming). The sideline replay was not very good. It did not work an entire game a single time this year. Not one game. We have gotten rid of it.
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Post by realdawg on Apr 8, 2024 9:43:18 GMT -6
Lets discuss this hypothetical..... Is it better to be different at something you only know the basics of? Something that is new to you that you are willing to learn, but are not an "expert" at like the single wing or shotgun double wing.
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Run something you know the ins and outs of really well, but you do not have the players to beat alot of the teams that you have to play because they are simply better than you? Like a generic 10/11 personnel offense.
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Post by realdawg on Apr 7, 2024 17:09:18 GMT -6
Your wife cannot go in a Target and spend less than $50. It’s impossible. Can’t be done. I’d come out better if she took up golfing with me than her going to Target when I was playing golf.
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Post by realdawg on Apr 7, 2024 13:44:06 GMT -6
I would agree that being different is important if you arent better than your opponents. But, yes, you need to be able to coach your "different". Wanna be single wing? Cool, better be able to coach it. That goes for ANYTHING you do. But if you are not as good as the people you play, and you can coach it, being different is an equalizer to a certain extent.
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Post by realdawg on Apr 3, 2024 5:20:58 GMT -6
As someone mentioned most school in the SE did theres in the last couple of weeks. NC State and App State are doing a mega clinic in Raleigh April 20
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Post by realdawg on Mar 16, 2024 4:36:28 GMT -6
We did them, but we couldnt do them back to back days, and one of them could not be longer than an hour, and could not have pads on. We used this hour mostly to install and go through special teams. This coming year, due to when teacher workdays start, we could only do 1 2 a day, and we have more time than normal before the 1st game. So, we arent doing them.
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Post by realdawg on Mar 13, 2024 16:27:16 GMT -6
Wouldn’t know. I don’t follow that much. I do know a 4a power just lost their bball coach of 8 years to a new private school that is opening next year. Bet he wasn’t taking a pay cut
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Post by realdawg on Mar 13, 2024 15:46:45 GMT -6
Happens every year
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Post by realdawg on Mar 13, 2024 8:45:14 GMT -6
Most. Not all. Of private trainers I see on social Media do a bunch of ladder or other quick feet drills which in my opinion transfer very little to the actual game. They are just trying to look good to make more people hire them. Want your kid to get coached? Take him to a quality high school in your area and let the coaches work. He’s probably already at one….
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Post by realdawg on Mar 13, 2024 7:40:28 GMT -6
To give you an example of the difference. I am the HC of a small 2a school in NC, about 10 minutes from SC border. I am on an 11 month contract and receive a supplement of just over 5K. Just over the border in SC, there is a small 2a school similar size to us. That currently has an opening for HC. That HC will make about 30K more than I currently do.
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Post by realdawg on Mar 13, 2024 7:38:21 GMT -6
He gets paid at his salary rate for working 15 extra days. So whatever his salary comes out to per day times 15.
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Post by realdawg on Mar 13, 2024 3:17:36 GMT -6
No doubt that upstate SC pays really well. As Asst. in the upstate probably makes as much or more than I do as a HC in NC. And I dont have one of the worst paying HC jobs in NC.
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Post by realdawg on Mar 12, 2024 12:48:03 GMT -6
Def agree with we don’t put in 4 hours a day after school in off season. Nov-March. Essentially nothing since all our kids lift during school. But come spring. Between spring skill development. And middle school lifts. You looking at about 8 hrs a week for me. During the summer you looking at 20 or so hours a week including workouts and mowing.
Good point about where is the money gonna come from. I do not know of a school system who could fund this type of pay. To me. It sounds like an election year scheme to gain votes from teachers and coaches in the state of Florida.
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Post by realdawg on Mar 12, 2024 11:21:40 GMT -6
I am the HC at a 2a school and also call the defense. Saturday is work on your own day. But on Saturday, if I 1. Grade my position group on D 2. Watch and make notes on the D as a whole 3. Watch and make notes on the O 4. Break down the opposing O (2-3 games) 5. Watch enough of the opposing D to have an idea of what they are doing, and what I think we should be doing on O.
That comes out to about 5-6hours. I will admit that I am not the most efficient at film breakdown. I still do most of it on paper. Many of you can probably do it faster and do just as good of a job. But thats not me or how I do it.
Sunday-at the school around 1230 after church. Mow practice field. O Staff meeting at 2. Usually lasts till between 4 and 5. D staff meeting at 5. Usually lasts till around 8. I am looking at say 7 hours Sunday.
Thats 12-13 hours on those two days easy.
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Post by realdawg on Mar 12, 2024 10:55:39 GMT -6
While I believe that 22K is quiet a supplement. I do think a HC deserves a solid 10K supplement, or to be put on a 12 month contract. Asst. coaches. 5K minimum or 11 month contract. I coach in NC. Which is slightly better than Fl in terms of coaching pay. But still light years behind our neighbors in SC. Which is why we lose 2-3 solid coaches to SC every year, the same way Fl. loses them to GA.
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Post by realdawg on Feb 26, 2024 12:37:00 GMT -6
I love the game, and always have loved the game. I wanted to be in the game as much as possible. The longer I have coached, the more and more it has became about trying to use the game to make better people.
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Post by realdawg on Feb 21, 2024 13:58:49 GMT -6
We have a wt. lifting class every period of the day. One period is for football, one is for baseball, one is for females and one is for anyone else who wants to take it. I dont know about issues for everyone, but you are on a tight time schedule. For us, our wt room, gym, and locker room are not centrally located. So we dress in the gym, warm up in the aux gym, and it takes up about 5 minutes to herd them to and from the wt. room. As far as how many in a class. I would say no more than 4 times the number of racks you have. We currently have over 40 in our football class. And have 8 racks. So we have 5-6 to a rack. Takes some time and creativity to get work done that way.
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Post by realdawg on Feb 12, 2024 8:48:34 GMT -6
I know a guy that coached near Hilton Head and there was a big time booster that put him up in his beach house... until he lost of course. re OBX, c'mon you don't like driving 2 hours to get to work? We're in Raleigh for a reason, it WAS cheaper to live here for higher pay. Bought at the right time during COVID but before the boom. I'm paying 40% of what I did to rent and I have a pool out back and a gym in my basement. My wife and I got priced out of Wake County. We rented in Wake County while teaching in Harnett County. Debated switching jobs to Wake County for a shorter commute, but realized we would never be able to buy a house in Wake County, so we bought in Harnett County. Easily a $100,000 difference in the same house 25 miles south. I could easily drive an hour west to the Asheville area and not be able to afford what we have, or an hour east to the Charlotte area. But in between the two where there isnt a whole lot, you pay about half the price.
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Post by realdawg on Feb 11, 2024 18:23:23 GMT -6
Some areas of NC are VERY affordable compared to the rest of the state and the country in general. Where I live has to be one of the lowest cost of living in the state. However, a lot of poverty, not a lot of jobs, not a lot to do without driving an hour or so.
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Post by realdawg on Feb 9, 2024 11:32:15 GMT -6
We think 40 above is cold. So probably not the place for me. 😂
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Post by realdawg on Feb 9, 2024 11:29:15 GMT -6
Both. An hour each.
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Post by realdawg on Feb 8, 2024 16:10:58 GMT -6
Maybe I am wrong since I've never been there. But, arent the winters pretty brutal in the area ya'll are talking about? Admittedly, I am more of a warm weather guy myself.
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Post by realdawg on Feb 8, 2024 10:58:23 GMT -6
This is 23 for me. 4 as a HC. 6 as a DC I think. Gotta do 30 to retire. But I think I’m gonna be able to trade in 2 years worth of sick leave. So maybe 5 more years. That will put me around 50. Unless something unexpected happens. I plan to keep coaching somewhere. I wanna get up and tee off at 8 AM. Then go into the school around 1 and coach. Not as a HC obviously
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Post by realdawg on Feb 8, 2024 10:14:10 GMT -6
Have never been to Jackson Hole and Wyoming in general, being an east coast guy. But I have often wondered the same thing in "vacation destinations". Where do the teachers live? We love Hilton Head Island, not a cheap place to live at all. Every time I go, I wonder where I would live if I worked there. I believe here in NC on the Outer Banks those districts offer some housing options. The schools on the Outer Banks are generally smaller, the housing options are few, and expensive.
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Post by realdawg on Feb 6, 2024 6:33:59 GMT -6
We do something similar to the post above. Instead of punishing kids for things that you can not make "mandatory" during the off season. I would rather reward them for doing the things they should be doing. Like stated above, we give points for the wt room (improvements, top 5 etc), grades, community service, playing other sports etc... In return, if they earn the number of points required they get to pick their number 1st, get a T shirt with their name and number on it, get to pick their locker first, first choice of equipment, name on the back of their jersey, and 1st in pregame meal lines. Also, our captains can only be picked from those who earn enough points, regardless of class in school.
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Post by realdawg on Feb 1, 2024 10:19:27 GMT -6
The first thing I look for is do they run upfield on defense. It doesnt matter if you spill or box, to me you shouldnt run upfield vs run blocks. If you do, you are probably not well coached.
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Post by realdawg on Jan 29, 2024 8:55:30 GMT -6
Been a HC for 4 years, 2 D-1 players have graduated from our school during that time, may have another one this coming year. One was Group of 5 and after 2 years transferred to FCS school. The other was P5. During that same time, a couple of D2 kids, and a handful of kids with D3 opportunities, honestly though, out of the D3 kids, so far only 1 has actually went and made it through a season.
Previous stop probably had slightly more talent. We were probably having a kid sign to a D2 or higher level every year. Alot of them were FCS or Group of 5, only a handful of what we now consider P5 kids. I was there for 19 seasons as an asst.
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Post by realdawg on Jan 28, 2024 7:10:11 GMT -6
I def believe that the transfer portal is causing kids to play a level lower than they were in 2018. The extra COVID year awarded to all college athletes in 2020 hasnt helped with either. We should be about to cycle through all of those 2020 extra year kids, and that should open up more spots for HS kids, but unless you are P5 you are generally having to sign a level lower than prior to the portal.
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