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Post by realdawg on Jul 15, 2023 3:02:43 GMT -6
1. NC, between Charlotte and Asheville 2. Around 650 3. Depends on who all shows up. LOL. Between 50 and 60 4. Around 20 K 5. $6,300 6. Couple of thousand probably. 7. 3-4 years, I'm starting my 4th season, and we bought new ones after my 1st. 8. We give them a compression shirt, and shorts to practice in that belong to the program. We give them a t shirt and shorts to have. The can also earn extra T shirts for certain things, like off season points, 1000 LB club etc.. 9. I usually get our coaches a pair of shoes, shorts, T Shirt, polo, hat, and a hoody or pullover. 10. 10 including me 11. We have a pretty good staff, of the 10 non are terrible. I'd say 5 are really good. 12. 7 on campus full time, 1 at an elementary school, 1 has a full time job, and subs at the school. 13. Alot of our guys get together in smaller groups, we have a coaches family cookout every year. Other than that it is usually in smaller groups.
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Post by realdawg on Jul 10, 2023 5:58:03 GMT -6
I try to. I assign coaches to monitor the locker room pre and post practice. However, I admit there are many days when the kids beat us off the practice field. If I know that something is going on with our kids, I will sometimes send a coach down there early to beat them there. I myself try to stand in the locker room as much as possible until the crowd gets thinned out. Sometimes, other duties call and I try to make sure there is a coach in there when that happens.
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Post by realdawg on Jun 18, 2023 6:11:54 GMT -6
I dont see alot of DL getting there hands on their OL, squeezing downblocks, etc.... But it really depends on the program. Some really good programs are really well coached. Bad teams have little coaching. I think to the younger generation of coaches starting to come out, that scheme overrides technique/fundamentals. That could just be bc I am becoming a grumpy old man.
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Post by realdawg on Jun 13, 2023 18:55:04 GMT -6
We dont watch any practice film during the summer. Or any film for that matter.
Warmup and lift takes about an hour. Little rest break Running. Little rest break Practice 1 side of the ball for an hour.
I agree though, playing a baseball game (although meaningless to me) sounds much more fun than that. I dont care if they play, heck I WANT them to. I just want them to get up and come to workouts at least a couple of the days we offer them
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Post by realdawg on Jun 13, 2023 16:47:33 GMT -6
We are in the 12 hour a week range as I mentioned earlier in this thread. I agree 100 percent with the guy who said dont do anything on Fridays in the summer. Everyone around here is on roughly the same kind of summer schedule. If you are not, your best players are probably going to leave and go to a school that is doing it and does "care" about winning and getting better. If you do it, you are going to lose some kids who are on the fence about playing and dont want to put that kind of time in. Mind you-at least in NC these workouts are not mandatory. So then you have to ask yourself, do you want to lose your better players, or keep the ones on the fence? ? This! You're going to have some kids who could probably help you decide not to play because of the workouts but you also probably have some pretty darn good players who would leave if you didn't have the workouts. Basketball and baseball off-season schedules are even worse. They jump into tournaments as soon as the season is over. I think this also hurts football participation because kids would rather play than practice and you can't play football year round. I love our baseball coach. He’s one of our football coaches too. But a week after we lost in 3rd round of baseball playoffs he started summer league practice. And right now they are playing 3 summer league games a week throughout the month of June. We got a couple guys that aren’t coming to football workouts in the AM bc they don’t want to be tired before their summer league games that night. To me, that’s pretty crazy too.
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Post by realdawg on Jun 12, 2023 15:17:22 GMT -6
Isn't there a difference between doing some "Skill Development" in June-July according to whatever your state's regulations are, and having full-blown practices (pads or not)? I would say that there is. To me, skill development is individual drills you need to play a position. Practice is individual, group, and team in larger settings. Our "practice" time in the summer is an hour. We lift, we run, and we practice 1 side of the ball for an hour each day, some days we may split it up 30 minutes each side. These practices are pretty laid back, we focus on alot of individual work and teaching time. And we try to make sure that everyone is getting some reps.
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Post by realdawg on Jun 12, 2023 15:14:48 GMT -6
I think most of us here are making the connection between dwindling participation numbers and overloading summer schedules. I doubt many here are in favor of these heavy summer schedules, but are recognizing they take place. And I want to be clear- I get it that in some locations, this is the expectation. Some communities in some regions of the country don’t see this as anything than the norm. I just have trouble rationalizing the concept of having 4/5 weeks of practice, then restarting and having 4 weeks of official practice before having a game. In NC you have a game at the end of the 3rd week of practice. You can scrimmage another team during the second week of practice. Most teams do 2 scrimmages, on Wednesday and Friday. So you essentially have 8 practices before scrimmaging another team, and 12 or so before your first real game. The first 2 of these practices must be in helmets only. The next 3 are in shells but no contact. The 6th practice you can hit.
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Post by realdawg on Jun 12, 2023 3:25:53 GMT -6
We are in the 12 hour a week range as I mentioned earlier in this thread. I agree 100 percent with the guy who said dont do anything on Fridays in the summer. Everyone around here is on roughly the same kind of summer schedule. If you are not, your best players are probably going to leave and go to a school that is doing it and does "care" about winning and getting better. If you do it, you are going to lose some kids who are on the fence about playing and dont want to put that kind of time in. Mind you-at least in NC these workouts are not mandatory. So then you have to ask yourself, do you want to lose your better players, or keep the ones on the fence? ?
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Post by realdawg on Jun 8, 2023 20:00:13 GMT -6
I don’t know about banning read option. But sounds like power read or jet read could become illegal. But, not too many NFL teams run that play that I have seen.
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Post by realdawg on Jun 8, 2023 18:35:33 GMT -6
We go 9-12 Monday thru Thursday. Lift, run, practice 1 side of the ball. Usually have a 7 on 7 with someone on Thursday (not a tournament. Just a get together). I have a couple coaches that come about every day and they are welcome to. But I only ask them to be there when the side of the ball they coach is on the field. Go on vacation if you are planning on it.
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Post by realdawg on Jun 4, 2023 18:27:34 GMT -6
Definitely need to loosen up the soil, plant seed, and water. We largely have the same problem on our practice field due to a lack of water. If you cant sufficiently water what you plant there, it wont do much good.
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Post by realdawg on May 26, 2023 13:34:17 GMT -6
I agree with almost everything you say CS. I think having a meeting Saturday at all is crazy, much less at 6 am. I am an early riser and I am not up that early after a late Friday night. I do choose to meet for a few hours Sunday.
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Post by realdawg on May 26, 2023 9:33:40 GMT -6
You can do the work and do it a different way. It seems to me the argument is can you do all the work at home with little to no face to face meeting and using technology to communicate or do you meet in person for a substantial amount of time. Either way. You are doing the work. The argument is which way is better. The answer is neither. Whatever works for you and your staff. You cannot convince me that if you do not study or break down film you are giving your team the best chance to win unless they are SIGNIFICANTLY better than the other team. Then it doesn’t matter. I don’t get the feeling that the guys making the no meeting argument don’t do the work. They just do it a different way.
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Post by realdawg on May 26, 2023 8:15:15 GMT -6
I would say I am more like hlb2. We meet on Sundays, 3-4 hours. Could we zoom? Yea probably, but I hate it. I dont care if I never do another zoom call again. Also, I find that when I work from home, I am LESS efficient because there are distractions, ball game on TV, wife wanting me to do something, etc... maybe thats just me. I will firmly admit that I may be the problem. However, I just couldnt do it. I think there is something to be said to meeting in person and drawing it up on the board and looking at it. I am not saying that anyone elses way is wrong. If it works for you great. I just cant do it any other way.
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Post by realdawg on May 17, 2023 14:56:39 GMT -6
We have a coaches office for during the school day near the gym. Its actually an old storage room. 4 desks shared by the 4 PE teachers. Stay cluttered. Mini fridge. And a coaches office in our locker room. One for the HC that I never use bc its so far away from the school, and 1 for staff meetings, nice office table and hand me down chairs. Full size fridge, pretty nice lockers for coaches in the back.
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Post by realdawg on May 17, 2023 3:52:38 GMT -6
In general-linemen are not playing the game as much as they used to be in when I started coaching 22 years ago. Why? I believe it is because the game has became so much about speed and so year round. They are linemen for a reason-they are big. We are doing way more year round speed work and practice now than we did 22 years ago. Just the way the game is going at the high school level around here. Big boys dont want to do all that running and practicing-especially in the summer heat! So unless they think they are going to, or have a chance to start, these kids are not playing anymore.
Add to that around here anyway, linemen tend to be from working class families, they quit to get a job so they can pay for a car/truck, and insurance/gas.
I dont have an answer for these problems. Just stating that may be why you are losing linemen. I would agree that losing 17 linemen since last season is an alarming factor. Heck-we dont even have 17 linemen in our program.
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Post by realdawg on May 16, 2023 8:04:08 GMT -6
One of the great things about our county is we have a federal grant where all students are on free breakfast and lunch. They can get something to eat before school starts, there is a second chance breakfast in the hallways after 1st period (which is out football class), and lunch is free. This same program feeds our players a light breakfast (usually a pop tart, cereal, or a biscuit) and a to go lunch.
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Post by realdawg on May 11, 2023 5:16:02 GMT -6
I watch college football, though not as much as I used to. Pro football some once our season ends. We are meeting on Sundays during most NFL games until our season ends. Golf some-it helps me take a nap on the weekends.
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Post by realdawg on May 9, 2023 8:19:13 GMT -6
I am the HC and DC. I generally complete stats for O and D after the game Friday while uniforms are washing. I don’t sleep much Friday night. I get up early Saturday and break down our film from Friday and our opponents film for the next week. This generally takes me until early afternoon and I try to spend time with my family Saturday afternoon. I am exchanging texts with our staff as I see fit. But generally try to lay off of that if possible. Our coaches have Saturday off. But I do expect them to have graded their position when they come to our meetings Sunday. Many of them watch some opposition film on their own. But that’s up to them. Sunday I go to church with my fam and then go to school. Our O staff meets from 1 until 4 or so. D staff comes in at 5 and meets until 8 or 9. I try to get there early and get th practice field mowed so I don’t have to do that Monday. After meetings finish up I go home and do the next day’s practice schedule and script and generally get in the bed about 11. I’m very much a creature of habit and very routine oriented. So this doesn’t vary much. And when something like a family get together changes my routine it tears my nerves up
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Post by realdawg on Apr 28, 2023 16:04:19 GMT -6
21. 27. 53’4
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Post by realdawg on Apr 25, 2023 17:40:50 GMT -6
Looking at last years schedule. Other than the game they won over Cal they gave up more than 40 every game but 1. And gave up 38 in it. I don’t know if Deion can portal in enough help to turn that around in a year.
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Post by realdawg on Apr 25, 2023 17:38:21 GMT -6
I watched some of their spring game on ESPN. I think they will score a lot of points. But won’t be very good on D. The starting D really struggled to stop the second O. Saw the DL totally get driven off the ball a couple of times. That may have been the 2nd DL I can’t remember. But I think they will lose several high scoring games.
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Post by realdawg on Apr 25, 2023 3:31:12 GMT -6
Exactly part of the problem. Not just in football, but also when it comes to the classroom.
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Post by realdawg on Apr 16, 2023 18:53:23 GMT -6
Punch, lock, escape block defeat drill.
Leverage tackle drill.
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Post by realdawg on Apr 11, 2023 19:14:36 GMT -6
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Post by realdawg on Apr 9, 2023 13:05:27 GMT -6
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Post by realdawg on Apr 3, 2023 17:21:12 GMT -6
It didn’t quiet happen. But the NCHSAA had to make several concessions and give up some of its enforcement powers to prevent it from happening.
As a resident and employee of the State of NC. I can’t believe this is what we are worried about. Teacher pay is among with worst in the nation. Major industries are closing and moving out of the state. And we are worried about participation trophies. 🙄
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Post by realdawg on Mar 24, 2023 5:23:39 GMT -6
I am from NC, so I have 0 experience with contract negotiations bc teachers unions dont exist here. The state government sets the pay scale in the budget and it is what they say it is. Your local BOE can choose to offer a local supplement and some do and some dont in varying amounts.
However, I would say it centers around performance based pay vs guaranteed pay for experienced teachers. The union wants to protect and guarantee the pay of veteran teachers while the schools want to pay them for performance.
I may be way off base here, but I know, that while it has never came close to passing, there have been several conversations in our state legislature about restructuring teacher pay that way.
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Post by realdawg on Mar 5, 2023 14:21:28 GMT -6
I am a HC in NC. I teach PE. Alot (not all) head coaches around here are PE teachers, and most of those teach wt. lifting. My schedule looks like this Fall 1. Fresh. Health and PE (freshmen football players only) 2. Prep Period 3. Prep Period 4. Football Class Spring 1. Football Class 2. PE 2 3. Prep Period 4. Fresh Health and PE Coach, when did you become a HFC in NC? Congrats! Last I remember you were a DC down in SC Coach I’ve been the HC here for 3 seasons now. I was a DC before that. But I’ve never worked in SC even though I’m 5 miles or so from the state line. You may have me mixed up with someone else.
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Post by realdawg on Mar 5, 2023 14:19:26 GMT -6
Delta-to be honest whatever I want it to be. I’m sure there is something on paper somewhere. But I’ve never seen it or been shown it. In season we generally lift, film, chalk talk. Off season we generally just lift/run. Got it. It is simply extra time built into your school day to work on football stuff. Are all the football players in that class? Are there any non-football players in that class? I don't think there are any public school districts in Illinois that have something like that. I'm sure it's a huge advantage! It’s mainly for wt lifting but yea we can do some football stuff. Pretty much all our guys are in there. In the spring you might miss 1 or 2 who are in baseball class instead. There aren’t many if any non football players in it. Only guys who have quit or maybe said they were gonna play but didn’t. We are usually able to get those guys shipped out. It’s relatively normal around here. Some schools have it over 2 classes. For example at the school I was DC at before football was 1st and 2nd period both semesters. And our players were spread out over those 2 classes.
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