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Post by realdawg on May 14, 2012 4:11:24 GMT -6
In NC I think about Murphy, Swain County! Albemarle, SW Onslow as the premier small schools
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Post by realdawg on May 10, 2012 17:25:14 GMT -6
Weight room, chutes, 7 on 7 outfits, spirit packs, award t shirts, pre game meals.
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Post by realdawg on Apr 17, 2012 16:57:33 GMT -6
Yep. That's the disadvantage of coaching both. We don't have a varsity and JV staff. We have an offensive and defensive staff. We coach both. Varsity practices o, JV does D. Then we switch. All coaches (except maybe the header) get the joy of a JV game on Thursday.
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Post by realdawg on Apr 6, 2012 19:40:39 GMT -6
LOL. Are we the only ones who have to coach a JV game, clean up, and do laundry on Thursday nights. Then do it again all over on Friday?
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Post by realdawg on Apr 4, 2012 19:45:38 GMT -6
We have two coaches in the wt room every period. One of them-the one who is not the HC-is in charge of painting the field during the school day. He gets help from a couple of other programs, supporters of the program, and some random guys, and they find a few kids they can trust to do the numbers and hashes. We use the cans.
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Post by realdawg on Apr 3, 2012 16:42:05 GMT -6
We do water at stations and kids can get all they want in between reps. However, being in the hot and humid Southeast, we still give the kids a break or two during practice to pop their lids off and cool down for a few minutes.
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Post by realdawg on Mar 5, 2012 17:14:11 GMT -6
Some good. Some bad. A lot average. Then there are a couple schools where I think the HC does about as good as he can but gets no help. One of the worst, has great looking kids. Big, strong looking, some that can run but they are undisiplined, play stand and play high on the lines and run few formations. True pro, spread, and maybe trips is all. Last year on D they were 52 the whole year. When we played them they came out in a 41. After we scored the first two times we touched the ball they made no adjustments. As a matter of fact they set in that 41 the entire game. Never blitzed never changed fronts never changed coverages. Since that coach has been there we have scored more than 40 every year, and I swear I think we could go over there and beat our team with their kids after a year.
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Post by realdawg on Feb 28, 2012 17:41:19 GMT -6
Veerman, I think what I would do is take everyone out and install the game plan, scouting report, work on special teams, etc......just wear shells and little to no full contact. Then take the kids that are playing JV and feed them if that's what you do. Take kids not playing JV and run them a bit (strides). Then take them and watch film. HC and coordinators stay with non JV players. All other coaches go with jv
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Post by realdawg on Feb 27, 2012 17:05:21 GMT -6
We seem to be in the minority here but we go an hour of offense while JV does defense on mon to wed. We warmup and do special teams and conditioning on some but not all of these days. JVs play thurs. varsity has walk thru with an emphasis on special teams and special situations. We are 25-4 the last two years doing this. How we break down that time varies each day. For example, Mondays not much contact, lots of walk thru and teaching game plan. Tuesday a lot of Indy and group time, shorter team periods. Heavy contact. Wednesday more team periods less Indy time, but into time is very intense especially for OL and DL
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Post by realdawg on Feb 24, 2012 5:50:42 GMT -6
We do a kids camp each summer. We charge 40 if pre registered or 50 at the door. We go Mon to Thursday 2 and a half hours each night. We split the kids up into 4 groups based on size and age. No set ages we just kind of wing it to keep our group numbers even. Assistants get paid depending on how many kids in the camp. One year we got 65 one year we got 100. So it just depends. We send out flyers to all the local elementary schools and put them up in the community. We also advertise in the local paper. We go from 6 to 830 each night so we don't feed them but we do give them a t shirt. We try to teach them the fundamentals on each position group. Every kid has to go to OL, WR, RB, and QB stations. Then DL, LB, and DB stations. Then at the end we run some kind of obstacle course for time or let them play flag football.
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Post by realdawg on Feb 17, 2012 21:21:16 GMT -6
I wanna see more speakers teaching the nuts and bolts of a play. Not just the x and o but what you teach the kids fundamentally to make it work. Also love to see new ways to teach fundamentals and drills from position coaches. Went to Charlotte Glazier today and heard two great speakers do just that.
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Post by realdawg on Feb 8, 2012 19:14:45 GMT -6
Golf tournament, gold cards, lift a thon are all pretty popular
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Post by realdawg on Feb 1, 2012 19:05:03 GMT -6
We had two our RB and QB sign with 1aa Western Carolina
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Post by realdawg on Jan 30, 2012 19:32:38 GMT -6
Coach, we have more kickers that just stand around and do nothing because they want to be a part of the team than anyone in America. We had 4 kickers this year and only 2 of them ever kicked in a game. It's a running joke around our place.
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Post by realdawg on Jan 30, 2012 17:12:57 GMT -6
Punting backed up into your own end zone and returning a punt deep in your territory. (returners heels on the 10)
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Post by realdawg on Jan 30, 2012 17:11:07 GMT -6
When our building was built the county painted the walls white. This quickly got dirty and marked up. Our 3rd team punter is also a bow scout, and he painted the walls of our whole facility for a boy scout project in our school colors. Ordered a few posters of our kids in action and hung them on the walls and a couple of conference championship banners and now the place looks pretty nice
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Post by realdawg on Jan 25, 2012 19:25:52 GMT -6
I agree. It isn't for everyone. The hard is what makes it great. That's why (at least around here) the kids that wear a jersey to school on Friday tend to get more respect and be more popular than other kids. The average student knows they can't do what those kids do. The story is a great inspirational story and would be great to show, IMO,when your team is down and out or your effort level is lacking. However, if a kid tells me football is too tough, then I don't want him. I want kids that will accept the challenge.
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Post by realdawg on Jan 22, 2012 17:28:50 GMT -6
Z-really liked Morris last year when we went down to Clemson last spring
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Post by realdawg on Jan 22, 2012 15:12:02 GMT -6
Sometimes you have to do addition by subtraction. I would rather have 25 nail eaters than a bunch of nancy boys cause those nancies will become cancers
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Post by realdawg on Jan 17, 2012 16:56:49 GMT -6
Like many have mentioned I think you keep the players weekly schedule the same. As coaches, we may put in a little more prep time, often I feel just to burn nervous energy. We acknowledge with the kids that it is a big game and talk to them about staying focused and not getting to high or too low. We tell them all the time, it's a big game but they are still gonna flip the coin and at 730 they are still gonna kick the ball off just like every other game.
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Post by realdawg on Jan 11, 2012 17:09:45 GMT -6
We had a bunch of freshman come out an usually have a bunch quit too. This year only 3 quit. I think it helped that our JV were very good this year. So there were a lot of blowouts and everybody got to play a lot. This is not always the case but we ended up with 49 freshman at a school with around 1050 kids.
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Post by realdawg on Jan 10, 2012 17:31:47 GMT -6
I wish I knew in high school what I know about weight lifting. All we ever did in high school was 10-8-6 on bench, squat, power clean, incline, and leg press. All in the same day and either 3 or 4 days a week and then 1 or 2 days of abilities. Never deviated. Never knew anything else in high school and our coach never taught us how to squat or how to clean. We just kinda had to watch the older guys and figure it out. I am sure my clean form was awful
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Post by realdawg on Jan 9, 2012 18:58:20 GMT -6
Never been a HC but want to be one day, and I would have to take a portfolio with me with all my info on O,D,ST, Weight training, fundraising, program management etc.... I wouldn't necessarily give it out or force it on them but I would hate for them to ask for it and not have it. I want to show them I can run a program and be organized and prepared so I am gonna be prepared for that interview. Better to have and not need than to need and not have.
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Post by realdawg on Jan 9, 2012 16:55:48 GMT -6
We pay for our coaches gear with the money we raise doing a youth camp and some off season speed camps for younger kids. Usually get a t shirt, a polo, a hat, some shoes, and a jacket each year.
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Post by realdawg on Jan 8, 2012 15:05:52 GMT -6
Obviously, you want enough bodies to be able to have enough people to practice against without having to beat your studs to death. But I do think you can get to the point where it starts having negative returns. You don't want to have too many just standing around and you. Don't want to carry dead weight or cancers.
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Post by realdawg on Jan 5, 2012 21:15:05 GMT -6
I am an OL coach so on Saturday morning the first thing I do is watch and grade the previous nights game. I am looking to see if we are using proper technique and footwork and executing our proper assignments. Then I put in the film of our opponent that has them playing against an offense most similar to ours. First time through I just watch. No rewind no nothing just watching for first impressions. Then I watch again and chart there fronts and stunts to break down into down and distance and formation tendencies. Then I watch one more time looking for personnel match ups.
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Post by realdawg on Jan 5, 2012 21:10:50 GMT -6
Had the same thing happen 15 years ago to a kid I played with in high school. Returning all conference right tackle quit half way through our senior year to spend time with his freshman girl friend. Couldn't look him in the eye after that
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Post by realdawg on Jan 2, 2012 15:52:53 GMT -6
True. Maybe we just try to complicate things sometimes
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Post by realdawg on Jan 2, 2012 15:44:34 GMT -6
You don't expect more out of your Senior all district tackle than you do your 150 lb sophomore guard? Of course you do. So basically what I am saying is that if my lesser players get the job done they get a plus and then get constructive feed back on technique issues. My Sr all district tackle has to get the job done and use proper technique to get a plus. He would still get the same constructive feed back. A missed assignment is a negative all the way around. I do this for a couple reasons. 1) build confidence in my younger kids that they can play. 2). Hold my older guys more accountable for what they should have learned and improvements they should have made and 3) because I believe to whom more is given more is expected.
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Post by realdawg on Jan 2, 2012 14:51:43 GMT -6
Basically in that situation I tend to be more lenient. I give. Plus or minus each play plus give constructive feedback for our OL. So when playing a stud they get the same constructive feedback they would get every play but do not have to do as much to get a plus. Also, the better my player the more I expect him to do to get a plus. Grading is fair but not necessarily equal
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