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Post by spreadattack on Dec 1, 2017 13:46:46 GMT -6
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Post by spreadattack on Nov 29, 2017 9:15:34 GMT -6
I don't think there are many lessons from this for coaches outside the NFL. You don't have situations where tanking for draft capital, evaluating the second round draft pick for your owner/GM, having probably lame duck owner/GMs, and a situation where you have a QB who has started for 14 years and 200 consecutive games that deserves a measure of "loyalty." It's just very strange, and the whole "we'll start you to keep your streak alive but we'll put in Geno Smith after a series" just adds to how bizarre it is.
The only analogy I can think of is a senior QB who has done a great job for the program but, for reasons out of his control, the last season doesn't go well and you want to see the young QB in there some. And that actually happens all the time, though the stakes are different and the considerations there include things like does the young man have a chance to play at the next level and would this hurt his chances/send a bad signal, etc. But unlikely any such decision will show up on the front page of the NY Post the next day.
In any event, while there are defensible reasons for this, it seems like the Giants went out of their way to make this as uncomfortable as possible -- including telling Manning right before he had to give a tearful locker room interview. If there's any lesson for HS/college coaches it's to think about what message decisions like these send to your other players. (And look, decisions on whether you play the senior who has "earned the right" or the younger kid, especially in a situation where the year hasn't gone well and you're building for next year, come up with some regularity.)
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Post by spreadattack on Oct 18, 2017 21:29:53 GMT -6
As noted above there are lots of wrong reasons to buy a system, with the #1 issue being looking for a magic bullet. The reason to do it, in my mind, is if you have limited resources and/or experience and either need to get a coherent system in place quickly or need to undergo a philosophical change, and you need more than just changing some formations and plays and instead need the benefit of the coaching community/resources/additional materials to help you teach, install and troubleshoot the system. Those are compelling reasons and it's why many coaches have had a lot of success with "systems in a can" -- it can really accelerate the coach learning process.
Now, that's not for everyone, it also means you're buying someone else's system and not coming up with your own to fit your specific situation (at least at first), and it may simply not be worth the money, and finally if there's no community or personal resources then it's really not worth it.
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Post by spreadattack on Oct 3, 2017 8:50:52 GMT -6
Is there a way to maximize the carryover/consistency within his "do something new each week" philosophy, i.e., can you keep the same or similar blocking schemes but present them in different ways? If he's changing the passing game around can you get a few "core' concepts you can run from different looks/approaches, or at least group them into stretches or reads (flood read, curl/flat read, etc) so your QB can have a consistent picture even if the plays are changing? At minimum, can you find ways to keep the *techniques* consistent? The best "multiple" offenses I know look very different week to week but they are very consistent with the techniques they teach and use.
Without more specifics it's hard to be much more help, but that may be a way to approach it and to even find some common ground with your HC.
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Post by spreadattack on Sept 26, 2017 14:46:00 GMT -6
The Manning Camp looks like a cool experience with the Mannings and all the various QBs (and supposedly since it's not tied to a school it's about fundamentals over recruiting), so if he has the money I don't see why not, so long as they don't expect it to transform him into Peyton Manning and you and the Dad understand it may or may not translate into anything usable on the field. In other words, it's a little better for his football career than a trip to Disney World but don't get your hopes up.
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Post by spreadattack on Sept 21, 2017 14:23:23 GMT -6
You do the best you can do. Have been part of some really lopsided games (fortunately more on the right side, but I've been on both). I remember a game where we led something like 49-0 in the second quarter and it was really put in whoever you have we had a backup tight-end playing fullback took a FB dive like 75 yards to the house. Another time I remember our second or third string QB audibling to a sneak in short yardage because the other team was in double 3 techniques and he took the sneak something like 50 yards to the house. It happens. Keep the clock running, get Johnny and Jeffrey some playing time and hope it's not you on the other end next time.
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Post by spreadattack on Aug 15, 2017 14:32:35 GMT -6
It should be mentioned that Clint Trickett, Franklin's QB coach at EMCC, is the tight-ends coach at FAU.
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Post by spreadattack on Aug 11, 2017 14:58:24 GMT -6
Why is any of this stuff in a thread about Ara Parseghian?
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Post by spreadattack on Aug 8, 2017 17:03:52 GMT -6
blb - thanks for the corrections/clarifications.
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Post by spreadattack on Aug 8, 2017 14:32:24 GMT -6
A few thoughts: 1) In terms of both a show and a look at the program, Season 1 was better, largely since it was new (and as a result people weren't playing to the camera as much). Season 2 was just a very different show in part because of all the fourth wall breaking stuff -- everyone was very aware of the cameras, it clearly affected interactions and how people talked, people (especially Buddy) were constantly referencing the cameras (and the producers left those clips in the final cut). 2) The flexbone game was one of the funniest bit of TV I've seen, and I thought one of the more real world depictions where the HC and DC both had no idea what to do (which is a rough feeling to not have any in-game answers). The HC just kept saying "find something that works!" and I about died when the DC said to the DL coach, "move him outside... or inside... {censored} I don't know." The box score for that game is online and it's... rough. Holmes had 652 yards of offense -- including 450 on the ground. www.emccathletics.com/sports/fball/2016-17/boxscores/20161006_s84g.xml3) The whole thing in the bowl game with the OC was... weird. Clearly there was something going on behind the scenes, and it was set up by the scene in the first season where the producers ask the OC if he has a good relationship with Buddy. But no matter what was going on Buddy's crack about the guy's ex-wife seemed totally out of line, and the OC came off well when the players were asking him "are you OK?' (which is itself rough) and he said to not worry about him and to keep focused on the game. Clearly some weird dynamics between Buddy and the OC; I think part of it honestly was the reaction to Season 1 where a lot of folks felt like Buddy was more of a character yelling and screaming while the OC seemed like the legit coach. Seemed to be some resentment there. 4) The whole bit with the punt return and the Wright kid needs to be shown in a communications class. That whole sequence was ridiculous by all involved. 5) I agree that this season it seemed like the only guy doing any real coaching was the DL coach. But I'm reminded that there's a lot of editing when I saw that the #1 recruit out of EMCC from that season was actually an offensive lineman who I don't think the show mentioned a single time and who went to Mississippi State, and we never see the offensive line coach doing anything. And with all the focus on the defensive line, I think only once was a kid who signed with West Virginia mentioned. All of that is fine but just a reminder of how much is left out. But it definitely didn't seem like Buddy does much coaching at all; other than the first game when he called the offense he didn't seem to know what was going on on offense, and he clearly had no idea about defense as he kept just pleading for the DC to "get some stops." Someone pointed out that the whole season was probably summed up when Buddy stood in front of the team and said "Losers point fingers," despite pointing fingers seeming to be about all he did. 6) Coachbdud -- I really didn't get the impression that Wagner was sleeping with the players (and not sure why you did think that?), though of course I don't know for sure. (The producers in both seasons went out of their way to show her going home alone, which could be interpreted in multiple ways.) In any case, it seems a little unfair that given she was one of the few who tried to support the players that it automatically becomes that she's sleeping with them? In any event, she seemed to change a lot from season 1 to season 2 in that she got a taste of the world outside Scooba but obviously wasn't happy where she was (and, at least from what was shown, this seemed like a difficult group of kids). Last thought is I don't know how many of you read the GQ article the entire series is based off of. It's worth the read; it follows EMCC the year Chad Kelly was there and they won the title. www.gq.com/story/last-chance-university
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Post by spreadattack on Aug 8, 2017 13:56:21 GMT -6
I used to have a book by Parseghian that went into his tactics and strategy and now I can't recall the title. If I recall it was big on a "systematic" approach to playcalling -- I think Ara's offense had roots in the Wing-T -- but I wish I could find the book. I remember reading it but not studying it in detail, and based on Google searches I can only find more biography type books but maybe someone on here knows (and maybe it's tucked into one of those books). See below for a Sports Illustrated article from 1962 on some of his success at Northwestern. www.si.com/vault/1962/11/05/670217/ara-parseghians-gambleI know Coach Parseghian was always very well respected for his mind, as well as being just an excellent person. For those that don't know, Coach Parseghian was very active in awareness/raising money for multiple sclerosis, which his daughter was diagnosed with and three of his grandchildren died from.
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Post by spreadattack on May 23, 2017 18:40:37 GMT -6
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Post by spreadattack on Mar 2, 2017 13:07:11 GMT -6
That's a pretty good story. Would love if some of those details could be posted.
Only other thing I'd add is OL coach Scarnecchia had a great anecdote from one of his clinics. Shows the group a one-back set, DL in an over front alignment to the tight-end, says you are in 6-man protection. Then shows the Mike walking down to mug the playside A gap, looking like he's going to blitz. Then he asks the group how they'd deal with it. A couple of coaches say they'd half slide it, some say full slide and put the RB on the playside DE, others say they'd flip the protection to the tight-end side and half slide that way, some others talk about base blocking it and having guys combo. Then he took a survey and had coaches raise their hands -- some raised their hands for slide protection, some for man and moving the RB up, etc.
Then Scarnecchia said, "It doesn't matter which one of those you choose. They all can work, they all have problems. The important thing is when that Mike walks up into the A gap every guy on the field and every guy on the sideline too knows exactly what you're going to do and how you're going to block it."
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Post by spreadattack on Mar 1, 2017 8:20:20 GMT -6
Not easy to find but you can find playbooks from some of Belichick's defensive coordinators shortly after they left NE (like Eric Mangini, Romeo Crennel, etc) and you see basically the same framework/calls/etc. Also Saban's playbooks have evolved but there is a lot of Belichick overlap in terms of terminology, structure, calls and philosophy. Give or take 60-70% of what Saban does is the same as Belichick's defenses; he's just evolved it since. And excellent point from fantom about Belichick coaching his coaches. It's been posted here before but there was a good article on how he hires young coaches to start out, and that's often the pool he ends up hiring position coaches and ultimately coordinators from. www.masslive.com/patriots/index.ssf/2016/12/bill_belichick_patriots_coachi.html
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Post by spreadattack on Feb 27, 2017 14:59:31 GMT -6
As Nick Saban says, "Everything -- everything -- Bill Belichick does has some purpose, from what you call a blitz, to what you call a fire zone, a front, anything. Everything we did we did it that way for the players and that made it better for the players." For playbooks, you can find some here: www.footballxos.com/free-football-playbooks/offense-playbooks/nfl-playbooks/And Bill O'Brien has a pretty good passing tape from his time at New England.
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Taxes
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Post by spreadattack on Feb 20, 2017 12:12:08 GMT -6
If you make a point to use your credit card for all purchases (and always pay it off each month) you can use your visa or american express or whatever account to search and sort purchases at the end of the year.
You can also look into a budgeting tool/app like mint.com (there are lots of them) that can keep track of a lot of these things and you can search them on the back end for things like medical expenses, etc.
Even if you take the standard deduction I find it useful to categorize, or at least keep the records.
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Post by spreadattack on Jan 10, 2017 14:09:33 GMT -6
Also just for clarification Leach left the year before Oklahoma won the national championship, though they won with the offense he installed.
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Post by spreadattack on Jan 10, 2017 14:08:19 GMT -6
If you read the book this article is based on, Perfect Pass, it grounds the whole thing in what LaVell was doing and shows how Mumme -- at first from afar -- tried to figure out and ape what Edwards was doing and eventually got closer to the staff and then took concepts verbatim. It also appropriately credits Doug Scovil, who as said above was really the guy who brought the BYU offense to BYU from the NFL (though obviously Edwards had the vision).
Interestingly Mumme kind of went full circle on the personnel thing. He tried to run the run and shoot for a year or so as a high school coach and the result was somewhat disastrous; that's when he went all in on the BYU 20/21 personnel approach. It was really Leach who was determined to transform the offense into a 10 personnel offense first at Oklahoma and then at Texas Tech.
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Post by spreadattack on Jan 8, 2017 10:10:46 GMT -6
I liked Mumme's line in the video: "I liken us to Nabisco. Nabisco didn't invent cookies but they packaged them up real well so everybody liked them." Then he said they didn't invent what they do but they just packaged it up well and it was so simple that a lot of people found it easy to use. I think that sums it up pretty well.
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Post by spreadattack on Jan 4, 2017 9:36:19 GMT -6
Also I will second that Keith does a great job. I really enjoyed the one with Coach Coverdale, though all are good.
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Post by spreadattack on Jan 4, 2017 9:35:02 GMT -6
Download the podcasts on the podcast app. I like to listen to them when doing chores/yard work/that kind of thing.
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Post by spreadattack on Dec 29, 2016 9:23:17 GMT -6
They just changed coaches, did Brohm already leave for Purdue? I wonder who actually made the call to do that, seems like the interim coach might have been sitting on that idea to seem clever for the last 20 years I feel like if Washington had done that to score a touchdown against Alabama (big game, definite underdog), I would have thought it was pretty clever, this seems like an underwhelming spot to use that, though maybe this was the interim coach's first chance to call it Brohm had already left
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Post by spreadattack on Dec 17, 2016 12:46:28 GMT -6
I like brophy's idea of getting the team together to bond and watch and maybe there's a rooting interest or player with some connection to your school but anything beyond that seems a bit much. And if you really wanted them to do some kind of homework assignment on football I'd probably just pick some game from the past with some relevance to you (maybe a school that runs your defense or offense) and send them the youtube link (there's a good youtube page called "One Hour Football" that condenses games down www.youtube.com/user/OneHourFootball/videos ) but even then I'm not sure that's so beneficial except maybe in special cases (certain teams or certain players).
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Post by spreadattack on Dec 9, 2016 13:04:54 GMT -6
I am all about rewarding dedication and performance, but I don't like messing around with numbers. Somewhat off topic but it reminds me of this great story about Steve Spurrier and James Bates's number 44:
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Post by spreadattack on Nov 14, 2016 16:28:54 GMT -6
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Post by spreadattack on Nov 2, 2016 12:20:27 GMT -6
Leach's version is I think a succinct summation of the idea, and the basic idea is they are either doing it how you want or you better be coaching them up. But as others said above, coaching them up is not the same thing as just ripping them or belittling a kid or screaming cliches. Sometimes it's being, uh, direct (as Saban says, an "ass chewing"), but it should always be about coaching them up.
Been reading a lot about educational/child development recently, and the amazing thing to me is how much of the psychological research and child/teenage development studies that have begun revolutionizing the field in recent years really reflect what we would all recognize as just old fashioned good coaching, in that it really focuses on process versus outcomes and praising kids for the work, effort, dedication and attention to detail versus "make a play" or "good play" or "hit somebody!"
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Post by spreadattack on Oct 25, 2016 9:31:16 GMT -6
Didn't a lot of people think Norm Parker was pretty smart after they played Georgia Tech a few years ago? All he did was run a 4-3 with Cover 2. Also some Cover 3, but Norm Parker may not have been an innovator but that dude could coach some defense. Very, very sound. Heard Holgorsen tell a story about when Texas Tech was going to play Iowa in a bowl game in one of Leach's first few years there, and they looked at film and Leach said something to the effect of "a bunch of slow Iowa guys playing Cover 3 the whole game, we might score 60," and then Iowa held them to like 200 yards of offense and 10 or so points and beat them. It was actually one of the big reasons Leach developed and refined his whole four verticals package because he felt like Iowa just squeezed all the space out and they weren't threatening them correctly.
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Post by spreadattack on Oct 19, 2016 10:47:35 GMT -6
It's not just coaches, there's a ton of self published shite on Amazon these days that needs spellcheck, grammarcheck, and homophonecheck. Now there's gay phones?!? What is this world coming to? What a terrible and unnecessary joke.
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Post by spreadattack on Oct 19, 2016 9:32:41 GMT -6
1. By football books, do you mean books about coaches (like Nick Saban/Urban Meyer/Lou Holtz/Pat Riley/whoever bios) or books by coaches or coaches choice or that sort of thing? Both have issues but they tend to be different issues.
2. For popular football books you tend to have the issue where you have people who know football being edited or even the book being written by a ghostwriter who doesn't really know the game. In a perfect world they would go over the book again and again until all that is sussed out but there is a lot of pressure from publishing houses to get these things out on schedule.
3. For coaching books it's really a matter of resources. As others have said coaches write them and their attention to that kind of detail is probably lacking, and the level of editorial support at the places that put out coaching books is minimal. This is because they don't sell a lot of copies -- even successful coaching books it's in the single digit thousands, most "successful" books in that genre are in the hundreds sold -- so you don't exactly have the New Yorker editorial staff.
4. To some extent it just happens. Buy any new book on the New York Times Bestseller list and there are probably typos and mistakes there. I have published two books and I'd like to think I'm literate and I had professional editors and there are definitely mistakes (I can tell you where they all are). It's painful and annoying but you're also trying to put the book down and get it out. One difference between hardcover books and paperbacks is the paperbacks tend to be edited to eliminate typos and mistakes.
Those are excuses to some extent and it's true that some of it just comes down to laziness or lack of attention to detail, and there's a difference between having a typo or two (which is where I'd like to think my books land) than having errors that negatively affect the quality of the product either in terms of clarity or just distraction. Writing any kind of book is surprisingly difficult and unless you're writing the Da Vinci Code 2 it's not necessarily a great investment in terms of hourly wages, but if you're going to do anything and put your name on it you want to have some pride in it.
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Post by spreadattack on Sept 2, 2016 11:44:22 GMT -6
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