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Post by eaglemountie on Jun 21, 2017 11:52:26 GMT -6
The last couple of posts are one of the many reasons why 7on7 is not football...
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Post by eaglemountie on May 24, 2017 17:34:33 GMT -6
Single Wing guy...
we can make a funny too!
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Post by eaglemountie on May 24, 2017 13:12:10 GMT -6
Can you win without a competent QB? Some......not a lot What's a QB?
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Post by eaglemountie on May 22, 2017 9:41:13 GMT -6
I think we can all agree that it is far easier to play any game than it is to practice the skills it takes to be competent in the sport in hopes to become good and or great. This is why travel baseball/softball, club soccer and AAU basketball is more popular than school sports. The travel/club/AAU teams do not practice near as much as they play and that ratio is reversed when it comes to school activities.
That is probably also a major reason why I've seen an overall decline in sport specific skills in all of my freshmen PE classes over the past 10 years.
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Post by eaglemountie on May 13, 2017 14:49:45 GMT -6
We have a 2 man sled that when both sides are hit simultaneously it'll be very obvious which side used more force. We have other things that we use to judge who gets off the ball fastest using the same sled. We've done a similar drill on the 7 man sled where we have 2 guys double team the sled on one end and 2 guys double team the pad on the opposite end... Which ever side turns wins the other does up downs... Gets em going a bit...
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Post by eaglemountie on May 13, 2017 14:45:19 GMT -6
I think you find their weaknesses in the off-season and pre-season and challenge them to become the best they can in those areas...
This coming season we have three very talented running backs that can do it all with the ball in their hands... Their blocking is average at best, so we are going to challenge them this year to be the best blocking group on the team and only grade them out on their blocking performance...
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Post by eaglemountie on May 10, 2017 10:01:47 GMT -6
Unfortunately, Allen is more than likely considered a leader by his peers whether he chooses to be or acts like one or not.
I think it would be in your best interest to try and embrace Allen as a leader and teach him or at least try to teach him how to be a leader and deliver the message that the team will go only as far as he will take them.
The kids, right or wrong, consider him to be a leader in their eyes for a reason. You've given them the ownership of that responsibility of picking a team captain, it is up to you to mold him as one.
(Then next year make sure off-season attendance is a requirement for being selected a captain!)
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Post by eaglemountie on Apr 20, 2017 12:12:45 GMT -6
One thought: Don't go around telling everyone that "we are going to change the culture!" Had a coach come on and say this every chance he got without realizing that he was insulting people in his new community every time he did it. In every community - whether they have won our not - the are really good people who are "culturally" with it. Do not alienate them but telling them that they are inferior and you are there to save them. Great point... And if things aren't changing the message will eventually become white noise on top of alienating those that were pulling in the right direction before...
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Post by eaglemountie on Apr 11, 2017 13:09:25 GMT -6
It's a necessary evil to understand scheme, if not you will get out-coached on Friday nights when talent is close or close to even...
Otherwise, the jimmies and joes dictate all...
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Post by eaglemountie on Apr 10, 2017 11:57:13 GMT -6
--The official that is more worried about the sideline then what's going on between the hashes
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Post by eaglemountie on Apr 6, 2017 8:09:29 GMT -6
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Post by eaglemountie on Mar 20, 2017 8:13:54 GMT -6
Here's another thought.......ever give your kids a day off? Like on a Tuesday? We gave them that incentive once on the deal that they won the Friday night before...
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Post by eaglemountie on Mar 20, 2017 8:05:27 GMT -6
I think the thought that a single practice or a couple of select practices throughout the season will not make you exponentially better but the difference in a team that has good practices and practice habits from week 1 to week 10 is easy to see.
I'd definitely take my chances with the lesser talented team that practiced its tail off all year in week 10 vs a more talented squad that went through the motions...
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Post by eaglemountie on Mar 1, 2017 11:46:19 GMT -6
I've coached on only a few (1 or 2) teams that had bad chemistry. One team won a conference championship the other was around .500. I'd say the conference championship team had the ability to win more and the poor chemistry got in the way of that group but the .500 group was probably average at best.
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Post by eaglemountie on Feb 28, 2017 18:22:31 GMT -6
Football is hard...
In this day, things that are hard are considered punishment not challenging or fun...
I hope that changes...
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Post by eaglemountie on Feb 28, 2017 8:56:27 GMT -6
If my Xs are bigger, faster and stronger than your Os they really don't matter that much. When they are close to equal is when they matter more...
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Post by eaglemountie on Feb 19, 2017 10:46:10 GMT -6
1.) Getting every returning player in the weight room on a consistent basis. 2.) Getting new faces in the weight room on a consistent basis. 3.) Motivating all those in the weight room to get back to and this time win a ring. (runner-up last year) 4.) Continue to get better at what we do...
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Post by eaglemountie on Feb 14, 2017 10:25:33 GMT -6
Good discussion guys, thanks...
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Post by eaglemountie on Feb 13, 2017 9:44:59 GMT -6
How about the coach with a headset on friday nights that doesn't come to film on sundays that starts suggesting play calls? Those guys get yelled at... We had a guy like that. Called him "Game Day" would only show up on Fridays, want to have input in everything and always asked for coaching gear ahead of everybody else. We tried to leave him at school one day but he showed up early. He ended up quitting in the middle of a game because we were trying to coach up his position group since he was never there and didn't know our game plan. Our guy got so pissed that he took his headset off and was pissed off at the rest of the staff for being called out... Not sure how he could be upset...
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Post by eaglemountie on Feb 12, 2017 12:44:24 GMT -6
I doubt it was ever enough to motivate most people. That's a very long-term and abstract reward. Especially if I know that no matter how much I do or don't lift won't affect my playing time. So minus reports of CTE at the youth/HS levels of football and the increase extrinsic motivation compared to years past why is participation in youth and high school football decreasing? It seems as though reward systems would pump participation numbers up!
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Post by eaglemountie on Feb 12, 2017 11:07:21 GMT -6
Remember when playing time and winning games was enough to motivate guys to practice hard/lift hard/play hard?
I miss that...
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Post by eaglemountie on Feb 11, 2017 15:54:41 GMT -6
How about the coach with a headset on friday nights that doesn't come to film on sundays that starts suggesting play calls?
Those guys get yelled at...
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Post by eaglemountie on Feb 9, 2017 9:58:46 GMT -6
Manning was probably more NFL ready at the start of his career but Brady has won more championships...
Tough call but there isn't a wrong answer...
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Post by eaglemountie on Jan 23, 2017 10:38:49 GMT -6
My first stint as a HC we went, 1-10, 5-6 and 8-4 in that order. The last season was the first winning season in 7 years. We stayed the course and didn't make whole sale changes after that first year and just tried to develop talent, recruit the hallways and be better coaches each year.
I think if we had panicked and made a bunch of changes that the first year it would have been a mistake.
Rome wasn't built in a year or a day.
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Post by eaglemountie on Jan 9, 2017 10:39:44 GMT -6
Huge loss as in the level of the game (the national championship) to winning a huge game...
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Post by eaglemountie on Jan 9, 2017 9:47:48 GMT -6
It would be a hell of a coaching story to hear how he recovered the team from a huge loss to a win the following year against the same dominant dynasty team...
Has to be some good psychological scheme built off that scenario...
Would love to hear that story from him...
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Post by eaglemountie on Dec 20, 2016 9:16:04 GMT -6
1.) Find coaches that will be loyal, willing to put in time and work hard. Knowledge is secondary. 2.) Recruit the returning players and the hallways for the top 10-15 athletes in each class. 3.) Get all people from #1 and #2 in the weight room and start to build your culture of high expectations, high energy and high effort. 4.) Shun all individualism, praise all team first actions.
Once all 1-4 is established the rest is cake.
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Post by eaglemountie on May 9, 2016 11:03:08 GMT -6
You know football is tough...
But we don't play at a pace where a kid that has put time in the off season couldn't play an entire game on both O and D maybe a couple special teams here and there...
We dress 25-30...
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Post by eaglemountie on May 8, 2016 10:08:26 GMT -6
You can't put a value on a tackling dummy that moves...
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Post by eaglemountie on May 3, 2016 16:39:55 GMT -6
Hold them to high expectations. No exceptions.
Compete at everything.
Create a theme or themes for what your program is about and live it.
Make football important.
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