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Post by 19delta on Oct 30, 2022 19:10:01 GMT -6
How about coaches who have their call sheet attached to a lanyard?
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Post by 19delta on Oct 28, 2022 5:56:40 GMT -6
I was a DT my junior year on a pretty good team in the Chicago suburbs (largest classification in Illinois). Didn't play much. Maybe 5-6 varsity snaps the entire year.
I was determined to be a starter my senior year so I hit the weight room hard. Ran sprints every day. When the season rolled around I was ready to go. Started the season penciled in as the starter but I just wasn't good enough to hold on to it. Got beat out by a junior.
The OL coach needed a tackle so he converted me to offense. I wasn't great but started every game at tackle on a quarterfinal playoff team.
I then went to a middling D3 school and was a 3-year starter on the OL.
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Post by 19delta on Oct 24, 2022 19:15:41 GMT -6
Matt Patricia was the DC in New England under Bill Belechik. It appears that he is calling the offense tonight. His official title is "Senior Football Advisor/Offensive Line Coach".
How common is it for a guy who was an NFL DC to move over to the offense?
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Post by 19delta on Oct 19, 2022 16:17:57 GMT -6
I'm not a football coach any more but I am a PE teacher who teaches a couple weight room classes in addition to my regular junior high and high school PE classes. The football players not taking care of the locker room really bothers me. We have great facilities but our kids are pigs. The locker room is always dirty, there's trash and used tape left on the floor, and clothes and equipment strewn everywhere. I just think it's disrespectful and shows a lack of attention to detail.
Same thing with the weight room. It burns me up when I open up in the morning and whoever used the weight room last the previous afternoon or evening didn't put stuff back where it's supposed to be.
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Post by 19delta on Oct 6, 2022 20:12:19 GMT -6
A team in our conference has a big rock outside their field on which is inscribed "Where the Gentlemen Play". Anyone who played against this team in the 1990s and early 2000s would find that pretty funny.
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Post by 19delta on Sept 19, 2022 17:05:26 GMT -6
If kids can't block and tackle after the first 3 weeks, they aren't going to learn in the last 6. I disagree. Baseball players take batting practice every day. Basketball players shoot every day. They need to to keep their skills sharp. The skills that our game requires, many of which are completely unnatural, need to stay sharp as well. But they would still be practicing those skills. They would just be doing it during team time.
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Post by 19delta on Sept 18, 2022 19:21:32 GMT -6
I was a giant, raging a$$hole. Was? Well, I at least don't say " {censored}" to HS kids any more.
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Post by 19delta on Sept 18, 2022 19:20:32 GMT -6
I haven't coached HS ball since 2009 but, if I ever got another bite of the apple, I would look at getting practice over in an hour and a half after the 3rd game of the season. 30 minutes special teams, 30 minutes defense, 30 minutes offense and then go home. If kids can't block and tackle after the first 3 weeks, they aren't going to learn in the last 6.
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Post by 19delta on Sept 18, 2022 19:13:49 GMT -6
When I started coaching in 2001, I was a giant, raging a$$hole. If someone would have filmed me, it would have been the ultimate cringe reel and I would have been Internet infamous. I was...not a good coach.
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Post by 19delta on Jul 12, 2022 8:37:14 GMT -6
School starts first week of august here. Wow, Students report the week of August 1st this year? That is indeed early. Agreed. NW Illinois here. First day with students is 8/17 this year.
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Post by 19delta on Jul 6, 2022 15:18:39 GMT -6
I have been thinking about this a lot lately.
Since 2018, our high school program probably averages around 6-8 hours per week in the summer. Give or take, that breaks down to about 4 hours of weight training (4x a week, sessions are about an hour), 1 or 2 practices that are about 2 hours each, and a couple 7 on 7s. I think they also attend a 3-day camp at a D3 school in July.
In 2018, we had a terrific, senior-heavy team. The team went 12-1 and made it to the state semifinals. However, the last three seasons, our record is 7-17. And 4 of those wins came in 2019 when we still had a handful of players from that good 2018 team. So, things have been trending down since that 2018 season.
I would argue that our team would have essentially the same record these past three years if they hadn't done ANYTHING during the summer. I have to wonder that at some point, when do you take a look at what you are doing and realize that the juice just isn't worth the squeeze? I think about all that time and energy that has been spent over the past three years. All those 6am sessions in the weight room. All those nights spent standing around the practice field in humid, 90 degree height in June and July. At this point in my life, I just can't comprehend that much energy and effort for so little return. And all for a $2500 stipend.
I haven't coached high school football since 2009. But I think that if I was ever to get back into it, we would do a maximum of 2 days a week and it would just be SAQ. We wouldn't touch a football until August.
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Post by 19delta on May 11, 2022 15:52:34 GMT -6
I am 1000% not clicking that link on a school computer Ha! Pretty harmless. Just a short clip from "Raiders of the Lost Ark".
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Post by 19delta on May 11, 2022 4:31:44 GMT -6
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Post by 19delta on May 10, 2022 13:49:54 GMT -6
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Post by 19delta on Apr 27, 2022 16:58:20 GMT -6
In 2002, I coached for a team that scored 74 points. We lost. Unless you were coaching 8-man... How was that possible? 11-man, small school football. We were shotgun spread, they were double tight, full bone. Our QB threw for over 400 yards and we had another 150 on the ground. They had about 500 yards rushing and another 100 or so passing. A big part of the problem was both KO teams were awful. There were several huge runbacks so both teams squib kicked most of the game so the offenses had short fields on which to work. The defenses were woeful. I've never seen anything like it. The head scratcher is that because it was small school football, almost everyone was a 2-way player. So it's not like all the good players were on offense and the bad players were on defense. The real kicker is that we had the game won. We were up 74-71 at the end of the 4th quarter. They had a 3rd and goal from about the 8 yard line. We sacked them for about a 10-yard loss. So, they were facing 4th and goal from about the 20. All we had to do was not give up a TD or not commit a penalty. We gave up a TD pass. We got the ball back with about a minute left but couldn't do anything with it. Most frustrating game I have ever watched. There were lights on that scoreboard that had never been used before or since that game.
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Post by 19delta on Apr 24, 2022 11:29:52 GMT -6
In 2002, I coached for a team that scored 74 points. We lost.
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Post by 19delta on Apr 21, 2022 8:16:51 GMT -6
If Mike McDaniels fails, it won't have anything to do with his perceived nerdishness. The vast majority of NFL head coaches fail. It's a tough job that has resulted in countless capable and successful men getting fired.
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Post by 19delta on Apr 21, 2022 8:08:54 GMT -6
My kid is a sophomore at a middling D3 school. There are about 120 kids on the roster. I'm pretty certain that most of the contributors are on some kind of scholarship. There are quite a few guys on the team who will never see any significant playing time and I'm pretty sure their main role is paying full tuition. 😆
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DIII
Apr 12, 2022 18:50:41 GMT -6
via mobile
Post by 19delta on Apr 12, 2022 18:50:41 GMT -6
An interesting question... Most DIII Colleges are Private Schools, and are not governed by State Legislatures. However, Wisconsin has a number of DIII Colleges within their Collegiate/University System. A simple call or email to the School that you are interested in will answer your question accurately. Is this part of the reason Whitewater has been able to obtain relatively high talented rosters? Yes. Absolutely.
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Post by 19delta on Jan 24, 2022 13:58:53 GMT -6
I know about RPR. Tell me more about CARs CARs = Controlled Articular Rotations = moving joint by joint to increase ROM A lot of folks think of improving mobility as stretching your muscles, but you also need to improve your ability to move in your joints. CARs expands your ROM bit by bit as part of a daily routine, takes anywhere from 2-5m to complete depending on the level of intensity you want to bring to it. You can make completing the CARs routine a very intense, maximal effort session or a light warm-up, it's pretty neat that way. There's a lot more to the FRC certification, but CARs are the base starting point. From there you move on to what're called PAILS/RAILS - Progressive Angular Isometric Loading/Regressive AIL. PAILs/RAILs are the 'stretches' for your joint, but it's really about improving and capturing ROM. PAILs/RAILs are crazy, you can improve ROM by like, 15* or more in like 2m. And you can make yourself sore in a places you've never experienced. Check out Joey Bergles on twitter/IG, he posts lots of FRC content, he's the one who got me keyed into FRC. FRC complements RPR nicely since RPR = Neuro and FRC = Joints/Muscles. Great stuff, Coach! I will be checking it out!
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Post by 19delta on Jan 24, 2022 12:05:13 GMT -6
The fan in me felt cheated that Josh Allen did not get a chance to answer Mahomes in OT. The coach in me felt that the Bills deserved the loss because their defense allowed the unallowable on KC's OT possession.
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Post by 19delta on Jan 23, 2022 6:45:29 GMT -6
The Green Bay Packers' coaching staff might want to sign up for this... 🤣
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Post by 19delta on Jan 21, 2022 18:18:15 GMT -6
Lots of white head coaches who have failed have gotten second and even third bites of the apple. It's good to see that some black coaches who were not successful the first time around are getting another chance. Well not yet. Some of them are getting interviews. No hires so far. That's the point. In the past, most of those guys wouldn't even get another interview. They would have to resign themselves to being a coordinator, at best, or maybe taking a college job.
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Post by 19delta on Jan 21, 2022 14:18:27 GMT -6
Lots of white head coaches who have failed have gotten second and even third bites of the apple. It's good to see that some black coaches who were not successful the first time around are getting another chance.
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Post by 19delta on Jan 21, 2022 14:16:00 GMT -6
I thought that Flores got a raw deal in Miami. Guy made chicken salad out of chicken $hit for 2 years. The fact that he won 19 games with one of the worst rosters in all of pro sports is astounding.
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Post by 19delta on Jan 20, 2022 10:13:06 GMT -6
Why? They're showing it to their peers, their friends. And the rest of the world. They did not stage a photo of them lying in the hallway, nor include the line - send your child's teacher a gift card or bottle of wine- for their friends. That post was intended to fish for compliments/gifts/sympathy from the moment they took that picture. Yes. 100% Look...the pandemic has been tough on lots of people. But there is a HUGE difference between someone griping about their job and what these teachers have done. It's nauseatingly melodramatic and clearly had the ulterior motive of guilting whomever saw it into providing some kind of affirmation to these teachers who are burdened down by this heavy cross they are forced to carry.
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Post by 19delta on Jan 16, 2022 14:29:41 GMT -6
Sadly, delta's mantra : "Suck it up, get to work, do your job" cuts a few different ways.  Another headbanging frustration... "the curriculum must continue!!!!". No thoughts of saying "Hey, this is a great time for review...no new instruction for 2 weeks during this period of high absenteeism (both teacher and student). Lets review, review, review". NOPE..we must push on. It is a fairly large and diverse district (35,000 students, 57 schools) -- there are highly qualified teachers who left the classroom to be "coaches" (not athletic) and curriculum specialists. Instead of being used in student contact roles (teachers/subs etc.) they are leading from the front by continuing to tell the rank and file what they are doing wrong and what they should be doing daily. So, from that standpoint, I would side with the teachers in the picture over others. I wouldn't necessarily agree with them, but I would side with them over the other side of the argument.  Those who can't do, teach. Those who can't teach, become curriculum specialist, educational specialists, etc.
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Post by 19delta on Jan 15, 2022 17:41:50 GMT -6
Look...we aren't working in a coal mine. This crap is ridiculous. Suck it up. Get your a$$ to work, and do your job: ibb.co/n8y2XDx
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Post by 19delta on Jan 12, 2022 18:33:31 GMT -6
Yeah. We do it every day. I did the online level 1 certification.
It's good stuff. I was skeptical but I think it is well worth the 3-4 minutes it takes to do the wake up drills.
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Post by 19delta on Jan 8, 2022 11:21:59 GMT -6
A middle-aged guy who uses the phrase "stays crunk" results in a Michael Scott level cringe response from me.
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