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Post by vanden48 on Jul 1, 2016 23:36:36 GMT -6
I'm trying to train with something called "Victory Rocks" I have found various sized boulders between 50-100 pounds. I painted them the colors of the teams on our regular season schedule. Painted the other teams name and the date we play them. The toughest team we play is the biggest rock. We carry them in relays, lift them, throw them. In-season we will have a victory rock run with teams rock who we play that week. At our team dinner I will select a "Victory Rock" captain or two. They will carry that rock out to the field on game day. Trying this idea out this year. Only thing I am unsure about is what to do with the rocks after the games. If we win I am going to put the score of the game and place the rocks under our home scoreboard. But what do I do with the rock if we lose?
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Post by vanden48 on Jun 19, 2016 22:24:37 GMT -6
When I was in HS I missed every summer because my parents were divorced and my father lived in a different state. And He has me for the summer. I busted my tail lifting with him and when I came back 20 pounds heavier every fall everyone thought I was on the roids. I had no control over being with the team for the summer. I made sure I went to the team camp in the beginning of the summer, and made sure I came back early for hell week.
You need to take it on a case by case basis. Kids who play 3 or 4 sports you might not have in the spring. Kids have other things going on in the summer and here I have to compete with basketball camps, wrestling camps, FFA, FBLA, family vacations. I just let the parents and players know that they need to be active in the off-season. I say weights are mandatory but I do make exceptions.
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Post by vanden48 on May 24, 2016 15:12:01 GMT -6
Opposing player gets leveled into our sideline and the DC who got fired in the off-season by the administration for his mouth, screams over the kid "YOU SIT DOWN WHEN YOU PEE!!!"
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Post by vanden48 on May 13, 2016 11:06:32 GMT -6
You hire the best coach for the job. Good coaches are loyal. I have been part of many staffs on college and high school levels. You find coaches who will be loyal, the best football minded coach who can help your players win. I have been hired for on staffs because of my cognitive abilities as a coach. I haven't agreed with every head coach I have worked with, however you support the head coach all the way. The moment you publicly express disagreement you need to go. Coaches can agree and disagree over almost everything.
The last coach I worked under I disagreed with on many things, and I would have conversations with him about my positions. He took some suggestions and he didn't take others. The main reason he listened is because he knew I would support him no matter what and never speak poorly of him to anyone. Assistants need to know their roles.
Bottom line, hire the best coaches that are going to get the job done the way you want them to do it. We could literally start a whole other thread about how to hire coaches.
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Post by vanden48 on May 2, 2016 9:38:13 GMT -6
I will go with the 3 states I have coached HS ball in: Arizona: Great State for football, but you have the Chandler schools, then you have everyone else. The open enrollment in this state has allowed there to be a few programs that basically recruit all of the talent in their district. 1) Steve Belles, Hamilton HS Runs the best program in the state. They churn out talent every year and run like a machine. His infrastructure and other than football organization is off the charts. Plus they develop QB's like no other program in the state. 2) Norris Vaughn, Mt. Pointe Motivator supreme. He took Mt. Pointe from irrelevant to one of the best programs in the state. The man knows his football and knows how to change culture. 3) Paul Morro, Marcos De Niza (Formerly Poston Butte, and Blue Ridge) What he did at Blue Ridge was once in a generation. What he did at Poston Butte hopefully was a fluke and not a reflection of him as a coach. If he can win at Marcos he will only add to his legend.
California: This is hard because of the size of the state, but having recruited the state when I coached college ball I have a pretty good understanding of who these coaches are and what they do.
1) Now that Lad is not running the show at DLS, and he should be the top of the national list for HS coaches as far as I am concerned, we will go with another coach. My new #1 is Mike Alberghini, Grant HS. Coach Al has taken a school that is literally in the Ghetto into a national powerhouse. He changes the offense and the defense depending on his talent level, he keeps his kids eligible and out of jail, and he churns out NFL talent every year. The kids and the community love Coach Al, and they would protect him with their life. He truly cares about his players and it shows in how they play for him. 2) Bruce Rollinson, Mater Dei. Mater Dei has more resources than maybe any other high school in the nation besides the IMG academy. And Coach Rollinson doesn't let them go to waste. He has established a culture at Mater Dei that is second to none. The players that have come out of that high school, Heisman trophy winners, NFL players galore, D1 talent every year. 3) Matt Logan, Centennial(Corona) Centennial was one of the easiest schools to recruit from. Coach Logan had everything so streamlined, and he pushed his players at every level. Their offense is amazing to watch in action. Their defense takes their studs and utilizing their athletic ability better than anyone. They win, they win, and they win again, until they face De La Salle(except the year they had Vontaze)
North Dakota: Small school football. Very few athletes that can compete nationally, but there are some solid coaches in the State.
1) Rod Oksendahl, Fargo Shanley Coach Oksendahl built a small school juggernaut at Cavalier high school. He knows how to develop a winning culture. He is doing the same now at a larger school in Fargo.
2) Mark Gibson, Bismarck HS He wins every year and the program is a machine. They always produce great teams and haven't had a losing record since 1999.
3) Larry Sandy, Velva/Sawyer He consistently gets over 75% of the male population at the school out for football every year. They are one of the most physical teams in the state every year. They have a great off-season lifting program. He has kids from this small town every year that go off to play college football at some level. 10 State Championships since 1975. He has the blueprint for how to win in a small town.
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Post by vanden48 on Apr 29, 2016 10:15:31 GMT -6
You are completely misunderstanding me. You made the comment earlier that the tire is only moving at 1/2 mile per hour, so therefore there could be no skin burn. My comment on a dry grass skin burn was to demonstrate that you could get skin burn on something that is moving at ZERO miles per hour. The grass is not moving. The tire is moving. And not at 1/2 mph by the way. I would estimate those things are rolled at 5-10 mph. But that still isn't the point. The skin burn friction comes from the fact that the PERSON is running. He generates most or all of the speed and his skin is coming in contact with rubber which has a tremendously higher coefficient of friction that grass. So you can get skin burn from sliding full speed on the grass that is not moving. I would just think that you are asking for skin burn when you are trying to tackle at full speed a moving hunk of rubber. I was not saying that you should avoid any kind of drill so that you could avoid grass skin burns. I am saying that maybe it would be better to buy the product that is made for being used as a tackling wheel instead of using a rubber tire. It really was an off-hand comment about that skin burns could be a possibility. I cannot believe that I have to defend this statement that skin burns could possibly happen while tackling a moving rubber tire. I could be wrong. I 100% believe I could be wrong on that. I have never tried to tackle a rubber wheel. My point was to stop and think about some negative points before people go and try and literally "reinvent the tackling wheel." LMAO Skin burn, hell. Any tire big enough to be worth tackling is going to be heavy and hard. After you tackle it it's not going to roll like a foam tackling wheel. Somebody can break bones and when they do and you're out of work and the judge rules for the plaintiff the tackling wheels will look cheap. Exactly what I was saying. I just don't think it would be a good idea to tackle a tire, and I don't have the time to spray foam into a mold. God bless you guys that have the time. I am really looking hard though for something that can mark my FOOTBALLS. I just don't want my balls getting mixed up with anybody else's balls and I would like my balls to look nice. I have horrible handwriting and the sharpie usually rubs off.
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Post by vanden48 on Apr 28, 2016 12:23:05 GMT -6
On a side note, does anybody know where I can order a device to mark my balls?
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Post by vanden48 on Apr 28, 2016 11:50:28 GMT -6
So spending $300 on expanding foam to make a tackling ring you can buy for $300? www.bsnsports.com/tackle-wheelWell to each their own I guess. I don't have the time to do all of that. I just tried to make some tires with nets on them that I could hang from the goal post for the QBs to throw into. Got the tires for free, spent $25 on the netting, which wasn't thick enough. Spent about $75 on the hardware. And after stapling the net onto the tire and drilling all the hardware in I watched the net rip after the the first hard pass hit it dead on. I ordered a couple of QB practice target nets for $130 instead. I just don't have the time or manpower to make stuff I can order to save money. My time is money and the when I take in the time I spend making things, it ends up costing me much more.
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Post by vanden48 on Apr 27, 2016 21:45:32 GMT -6
I'm just going to go ahead and say that tackling a tire would not be safe. If you can't buy the tackling rings, don't try and tackle a tire, that would be dumb and would get kids hurt. Coachbdud has alot of good posts and ideas, I', hoping he was kidding about this one.
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Post by vanden48 on Apr 25, 2016 9:41:42 GMT -6
I just did a youth camp and used the Fisher Tackling Rings. I had the K-2 graders tackle the 28" and the 36" ring. And the 3-6th graders tackle the 36" and 42" ring. It worked out pretty good. If the device is too big they tend to roll over the top of it when they try to bring it down.
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Post by vanden48 on Apr 15, 2016 11:53:00 GMT -6
I think you could take 500 towns in Texas and there isn't one town in the rest of the nation that could have the same atmosphere and support. That aside, all of those towns are football towns, despite the success or lack of it in recent years. I would like to hear if there are other towns people have coached at or played that or football crazy? California is tough because almost every city has multiple High Schools representing it. I would say Sacramento, CA has some great support, if I was to pick one CA city, from Grant HS to Folsom and Jesuit the High School football is very well supported.
In Arizona I would go with the city of Chandler. They are the Texas of AZ High School football. Two powerhouse schools in Hamilton and Chandler High compete for state titles every year. Even Seton Catholic destroys the D4 ranks in AZ. The school district gives the coaches a football class and dumps a ton of money into the programs. Plus they seem to churn out an NFL guy or two every year.
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Post by vanden48 on Apr 13, 2016 16:14:44 GMT -6
I took this team over this year. For the past 6 years they have been getting their lunch handed to them, maybe getting 2 wins a year, and when they lost they lost by 40-50. This year the tables turned. We were winning games by an average of 50 points. I would pull my guys about in the 4th, sometimes after the 1st series of the 3rd quarter. I had two coaches confront me after the games this year, one tried to physically fight me!! The 5th game of the year we were up 44-0 and they scored on my freshmen and sophomores. They then on-sided the kick which went to my Sr X WR who is on the line of my KOR. He took the kick across the field and returned it 55 yards for a TD. After the game the other coach told me I was classless and should have pulled all of my starters. But it is a small school, I don't have back-ups on special teams. The 7th game of the year the other team was clearly out matched, we were up 56-14 in the 4th quarter. I was trying to run the clock out with 3 minutes left in the game. We were on the 35 going in and it was 4th and 4, I had all of my back-ups in. I called for the punt team, and we don't punt. They called time-out with a running clock. So I left the punt team, which would have been all seniors, on the bench and told the Offense to stay out. Now they have already scored on the back up defense twice, and both times got called for celebrating, the other team. I called a 90 pass, which is hitches by the X and Z on the outside and streaks by the Y and F on the inside. I told the QB to hit the hitch for the 1st we we could run down the clock. They sent the house and he threw to the F for a 35 yard TD. After the game one of their assistants chest bumped me, called me some very foul names, and wanted to fight me.
The first coach and I spoke later and I explained to him our special teams situation and he said he was just upset about losing, two years ago however he had no problem beating our team by 48 points. The 2nd team sealed his fate and I will look to break the state scoring record on them this season.
Bottom line get upset at the scores if you want, it is a waste of time. Get you team better and don't get beat so bad.
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Post by vanden48 on Apr 6, 2016 11:58:17 GMT -6
I sell a ton of lollipops and cookie dough.
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Post by vanden48 on Apr 5, 2016 14:24:38 GMT -6
I am also ordering some. I ordered 2 of each size, small, medium, and large. What are some of the drills we can use these for? Are the large ones too big for my 7th and 8th graders? Are the small ones too small for my 11th and 12th graders?
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Post by vanden48 on Mar 30, 2016 16:33:21 GMT -6
Does anybody use any helmets other than Riddell, Schutt, or Xenith?
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Post by vanden48 on Mar 16, 2016 7:48:32 GMT -6
ksmitty79 that is a great idea!!! I might do that with shoulder pads as well!!! But what happens when the kid grows after his freshmen year?
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Post by vanden48 on Mar 13, 2016 15:26:15 GMT -6
Well this last year I had my whole junior high team in the Xenith Youth and I didn't have one concussion in my 7th and 8th graders. I had 4 at the high school level and 3 of them were in Schutt Air Xp. The one that was in a Xenith took one right under the chin.
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Post by vanden48 on Mar 13, 2016 10:33:44 GMT -6
I have searched for a thread that had something about comparing different shoulder pads and helmets. If there is one please direct me to it and I will delete this one.
I recently asked my friend who is a college head coach what helmets he likes. He said he will only purchase Riddell. I have been sold on the Xenith's. I see a ton of NCAA D1 and NFL guys in the new Schutts. The NFL concussion test has Xenith as the top rated for concussion prevention. The top end helmets all cost about the same with maybe the Riddells a bit more than the Schutts and Xeniths.
So just curious about how other people feel.
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Post by vanden48 on Mar 8, 2016 21:55:53 GMT -6
I like the idea of posting a depth chart. The problem fantom has I think can be solved by putting the player's name up there twice under different spots. I didn't post one last year and it caused some miscommunications and chaos on all three levels of the program. I want the coaches to know who they have and where they are going in at, same with the players.
This will also let some kids decide to try and compete at another position. My All State Y receiver who is returning is not going to get beat out this year. The #2 Y might decide that he is better than the #1 Z or the #1 X, and ask to compete there with other players who he might beat out.
I like the idea of posting depth charts and I'm going to post one for Offense and Defense that is 5 deep, for each level, Varsity, JV, and Junior High. Special Teams will be two deep.
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Post by vanden48 on Feb 26, 2016 10:14:36 GMT -6
Our wrestling coach is all about football, but I think that is because all of his wrestlers are football players.
The last school I was at we had an OL that was over 400lbs as a freshmen. He joined wrestling just to lose weight and he dropped down to 285 his junior year and earned a D1 football scholarship. Only problem was that he was a little funny after he joined wrestling. He didn't seem to fit in with the football players and only hung around the wrestlers, who were strictly wrestlers. Wrestlers are a different breed all together in the first place, when they are pure wrestlers. And I don't like the hard work I put in during football season instilling character and values going out the window when tyhe wrestling weirdos get their hands on my best football players.
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Post by vanden48 on Feb 25, 2016 10:58:29 GMT -6
The only thing I don't like about football players wrestling is the obsession some wrestling coaches have with kids cutting weight. When you have a 165 lb Freshmen center that you would like to be 200 lbs as a sophomore slimming down to 142 for wrestling it is a little counter productive.
But I tell all the kids they are either wrestling, playing basketball, or in the weightroom. There is no 4th option if they want to play football.
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Post by vanden48 on Feb 18, 2016 10:25:46 GMT -6
Maybe I'm missing something here...but why don't you all have the players do their own laundry? I've never coached at a place where the kids laundered their own game unis. Reasons for us: 1. We want to make sure that they get done. We have no control over their family situation. 2. It eliminates kids forgetting them on game day. 3. They get laundered right. We get the stains out and nothing gets melted in the dryer. 4. Makes it harder to steal their jerseys. I'm all for washing our uniforms, but we have no washer and dryer at the school for this. And if I show up with two trash cans full of sweaty gear to take home to wash in our washer and dryer, my wife will kill me. The only solution is to have them wash their own uniforms, or is there another option?
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Post by vanden48 on Feb 16, 2016 10:26:17 GMT -6
I have coached with saturday practices and coached without them. I can tell you this, if you have a full staff, defensive and offensive staff, who is dedicated to the program, having a Saturday film session with the staff is extremely valuable for high schools. Bringing the players in presents two problems, one is what do you do about players that miss a saturday, and two does coming in saturday morning after a game burn them out. In college we would never watch film with the players the day after a game, they came in for injury treatment and that was it. Players watched film with their position coach after a team special teams session.
I am at a small school now with a very small part-time staff. I don't have the kids come in on saturday, I think they need the time off. I think with HUDL I can break down game film and share playlists with players and coaches and require them to watch the film on their own time. I can monitor their activity and see if they are watching or not and I will call them out on not watching film. I give the coaches some data that they need to enter for our opponents scout film, Down and Distance, hash, run/pass, ect. That way I don't have to train coaches on how to watch film and they can concentrate on entering small amounts of data and not get overwhelmed with weekend coaching work. These are guys that have other jobs and I understand that. Then they see the other team and they get their own perspective on what we will see and how we can attack it with out my influence. This gives me other ideas on how we should game plan.
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Post by vanden48 on Feb 10, 2016 16:23:13 GMT -6
Wow, this is an awesome post. I am getting some great ideas from it.
We are going to cut out punt returns this year. We never get a punt that is good enough to return for one. We don't have anyone that I have complete confidence in that won't muff the punt. And I like our chances of blocking the punt much better in terms of improving our field position.
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Post by vanden48 on Feb 2, 2016 12:25:02 GMT -6
I have used the A4 practice jerseys before. some ripped in season but they lasted for about 4 years.
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Post by vanden48 on Feb 2, 2016 8:53:24 GMT -6
Funny story. When I was a GA a long time ago we were on an away game. I was in charge of equipment, amongst everything else. So we had a departure time on a Friday of 7:00am. Naturally I was there at 4:30 getting all of the equipment, vedio stuff, buss meals, basically everything the team needed ready for the road trip. Now this was a D2 college so we didn't have the caravan of trailers that D1 college programs have, nor did we have an Army of equipment managers. It was me and another volunteer. So we are leaving from Arkansas with a game in Louisiana, I'm on the bus going through my head making sure I haven't missed anything that we need.
Headsets. Check. Cameras. Check. Water Jugs. Check. White Boards. Ummmm. Now my DC that I was working for I heard at the AFCA convention, was named "the GA killer". He actually showed me a bullet for a .44 Magnum that had my name etched in it. So you can imagine how white my face got when I realized that I forgot the white boards!!! I looked at the other GA and he started to laugh. "He is going to kill you" he said. Hoping that he didn't want to use it for any meetings that night I devised a plan to get a new white board. Before the team woke up, I called a Taxi, went to Wal-Mart and spent $40 on two new white boards. Now the kicker here is that the DC specifically told me on thursday to not forget the white boards.
So we get to stadium, I get all the sideline equipment set up, and place the white boards facedown. After the first defensive series he grabs the white board to start drawing stuff up, he pauses turns and glares at me for a solid 5 seconds, the whole defense is looking at me. He goes back to the white board and makes some adjustments. When he is done he grabs me and says "you forgot the whiteboards didn't you!!!" He was pissed that the brand new white boards were 4 inches smaller than the old beat up ones back in Arkansas. He didn't talk to me again until Sunday film.
So I learned a very tough lesson. Don't forget the GD white boards.
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Post by vanden48 on Jan 28, 2016 15:01:37 GMT -6
It is a spreadsheet that has time outs left and downs left and the time remaining that you can take a knee without giving the ball back to the opponent. I can email you one if you PM me your email. I have a sheet that has the 2 Point Conversion Chart, a Time Out taken chart to check off how many time outs are left for each team, each half, and a clock kill chart telling you when to take a knee.
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Post by vanden48 on Jan 28, 2016 13:18:58 GMT -6
I have run an eteamsponsor fundraiser every year. It is pretty successful. Look them up, it is an email donations thing. I tried to do the monthly recurring thing on a website by linking up a paypal account, but I didn't have a 501c3 form to give to paypal. You need that 501c3 and a website and it is pretty easy to set up with paypal.
Another one that I am exploring is integritysgift. Its a credit card reader that gives 35% of the fee it charges the businesses that use it, back to the school. If you have any local businesses that use credit cards it seems like a good idea. I can't seem to get any businesses here to get on board with me.
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Post by vanden48 on Jan 26, 2016 15:16:00 GMT -6
Always have a sheet that has a clock kill chart and a two point chart on it. I close games, under pressure, bad choices, are often made by unprepared coaches.
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Post by vanden48 on Jan 26, 2016 12:58:42 GMT -6
This ^ is insane, why would a school do that How many helmets will they let you buy per year? It is recommended every 2 years, hs Helmet will last 10, junior high spec helmet only 7 We try and send off any helmet that was used in. We also go through at the end of the season and inspect every helmet even before he reconditioning guys get there and throw a few out dated and some that just don't seem up to snuff. After year one I am purchasing 6 new helmets. Now we only have about 35-40 players in grades 9-12 in the program, so that is not bad. We also have our Junior high team that has 7th and 8th graders. When I got here they were putting these kids in any adult helmet that wasn't used by the high school. I thought this was about as dumb as it gets and I raised money to purchase 25 youth helmets. I am just curious as to what the other states have as their reconditioning requirements. I find it funny that there are rules and regulations for how many stripes I can have on my away jerseys, but there is nothing written down about the quality of the equipment that the players must have.
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