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Post by cqmiller on Jan 11, 2012 11:31:51 GMT -6
But honestly...
I do not hand out playbooks because if I tried to draw up just our Inside zone play vs. the fronts we would could see it would be about 30 pages long just for 1 play. It is impossible for you to make a playbook that would show every kid what to do vs. every defense.
I do have a copy of the "Playbook" sitting on my desk in a binder. Each page is in a sheet protector and the kids can come in and look at it in the office and we can talk about it and go through it together, but it only has the formations, motions, and rules for each play. We go over the rules all offseason and throughout 2-a-days. Once the rules for each of our base plays have been drilled into their heads, we will have to draw up what the rules look like against that opponent that week.
When I was in high school our coach gave us a playbook one year, and I ended up picking up about 2/3 of them off the floor in the locker room or the halls of school within a week. (I was a captain and didn't want opponents or our HC to find them). Any kid that really wants one will make one as he learns his plays and stuff. He can organize his notes from meetings or go home after practice and write down plays they ran that day. We encourage that sort of thing with our kids.
Luckily I have all my players in a weight training class and according to district policy participation can only be at most 30% of a final grade. There has to be an academic portion of their grade. My "academic" portion is for the kids to make their own playbooks. Offense this semester, defense next semester (starts next week). Then when I have them next year they will have to expand their basic playbook and add more plays/formations/etc...
Some of the kids have mentioned how hard it is to organize all the info that goes into just running a basic play. I think it is helping them learn a ton.
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Post by cqmiller on Jan 11, 2012 11:23:41 GMT -6
We always joke with the kids that they are allowed an opinion and that they can always make suggestions as long as they are filed in the suggestion box: . . Most of the kids understand what this means. Haven't had a parent try anything as far as playbook or X's and O's go. Have a dad who thinks his kid should catch 100 balls but we are a zone/power/counter team, so he is pissed every year. Only 1 more year of him complaining left!
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Post by cqmiller on Jan 10, 2012 12:17:34 GMT -6
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Post by cqmiller on Jan 10, 2012 12:15:56 GMT -6
Miller, Two questions: 1) Are your coaches up front with the business they go to that their $400-$500 will go to buy coaches clothing? 2) Have you ever had a coach hear about the expectation in an interview and decide he wasn't interested in being part of your staff as a result? 1) When I do mine I say that every single penny the kids raise gets spent on them so it is my job to raise money for my coaching apparel and that additional funds that coaches raise also help the kids pay for new uniforms, etc... Last year my coaches and I raised enough money to pay for our stuff and to pay for more than half of our new Uniforms for the kids. 2) When I was the assistant HC for a coach who had a very similar philosophy to this one, we did have a few guys who were not willing to do that and we parted ways with no hard feelings. We also had a few who reluctantly agreed to do what we asked of them. Within a year those reluctant guys LOVED the program and had bought in 100%. I have not had a coach that I have interviewed go away because of it, but I have only been the man in charge for 1 full year. I'm sure I'll run into some issues with it, but it is what it is. I promise I didn't mean to start the fire-storm that this thread has become. I know last night I had 80% of my staff at my house to watch the LSU-Bama game and we all get along and we have the beginnings of a great staff. I do need a couple more X's & O's guys as I have plenty of the guys that are excited and like to coach the kids, but I'm still looking for someone I can turn over 1 side of the ball to completely. Just gave an example of what I do here within my program and the expectations I have, and it started a crazy discussion. Sounded originally like the guy who posted the original question has been having trouble paying (or doesn't like pulling that much money out of his account) for all his coaching gear. I saw the same issue, so my solution was to have the coaches earn it themselves. Others that would not be acceptable. Doesn't bother me either way.
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Post by cqmiller on Jan 9, 2012 14:05:36 GMT -6
Anything I've worn = GYM and Yardwork clothes.
Anything unworn = Give to boosters to sell at games and get some of the $ back into the program
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Post by cqmiller on Jan 9, 2012 14:00:25 GMT -6
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Post by cqmiller on Jan 9, 2012 12:58:55 GMT -6
My coaches have to raise money for their gear or pay for themselves. 1st year on staff they raise $1000, and only $800 each year after that.
We sell banners that we hang in the stands for businesses to purchase for $500 and renew for $400. Program advertisement ads for different prices. Coach brings in 2 banner companies and he's done. Renew them each year and done. I hook my coaches up with a ton of nice gear so it is pricey. EVERYBODY thought we looked professional and when it snowed, we all had our snow gear and other things.
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Post by cqmiller on Jan 6, 2012 8:05:46 GMT -6
Unfortunately... I have had this one said to me. Pat you know where I was at before GW! Also had a kid tell me he quit because he was playing too much. Didn't want to be a 2-way starter.
I'm telling ya... harder to find kids that can handle football these days. MENTALLY SOFT
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Post by cqmiller on Dec 31, 2011 18:58:44 GMT -6
Same amount of damage that there has always been, but now we are looking for it so it "appears" more often. Same thing happened with cancer. Amount of cancer isn't getting worse, our ability to find it is getting better. People used to die in their early 50's of "natural causes" all the time. Now we call it one of the million cancers we know about.
The only way to eliminate the injuries is to completely remove the contact from the sport. Then the sport is over. My little brother could not play his last 8 games of his junior year and his entire senior year of high school due to concussions. He is an assistant on my staff and he is one of the first ones to say that he just had bad luck with the hits he took and for him he had to quit football. If these players do not wish to play football due to the risk of injury, that is perfectly fine by me. Play basketball and then try to make a rule to prevent knee overuse injuries. Any of those NFL players who want to make my salary and have no risk of concussions from teaching I would take their salary and be a tackling dummy for a couple of years.
High Risk = High Pay
Sorry.. i am really on one this week with all of the attacks that football is under. I personally do not watch the NFL anymore or care about any of the "records" being broken. Dan Marino could have passed for 10,000 yards in a season if the DB's weren't allowed to touch WR's and the DL weren't allowed to hit the QB. Not a surprise that rookie QB's can all of a sudden be good QB's in the NFL. The #1 learning curve used to be the physicality of the DB's with the WR's and the ferocious pass rushes.
I'm done with the soap box and hope that we can keep this one part of our culture where fighting through pain, injury, and tough times is the point. God knows that 99% of the kids I teach quit as soon as anything gets hard.
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Post by cqmiller on Dec 31, 2011 18:27:33 GMT -6
Eventually football will be about toughness once again... I just got done reading the book on Vince Lombardi and he is probably rolling over in his grave right now with all of the stuff going on with the game he loved.
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Post by cqmiller on Dec 23, 2011 22:48:19 GMT -6
OC at 22, DC at 24, OC again at 26. Was hired when I was 27 as the HC, turned 28 a month later and had our first season this year.
You can never be fully ready for a HC job even though I was the assistant HC for 5 years prior to getting a HC job, I learned a ton this year about it not being about what I know, but what my staff can teach to the kids. As a coordinator I always had to only have one side of the ball to worry about so my workload tripled.
I'll never regret making the jumps I did. Moved to CA at age 24 with my buddy to be his DC and met my wife out there. Lived there for 4 years and learned from 2 different HC's and now I am back in SLC area where I grew up and am the youngest head coach in the top 3 divisions of football here.
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Post by cqmiller on Dec 22, 2011 18:28:12 GMT -6
great topic coach I am always working to minimize, everything looks good on paper to me... I am always fighting with myself on... well what if we just added this, at some point it becomes too much and I KNOW IT, I PREACH IT, but I am a womanizer of football plays, they are all just so sexy I need to demand more, year round... Last year I was too loose with the weight room, that is changing with my OL group last year there were times were i had less intensity at practice and we suffered, the kids gave less intensity in drills and team, and we played worse as a unit. The times when I was super intense all week, we played much better. So if it means I have to take a 5 hour energy shot everyday before practice then so be it, but I have to keep my intensity up I am always looking to become a better teacher of basic OL skills... down blocks, pulls, pass pro ... all of it I think I make major strides in this area every year, scheme stuff is easy... anyone can get playbooks, but the teaching of skills, and getting your kids to move their kids is all football is. When I look back to when I started at age 18, I didnt know crap, I thought I did, but I didnt know crap. In another few years I'll probably look back at myself now (23) and think OMG what an idiot You can always come out here to UT and I can work on my delegation skills by giving you some responsibility. I'm in the process of making a heavy push this clinic season to find 3-4 more coaches who can help out our staff. Mine is very inexperienced but eager to learn.
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Post by cqmiller on Dec 22, 2011 18:25:32 GMT -6
Delegation of responsibility...
This being my 1st year as a HC, I had a guy that was going to be my DC but he was offered a better teaching job closer to home not long before the season started. I had to take over the defense. So in my 1st year as a HC, I was the OC, DC, and STC. Each morning I ran the weightroom at 5:30 AM and study hall from 2:30 PM - 3:20 PM. Who supervised all the fundraisers... me.
I guess in my past experiences as an assistant, I was always the only one on staff that the HC could count on to get anything done, so I did everything that the HC couldn't get done. I'm trying to train some of my assistants to take on more responsibility, but I know that I will have a hard time trusting that it will get done RIGHT.
Hopefully I get better at it this offseason as I move into my 2nd year as a HC.
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Post by cqmiller on Dec 21, 2011 16:27:06 GMT -6
There is no such thing as a "concussion helmet".
All of the new helmets are supposedly "concussion specific" ones, but all our concussions were in Xeniths, and the most expensive Schutts and Riddells. I make sure I purchase at least the 4star rated helmets from the VaTech study on helmets to cover myself, but I have still seen an increase in concussions because EVERYTHING is now considered a concussion, so even though I have "better helmets" and "better equipment", and "better knowledge", we have more concussions. Before too long we will all be coaching 7on7 year-round and lineman competitions will just be what we do with the bigger kids.
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Post by cqmiller on Dec 21, 2011 14:15:23 GMT -6
I could really use these 2 things:
1) More Athletes 2) Less Paperwork
Pretty sure those will be my top 2 from now until the day I die. If I need to learn more about an offense or defense I will get on this site and ask or go spend the $15 for a book. But these 2 things on my list I cannot seem to get them the way I want them for some reason.
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Post by cqmiller on Dec 9, 2011 14:09:28 GMT -6
The rankings are important because on the night of the banquet, we give them out in this order so the ones that are what we consider "better" are at the end. We always start off with Academics first...haha!! ;D The academic awards are before dinner... others are after.
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Post by cqmiller on Dec 9, 2011 10:10:31 GMT -6
Here are our awards in what we consider their ranking. The rankings are important because on the night of the banquet, we give them out in this order so the ones that are what we consider "better" are at the end. We always start off with Academics first which is the announcement of our team GPA followed by each grades Academic Award Winner:
Team GPA Announcement Senior Academic Award Junior Academic Award Sophomore Academic Award Freshman Academic Award
Offensive POY Defensive POY Special Teams POY Player of the Year Toughness Award Practice POY Leadership Award Coaches Award Most Improved Player Heart Award
The POY awards go first followed by what are by far more team-oriented awards such as leadership and coaches awards.
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Post by cqmiller on Nov 29, 2011 11:32:00 GMT -6
I would definitely say to be honest about the kids' ability to play at what level. Just had a 1-AA school (FCS I think they call it now) visit this morning and when he came in the door he had an idea of what he was looking for. He flat out asked me "Can __________ play for us?"
Unfortunately, I had to tell him the truth because a couple of the kids he was asking about would be long-shot projects at best and I told him that if they are looking for a project, than maybe. He thanked me and said that too often coaches will try to sell a kid because he is a "good kid" or "coachable", but the kid just doesn't have the ability to play at that level. They don't want to waste their time, and you shouldn't waste yours either.
If you have a kid that can definitely play at the 1AA level, then put a highlight clip of him together and get it to all the 1AA schools you have info on (and that the kid would be willing to attend). I basically tell my kids that I will HELP them get recruited, but I'm not doing it all for them. I won't send films to anyone until a kids gives me his top 10 schools that they would DEFINITELY go to. No point wasting time of everyone on something that isn't going to happen.
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Post by cqmiller on Nov 16, 2011 21:41:54 GMT -6
Used to be at a school under 800, this job I have now is bigger 1500 kids.
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Post by cqmiller on Nov 13, 2011 14:51:10 GMT -6
We could never have a 9-1 miss the playoffs. We have had some 4-6 make it over some 6-4 teams, but that is due to the fact that the 4 wins by the 4-6 team would have been in their league and the 6-4 team may have won their 4 non-league games but only went 2-4 in their league.
Class 5A (Largest) has 4 Regions (Leagues) Region 1 Region 2 Region 3 Region 4
The #1 seed from region 1 would play a 4 seed from another region, and so you get a 16-team bracket like march madness.
Same goes for all classifications. Obviously the smallest schools will have 2-8 or 4-6 make it because all of their non-league games are against much bigger schools, but for the most part, you end up with anyone who was very good in the playoffs.
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Post by cqmiller on Nov 4, 2011 12:55:05 GMT -6
Coaches Gear 1) Socks 2) Plastic Grocery Bag Around Each Foot over the socks 3) 2nd Pair of socks over the grocery bag. 4) Under Armour Long Cold-Gear Pants 5) Whatever long pants your staff wears to games (We have Khaki UA coaching pants) 6) Under Armour Long Gold-Gear Shirt 7) Whatever shirt your staff wears to games (We have our Home and Away Shirts) 8) If your staff planned ahead and bought rain/snow gear, put weather-proof layer on top. We got some great stuff for our staff. 9) GLOVES!!!
Players Gear 1) Copy the coaches with the grocery bags. Nothing worse than cold feet. 2) Copy under armour long sleeves and pants 3) "Don't earn your pu55y card tonight! This is football weather"
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Post by cqmiller on Nov 1, 2011 22:30:28 GMT -6
im about to drive 100 miles sat. morning for film exchange, they have hudl, we dont, we have apex, but hudle wouldn;t work for us anyway, our internet has crashed 8 times this year, and signal around here is awful (very rural), maybe in the next 5 years it will get better and we can I'm an APEX guy as well... Just create a dropbox account so you can send your film to them. They can add you as a "recruiter" and send you the film through Hudl. Once you get the film through Hudl, you can download it to your CPU and not have to worry about the internet issues. Easy
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Post by cqmiller on Nov 1, 2011 22:29:04 GMT -6
Dropbox... It is free and you can download the video directly to your CPU. Then burn as many discs as you want.
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Post by cqmiller on Oct 31, 2011 21:29:44 GMT -6
4 Regions (conferences) per Division:I like it much better than the CA "BCS" system where teams are arbitrarily ranked and not everyone is given a fair shot. Regions (conferences) must have all schools of the same size (All D1's or All D2's). In CA there is a league with everything from D1 all the way to D5 in the same league. Making an accurate comparison of teams is impossible in that case. I coached in CA a couple years ago, the BCS thing only takes place for the post playoff state championships. Before that they do have CIF championships; which are the equivalent to state playoffs. The thing about CIF is that there are TEN different sections, and some sections have upwards of 12 divisions (though most have 4 or 5). So basically at the end of the year (before the BCS esque state games) you have about 60 CIF champions. When I was there you'd see some 5-5 teams make it, some 6-4 not; 7-3 was almost a lock to get in. True... but the section playoffs are seeded arbitrarily as well. Teams that are 9-1 can get a 5-seed while team that is 8-2 can get a 3 seed based on strength of schedule. Always an issue with who plays who. I hated it.
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