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Post by cqmiller on Mar 15, 2022 11:44:25 GMT -6
Anyone out there teach a class about all things football? History, strategy, conditioning, programming, etc.? Does the class also lift/condition? I have 1st period every day with our kids for "Competitive Athletics" and "Advanced Weightlifting - Football". IN-SEASON.....Mon - Wed = Workouts ..........30 min = Dynamic Warmup and Speed Work ..........60 min = Weightlifting .....Thu = Sub-Varsity Gameday ..........Sub-Varsity = Game Walkthru on Field ..........Varsity = Final Gameplan Meeting/Test .....Fri = Varsity Gameday ..........Sub-Varsity = Day After Stretch/Workout for half period, watch game film from previous day for other half. ..........Varsity = Game Walkthru on Field OUT OF SEASON.....5 Day School Weeks ..........Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri = Workouts ..........Wed = Playbook, Character, Teambuilding, etc... .....4 Day School Weeks ..........Workout all 4 days .....3 Day School Weeks ..........Workout for 2 Days ..........Playbook, Character, Teambuilding, etc... on 1 day We don't do ANYTHING after school out of season. I want the kids playing other sports. Depending on the group and where they are, we have done anything you can think of during those Playbook/Character/Teambuilding days.
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Post by cqmiller on Feb 25, 2022 15:59:00 GMT -6
All kinds shapes and colors.
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Post by cqmiller on Feb 23, 2022 23:10:02 GMT -6
Had a very successful clinic... Tons of fun... even have an awesome story about our vehicles being towed at midnight the last night of the clinic with all the out-of-town speakers stuff inside!!! LOL
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Post by cqmiller on Feb 15, 2022 11:29:39 GMT -6
coachp83 it is a local guy that used to work for Varsity Gold way back in the day. Company is called Flames 6 Incorporated. I can get you his info, but he works in the UT, ID, NV, WY, CO area. Places he can drive from here. When Varsity Gold blew-up 1000s of guys who used to work there created their own companies.
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Post by cqmiller on Feb 15, 2022 0:36:00 GMT -6
I've used SnapRaise before... used another company the past year (starting year 2 with them on the 22nd this month).
I would say this... you know if your community (players) have people in their lives likely to donate, or not likely to donate. If they aren't, it doesn't matter what the company says/does, you know your return will be "low" from what you are hoping. If you have a ton of willing donors, you are probably giving up a lot of money (whatever their % is) that you could have kept if you just made sure your kids were well-informed on what to tell anyone they know who may want to donate.
At the end of the day, what are you trying to get out of it? I only use 2 fundraisers for my players each season... this online one, and then the discount cards everyone does. We focus HEAVILY on the kids participating in these fundraisers and then the coaches/parents sell banners for stadium, secure donations, anything else on top of that. We have benchmarks for what we need the money for and then each benchmark a kid meets with fundraising they are given a "reward" for meeting that benchmark.
With the new financial rules (and my school being free breakfast/lunch schoolwide). If I call something a "spirit pack" or a "football shirt", then kids on fee-waivers have to be given one regardless of whether they fundraise or not and I'm stuck paying the bill. We've made everything a reward if you complete something. For instance, I've got a breakdown of a new helmet, plus reconditioning, plus decals on a helmet for as many years as an average helmets lasts calculated out for the parents. In order for me to buy a helmet for your kid to use for 4 years in my program, I have to pay the initial cost of the helmet, plus reconditioning, plus decals, which ends up about $175 per year. All other safety equipment, game jerseys, and REQUIRED equipment adds up to between $500 and $600 per player, per year. If we don't have that amount of money come in, we can't run a football program. So we split all those items into tiers and if a kid fundraises to tier 1, he will get Reward 1. If he fundraises to tier 2 he will get Reward 2. This continues up and you can earn more and more stuff as you continue to fundraise.
Our goal is that parents do not have to pay a single cent for their kids to participate in our program... but they may only get the equipment necessary to compete on the football team if we don't do a good job fundraising. If a kid can get $400 from all of his family all over the country donated online, and we get to keep $320 of it (that's normal around here for the online ones), then the kid has already reached tier 1 an is almost on tier 2. If he keeps at it and can get a little more, he's at tier 3... then we get to cards and he's pushing for the custom hoodie/sweatpants that the players help me design and the other items the kids WANT, but you can only get thru fundraising.
We've had success with it, but you always go into all those fundraisers with the idea of "if each kid just gets ____, then we get to keep _____, which doesn't seem that hard". Unfortunately you never raise what you hope.
The companies on the other end are a means-to-an-end. If you can find a rep or a company that reinvests into the kids (our guy donates A LOT of $$$ back to me so we can run this national clinic we are having this Friday/Saturday at the school, then you are making more than that 80% on the paperwork you filled out in the long-term.
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Post by cqmiller on Feb 10, 2022 22:31:12 GMT -6
Thanks for having me. It was a lot of fun
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Post by cqmiller on Feb 10, 2022 11:46:38 GMT -6
If I got paid $10 an hour I'd have a STROKE... What do you guys get for summer pay? No summer pay... I get about a $3000 stipend for the entire year. Assistants get about $1600 That's it.
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Post by cqmiller on Feb 10, 2022 10:02:14 GMT -6
If I got paid $10 an hour I'd have a STROKE...
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Post by cqmiller on Feb 9, 2022 21:52:10 GMT -6
I agree... A lot of guys post "we want multi-sport" athletes, but then require 6 hours a day 7 days a week for their sport. I want the kids to do summer baseball and summer basketball tournaments. We do a single 7on7 and last year was the 1st one we had done in like 4 years. The kids begged us to do one. I'd rather have the kids wanting more football as we get into camp than being like... "we have 13 more weeks of this _____?!?!?!" We do staff BBQs, staff movie outings, family dinners, some of us are in a D&D group, and I coach my 8yo son's basketball team in the winter and his accelerated baseball team in the spring. What we do with the kids in the summer helps them for ALL SPORTS. Lifting weights and doing speed/agility work on the field without tackling increases their ability to play the other sports. We get better at football the more of my kids play other sports. .....why teach a kid to catch punts/kickoffs when you can just have 3-4 outfielders on your team? .....why teach a kid to high-point footballs all day, when all the kids on the basketball team have been taught how to rebound .....shuffling in basketball is like shuffling in football. Keeps shoulders square and under control .....sprinting in track makes them accelerate & decelerate better .....etc... Let other coaches make your kids better... you look like a better coach, but you can actually spend time with your wife and kids I can respect a man that admits to playing D&D on a football coaching board. That’s confidence. It’s more respected nowadays but my brother played in high school and took a lot of shitt for it. I never understood why anyone cared. I was a chemistry major and a math minor... teach chemistry all day other than my 7-9am football period. I've been a nerd for a LONG TIME.
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Post by cqmiller on Feb 9, 2022 20:01:04 GMT -6
I'm tempted. My wife would kill me if I tried to move again. You don't require crap compared to some around here. 3-4 hours 5 days/week in the summer + 3 hour practices, weekend marathon meetings + 7on7's every weekend. WOOF. It's like a season before a season.
One coaching stop had the following summer schedule:
Every week: Weights: Monday-Thursday, 8am-10am 7v7/Lineman on bags Monday and Wednesday, 7pm-9pm June: Overnight team camp, 8 hours away. (four, 2-hour padded practices the week before we went)
7v7 games: every Saturday
July: Overnight 7v7 camp, 6 hours away 7v7 games: every Saturday
Team camp: Wednesday night- Saturday night, last week of the month.
Words of wisdom from the HC: "You have the first two weeks of August off, enjoy them. It's going to be a long season after that."
(Uh... Didn't the season basically start in June?)
Been there... I do my best to NOT do that to the coaches. My assistants requested we have 1 monthly playbook meeting this offseason, so one Tuesday night a month we go in my basement with a bunch of barley-water and go over scheme. But it isn't me saying, "you gotta be there for ______". They requested it. I grind as much as the next guy, but I also believe in getting the same $h!t done in less time. 1 hour focused lifting and 1 hour of focused install/review/reps/indy of our base schemes is PLENTY. I was a 17 year old kid once... I'd be like, "I'll come to practice in the AM coach... pools open at like noon... I wanna be at the pool with the ladies by then" My frustration comes from where I'm at has been so bad for so long, they act like I'm holding them hostage with what I'm doing... I try to tell them they have no idea, but I think they think I'm full of it.
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Post by cqmiller on Feb 9, 2022 16:05:54 GMT -6
I brew my own beer... staff meetings at my house can be quite fun... 250+ bottles at any given time. I'm tempted. My wife would kill me if I tried to move again. You don't require crap compared to some around here. 3-4 hours 5 days/week in the summer + 3 hour practices, weekend marathon meetings + 7on7's every weekend. WOOF. It's like a season before a season. I agree... A lot of guys post "we want multi-sport" athletes, but then require 6 hours a day 7 days a week for their sport. I want the kids to do summer baseball and summer basketball tournaments. We do a single 7on7 and last year was the 1st one we had done in like 4 years. The kids begged us to do one. I'd rather have the kids wanting more football as we get into camp than being like... "we have 13 more weeks of this _____?!?!?!" We do staff BBQs, staff movie outings, family dinners, some of us are in a D&D group, and I coach my 8yo son's basketball team in the winter and his accelerated baseball team in the spring. What we do with the kids in the summer helps them for ALL SPORTS. Lifting weights and doing speed/agility work on the field without tackling increases their ability to play the other sports. We get better at football the more of my kids play other sports. .....why teach a kid to catch punts/kickoffs when you can just have 3-4 outfielders on your team? .....why teach a kid to high-point footballs all day, when all the kids on the basketball team have been taught how to rebound .....shuffling in basketball is like shuffling in football. Keeps shoulders square and under control .....sprinting in track makes them accelerate & decelerate better .....etc... Let other coaches make your kids better... you look like a better coach, but you can actually spend time with your wife and kids
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Post by cqmiller on Feb 9, 2022 12:27:27 GMT -6
Salt Lake City Can't find coaches because of the time commitment, which I feel is not that bad compared to what I know some guys have. Trying to rebuild a terrible program the past 3 years. I'm 8-22 the last 3 years... if we go 7-3 this year, I'll be the 2nd all-time winningest coach (by %) in school history. If I go 5-5 for the next 5 years I'll be 2nd all-time in total wins. I need coaches bad... Do you hire non LDS teachers? I brew my own beer... staff meetings at my house can be quite fun... 250+ bottles at any given time.
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Post by cqmiller on Feb 9, 2022 10:10:18 GMT -6
I am the HC... I am there 99% of the time. If I'm not there, it is because my children have games/tournaments or things that I can't do at another time. I expect coordinators to be there about as often as me... we do an hour workout and an hour of on-field work. The coordinators have to be able to run the stuff on the field. Position coaches need to be there if they can, but it is okay if we setup a rotation. If the LB coach can only go into work later on Mondays, but not the other 3 days a week, then he can come on the day he can. Most of my coaches are NOT teachers, so asking them to miss work for something that literally pays peanuts is not something I like to do. We go from 7am-9am Monday-Thursday during the summer. Community we are in has kids who NEED summer jobs to pay bills at home, so we tell them to get job that starts at about 10am if possible. They get the weekends to themselves. Only 1 Saturday 7on7 and lineman competition. Coaches know if they can go into work at 9:30 Mon-Thu, they can literally be at all the workouts, get football in, then go to work and hang with the family after work. Where are you located and do you need an AC? I'm only like 1/3 joking, 2/3 serious Salt Lake City Can't find coaches because of the time commitment, which I feel is not that bad compared to what I know some guys have. Trying to rebuild a terrible program the past 3 years. I'm 8-22 the last 3 years... if we go 7-3 this year, I'll be the 2nd all-time winningest coach (by %) in school history. If I go 5-5 for the next 5 years I'll be 2nd all-time in total wins. I need coaches bad...
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Post by cqmiller on Feb 8, 2022 9:54:11 GMT -6
You can have all your stuff... you just have to download them, index them, and be organized. I am doing some HUDL topics at our clinic next week and that is one of the topics. You can export the video and data and have it forever.
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Post by cqmiller on Feb 7, 2022 21:25:49 GMT -6
I am the HC... I am there 99% of the time. If I'm not there, it is because my children have games/tournaments or things that I can't do at another time.
I expect coordinators to be there about as often as me... we do an hour workout and an hour of on-field work. The coordinators have to be able to run the stuff on the field.
Position coaches need to be there if they can, but it is okay if we setup a rotation. If the LB coach can only go into work later on Mondays, but not the other 3 days a week, then he can come on the day he can. Most of my coaches are NOT teachers, so asking them to miss work for something that literally pays peanuts is not something I like to do.
We go from 7am-9am Monday-Thursday during the summer. Community we are in has kids who NEED summer jobs to pay bills at home, so we tell them to get job that starts at about 10am if possible. They get the weekends to themselves. Only 1 Saturday 7on7 and lineman competition. Coaches know if they can go into work at 9:30 Mon-Thu, they can literally be at all the workouts, get football in, then go to work and hang with the family after work.
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Post by cqmiller on Feb 4, 2022 10:48:21 GMT -6
People are more willing to BUY a system than to take all the free materials great coaches have come up with and just learning it themselves and coming up with what works for them... just because Alabama does _____ doesn't mean that's the best way for your 14-18 year old kids to do _____.
I have a spreadsheet that I've developed for inventory, player management, roll, weightroom, everything I need to do as a HC and people would rather buy some software for $1000 per year because they are too lazy to just organize a spreadsheet the way they want to. I've saved over $20,000 of fundraising money by having my own spreadsheet the past 20 years... but some guys would rather just buy someone else's materials.
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Post by cqmiller on Jan 30, 2022 11:49:50 GMT -6
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Post by cqmiller on Jan 27, 2022 15:18:52 GMT -6
Playing time is the greatest reward of all... people look at a kid not playing for a quarter/half/game a "punishment", but PLAYING IS THE REWARD. The kid who IS PLAYING is being REWARDED for doing all the right things.
Focus on the kid who is doing the right things getting to play more. You are doing the same thing, but you are rewarding one kid, which because you can only play 11, is going to leave a kid out.
If winning games while doing the wrong things is your priority, then convince a teacher to change the grade of your best player and teach them that doing the wrong thing is okay as long as you can ball... if doing the right things is more important than whether you win a game on a Friday night, then reward the kids doing the right things with the funnest part of the sport. Playing the game.
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Post by cqmiller on Jan 20, 2022 23:02:20 GMT -6
Here are the updated materials for the clinic... more confirmations on speakers and we are almost done with speaker lineup. Just need 3-4 college guys to fill the general sessions and we are good to go! Clinic BrochureSpeaker Lineup
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Post by cqmiller on Jan 17, 2022 18:38:51 GMT -6
JUST LOCKED IN NOEL MAZZONE TO SPEAK AT THE CLINIC!!!
We are gonna have an amazing lineup this year.
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Post by cqmiller on Jan 15, 2022 10:54:40 GMT -6
Just added Coach Vint to the lineup.
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Venting
Jan 13, 2022 23:30:49 GMT -6
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Post by cqmiller on Jan 13, 2022 23:30:49 GMT -6
Kid in critical is committed to play RB at Wisconsin. His 2 dead friends have very recognizable last names in the Polynesian football community.
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Venting
Jan 13, 2022 21:37:12 GMT -6
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Post by cqmiller on Jan 13, 2022 21:37:12 GMT -6
This happened today about 1 mile from my house. I coach my 8 year old son in the little league football, basketball, and baseball in the community. I coach about 10 miles away, so I luckily didn't have any of these kids on my HS team, but 14 and 15 year old kids shouldn't have to deal with this. What could have been worth this? I can't think of anything that at 14 would make me do something like this. www.ksl.com/article/50327778/2-dead-1-injured-after-shooting-along-west-valley-city-roadway
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Post by cqmiller on Jan 13, 2022 12:14:55 GMT -6
Frank Dicocco's stuff (he used to be on Huey all the time before he passed) is good. That's what we use. hopefoundation.us/
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Post by cqmiller on Jan 13, 2022 7:51:36 GMT -6
Jeff Steinberg has one that's awesome.
I can send you mine if you pm me your email address
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Post by cqmiller on Jan 13, 2022 7:48:21 GMT -6
I agree. I may have to use my home brews
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Post by cqmiller on Jan 12, 2022 22:46:17 GMT -6
Got some updates on the clinic... we are still a go and now we have added Coach Ty Gower to the speaker schedule. We are planning on filming everything (hoping the sound quality will be good enough) and working on a way to get it to people after the fact if they really can't get here.
A huge draw of the clinic is that we cater lunch on Saturday and take the whole clinic out for dinner Friday night. I'm working with restaurants to see how this will work with the Covid situation right now, but we'll make sure we feed everyone! May not be able to drink all the barley-water we normally do if we can't get a restaurant to house us all with covid issues.
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Post by cqmiller on Jan 11, 2022 16:26:25 GMT -6
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Post by cqmiller on Jan 11, 2022 16:18:59 GMT -6
I know guys in UT had to have kids on lower levels wearing helmets with different color/paint/logos because we couldn't get helmets.
Luckily for me, we finish our 15th week of the season (state championships) before thanksgiving, and since we are independent, my season ended in mid-October and I sent in my recon less than a week later... got it back this past week. My rep I go through is awesome and completely up-front about things. He told me last January if I didn't order 1st, I wouldn't get helmets. This year, I ordered them before Christmas as well. They got delivered yesterday while I'm here at AFCA.
Nothing I've seen on the quality-side that you mentioned, but I know all the reps I work with are stressing about not being able to fill or complete orders because of things out of their hands.
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Post by cqmiller on Jan 7, 2022 20:28:50 GMT -6
You going to AFCA coach? Let's meet up if you are and get some of this done.
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