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Post by cqmiller on Jan 6, 2022 19:22:35 GMT -6
HIT ME UP COACH...
I can show you what I have already setup and see if we can make it fit for what you are looking for or I can walk you through setting one up the way you want.
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Post by cqmiller on Jan 1, 2022 14:13:39 GMT -6
No... he'll survive. We only dress 25 kids for a varsity game so we need the timeout anyway.
It drives me NUTS when a kid has a cramp and everyone in the stadium acts like he's going to die.
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Post by cqmiller on Dec 28, 2021 18:14:08 GMT -6
Wife's coming with... gonna have some fun without the kids...
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Post by cqmiller on Dec 27, 2021 16:10:55 GMT -6
Don't know... but I've got plane tickets, air BnB already purchased, and I'll be coming to San Antonio either to AFCA it up or just to party for a few days...
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Post by cqmiller on Dec 16, 2021 21:34:35 GMT -6
If you know the clips you want from HUDL, you can download them as a playlist like you would to create a highlight video and embed them directly into your PPT so that there is no switching back and forth. It means you have to put some time in on the front end, but it saves the time switching back and forth on the back end. Here are some PPTs from a clinic I did back in 2011 before HUDL got HUGE, so in order for most coaches to see what the video was, I had to have it in the presentations: Basic LB PlayIntermediate LB Play
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Post by cqmiller on Dec 10, 2021 11:02:06 GMT -6
Isn't it the truth that if the kid can ball they don't give a ish about weightroom or grades??? Not the guys who are recruiting heavy around here. On a non-official, "hey I just wanna say hi" visit, they don't, but if they are there to see a kid, they are asking for transcripts, asking if I'd let him watch my house if I was out of town, and things like that. There is plenty of talent out there... college guys lose their jobs for kids acting a fool these days.
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Post by cqmiller on Dec 9, 2021 17:59:27 GMT -6
LSU did forever ago... I tell our kids "I won't lie for you". If a coach asks me about you, I'm giving them the WHOLE truth...
Academics Weights Work Ethic Practice Film
TOTAL PACKAGE
If you don't like the truth, it is up to you to change it. While I agree that "we allow it" should be a thought... I have 40 kids in my program top to bottom. I have to pick my battles or I'm fired when we forfeit because I bench kids for things that (many) parents think are "trivial"
Last year I caught kids cheating on grades/schoolwork (blatantly) and to me that's a huge no-no. Told kids they weren't playing on Friday. You wouldn't believe the {censored} storm that caused... "you can't take away football for something he did in class" was mentioned several times... thats a hill I'll gladly die on. Good thing my admin agrees. Student more impressed than athlete.
I told a top-10 fcs school today the truth about a couple kids, so he thanked me for not wasting his time and he'll be back. I'm not ruining my rep with guys over a kid I know isn't gonna cut it. Them what happens when I have a kid?
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Post by cqmiller on Dec 1, 2021 21:28:58 GMT -6
We tried something like this (got it from a college guy at some point), but it just turned into a lot of headache for us and we have since stopped doing it. I love the idea of it, but that kid who really isn't gonna buy-in to the weightroom, still isn't gonna buy in when you start punishing his "team" for him not buying in. Caused a lot of friction.
I could give you a layout of how we did it, but as I said, it kinda didn't do what we thought it would for us. Maybe your kids/program it would work, so I don't want to discourage you from doing it, but I stopped developing it when we decided other things we should focus on.
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Post by cqmiller on Nov 29, 2021 14:23:43 GMT -6
Will there be an option to watch online? We are working on how to get the online content out to people. We do film the sessions, but don't go crazy with microphones and the technology to make it the greatest audio-quality. I'll be looking into how to make it better without having to go out and spend a bunch of money on new cameras/mics/etc... We are not at a point where we could stream it live either. I'll try to see what our options are and get back to everyone.
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Post by cqmiller on Nov 28, 2021 12:54:47 GMT -6
After taking a year off due to covid, we are going to be getting the annual clinic going again here in SLC. So far we have Coach Huey and coachsteiny coming out to speak. We've had a lot of guys from the site come speak or just attend. Reach out if you want to be added specifically to the email list with updates on the clinic or I'll keep updating this thread as we progress. February 18th - February 19th, 2022 Cottonwood High School in Murray, UT It's a lot of fun and if any of you who have attended or spoke before want to chime in on anything that will help sell it more, feel free!
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Post by cqmiller on Nov 27, 2021 12:14:39 GMT -6
Give the ball to your best player as often as you can, and when you catch the other team cheating to that kid... fake it to him and give it to your 2nd best player. You will win a lot of games if that is all you do and you focus on teaching the kids skills (blocking, tackling, angles, etc...)
It really isn't more complex than that even at the higher levels. Get the dynamic kids the ball in space, and have the rest of the kids do their part to help the TEAM be successful. New England did it better than anyone for YEARS at the NFL level. As soon as everyone is trying to "get theirs" it falls apart. Best team-sport in the world.
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Post by cqmiller on Nov 10, 2021 15:14:17 GMT -6
I'd agree with IronmanFootballSome guys don't have to do the elite coaching stuff and will win a lot of games because of the athletes they get in the door. That doesn't mean they are in the atrocious category, but not in the elite category either. I would also say it's hard to just give a whole staff a grade. You can have 1 elite guy on staff with a bunch of guys who are willing to learn, listen, and do everything it takes to maximize what that 1 guy is working on that can get a lot done, and you can have multiple guys who are not elite, but all above average that COLLECTIVELY can get the same job done. For me, I judge other staffs on mostly the following: .....1) Organization - You can tell the guys with no organizational structure and those with elite structure pretty easily .....2) Being Sound - I don't care what offense or defense you run... they all work and they all don't work. If you are a let's blitz kinda guy, do you still have gap integrity and clearly teach leverage principles, basics, blocking/tackling, etc... .....3) Character - Are they coaching for the right reasons? This year we had almost 50% of our team make 3.5 GPA at end of Q1, which makes me happier than the 2400 yards and 25 TDs my QB threw for. I still see some staffs where the football is more important than the development of the kids not just in football, but in everything else. I have much more respect for a coach who goes between 3-7 and 7-3 every year, but does everything the right way, than I do for the guy that goes 7-3 or better ONLY because they are LOADED with talent. If I feel like a coach-swap would make either team's record drastically different, then that's an issue. There are a couple of teams here that could pretty much just open the ball bag and let 'em play that could win 8 or more games. Some guys working their ASS off to go 2-8 and that could be the best coaching job in the state, but they won't get credit because of the W/L record.
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Post by cqmiller on Nov 1, 2021 17:46:50 GMT -6
3 seasons ago (2019)... we had running clock with 3 minutes left in the 1st quarter. We dressed 17 players and we were playing a top 20 team in the country.
It was ugly... it was fast... I was at the bar by 9:00pm after the game, the bus ride, collecting gear, and uploading film.
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Post by cqmiller on Oct 31, 2021 16:43:00 GMT -6
I know dudes in so-cal. Apparently the other coach refused running clock and some other things going on. I also know that in CA a lot of teams only dress 2-deep if they have it... it isn't like here where you can dress your kids who played JV and get them some time in a blowout.If some of what I heard is correct, the guy that lost by 106 has some of the blame too In So Cal you can dress JV kids who played the day before. I have had kids play significant minutes in back to back days. To that point, Inglewood's roster on Maxpreps has over 50 kids, of which I am sure one of them is a backup QB I read that the losing coach requested a running clock in the first half, but Inglewood declined I just saw someone refused the clock. When I coached in Central section CA we couldn't play kids for both games. At the end if the day it really doesn't matter... what goes around comes around
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Post by cqmiller on Oct 31, 2021 15:34:43 GMT -6
I know dudes in so-cal. Apparently the other coach refused running clock and some other things going on. I also know that in CA a lot of teams only dress 2-deep if they have it... it isn't like here where you can dress your kids who played JV and get them some time in a blowout.
If some of what I heard is correct, the guy that lost by 106 has some of the blame too
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Post by cqmiller on Oct 30, 2021 10:39:32 GMT -6
In my experience, unless you are doing it with them... 90+% of them don't care. Current school I'm at, we just share the scout film, and the coaches tag it up and we watch it together during our meeting times. That is the only time they interact with it (at least a VAST majority of them). I agree with you 100% that if they don't use it and it doesn't help your program it is frustrating and a waste of time that could be spend on more important things (Family). That being said... I've done some pretty cool scouting reports at the last school I was at because it was like 90% of them DID care and we won a lot of games and we did all of the things you are speaking of in your post. Here is an example of some stuff we used to do that was time-consuming, but helped us win a title when our players DID want to read it and do it: Scouting Report Example = www.dropbox.com/s/oi2xbeopmfzydd1/Week%2003%20GP%20-%20%40%20Hunter.pptx?dl=0Coverage Report Example = www.dropbox.com/s/pp7twmnr1dt7770/HUDL%20102b%20-%20COVERAGE%20by%20ODK%20and%20OFF%20FORM.pdf?dl=0Some of the reports like above we still run as coaches and we know it... my QBs I coach know it... but we don't give it out like we used to. Those reports take time to make, and are awesome, but not worth the time unless you have a special group of kids who are HUNGRY for the info.
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Post by cqmiller on Oct 26, 2021 22:12:18 GMT -6
Here is what we bring:
1) Duffel Bag #1 .....Xtra S Shoulderpad .....Xtra M Shoulderpad .....Xtra M Helmet .....Xtra L Helmet .....Xtra S Game Pant .....Xtra M Game Pant .....Xtra L Game Pant .....Xtra S Skill # Jersey .....Xtra M Skill # Jersey .....Xtra L Skill # Jersey .....Xtra L Line # Jersey
2) Duffel Bag #2 .....Xtra L Shoulderpad .....Xtra XL Shoulderpad .....Xtra XL Helmet .....Xtra XL Helmet .....Xtra XL Game Pant .....Xtra 2X Game Pant .....Xtra 3X Game Pant .....Xtra XL Skill # Jersey .....Xtra XL Line # Jersey .....Xtra 2X Line # Jersey .....Xtra 3X Line # Jersey
3) Equipment Box (Home Depot rolling 3-tier toolbox) .....Top section full of helmet screws, clips, parts, shoulderpad clips, ties, straps, etc... .....Top section with tools (screwdrivers, pliers, needlenose, etc...) .....Middle section with extra chinstraps, kneepads, mouthpieces, other small items .....Bottom section with whiteboards, markers, towels, cloth, etc...
At beginning of year, we make sure they are COMPLETELY full and we won't run out EVER during season. At end of season, we refill all non-helmet, non-shoulderpads, non uniform items.
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Post by cqmiller on Oct 20, 2021 8:18:20 GMT -6
I would absolutely never do it unless my team was so talented that I knew I could get away with it, or so terrible compared to our opponent that it didn't matter where they got the ball, they would score anyway (which we did once in CA and kept a game much closer than it should have been) The year we won a state championship, we punted twice on 3rd down because our defense was so good we didn't want to risk a turnover on 3rd and a mile so we just punted so our defense could get us the ball back.
We had 3 NFL players and 10 FBS/FCS players on that team... and we still punted on 3rd down twice and most 4th downs.
Especially in high school... the stats are completely not-usable. We have a team that is in the top 20 in the country here. They score on like 90% of their possessions that start on their own 20. Assuming that they fit the "percentages" is not something I'd ever assume. I could argue that the element of surprise gives any onside kick that is NOT end of a game situational one a much higher % recovery rate, but when the other team knows you are going to do it, they are prepared and you lose the element of surprise, which takes your "statistic" and makes it meaningless.
He's used his methods to land him a college job and I'm sure some $$$ in the market, but I could argue that the program at the University of Utah has been as competitive as they have been for as long as they have been because of their Kickers and Punters. They have had DUDES in the kicking game and it makes defense and offense much easier to play when you are flipping the field position regardless of what just happened.
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Post by cqmiller on Sept 24, 2021 14:20:42 GMT -6
Or been bad? I took a job with a struggling program that is traditionally middle of the road. Recruiting, school choice and a dramatic shift in the demographic have put a strangle hold on athletics here in general. Tonight we play a team that has 23 wins in 20 years including 1 in the last 10 (not counting 3 forfeits). We also have 1 win in 3 years. We are not better than our opponent at this point, and got weathered out of 3 practices this week. Adding to my anxiety is my kids inflated expectations that have nothing to do with us and more to do with the opponents history. After getting smacked around last week our kids were only concerned with this weeks opponents score. You see where this could end up... I have been fortunate to be a part of competitive teams all but 1 season in my 20 plus years and I can honestly say in that time I never learned how to deal with this scenario. It's not much of a challenge keeping the players focused and interested after getting drubbed by much better teams but I am concerned of the outcome if we do not show well tonight. Thoughts? Living it right now coach... 6-10 years ago this program had gone 1-9 or 0-10 every year. Low numbers, things being done the wrong way (kids missing practice all week and starting on varsity Friday nights, coaches coercing teachers to get kids eligible, etc...) Guy before me got the job 5 years ago and brought me in to be the OC. Went 0-10 the first year with probably the most talented team we've had in my 5 years here, but just a bunch of selfish, entitled kids that had never been held accountable in their lives. 2018 we go 1-9. Won our homecoming game only. Got beat by A LOT in all the others. Not even close. Running clock by halftime. A lot of seniors on that team. 2019. HC burned out trying to fix everything and leaves to go to another school. I question whether I even want to apply for the job, but decide to do so after some conversations with my wife, other assistant coaches, and decide to do it. We dress 17 players for varsity in the 2nd largest classification in the state. We go 0-10 and only score 13 points the entire season. Shutout 9 times. Lose 69-0 multiple times (guess hitting 10 xp is impossible in HS). Half of our games had running clocks in 1st quarter. Of the 17 kids, 9 of them were freshman and starting both ways. 2020. We get lucky and I am able to withdraw from our conference requirements and go independent. I am able to schedule a bunch of schools who are in much lower tiers, and coaches I trust to not just destroy us by 70 every game. We go 4-6, with 2 of our losses to JV teams from some decent programs (only 1 score games each time) and then 2 other 1 possession losses. You would have thought it was a 14-0 national championship season. 2021. We are still independent and are currently 2-5. Won our 2nd game last night against a JV team of a large classification school. Our fans rushed the field, 45 minutes of fireworks, and you would have thought we just won the superbowl. I know the HC of the other team really well and he knows the situation we are in and totally understood and knows that we have to celebrate like that at every little success in our program. It is the hardest thing to do... but we keep telling them the same things... Being ON-TIME to football/school is important and we are very strict with attendance/tardies (no chance if they don't come) What is YOUR job? Just do your job!!! We still have kids who think they have to do 10 different things rather than just doing their little responsibility on each play. End up with kids out of position all the time. Reminding them that we love them and that because we love them we are going to coach them hard. If I didn't believe you were capable of doing it, I would just say "he can't do it anyway so why get upset"... I believe in you, and I know you are a better football player than I just saw, so I'm going to try to make you better... that is a GOOD THING, not a bad thing. Getting them to understand that we are always going to be as good/bad as they, their parents, and the community want to be... If you and your parents don't want to come to offseason weights, we will get pushed around a lot... if you don't condition and do our speed components, we will be slower than the other teams... if you don't learn your plays and know your job, then we will not execute and the other team will win. Showing them that the results are not random, and often times are determined from January - July, not from August - October. Our administration knows and understands how bad we have been, and still are... They are 100% supportive and think we are doing a great job getting kids to class, holding them responsible for their actions, and all the other NON-WIN related things that a program is supposed to do... anyone with eyeballs can tell that we are out-numbered, out-skilled, out-sized, out-strengthed, pretty much every Friday. When we do face teams like us... we are around a .500 record and most games are 1 possession at the end. COMPETITIVE. It is frustrating, and I have thought about whether it is worth it at times... it is normal to feel that way, but you gotta ask yourself if your frustration is because you hate losing more than your kids/parents/community do and that is why you are miserable. For many of my parents/kids, I am the "scariest guy in the world to talk to" because I tell them I expect things from them and then demand that they do their best to meet those expectations... If that makes me an @sshole, then I guess I'm an @sshole.
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Post by cqmiller on Sept 19, 2021 10:51:42 GMT -6
I'm a firm believer that it is the following that matter... in order:
1) Player athletic ability - Recruiting is the most important skill for a college coach (a lot of HS programs too) .....Alabama will beat ALL the bottom FBS and FCS teams 99.999999% of the time on athletic ability alone. Better dudes.
2) Skill development - Gotta take the 2* kid and develop him into a 3*, etc... (done in INDY) .....Utah competes well (this year has been rough) even when they can't get any of those 4* or 5* guys. They develop the 1/2/3* guys they can get and make them better. They STRUGGGLE vs. teams with elite talent
3) Discipline - Penalties and decision-making. Some athletes can't learn how to not just "wing-it" .....This is where my LSU Tigers struggle. They can get those 4* and 5* guys, but they can't seem to beat Alabama more than once every 5 years or so. Bama players seem to do the little things better than LSU does and it shows.
4) Playcalling - IF you have equivalent talent and IF you have developed that talent to the best of its ability and IF you have the discipline and execute according to the gameplan... THEN which plays get called can have an impact. I've seen spread teams go 0-10 running the exact same playcalls and scheme as the team down the street who goes 10-0 running the exact same thing... sometimes with a coach who was the OC at the 10-0 school the year before... he's a genius at one school, but goes 0-10 at the other. Same guy, same offense/defense, same philosophy, etc...
If my talent level is far superior to yours, I can make bad playcalls and run unsound schemes and get away with it. If your 3 LBs run 4.4 and my best RB runs 5.0 I can try to out-scheme you all I want, but odds are your 3 LBs can go the wrong way and still get to my RB before we can have a chance to win. Players win/lose games and I know that as a coach you have to take the blame for it politically, but when Helix high school had Reggie Bush at RB, Alex Smith at QB, and their 3 best players were lineman, they were gonna win regardless of what was called. They ran the Wing-T, and I know the run-heavy offenses get killed on this website a lot, but plenty of wingT teams go undefeated every year and plenty of spread teams go 0-10 every year.
Let it play out and what happens, will happen. I know what I believe will happen, but he has a philosophy, believes in it, and if it helps him get better players in recruiting... will lead to more wins eventually.
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Post by cqmiller on Sept 11, 2021 2:26:32 GMT -6
I'd like to see him take my 28 kids I dress varsity and show me how it's done vs. the teams we play. All we do is preach leverage, alignment, assignment... and we blow all 3 weekly. Meanwhile a team 5 miles south of us is top 20 in the country and dress over 100 each week. Run the same offense and base defense, but somehow we come up short every week and they don't.
There is a coach here trying to do the never punt thing... they are 1-4 I believe... maybe 2-3.
I wanna see long term how it goes. How long are the boosters gonna like going on 4th and 8 on your own 20 against a team that has similar talent
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Post by cqmiller on Aug 30, 2021 19:19:55 GMT -6
On Friday we had a scuffle break out after our int that seed the game. Kids who know damn well that they need to walk away and not do something stupid or especially not run out on the field and get in the middle of it like an idiot... I grabbed a fee of my kids and physically relocated them to the sideline... probably just as angry and violently as Dilfer was.
Different circumstance, but technically I grabbed and threw kids... I probably got a clip of it.
I'm gonna treat my friend's son a little closer to how I would treat my son if he talked back to a coach the way I'm sure the kid had to for Dilfer to get that hot.
Those kids are at a HS that spends hundreds of thousands of dollars on nutrition for their football players each year... they are basically a college program.
2 weeks ago I had a kid talk back to me after he screwed up a route and I tried to correct him on it. I pointed to the bench and told him to take his {censored} off because he's done for the night... didn't try to sit him down myself, but he needed to be coached hard in that particular moment. His sun went in and had 3 catches on the same play in 5 snaps for 60 yards.
I dont think he's completely blameless, but I thought, "that kid must have done something STUPID for a high-profile coach to lose his {censored} like that" when I saw it.
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Post by cqmiller on Aug 24, 2021 22:26:15 GMT -6
Any other job get more scrutiny than an official? Your LG can screw up 75 times on Friday, but line-judge misses 1 holding call and 1000 people let them hear about that 1 mistake for the rest of the night.
Same with the "robo-ump" idea in baseball... really a better alternative than grown men having to figure out the zone is a little bigger on outside half tonight?
Only dudes on the field with more experts who know better than the HC on either side are the referees. Wish all the screamers in the stands that love football would put their asses through the requirements and figure out it sucks and you don't get paid much.
I think this topic is eerily similar to the ones we are having about coaches just leaving in bunches... no football with covid kinda wasn't that bad for a lot of guys and they asked, "why go back to the stress for 2k a year?"
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Post by cqmiller on Aug 22, 2021 16:36:32 GMT -6
OP is saying the AD demanded they use them... just make it easy and if they do what you wanted them to do anyway, they get a sticker
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Post by cqmiller on Aug 22, 2021 14:00:34 GMT -6
WIN = EVERYONE who played gets a sticker Win the TO Battle = EVERYONE who played gets a sticker
100 yard rusher... everyone who played offense gets a sticker 100 yard receiver... everyone who played offense gets a sticker hold opponent to less rushing yards than you had... everyone who played defense gets a sticker hold opponent to less passing yards than you had... everyone who played defense gets a sticker special teams touchdown = everyone on that unit gets a sticker
Games you win, you'll give everyone like 4 stickers... games you lose, you probably give 0 because the list above is not going to go in your favor when you lose.
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Post by cqmiller on Aug 7, 2021 8:20:00 GMT -6
We have a hard cap of 1 hour with the kids. Sometimes that's enough to get thru the 1st quarter, sometimes more. If there is something specific we need kids to see from further in the game, those are already flagged and we go over them first.
We tell the kids our primary focus will be what we need to do better... if we see something done EXTREMELY well we will point it out, but we are looking to fix mistakes. The goal is winning games and knowing how we can improve to win in the future.
We also give kids grading sheets and they grade themselves on each play they are in for the varsity game. Forces them to actually watch themselves and be critical.
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Post by cqmiller on Jul 17, 2021 19:17:39 GMT -6
That's me. It's by position. The numbers by our names at the top are what we drew as draft picks. AJ got pick #1 and took Brady. One of our young guys took Rogers at #2 and I stole Montana with 3rd pick.
We went down the list, so AJ got last pick in one round, but 1st pick the next. Some of our younger coaches didn't know some of the older guys. I ended up with all 4 DBs being considered top 5 all-time at their position, and I made sure I got LT, Charles Haley, and Aaron Donald. Sleeper was Merlin Olsen at DT. 14 time pro bowler.
I think I got a pretty good squad. OL was fun since so many of them besides my OL guy (Donnie) don't know anyone on the line besides Larry Allen. Lots of googling during that for most. Only one I Googled was Krause. Couldn't remember name, but I knew the all-time INT leader hadn't been picked
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Post by cqmiller on Jul 17, 2021 18:45:00 GMT -6
We did this as a fun thing for coaches to unwind during down-time during camp... here are the teams we drafted with a full snake draft.
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Post by cqmiller on Jun 30, 2021 22:17:40 GMT -6
the hyperfocus on recruiting "talent" over development will lead to the status quo offense and defense making it boring as hell, and the lack of true foootball dudes making it into the league and being tough guys in other words the death of the game That's what I'm worried about... how does a mid-tier program ever hope to compete with the P5 schools even in that "once a decade" year you get every once in a while? I hope I'm wrong, but we will see.
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Post by cqmiller on Jun 25, 2021 8:50:49 GMT -6
We preach not to do anything that makes the team look bad... for years I have wondered how I can get in trouble for music in weightroom that even when on "clean" version offends some Karen, yet now it seems like kids can say stuff that I will lose my mind over...
No use of any version of "n___" will be allowed in my program as long as I'm coaching, and if I lose my job over it... that's fine.
Don't know when having standards that teach kids to be better people and having to live up to them to be a member of a group became a bad thing, but I'm gonna keep trying to teach kids how to be better and if a community decides they don't want that, then they can fire me and let the chaos reign.
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