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Post by windigo on Oct 2, 2018 1:02:36 GMT -6
Have any of you noticed a trend among today's players, compared to players from even a little as 5-6 years ago, not knowing the game of football. For instance, watched a college game last night where the winning team was trying to run out the clock. The play was a RB off tackle that gets bounced out a bit and gets some yardage, but the RB ran out of bounds stopping the clock. I see it on Fridays at games I go watch (retired) and it happened all the time the last few years I coached. Do kids even watch football anymore? When I was in college we practiced both 2 minute drill and burn drill (burn the clock). Everyone knows 2 minute drill. I dont think too many are still practicing burn.
Burn
Never run out of bounds.
Go down when wrapped up. Dont fight for extra yards.
Leave the ball where you were tackled. Force the ref to go get the ball.
We didn't run this very often but we ran it often at the end of 11 on.
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Post by windigo on May 15, 2017 11:01:20 GMT -6
When in doubt go with 1 team. The biggest part of the lower level is to get these kids playing together as a team. We are big enough to have 3 levels but we keep ALL freshman on the freshman team no matter how good they are. Its more important that they play together for at least a season than it is to have them playing at the JV level.
If you have your most talented freshmen playing JV while the rest play C-team that will come back to bite you in the ass. In programs that did this I've seen the senior most talented players feel like outsiders because all of their friends had graduated.
That one year of boding at the freshman level as team will pay huge benefits when they are all seniors.
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Post by windigo on Apr 11, 2016 10:14:16 GMT -6
Saw something that should be a warning to all parents who want to coach. Parents create a team for their son. He is a good QB dont get me wrong. Dad is just focused on his son. Everything is Xs and Os and QB. Watch that team play and their line cant block. They aren't even getting set. They are standing straight up ball is snapped and they try bump the defender with their shoulder. Now helicopter coach/parent's son has to run around the field running for his life. Its funny but even more sad because the kid is actually really talented but his father and mother are conceited dumbasses.
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Post by windigo on Feb 9, 2016 15:16:17 GMT -6
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Post by windigo on Feb 8, 2016 17:39:28 GMT -6
It's a "keeping up with the Jonses" effect for coaches sometimes. You see these documentaries about High School football and "coaches changing lives" or "working 90 hours per week" and you start to think that this is what you need to do, or you aren't any good at your job. In some areas, that unfortunately IS what you need to do, I guess. What I always tell coaches is to do a simple experiment. Write down all the ideas you had after 10:00pm that you implemented in the game-plan. Now rate how those ideas played out on game-day.
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Post by windigo on Feb 8, 2016 15:25:50 GMT -6
Love the last line. 'If college coaches saw you play now all you would get is exposed not exposure.'
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Post by windigo on Feb 8, 2016 14:47:41 GMT -6
I don't let the self important guys get to me because I know full well that I'm always right.
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Post by windigo on Feb 8, 2016 11:54:16 GMT -6
Being a small state coach I've got to laugh at what is supposed to be the best youth football league in Texas. Position skills are awful. Tackling is awful. Play design is awful. I cant think of anything they do well rather than infighting between coaches.
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Post by windigo on Feb 2, 2016 13:59:11 GMT -6
Culture is mentioned but I think its being over simplified. Its very hard to have a football team culture when the rest of the day a bad culture at the school permeates. We have been effective by changing the culture of the school by instilling school pride in the players. Never forget that the jockocracy runs the school. Your players sit at the head of it. If you build school pride it will filter through them to the rest of the school and then feedback. In the 6 years I've seen it in action the effect it has had on our school and not just our team has been amazing.
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Post by windigo on Jan 29, 2016 16:48:36 GMT -6
Should have taken a knee but its not surprising many coaches dont really get how the time runs. They see 40 seconds left and think 40-25 = 15 I have to get a first down.
That it takes time to set the ball and the refs will intentionally hold it till after 25 doesn't seem to click.
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Post by windigo on Jan 21, 2016 13:43:10 GMT -6
Coach, You have a soph that weighs 212 pounds and he benches 415!!!!!! Did you type that correctly? Was that a true max or something projected. No matter how good you are as a strength coach there is no substitute for the genetic lottery. When I first started coaching we had a kid like that. Power lifting meet is being held at our school out of boredom he signs up and wins it. Cant remember the exact numbers but it was 4+ 6+ 6+. A few months later the city youth bodybuilding competition is being held at our school same thing day of he decides to sign up. I show him the mandatory poses, he plays a random song from his ipad for his routine and he wins. He won the biggest youth power lifting and bodybuilding meets of the year and hadn't even trained a day for them. Irony of it all the didn't like football. He was our kicker had immigrated from Argentina and had no desire what so ever to play a position.
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Post by windigo on Jan 21, 2016 13:13:31 GMT -6
I think what it comes down to is that you don't treat kids equally. That's just lazy coaching. It's far better to treat kids fairly. A little Herm Edwards I see. Ill admit it I didn't lift with my team. I was stronger than everyone else and my teammates dragged me down. I did every SPA, speed plyometrics and agilities, with my team but they were not good for me lifting. I trained with local powerlifters in a gym that had a chalk floor because those guys could push me.
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Post by windigo on Jan 21, 2016 12:43:56 GMT -6
I mentioned this before but I had a kid (2 years ago) who just was stretched in too many directions. He wondered what to do if he only had minimal time. I told him to squat as often as he can. He ended up squatting so much he went from @ 315 junior year to 465 senior year. He was good junior year but he was fantastic senior year (all state and helped us get to states) If I had been a "hardliner" like I was way back in my early days (30 years ago), the story would no doubt be a lot different. I would really like to see a survey of coaches age vs. hardass. I think we were all more hardliners when we were younger.
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Post by windigo on Jan 19, 2016 13:49:31 GMT -6
Yeah in college out coach had this bright idea about braces for linemen. I dont know if the tech has improved at all but back in the early 2000s stock knee-braces hurt. I was lucky that my aunt worked at Breg and I had a custom knee brace for my already messed up right knee and was able to get one for my left.
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Post by windigo on Jan 19, 2016 12:59:53 GMT -6
Hmmmm...female personal trainer and high school boys? And they weren't excited about her coming in? Were yoga pants involved? I like yoga pants... Yoga pants have made coaching this generation far more difficult than previous generations. Just walking to the booth on game day I have to be going on and on in my head 'Eyes forward ... eyes forward ...'
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Post by windigo on Jan 7, 2016 10:58:37 GMT -6
Thinking of purchasing this for our peewee and Bantam teams (and maybe our JV and SR teams). We have literally no one in our org that knows about teaching QB's. Would these DVD's help A) train a coach to help coach QB's and B) be well suited for players aged 10-14 (and maybe 15-18)? Thanks! 1) Yes 2) Yes My buddy is now the NFA guy for our state his got grade school kids flinging it all over the yard. You are really never too young to start working on mechanics. The longer you let kids get away with bad mechanics the longer it will take to correct. I've kind of learned coaching kids flag football and high school football that it really isn't arm strength that makes raw QBs stand out, the kids that look like they have the best arms often just the ones that have the least bad mechanics. It really is worth the time when dealing with young kids to teach the entire team how to throw. You'd be surprised how many naturally strong arms you will find once mechanics are corrected.
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Post by windigo on Dec 7, 2015 17:46:22 GMT -6
State quarterfinals we were undefeated and top ranked.
Throw a screen and its overthrown and incomplete, linesman is slow on his whistle, opposing player sees ball laying on ground with no whistle, jumps on ball out of bounds, gets up and returns it to the 1 yard line. Stunned linesman doesn't know what to do. He stands there for a moment then runs down to the 1 and awards other team the ball on our 1. Worst thing is I saw the same moron do the same thing in a C-team game at the start of the year.
Start of second half they try a coffin corner kick. Their player gets their first but muffs the recovery. Everyone clearly sees ball roll free and our player jump on it and comes up with it. Fat tub of lard linesman who is too fat to be a linesman since he cant keep up with the ball awards opposing team the ball where the opposing player muffed the recovery. That the ball was 10 yards away from where he is saying the ball was recovered is beyond his ability to comprehend. After all how can someone who is easily 320 think straight after having to sprint 30 yards.
Oh it was bad. The good thing that came out of it was the calls were so bad that our state ASOC made some serious reforms.
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Post by windigo on Nov 20, 2015 10:37:50 GMT -6
Does playing music at practice help you win? We use it as a tool. The idea is not to let it distract you.
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Post by windigo on Nov 20, 2015 10:32:14 GMT -6
You need to be good at both. When you are drawing up a scheme you need to be thinking about what you would do as a coordinator to attack it.
This season for a playoff game I was brainstorming with the DC. Looking at his scheme I said 'if I'm the OC I'm attacking right there' sure enough after a couple of series the OC attacked us right there, fortunately knowing our weakness existed we had a check.
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Post by windigo on Nov 18, 2015 11:36:03 GMT -6
I wanna cut the kid loose also, at least for this season and make him earn it all off season. Our HC decided to not even respond and give the player of the parent any attention with the matter. He said we will go practice and play the game with whoever gets on the bus Friday. Good decision by your HC. Don't treat it differently than any other situation.
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Post by windigo on Nov 18, 2015 10:43:44 GMT -6
Has the kid done anything wrong? From what you have said I see nothing. Don't punish the kid because he has stupid parents. Just coach the game as you would any other. If the doesn't show up cut him from the playoff roster. I would not have a meeting with the parents. Having a meeting is still meeting these trolls halfway. Don't reward them for their bad behavior by giving them one on one time with you. That will only make the situation worse. You have one on ones with parents when the kid is having problems in school or on the team, or if grandma died and they need to miss practice to go to a funeral. You do not give individual time to parents demanding playing time. Trust me you start giving people like this individual attention they are going to fill up your inbox.
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Post by windigo on Nov 12, 2015 16:03:10 GMT -6
I'd say the same metric as it always is. Cumulative starts by your offensive line.
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Post by windigo on Nov 10, 2015 18:07:13 GMT -6
The only thing that I tell players not to consume in-season is soda., leads to cramping. "Doctors have issued a warning about excessive cola consumption after noticing an increase in the number of patients suffering from muscle problems. Evidence is increasing to suggest that excessive cola consumption can lead to hypokalaemia, in which blood potassium levels fall, adversely affecting vital muscle functions. Symptoms can range from mild weakness to profound paralysis. Worldwide consumption of soft drinks was 83 litres per person per year in 2007 and is expected to rise to 95 litres in 2012. But it has already hit 212 litres in the USA. " www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090519075420.htm
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Post by windigo on Oct 16, 2015 14:37:59 GMT -6
If you didn't give him a script and just let him call the defense on his own it was your own fault. He had a script.
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Post by windigo on Oct 16, 2015 12:36:44 GMT -6
Had a young coach just today decide to change an offensive scout players assignment on a play. Like most of you the scout offenses plays are drawn up on playcards. I'm usually pretty mild mannered with my coaches but I lost it on that one. Oh damn I hate that. Had the same problem last year. We were playing a good team with a solid line (eventual state champions) they ran a 4-2 and never blitzed. More than anything we had to practice our doubles to second level. We spend all edd working on double to second level. Inside run line does great, secures the double teams and gets to second level. Scout team coordinator gets pissed and starts calling all out blitzes.
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Post by windigo on Oct 16, 2015 12:30:06 GMT -6
Not understanding that coaching is not about Xs and Os. When I was young I was like 'I know this game inside and out, why are we losing'. Now I know why. All coaching is life coaching the sport is just an excuse to get to the good stuff.
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Post by windigo on Oct 16, 2015 12:21:29 GMT -6
I disagree Sarcasm can be effective on an individual level. You just have to know the person. I had a kid that was a real dominate personality type but had a bad habit of not using his hands when he pass rushed. Couldn't get him to quit running into blockers with his shoulder and getting tied up.
Finally I put my hands behind my back and ran into a player jokingly saying 'I'm pass rushing coach'. He got pissed and given his personality decided the he was going to show me. End result first team a state defensive linemen with one hell of a forklift move.
That said sarcasm has to be used sparingly. It can lite a fire under someone who has a naturally dominate personality type but for other personality types it will not work.
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Post by windigo on Oct 12, 2015 16:32:06 GMT -6
It all depends on the personality of the player. A few players respond well most however dont.
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Post by windigo on Sept 1, 2015 12:13:58 GMT -6
Somehow I got a gut feeling that you got a little ahead of yourself. Its been my experience that when coaches think they are moving onto the next phase they tend to get a little more Xs and Os and back off a bit on the fundamentals.
I may be wrong and I hope I am, then again if this is the problem its easy to fix.
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Post by windigo on Sept 1, 2015 9:18:48 GMT -6
Its already been done
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