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Post by windigo on Aug 22, 2014 13:54:28 GMT -6
For run blocking assignment, steps, fit, drive. Pass blocking assignment, steps, fit, obstruct.
It seems to me that your HC is a dumbass. Your EDDs have absolutely nothing for assignment, and fit. Of course your guys aren't blocking. They don't know who to block and they don't know how to sustain their block.
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Post by windigo on Jul 22, 2014 11:30:40 GMT -6
When you listen to the players of great coaches talk about their coaches you will never hear the player talking about the Xs and Os. They always talk about the relationship they had with the man and how the man made them a better person.
The best comment I ever got was second hand from my brother. He said that he had ran into an ex-player of mine. The player told him that I was the coach he remembered. The coach that cared and was always around in a staff that was pretty much absent. That meant more to me than any scheme I could draw up.
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Post by windigo on Jul 21, 2014 17:25:41 GMT -6
"Don't---" is a no-no. It puts the wrong message in their minds and makes them nervous. You're much better off with something positive like?Watch the ball". Agreed but the point I was responding to is that the players know all ready.
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Post by windigo on Jul 21, 2014 16:51:31 GMT -6
I disagree in short distance situation the pressure is on and players are often thinking about their assignment too much. The need to be reminded to watch the ball first.
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Post by windigo on Jul 21, 2014 16:41:32 GMT -6
As was said by someone else
FIRST GAME
'{censored} THE HEADSETS AREN'T WORKING!!!!!!'
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Post by windigo on Jun 16, 2014 16:17:00 GMT -6
Could you let him play RB on the JV squad and then play K/P with 10-15 plays a game as LB for the Varsity? We actually have that rule. If a kid does nothing but kick on varsity he can play on JV. IMHO more associations should too.
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Post by windigo on Jun 11, 2014 10:59:02 GMT -6
If he is that good on JV then JV is probably not going to help him. If anything he will develop bad habits because its too easy.
You only get better by playing a better opponent. Anytime you say stud on JV its time to move him up to a better opponent. He is not being challenged and that is never a good thing.
JV should not have any studs.
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Post by windigo on May 16, 2014 14:46:11 GMT -6
Our defense is always the same. We have had great success through the years. On offense we have run the same base concepts for 10 years but dress it up differently. Things time up differently so we adjust for our talent. That has helped us stay competitive. I think the big thing that stays constant are our offensive line rules. If something doesn't fit into our rules we don't add it. If it can work within our rukes we'll try it. This is the big key. You have to keep your blocking rules and techniques uniform over 4 years. If you absolutely cannot put in a new concept without adding in a new blocking technique it is not worth running. But you know what? We've have always found ways to modify concepts to our techniques.
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Post by windigo on May 7, 2014 15:20:45 GMT -6
Also, WHO F***ING COMES UP WITH THAT PLAN??? People who absolutely hated the athletes at their school when they were a kid. The smarter you are the higher your odds of being a sociopath. This is nothing about the good of the kids. This is revenge plain and simple.
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Post by windigo on May 7, 2014 11:24:43 GMT -6
I could see them suspending a kid for falling below a 2.5, but I also believe its idiotic to drop the hammer for the entire year without giving the kid any incentive for improving his grades. Hard to have a carrot and a stick if you take away the carrot. Exactly the longer you put out the possibility of returning to sports the less chance there is that the kid will work to get their grades back up. For many of these kids the desire to eligible for sports is the only reason they haven't flunked out of school.
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Post by windigo on May 6, 2014 15:55:19 GMT -6
While its not the foremost focus of our team we encouraged a sense of pride in the school. It seems to have filtered thought the school. My niece who goes to another school commented during a team function held in school what it is like to be in a school that has school pride. Having been with the school before the coaching staff change I can tell you that it is night and day throughout the school.
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Post by windigo on Apr 16, 2014 11:00:13 GMT -6
I think the term "coaching" can be defined differently for certain programs and regions. My HS varsity team back in the day had 3 coaches (including the HC) so you better believe my HC was in the trenches coaching a position every day. If my frame of reference is solely based off of my HS playing and coaching experience in a certain region, I would question the comment as well. However, the HS team I coach for now (different region) has a coordinator and 3-4 coaches on each side of the ball. My header does not coach an individual position, but that doesn't mean he never coaches. When you delegate responsibilities to other people your duty transfers from direct intervention to indirect intervention, as long as you wish to keep the morale of the work environment at its highest level. Indirect work comes now as analyzing and managing the workers, making sure that the daily tasks are in line with the weekly, monthly, yearly, goals. You truly do coach, but there is a greater direct emphasis on the coaching staff and program operations rather than just coaching a small group of players, day in and day out. Exactly none of which I enjoy.
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Post by windigo on Apr 8, 2014 11:50:12 GMT -6
So kids are going to play full contact football year round??!!!!
Jesus Christ, they will have the banged up bodies of pros in their 30s by the time they are in their early 20s.
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Post by windigo on Mar 18, 2014 14:02:09 GMT -6
I will never be a head football coach because I love coaching football too much.
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Post by windigo on Mar 18, 2014 10:14:57 GMT -6
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Post by windigo on Mar 17, 2014 11:39:04 GMT -6
As I said in the other thread this show is basically being type cast by the on awful coach of the Broncos. That guy is representative of many of the things that are wrong with our society not just football. He has no business coaching and I was pleased to hear that he has been suspended. Hopefully he will use the free time to get his life in order.
As for the show there is a lot of good and bad coaching to watch and learn from. The game between the Outlaws and the Colts was a good one to watch because hopefully we will all find ourselves in a situation where it is two powerhouse teams going at it. The outlaws were unscored upon all year and the colts hadn’t trailed an opponent all year. The Colts opened the game with a TD and the Outlaw coaches kept their composure and so did their players. When the Outlaws took the lead the Colts coaches totally imploded and so did their players. They didn’t even know what to say at halftime when their team is trailing.
This applies to high school coaching just as much as youth.
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Post by windigo on Mar 3, 2014 13:28:45 GMT -6
Just to piggy back on what you are saying, explosive plays means explosive players more times than not. We have been wing t a few years. Once had a dang good FB who was 6'3 230, tough, and ran a 4.9. He was really good and we moved the ball and won, but he did not produce explosive plays. The next year we had a 6' 235 badass who ran a 4.4 who is signing with Nebraska next week. For some reason belly and trap were really explosive plays. Lol. Yes I've found the exact same thing with our explosive plays. It seems to me to be a combination of two factors. #1 How much of a bad ass our guy carrying the ball is. #2 How bad at tackling the other team is. I'm working hard at how to coach these two points and so far coming up empty.
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Post by windigo on Feb 28, 2014 11:15:34 GMT -6
You dont need a "social media" policy.
You need one all encompassing policy.
Dont Embarrass the Program
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Post by windigo on Feb 21, 2014 10:38:52 GMT -6
I'm not going to encourage the kids to skip out on their team, regardless of who their trainer is. They're already showing us they don't respect the team, the process or the staff by ditching off-season workouts. As far as qualifications go, Im CSCS certified, with a double bachelors in Health and Human Performance, and 15 years of experience in the field. So, they're not only showing that they have little respect for me but that they're idiots for not taking advantage of a highly qualified S&C coach. Honestly, I don't need the kid that goes to a world renowned trainer and turns into an athletic beast. I need the kid that shows up and trains with his team, builds chemistry with them and respects the program. I want the kid with that kind of character, not the one that places himself above the team and the school by going to an outside source for training. Seems like a lot of this is about your own ego. As a coach we deal with drugs, alcohol, violence, gangs, etc. etc. But if they dare go get training some place else its 'I wash my hands of you'.
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Post by windigo on Feb 20, 2014 12:39:58 GMT -6
Madden
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Post by windigo on Feb 20, 2014 12:31:25 GMT -6
Maybe where you are, As I've said, in over 30 years I've only had a handful and none ever amounted to anything as a player. We're trying to build a team. A kid who doesn't want to associate with us I'm suspicious. If we had sub-par facilities or a proven that didn't have a proven track record or if we were a small school where everybody body was precious I might feel differently but that's not the case. Yes I get that. Our training program is just as good as well. But its not a fight you can always win. And I'm not surprised that the kids who went that route didn't amount to {censored}. Most trainers are conmen. If I cant stop a player from going to a trainer the next step is to make sure that they dont get conned. Like I said I'm not going to wash my hands of them and I dont want them doing smith squats standing on a swiss ball. If they are going to got that route I want them to go to someone who is good. Think of what we deal with as coaches violence, drugs, alcohol, DUI's, pregenecy, the list goes on and on. I'm not about to say 'you insult me by getting personal trainer I wash my hands of you!'
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Post by windigo on Feb 20, 2014 12:03:45 GMT -6
No, I'm a coach. But I've been a gym rat most of my life and know that the odds of finding a good trainer out in the wilderness is low. Most of them are simply stupid. Parents will do what parents will do. As coaches we aren't' going to stop them. Nor should we wash our hands of a player simply because he goes to a personal trainer. So its to the programs benefit to know who the good trainers are and steer players towards them.
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Post by windigo on Feb 20, 2014 11:48:36 GMT -6
Fact of the matter is they are still my players and I dont want any player looking this fricking stupid. Which is what you will get if you just wash your hands and say go train with anyone.
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Post by windigo on Feb 20, 2014 10:30:08 GMT -6
the problem is that there's more than just physical training that goes into an offseason program. Which we all know. However, parents will do what parents will do. And you are not going to stop them. Do you want those kids doing smith squats sitting standing on a swiss ball or do you want them power cleaning 315? The odds are overwhelming that if you dont get involved those kids will be doing smith squats on a swiss ball at a gym that doesn't even have a platform. We are the coaches they are kids. So what if they have "turned their back on the program". They are kids they will make the wrong choices. As coaches we have to be the adults.
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Post by windigo on Feb 20, 2014 10:19:21 GMT -6
Nope, the kids are on their own if the choose to ditch the team. I'm not going to preach teamwork and training at the school and then give them a list of personal trainers. No one is "letting then fail"; they're making the conscious choice to do so. They have the opportunity to train with knowledgable and experienced coaches for free while building relationships with their teammates. It's their crapshoot, not mine. IMHO that is cutting off your nose to spite your face. The trainer I mentioned worked with teams like Naperville Central, Naperville North, Wheaton Warrenville, national powerhouse teams. He wasnt' some guy who had kids doing smith squats standing on a swiss ball or a bodybuilding program. Best to find who those guys are in you area, there aren't many, and directing parrents to those guys if they insist on paying for a trainer.
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Post by windigo on Feb 19, 2014 21:59:41 GMT -6
Honestly, I don't even fight the "personal trainer" battle because I've never won. I know coaches who throw fits over it and nothing ever gets resolved, They're not working out with the team so they're absent, it's as simple as that. In past gigs, those kids would sit at the bottom of our theoretical, off-season depth chart and may not be eligible to letter. There's usually griping about it but its made real clear that they have to train with the team, in the school weight room. I have never had a player workout with a personal trainer in the off-season and end up starting or even playing much. They spend their gym time following whatever bodybuilding program their trainer has set up for them. They walk into the season ill-prepared and get their butts handed to them by the players that worked out with us. So instead of letting letting them fail why not get acquainted with the trainers in the area and learn who is good and who is bad. If you leave it up to the crap shoot most of your kids will get stuck with douchebags, since most trainers are conartists.
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Post by windigo on Feb 19, 2014 18:22:31 GMT -6
When I was playing college and living in major college recruiting hub, my mentor was a trainer to elite athletes in the area. Most of the kids who came through his program went onto Div I programs. His key was that he had a strong relationship with the local schools. And his results were unquestionable. This guy could turn doughboys into beasts way faster than any cookie cutter assembly line football lifting program could.
Realize that when its you vs. the parents you will lose especially when the parents have money. If they want to spend the money on training they will spend the money on training. Honestly, a IMHO coach has no right to tell the parents no. Instead of fighting battles you will lose get acquainted with the trainers in your area. Find out who is good and work with them. If the parent insists give them the trainers info. Now you at least have some control.
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Post by windigo on Feb 10, 2014 17:46:48 GMT -6
I really think that the show us using the horrific Bronco's coach to create a false narrative. Use him a lot and sprinkle some missteps by the other coaches and boom everyone is bad.
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Post by windigo on Feb 4, 2014 10:26:24 GMT -6
you guys see that superbowl? that defense dominated with speed and toughness, not necessarily size. I'm pretty sure the Seattle secondary is one of the biggest if not the biggest in the NFL.
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Post by windigo on Jan 29, 2014 15:00:59 GMT -6
I would comment but I just remembered that I have to have colonoscopy.
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