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Post by windigo on Jun 9, 2011 16:49:32 GMT -6
I've extreamly sensitive to light but I feel that my players need to see my eyes so I suffer.
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Post by windigo on Jun 8, 2011 10:17:22 GMT -6
I use my Judo experience all the time in coaching especially incorporating one of the two of main principles for practice.
Mutual welfare and benefit.
I also teach the importance of kuzushi, the breaking of balance, and how to do it. The body is a two legged stool at any moment in time it can only balance itself in 2 of the eight directions.
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Post by windigo on Jun 6, 2011 0:56:48 GMT -6
I'm staying away from twitter right now. I'm afraid I might send all the wrong picture.
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Post by windigo on Jun 3, 2011 10:09:07 GMT -6
the japanese are famous for their discipline and honor code. their culture probably allows it the controlled environment. i dunno how well it would work out here though. lol. Well I got my ass thrown by a little Japanese guy from pillar to post on Wednesday so I can attest to their work ethic.
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Post by windigo on Mar 23, 2011 19:17:23 GMT -6
Vans? What? Come on man...maybe that's all the kid has. Heck we have kids lift in Tims (Timberland boots, for the street lingo impaired). We tell them to wear tennis shoes but sometimes that's all the kid has. If you have ever watched world class lifters if they aren't wearing custom shoes they are either in barefoot, in wrestling shoes, or boots. When the powerlifting federations first started requiring shoes the lifters simply used rubber pad with tape wrapped around the foot. I say let them lift in what they are comfortable in.
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Post by windigo on Mar 23, 2011 13:57:22 GMT -6
Depending on your demographics fighting over vans may not be a fight worth having. I coach in a more hard life district and when you are overbearing like that it tends to put the kids off. Now the same strategy would work well on the other side of town where the kids respond well to more regimented discipline.
That being said. Vans aren't bad lifting shoes. They are flat soled and that is what you want. Maybe some of them noticed that they squat, clean, and pull better in Vans than any other shoe they own. Personally I squat and pull in my socks or in sandals if the gym insists on some kind of shoe. I hate lifting in athletic shoes I feel totally off balance.
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Post by windigo on Mar 12, 2011 2:23:22 GMT -6
I went through something similar as a player. It was originally diagnosed in the emergency room as myopathy but it was later found to be a pericarditis. Of course that could have killed me just as well but at least if it doesn't kill it will go away on its own. It was a hell of a way to start the last year of my career. I soooo wanted to make all America that year and had busted my {censored} all off season but missing the first 5 games entirely made even all-conference a no go. But I can always remember that things could have ended much worse.
As for what to do as a coach. Just monitor your players. They aren't going to admit that they have a problem. I didn't. I was totally myopic on my objectives that season. I kept my pounding heart to myself. Well until nature intervened that is.
Always remember why Hank Gathers died. He was cleared to play so long as he stayed on his meds. But he felt the meds made him sluggish so he cut back his dosage. Kids in their teens and twenties think that they immortal and the game means everything.
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Post by windigo on Feb 28, 2011 11:08:19 GMT -6
I don’t really agree with what Eastern Kentucky is doing because you know its illegal you are just hoping that it doesn't get called. Its one thing for players to bend the rules with holding, PI and such. Its another for a coach to run plays that he knows for a fact are illegal.
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Post by windigo on Feb 27, 2011 21:33:37 GMT -6
But of course, if your parents do something and you can claim plausible deniability, you're off the hook. Uh no, that only works if you are a Heisman candidate on a team going for a national title. If you are no one you are going to get the book thrown an you. "The NCAA is so mad at Kentucky, it's going to give Cleveland State two more years' probation." ~Jerry Tarkanian
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Post by windigo on Feb 23, 2011 13:08:05 GMT -6
I'd say that we spend way more on the field time for offense than we do defense. But defense as a whole gets more chalk time. Our defense focuses a lot on tendency so we spend a lot less on the field time working individuals for defense and more time identifying formations and motions as they relate to the tendency of the offense that week and we spend a lot of time with the defense in the classroom before practice learning to recognize those formations and tendencies.
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Post by windigo on Nov 4, 2010 15:22:07 GMT -6
Some days now I nod off for a little nap in my LaZBoy mid-afternoon during time we would have practice. I wonder how in the heck did I have energy to be coaching then if I can't stay awake now? Oh god, after it was all said and done I was quite clear that what I was looking too most was going home after work on Monday and taking my first afternoon nap in months. Then I get an e-mail at work on Monday that 'we are coaching the all-star game see ya at 3' and I'm like DAMN IT!!!
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Post by windigo on Nov 4, 2010 15:16:59 GMT -6
Family, we preach it.
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Post by windigo on Nov 3, 2010 15:01:04 GMT -6
I'll give another perspective. I've been coaching for 5 seasons. Three loosing seasons to start then we really turned things around last season but lost in the first round of the playoffs and this season we ran the table and took it all. After such jubilation on the field when we hit the clubhouse and started to unwind I don’t think I have ever in my life been so tired as a coach. All of a sudden the weight of the entire season and post season just came crashing down like a ton of bricks and I didn't realize just how hard I had been pushing myself and just how tired I was and I think it was universal amongst the staff. When we went to celebrate at the HC house while there was some celebration it was really just sit on the couch and stare at and rub the trophy from time to time. Really didn't have energy for much else.
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Post by windigo on Oct 4, 2010 15:04:45 GMT -6
Instead of making up rule after rule to stop recruiting why don’t they just bust the recruiters? There will be always teams that scoff at rules around recruiting. Instead of having road blocks in place simply exercise judgment and say 'no you recruited players you are fired!' Then we wouldn't have all these asinine rules.
In my experience the rules never do a good job stopping the scofflaw coaches. One scofflaw school in my area set up an LLC that put on invite only camps staffed entirely by their coaches and called it outside of the school and therefore within the rules.
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Post by windigo on Jun 1, 2010 16:06:37 GMT -6
Got a coworker who's son is a highly recruited hockey player. He was born without ACLs. He simply wears a braces.
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Post by windigo on May 4, 2010 9:30:43 GMT -6
Douglas over Tyson
Tyson was such a force I didn't want to go see the fight because I thought it would be over in a round.
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Post by windigo on May 3, 2010 10:32:39 GMT -6
Come into the technology forum. We got a whole forum with 3/4 of it dedicated to editing film.
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Post by windigo on Apr 28, 2010 13:42:20 GMT -6
Bradford is the most accurate passer in the draft, with some of the lowest maintenance mechanics issues. And has inured his throwing arm the last 2 times he got hit.
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Post by windigo on Apr 28, 2010 10:05:05 GMT -6
I had a similar situation my 2nd year.
Remember you may be lower on the totem pole but you are still the position coach and the performance of your players at your position reflects more on you than your head coach. Coaching a technique you know will fail will reflect on you when it fails. When you go out to get a new job and they look at the game film from your last job or know you by reputation your reputation will suffer.
My 2nd year I moved up to varsity o-line coach. The problem was the head coach was also a former o-line coach and even played pro. I learned a valuable lesson that year. Avoid position where the head coach came from your position because you well never be a full position coach. I couldn’t start the line that I wanted to start. I couldn't run the pass pro I wanted to run. I couldn't use the technique I wanted to use. I couldn’t use the drills I wanted to use.
The new OC was a shotgun spread guy. The head coach was an under center power running game 3 step guy. The OC didn't really understand pass pro and the head coach still wanted to run his 3 step pass pro for shot gun which I knew would fail. But I couldn't get him to listen and the OC wasn't going to get under center with a 3 step game. So after winning our 1st game the next team we played that was well coach looked at our game film and decimated our pass pro which I knew would happen. And boy was it brutal.
But guess who got most of the blame for that monumental failure? Me! Not the OC who insisted to go spread without a pass pro idea. Not the head coach who insisted on an under center 3 step pass pro for spread. Me. The only guy who was arguing for a pass pro and personell that complemented the offense. In the end that failure reflected on me and my ability as a line coach.
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Post by windigo on Mar 17, 2010 11:21:31 GMT -6
The consequences for missing one has to be harsh. If its not harsh your second string will abuse the rule. Don’t start or out for a quarter rules don’t cut it. It doesn’t take the second string long to realize that those punishments are meaningless to them.
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Post by windigo on Mar 12, 2010 12:30:54 GMT -6
It good for teaching scramble blocks and also building good coordination as well as hip movement, forces you to drive your knee up to your chest. One of the big reason plyos are so effective for speed training is that they force knee drive good bear crawls force the same kind of knee drive. But don't to it to such a degree that form totally breaks down.
And they are also great for pure consequences and in that case you want form to fail. I like the big 3 for missing practice or being lat and guess what the players hate it and it aren’t the 100 yard sprint and back peddle that they hate. When educating a player on the importance of making practice and being on time its important that the consequences aren’t' just difficult and tiring. They need to hate it.
With proper consequence training over time the player will, hopefully, associate the act that brings on the consequences with the extreme dislike of the consequences themselves.
Hows that for PC rhetoric?
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Post by windigo on Feb 16, 2010 12:36:51 GMT -6
I really don’t know what USC is doing here. They are facing real NCAA sanctions and they go out and hire Kiffin who has a reputation for being morally dubious and his first act is to offer a scholarship to a 13 year old. USC is basically doing everything it can to get smacked big time by the NCAA.
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Post by windigo on Feb 12, 2010 14:59:06 GMT -6
Very interesting article and very timely for me. I recently moved to Florida after spending my entire life in Illinois. Spring ball is non-existent in Illinois, so obviously that plays a major role in giving southern teams an advantage. However, the biggest difference that I have seen between Florida and Illinois is culture. Don't get me wrong, people in Illinois love their football, but it's nothing like this. Football is king down here and there is no other sport that comes close. I can't speak for other northern states, but I would say that states like Iowa, Wisconsin, and others are pretty similar to Illinois in the sense that they see football as important, but not more important than basketball, baseball etc... The article mentions culture as a factor, and I would strongly agree. Where in Illinois? Chicago catholic league is huge same with DuPage County. Don’t really know how big it is outside of the Chicagoland area though. But when I lived in Dupage it was just as big as Florida was when I lived there.
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Post by windigo on Feb 11, 2010 17:18:47 GMT -6
I'm with Phantom on this one. Coaches are judged by the big W column. Not by "innovation". MOUSE for HOF.
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Post by windigo on Feb 8, 2010 23:13:48 GMT -6
I've meet some freaks of nature that never got recruited despite living on football island and being fantastic football players. I get what you're saying, but colleges aren't looking for the best player - they are looking for the best 4 year investment. Again, refer to that 5-point litmus. I've had guys who were the BEST athletes I've ever seen fail on 3 of those and not get a whiff of even DII consideration This isn't 'American Idol'. No one 'deserves' a scholly. They pass that athletic test and Hawaii isn't exactly the premier academic institution in the world. I got a friend who went computer science there and the first thing he did in his first CS class was learn how to click and drag.
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Post by windigo on Feb 8, 2010 21:54:03 GMT -6
Getting back on American Samoa and football island. We have a huge Samoan population here and I've meet some freaks of nature that never got recruited despite living on football island and being fantastic football players. The truth of the matter is that there are only a few teams that actively recruit the island namely Hawaii for obvious reasons and BYU because of the deep roots the Mormon Church has on the island. As with all teams these schools have limited scholarships and team needs. You can be a great player and totally fall through the cracks if they dont need your position that year.
I've also met a lot of Samoans who kind of got screwed as they were offed walkons that they couldn't afford despite being deserving of a scholarship because those schools know they have a monopoly and those kids don't have offers elsewhere.
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Post by windigo on Feb 8, 2010 19:56:59 GMT -6
Not discrediting your opinion on the player from Alaska but Bowling Green went up there for Cole Magner who wound up being a pretty good ball player. I would assume several mid majors would consider the risk for a hidden gem. If memory serves me right Cole got noticed because he could afford to go to camps in the lower 48. Much like our last D1 player from our school. But a plane ticket from Alaska aint cheep and many of our players cant afford it. Cole was a QB and Justin who's youtube is above had a similar season to Coles but cant afford to go to camps.
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Post by windigo on Feb 8, 2010 19:52:51 GMT -6
Are you suggesting that there is an equal number of bonafide DI kids across the Nation, but the regional, per capita dominance as the article articulates, is based on staffs not willing to travel? I would say that you see staffs relying more on independent ranking systems and agencies these days and not relying as much on their own leg work as they use to. But all and all I think it is the economics that makes it largely regional. Teams stick for the most part to their region. The elite teams have the pick of the litter in their region and no need to travel all over the country looking for gems and the middling teams don't have the recruiting budgets to travel much outside of their region. So if you are from outside of anyones region and don't have the money to go to camps and increase your visibility you are screwed.
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Post by windigo on Feb 8, 2010 18:17:13 GMT -6
He's not being recruited because he's from Alaska? College coaches have seen him on film and they've told you this? We do everything we can but the fact of the matter is no scout is going to come up here and if they cant see him in person they aren't gonig to make an offer. You cant drive to Alaska. Well you can but it takes a week and a half. And south west dont fly up here.
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Post by windigo on Feb 8, 2010 18:09:12 GMT -6
Kids lifting isn't what makes a DI caliber athlete, though. Look at DI rosters, visit their practices. Those athletes aren't 'normal' teenagers (and may help to take your HS kids to see them up-close to give them a dose of reality). DI athletes have the bodies of most grown men (there is no question if a kid is a college football player or not). I understand there are kids who you would go to war with and are the epitome of a HS football player. That isn't the (necessarily) definition of a DI scholarship athlete. But what does that have to do with what state they come from? There are more manchilds nationally than there are D1 players. I've got a 6'3" manchild Samoan MLB who is built like the Rock that isn't being recruited because he is from Alaska.
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