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Post by mariner42 on Aug 5, 2023 9:20:50 GMT -6
I couldn't hate more what's going on with college football but transfers and NIL aren't the main things that bother me. They're a symptom, not the problem. Tearing up conferences, destroying traditional rivalries, devaluing conference championships might make TV networks and some schools a lot of money but I doubt that it does much for the majority of real college football fans The original things that made CFB great are being replaced by things that make for better TV contract deals, which casuals like but fans hate.
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Post by mariner42 on Jul 26, 2023 22:08:08 GMT -6
Both the NIL and the Transfer Portal are a mess, but...please do not allow the D.C. politicians to attempt to fix this mess!! Again, don't disagree, but at least Tommy Tuberville has some real experience and knowledge on this subject. Because we all trust Tubs to do the right and ethical thing.
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Post by mariner42 on Jul 10, 2023 15:24:31 GMT -6
Adults are consistently the worst part about youth sports, so yeah, I'd be A-OK with my child playing sports at the park with their friends. Hell, I'd encourage them to do it more. I've never understood why these youth leagues don't make it mandatory their coaches go to a clinic. The game isn't played the way a lot of these coaches were taught. That would alleviate a lot of poor coaching methods. It doesn't even need to be about some exotic scheme, just go learn the basics from those that know and teach it. Even just liability makes it a great idea.
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Post by mariner42 on Jul 1, 2023 8:09:28 GMT -6
Those of you who've answered or are about to answer regarding when your children started playing football, are you counting only adult-supervised ball? Were there previous times your kid would come home and tell you he'd been playing football? Might there have been times he'd been playing football and you didn't know it? If they had been playing football, do you think they would've told you or concealed it from you? Adults are consistently the worst part about youth sports, so yeah, I'd be A-OK with my child playing sports at the park with their friends. Hell, I'd encourage them to do it more.
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Post by mariner42 on Jun 22, 2023 5:51:59 GMT -6
I've got lots of thoughts on raising kids, but have none of my own yet so really I'm just full of sh!t. Regarding my hypothetical son:
1 - Middle school at the earliest. Flag whenever he wants to start. 2 - If they're poor coaches, it's not happening.
I don't think kids need unnecessary much wear on their tires and I definitely don't want any kid learning bad habits from poor coaching. I'd rather my kid just tag along at our FB practices after school than go learn to spear people from a group of Uncle Ricos.
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Post by mariner42 on Jun 11, 2023 20:00:52 GMT -6
Gonna be a real bummer when he's 5'9 as a senior. Feel for him in the meantime because it's almost inevitable that there's some serious disappointment down the road for him.
The dad's like Lamar Ball, but without the good sperm.
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Post by mariner42 on Jun 3, 2023 7:46:11 GMT -6
My understanding is that at this point, GPT is basically an evolved version of the autocorrect on your iphone, it's just filling in the blanks with what its model says should go there.
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Post by mariner42 on May 16, 2023 6:11:46 GMT -6
I've been doing this for a few years, it's a great thing for our kids who aren't getting enough calories at home.
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Post by mariner42 on May 12, 2023 6:01:13 GMT -6
I still watch a fair amount of both NFL and CFB, but I mostly am watching for entertainment, I don't have it in me to be a rabid fan.
I've watched more CBB and NBA the last 6 years because my gf is an avid basketball fan and after football season is over, whatever she says goes.
Just about everything else fails to capture my attention, I just don't have the bandwidth.
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Post by mariner42 on May 2, 2023 22:36:24 GMT -6
Is Mr. Smith the Liver King??? No, he is far more muscular than that. No lie. The guy's a freak, legitimately. With freaky sleep apnea, I imagine.
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Post by mariner42 on May 1, 2023 21:20:54 GMT -6
I frequent the multiple American Football subreddit forums often (it's my "bored at work desk" activity), and more and more frequently (almost hourly now), there's a new post in one of these forums where it's a kid asking questions that could be answered very quickly and accurately by their own program's coaches. "What position should I play? Can I play if I am under 5'8"? What is the best workout to bench a lot for an 8th grade center?" The kinds of questions kids worry about really. What irks me is because anyone can post on reddit, there's always a lot of responses of armchair fans using NFL or NCAA metrics and answering with certainty about what these kids should do when they clearly are likely not accurate or are misleading. Myself and other coaches usually respond that they need to go to their coaches or contact their programs, but those that respond are resistant to the idea. The answer often is "they aren't available/I can't because I'm not on the team/it's not in season yet." Obviously we correct as best as possible. This brings me to my question since I don't coach school ball currently... Do you ever end up having to help a kid "unlearn" things they learned specifically from the internet, or have issues getting kids to ask questions in general? I know kids are often intimated easily or naive, but it's alarming to me how many seem to be afraid to even ask a parent to call the school/program with inquiries. I coach adult women's ball, and we deal with something similar, but it's usually players being "coached" by brothers, dads, boyfriends, etc. It's beyond annoying and really delays the player development process. Last year we had to help a CB unlearn "Cover 2," because we use an inverted Cover 2 (Two CB's deep, FS up). Since she went home and told her boyfriend we use "Cover 2," he spent weeks coaching her how to play like a Cover 2 CB. I guess if you want to make the thread more fun: What experiences have you had where you had to help a kid "unlearn" misinformation or inaccurate information? EDIT: Another way to put it: Do you ever struggle with getting players to use the most obvious resources available to them? As a full-time weight training teacher: ALL THE F***ING TIME. I swear 1/4 of my job is just un-f***ing kids ideas of training. Girls, you don't need 15 sets of Instagram booty popper kicks or whatever. Boys, there's more to life than bench or deadlift. Everyone, stop going so heavy when I program submax work. See it much, much less as a football coach, usually a dad who played who coaches from the sideline. I think I'm pretty lucky in that regard.
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Post by mariner42 on Apr 11, 2023 7:06:53 GMT -6
I've been meaning to make myself flash cards of all the popular coverages w/ their aliases so that I can have informed conversations with people.
I don't even know what kind of quarters I coach.
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Post by mariner42 on Apr 9, 2023 12:08:07 GMT -6
Can I get a ELI5 about his background? Know nothing about the man other than a poor reputation.
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Post by mariner42 on Apr 8, 2023 12:49:43 GMT -6
Hello everybody! I'm new to coaching. Played in high school and decided I'd start back in the system. I was wondering, what are the biggest struggles that you face as a coach? Is there a part of coaching that is "the most annoying" or most frustrating? I'm just interested to see the path I have ahead of me, so I can prepare a bit better. I'm in the dark right now. Most annoying as a HC: Inventory Struggles: Finding the right balance between being warm and being demanding. X's and O's are neat, but working on yourself as the person who is coaching is one of the greatest places for growth as a coach and one of the places I don't think many coaches really explore. One of the most satisfying parts of the job for me has been seeing kids I coached get into coaching themselves. Holy f*** do I find that rewarding. Really enjoy bringing young guys into the profession, I had two young guys with me last year that were total knuckleheads for me but it was great to start to teach them what it is to coach.
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Post by mariner42 on Apr 8, 2023 12:36:04 GMT -6
Am I the only one who's so Sabanese (I guess) deficient that I have no idea what they're talking about? Greek to me. This is probably funny, but it may as well be Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky.
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Post by mariner42 on Mar 25, 2023 7:28:42 GMT -6
For an additional example of why I think performance-based pay for teachers is problematic, here's a selection from an episode of Last Week Tonight that discusses it:
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Post by mariner42 on Mar 24, 2023 6:39:41 GMT -6
Our district is going through contract negotiations. The BOE and administration want us to give up the salary schedule for a different compensation system. To my knowledge, every time a school district has got rid of the salary schedule, the pressure to do that has always come from the BOE and the admin and not from the teachers. So, my questions is, why do BOEs and administrators generally oppose salary schedules while teacher unions support them? I don't see any way in which this doesn't end w/ people getting screwed over. There's too much nuance for performance-based pay as a teacher. Imagine if you got a class of kids in the weight room that had spent the last year playing video games and had no interest in weight training but didn't want to take normal PE because they hate running? How on earth could you possibly be evaluated fairly based off of that? Side note, I'm basically describing my 7th period this year and oh my are they awful.
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Post by mariner42 on Feb 25, 2023 23:02:42 GMT -6
Well, firing me with 2 games left made me pretty miserable.
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Post by mariner42 on Feb 13, 2023 9:20:11 GMT -6
100% That said, I've found encouraging players to get together to go be hooligans supporting our athletics program has been a solid way to create some of those bonds. AD-"Coach, your boys were at the volleyball game and really caused a ruckus...Some of the parents on the other team were upset" Had this convo almost verbatim, but the AD was smiling while he said it.
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Post by mariner42 on Feb 12, 2023 11:23:07 GMT -6
Incoming HC's usually bring their own staff with them. Prepare to go somewhere else. Different depending on where you're located. In CA, unless you're at a big time job, you're almost certainly inheriting the existing staff because you don't have much of a choice. When my HC first got here 13 yrs ago, the biggest job was upgrading our players, but the second biggest was coaching our coaches because we just didn't coach the way he wants it done.
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Post by mariner42 on Feb 11, 2023 7:35:27 GMT -6
Best "Team Building" activities are working-sweating together in the Off-Season and practice. 100% That said, I've found encouraging players to get together to go be hooligans supporting our athletics program has been a solid way to create some of those bonds.
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Post by mariner42 on Feb 4, 2023 9:05:41 GMT -6
Best advice I've ever heard is to "stop sucking" which sounds flippant but is actually a great way to look at things. What does the program do currently that is associated with teams that suck? Are there daddy ball problems that can pop up in bad programs when it's all off campus coaches? Are practices unplanned or disorganized? Weight room not managed well? Playbook as thick as the bible? Stop all that stuff. Nothing fancy is needed. The US military wants full spectrum dominance, to be the absolute best in every area. You might want that eventually but right now you need full spectrum competence. Run solid practices, maintain rules and discipline, get the weight room rolling and being done properly, have a sound scheme on both sides that is simple enough to play fast, etc. Just dont do the things that teams who suck do. Maybe you wont find that very profound or helpful but it certainly helped me look at things differently when I took over my positions. I wanted the world but that's not realistic in a program that's been down Stop doing/eliminate the stuff that loses games first, then start working on winning games. More games are lost than won.
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Post by mariner42 on Jan 28, 2023 8:06:58 GMT -6
How old is the program? If they’ve never been good and have been around for awhile, that’s generally a community issue. Hard to turn a program around when the ones raising the kids have no standards or accountability. You’ll be the {censored} they try to run off before changing This was my first thought, too. Community and admin have a large share of a failing program.
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Post by mariner42 on Jan 14, 2023 12:17:39 GMT -6
Yeah, this is all kinds of dumb. 1 - Hardos who don't know anything about proper training shouldn't be implementing programming 2 - Creatine is a lame excuse, it's honestly the most thoroughly studied supplement in the history of science 3 - The kids were almost certainly in poor shape and likely detrained from Xmas break, which really brings us back to #1 4 - irishdog , that song is called Flower by Moby and it's a banger. Those workouts are awful though. 5 - Rhabdo, in my understanding, comes from way too much volume in too short of an amount of time for someone who isn't ready for that kind of work. Again, see #1. Also, I've heard that when the big muscles get fatigued and smaller muscles have to do more than their normal share of work, that'll lead to rhabdo. FFS, just read 5/3/1 and leave the stupid 'mental toughness' type crap in the dumpster where it belongs. Thanks for the clarification. Those "workouts" were used at the end of the main sessions to promote physical/mental team building. We didn't end every session with those workouts. Sometimes we engaged in what we called "team wars" (tug-o-wars, sled relays, tire relays, etc.). To be clear, I meant awful in the 'really hard and sucky but also kinda fun' way, not awful in the 'looking down my nose at the knuckle draggers' tone that the rest of my post had.
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Post by mariner42 on Jan 13, 2023 23:10:44 GMT -6
Yeah, this is all kinds of dumb. 1 - Hardos who don't know anything about proper training shouldn't be implementing programming 2 - Creatine is a lame excuse, it's honestly the most thoroughly studied supplement in the history of science 3 - The kids were almost certainly in poor shape and likely detrained from Xmas break, which really brings us back to #1 4 - irishdog, that song is called Flower by Moby and it's a banger. Those workouts are awful though. 5 - Rhabdo, in my understanding, comes from way too much volume in too short of an amount of time for someone who isn't ready for that kind of work. Again, see #1. Also, I've heard that when the big muscles get fatigued and smaller muscles have to do more than their normal share of work, that'll lead to rhabdo. FFS, just read 5/3/1 and leave the stupid 'mental toughness' type crap in the dumpster where it belongs.
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Post by mariner42 on Dec 28, 2022 9:01:01 GMT -6
Hey Coaches, I am currently a college student pursuing a degree in Secondary Education for English but as you can assume by my presence here, football is something I truly have a passion for. I really want to get into coaching once I start my student-teaching program in about half a year so I just wanted to ask some questions about coaching! -How did you get into coaching and why? -What do you think is the most overlooked aspect of coaching? -What is something you wished you knew before you started coaching / What is something you wish you could tell your younger self? I would really appreciate any guidance, Jon-Daniel. 1 - Honestly, I knew I wanted to coach when I was still playing in HS. I caught the sickness EARLY in life. 2 - I'm really coming around on the idea that not many coaches (myself included) are all that knowledgeable about HOW to coach/teach/drill so that kids learn, retain, and improve. 3 - Be smarter with your finances, be more patient with your career. Don't date the redhead.
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Post by mariner42 on Dec 22, 2022 10:51:39 GMT -6
God bless him. RIP and prayers for his family. Bruce Eien was one of the first coaches to put together a coaching site back in the mid-90s. I was looking at his stuff as a HS kid back then who only someday dreamed of coaching. It’s where I first learned about the Run and Shoot and other “exotic” offenses of the time. He was a huge influence on me as well as many other coaches of my generation, and in the limited correspondence I had with him, he was always helpful and cool. It’s impossible to know how many people he helped and how much of a debt the game owes him now. I will always be grateful. I visited his site probably hundreds of times in HS, he's absolutely one of the major influences that lead to me catching the coaching sickness. Most of us could coach 50 years and never have the kind of influence that he did.
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Post by mariner42 on Dec 17, 2022 15:29:32 GMT -6
Just curious what others are doing: 1) When does your off season training start? December? January? etc 2) How many days a week? 3) How much time per day? 4) How much of that is weights, conditioning, agility, etc? 1 - We have every player in a weights class, frosh through senior. Freshmen starting really training the week after the season ends, JV/Var maybe a few weeks depending on playoff runs, etc. 2 - 3/4 3 - 30-45m, classes are 49m so we have to really hustle. 4 - We don't really do conditioning or SAQ in a traditional sense. We lift and play games and tell them to play other sports. We play A TON of half court basketball and dodgeball, that's plenty of conditioning and SAQ right there.
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Post by mariner42 on Dec 17, 2022 15:26:09 GMT -6
Seems that we always hear “player led teams are better than coach led” teams.” But how does this happen AND keep the standard of excellence when lacking leaders? Advice and book suggestions welcome. Thanks! Jeff Janssen's books are a tremendous resource for this, I'm making a curriculum out of his Team Captain's Manual with my athletics class this year.
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Post by mariner42 on Nov 25, 2022 18:41:41 GMT -6
It's only slightly better than the content you get from a clinic talk and they'll trickle it out for as long as possible because if you got ALL of the good stuff, you'd move on.
Make friends w/ people who are doing what you do, but better.
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