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Post by veerman on May 9, 2012 7:31:07 GMT -6
I think that in today's society the use of medicines has kinda balanced themselves out. Anything in excess is bad for you, glass a wine a day is good, 10 is not. Even 1 candy bar is OK, 5-10 is not. Steroids gets a bad rap, there has been 0 studies on the effects of steroids, but all we can think of are the negative side effects when taken in excess. Vitamins (things your suppose to take in daily) can be harmful to your health when taken to the extreme. Medicines have helped prolong athletes lives when used properly, but the access to everything else that can be abused has defiantly shorten it. For the most part they are still tackling fundamentally sound, just people are not suppose to be that big and move that fast. Its kinda like in the old days it was a bunch of Honda Civics hitting into each other, no its a bunch of 18 wheelers.
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Post by veerman on Apr 17, 2012 13:16:54 GMT -6
Defiantly playing!! There is NO comparison to the feeling of playing under the lights, being able to have an impact on the game. As much as we coaches want to think we play a big part in the outcomes of games our role is in reality very small compared to what the kids play. Played high school and college, and I would love to go back to it in a second. Coaching is great, but it can't hold a candle to being actually on that field playing.
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Post by veerman on Apr 11, 2012 8:31:37 GMT -6
Herd a wise coach once say.."there's no competition against "thingy"...even football can't compete against that"
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Post by veerman on Apr 10, 2012 10:28:26 GMT -6
I think that some negativity is good, BUT you need to use twice as many positive comments to negative. IMO you can't always tell kids good job, sometimes they need that kick in the rear to get them going....In your situation it's coming from your boss, you can either try to get better at what he is looking for, or be prepared to leave. That's just the business, just because some principals thinks a teacher is some way does not make it true, but they are the ones that determine if they stay or go.
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Post by veerman on Apr 4, 2012 6:59:21 GMT -6
Done it two different ways. 1. used air paint cans which cost more money, but the clean up and quick availability is great. 2. used the paint machine that you have to mix in 5 gallon buckets, cost is a lot cheaper, and outcome of the field looks better, BUT mixing and cleaning can take a lot of time. So i guess it depends on what you prefer. We do everything for our field. I use string and lay out the logo I want then outline the string.
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Post by veerman on Mar 15, 2012 9:58:34 GMT -6
We have done something similar when running option. We practiced against different fronts and looks all wee from spring, cause the same as the coach said, you never know what your going to get.
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Post by veerman on Mar 15, 2012 9:04:00 GMT -6
I think most teams have those kids that come out and go hard, and are at every thing on time and do what you say to the letter but have zero ability. Those kids we try and find other ways they can be rewarded. I agree I don't cut my own throat by playing them and loosing. I will say this if they are close in talent then I play the kid that may have a little less talent, but a lot more heart than the guy with a little more talent, but don't care as much. Want to say the Coach's name was Tim Murphy (listen to him speak at a glazier clinic) was a great speaker, and got a lot of great stuff from him. He had a rubric scale that rated kids 1-10 on 4 different categories, he and the coaching staff rated the kids while the kid rated himself. The kid with the higher overall score was the starter. Trust and effort was the tie breaker if need be. Thought it was a great thing to help us keep ourselves in check. He even brought up the example of a kid that maybe a 9 or 10 in trust and effort but 2 in athletic ability is probably not going to start, and if he does your going to struggle anyways.
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Post by veerman on Mar 8, 2012 11:59:42 GMT -6
We sometimes have them every week on Wednesdays. They are pretty good about letting the coaches come in at 7am the following morning though, sometimes we have to be there though.
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Post by veerman on Feb 28, 2012 11:10:42 GMT -6
We only have about 25-35 on our team total. That's Fresh-Sr, For those who have your teams split (varsity/JV/Fr), what would you do in your scheduling if they all had to be together? What would you do on JV/fresh game days (Mon)? In the past we have done different things: we have practiced everyone then feed the JV/Fr guys before their game, and we have just let them go home and just practice the 10-15 guys that did not play JV. What are your thoughts.
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Post by veerman on Feb 27, 2012 9:46:08 GMT -6
blb, Does that mean you have 7 total coaches on staff? (3 varsity, 2 JV, 2 Fresh). Something we were looking at doing this spring, but we would need around 6 coaches to do is an A & B team type. Both teams would consist of starters, varsity, and JV/Fresh players. While team A is working on Offense (Indy and group) team B will work on Defense (Indy and group). They will come together for a Team period. Then they will swap with Team B going to offense and A going to defense. Was wondering if anyone has done anything similar. We split up our team periods this way in the past to be able to give better looks on the scout team, but now we are looking at doing it for everything, but might find out it wont work for us.
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Post by veerman on Feb 24, 2012 12:11:23 GMT -6
#5: Cole Bartiromo, 18, of Mission Viejo, Calif. After making over $1 million in the stock market, the feds made Bartiromo pay it all back: he gained his profits, they said, using fraud. Bartiromo played baseball at school, but after his fraud case broke he was no longer allowed to participate in extracurricular sports. Bartiromo clearly learned a lot while sitting in federal court: he wrote and filed his own lawsuit against his high school, reasoning that he had planned on a pro baseball career but, because he was kicked off the school's team, pro scouts wouldn't be able to discover him. His suit demands the school reimburse him for the great salary he would have made in the majors, which he figures is $50 million. This was a case in 2003.
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Post by veerman on Feb 22, 2012 12:08:23 GMT -6
I'm a fan of the DNA. Like the speeds, but different parts kept breaking and they do not use standard helmet accessory pieces, so don't think they are a good investment unless you buy multiple, but if you had a grant or could just straight afford a bunch of them then yeah Speeds are great. Best bang for the buck IMO is the DNAs though.
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Post by veerman on Feb 16, 2012 12:13:26 GMT -6
Have had Nike Cowboy jerseys, and they were not very good. Had a bunch to rip in 1st year. School did the contract thing. Not a huge fan with there uniforms. If I had to choose would probably go in a different direction.
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Post by veerman on Feb 14, 2012 10:45:32 GMT -6
I agree, What keeps me from saying that my stud QB is going to play Lt Tackle next year. I would get crazy with it stating that my starting offense consisted of freshman their backups are still in the 8th grade or something. This sounds ridiculous.
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Post by veerman on Feb 9, 2012 21:54:17 GMT -6
Didn't Dan Marino one of, if not the greatest passer in NFL history (think he could have thrown for 6000+ with the rules of NFL today) play in a wing-t system in high school? I think any offense can adjust to talent. I prefer the flexbone option, but with peyton we would still run the plays within our system but like one coach said play calling might change. He would still practice his reads some, but with him he may spend more time down with wr on passing while others did the full time doing reads. Again, play calling needs to be adjusted, but as far as offensive philosophy I will still run what I know how to teach best.
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Post by veerman on Feb 7, 2012 9:09:34 GMT -6
We don't meet on Saturdays either. Saturdays is our family day to take them out or a day to see former players play at next level (if there are any) or go see a college game. Sundays starts with church, then meet afterwards to game plan. During our free time on Saturdays we break down film on our own time, and come up with ideas for next week, I usually do this late at night when family is asleep so I can give my attention to them when they are awake.
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Post by veerman on Jan 25, 2012 10:19:55 GMT -6
come up with your own "key" signals that you can do that will let him what to do. Ex: maybe pushing your hands out may mean "block", and fish hook in mouth signal means for him to run a hook route. You can get creative with it.
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Post by veerman on Jan 20, 2012 11:04:42 GMT -6
I like keeping everything I could in closeable tubs that you can buy at wal-mart and other places. Being able to label them and store lots of things was great.
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Post by veerman on Jan 19, 2012 10:56:55 GMT -6
I agree this kid does not want to just play D1 college ball, he has his heart set on playing ball at Alabama. He does not care how long he has to wait (which I'm in the opinion also that he will never make it on campus after a 1 year layoff), he wants Bama. Now we keep asking were are the parents, what if that's what he wants to do?? Your going to make the decision on where your kids is going to college? I have mixed feelings on this, after my experiences I have seen with this when I was in college in a situation when parents decided on where kid went, I would probably let him make his own decision.
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Post by veerman on Jan 12, 2012 8:17:31 GMT -6
Obviously, you want enough bodies to be able to have enough people to practice against without having to beat your studs to death. But I do think you can get to the point where it starts having negative returns. You don't want to have too many just standing around and you. Don't want to carry dead weight or cancers. i can see your point. however I come from a program where no none is standing around. during team o and d we have 1 vs 1, 2 vs 2, 3 vs 3 and 4 vs 4 all going at the same time. 88 players getting reps all at the same time. I got it from st johns u in minnesota. To run a team like that you must have a bunch of coaches. We only had 3 coaches and that includes the head coach on staff. So running a team like that is not an option for us. I agree with the coach that said roster size needed to be relative to how many coaches you have. 3-4 coaches can't coach 90 kids they just don't get the proper reps cause you have 25-30 in each group.
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Post by veerman on Jan 10, 2012 9:02:15 GMT -6
i guess it just depends on where you live also. There is no way all our kids can go out and raise 1500. Half our kids hope their parents have enough to pay the rent and light bill much less anything else.
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Post by veerman on Jan 10, 2012 8:51:40 GMT -6
I'm kinda confused confused on the whole we are a UA school or Nike school thing and having to spend tons of money on attire. When Nike talked to us about contracting they were going to give us a good amount of money to spend just on coaching attire a year. So why go out of budget? I agree that cqmiller is getting hosed on his prices, you can find a lot cheaper prices, even name brand gear for that matter cheaper. And if teams just wanting to be a name brand school just to say you are when you don't receive any money for gear from them then you have a lot more money to just blow away in your program then we do.
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Post by veerman on Jan 9, 2012 22:31:05 GMT -6
Those that allow music in the locker room before games what do you do for the kids that want it quiet to relax and focus?
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Post by veerman on Dec 14, 2011 8:05:25 GMT -6
LOL now that's awesome...did the wife make food for the staff after games too? Like the idea of bringing staff over after games though.
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Post by veerman on Nov 16, 2011 14:46:31 GMT -6
PVC holds up pretty good, will probably have to replace every other year maybe, or a piece here or there. Easy to do, but hard to explain on how I made them.
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Post by veerman on Nov 16, 2011 10:12:54 GMT -6
We made some shutes out of PVC, was cheap and easy to make.
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Post by veerman on Nov 11, 2011 14:45:30 GMT -6
Yeah not saying I don't look for them, just saying that its more important to pay attention to your teams details than it is the opponents.
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Post by veerman on Nov 11, 2011 13:15:40 GMT -6
I know what your saying. I like attention to detail but that might come with me being an option guy. But my attention is mainly to my own team. Are my guys stepping with the right foot, and doing things exactly how I want them. Think you got to take care of that attention before your try to look deeper into what an opponent does. I try to find those things but my biggest concern is how my team is doing, cause if we do things right to be honest you can know that we are running ISV to the right and we still are good. Now to say that just cause a team that doesn't pay attention to details can't be successful is wrong too. I know coaches that kinda tell their players to get the job done and tell them what end result they want and don't spend a lot of time on small things like steps and tech, and they are VERY SUCCESSFUL. So to each his own....kinda like offenses and defenses I guess, each can be successful if you know how to do it.
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Post by veerman on Sept 27, 2011 7:03:41 GMT -6
What if you have multiple kids with a missed assignment or poor tech when trying to coach during film? If i just let the film run with no rewind things will be left out. I like the fast pace tempo stuff and still learning how to practice it, but it sounds like a fast pace tempo means you pay less attention to detail and just try to get in as many reps as you can regardless if something isn't quite right. I know this ain't right to the fullest but it seems hard to be a really fast pace team and be a attention to detail type team. Those that are attention, where other than Indy do you find the time to spend that attention to detail when you are face pace at practice trying to get so many reps in little time? Like I said like the face pace idea, just trying to learn more about it. like the idea of multiple huddles, just wondering how would some of you handle not having enough kids to give you a look on scout team? We are running into this problem so we splits our good players into two groups. While one group is on offense running plays with some not so good players, the other goods are on defense with not so good defensive players. We found this is only way we can get a look from scout. Do others have any ideas that may help?
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Post by veerman on Sept 4, 2011 11:45:33 GMT -6
Don't know if they were faking injuries last night, I agree with the idea that players were told if ya don't know then go down. Think its a fairly good strategy. Oregon players were going down just as much but im sure they tell there players unless both your legs are broke you better be getting your butt to the sideline ASAP. Don't think the LSU guys going down effected the game. LSU physically dominated the game, if you dont count the give me TD at the end of the game, and the short TD after the botched snap play which give them the ball on like the 10 or something Oregon really did not do that much offensively. Thomas and James are both really good players, and the fr wr is going to be real good, but I would not take James over Lattimore (SC) or Richardson (AL). Thomas I would compare to QB at Miss St. Thomas and James will have far better numbers cause of the weaker competition they play. But as far as faking injuries don't think they did, but then again if your not doing EVERYTHING you can to try and win the game you ain't trying hard enough someone once told me.
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