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Post by veerman on Jan 20, 2021 10:14:48 GMT -6
Had a team trying to score the game winning TD with no timeouts and less that 1 min in the game have someone fake an injury everytime they got tackled in bounds so the clock would stop. We got lucky and picked them off to win the game, but I thought it was a great strategy using the rules in place. I wasn't happy at the time, but see the logic.
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Post by veerman on Dec 27, 2020 23:13:38 GMT -6
It’s all good, everyone has their opinions. This is like a “who’s the greatest” topic, there’s no real way to determine.
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Post by veerman on Dec 27, 2020 21:48:21 GMT -6
The academies are the easy answer of doing more with less.... regardless of who chooses to do what.. They win against teams that have superior talent (is That not the OP question? who wins with lesser talent?) There are a lot of teams that have success with their talent, but not like the Academies. But do they have "lesser talent" than the teams they are beating? If the Cadets/Midshipmen/Zoomies were beating Florida, Oklahoma, USC, Wisconsin etc then yes I would say they are beating objectively better talent. But do Tulane, Temple, East Carolina, etc all have objectively better talent? San diego state, Wyoming, Nevada etc? The academies aren't playing with scrubs. They fast guys are fast, the strong guys are strong, they are all tough, many if not most were the best players on their teams in HS etc. Yes IMO they are. Their fast guys are not the size of other teams fast guys. Their strong guys are not the same size of other strong guys. They are usually out weighted by an average of 30-40 lbs across the fronts and sometimes even more. They may be some HS best players but that doesn’t mean they are equal to other HS teams best players. You can still be less talented than most, while being by far the best talent on your team. But again this is my opinion.
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Post by veerman on Dec 27, 2020 21:00:16 GMT -6
The academies are the easy answer of doing more with less.... regardless of who chooses to do what.. They win against teams that have superior talent (is That not the OP question? who wins with lesser talent?) There are a lot of teams that have success with their talent, but not like the Academies.
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Post by veerman on Oct 29, 2020 7:43:08 GMT -6
Chain crew can't have communicating devices I'm pretty sure. Seen a ref tell a chain member that if he saw him with his phone out again messing with it, that he would be removed from the sideline.
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Post by veerman on Oct 5, 2020 20:13:26 GMT -6
So to work around this at my program where we barely have enough money for HUDL as is, I have built a custom google sheet that has data entered into it during the game by box staff and it automatically pulls game stats, updates season stats, and runs a weekly overview. From there its maybe 30 minutes of work to get my per down efficiencies done and any advance stats I want to pull. Will the call sheet and data already done getting it entered into HUDL doesnt take very long cause I can fly down the list. I'm always iterating this sheet too to try and automate more of the stat scrubbing off of the data entry page. My off season project this coming off season is to build a similar sheet for defensive statistics so that I can have it all done during the game just by box staff doing their job. That's my next step as well... currently we can get all of the ODK, DN, DIST, YL, HASH, PLAYCALL into HUDL within 5 minutes of our game being over. I don't have enough support staff to have another person or 2 doing anything statistical on Game-Night. But my coach in charge of "stats columns" on HUDL can get the RUSHER, PASSER, RECEIVER, TACKLER1, TACKLER 2 filled out in about 30 minutes, which means stats can be done at that point. Not where I want to be yet, but we are taking a team that has been 4-37 over the past 4 years (0-10 twice, 1-9 twice, 2-8 in 2015) and rebuild it. Pretty much nobody in the community is willing to help out currently. We are 2-4 right now, and have 3 of our final 4 games that are winable. If we end up 5-5, I'm sure I'll have people coming out of the woodwork to help. Have any of ya'll use the HUDL Tag for your game stats? We tried this last year but couldn't find someone really to do it. It's basically like your game tacker set up. Just wondering if anyone uses this? Wanna give a shout out to cqmiller though. I sat in on some of his HUDL Zoom meetings and it has really helped us break down teams even more this year. Wish the best for you coach, and hope ya'll end up getting your 5 wins.
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Post by veerman on Jul 22, 2020 20:45:41 GMT -6
I’m a Veer coach, label that how you want offensively. Defense our players have rules that they follow. Ex: OLB is force if play comes to them, look to cut #1 if pass. They may align in different positions so to speak, but they follow these rules regardless of our defensive adj with alignment. I agree with what was said above. Simplicity is different coach to coach, it’s a matter of opinion for the most part.
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Post by veerman on Apr 2, 2020 10:12:11 GMT -6
Awesome job last night coach, can’t wait for next one.
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Post by veerman on Mar 8, 2020 7:55:10 GMT -6
We still meet, but sometimes we seem like we are just keeping a office desk warm. I agree with HUDL times have changed, were we use to spend countless hours drawing formations/plays/and chart tendencies, we have that information once the columns are filled. I think spending an hour or so would be great, but spending 3-6 hours is keeping seats warm IMO.
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Baseball
Feb 7, 2020 18:48:30 GMT -6
via mobile
Post by veerman on Feb 7, 2020 18:48:30 GMT -6
I coached baseball for 4 years with one of my best friends when i first came to my current school. He (the HC) is one of the top baseball coaches in our state. He actually simulated drills that were similar to DB/Wr drills for our outfield. Again he’s a pal, and it was awesome, but I knew nothing about baseball but soaked up everything he taught me. Like some said, this guy is not doing it by choice, so telling him is wrong is not the answer. Sometimes you have to do things that you don’t want to keep a job, until something better comes up. But to answer OP, just get with the HC, he is the boss he will teach you everything you need to know about what you need for that program.
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Post by veerman on Jan 15, 2020 8:29:02 GMT -6
lol guess now that its 2020 I need to quit running the 4-4 lol..just messing with ya coachks...I agree with most, I'm not interested in what you do (X's & O's), I'm more interested in how you teach the small things in what you do. I tell our guys to try and find one thing that you could incorporate into what we teach our kids easier. We strive to find the easiest most effective way to teach what we do. But I'm with Larrymoe: I'm more interested in listening to program building more than anything instead of topics like "running the spread the wildcat way". They are usually jokes we talk about when we go out to eat afterwards. Some actually have interesting things to say, but usually don't.
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Post by veerman on Nov 19, 2019 8:19:32 GMT -6
Around 1125 students. Around 65-70 kids in the program. We have 7 total coaches. We coach Varsity,JV,Freshman. HC is non-faculty, 3 Faculty (1 came right before school started), and 3 volunteer coaches that come when they can.
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Post by veerman on Apr 3, 2019 20:54:23 GMT -6
What I heard..I don't have Twitter, but very disappointing that HUDL is doing this..
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Post by veerman on Apr 3, 2019 19:50:56 GMT -6
Just heard that HUDL is about to change its Game storage policy. Has anyone heard anything similar?
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Hair cuts?
Feb 26, 2019 22:08:15 GMT -6
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Post by veerman on Feb 26, 2019 22:08:15 GMT -6
Do I think it's a big deal? NO, but Im also not going to tell someone it's a stupid idea. Our baseball team has a rule that hair must be off the eyebrows, ears, and collar during season. The kids actually don't mind it, they know it's little things like this which sets them apart from everyone else. They are one of the top programs in our state as well.
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Post by veerman on Feb 7, 2019 9:27:43 GMT -6
Maybe, but they had two TD opportunities in the 2nd half but didn't make the plays. I'm glad cause I'm a Brady fan lol. McVays lost that game by not running the ball more and throwing quick screens IMO. He got caught up in the moment of him vs BB instead of doing what he should to do to win.
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Post by veerman on Feb 7, 2019 8:34:56 GMT -6
hey I think I know this one I read somewhere that the patriots really messed with Goff by moving around in coverage after the microphone turned off inside the QB helmet, the idea being that they would force Goff to read the defense instead of having mcvay tell him where to go with the ball I betcha BB was waiting to see if mcvay was done talking to the QB before they signaled the shift in Defense The Rams also countered this by waiting to break the huddle close to the 15 sec was left on play clock so BB could not talk to his LB in the second half.
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Tragedy
Jan 14, 2019 7:48:03 GMT -6
Post by veerman on Jan 14, 2019 7:48:03 GMT -6
Sorry to hear. Prayers for him and his family.
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Post by veerman on Dec 3, 2018 8:44:33 GMT -6
Is Alcoa where Cobb is from? Yes, Alcoa is where Cobb came from. I believe that year they had 8-9 players sign D1 scholarships, with 2 of those going power 5. They played in 2A that year as well, so competition was a joke to them. They just won a state record 17 state titles this year, and I believe their 4th in a row.
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Post by veerman on Nov 12, 2018 20:34:04 GMT -6
TN, besides the above mentioned you may want to also check out Huntingdon High School and Union City High School. I second these two. Union City-West TN (Darrin Bowling) has been dominate in 2A in TN. Huntingdon-West TN (Eric Swenson) Like stated before Alcoa-East TN (Gary Rankin) is as Dominate of school other than Maryville the state has. If you go to Alcoa you need to go to Maryville who is just right across the railroad tracks but they are in the largest classification in the state. Alcoa plays with a stack deck year in year out against their classification. CPA- Middle TN (Ingle Martin) Wayne Co- Middle (Rick Rice) These are just a few predominately solid programs in the state. I guess it depends on what your looking for. All of these coaches run different schemes and I would say that have different practice set ups. Sometimes the best programs are not the ones that win state championships year in year out though. I've learn just as much from coaches who barley have over a .500 record as I have some that have multiple championships.
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Post by veerman on May 24, 2018 21:53:53 GMT -6
We split up our guys where half starters are on each team. We want them competing against each other cause the depth is not very deep. IMO if your scout talent is a huge drop off then I don't care how much you coach up the scout kids your not going to get a look. This keeps all periods competitive.
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Post by veerman on Jan 26, 2018 10:02:12 GMT -6
Do you have a try out? Do you cut? If not allow him to be on the team, THEN, IF he messes up to the extent to where you decide to remove him from the team then you are justified. If you don't allow him on the team, I think your setting yourself up for future problems.
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Post by veerman on Jan 25, 2018 13:55:21 GMT -6
Not a head coach, just my thought: I'd rather lose with a high character kid, than win with a terd... I agree with your statement. BUT also know from experience is that if you loose too many (even with class and high characteristic kids) your going to be fired and looking for a job. That is were administration comes into play. If they see the big picture you'll be ok.
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Post by veerman on Aug 28, 2017 9:54:05 GMT -6
I have use Xenith before in the past and I would highly recommend them. We never had any problems with them. I keep hearing about parts, and I'm wanting to ask the Ridell people how is parts easier for your program than Xenith? Xenith the parts are all the same with the helmets, with Ridell different helmets use different straps or snaps. Plus Ridell spits out a new style helmet every couple of years..and you guessed it..with new parts that only fit that helmet which becomes a pain to keep up with.
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Post by veerman on Jul 23, 2017 17:08:54 GMT -6
Exactly, we dropped them from a bucket. We were selling them to people all over the place.
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Post by veerman on Jul 16, 2017 20:17:01 GMT -6
Best I have been apart of is a golf ball drop. You must have the right paperwork filled out. We charged $50 a golf ball,and dropped them on our practice field during halftime of one of our games. Winner gets $10,000. We presented the check during the game. We cleared $50,000 even after the payout.
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Post by veerman on May 17, 2017 15:48:30 GMT -6
I don't blame the kids, I blame the parents. I don't think there is a certain way you have to coach either. You just got to be you. Old school and New school styles both are successful.
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Post by veerman on Apr 24, 2017 10:09:54 GMT -6
And what if your parents can't pay fees? You kick them off? What about when the 6"2 240 pound kid who runs a 4.3 can't pay his fees? He doesn't pay them. Seen it happen way too much I've been at schools that charged $100 gear fee. They got 2 shirts, 2 Shorts, Sweats, and a bag. We did a card sale as a fund raiser where kids sold the cards for $10 each. For each card they sold it took off $10 from their gear fee. Those that came up short could either pay the difference or work it off. You would be surprised how the "I can't afford" went away when they found out they started picking up trash, pulling weeds, and doing manual labor around the field house and stadium. BUT it was a fair way to help all kids when it came to their gear. To be honest most kids just sold their cards and if they came up a couple short they would pay it, or the kids would share the cards if they did not make it to the next level of awards after their 10 and get everyone closer to their 10. But yes they kept everything at end of season.
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Post by veerman on Apr 21, 2017 13:01:47 GMT -6
I like everyone in the same gear. I think it helps the mental toughness of being accountable in every aspect of the program. We preach all the time that the little things in sports is what makes the biggest difference. This is one of those little things that help our kids be a little more disciplined and focused on attention to detail. That way when we talk about the importance of doing little things right, they know it has to do with all aspects of our program, not just X's & O's. Then again I'm an option guy....attention to detail is part of the mentality.
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Post by veerman on Apr 18, 2017 11:00:29 GMT -6
I have to be honest... you come off like the frustrating one in this exchange, not your HC. I see his reply here as 100% appropriate. Sounds like you think your HC is stupid. The solution is either resign, or shut up and deal (Like they did in Baton Rouge) I thought THAT specific situation was stupid. I know he has final say..when he asks for my thoughts I give them...but the final say is his..always has always will...but there are instances where there is a discussion involving the gameplan that is back and forth....and it seems like that is his closing statement because he has no rebuttal..I guess that is what gets to me..if you start the "debate" you cant end it with that closing statement. All that being said though when it is over its over, and nothing leaves the meeting room EVER I may be missing something here, cause I don't see where the HC was looking to debate...His statement was he wanted a particular player at a particular position. Didn't see where he asked what your thoughts on moving the kid. He was basically telling you what he "The HC" wanted. Now that doesn't always mean that we have to agree with it, but sometimes as an assistant you need to figure out when the HC is telling you something and when he is asking for your feedback. When he tells you something you have to say yes sir and do it to the best of your ability and move on. Again I think it comes down to the relationship too, I have been on staffs were the HC was one of my best friends, and we could have debates about anything and everything, BUT even then it came down to what HE the HC wanted to do.
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