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Post by 44dlcoach on Nov 10, 2015 20:08:30 GMT -6
I'd say it depends on how you want to measure being "good" on either side of the ball. There's a team in our area that totally subscribes to running the ball and holding it as long as possible. They always have a reputation as being a great defense that struggles on offense, but in reality that is just the style they play. They routinely play games where each team only gets 6-7 possessions in the entire game, so they don't score a ton and they don't allow a ton, but it says nothing about their efficiency.
Our offense is up tempo, and we have routinely played 7-9 possessions in a half, so we score more and typically allow more total points and always have a reputation as a power on offense and an average defense, at least in the media.
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Post by 44dlcoach on Nov 8, 2015 22:41:35 GMT -6
Good luck coach!
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Post by 44dlcoach on Nov 8, 2015 22:19:47 GMT -6
To coach d's point, I would be incline to take the ball first if I felt better about my O and defer if I felt better about my D, if given the opportunity. If you defer and are able to get a stop and a score in the first half you are in great shape.
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Post by 44dlcoach on Nov 6, 2015 15:17:20 GMT -6
For us Omaha means a coach is getting ready to rumble and needs back up from the other coaches!
Otherwise we use all the same terminology that silky posted except bingo. We were an oskie team back when we used to get interceptions.
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Post by 44dlcoach on Oct 20, 2015 21:45:18 GMT -6
We reduce contact by reducing the amount of time we are on the field. We try to keep the tempo of the periods just as intense as they were early in the year, just have fewer of them later in the year.
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Post by 44dlcoach on Oct 16, 2015 12:35:44 GMT -6
I try to avoid it with our younger or less talented guys because I don't want to put them on the defensive or make them feel bullied. But our better older guys who hear a lot of praise and have confidence in what they are doing? Yes I will be sarcastic to them or make fun of them in the appropriate setting. I also fully expect to hear it back from them if the situation presents itself, and they never let me down in that regard!
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Post by 44dlcoach on Oct 7, 2015 13:03:53 GMT -6
As a guy who is in his 11th year of coaching high school but his 1st year of coaching youth, this makes me feel better! It's not just us!
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Post by 44dlcoach on Aug 16, 2015 10:33:36 GMT -6
TE 6'2 230 SR RT 6'2 280 JR RG 5'10 230 JR C 6'1 250 SR LG 6'3 270 JR LT 6'1 295 SR
The TE, RT, and C are returning starters, the other 3 are very talented. I expect it to take some time but if they work like their dads and grandfathers they should turn out really good.
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Post by 44dlcoach on Aug 9, 2015 14:28:12 GMT -6
We have a written policy of previous 2 games. We try to get one early so we can start to get the data in out into hudl for our statistical breakdowns.
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Post by 44dlcoach on Aug 8, 2015 18:07:02 GMT -6
We had no scrimmage last year for a couple of reasons and I think it hurt us offensively more than defensively. Then our first opponent was way out of our league and pounded us, and it took until about the 4th quarter of the second game for us to find our rythm. From that point on we were routinely scoring 40+ per game, we had a very talented offense but it took a little bit to get going.
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Post by 44dlcoach on Aug 7, 2015 16:52:15 GMT -6
How long has practice been going on? Because I have to assume it's been a few weeks tops? I would tell my son that the saying "hard work pays off" is true but the saying also doesn't include the word "immediately" in it. Be patient, keep working at it.
It may be that you're caught in the middle of some daddy ball coaching but the OP doesn't really make it sound like that's your impression of thsee guys. If you haven't seen anything to make you think it's blatant favoritism then give these guys the benefit of the doubt and try to keep juniors spirits up.
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Post by 44dlcoach on Jul 13, 2015 22:47:46 GMT -6
I think the hours some have posted seem a little excessive, but it's also worth pointing out that we are talking about IN SEASON hours, which do not carry on throughout the full year.
Is 100k worth it to work 80 hours a week 50 weeks a year? Probably not. But to work 80 hours a week 15-18 weeks per year and also have a big chunk of the year where you are potentially working 15 or so hours in the summer? That becomes more attractive.
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Post by 44dlcoach on Jul 9, 2015 13:28:13 GMT -6
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean everybody's not out to screw you.
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Post by 44dlcoach on Jun 26, 2015 20:19:21 GMT -6
I've been coaching at the school I'm at for 10 years and we've had one move in come into our program during his high school career and be a difference maker. Definitely seen it happen for others, it just hasn't happened for us. Others have become contributors but only one real difference maker.
Now, some of the best players I've ever coached came into our program as freshmen on a variance because they chose not to go to their zoned school. These guys were studs for us but they would have been studs for anybody so we sure can't take all the credit for their success.
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Post by 44dlcoach on Jun 26, 2015 19:42:47 GMT -6
I've seen two sides of this. We had one team that was absolutely recruiting kids off our team every year for about 3 years. Cost us some great players, but fortunately the coach was an @ss clown and they only won one game in three years I think.
The best team in our state is a private school and they are also one of the best in the country. We have less than 5 private schools so they play with the publics and this school destroys everybody else in the state every year. And every year like clockwork they have 5 or so move ins from other states who come in and contribute in a huge way. I'm sure these kids are recruiting the team just as much as they are looking for players, because being at that school is a fantastic opportunity, and I don't blame them for taking advantage of the rules that are in place.
But it does suck when the majority of the top players on the state champion didn't play in the state the year before.
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Post by 44dlcoach on Jun 26, 2015 19:12:32 GMT -6
How about kids "falling out" with one coaching staff after his sophomore year (was playing behind multiple D1 and D2 junior scholarship guys) goes to another local school and has a great year and has another "falling out" to go back to the original school because all the other studs were gone??? What does that fall under? bad parenting.
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Post by 44dlcoach on Jun 24, 2015 18:37:24 GMT -6
Coach Philip I hope this thread if nothing else has been a refresher to you about what makes you love coaching football and why you got into it and have kept at it.
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Post by 44dlcoach on Jun 21, 2015 20:17:34 GMT -6
Never been fed by the home team until last year, we had a road game about 3 hours away and they gave us a bunch of cheeseburgers on our way out. Played a bunch of teams from the same area and travel times over the years and never had it happen before.
We've only fed the opposition once, and it was the night before the game. Had a team come from 10 hours away the night before to stay over. We invited them to our team meal and had our kids sit with their kids and all that and fed them all.
Never seen food in the press box, we usually barely have room for two coaches to even get in there.
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Post by 44dlcoach on Jun 11, 2015 23:03:44 GMT -6
We are in a "region" with 11 teams, which is divided into two "leagues", one with 6 teams and one with 5. We are in the 6 team league so we play 5 league games, then get to choose whether we will play 4 or 5 non-league games. We usually schedule 2-3 of those games against teams from the other league and then try to find 1 or 2 good teams from Northern California to schedule. Only the league games count towards playoffs, so in the 5 team league you can have teams play a 10 game regular season where only 4 of those games actually count towards determining playoff qualification. But we also let 4 teams from EACH league into our playoffs. That's right, 8 out of 11 qualify.
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Post by 44dlcoach on Jun 11, 2015 23:00:02 GMT -6
See you next weekend Mariner. Our guys are pretty excited, I guess playing valley teams is one of those "you never go back" type situations. Did some of you California guys find a way to do a camp? Or is like a 7 on 7 situation?
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Post by 44dlcoach on Jun 10, 2015 22:08:02 GMT -6
We've definitely scheduled tougher as we've improved as a program. But its a little bit of the chicken or the egg too, because weve improved dramatically since we started putting real legit programs on our schedule.
We are at the point now where we are kind of the big fish in a small pond in our area, but to win our state championship we would have to beat one of the top programs in the country. So we try to get the best opponents we can early just to try to experience something that approaches what a state championship game would be like. Makes for some difficult experiences early in the season sometimes but we think it's raised our level of play.
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Post by 44dlcoach on Jun 8, 2015 22:10:27 GMT -6
I'd agree with that observation, our kids aren't all best friends, but I don't see any kid that doesn't have at least 3-4 friends on the team.
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Post by 44dlcoach on Jun 1, 2015 21:50:42 GMT -6
I'm the defensive coordinator and I coach a position. The position coaches set the depth chart for practice early in the season but we are constantly talking about how we split the reps, repping kids at alternate positions, how to organize our practice reps to match what we think our game day rotation will be, etc. Ultimately the HC has final say and I always run the depth chart by him but he's never given any indication that he's disagreed with it or wanted to see it changed.
During the games, our DB coach subs his guys in as he sees fit, our DL coach technically goes through me only because he's in the booth so he tells me who he wants. I reserve the right and have put certain guys back into the game in certain situations, but the situations are few and far between where we haven't been in immediate agreement on getting a starter back into the game. The times that it has happened are usually after a special teams play, long turnover return, something like that where a kid just had to give more than the usual effort during a play.
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Post by 44dlcoach on Apr 3, 2015 21:43:56 GMT -6
We'll only keep a soph up if he's at least going to compete for a significant role. We don't pull a soph to be our backup just because he's better than our current backup, but like Mariner says if our starter gets hurt, the soph comes up.
We do usually pull up about 3-5 each year at the beginning of the year and give them a "tryout" with the varsity to see if they belong at that level. We try to find a role for those guys and use that sophomore year as a way to use them at the things they are best at, put them in a position to be successful, and teach and develop them to have a big junior season.
Last year we had a soph that was our best kickoff kicker in the program by far (so we wanted him up to kick off at a minimum) and we thought could compete at LB and that we could find enough playing time for to appease him. He was hesitant and made it clear that he didn't want to stay up to be a backup, and we assured him that if he wasn't going to see the field we would put him back down. As it turned out, by the time we finished our 2nd game he had made himself impossible to keep off the field and was our best LB period by the second half of the season.
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Post by 44dlcoach on Mar 13, 2015 19:42:25 GMT -6
We are in the "1.5 platoon" category. Our line learns to play both sides, but we usually only have one starting lineman who moonlights on the other side of the ball. Could be a full time OL who helps on our DL (last year) or a full time DL who helps on the OL (year before). For the rest of the guys learning to play both ways in individual it mostly pays off on scout team.
Generally speaking our skill guys play one position, and generally speaking that position defines itself pretty quickly, but we will teach some skill guys to play both ways based on our own evaluation and feel. Usually these are guys who are good enough to be the primary backup at a spot on both sides of the ball but aren't going to be a starter on either side even if they focused on it exclusively.
If we have a guy who is a game breaker on one side of the ball that's where he's going to spend his time, even if he'd be good enough to be a starter on the other side. For instance we had a receiver a couple of years ago who could have easily been our best linebacker but not necessarily a game breaker, but was a 20 TD player on offense, that dude played offense only. We figured the 20 TDs helped us out quite a bit defensively.
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Post by 44dlcoach on Feb 8, 2015 15:29:48 GMT -6
I think the best stats that would predict performance that you can actually control would be things like, percentage of time we lined up correctly vs incorrectly, percentage of time our technique was correct vs. incorrect, percentage of plays where we made an assignment error vs. no assignment errors, percentage of our players who can power clean more than X?, squat more than Y?, etc.
I would agree that most stats in football are extremely dependent on the quality of our players compared to the quality of our opponents, so it seems like the best bet would be to try to quantify things that are controllable by us and are not dependent on the other team as much as possible.
I'd say the more "typical" stats are probably more useful for purposes of comparing from season to season where the sample size is much bigger and the quality of opponent is probably more "smoothed out". For instance, maybe we made a schematic change for one reason or another and want to see if it actually helped in that area, maybe looking at year over year stats gives you some insight about that, IF you feel like the quality of your team was "normal" in each of those years.
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Post by 44dlcoach on Jan 31, 2015 14:05:48 GMT -6
Same with Penalties. There are penalties and there are PENALTIES. The penalty that negates an explosive play (even though it may not have directly produced the play) or gives the opposing team an added possession were killers for us this year. Add to this it's Tough to have a playbook for first and twenty. Not sure there is a stat that reflects "yards lost" on penalties but that was a huge factor that we would like to coach out of our team. Defensively, simply counting penalties is useless, maybe counter-productive. If you're going to play good defense you're going to have some penalties. That quick DL is going to jump offsides sometimes. Just coach him up so that it's not on 3rd and 4. An aggressive secondary is going to get some interference calls. Physical defenses are going to get penalized, especially now that any hard hit is liable to draw a targeting call. You have to differentiate between aggressive penalties and dumb/dirty penalties. I agree with this 100%. I posted in another thread how I was looking at our defensive penalties to see if there was something we could possibly emphasize to minimize them next year. In looking at our roughing the passer penalties and defensive PI, I really didn't see any plays where I would have told the kids to play it any differently the next time. We were being aggressive, we were playing full speed, and sometimes we had plays that made me think "oh well, sh*t happens", but the majority of those penalties were caused by the kids playing the way we wanted them to play, and the aggressive style that lead to the penalties created far more good results for us.
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Post by 44dlcoach on Jan 9, 2015 20:29:32 GMT -6
We have 1 varsity coach and 1 freshman coach on campus,no JV coaches are on campus. There's about 160 or so kids in the program. There are some challenges, but we've done pretty well over the years. I think the biggest thing that has helped us is that the head coach has been the HC for about 15 years, and has been in the building for about 20. Also while the Varsity staff is almost all off campus coaches they've also all been in the program for 7-10 years.
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Post by 44dlcoach on Jan 7, 2015 20:28:16 GMT -6
Ha ha, was watching the Alabama-OSU game with a bunch of other coaches and we start criticizing a few things. One of the other coaches says something to the effect of "if only Urban Meyer and Nick Saban knew as much as we do." The nice thing about having that conversation with a group of coaches was that it hit all of us immediately how absurd it was for us to criticize either of those staffs. In the "fan crowd" I haven't seen the ability for many to come to the same type of realization.
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Post by 44dlcoach on Jan 3, 2015 21:47:32 GMT -6
I think I heard about this site while reading some article about the A-11 and how it was going to revolutionize football! So I guess in its own special little way the A-11 is the best thing that ever happened to me as a coach!
Thanks for everything you do to all of the moderators and all of the patient contributors to this site!
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