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Post by 44dlcoach on Nov 10, 2009 20:45:57 GMT -6
I would think that most of those things would show themselves during the practice week. With that said, we do test our players, and something it can be good for is making sure they know situational changeups.
For instance, say you want to play a certain formation a little bit differently on Goal Line Defense this week, and you don't get a ton of time to practice that look during the week. A test might show you that you still have guys struggling with it, and make you decide to pull them all together and go over it before the game.
Just one example of how they can be helpful, but as far as deciding the depth chart goes, practice will tell you everything you need to know about that.
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Post by 44dlcoach on Nov 10, 2009 15:24:21 GMT -6
We get to play either 9 or 10 regular season games, then it takes either 4 or 5 playoff games to win state depending on region. We have 3 regions, so one region essentially gets a bye each year. They start their season 1 week later than the other 2 regions, so when the other 2 regions are playing first round playoff games, the 3rd region is finishing its regular season. The region with the bye alternates each year.
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Post by 44dlcoach on Nov 2, 2009 21:23:59 GMT -6
I don't see how this is that much different than the other coach on your staff calling you out in front of the team, which you were so upset about. Don't you think your kids have parents in the stands? Don't you think that they know who's girlfriend that is up there ripping the HC? Won't that news make it's way to your team and do the exact same thing you were so upset about the other assistant doing?
If the assistant who criticized you said "that's the way I am. Sometimes the truth hurts." would that have been an acceptable response that you could have just moved on from?
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Post by 44dlcoach on Oct 3, 2009 15:43:24 GMT -6
In Nevada we have "0 period" an hour before regulary school starts that we get all of our varsity football players in.
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Post by 44dlcoach on Sept 10, 2009 22:05:25 GMT -6
I would try to come back as a good coach.
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Post by 44dlcoach on Sept 9, 2009 22:17:23 GMT -6
We go "live" once a week, first O vs. first D in a game situation. We put the ball in play 1st and 10 from the 25 and see who's going to either go to score or nut up and defend a short field. We will do 5 series of this, and feel that it is one of the most important drills we do, and has definitely won us a couple of games over the years.
The rest of the time, we tackle high like brophy said, but we do tackle in indy every day.
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Post by 44dlcoach on Aug 9, 2009 20:51:44 GMT -6
You don't have to assign blame for the loss, so don't even mention the JV guys. Just let them know how happy you are with the way they played, especially against older players.
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Post by 44dlcoach on Aug 8, 2009 16:19:09 GMT -6
I think somebody who misses 3 two a days for a vacation should be suspended for the first game. If somebody missed 3 days of practice on a game week I don't think anybody on this board would start him that game, so why should two a days be a "free pass" just because there is no game at the end of the week?
Or maybe suspend him for a scrimmage if you have one and make it clear to him that because of all of his missed practice time and getting suspended for the scrimmage, it makes it hard to evaluate him and make him a starter by week 1.
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Post by 44dlcoach on Jul 31, 2009 21:15:32 GMT -6
Scrimmage. Play from first and 10 and challenge them to either score on offense or force a punt or turnover on defense. Then be the official and screw them over, whether it be with a bad spot or a PI or holding call. It doesn't matter if the ref made a bad call, god knows it will happen at some point in the season and you better keep playing or we'll lose.
Like max said losers do up-downs.
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Post by 44dlcoach on Jul 13, 2009 22:11:47 GMT -6
We used to play a team that made their kids all sit in a dark room and listen to the imperial march before their games. It was kind of cultish. Then the band would stand on the field and play it while his entire varsity team (about 65 kids) would walk single file and line up along the end line. It took forever, but the best part was that the coach was a really short, dictatorial a-hole so we would just stand around making dark helmet jokes the whole time.
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Post by 44dlcoach on Jul 11, 2009 1:47:32 GMT -6
I was on the Campbell forum before I came over here. I hesitate to say this in my outside voice but I learned of this site reading an article about the A-11 mentioning all the controversy it was causing in the coaching community. So see, something good did come of that thing, it got me here where I learned a ton!
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Post by 44dlcoach on Jul 2, 2009 13:22:28 GMT -6
72% of all statistics are made up anyway.
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Post by 44dlcoach on Jun 24, 2009 15:28:02 GMT -6
Our school adopted this rule that you can't even be on the team if you have under a 2.0 about 3 years ago. At first I was totally opposed to the rule, but 90% of the guys who have been eliminated by it were guys you wouldn't want on your team anyway.
I don't know if it is because of this rule or not, but we have about 50 guys on our varsity and only 2-3 are even question marks grade wise right now.
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Post by 44dlcoach on Jun 16, 2009 21:50:12 GMT -6
We are a bastard version of a 2 platoon team. We do have kids that only play CB, only play RB, etc., but if a kid is good enough to be in the top two on the depth chart on both sides of the ball, he will practice and learn both sides of the ball. Also, all linemen practice both sides of the ball.
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Post by 44dlcoach on Jun 5, 2009 21:07:42 GMT -6
We used 3-4 foot splits last year with mixed results. It really helped our pass pro and some of our running game, but any plays where we had a playside double team (counter, power, etc.) we just couldn't get hip to hip on our double teams on time and create movement at the point of attack.
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Post by 44dlcoach on Jun 5, 2009 21:04:49 GMT -6
Ask johnknight, he's the resident supplement guru on the site. he's got lots of info on various supplements and their effect on the body.
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Post by 44dlcoach on Jun 4, 2009 14:02:26 GMT -6
Is it a college camp? If so. chances are there will be some individual players there, and they will place some of them on your team.
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Post by 44dlcoach on May 22, 2009 22:17:33 GMT -6
I'm getting married the afternoon of our opening scrimmage. Wife picked the date, accepted the fact that there would be no honemoon, and that I would spend 6 hours with the coaches the next day. I guess I got a keeper.
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Post by 44dlcoach on May 22, 2009 22:12:21 GMT -6
Its funny that everybody keeps bringing up skateboarding as we've had three guys get hurt doing it over the last year (actually its been "longboarding", which must be even more dangerous, since they all love it so much). We don't try to run their lives all the time, but we do have an agreement with them that there is no skateboarding in season. Who knows how many of them actually follow it.
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Post by 44dlcoach on May 18, 2009 12:15:03 GMT -6
We do ours Thursday night after practice before we go to team dinner. Usually only takes about 10 minutes. The test covers things we have worked on all week in practice, so "in theory" the players should have a good command of everything on there. The test is designed to cover some situational stuff too, like maybe a goal line changeup that we didn't get to spend much time going over.
If you go through the tests and see that there is one situation that the everybody is missing and they aren't quite clear on, its nice to know so you can cover it quickly in pregame, or pull an individual aside and get it cleared up before Friday night.
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Post by 44dlcoach on May 18, 2009 11:56:09 GMT -6
Somebody (maybe Arizona) actually tried the free kick after a fair catch in the NFL this season. Then the kicker didn't hit the ball squarely and it ended up looking like a squib kick, kind of anticlimactic.
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Post by 44dlcoach on May 18, 2009 11:53:26 GMT -6
Get the ball to your best winner
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Post by 44dlcoach on May 18, 2009 11:30:57 GMT -6
We have a similar quiz to realdawg, except that we make them write out the defensive front and stunt as well. It's nice to get that reassurance that when you name a stunt, they actually know what it means and can draw it.
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Post by 44dlcoach on Apr 24, 2009 14:42:26 GMT -6
We go to a full contact camp each summer. If we are thinking of bringing a soph up we will usually use that camp to evaluate him. If we are thinking of leaving a junior down we will usually let him play up at the camp to see how he does, unless he is new, then we play them down to get some experience.
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Post by 44dlcoach on Apr 22, 2009 21:52:11 GMT -6
We generally play first year juniors on the JV, unless we feel they can get on the field as a Varsity. But if it's a matter of playing 20 varsity snaps all season or getting on the field as a JV, we generally play them down. Other than that we put guys down if they have no chance of varsity playing time AND the JV team could use some help at their position.
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Post by 44dlcoach on Apr 16, 2009 16:08:28 GMT -6
Not trying to use the site to promote or sell anything here, but for the guys who said they hate their taxes, I work for a Certified Public Accountant firm, feel free to PM me if you're looking for some help in the future.
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Post by 44dlcoach on Apr 13, 2009 21:15:04 GMT -6
We got a similar drill from Cal a couple of years ago, except it was only two levels. One thing I really like about it is it helps defenders understand using the blocker to squeeze the opposite gap. Particularly outside linebackers and DB's, it puts them in a position to use the sideline as an extra defender in a drill, which I feel is something that not enough HS DB's grasp in game situations.
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Post by 44dlcoach on Apr 13, 2009 21:07:44 GMT -6
Couldn't agree more with CoachD. Had a 3 year starter at the weakside ILB in 50/eagle defense graduate 3 or 4 years ago and we still haven't come close to replacing him. This was a guy who was a force from the time he was a sophmore, not because he was bigger faster or stronger than everybody, but because like all good linebackers he didn't get blocked. (Don't get me wrong he was a mean dude too who didn't mind hitting a fullback in the mouth, its just that he was good enough that he wasn't forced to do that very often.)
He just understood the angles of the game and never seemed to take the wrong one.
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Post by 44dlcoach on Apr 12, 2009 11:06:05 GMT -6
I wasn't trying to turn this into a bash/support Vince Young thread, my point is just that there isn't an offense out there that couldn't use an athlete like that. Any coach would find a place to use on of the most special players in the history of college football.
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Post by 44dlcoach on Apr 11, 2009 20:23:41 GMT -6
This is why people think air raid guys are full of themselves. Do you honestly think TT would turn Vince Young down because he "couldn't run their offense"?
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