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Post by juice10 on Feb 22, 2010 10:47:43 GMT -6
Any of you see the guy from Northern Iowa speak on QB Bio mechanics? I think he used more profanity than a sailor!
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Post by juice10 on Feb 5, 2010 13:29:09 GMT -6
I would believe a "successful" play would be a play in which we have all 11 on the field working together as one group. If I can get the OL to fire off make the block, backs do their job, QB get the ball and make the handoff, and the back hits the hole hard - did their job regardless the outcome. Sometimes you are just outmanned.
Defensively really no different. All 11 flying to the football, establishing their gap first, then relentless pursuit of the ball carrier.
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Post by juice10 on Feb 3, 2010 8:00:22 GMT -6
3 paid coaches, 1 non paid volunteer
all paid teach in the district, non paid outside
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Post by juice10 on Jan 29, 2010 13:41:45 GMT -6
I agree with ya. That facility and stadium is way better than what I have. Trade em any day.
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Post by juice10 on Jan 29, 2010 13:36:02 GMT -6
Our district in WI is 1.667, and/or 2 F's in a quarter will sit you out as well.
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Post by juice10 on Jan 15, 2010 14:22:13 GMT -6
Very similar here, normally anywhere from 12-18 varsity players left on a Monday after JV leaves for a game. Here's what we do:
Watch our Friday nights game Watch opponents Gameplan Lift-light condition GO HOME
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Post by juice10 on Oct 29, 2009 12:14:10 GMT -6
I am also from WI, what are your current policies on you going to clinics or such? Does the school pay for anything?
Where I am at, I get two professional days for coaching clinics that I can use anytime throughout the year. I also am allowed to go to the state, but do not get reimbursed for it; however, I get my sub payed for. Hotels, tickets, etc is out of my own pocket.
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Post by juice10 on Aug 4, 2009 5:05:55 GMT -6
Coach TD,
Congrats on the great news!
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Post by juice10 on Jul 23, 2009 7:40:08 GMT -6
I think it is all on your personal preference. I happen to have both for our program (80% Rev and 20% DNA), just because I couldn't get some athletes to fit properly in the Rev's, but I feel both are good.
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Post by juice10 on Feb 26, 2009 8:17:56 GMT -6
We do a community based fundraiser each spring just after the snow is gone. We ask each of our athletes to complete 5 hours of community work for individual/individuals. Work is normally raking, cleaning the yard, putting in docks, etc. Has worked really well the past couple of years for us, small program 35-40 athletes and raise around 5k. The community really enjoys our help and the last couple of years, we have been overwhelmed actually with work. We do everything we can to make sure we will have their business and support in the future.
We treat this as "giving back" to our community. A little work that many of our athletes don't do much of.
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Post by juice10 on Feb 18, 2009 12:07:25 GMT -6
Just a quick thought and to piggy back an earlier post, try to get as many different strong man challenges. We incorporate tire flipping, tire throwing, carry pails of water (sand), pushing cars. Also utilize the opportunity for a conditioning aspect (running and/or plyometrics or both). Another quick note, we would also run with a tire behind us for a little resistance.
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Post by juice10 on Jan 26, 2009 7:46:34 GMT -6
Great posts by everyone here. I think senior leadership is one of the key aspects to building your program. Secondly, I feel that a strong philosophy and sticking to it. Third, WEIGHT-ROOM. Weight-room will offer your program a chance to get better, physically, emotionally, and socially.
Not to high-jack the thread a little, but for those of you who have a program that is established and even those who don't, "What do you do after the season to make sure your kids are doing what they are supposed to when they are supposed to." "What about checking and keeping up with grades?"
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Post by juice10 on Jan 25, 2009 22:07:23 GMT -6
OFFENSIVELY - Pass PRO, Bunch passing attack, jet
DEFENSIVELY - Gameplanning, DL DRILLS, Tackling, and defend the fade (Got burnt a few too many times)
SPECIAL - More aggressive with the punt block and punt fake.
OVERALL - Better time management during practices.
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Post by juice10 on Jan 12, 2009 15:20:44 GMT -6
Just some things that I have thought about.
First of all, be honest and truthful with your players. If you tell them something, make sure you follow through with it. You need to gain there trust, so they will play for you. I came from a much worse program in terms of winning and the amount of years of not winning. It takes time to win the trust of the players.
Be enthusiastic. As one of the earlier coaches stated, "you are in a perfect situation." You control the program now. Sell it like it is the best sport, the best group of athletes to be with, a new start and tradition. If you stay positive and motivated, your players and coaches should follow. Promote this as a new beginning, fresh start, new tradition.
"Failure to prepare is preparing to fail!" Start your off-season stuff now and make it so they don't want to miss. Find a couple of your leaders and studs and have them help you promote the WR. This is one of the best anecdotes for losing.
I don't know what the long term success or lack there of has been at your school, but I can relate to the scores of 60-0, 55-6, 44-0, etc. Those were the types of scores that the football team were facing on a Friday night before I took over. These scores were not just a one or two year thing, it was many years. If you are in the same boat, you really can't focus on just winning or losing. Those athletes do not KNOW how to win or WHAT it takes to win. They need their hands held every step of the way. Focus on the things you can control or they can control, getting stronger (Weight-room), getting faster (weight-room), getting quicker (weight-room), gaining confidence (weight-room and coaching). If you can get them to believe in those things, winning will come. And when it does, nothing greater than watching those athletes and how far they have come.
Just a couple of things off the top of my head. Best of luck coach, Stay positive and focused on your philosophy and the overall goals of your program. Don't let anyone or anything stray you from that.
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Post by juice10 on Jan 9, 2009 12:15:28 GMT -6
Are you a new HC or been there a while. The reason I am asking is the first year that I took over a program, I came in with terms similar to what you said (Wrong arm, "A" gap, 3 Tech, drive block, fold block, rip, etc) and many kids did not know what these terms meant. This was because the previous coach never talked or explained these items, they didn't retain the information, or they are just not that interested in following the game of football. This was a huge issue and communication gap between the coaches and our players.
We as a staff decided right then and there to be consistent with terminology and we had to teach it. Literally sit down classroom style teach during our summer contact days, two-a-days, and throughout the season. Now they improved a good deal by the end of the year, and each year after these kids have done a better job retaining the information. As previously pointed out, our staff has done a pretty good job of staying consistent and expecting our athtletes to know certain terms about the game of football. Hope this sheds some light on the subject. Stay consistent and allow some time for retention.
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Post by juice10 on Jan 8, 2009 15:08:08 GMT -6
A little bit of a "feel good" story, but my best HS story would be an overtime game. We were facing a team in our conference who we haven't beat the previous 12 years. This was the game that was going to decide the conference championship and a playoff berth. Score tied 6-6, we held them on their first overtime possession. We get the ball at the 10, OC calls TO and huddles us up. He gets a little fired up, little tear in his eye, looks at all of us and says "Let's cram this SOB right down their throats, GIVE, GIVE, GIVE" as he slaps all of us on the helmet. Needless to say, 2 FB dives and we were conference champs.
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Post by juice10 on Jan 8, 2009 10:15:04 GMT -6
I do a monthly newsletter starting after the season and running up to the summer. I include items as important dates (Study nights, weight-room times/dates, weight-room attendance, any outstanding achievements by the athletes, coaches information such as clinics, reminder on college materials (ACT, grades, classes to take).
I started the newsletter because of the size of our district and since we are so spread out, I had a hard time keeping everyone in the loop.
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Post by juice10 on Jan 7, 2009 15:19:04 GMT -6
Just wanted to reiterate what many coaches on here said. As football coaches, we know how important the weight-room is to success of our programs and our athletes; however, I highly doubt that the board would go for a new weight-room only to support the football team. Try the angle of helping everyone from the PE classes, to other sports and individuals, to the community. That was one of our selling points to the community for our referedum was the community fitness room. Notice we needed to call it a fitness room, but anyways, the community has certain times that they can use it throughout the day and after school. The more you can make it appealing to everyone, the more chance I believe you can get them on board.
Also somebody mentioned SAFETY.
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Post by juice10 on Dec 10, 2008 8:40:01 GMT -6
Coachh,
I don't think it is tough if you have everyone on the same page. Don't get me wrong, it was very frustating a lot of the times, especially when we all came from some pretty successful schools (HS and COLLEGE), but we knew what our goals where and stuck to our guns. At our small school, basically the only way we lose coaches is if they take another job, so I have been fortunate with the assistants that I have.
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Post by juice10 on Dec 9, 2008 15:18:08 GMT -6
I have never been at an estblished program before, but I would like to experience one to see the difference. I have taken over a program much like coachjuice (almost identical) and through its ups and downs, I am seeing light at the end of the tunnel. It has been very rewarding for our staff, same guys the last four years, watching our players slowly get better on and off the field. There is nothing better than sitting back and listening to all the "ney sayers" and using that for a little drive and motivation.
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Post by juice10 on Nov 14, 2008 12:44:52 GMT -6
Schlomo,
How has the tradition been there? The reason I ask is because I had a similar situation this year with our team. Our team has been very bad for a lot of years, and finally after 3 awful seasons, we were able to turn around from worst to first and a conference championship for the first time in 36 years. We made the playoffs, and it seemed like the kids were not themselves. I think that there was some added pressure with this team because they were winning. I felt like after the last regular season game, which secured our conference championship, our kids were wore out mentally. It showed quite a bit from practice and carried over to our playoff game. We made lots of mistakes that we really didn't made since early in the season.
We as coaches were also in new territory, so we also need to figure out ways to divert the added pressure and find ways to keep the kids motivated and focused, and try to find ways throughout the season to prepare them better to NOT get so mentally fatigued.
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Post by juice10 on Nov 14, 2008 11:59:11 GMT -6
Phantom,
I don't want to hijack the thread, but what do you and other coaches get for support(financial and leave)?
I get 2 professional days and 175$ for reimburstment. Anymore than those two days for football related, I need to take personal days which are fine too. Just curious what other districts offer, better or worse.
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Post by juice10 on Nov 13, 2008 19:35:21 GMT -6
I think that there are many things that can contribute to a good program/tradition. Here are my thoughts.
1. Administrative support - Need to have an AD, Principals, Superintendant, and a school board that is willing to go to bat for you. You need them to be supportive of what you are trying to do and also find the means to getting you what you need.
2. Community support/parental support - in my opinion without this it will be an ongoing struggle. If your community is not behind you and your parents are not behind you, you will have a long struggle. Parents need to portray to their son that you are basically "GOD". If they are filling their son with BS about playcalling and playing time issues, they are putting up a huge brick wall between the coach and the son. Who will the son listen to, my guess will be most of the time the parent. Parents need to be able to trust the coaches that they are doing what is right and for the good of the team and overall program success. Anytime a parent questions a coaches decision, playcall, or anything for that matter, they are jeopardizing the overall goal of what the team is trying to accomplish.
3. Athletes - you need to have athletes that believe in themselves, their team, and you as a coaching staff. You need athletes that are dedicated and willing to sacrifice for the good of the team. Great athletes always help a program.
4. Coaches - You need coaches that are willing to change the attitude and put in the time to become better. You need a staff that is willing to work together and be cohesive.
5. Complete program - From elementary all the way to JV. You need coaches, parents, and volunteers to buy into the system and teach fundamentals. Hopefully those fundamentals turns into some wins along the way to keep those kids interested.
6. WINNING - Nothing helps a program out than winning.
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Post by juice10 on Nov 11, 2008 15:23:28 GMT -6
That's all fine and dandy, but when a ref pulls out a ball pressure checker gadget and tells you to put more air in it then what. Happened to me this year twice, same ref crew. Came to check the balls and I like to leave them a little short of air for the same reasons, told me I needed to put air in them. So I did and he then rechecked them to see if they met standards.
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Post by juice10 on Oct 22, 2008 13:28:14 GMT -6
Air,
I am going to try to take a different approach.
I may not have all the answers (for that matter any answers) but I have been where you are right now. I became a young head coach with very little experience, and quite frankly wasn't ready for it. But here I am 4 years later, taken a team with 10 wins in 12 years and now we are 8-1 with an opportunity to win a conference championship for the first time in almost 40 years.
My first two years were about as awful as an experience as I have encoutered. Some of it my fault, some of it because that is the way it has been for many, many years before I got here. I had drunk parents chewing my A%% on the sidelines before games, to kids not showing up to practice or games, had athletes starting fights, spitting on a referee's shoe, etc. You get the point. A lot of the "cancers" left the team either by their choice or by my choice.
Now to my point, knowing that I was really inexperienced, but eager for the challenge, I set out to become the best coach I could and turn this program around. It has not been easy, but I stuck to my guns and brought my philosophy with me. I have been ridiculed through the course of my time here more than anyone should be in their entire life, but I made a choice to stay. WHY you may ask? Because, I wanted to be the first person at this school in many, many years that turned a dreadful football program into something special. I wanted to sit back and extend each one of the people who doubted me, my staff, and my philosophy "the international peace sign" after I turned this around. This years happens to be that year, where I can just do that.
It has been a constant struggle everyday. I doubted myself, I doubted whether I made the right move, but I stuck it out. I wanted (maybe a little ego) to be the one (along with my coaches who started with me) to turn this around. Hopefully that made sense, kind of rambled on.
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Post by juice10 on Oct 16, 2008 9:17:17 GMT -6
I don't know if this will come across as a solution, but we had the same thing last year with our O-Line. Good kids, pretty smart, but didn't come out and hit. We looked at this really hard coming into this season and we tried to establish a concrete blocking rules for each play. Last year during individual, we repped stance, first step, second step, chutes, sleds. Spent alot of time on one on ones, two on two's etc. Seemed like they were hesitant because they didn't really know what to do.
Therefore, this brings me to my point of this year. We set rules for each player on each play. Our line does flip flop, but it allows us to keep the same rules for each play whether it is run to the left or the right. We have had much better success because I think our kids now understand fully where they belong. More confident in what they are doing and what they are suppose to do.
Again, don't know much about your program and what you run, but this helped us with our ability to run block more efficienty.
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Post by juice10 on Oct 15, 2008 7:16:32 GMT -6
Rather, thanks for the link.
Any coaches from here send their athletes to this? Was it a worthwhile experience for them?
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Post by juice10 on Oct 14, 2008 12:39:46 GMT -6
I have just received some letters for my seniors about playing in a football game during the days of June 30 - July 7. The title title of the classic is "Elite Sports Annual Kamehameha Classic", do all seniors get this? And is this something that is worth the money. I took a quick look at it today, and cost is something like $2500. Don't know what this all includes, but wondering if this is a good thing for my athletes to check into or not a good thing? Any info is greatly appreciated!!!
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Post by juice10 on Oct 10, 2008 13:56:27 GMT -6
I use this daily throughout the football season. I am in a different building (Elem); otherwise, I might try to incorporate something each and everyday.
We try to find a story pertinent to the upcoming week, whether overcoming adversity, playing together, responsibility, etc. We normally do one a week, but if we feel that they are not understanding the importance we may continue into the next week. One of our favorite ones is a poem called "The Cold Within". Basically this is a poem about different cultures, ethnicity, SES, etc and they each have their own log to help start and continue the fire to continue to burn. We relate this to our football team basically saying that if each one of us is important in their own way, and by everyone pitching in playing to win, doing their own part, we will have a great opportunity to be victorious at the end of the night. However, the more selfish acts, the colder the fire gets and less chance for us to be victorious at the end of the night.
We hand out copies to each player (only about 40) and try to incorporate them as much as possible. They do the readings aloud, answer questions aloud, and participate as a group. Makes it easier for the coaches and they tend to participate better when they do not know when they will be called upon to read or answer a question.
I was not the one who bought the booklet, it was the coach before me. He didn't utilize it much, and I sat and listened to some coaches at a clinic a couple of years back talking about it. Asked questions and realized this is something that I needed to bring to our program. The other source I listened to was Gary Halverson from Woodbury High School in Minnesota. Listened to him at the Glazier Clinic last year, and to me, just reaffirmed why I take time to utilize this in my football program.
If money is an issue, try to get together with a couple of other coaches and have them split the cost with you. Maybe try to split cost with the basketball, football, and wrestling coaches or something like that.
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Post by juice10 on Oct 10, 2008 7:00:45 GMT -6
We spend about 5 - 10 minutes right after school and before practice on it. I give them a time to meet in a coaches room in their lowers and start our day that way.
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