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Post by coachriley on Dec 15, 2019 1:06:20 GMT -6
I had a similar thing this past week, a kid that weighs maybe 130 told me he just bench pressed 400 pounds. And I was like what? and he said "yeah coach, I just did 100 pounds 4 times" and was super excited. I just shook my head and said "great job buddy".
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Post by coachriley on Dec 2, 2019 10:01:10 GMT -6
This is something I've seen as well. One district has a ridiculously high turn-0ver rate for teachers and administration, they struggle academically and I've heard horror stories about working there. Their application: 1. The initial app is online and takes hours upon hours to complete. It's ten solid pages and wants three different essays detailing your teaching style, what you think defines a quality educator, etc..etc.. They throw out the application if there's any grammar errors in the essays. This isn't unreasonable except for the fact that their spell check doesn't recognize words like "differentiation". 2. In that online app, they want you to upload a minimum of five letters of recommendation, official transcripts from every college you've been at, a resume, a copy of your teaching cert, documentation of your CEUs for renewal and a letter of interest. 3. They also want you to record yourself teaching for twenty minutes and upload it to the application. 4. Most schools ask that you fill out paperwork asking for permission to run a background check. This district asks that you do that by yourself; get the paperwork, pay to get your finger prints done and then submit it to the school. Then they'll run the background check. 5. You also have to get their tb test paperwork, have the test done and mail it. As soon as I see that it asks for a video of any kind, I close the application and realize I don't need to apply there lol.
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Post by coachriley on Jul 31, 2019 0:45:02 GMT -6
I live in the DFW in Texas and I am not coaching football currently, so it will be nice being able to go watch some really good games with my wife and daughter and just be able to enjoy the moment. I think I'm going cold turkey on Fridays. Football was so more enjoyable last winter after I was done with HS football and I could unplug and just enjoy as a fan. It also helped the Bears were good. I think HS football is still too fresh for me to watch as a fan. Yeah I totally understand that coach. I did that last season and I was fine, but I am just hoping to still watch some games since I still want to get back in the game after a few years. My teaching and coaching job (wrestling) allow me a nice enough schedule and pay where coaching football isn't mandatory right now, but I have talked to our HC and let him know I would like the chance to move over to football as well if the opportunity presents itself.
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Post by coachriley on Jul 30, 2019 16:04:28 GMT -6
I live in the DFW in Texas and I am not coaching football currently, so it will be nice being able to go watch some really good games with my wife and daughter and just be able to enjoy the moment.
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Post by coachriley on Apr 2, 2019 12:25:00 GMT -6
But instead we pass rules under "its fair" umbrella....life aint fair, suck it buttercup... My main comment to this part of your argument is you are correct that life is not fair. And our student athletes need to learn that they may get a coach whose style of play doesn't go along with what they think they are best at. So life aint fair and they need to learn to work through it.
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Post by coachriley on Jan 10, 2019 10:04:56 GMT -6
I will be trying to go to the Glazier Red River clinic. It is the only one close by I can get to since we have a wrestling tournament every weekend there is a good clinic going on.
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Post by coachriley on Jan 10, 2019 10:02:37 GMT -6
For me, it would be coaches saying "that won't work" any time they are confronted with a different offense/defense/technique. They don't listen to the rationale behind it, they just automatically disregard it because they don't watch it on the weekends or they don't know how to teach it.
I worked with a guy at a middle school last year and we were discussing the hawk style tackling. Our high school that we fed directly into wanted us to implement hawk tackling and we had received training how to do it. That is the method I had taught for the past 2 years at another school, so I knew that it worked well.
Well when we start planning our install time and drills for our defensive day, these two coaches both said "Nah, we aren't gonna teach it that way. That way of tackling is just gonna have our kids missing tackles and they can't do it, so we aren't gonna try." One of these coaches was our 8th grade "defensive coordinator" and he said we were just gonna stick with the old method of sticking our head across the opponents body.
It just blew me away how quick he was to dismiss it and not even think about teaching something new to him.
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Post by coachriley on Oct 31, 2018 9:27:56 GMT -6
Re: multisport kids, in my experience, the kids that check out in one sport are the kids that check out in all sports. I coached a 3 sport kid and before our first playoff game I overheard him in the locker room say "Man, if we win we have another week of practice. I just want to get to basketball." His basketball coach told me the kid said the same thing when basketball was about to make their run and he wanted to get to baseball. I coached him in baseball and he was really good for about 80% of the season, then he lost his will.
I had a senior in my advisory class this year, during the 1st or 2nd game week tell his friend "I can't wait for the season to be over". He didn't even want to get through the season to mentally check out.
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Post by coachriley on Oct 5, 2018 7:57:21 GMT -6
Not over quitting, but the knife and jail thing brought this up. Just this past week in a junior high game, a stud D-lineman was wearing us out. Coach tells the Center to cut him. Center looks at coach serious as a heart attack and says, "But Coach, I don't have a knife." Might be a clue we should work on cutting a bit more. The thing I love most about this exchange is that the kid didn't express any moral objection to cutting the other player with a knife, but instead just stated that he didn't have the necessary tool lol.
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Post by coachriley on Oct 4, 2018 9:02:26 GMT -6
I thought I got a stinger one time in practice my Sophomore year, it turned out to be a dislocated shoulder lol. Icing it and just rest is gonna work best for him.
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Post by coachriley on May 22, 2018 17:11:46 GMT -6
The first dumb thing that comes to mind for me comes from our middle school "strength coach" who basically just runs the workouts. He got put in charge of it simply because he is a big guy, you can tell he lifts frequently, and that's about it. Well I have heard quite a few dumb things from him this year in the weight room, but the dumbest is probably when he told our kids while doing bench press. He said "go ahead and bounce that bar off of your chest and generate some momentum, you don't need to go super slow". I kind of looked around like what the hell did he just say? And I wondered if maybe he slipped up and meant something else, but he then made sure to tell each group that rotated through the same exact comments. I hope you corrected that terrible advice? Yeah, as well as I could. I didn't just go tell the kids "hey don't listen to coach XYZ" but I did let them know the proper form and let them know that they need to be able to control the weight going down, and also phrased it as "when you guys are in high school you can't just let it drop because you can get injured". They seemed to understand that pretty well. I also talked with him about it afterwards in private, and he was still adamant and amped up about it, so I just monitor a lot of the kids more closely and fix their form when I see something wrong.
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Post by coachriley on May 22, 2018 14:22:45 GMT -6
The first dumb thing that comes to mind for me comes from our middle school "strength coach" who basically just runs the workouts. He got put in charge of it simply because he is a big guy, you can tell he lifts frequently, and that's about it.
Well I have heard quite a few dumb things from him this year in the weight room, but the dumbest is probably when he told our kids while doing bench press. He said "go ahead and bounce that bar off of your chest and generate some momentum, you don't need to go super slow". I kind of looked around like what the hell did he just say? And I wondered if maybe he slipped up and meant something else, but he then made sure to tell each group that rotated through the same exact comments.
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Post by coachriley on Apr 30, 2018 8:42:12 GMT -6
When I was in high school, our school did the whole Blackshirt Defense and they wore black practice jerseys. Well the scout team wore gold practice jerseys, and after a while the coaches starting calling us the "Solid gold offense". It actually did a good job to get us younger kids on the scout team something to rally behind and get us working together more and have some pride in.
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Post by coachriley on Apr 23, 2018 8:53:39 GMT -6
Unless your wife is not in the school system and you are able to get on under her insurance, the best bet is to go through the healthcare market place. You will still likely pay about $400-$600, but its much better than double that what you would be paying through the school. Yeah, my wife is not in the school system and doesn't have insurance available through her job. I figured the marketplace might be the best bet considering the TRS health plans are all going up again this year. Thanks coach
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Post by coachriley on Apr 22, 2018 19:03:29 GMT -6
Hey there coaches, I come to you guys (specifically to guys that coach and teach in Texas) to see who you guys go through for health insurance for your family. I have a baby coming in the next month or two, have the possibility of relocating to a new job, and I am wanting to cut down on medical costs where I can.
Right now, my wife and I are covered under the TRS healthcare plan but for just the two of us it is about $1,000 a month and with a newborn it looks to go up anywhere from $300 to $500 a month. That will depend on how much costs go up for this next year.
I have looked at going through the healthcare marketplace (healthcare.gov) and it looks like it might be the best bet. Just wanting to get your guys thoughts and advice. Thanks in advance.
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Post by coachriley on Apr 10, 2018 17:49:25 GMT -6
I can see examples where teachers might tutor other students (not those on their rosters) after hours... first thing that jumped to my mind. But in that scenario, is that tutor charging and making a profit off of those students after hours? Assuming this is right after school, I would assume they would not be allowed to charge for tutoring students. Just my 2 cents.
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Post by coachriley on Mar 6, 2018 15:24:48 GMT -6
Give every person on the team some "physical motivation" (up-downs, bear crawls, log rolls, whatever you want) as soon as the period, practice, whatever it may be has started. And continue the "motivation" until that player has arrived to the role call area.
And if it was me, I would be very vocal to all the kids that were on time why we were doing the extra motivation, and point out the tardy student as soon as he gets to practice, and thank him for allowing his teammates to get some rest.
Of course, I can be a jerk sometimes, but the times we have had to do something similar, the situation seemed to fix itself pretty quickly.
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Post by coachriley on Feb 13, 2018 21:03:30 GMT -6
I played just 8th - 12th grade, and the worst I had was a dislocated shoulder, dislocated fingers, and rolled ankles. My ankles and knees are a little beat up now, but that's more from when I was in college lifting and whatever I happened to do while drinking lol.
The worst injury I even had related to football was a few years ago as a coach. I was the scout team quarterback, I went back to make a handoff and a kid stepped on my calf and it ended up tearing my calf muscle. I then tore it again the next year jogging across the wrestling mats.
So like a lot of us have seen, I was safer playing football than I am just being around it. I believe the health and mental toughness benefits far outweigh the negatives I have.
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Post by coachriley on Feb 10, 2018 21:02:20 GMT -6
At the last Glazier clinic I went to a few years ago, I tried to take a picture with my Ipad and one of their workers told me politely that I wasn't allowed to. I was one of the coaches sitting in the back and I saw coaches in the front doing it, so I figured it would be fine. They may have changed their policy on it in the last few years. More likely you happened to be the one that they saw. Yeah, that is what I figured, or at least I was the one they could ask to stop. Either way, not a big deal since you have access to all the online stuff with their membership anyway.
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Post by coachriley on Feb 10, 2018 15:22:17 GMT -6
At the last Glazier clinic I went to a few years ago, I tried to take a picture with my Ipad and one of their workers told me politely that I wasn't allowed to. I was one of the coaches sitting in the back and I saw coaches in the front doing it, so I figured it would be fine. They may have changed their policy on it in the last few years.
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Post by coachriley on Jan 25, 2018 22:07:59 GMT -6
I'll always tried to go khakis and team polo on Friday, jeans and team polo or random polo shirt on Saturday, and then Sunday is shorts and polo or T-shirt. I also went with the can of chew in the back pocket and backpack to carry my laptop and notebooks to jot down things.
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Post by coachriley on Dec 6, 2017 21:09:34 GMT -6
Hell, you can't fail my class now unless you literally do nothing. I allow for make ups at any time and allow for essays to take the place of damn near any assignment. Sounds like my class, I do put a time limit for make up work, everything is due no later than the end of the 7th week of the 9weeks Heck I allow notes for each test, and for all the correct notes those count as bonus points, I even give them 5 bonus points for putting a book cover on their books . Out of 4 classes and 78 students, I only had 2 students do this! My district allows "mastery of the subject" to occur at any time, do we can't put time limits on assignments unless it was expressly stated in our class syllabus, and this is my 1st year in the district, so of course I didn't state anything about that. And 3 of my classes are senior courses so they need my course to graduate, and I still have like 4 kids out of 85 that will fail this course. Then I get the joy of having them twice next semester so they can try and make up the course.
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Post by coachriley on Dec 6, 2017 20:57:13 GMT -6
bad administrative support I've been around - we had a guy leave late to take a job that couldn't be passed up, nobody blamed him but it left us in a bind for hiring, not only was it late and we weren't likely to get a great candidate, the teaching field was physics. So when the HC asked the principal if they could loosen up that teaching field a little, get somebody else to do physics and let me bring in a biology or life sciences guy...they said no...the department head didn't want to move anybody so that was that. We ended up not hiring the spot and coaching that year short a coach. - Once had a freshman algebra teacher (first year teacher!) at a small school fail 80% of the freshman team the 1st six weeks...we went from having two teams to having 1 with 15 kids on it.....principal said her hands were tied, the kids just didn't make the grades stuff like that good administration understands the difficulties of the athletics and tries to meet the football team halfway, bad administration is when the teachers, department heads, and principal treat the football team like its an adversary that they need to vanquish First year teacher story^ that happens a lot believe or not. Hell, you can't fail my class now unless you literally do nothing. I allow for make ups at any time and allow for essays to take the place of damn near any assignment.
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Post by coachriley on Nov 11, 2017 21:03:53 GMT -6
I'm still a relatively young coach, but I think the 2 most important things in developing toughness on the field are the weight room and wrestling.
Other coaches have brought up obviously the physical aspect where if a kid knows how much weight he is use to pushing in the weight room, and that will carry over to the field. He knows that he can do something because he has already done it before, so to speak.
This is my 3rd year coaching wrestling and I absolutely love it, even if the kids don't compete in tournaments, having to get through the workouts and physicality of wrestling, and also knowing it is truly 1 on 1, starts changing how kids minds are wired. I am trying to get every football player I can out for wrestling, even if they don't want to do the tournaments, just because of these other things they will learn from it.
Obviously there are other things that go into it, but these would be the first things I would focus on.
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Post by coachriley on Sept 18, 2017 9:15:26 GMT -6
We faced this issue this year as well, although this team is the 7th grade team. We didn't have enough decent linemen to give us a chance, even our center couldn't get a decent snap half the time. So I asked the WR coach (who had a ton of extra kids) who didn't have good hands and could move.
I moved the kid and he was hesitant at first but I told him hey buddy, we are a running team, so you are either going to block as a wideout, or youre going to block on the line. And youre 3rd string on the depth chart, so you won't even get in much there. But if you play OL you are gonna start and play the entire game. He has excelled and is probably the best linemen we have. Since then I have taken two other WR's and turned them into linemen and they are both starting as well.
So I just sold it as they would get more playing time.
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Post by coachriley on Aug 31, 2017 18:23:11 GMT -6
What frustrates me is when for example coaches chew out a player they do not coach. For example a DB coach yelling at a RB for cutting inside too early. If you don't know 100% what they are being taught, don't try to correct them. Yeah I had this happy just earlier today at practice. Our secondary coach is ripping my center on everything while I am trying to work with him on his technique, nevermind that it is the kid's first day snapping a football after losing our starting center. It just blows my mind that coaches like that have nothing else to worry about.
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Post by coachriley on May 18, 2017 13:04:16 GMT -6
new thing for me: ID badges...for some reason the geniuses decided that kids all have to wear one at all times. So at least twice a week as I'm walking through the hall thinking about something that matters like lunch or my chances later with the wife, I get some hen telling me "coach that young man just walked right past you without his ID on!" so I say "oh sorry I was preoccupied"...or even worse I run over to make a copy and some hen stops me for not having MY ID on..."we have to model good behavior for the kids!!" gimmie a break...whoever's idea this was should be fired....we've created a stupid rule that's really hard to enforce and has no tangible benefit when those kids got caught breaking crap in one of the classrooms, a teacher sees them and they run off...but guess what..they took their ID's off those crafty criminals...so no benefit there, and I'm not real sure that the potential school shooter is going to head into the building ready to blast away but then turn around and go home because he got stopped for not having an ID badge on. "dude did you plant the C-4" "naw man that old lady stopped me because I didn't have my badge on...operation 666 murder is aborted" "curse that ironclad security system!" Our school did that. I'm on our leadership team, and the numbers were crunched and those stupid ID's, lanyards, etc. ended up costing the school in the ballpark of $5,000 to buy them and replace them when kids inevitably lost them. Ended up scrapping the whole thing (thank goodness) due to the cost and "bang for your buck"/lack thereof they provided. The schools I've been at the past two years have had them, and I understand what they say is the importance of them, but it turns into just another thing for us to gripe at the kids about and another rule to enforce. Kid doesn't have their ID? send them to the office to get a temporary or buy a new one, forgets to put it back on? send them to the office. It really does seem like it is most hassle than what it is worth.
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Post by coachriley on May 2, 2017 20:04:27 GMT -6
When you announce a test everyday for 5 or more days and still get the "we have a test today?" I don't know why but that makes me absolutely livid. I just stopped announcing it. I may let it slip out at the beginning of the unit when it may be, then when we do the review, I will say we have a test tomorrow but that's it. I already repeat myself enough throughout the day.
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Post by coachriley on Apr 15, 2017 23:12:06 GMT -6
coachhuey.com/thread/46608/slotThis one is amazing to me because the Slot-T has so little info out there, but so much interest at the same time. If I ever wanted to make a bunch of money coaching, I'd get in with a Slot-T staff and then sell-out bigtime. If you didn't "go missing under mysterious circumstances" before you could sell any information lol.
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Post by coachriley on Apr 9, 2017 19:14:44 GMT -6
How hard is it to get into Texas High School Coaching from outside of Texas? What would it take for an out of state coach to get considered for a head job in Texas? What needs to be on a resume for a 6A, 5A, 4A, 3A, 2A? I know this won't be the case everywhere, but when my brother moved to Texas, from New Mexico, he had been a coordinator on both sides of the ball for about 8 years, and had been coaching for 14 years total. The only school he could get on it, he had to start at the freshman level and work his way back up. Obviously, if he had been a head coach somewhere, it might be different, but just throwing in my 2 cents.
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