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Oct 13, 2018 21:03:00 GMT -6
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Post by coachks on Oct 13, 2018 21:03:00 GMT -6
Echo for whats been said. I used to get them (it)? in the same spot where my trap hits the neck. Hindsight tells me its from getting my head across the tackle - exposes the neck and gets that head snap motion. The shoulder shockers may or may not help. Hopefully he gets used to it. Eventually I got to the point that I looked forward to it, because it was relief from anticipating it happening.
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Post by coachks on Oct 5, 2018 10:31:26 GMT -6
Now we are going to insert morality into game? Can we please stop this non sense. Shouldn't you always conduct yourself as a teacher coach with morality and ethics? I mean, what are you teaching your players? Whose morality and ethics? The school I teach at essentially does not care about profanity in the halls / lunch ect. In the classroom you can write them up if it is a disturbance, but generally speaking, nothing is going to happen. At home, many of these kids cuss all day long. They have parents who cuss all day long. Listen to music that cusses. Watch movies that cuss. And somehow, we are still a top achieving school. Our kids still go to college and have careers. The earth is yet to fall apart. In fact, the school I'm at has a great reputation and the kids are extremely well behaved. They cuss in the hallways because thats what teenagers do. Not having to regulate it is a massive stress relief for me as compared to old jobs that wanted to spend more time enforcing various codes and policies then actually teaching. NFL players cuss (sometimes it even gets on camera and shows up on TV). They can still play. CEO's cuss. The military has made it an art. Ever been in a factory? On a farm? in a shop? On a construction site? So what are we regulating here and why? Some tradition from the 50s? Is it still improper to leave your house without a hat, and for women to wear pants? So lets call it what it is. I teach and coach down the road from newhope. It's a state that still wants to cling to old notions of "proper respect" and the "old ways" and using the little power that still exists to try and enforce that as best they can.
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Post by coachks on Aug 23, 2018 20:20:21 GMT -6
Well, I suggest that we look into solutions for the issue: 1. The concussion issue will fade away when concussions stop being prevalent. Make sure that the kids are outfitted with the proper equipment and teach proper tackling, shedding and blocking form. The number of concussions coming out of football around her has dropped significantly since coaches started teaching safer practices. We had more concussions coming out of basketball than football last year. And, the concussions in basketball were far, far worse because a kid rebounded the head off of a floor or a wall. 2.. Press home the importance of being a multiple sport athlete. Sell the other sports programs at every turn; show up to as many basketball games, wrestling matches, baseball games, track meets (etc..) as you can. Being a multiple sport coach certainly helps as well. The football players know I am going to get on them if they're not out for track. If they're out for Legion baseball, so be it.. But, I'm going to be pushing track all year long. 3. Honestly, it seems like we're fighting club sports for kids more and more these days. Hockey and fall baseball are getting popular around here, they're talking kids into specializing and it's a PITA. The best way to counteract this is to promote pride in ALL school athletics without trashing the club sports. Make sports a point of school pride, regardless of the success of certain sports. 4. Successful sports draw participation, PERIOD. Our wrestling program is one of the best in the state and they routinely have 50-60 kids out with a school population of 250. Track draws around 80-90 boys and girls.. We had an ugly season in football last year and our numbers have dropped to the high 30's.. fight fire with fire... Fall baseball? Spring football... You know fighting fire with fire is actually a bad idea right?
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Post by coachks on Aug 16, 2018 6:42:51 GMT -6
I have never been able to get an aggressive thud tempo in practice. We use the leverage and tag off as a tempo and emphasize speeding the feet on contact. Also we do a strip tempo where they they are in a leverage position and try to strip the football at arrival. On both we emphasize staying in motion with near foot to the near hip of the ball carrier. So far it has been pretty good for us. Also in both tempos we have the offensive ball carrier run hard for another ten yards which helps us get our back end involved in pursuit, when we would go thud or live in the past our scout team was so bad that we would almost always have no gain it loss of yard plays so our dbs weren’t getting good work. I am interested to hear how guys get good thud tempo sessions because I wouldn’t mind a little more physical periods in practice on occasion. I think part of having good thud tempo is not freaking out of a guy gets tackled. For us the biggest thing we are avoiding is guys twisting on the legs, slinging down and hitting low. If our defender goes in and theres a pop and somebody falls, thats football. We usually say to keep em up when someone goes down, but nobody comes unglued as long as its "clean" ie, no twisting, above the waist ect. Same principle we use in tackling drills.
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Post by coachks on Aug 9, 2018 20:18:38 GMT -6
I think it's a lot easier to blame concussions and fortnite then it is to take a look in the mirror at what we have done as a profession to high school football. The kids didn't create all-summer 7 on 7 schedules. They didn't create "non-mandatory" weights at 6 a.m. They aren't the ones who started going around calling each other soft because they went on vacation in a week of June instead of the dead-week that we handed out on a calendar in February, because god forbid a 15 year old goes on a family vacation when he could be lifting weights and going to a 7 on 7. They aren't the ones who started running a high school program like a college program.
My last season was playing 2004. We lifted 3 days a week out of season starting after Christmas (more or less). Had 7 on 7 one night a week in summer (maybe 4 total times?) and then 1 3-day camp. JV's were encouraged but not really expected to go to anything but camp.
We now go essentially 4 days a week the entire summer. There's no comparison in time commitment. And there are programs around us that do more then that.
Now we act shocked that as the opportunity cost of playing football has gone up, there are fewer kids interested. Football isn't alone in that, basically all sports are year-round. Baseball is essentially impossible to work around now (showcase ball is all consuming). AAU basketball is it's own monster and the school team will have practice on top of the AAU practice. You might be talking 10 practices a week for a 2-sport athlete in the summer. It's nuts.
That's not even counting camps and combines - because a scholarship is now are only measure of validity in an athlete. It's easy to blame the kids or parents, but how many coaches go around bragging about how many guys they put in school? How many coaches used to leverage those kids for college jobs (obviously harder now with the rule change). How many coaches just like being the big shot with all the college coaches in the office to talk about their kids.
"We" have effectively turned high school ball (many sports, not just football) into a college feeder system - except the kids aren't getting a college education, room and board for it. About half of them get to stand around in the sun all summer as the scout team OL, getting killed and then the coach yells at him for not being able to read the card. Yea, it sucked when I played too, but atleast it was 12 weeks and not 25.
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Post by coachks on Aug 7, 2018 5:56:30 GMT -6
This CYA from the state association is getting out of hand. We have a 5 day acclimation period where we are not allowed any body to body contact. Monday through Friday. No contact. 2 days helmets, 2 days shells, 1 day full dressed but cant hit. We can practice with shells all summer, but then have to revert back to helmets only, then shells again.
Now that we can hit and have gear, we are forced inside because of the wet bulb. So we had 5 days to acclimate to the heat, but now cant practice in it anyway. That makes sense. Wednesday we have a scrimmage. Scrimmages and games are not subject to the wet bulb so we will scrimmage at 530 in the evening. It will be hot and we cant even get the kids used to playing and banging in the heat before we scrimmage 3 other schools.
For all the 4 hour workshops and online programs we take about making the game safer and learning technique to get the head out of contact we cant practice doing it. I like the progressions and the drills, but the first time we get to go live will be against other teams in a scrimmage setting where we cant control the tempo. The kids arent going to use great technique in their first live action - thsts why we need to practice in a controlled atmosphere.
None of these rules are helping the kids or safety. Im all for some common sense restrictions (mandatory water breaks, limited time in full gear per day). But the real changes would hurt the state associations bottom line - push the season back 2 weeks so we arent playing games in August. We play an 11 game season with a bye week so that the state can have an endowment game (IE gate money to state association). Eliminate that game and you can play 10 games in 10 weeks and you dont have to practice the first week of August anymore.
Instead, we will preach safety, but make it difficult to teach. We will make it impossible to practice in the heat, but let the kids plat the game in the heat. But hey, nobody can sue the state because they have covered themselves.
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Post by coachks on Jul 27, 2018 17:05:05 GMT -6
show of hands.....how much Indy and Group time did anyone see in this series? I don't do much coaching, myself, on game night. Are you kidding? Half the show is them at practice. The very first episode shows a QB/WR period where neither coach is on the same page about how they are supposed to be running the routes and openly arguing during practice about it. They've shown OL indy periods. They show DL drills. They show bag drills. They show them going on air. They show them going against the scout team. Let alone they are 4-5 games into the year (where I am) and are struggling to snap, the backup QB doesn't know the plays and they fumble like it's going out of style. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and looks like a duck... it's a duck.
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Post by coachks on Jul 27, 2018 11:30:15 GMT -6
I really can't believe that anybody has a positive thing to say about Brown. I dunno. I come away from watching 3 seasons appreciating/commiserating/understanding Stephens and Brown more. They do make convenient self-righteous scapegoats that we can jeer to our own personal satisfaction. They don't do the profession any favors. JUCO is an entirely different animal to coach compared to any high school or college [program]. You're not going to find many virtuous, trust-worthy used car salesmen, either. These coaches earn a living WINNING games for 4 months out of the year. If they retain more than 20% of their roster from year-to-year, they probably aren't doing so hot. Their entire objective is to get the best players and churn out 10 wins in 4 months. If they did their job correctly, 30% of their roster will be out of the program before January hits (with new scholly offers). The other half of the roster would be gone when summer hits (or graduates with an AA). Being an assistant coach (much worse, be the QB intern) is a dead end, so what kind of coaching talent do you think you'd be attracting? If you only have players for 18 months TOTAL, what point is there to make a huge investment in character building, leadership training, academic mentoring? To keep your job, you just need to keep your knuckleheads to attend 4 classes for 4 months. We may not like, but that turn-and-burn mindset is what is incentivized here / at that level. The bigger question it begs is who are we fooling by forcing these 80 IQ-level kids into college-level classrooms just to keep the illusion of "student-athlete"? I think there is a big difference from Stephens to Brown, that was my point. Buddy was an {censored}, but he was organized and knew the game. You could watch EMCC practice during the show and it was quality football. ICC is a joke. Their practices are on par with a weak HS program. Theres a noticeable and obvious difference in the quality of coaching. Buddy is a hypocrit and a jackass, but knows his job. Brown is a hypocrit and a jackass, but cant even coach.
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Post by coachks on Jul 27, 2018 9:33:38 GMT -6
I really can't believe that anybody has a positive thing to say about Brown.
I don't care about the language. I don't care that he delivers ass chewing to assistants. That happens in every profession and every level of football.
What bothers me about how he does it is that the majority of the ass-chewings are a result of HIM being unorganized.You want to hold people to a standard and be a yeller / cusser / ass hat....you damn well better have your ducks in row. Thats the difference between a Saban or Meyer doing it and this yahoo. You think Saban is going over how he is going to signal plays to the WR during pregame (for the first time)? Do you think he is trying to call plays not on the wrist-band?
Even beyond that, his goal is to get those guys scholarships - and then brag about how he never learned a single thing in college. Then why get a scholarship? He talks about, literally acknowledges, most NFL dudes go broke in 3 years - but then talks about how college is just a game and you have to learn to work the system. For what purpose? Is going to college for 4 years going to "get them out of the hood" if they don't actually learn anything. Like a college degree is some magic "get a job" piece of paper that you just get because you learn to "play school."
Teaching a kid to scam a "C" at a community college is not helping him. Getting a kid a scholarship is not helping him. That's just putting a year or two delay until they fail so you can feel good about yourself for helping the kids.
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Post by coachks on Jul 6, 2018 21:47:02 GMT -6
I think the "standard" format is some version of:
2 half fields (40 and in) so all 4 teams are playing at once. 10 plays O / 10 plays D. Maybe do a second set of this. I usually prefer just one. 10 minutes running block of "Game Situation" - moving the ball, turnovers and failed 3rd down give the other team the ball.
10 minute break between sessions. Play against all 3 teams. Sometime you match up against one of the teams for a longer "game situation" using the whole field for a 20 or 30 minute running clock at the end.
At the end you should have about 30 plays of offense/defense like "practice" and around an hour of "game situation". Or you can do more "practice" rounds and limit game situation time. Either is fine. I don't personally like to get more then about 60 total reps of offense / defense in a scrimmage. I'd be just fine with 45 decent reps and going home.
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Post by coachks on Jul 6, 2018 20:10:00 GMT -6
Coach, I understand what you are saying 100%. And you are 100% right. Do you not understand what my point was at all? Was there not maybe 1% of truth in it? I get what you’re saying and agree somewhat but I’m not sure you understand what their argument was. The fact that bama can play 2 high is because they have bada$$es and they will play man match quarters to it which most high school teams aren’t. What was trying to be argued was that zone match 2 read isn’t good against RPO which is correct if you play 2 read rules and not bastardized rules. I’m not saying your wrong coach just that you’re not arguing the right problem Here is the arguement: - 2 Read sucks - No it doesn't. - You have to play cover 3 or your a dumbass. - The box is outnumbered in cover 3. - Saban plays Rip/Liz cover 3 vs all spread RPO stuff - Pictures are posted Saban plays 2 high with an overhang inside #2 - DUDE THERES A WORLD OF FOOTBALL YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND
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Post by coachks on Jul 6, 2018 20:07:14 GMT -6
They are running a world of football you don't know exists (seriously). And I would be willing to teach it to you (like I have many on here) but you act like an arrogant dumbass, so I'm going to treat you like an arrogant dumbass. He's running NFL schemes most college guys don't even understand.
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Post by coachks on Jul 6, 2018 18:16:15 GMT -6
But how well is it working and why? When you play a GOOD team with a GOOD OC that “it works for us” stuff doesn’t work. Or with really good players it doesn’t work if you’re not doing things correctly. On a board full of vets you would think that point would be understood and encouraged You kind of just glossed over the "it's working" part and naturally assumed it was only working because of weak opponents or coaching. Why? You would think on a board full of vets, it would be understood and encouraged that other's may be have a solution as well. That said, I absolutely understand what you posted. My point (and again, maybe I am optimistically naive) is that if as you put it, things didn't work against good teams with good OCs, then a coach wouldn't be furiously arguing that it does but rather would say "Hmm... that might be why we are having some trouble" Ultimate, in this particular case (2 read thread) I really think half of the bickering is that adjustments are being made, and some coaches want to clamor "THAT ISN'T 2 READ THEN" and other coaches are saying "eh, we teach it as 2 read..whatever". I could be wrong. As the chief bickerer in said thread: - Thread is posted about 2 read - Someone says, if you run 2 read you are an idiot - insulting multiple guys who have state championships under the guise of "2 high sucks against that, can't play it. Impossible. 2 high is terrible. Nobody in college runs it" This is an ongoing theme in that sub. - 2 high is fine. Need to have a couple of adjustments to make a 2 high look work if they put the overhang in conflict if you are trying to play 2 read. - Multiple posts about how playing 2 high is impossible and for idiots and talking about it is a waste of time - Pictures and videos showing the guy they said would never play 2 high, playing 2 high - BUT THAT ISN'T CLAMP!!! That is "blah blah blah" Edit: Should add, I was 100% acting like "someone" in response to his posts... because, well, that act is growing tiresome.
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Post by coachks on Jul 6, 2018 16:30:18 GMT -6
REgarding the ongoing thread the OP is probably referencing, I have a slightly different perspective. I am enjoying reading the whiteboard war, I just think that often coaches are just not doing a good job explaining things or presenting their side. I also think (and commented) that lots of the bickering stems from lingo. There is an undertone in that particular thread of when someone explains how they play "x" the counter argument is "no, that is not "x" that is "y" Nailed it. Actually that probably isn’t nail, but box and against bunch it is bingo. That’s funny, I don’t care who you are. I had breakfast with Nick this morning and he told me he hasnt used nail since they had a carpentry accident building a scaffold in Miami. They use nail. With a period. If you dont use the period you dont know the scheme.
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Post by coachks on Jul 3, 2018 9:30:00 GMT -6
At a clinic you can just about make it a drinking game at the start of every session. "We are outmanned in our conference.... we dont have the athletes of some of the teams we face." Nobody apparently has athletes and everybody plays in the toughest conference for that size school. Everybody has to be "multiple" and what they do is because its fits their personnel. Nobody can just line up and run "The I" or "3-4" or whatever scheme they consider for talented teams... which they are not.
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Post by coachks on May 30, 2018 10:50:52 GMT -6
2 Offensive Coaches 2 Defensive Coaches
You stay with Varsity at all times.
Varsity does offense = You + 2 offensive assistants. JV is doing Defense with 2 assistants. JV will naturally be doing less true indy, more combined Indy (Tackling circuits, movement and bag drills) - Which is fine for JV football (learn how to shuffle and take on a block, learn how to pop and lock on a sled, even JV DB's can learn that skill).
Varsity does Defense = You + 2 defensive assistants. JV is working on offense with 2 assistants. Probably an OL coach + a Backs coach. You can do a little more indy stuff here.
When you break team you have 3 varsity coaches and 2 JV coaches. Same for special teams.
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Post by coachks on May 25, 2018 8:34:19 GMT -6
I used to listen to the Coach and Coordinator pod, but it gets pretty stale. When it was the old format (1 hour or whatever) it used to get into some details about football and you could pick up some decent stuff. The shorter format is basically "how did you get involved in coaching" ... talk about "culture" ... generic overview of some system.... a little more culture ... talk one more time about culture ... shows over. Maybe a segment of USA football talking points. Makes every episode more or less identical.
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Post by coachks on May 23, 2018 8:43:13 GMT -6
Would be nice if they would let you take quiz first and if you passed it then would be good to go. That's the best part. Whatever NFHS concussion video is mandatory every year. You take a prequiz (10 questions maybe?). I get 10/10 right every year. Have to take the course (30 minutes or so), then TAKE THE EXACT SAME QUIZ and get a 10/10. Why? What is the purpose of this? It's the same process with Cardiac Arrest and maybe first aid, accept those are not required every year. Take a quiz. Get every question right. Still have to sit through the course. Take the same quiz. Brilliant.
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Post by coachks on Jan 11, 2018 12:06:47 GMT -6
Its relatively easy, if you have the resources. 1) 2 Platoon team with enough coaches that you can keep your scout team and subs organized (3 or 4 actively coaching the unit, somebody managing subs, 1 or 2 doing scout team). 2) Established program so that you are not installing during the season. Scheme carry over from the previous season, spring and summer is critical. Now you are just doing Indy and repping plays (tag periods ect). 3) Resources to film practice + watch practice daily. This means having a manager to film, a platform to film from, the ability to quickly upload it and a time and place for the team to watch it. And usually... 4) Kids in the weight room during the school day. Eliminates cardio, stretching, warmups ect becauase it is taken care of during class (obviously with lifting). Not really part of "practice" per se, but it is a time saver to get you under 1:30. Sample: Pre-Prac (from bell to whenever you begin) - QB throw, Kickers kick, snappers snap ect. Specialist time 10 min: Intensity drill (live team, Oklahoma, Goalline, tackling Circuit... whatever you like to get the energy up). 20 min: Indy 10 Min: 7 on 7 / 1 on 1 10 Min: Outside Run/Inside Run / 1 on 1 10 Min: Special team 15 Min: Team O 15 Min: Team D I like that. How can you do enough 7v7 for both O and D. Or do you do it at the same time? Couple ways to do it: 1) Do it at the same time. Offense going against a Scout D, Defense going against a Scout O. This is obviously ideal if you have the numbers. 2) Do it at the same time, basically running your offense vs your defense. This is how we do it during the Spring / Summer / Camp. 3) Offense goes Monday, Defense goes Tuesday. Split 5 and 5 on Wednesday. 4) When you get later into the season, you probably lighten up on team (10 minutes each) or cut out the intensity period and add that time for 7 on 7 period, Inside run, Outside Run ect.
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Post by coachks on Jan 11, 2018 11:05:25 GMT -6
I know some successful programs, (Large State Chamions) that have gone to this type of format at practice. Hour and a half tops. Could you do it? What are the pros and cons? Its relatively easy, if you have the resources. 1) 2 Platoon team with enough coaches that you can keep your scout team and subs organized (3 or 4 actively coaching the unit, somebody managing subs, 1 or 2 doing scout team). 2) Established program so that you are not installing during the season. Scheme carry over from the previous season, spring and summer is critical. Now you are just doing Indy and repping plays (tag periods ect). 3) Resources to film practice + watch practice daily. This means having a manager to film, a platform to film from, the ability to quickly upload it and a time and place for the team to watch it. And usually... 4) Kids in the weight room during the school day. Eliminates cardio, stretching, warmups ect becauase it is taken care of during class (obviously with lifting). Not really part of "practice" per se, but it is a time saver to get you under 1:30. Sample: Pre-Prac (from bell to whenever you begin) - QB throw, Kickers kick, snappers snap ect. Specialist time 10 min: Intensity drill (live team, Oklahoma, Goalline, tackling Circuit... whatever you like to get the energy up). 20 min: Indy 10 Min: 7 on 7 / 1 on 1 10 Min: Outside Run/Inside Run / 1 on 1 10 Min: Special team 15 Min: Team O 15 Min: Team D
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Post by coachks on Aug 14, 2017 11:18:32 GMT -6
Participation in HS Football was down 2.3% last year. But there were still over a million kids playing nationwide. Not time to panic yet. Yet... It likely is not the only thing, but is one of several things that for some reason is driving down numbers, at least for several programs here in Southwest Michigan that supposedly have lower numbers. However, if I had to guess it has more to do with other dynamics then only CTE (football requires a big time pre-season commitment to truly be ready to be competitive). What is driving down numbers (everywhere) are other sports. At my school we are about 60 kids in the program from an 800 kid school. That's about 10-15 "lower" then what we would want. (75 would be about perfect IMO). We lose 5 - 8 kids to Soccer. A lot of them were turned off to football by their middle school experience and went to Soccer instead. It is tough for mid-sized schools (like ours) to divide fall athletes like that. I wish boys soccer would be a spring sport (where it competes with Baseball which has a much smaller roster). We have 2-3 kids who are "basketball only" AAU players. By AAU I mean someones dad enters them into random tournaments around the state in front of crowds that can be counted on 2 hands. Then about 3 other "baseball only" kids. Gotta play fall ball if you are going to develop. We lost 1 to Lacrosse (offered at a different school). I know a few other schools have lost kids to club rugby teams. Most of the kids (not all, but most) think they are going to get a scholarship in their sport. They ignore the reality of what we tell them - Baseball teams split their scholarships into fractions... to go to more expensive schools. There are not basketball scholarships for 6'1 post players. Soccer has 10 scholarships and about 200 schools to give them..... Just the ACC and SEC give more scholarships then all of D1 Soccer.... Not that getting a scholarship is the end all / be all anyway - the issue is that these kids are being lied to by people looking to make a profit. (It also has nothing to do with our Baseball or Basketball coaches telling kids not to play football - we are all trying to get more kids to play multiple sports for the school teams).
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Post by coachks on Jul 29, 2017 18:59:18 GMT -6
Coaches, looking for ideas as we get ready to begin practice.
What are some strategies, coaching points, keys (anything you have) to teach kids how to practice hard during walk-through style periods. By walk-through periods, I mean Helmet (or Uppers only) where you are doing a Thursday walk-through, install period ect where you want the defense to be active and the OL to block... but no contact on the ball carrier / no "finishing" blocks ect.
Every year (across multiple schools) we've had the same issues "the kids can't handle walk though" - either it's a 1/4 speed slap ass session where the cows sit around grazing up front, or you get some scout team heros (especially when you repeat a play). Even with teams who practice well struggle when we take the pads off (even though we rarely tackle in practice). Its like they think they will die if they try and throw a block without their shoulder pads.
In short - how do teams successfully practice without pads and get quality energetic reps
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Post by coachks on Mar 29, 2017 13:10:58 GMT -6
If you have 13 football coaches on staff for a school the size of 700 kids then what the hell are you doing that takes 90-95/hours week in-season and 55-60/hours offseason. We don't waste a minute. If we are at the office we are working. If we are not working, we are not going to be at the office. We have 2 district opponents that are 3 hours away, and a non-district game that is 3.5 hours and another that is 6 hours. I am at school from 7:00am to 8:30 Monday through Weds. We all coach our sub-varsity teams on Thursday, and if they are on the road it makes for a 16 to 18 hour day. Friday is anywhere from a 17 to 20 hour day depending on where we are playing. Our home games end around 10:00, and by the time we get the kids out, we are gone by 11:30. If we have a road game we might not be back until 2 or 3 am. If our travel was less we could cut some time down. We work from 7am to 1pm on Saturday and 2pm until 6pm Sunday. Saturday we grade film, do laundry, watch film with our players, and watch the most recent game of our next opponent. Sunday we prepare our game plan, practice schedules, and scripts. We meet as a staff to go over personnel. Then we each work on our own piece of the game plan. We then come back together to put the plan in place. We are busy the entire time. The minute we are not busy it is time to go. Everyone has a role to play. We divide up jobs. But we have to make sure we are prepared for Friday night. Everyone we play has talent. We have athletes, but if we aren't prepared we will not be able to meet the expectations we have for our program. We have a couple of Saturdays where we don't bring the kids in if we get back very late. We may shorten our Saturday. We had a game last year where we got back at 4am. We worked from home that Saturday. We will have anywhere from 120 to 140 kids in the program, and as many as four teams playing each week. (2 frosh, 1 JV, and Varsity). We have to prepare all of the logistics for travel, game and practice plans, and depth charts for each of these teams. We are not at the office to say we are at the office and we don't punch a clock. But there is no shortcut to preparation. If we get done early, we leave. What do you do from 7:00am to 8:30 Monday through Wednesday? If practice ends at 6 / 630.... what are those extra 2 hours? And what does a 13 person staff do for 6 hours on Saturday? That is 78 man-hours spent on Saturday alone. Add in another 52 on Sunday... that is over 130 man-hours spent every week.... there is no wasted time? Are you breaking down those kids pop warner tapes or something? That is as efficient as possible? None of that work can be done on the 6 hour long bus trips? I'm not trying to be difficult. I just find that mind blowing that you aren't wasting a second of time, but literally nearly quadrupling our staffs weekend hours.
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Post by coachks on Mar 29, 2017 10:50:25 GMT -6
Monday-Wednesday: 7:00 - 6:00 (School through Practice/Lockup ect) - 33 hours Thursday/Friday: 7:00 - 10:00 (School through JV/Varsity game) - 30 hours. Saturday - 5 Hours (Watch Friday / HUDL input / Basic Gameplan) Sunday - 5 Hours - Film for 2-3 hours. Finalize game plan. Practice Plan for week. HUDL corrections / cutups.
So, roughly 73 hours. Depending on the school week (what I'm teaching, if we have a workday) I can cheat a little on film and do HUDL input early if we have films already.
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Post by coachks on Feb 14, 2017 9:04:03 GMT -6
I doubt it was ever enough to motivate most people. That's a very long-term and abstract reward. Especially if I know that no matter how much I do or don't lift won't affect my playing time. So minus reports of CTE at the youth/HS levels of football and the increase extrinsic motivation compared to years past why is participation in youth and high school football decreasing? It seems as though reward systems would pump participation numbers up! Firstly, what time frame are we comparing? 50 years ago? 20? 10? Different answers and different results. Some combination of: 1) Increased competition from other sports (Soccer, LaCrosse, Year Round BBall / Baseball) 2) Decrease support in local communities - 3) Fewer coaches in schools to build relationships and recruit players. Easy to quit if you never see coach. 4) Fewer 2 parent households - less pressure from "dad" to play football. Tougher to get rides to and from practice. 5) Increase demand on athletes - Year-Long weights, full summer schedule. Football isn't Aug 1 - Halloween anymore. 6) Poor coaching at the Youth / Middle School level (See point 2 and 3). There are many schools (typically local powers) who have great participation numbers and no drop off. You have other schools with 1,000+ students who can barely field teams.
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Post by coachks on Feb 13, 2017 8:56:51 GMT -6
Everything I'm going to say has the caveat that we are talking about 10-15, maybe 20 minutes tops, a couple of times a week. If you are trying to meet for 30 minutes everyday... you are probably wasting time.
The value really comes down to how prepared you are for the meeting. If you have some prepared material (Cutups, powerpoint or at the least a written list of what you are going over) that has a definitive purpose (This is their top play, this is what it looks like, this is how we stop it, this is your individual job) I think they are extremely beneficial. If you have 10 clips prepared, the formations already drawn then it's easy.
If you get on HUDL and start going through the game 1 clip at a time, rewinding the clip to find your coaching point... with 30 second intervals between anything useful.... your kids are going to be bored and stop listening.
If you go up to the WHiteboard and go through a base play.... then rip through 8 adjustments and then your response, but then go back and correct yourself.... or try and install the entire offense on the whiteboard in 1 sitting.... yea, not effective.
Monday - Scouting Report, Goals for the Week. A few clips from their offense (Base 3 or 4 plays). Or a few clips of their defense vs the same scheme you run. This is especially useful to teach your scout team what to do.
Tuesday - Clips of your team vs a similar scheme (maybe last years game if it's early in the year).
Wednesday - Straight to field.
Thursday - 10ish clips of practice. Maybe some special teams.
As you get later into the season, some more time spent on meetings and less time on the field (as Wear and Tear becomes a concern).
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Post by coachks on Feb 6, 2017 12:54:58 GMT -6
Special Teams are the biggest one for me.
We struggled at kickoff for a few consecutive years. So our #1 point for the weekend (Glazier) was to make sure we learned something to help on kickoff.
I go and sit on on the special teams meeting from a BCS level special teams coordinator. Note pad is out. Ready to go. Starts off the talk with "We require our kickers to place the ball inside the 5 with at least a 6 second hangtime."
He then talked about the coverage team all having to be under a certain time (4.7 sounds about right). All 10 coverage guys.
Couldn't teach us to how help the kicker add hangtime either, I asked. (they recruit them that way)
I've tried a few more high-level special teams talks since then. Nope. Never going to help me. Even if we got the kicker, we wouldn't have the coverage team to do what they do.
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Post by coachks on Jan 18, 2017 7:23:28 GMT -6
I've heard a lot of negative stuff about Gamepass (mostly on the twitter verse) - not working, choppy picture ect. Have you guys had success with it? Seems like a moderately expensive investment if it doesn't really work all the time. Isn't it only like $40 or $50? Last time I looked I thought it said 7.99 per month or something. Haven't looked since I heard the negative reviews.
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Post by coachks on Jan 11, 2017 8:50:41 GMT -6
I've heard a lot of negative stuff about Gamepass (mostly on the twitter verse) - not working, choppy picture ect. Have you guys had success with it? Seems like a moderately expensive investment if it doesn't really work all the time.
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Post by coachks on Jan 3, 2017 8:04:58 GMT -6
1. Progressive teaching --> Did your drills build on each other? Did Indy translate to group, did group translate to team? IE: If you work combo blocks in Indy, did you work combo blocks during group, then run plays with combo blocks during team. It doesn't make any sense to run Pass Pro indy, sweep plays during group and then trap and IZ during team.
2. Season long progression --> Have your drills progressed in complexity from Day 1? If day 1 is bird-dogging on garbage cans... you shouldn't really have to run that drill (for that same play) on Day 10. If you teach tackling with a 3 step whistle progression on a tackling dummy, at some point you should be able to run the drill without the whistle, against live opponents, going at tempo (even if not full speed).
3. Limited "dead time" for players. During indy and group sessions, are kids involved in 1-2 reps per minute (or more)? During team time, are kids rotating in and out at an effective interval to keep them engaged. Tough to expect a kid to stand around for 10 minutes during team and not become distracted.
4. Practice tempo - practicing in short / intermediate chunks. Not many adults have attention spans over 10-15 minutes for a given topic. Practice needs to be paced with changes so that it doesn't become 5 periods of drudgery.
5. Situational awareness - effectively covering every aspect of the game. Goalline, 4 minute, 2 minute, special teams, hail mary, onside kick, last play, Situational football (3rd down and ______) ect...
6. Kids have to communicate - an effective practice is an talking practice - are they making their checks? Are they cheering for teammates? Confident kids communicate.
7. Constant coaching - are kids being coached on every rep? Not every coach needs to say something every play - BUT kids should be getting coaching every play [by more then just the HC or coordinator]
8. Enthusiasm - Does your practice have a positive vibe - or are kids just being cut down? Is there excitement for "good plays?" If a play is ran correctly, or a defense fits up a run or somebody gets a turnover -- there should be some level of celebration.
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