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Post by coachklee on Jan 5, 2021 18:13:28 GMT -6
I follow a few football pages on Facebook (don't use Twitter) and my only issue is the "dressed-up" misinformation. There are guys on there that post up some fantastically detailed videos and diagrams but it's obvious that they're keyboard coaches. There's some pretty obvious flaws within the scheme that they won't address. Everything is going to look pretty when you're running the Wing-T against a 4-3 Over C2.. Yep. Completely shuts down anything if the offense stays in just 100 Formation / Wing Right. The second you ask, “What about Double TE or SE Over or Slot?” The response is either nothing or the they’ll say, “That is NOT a real formation an offense will stay in to consistently move the football!”
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Post by coachklee on Nov 16, 2020 5:37:04 GMT -6
a successful offense can win by making 4-5 plays while a defense can play really well for 50-70 or more plays and lose by giving up scores to on the 4-5 plays. This is why I have a hard time believing DCs get any sleep at all during the season. Even the good ones. I'm mainly an offensive guy. While it can certainly be frustrating, I can live with going 3 and out and punting. It sucks, but I can live with it. What I wouldn't be able to handle is the chains moving because we had the right call but missed the tackle. Or dropping a pick on 2nd down then giving up a TD on 3rd. I would be beside myself. lol And on top of that, our real job as a DC, drawing cards for the scout team to mess up...all while we are on edge all week about how every last detail will hopefully help our 15, 16 & 17 year olds see the game as we would!
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Post by coachklee on Nov 15, 2020 10:57:56 GMT -6
Yeah... He has to save some face at this point... 'Bama's defense has struggled to stop a lot of SEC opponents.
Yeah. But you know all the OCs are going to be quoting that when there is a dispute over who gets a kid. Makes me hurt inside a little There are two ways to win games & always stay in a game. Be nearly perfect on D and be down no more than a score so you are always one play away. Always be able to extend drives and end them with scores. IMO, the defensive approach is becoming increasingly hard assuming any level of competence by the opposing OC & parity of athletes. The offensive approach is a bit of easier especially if the offense can make just a few timely explosive plays. I guess I wholly believe the classic thinking of a successful offense can win by making 4-5 plays while a defense can play really well for 50-70 or more plays and lose by giving up scores to on the 4-5 plays.
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Post by coachklee on Nov 6, 2020 13:42:33 GMT -6
Defense... I'd rather stop people, struggle on offense and win than light up the scoreboard and lose. If you only give up a score or two & hang around you always have a chance to pull off the win with just a big play or two!
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Post by coachklee on Oct 29, 2020 21:39:12 GMT -6
I love the obscure stuff. But some of the more common rules that I find players and coaches don't get - 1. Eligible receivers. For the love of goodness.2. HS intentional grounding rules 3. Downing a punt - its the ball dangit. Not the body. This I think would be a big one to coach the kids about. You always face teams that do wacky formations or unbalanced looks. Having film of this would be pertinent to their success on the field, and all ow you to explain it visually. 7 Men on the LOS, only the ones on the outside are eligible, as well as anyone in the backfield (pending numbers). That way when they face a team who puts their slot on the LOS to cover him up and run some wacky jet motion to it, they are ready. I wouldnt worry too much about things like the fair catch free kick, or any event that can be discussed during the dead ball. Its fun to know as a rule, but wouldnt really impact them during the play. One that I would show to your coaches, and possibly your players pending your offense, is spiking the ball from the shotgun (illegal). Was a coach on a spread team a few years back trying to make a comeback and that penalty pushed us just outside of FG range. As long as your QB knows when clocking it be under center you should be fine, but that may help visually reinforce. We’ve found ways to get cheap TDs or big gains relying on this being undercoached by opponents that play Cover 0 Man or Cover 1 Man!
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Post by coachklee on Oct 29, 2020 21:35:50 GMT -6
Well we just changed our OFFENSE this year.
Defense should be very systematically flexible IMO. Only big issue is are you a 2-High team or 1-High team & even then, both should have an answer / systematic way to get into the other coverage structure.
Offensively we chose to be done with Triple Option / Flexbone because we felt like we would struggle too much if our 1st string QB went down...switched to a Power, Counter, Dive & Sweep based offense from a 2x1 / 22 personnel set so if our QB would go down we’d still have an effective way to move the ball. Meanwhile, we’ve kept our QB1 healthy & have an absolute STUD WR so our guys have set some single season passing records in just a 6 game schedule because our offensive focus has allowed more time devoted to the passing game!
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Post by coachklee on Oct 29, 2020 15:49:27 GMT -6
I do it all the time for our JV games. Only one opponent ever said anything to the officials about it after noticing me walking in at halftime. If I had pulled my headset off earlier, I doubt they would have known.
As a few others have said we don’t exactly have a huge budget for Hudl sideline and are lucky to fill a 9-12 staff of 5 with quality coaches. We certainly struggle to find 2 reliable film guys (SL & EZ) for JV games.
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Post by coachklee on Oct 22, 2020 3:20:50 GMT -6
What??? Isn’t winning & advancing in playoffs the same thing?!? It is. I probably didn't word that very well. What I meant was the team moving on to the second round entered the playoffs with a 4-2 record. They move on to the second round but officially their record is still 4-2. So essentially a bye week. Ok. Makes sense.
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Post by coachklee on Oct 21, 2020 4:34:46 GMT -6
Having read these stories (and others) and following Louisiana football I am a little disappointed that so many organizations didn't turn the calendar back a century or so and handle this situation differently. Instead of trying to follow a structured season which feeds into playoffs etc, I think this might have been a time to get very individualized. "Hey, Jefferson High ? This is Washington High . We have some boys that are interested in football and formed a team. We heard you had a team too, would you be interested in playing in a week or two? Great. See you then" I think this has actually happened quite a bit in multiple states when teams have lost an opponent to quarantine. They just look and see who else lost and opponent and make it work. There have been cancellations Friday afternoon followed by re-schedules for a game on Saturday. Honestly, think that’d be fun to be part of a game like that (and obviously not fun if you are the team quarantined).
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Post by coachklee on Oct 20, 2020 18:32:01 GMT -6
Iowa actually shortened the season to 7 weeks and last Friday was the first game of the playoffs. Essentially, everyone got into the playoffs because the state didn't want teams unfairly punished for having to miss games due to Covid. Even if it was one team that decided to not play a game, it wasn't a forfeit. It was a no-contest. A playoff situation already happened: one team decided not to play last Friday due to Covid. The other team didn't get credit for a win, but did get to move on to the second round. What??? Isn’t winning & advancing in playoffs the same thing?!?
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Post by coachklee on Oct 1, 2020 10:06:16 GMT -6
You have a box coach entering data in Excel or Hudl as the game is going? You can have a coach use the hudl tag a game feature on the ipad, and if your roster is up to date you can essentially get all the ODK, result, D&D data, etc plus the stats as the game goes on just by using the interface in hudl without actually sitting at a computer and typing.....now on the other had if you had some one using the ipad to tag the game as it is going then you can have someone input the data such as play call, strength, etc to speed things up a bit I suppose. We pay a staff member a few cold brews each week to do just this every Friday night.
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Post by coachklee on Sept 30, 2020 17:19:42 GMT -6
It has allowed our DBs to be highly effective & on top of that it became popular from the Seahawks so my answer is a big NO! On top of all that if a player doesn’t want to be tackled they simply should never be caught...
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Post by coachklee on Sept 24, 2020 4:41:53 GMT -6
This is almost us too. We are just barely hanging onto a JV squad with 15 & only about 4 of them can legitimately compete in a full speed rep against a Varsity player. I guess we have a little more quality depth with the Varsity as we had 20 to start with 2 week 1 injuries so we’ve been at 18 this week.
This past Wednesday practice we had our 1st modified practice as the JV went separately for their pregame. JV coach said it went well (the trash cans they use for most of the scout defense only made 1 tackle). Meanwhile, we broke practice up into an Defense Inside Run, Defense 7-on-7, Offense Perfect Passing, Offense half-line for Sweep, Offense Inside Run for Dive & Offense Team no DBs. Not sure if it is as effective if we don’t have the experience level this current team has, but the practice felt more energetic as each guy knew they had to go harder with a varsity guy across from them.
I’m off to plan the defensive part of pre-game. We plan on a Defense Formation & Motion Review to start, then a Defense Pressure Review. We normally do a “ghost game” & still will, but instead of full team I’m planning 2 3 play inside run scripts then 3 3 play 7-on-7 scripts. I’m guessing the HC will do something similar on Offense.
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Post by coachklee on Sept 17, 2020 10:27:32 GMT -6
We had a kid test positive on the JR high team. They got shut down for a few days. There were no outbreaks on the team from contact. From what I have seen there have been minimal cases popping up in are but no massive outbreaks. And again I assume there no conclusive evidence that he contracted it from football participation, let alone attendance of school?
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Post by coachklee on Sept 17, 2020 10:05:53 GMT -6
Michigan is opening the season this week. At least one school is not playing due to an outbreak-quarantine. Apparently one positive test constitutes an "outbreak." And while it is a singular positive case for that team/school (Gladstone?), there isn’t anything to tie it definitively to participation in football or even attending school from what I’ve read.
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Post by coachklee on Sept 9, 2020 20:35:51 GMT -6
When our stat guy does our games it is done under a minute after getting a WiFi signal to upload the data & with high accuracy. Our back-up stat guys are usually pretty good too. HC clicks the upload to Hudl & sends a .pdf of the game or link to the game via Hudl to the local news outlets. Meanwhile, if the film uploads fast enough we can intercut the ODK / D&D / stats with the film & be done with all of it in about 60 minutes or less with most of the time spent on waiting for the film to fully upload.
As far as Hudl Assist we’ve used it here & there for $35 a game towards the end of the season. If formations are “normal” and you’ve set the assist diagrams they’ve come back mostly accurate IME & with quick enough turn around for us to never impact game planning. So I guess the magic price would be something LESS than $35.
EDIT: not sure on the training / stream lining. How big of a staff do you think you need working on things to get it to the times you are talking about?
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Post by coachklee on Sept 6, 2020 10:21:50 GMT -6
not sure about subscription based services... but overall im interested to see how things play out with teams balancing making the parents/fans happy by live streaming vs not giving out free film for the entire league... easy/free ways are through facebook, youtube, d live... Is it really a secret in league play with the other league teams? There isn’t a team on our league schedule that we don’t have every game of and vice versa by the time we play them.
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Post by coachklee on Aug 29, 2020 3:31:11 GMT -6
I apologize for going off......BUT.... I got the same stupid responses from the fear the veer Facebook group. If you don’t know don’t post a BS answer it was a very specific question. Love ya bro. Read ride decide 🙄
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Post by coachklee on Aug 29, 2020 3:29:01 GMT -6
I’m going to partially hijack the thread and ask what do the individual practices look like?
Do you have offensive / defensive focus days or a little bit of both?
How much time in Indy, Group & Team?
How much are you focused on fundamentals and how much are you focused on scheme?
Do you do anything specific to prepare for opponents especially if they do anything unique (maybe an Option, Single Wing, Double Wing team) or do you just focus on your stuff?
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Post by coachklee on Aug 22, 2020 8:46:22 GMT -6
I always wanted the EZ system on the hash to our side of the field, facing the scoreboard, a couple of yards beyond the end line. I wasn't ever a fan of the center of the goalposts like I see a lot of other teams do. I found that alignment allowed me to get scoreboard shots and gave good angles on the OL regardless where they were. Since week 2 of 2017 we put it on whichever hash is closest to a power outlet after our kicker sent a PAT dead center just a foot or so below the camera. Now that we have a new battery pack for the monitor, I really like your idea of putting on the hash on the end zone straight across from a scoreboard at way games (we’ve always been there on accident at home games).
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Post by coachklee on Aug 22, 2020 8:11:54 GMT -6
Get the neck masks? the longer ones that you can wear as a turtle neck. Kids can slide them up and down as needed. That would be my best guess There has been a study out of Duke that the Gaiter masks increase the potential of contracting covid. It’s so short term on all of this that I can’t imagine anyone can give a well informed answer. Frankly, it’s very frustrating. I’m a tell me what I need to do and I will do it type of guy, but this whole thing as been so whacky I can’t figure out how to best address it. Compared to a surgical actual mask, absolutely. Compared to most cloth masks, most likely. The air flow through them is higher so surely ANY virus can pass through. Compared to wearing nothing covering the face there can’t be an increased risk. On top of that, the virus has to actually be present on water droplets in the air you are inhaling before a mask even matters. Not saying the virus doesn’t exist, but somebody else has to actually have it & be exhaling it before the virus can actually be a problem. The probability of a person spreading it simply has to be low until they are actually symptomatic coughing up the water droplets containing the virus & sending it onward through the air.
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Post by coachklee on Aug 22, 2020 8:02:51 GMT -6
Get the neck masks? the longer ones that you can wear as a turtle neck. Kids can slide them up and down as needed. That would be my best guess Gaiters 👍 They also are much easier to breathe through (and thus less effective at actually helping). However, until a specific type of face covering is required, I much prefer this.
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Post by coachklee on Aug 18, 2020 11:11:36 GMT -6
I get that to an extent... but there are a lot of really good coaches that don't have a record that matches it. One of the best coaches I know (who is on here and pretty highly regarded) has a terrible HC record... but he takes those jobs that are brutal situations. On the flip side, there are tons of coaches with great records that get away with mediocre coaching. I can't speak for option1.. but I'm not really looking at the record to see how a coach actually does with his team. I agree with this sentiment for the most part. I do however want to see some film of the concept the coach is talking about especially if their record isn't the best. If the concept has had success against comparable looking talent and comparably well coached kids the concept is definitely something I am more likely to consider using. As far as what that looks like on film, I think "average" or better coaches know when something is successful because of quality coaching or if it is simply a case of superior talent.
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Post by coachklee on Aug 12, 2020 8:05:01 GMT -6
So I've coached varsity for several years now. However, everywhere that I have coached has been a two platoon program and I have coached on the defensive side of the ball. I would like to learn more about the offensive side of the ball. I was wondering what books some of you may suggest. Ideally, an offensive book for a first year coach. As always, thanks for any help! What offense? There are so many different flavors. As much as I’ve learned just coaching a bunch of OL as an assistant in some variation of a Veer / Triple Option offense for 16 out of the past 18 years, I also learned an incredible amount from being a DC & coaching against opponent’s offenses. I’ve made sure to go checkout offensive presentations at Glazier Clinics and obviously learned a decent amount from game planning against the offenses we’ve defended. Don’t have a specific offensive book to recommend, but have always enjoyed Coach Mac on YouTube who runs a Zone & RPO system: www.youtube.com/c/CoachMacI also have indirectly talked about offense on my channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCpoc8xwLcqi-BYmGm6R6n2g)Especially in this video explaining what an offense is trying to do to be successful: There is also a ridiculous number & variety of content on Nick Bandstra’s channel: www.youtube.com/c/NicholasBandstraRecently started checking out Coach Kenny Simpson who runs a Gun Wing T system: www.youtube.com/channel/UCmRZhj9z3EO8qknuY0QV6BQ
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Post by coachklee on Aug 11, 2020 13:37:04 GMT -6
I enjoy watching film alone. I’m easily distracted. Usually for game film, I get up at 6 or 7 Saturday morning and stat the defense. That takes about an hour. Then I will go walk a couple miles, come back and put correction notes in from the night before. After that I spend some time with my family for lunch. Sometime around 2 or 3 I will start breaking down the opponents film. I work as long as I need to or till dinner. That’s it for me on Saturday. If I need to watch anymore, and I usually don’t then, I will gat up early Sunday and do it. Otherwise, we meet at one on Sundays so we will knock out the game plan then and do all of our cards. We watch Tuesday and Wednesday practice film as well. I spend about an hour on it each night and send notes kids will watch on their own in fourth block weights. Forgot about reviewing practice film. Once the season gets going, we get every snap of inside run & team filmed. Most snaps of 7-on-7 depending on the opponent. Ends up taking about 15 or so minutes to upload & tag. I’ll watch it at least 1 more time before going to sleep (another 10-15 minutes) & then add any comments in the morning (another 15 or so minutes often while multitasking) & re-share the film before the school day starts. Hopefully have some film to upload tonight!
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Post by coachklee on Aug 10, 2020 7:16:50 GMT -6
Often in the living room on the couch beside my kids playing or watching television. Try to be as present as possible yet too often completely oblivious of surroundings...
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Post by coachklee on Aug 7, 2020 6:55:02 GMT -6
2000 plus people vs 50 people? I don't disagree with you--my opinion would be that the in person schooling would come first. But as I mentioned and has been evident in discussion on this site, places are different. 2000 people in a building learning things can be spread out, wear masks, be split into smaller groups, wash their hands repeatedly etc. Two football teams competing on a Friday night can't. If in person schooling with the level of controls available still isn't "safe" then I have hard time getting to the logical conclusion that football would be ok for that same community. I agree that places are different and should be treated different. What's happening at a community/school in Miami is likely to be very different than what's happening where I am, but probably reasonably comparable to what's happening in Las Vegas. Have you ever been in a school? First off, none of the places I’ve taught at have the building space nor the personnel to meaningfully spread students out over more space. Small sizes aren’t getting much smaller than 30 or at best 20 kids (which isn’t much smaller than some teams). This is especially true as the weather changes from summer to cooler/cold rainy fall & eventually winter weather. Second is the general student behavior in hallways unless we are escorting kids in & out of buildings like a bunch of kindergarteners. The rationale of 2000 or 1000 or even 500 kids packed into a building for 6-7 hours as being significantly safer than 100 or 80 or 60 some kids who have been more closely screened for symptoms on a daily basis & typically more disciplined being together for about 2 hours is not necessarily ironclad.
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Post by coachklee on Aug 7, 2020 5:54:48 GMT -6
Thought one of our guys who was leading in hours of filmed watched each week was spending upwards of 8+ hours. Turned out the majority of the hours were his grandparents & uncles from out watching the full games. Actually, quite cool that you can share your film with extended family like that by simply sharing your login. It is pretty cool. It would be cool if HUDL would add a family account option, where you could use it as a fundraiser if you chose. I would pay 2 or 3 dollars a game to see some of my loved ones play. Definitely add a small fee for full game access and you probably do generate a few extra $.
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Post by coachklee on Aug 6, 2020 7:59:08 GMT -6
I’ve never heard of an AD being on Hudl. Or any parents. They can use their son’s account to watch film. Thought one of our guys who was leading in hours of filmed watched each week was spending upwards of 8+ hours. Turned out the majority of the hours were his grandparents & uncles from out watching the full games. Actually, quite cool that you can share your film with extended family like that by simply sharing your login.
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Post by coachklee on Aug 3, 2020 12:22:02 GMT -6
Just through episode 1, but very refreshing that the majority of coaches are solid guys like Coach Beam & not complete ass hats like seasons 1-4.
Edit:
Still think Coach Beam’s a solid guy after watching the whole thing. I get they are working with adults, but they definitely cuss way more than staffs I’ve worked on. Wonder if I initially felt they barely cussed because Buddy or Jason did so much & definitely in a more derogatory way. Way different saying “Let’s phuk them up” or “Phuking ball out” than saying you “Phuking suck”.
Other takeaway from the whole thing is wow. Amazing how much some young men are able to overcome! In general it is refreshing to see guys not completely suck at school (although there obviously were some issues with their HS academics otherwise they likely wouldn’t of been in Laney).
I don’t know if Dior is going to make it to the NFL, but with that kind of commitment I’m sure he’ll find success...he has to.
Watching Nu’u and his kiddos with him on the side at practice reminded me of the 2 or 3 times a year my girls come to practice with me when the daycare isn’t available. Looks like he & his wife are headed down a long but eventually prosperous path.
Lastly, the cost of living in certain parts of California is insane. I really am dumbfounded by the astronomical costs of housing that certainly is a theme discussed throughout the show! Even more amazed more people don’t leave, but I guess if a place is your “home” it can be hard for some people to leave it behind.
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