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Post by coachklee on Dec 6, 2019 16:37:37 GMT -6
In Kansas our State Championship games are on the Saturday after thanksgiving. 8 classes play at 7 different sites. The only classifications to play at the same site are 8man d1 and 8 man d2. Currently none of the State Championships are held at KU or K-State ( and haven't for at least 15 years) This year 3 are at NCAA D2 schools, 2 are at school district owned stadiums, 1 is at a JC stadium, and 2 at a NAIA school. We practice 3 weeks, then play 8 regular season games. Depending on classification, week 9 is either a playoff game or a meaningless consolation game between the 5th and 6 th place teams in the district. (Every team is guaranteed 9 games). State championship is game 13. That kind of sucks...the best part of some of the states is that everyone from the smallest to the biggest school is in the spotlight for their State Championship game when they are all at the same location.
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Post by coachklee on Dec 3, 2019 18:07:48 GMT -6
High school size is around 480 students
40-50 football players 9-12
5 paid stipends
Anywhere from 1-4 volunteers depending on a variety of variables
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Post by coachklee on Dec 3, 2019 17:58:29 GMT -6
Michigan is Friday/Saturday after Thanksgiving too...always nice to see a team you are actually cheering for win at Ford Field as most years those can be quite rare if you are a Lions fan! Count back 13 weeks from there putting the 1st 2 games at the end August.
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Post by coachklee on Nov 20, 2019 17:38:20 GMT -6
It is tough to say based on playoff scores in our state because before the finals in Ford Field (indoors) they can be influenced by the weather. Generally speaking the number of times you score 21+ points will correspond to the number of games you win, and the number of times you give up 21+ points will correspond to the number of games you lose. I’d agree that really “high powered” offenses have to have legit cold weather plans to get to Ford Field because they will often play at least 1 game where weather makes getting to 21 a challenge especially based on the quality of their opponents. Almost perfect correlation in my experience and I’ll even expand it to say the 1st to 21 usually wins! I know we have only 1 loss in the past 5 years when we were the 1st to 21 (2 if going by 1st to 20). We also have had only 1 loss scoring 28 or more (35-68 if memory serves me right).
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Post by coachklee on Oct 25, 2019 13:56:28 GMT -6
I'm sitting here right now with 18 bodies on varsity. 29 on JV. And I have tried to bring up JV to play but either the kid or parents refuse to come up, and I cannot force them to come up. I have 2 Sophs on varsity right now, both are likely to start both ways and special teams. Maybe someone else covered this, I'll be honest I haven't read all of the responses. You are not the first Coach to make statements like this, but I'm always so confused by this. EVERY program that I know of in the state I coach in, there is a Varsity team. Then whoever doesn't play on Friday night, plays in the JV game. This goes for every program as far as I know. The only exception is with the large schools who have 90-100 kids, and only a few of them practice completely separate. For most of those programs, the JV kids are used as scout players. If a program only has 20 players, they cancel their JV schedule. You don't have 18 Varsity and 29 JV... You have 47 players. I realize that a most Freshmen & a handful of Sophomores may not be physically ready to play, however every program I have been involved in (good & bad) we have started Sophomores and occasionally a freshmen or two have seen playing time. If they don't want to play, see ya! In MI & I’m sure a few other states JV plays on Thur before the Fri Var game. Players are also allowed to only participate in one of the games.
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Post by coachklee on Sept 19, 2019 20:29:41 GMT -6
So that is dumb... An AD lets the emotional words of a 17 year old enabled by an emotional parent dictate policy. Anytime admin lets teenagers make decisions it is time to go. Dumbest part is you were still competing as a 3-21 loss doesn’t quite count as an ass kicking IMO considering the circumstances. Simple choice...hope the best for you going forward coach. blb is right...all admin has 1 of 2 priorities...at best keep their current job or much more often move up to their next job!
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Post by coachklee on Sept 18, 2019 19:17:17 GMT -6
We often joke that some of our guys can’t READ, but they CAN read a down block or a pull. Legit had a kid score like 600 or close to that on the SAT...like total score and not just a section. At best he was at the 3rd grade level. Tell you what though, he sure could read the type of block the TE he aligned on gave him every single snap!!!
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Post by coachklee on Sept 15, 2019 23:17:19 GMT -6
So the state association will try to force you to put a team on the field with kids that aren't ready-are in positions they shouldn't be playing, i.e. unsafe?
That's insane.
Glad our state association doesn't do that.
53 and I play under the same state association. A few years ago there was a small school in my area that limped through a 1-9 season. They were discussing canceling the season due to lack of numbers, but eventually got up to about 20 players (grades 9-12) to start the season and finished with 18. However, they played in a 4 team conference and our state’s association says that the top 4 teams in each conference make the playoffs. They were set to go on the road to take on the #1 team in their classification in the first round. They were a 40+ point underdog. 2/3 of the players on that team quit. Their season was done. They handed in their gear and said they didn’t want to make a 3 hour bus ride just to get killed in a playoff game they didn’t earn. The coaches could not talk enough of them into coming back to play the game. They had to forfeit. Our state association heavily fined the school and banned that program from the postseason for 2 years. Originally, they were going to ban them from the postseason in all sports, including girls’ sports and teams that didn’t have a single football player on the roster, but the school got them to change their minds on appeal... barely. The one thing our state association demands above all else is gate money. Retarded...and that is the CORRECT word.
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Post by coachklee on Aug 20, 2019 9:51:12 GMT -6
How do you practice with low, as in 14-18 players, each day? I'm used to numbers in the upper 20's so I can have at least some kind of scout O/D/K. But with numbers below 18 how do you practice? Yes, I'm doing half-line, but I'm finding that there are problems with that as well, namely I end up with the same guys on the same guys which means that if 1 is strong and 1 is not I get the same result regardless of what we're doing. I'm looking at changing the emphasis to much more skill/indy and group instead of team. Can't do team unless it's offense on air. Special teams have nobody to even line up with much less have any contact. I have a JV team with 28 or so players, but I'm not thinking I want to make them the scout team for the offense as that takes away from their preparation and they are the future of this program, I don't want to beat them into submission. What are some tips, techniques, and concepts for running practice with low numbers? What do you guys do? We have 43 players Varsity & JV combined. For team periods we are always together & utilize 2 scout huddles regularly. 2 Scout Offenses of mixed Varsity/JV will go for 10-15 minutes getting about 15-22 plays ran against the JV Defense. Then the 2 Scout Offenses of mixed JV/Varsity will do the same 10-15 getting 15-22 plays ran against Varsity Defense. Huddle is shown a scout card goes & runs the play while the next huddle is getting the next scout card & play. There are always mis-matches & the look isn’t always perfect, but it at least gives you & your guys a chance to get a full team session get aligned, communicating calls & making whatever formation adjustments you have planned for the week. We’ll do it somewhat similarly for offense & get conditioning in for the offensive starters at least. Varsity O is at the 50 with the JV D in our defense at the 30 & a Scout Varsity D at the other 30. Offense gets the play-call runs to a Defense & runs the play. Whistle blown & they get the next signal while running to the other Defense. Again about 10-15 minutes with about 15-20 plays. Repeat for the JV although we very consciously make sure a few Varsity guys that JV simply can’t block don’t go on D (most of the time).
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Post by coachklee on Aug 2, 2019 16:09:53 GMT -6
Brown had a lot of critics last year but you get a lot more leeway when you're winning than when you're 2-8 after aspiring to a national championship. Besides Brown's temper and his hot dogging on TV it seems to me that a lot of the local criticism of Brown and ICC is valid. I looked at last year's roster. Independence COMMUNITY College had a total of two kids from Kansas. I understand that they were bringing in top talent but they couldn't find more than two in-state kids that can play football? Paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for a new PRACTICE field while they were cutting academic programs and laying off staff was a bad look. Ya... and his tirade about how football pays for everything and funds the school is quite misguided and gives a bad look. There are points to make about the enrollment but coming across as making Notre Dame type money and influence is just moronic. Their football program fills dorm rooms & increases enrollment. I took a player of ours to a JC & it was the same thing. Honestly, any level of athletics below D2 exist to A) increase enrollment / fill dorms that often get paid for through student loans & B) create a “college” atmosphere / experience for the rest of the general student population. Like players said basically nobody was their on full rides. Take that into account & additionally that all their tuition is out of state tuition, the football program is bringing in a decent amount of money...not ND or Power 5 type money, but a decent amount of money where investment in facilities might actually be justified.
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Post by coachklee on Jul 29, 2019 20:11:35 GMT -6
Use the Tapatalk App.
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Post by coachklee on Jul 22, 2019 18:57:47 GMT -6
Several possible responses 1)"Can't talk now, I have to go speak at a clinic" 2) "Well, we will be running 11 personnel, so we probably will be the best offensive team in the Nation" 3) "There is no universal terminology for pre-season predictions" 4) "Phuking have no clue, but I will coach football and I will teach math next year somewhere" 5) "Well, we will be running dbl tight double wing and the 46 gambler on defense, so we will probably be the best team in the country" Gold Have to be a coachhuey regular for over 10 years to catch everyone of those. Makes me wonder if some of those ass hats will read this and least chuckle for a second at themselves...if they can’t they are worse than ass hats...whatever that is!!!
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Post by coachklee on Jun 11, 2019 9:50:48 GMT -6
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Post by coachklee on May 9, 2019 20:23:25 GMT -6
don't ever use your mom or your girlfriend as an explanation of the decision to resign. They may have played a part in making the decision but just own it. ^ This X 1,000. --Dave ...hope it works out for him! This was my litmus test for my now wife of 10+ years. Her brother was flying in from California to visit & we had an open week at the JV level my 2nd year coaching because the opponent didn’t have a JV. She couldn’t understand why I was going to scout our next opponent live instead of being at her parents’ when he got there around 9:30?!? I stood my ground & told her I’d be there around 11:00...dude’s flight got delayed and I beat him to her parents’ by 3 hours. She put up with that & recognized that while football was never before family it was almost as important which meant “WE” could still be a “thing”...without that confirmation, I don’t know if I/we would’ve chose to stay together. I love how much she understands that football is a big part of who I am, that she is proud of how I use it to teach young men to be BETTER men & help them set-up future opportunities both indirectly & increasingly more DIRECTLY through this amazing game!
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Post by coachklee on Apr 29, 2019 16:26:20 GMT -6
Coaching a 6’2” 290 4th year Varsity DL / OL who is now being recruited by Ball State alongside a 6’3” 315 2nd year Varsity DL / OL!
Also, my HC/DB coach has green lighted moving our best defensive player from DB to MLB. He is a bit undersized (5’ 10 165), but with the way we play defense coupled with 605+ pounds in front of him the kid just has to make a decent read before running CLEANLY to make a tackle (which he is the best in the team at doing).
If we are not .500+ I am probably retiring because I probably suck as a coach.
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Post by coachklee on Apr 4, 2019 11:01:27 GMT -6
With all due respect you sound exactly like what you are preaching against.....entitled. Your first example is what if you have a STUD WR & a coach who chucks the ball 40 times & then you change to a SW. Well, let me ask you this: Let's say you have stud WR & coach who chucks the ball 40X & the coach stays but decides to run the ball a TON the following year b/c his QB graduated & the next kid up has silly string for an arm? Or just doesn't make great decisions w/ the ball? I'm guessing, again w/ all due respect, that you are on the upside of things right now as a program so your thoughts are, why shouldn't kids get to transfer here b/c we're awesome! But if you were on the other side, and kids were leaving you'd feel different. Furthermore, what you're preaching is, if you don't like the way things are going, just leave. Is that what you're going to tell your players when they marry? What your wife gained a little baby weight after your 3rd child was born? You didn't sign up for that? Meh, trade her in for a younger model. Thank God our military doesn't subscribe to your mentality, or we'd all be speaking German. Sometimes things aren't what we always want, but it's awfully hard to fix them by "outworking the other guy" when your program is a revolving door. Maybe a coach retires and a new guy comes in, should everybody leave immediately & not even give him a chance b/c it might be hard? Can't coach ghosts. I suspect however, no matter what is said you will not change your mind. The only thing that will change it is life experience. JMO. So a lot of assumptions here coach...guess you missed the part where I said...I don't know if I am for or against the idea. As for my program, nope not on upside at all, in fact moved from a very good program to one that went 1-8 the year before (I don't live in the district, I don't get paid and my kid plays in another district). I didn't preach anything, I simply provided the other side of the argument. Here are the facts gentlemen, Parents are voters, parents can influence and if the only argument against letting parents do whatever they want and transfer kids all over is "its bad for the coach". Well guess what, nobody gives a flying frog's butt about you...so this little experiment was to see how you will argue either for or against it, as it is coming and will be coming your way...if it hasn't already. So you better be able to argue your point from logic and not cause your butt hurt you may loose your job. Parents vote.... There are extremes to everything and yes you could have kids move because of being butt hurt. As for the military comment....There is an EGA hanging on my wall... You don’t “know if you are for or against the idea”?!? You titled the thread “Change my mind, prove me wrong!” & then proceeded to argue why there should be no limitations on transfers because it is what is “best” for kids.
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Post by coachklee on Apr 1, 2019 14:53:02 GMT -6
Just don’t read posts by dumbasses...or laugh at them.
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Post by coachklee on Mar 15, 2019 17:21:54 GMT -6
Yes, you read that correctly. Scheme Defeats Culture. I am sure I will get criticized about this, and please understand I am not here to start World War III, merely a healthy discussion about all the 21st century buzz words that are being thrown around. Was reading another read about "Trust The Process", which got me to thinking...Why, why, why are we acting like culture matters on game night? Before you culture freaks go off, let me set something straight... 1. Yes I believe "culture" is important. For parents, admin, program, etc. Yes, you have to have some type of "rah-rah" within your program, some type of motto, something that your kids must believe sets them apart. However, I get so sick and tired of people using the word "culture" or "process", please just stop. Saw a guy tweet the other day, "I'm not afraid of your X's & O's, I fear your culture." To me, all of that sounds just awful. Maybe I am in the minority, but I have won alot more games game planning and making adjustments, than using the word culture at halftime. Have never won a state championship, but have coached in two of them, and here is what I noticed about those two teams... 1. Guys who just loved playing the game. Of those two years, we had a total of 3 guys who went on to play mid-major FBS football, not power 5. 2. It was the best staff I have ever been on, because we studied the game, watched film, and prepared! We didn't waste time discussing what type of leadership ideas we were going to do in January. I am not saying we never used the word "culture", but I am saying that we worried more the game as opposed to all the leadership techniques 3. We didn't waste time on culture ideas, river floats, lock ins, dads & donuts, helmets & heels, and all the other stuff that people do now a days, but rather that time was devoted to the weight room, film room, and practice field to prepare to WIN! When the work was done, we went home. Here is another thing, when I go to clinics, I want to hear ball! I don't want some guy telling me about how their culture is so much better than mine, and then pull up a clip of 4 star D1 guy busting 3 tackles on inside zone. Also, there is actually a guy who wrote a book about "Culture Defeats Strategy", and people actually buy this! Why? And this 3D coaching that is out there. Come on guys, football & athletics have been going before we were born and will continue long after we die. Our parents and grandparents played this game, without all the books, manuals, motivational talk, etc. and they did just fine, thus brings my question...Why in 2019 are people so sold on this "culture-chemistry-discipline" mantra? What has happen to us; and there are actually people making money off selling books that discuss culture? Blows my mind. Also, think about this, you are paid to win games, and if you don't believe that, you are fooling yourself. Your admin doesn't fire you because your culture is the best in the country. I have never seen a coach fired because of culture or lack there of, and we all know it's true. Again, I am not trying to start a nuclear meltdown, I am trying to give my .02, but also gather your insight on the matter. My question - Does culture really matter at kickoff? Again, refer to earlier in my post, culture is important and must be part of your program. *I do NOT disagree with that*. But what about those moments, when it's 4th & 1, and you get stuffed and lose the game? Are you going to blame your culture or blame the play call? So for all you culture dudes out there, couple of questions... 1. Can you really make a 16 year old kid regardless of financial status, race, color, or creed a leader? 2. If you go 0-10/1-9/2-8, how do you get your kids to believe that you are the best program in the country? (To me, sounds like you need to spend more time on X's & O's as opposed to the whole culture thing, but that's just me.) 3. Does your "culture" really make a difference at kickoff?
I was the one that posted that the other day on twitter and I believe it is true.
Respectfully, I don't think the things that you are describing are culture. Having a mom's clinic, or dad's and donuts is not culture. That is stuff you do to include people in your program and build support.
Culture is defined by Websters as "the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution or organization." These are the things your program does. How hard do they work? How much film is studied? How do they respond to adverse situations? That is culture, not a slogan on a t-shirt. Though slogans should reinforce your culture.
Most coaches, have a good idea of what is going on and can figure out a good game plan for each opponent. It doesn't matter if the kids don't execute. The ability to have the team buy in to what you are selling for your gameplan is culture. That is trust, because you may have had a great gameplan last week and it didn't work. Trust is culture. We know in this game we have to play as a team, not individuals, except we can all probably point to teams we have played aginst (or coached) that were bigger, stronger, faster) but lacked discipline, motivation, etc. and were not good teams and either didn't win or didn't win games they should.
I think it does matter on gamenight, because one of the things we know is that things are not going to go according to plan. Your team has 2 choices, whine or get over it. I believe it is teenagers natrual inclination to do the former. Young men have to be taught how to deal with adversity, because they will face it all of their lives....teaching it is part of our jobs.
To answer your questions. 1. Can you really make a 16 year old kid regardless of financial status, race, color, or creed a leader?
I don't know if you can make every kid a leader, but I dang sure believe you can improve their leadership ability. I started a leadership program based off of the book THE TEAM CAPTAIN'S LEADERSHIP MANUAL by Jeff Jansen. We met during lunch once a week and went through the various topics in the book. If a player wanted to be considered for being a captain then they had to attend.
The next year we went 10-3, which was our school's best season ever....by far. Now did I have some studs? Definitely, but I believe that there are 2 games we won that I believe we would have lost in the past because of the leadership our players showed and their willingness to buy in to what I was selling and keep believing. In the past we would have fallen apart.
(A little background on one of those games. The week before we had just hosted our first home playoff game in the 38 year history of our school and won only the second playoff game in that time. When i blinked we were down 18-0 in the first quarter.
Two things I will never forget. 1. After they went up 18-0, my Senior OL/DL coming off of the field and looking at his teammates and saying "Let's go they ain't sh*t." His teammates took notice and their heads lifted. This was a kid that was prone to meltdowns.
2. We score to make it 18-7. They fumble, we score again. Its 18-14. We go into the locker room at halftime and our kids are pumped up and their kids are screaming at eachother and the coaches. I told our kids to listen really closesly. They did and i told them that is why we would win. We were handling adversity, they were falling apart. That is culture.)
2. If you go 0-10/1-9/2-8, how do you get your kids to believe that you are the best program in the country? (To me, sounds like you need to spend more time on X's & O's as opposed to the whole culture thing, but that's just me.) Respectfully disagree.
I think if you are 0-10 you can't get them to realistically think they are the best team in America. You have to focus on taking small steps.
Lou Holtz said there are 4 stages of a program Learning how to compete Learning how to win Learning how to handle winning Learning how to become a championship-level program
When I took over as head coach at my school in 2012 we had 1 winning season in 35 years and had a whopping 76-276 program record.
That first year we learned how to compete, almost beating (but not so its still a L) some very good teams. The next year we went 7-4, which was best in school history at the time. That year we learned how to win. We spent the next few years learning how to win.
We finally got to the point where we had to learn how to handle winning (I think/hope) when I stepped down this year.
Hopefully we can get the the next stage soon.
Now I had some DANG good players, but I don't think my success was because I was so much smarter calling plays than anyone else. I think its because we got our kids to play hard and believe, which is culture.
3. Does your "culture" really make a difference at kickoff? I believe it does. What happens when you are on the road and getting homered by the refs? How do your kids respond? How is your kids mental toughness? How hard have they watched film to prepare for this game? How many weights did they lift and sprints did they run at full go to get ready for the game? That is culture.
Awesome post! Thanks to the OP for getting the conversation started. This is the stuff that wins a game or two you shouldn’t win based on talent alone.
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Post by coachklee on Mar 12, 2019 19:29:37 GMT -6
Don’t do the white board... Go with white board paint on a wall! I love it and would never do a white board again! It will cost you more money than a white board, but it is totally worth it. My kids also have an area on the wall they know they can go draw on, and I enjoy when they leave me pictures haha That is awesome! Hope we finish our basement before the kids are too old to really enjoy that idea!
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Post by coachklee on Mar 12, 2019 14:54:27 GMT -6
My wife and i just bought our first house. I got the OK to make one of our extra bedrooms my man cave/football room What would you include in an awesome football room ? Thinking L shaped desk in one corner, whiteboard in a wall, big TV on a wall Probably a futon in there somewhere so we could also use it as an extra guest bed if we need one Just looking for some cool ideas you guys have either done or seen somewhere You probably already know this, but you have a great wife. Only thing I’d add besides what jjmarzahl said is a whiteboard.
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Post by coachklee on Mar 12, 2019 11:02:16 GMT -6
We all have a culture: It is what we do and do not do on a regular basis. It is what we allow and do not allow on a regular basis. Our culture is: 50% of our football kids lift consistently throughout the year and 50% of them put in quality effort during lifting sessions(this is changing for the better). This means that we rely on 25% of our kids to win games on Friday nights, because the other 75% are not physically prepared to play. Our culture is: 75% of our student body takes summer school classes (to get ahead-not catch up). Because of when summer school classes are offered we have only twice in 15 years had enough kids to participate in a team camp..and those were one day camps. Our culture is: we need significant breaks from activity so we have very few 3 sport athletes (no spring ball) and the spring of the year is a negative session and makes getting kids back for summer workouts difficult. Our Culture is: coaches don't show up for off-season meetings and don't effectively communicate- and our athletes suffer And we all know changing that is necessary to ever do better or improve as a program. Right now I think my HC & the rest of us on staff have picked all the “low hanging fruit” as far as “CULTURE” is concerned. We have 5 win culture right now...we beat the teams we should beat because of better players / better coaching, but come up short against teams that are equal or better. Our weight room participation is similar to you. Most guys come & lift. Only some always get the weekly lifts done (minimum of 2-3 days). Only a few do approach it with a focus & put forth with quality effort to see results that are significantly more than the natural growth & strengthening that all teenagers experience. The importance of football is similar. Being able to rely on ALL players is similar. Like most places vaping has become a big issue. 5 of our guys were caught with vapes in their gym bags. Right now they are all eligible because they used a winter sport or will be using a spring sport to get their quarter season suspension served. However, we have to “pencil” these guys in as reliable because if there is another offense they are caught for they have a year long suspension. 2 of these guys are returning starters...another 1 will probably become a start. I guess we haven’t built a CULTURE strong enough that those kids consider football to be more important than vaping (or at least vaping at school). I get that they are teenagers & teenagers have & will always do these tutors of things, but when something is important you at least do like the MVP from my HS did when he’d give up smoking when the season started in the 2nd Monday of August because football was more important than smoking.
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Post by coachklee on Jan 20, 2019 16:53:21 GMT -6
Just had a meeting with our AD. Another team is joining our conference to make us an 11 team conference. We can only play 9 games before the playoffs, so the conference is trying to come up with solutions to this problem. Does anybody have any experience dealing with something like this? One solution is that 2 teams wouldn't play each other that year, but what do you do to determine who skips who? Do you create subdivisions? Our conference gets 4 teams into the playoffs, and from a geographic standpoint, the 4 best teams are traditionally from the same geographical area (our conference from a bus standpoint is huge--7 hour bus ride 1 way for our furthest game). Would love to hear some ideas/thoughts. Thanks! Sub divide into 2 divisions 6 and 5 one side plays 5 divisional games + 3 cross overs vs the other side the other side plays 4 divisional games + 4 cross overs vs the other side that covers weeks 1-8. Week 9: 1v2 for the conference title 3v4 5v6 7v8 9v10 11 get the basketballs out probably should have had them out 5 weeks earlier since you know...... THEY ARE IN 11TH. Except 6x3 = 18 games & 5x4 = 20 games so that cross over plan would need to be tweaked... Also, there will always be at l least 1 team with a “bye” from the conference schedule.
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Post by coachklee on Dec 13, 2018 16:37:29 GMT -6
Also I will add that sometimes really good assistants or other people not in a head coach position are phenomenal. More scheme specific sometimes. And HCs have a lot on their plate and sometimes aren't as enthused. Some non-HC guys (some on here) that are phenomenal speakers - Jerry Gordon, Broad Run. The guy wrote the book on the under defense. Phenomenal coach. Casey Miller, Cottonwood (that is a project of a program though so you probably aren't interested in the W/L program) John Cupps, No idea what school he is at now. Was the DC at LaSalle in Ohio and then Massillon. Chris Fore - In admin now but very good speaker Chris Vasseur - Bay Area DC, Gary Patterson disciple Will Hewlwtt - Aptos Assistant, good speaker with good experince Brett Dudley - young, energetic, personable. Great assistant. Never seen him speak but he does good things Cody Gardner - Park City Utah. personable, entertaining, intelligent. I really want to meet & have a clinic with Coach John Cupps sometime. Dude wouldn’t have to pay for a drink afterwards as I’m pretty sure he is the most legendary poster ever on Huey! Wouldn’t mind seeing a presentation or meeting with Coach Gordon as well!
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Post by coachklee on Nov 14, 2018 8:39:27 GMT -6
Most our guys are over 30 minutes, but I'd say only about 10-15 minutes of that watching time is reviewing themselves from an critical / coaching themselves to get better stand point. Based on conversations I over hear during our RTI time or at the beginning or end of classes, most of that watching time is from an entertainment / look at my highlight mindset.
Still...watching themselves play football is better than not watching any film of themselves / ourselves!
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Post by coachklee on Nov 2, 2018 13:02:43 GMT -6
Michigan is almost identical. 6 wins & you are in! 5-4 it is based on playoff points. After 256 teams are grouped by size into 8 Divisions of 32, then into Regions of 8, then into Districts of 4 & finally seeded based on playoff points. The only big complaint is that everyone who isn’t a state title contender is always trying to schedule 6 wins & try hard to dodge any quality opponents outside of their league/conference. So if they are in regions and districts, why don’t they just use region and/or district records to determine who goes to the playoffs? Some of this just boggles my mind. As blb mentioned, the regions and districts are set AFTER the 256 playoff teams are set. There is NO state involvement in setting up leagues/conferences. I assume the leagues/conferences were left to work independently of the state to maintain traditional rivalries when the playoff system was 1st introduced it was only 16 teams in 4 classes. In the end Michigan has a ridiculous number of schools. 747 MHSAA members with 543 sponsoring 11-man football and 62 sponsoring 8-man football. Until relatively recently (I think 2011) all 62 of those 8-man teams still played 11-man football. The original system divided the over 605 teams (some schools have closed or consolidated over the last 40+ years) into 4 classes of about 150 teams and then into 4 regions of about 35. The regions simply were never small enough to play a round robin schedule even as the playoffs expanded to 8 classes (region size of about 17) and went from just the best team in a region to the top 4 in a region qualifying for the playoffs. The only 2 solutions was the most recent system or cutting the last week off the regular season. I guess they could’ve broken the regions into two districts of 8 or 9 & take the 2, but local control won out.
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Post by coachklee on Nov 2, 2018 5:06:49 GMT -6
The Illinois system is pretty sound. 256 teams (about half of the schools in Illinois) qualify for the playoffs divided into 32-team brackets across 8 classes. Conference champs and all 6,7,8, and 9-win teams are automatic qualifiers. The remaining spots are filled by 5-win teams that can get an at-large bid if they have enough "playoff points" (opponent wins). I think the cut-off this year was 38 or so. 5-4 teams whose opponents won 38 games got in the playoffs. 5-4 teams whose opponents won less than 38 games did not get in the playoffs. There is a tiebreaker in there, too. Wins of defeated oppoents, I think. There were 18 5-4 that did not make the playoffs this year. After the 256 playoff teams are determined, they are divided into the 8 classes. Smallest 32 schools are 1a, next biggest are 2a...all the way up to 8a. Then teams are seeded in the bracket based on regular season record and playoff points. Most classes have a north-south split (16 teams on the north side of the bracket, 16 teams in the south side of the bracket) except for 7a and 8a which go 1-32 (I think) and that's because most of those schools are located in the suburbs around Chicago. It is a pretty good system but there have been criticisms: 1) About 15 years ago, the state high school association determined that the state champion would be a true representative of the entire state. What this meant is that the playoffs were set up so that the state title game would feature a team from the southern part of the state and a team from the northern part of the state, at least in classes 1a-6a. So, the two "best" teams in a class don't necessarily meet in the state title game. Often, the biggest games featuring the most talented teams occur in the quarterfinals or semifinals or even on occasion in the 2nd round. As a result, there have been some boring blowout state title games over the years (but some really great ones, too). 2) Seeding. It is all done by the numbers. Your seed comes down to your record and your playoff points. The result is that sometimes, teams with higher seeds have much tougher paths than teams with lower seeds. Case in point. Our team was the #3 seed in the bracket. We easily won our 1st-round playoff game (we were up 56-6 at halftime). However, the #2 seed in the bracket was in a dogfight and needed a touchdown within the last minute of the game to advance. The #1 seed in the bracket, the defending state 2a champion, has a very tough path. They are playing a team this week that has a couple FBS commits and if they win that game, they will be probably be playing a perennial Catholic football factory in the quarterfinals. 3) Interesting map reading. Ever year, it seems that there are a handful of teams that should clearly go either north or south but they end up going the opposite direction. Like I said...it is a pretty good system but it has issues, too. larrymoe...did I miss anything? Michigan is almost identical. 6 wins & you are in! 5-4 it is based on playoff points. After 256 teams are are determined, they are then grouped by size into 8 Divisions of 32, then into Regions of 8, then into Districts of 4 & finally seeded based on playoff points. The only big complaint is that everyone who isn’t a state title contender is always trying to schedule 6 wins & try hard to dodge any quality opponents outside of their league/conference.
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Post by coachklee on Oct 21, 2018 20:34:05 GMT -6
Friday night was our last game of the year and my last game on the job, I'm going back to school and HOPEFULLY going to work as a slappy for the college's team. We're playing at a neutral cite in a town a couple of hours away so it's already a weird pre-game. The field is about a two blocks walk away from the locker room and rather than load into the bus we decide to take the walk. So, we're standing outside the school getting our kids ready to head toward the field and we hear "HEY BOYS!" from a car that's rolling up. Everyone looks expecting it to be a parent asking how to get to the field... nope. I look up and this woman is hanging out of the car with her shirt pulled up and the girls were on full display. No one could do or say anything absolute silence for a few seconds until everyone realizes what just happened. The team erupts in cheers and "OH MY GOD!" I've never seen so many smiles on the field for pre-game. Not sure most of them will remember the game itself but I'm certain most will remember the pre-game... ...we didn't win the Booby Bowl. Were they a nice set?
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Post by coachklee on Oct 21, 2018 20:31:50 GMT -6
Anyone have successes/failures worth sharing in preparing to play the same team in the first round of the playoffs that you just played in the last week (or one of the last weeks) of the regular season? We get a playoff re-match with a week 6 opponent that took us to the woodshed...at least their home field is so {censored} they opted for a neutral site game on turf about 12 miles away. My HC / OC also knows he could’ve done so much better on O & agreed to be much more aggressive on D so we’ll see how it goes!
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Post by coachklee on Oct 15, 2018 4:52:38 GMT -6
Our OC had a helmet fire and called freeze four times in our two-minute drill. New way of saying full tard!
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Post by coachklee on Sept 19, 2018 17:47:49 GMT -6
We completed our first pass last night. For one yard. On fourth and two. I'm dying right now. Lol!
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