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Post by coachklee on Sept 5, 2018 17:21:05 GMT -6
wingtol maybe if your team wasn't running the Wing-T but something new and innovative you guys wouldn't be so bad. I blame the coaching! đ The O ainât the problem...he obviously defended facemelter offenses giving up 120! Probably also because he isnât running the D like Belichik, Saban, Don Brown or whatever other D guru...
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Post by coachklee on Sept 2, 2018 7:03:23 GMT -6
We've given up 120 points. In two games. Im the DC. Have a good evening. Did the offense score 122?
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Post by coachklee on Aug 21, 2018 18:58:40 GMT -6
So...your AC's are drillers and not teachers who coach a kid to get it right?What if a kid goes full out in the drill but does it wrong? There's no one correcting him, and he takes the wrong way to do things into the game. If I were an AC...I couldn't work that way. I'd rather coach than simply run drills. No, coach corrects, just does not pause the whole drill for a minute to correct one player. Coach on the fly and fast. Instead of just having 1 kid go at a time have three. I don't see how utilizing drills makes one a driller and not a teacher. Do you not use drills? I am not saying not to correct, I am saying be efficient in your correction and coach fast. Iâm with carookie. I used to worry about coaching every single rep of Indy with groups alternating & giving a ton of feedback. Then I watched my HC run his DB drills. Nobody takes a break. Every guy is working to keep his horizontal & vertical leverage on WR stems simultaneously. Every guy then works press tech on the WE simultaneously. Then every guy does trail technique simultaneously. Early season he coaches it more & corrects more & it maybe takes him 15 minutes a day. By week 1 it is down to 10 minutes. By week 5 it is done in about 6 minutes. I took the same approach with the DL & weâve improved tremendously. We have a bunch of juniors right now that spill the {censored} out of any Trap they see because they worked so much Spill Drill in practice last year. The same juniors do a great job splitting double teams or at least stalemating them keeping LBs clean. They wouldnât be ready to play right now if it wasnât for the at least an extra 4 reps a day that happened at that pace over the course of 3 days a week & over 11 weeks of practice (easily 132 over the course I the year). Is it perfect...no. Still you can get so much more from a couple non-negotiable fundamentals constantly taught coaching on the fly with as many guys moving as possible. Most importantly, youâve really coached it up after you get guys going knowing the drill & understanding it to the level that they can self-coach (I didnât run the circle tight enough...I didnât flip my hips fast enough) is the key. Then you know they get it & will do it on a Friday night...or this Thursday!
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Post by coachklee on Aug 18, 2018 6:32:49 GMT -6
Why couldnât you throw or run outside? Those were the rules that were set for the period. I wouldâve refused to do it. A perimeter run or rollout pass can be some of the best goal line calls.
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Post by coachklee on Aug 14, 2018 8:26:20 GMT -6
So your starting 11 shouldnât work out or condition? Isnt the point for each player to be their best? You arenât just trying to start or be the best at your school, you are trying to beat other schools, and, if you want to play college, you are in competition with every player in the country. How is making the kid do bear crawls after practice or whatever going to make him a better athlete? That ship has sailed. He missed the summer. There is no "make up" for that. That's two months of work. When's the first game? A week or two? if this kid is as good as wiscoach says he is, then the coaching staff and the players should get down on their knees, shout a collective "Hallelujah" and give thanks to the football gods for such a generous gift. wiscoach explained he has already missed 7 practices if I recall. That is different than skipping weights/conditioning. He owes something if that is the case.
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Post by coachklee on Aug 1, 2018 19:10:05 GMT -6
How many games did they win when Tressel was there? And how many have they won with Urban there? According to Sports-reference.com Meyer is 73-8 at OSU, so about 90% of the games. Tressel was 106-22 (on the field) so about 82% of the games. Exactly...PS...round that .828 up to 83!
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Post by coachklee on Aug 1, 2018 19:08:34 GMT -6
I've got a buddy who coached D2/D3 ball in Ohio and said when Tressel was there, it was an open invitation for anyone to come by at anytime. He said there would be 100 small college coaches working the camps, and Tressel got to know them (which I'm not saying is a mandate by any means) and they'd get free beer and food every day. Urban got there and basically locked the doors, and at camps would be on the field for 15 minutes to eval the guys they wanted, and then would go back to his office until the post camp talk. Wouldn't talk to anyone.. He also told me about a GA they had who had an interview at OSU for a GA gig.. Meyer came into the DC's office during the meeting to ask the DC something, and didn't even acknowledge the guy interviewing. He fortunately got another offer from Northwestern the same week, and decided that was a better fit. How many games did they win when Tressel was there? And how many have they won with Urban there? Is it really that much different? .828 106-22 buckeyefansonly.com/jimtressel/tresselsrecord.html.901 73-8 www.sports-reference.com/cfb/coaches/urban-meyer-1.htmlBeing a DONKEY doesnât get you a .073 higher winning percentage...aside from more aggressive recruiting out of Meyer, there is no significant difference IMO. Opening up to HS Coaches or not isnât the difference between Meyerâs slightly better winning percentage (taking over a program that was well maintained by the sweater vest).
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Post by coachklee on Aug 1, 2018 12:58:30 GMT -6
I didn't say not to repeat a successful play until the defense adjusted-stopped it. I did that myself many times over 30 years calling plays.
To do otherwise would be poor coaching.
My point was to describe that tactic with any of those three phrases is clichÊ to the point of meaningless.
I get what youâre saying. Like in practice when the scout team defense picks a ball off and the OC saysâ donât worry about that if he sits like that in a game we are going to kill them with this play.â Iâm sitting there like how the hell are you just going to say that when the QB hit the safety in the chest with the ball? It was a terrible read Itâs always offensive coaches who say that sh!t Yeah. Us defensive guys always are worried about what if they run this or that because we are mostly repping to stop their bread & butter.
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Post by coachklee on Jul 31, 2018 16:48:26 GMT -6
I wonder if there are less jucos playing football in the east because there are so many D3 football schools their? Iâm guessing the plethora of D2s & D3s are likely the reason Michigan has none. Also probably the reason there are no FCS/1AA in MI (that & all the former FCS type schools are in the MAC).
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Post by coachklee on Jul 22, 2018 18:03:36 GMT -6
What? Manipulate, lie, instigate, troll?   Have Carte Blanche? Abuse power? (I have no power, I am not a moderator or admin). You really sound like a parent complaining about a coach. Goodness! you are not a moderator, you do not have a title.. Ill stop there. Once again...
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Post by coachklee on Jul 22, 2018 8:46:29 GMT -6
I don't spend one second talking about life lessons learned playing football or in athletics. Earlier: ...because us guys in the âclubâ would prefer that the sport we love & use to teach young men so many lessons regarding hard-work, teamwork, discipline, pride in self / team / school / community, etc to continue. I typically agree with slippery slope arguments, but weâve yet to have a specific example of what new rules have been implemented or are about to be implemented by NFHS or NCAA that will take the âcoreâ blocking & tackling out of the game. fb doesn't need us mortals yapping our gums to teach life lessons. Not sure where I said I use talking to teach those lessons yet you seemed to find it.
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Post by coachklee on Jul 22, 2018 6:52:37 GMT -6
Somewhat serious...have you been drinking all day? No. If you think, God forbid, the demands of the game, if taught correctly, teaches kids values and life lessons all by itself. Coaches do not need to spend time talking about thing kids are actually experiencing. ?
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Post by coachklee on Jul 21, 2018 20:35:28 GMT -6
Do you think cooks have a message board somewhere and they b!tch about Gordon Ramsey treating cooks like $hit? Lol. Funniest post in awhile!
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Post by coachklee on Jul 21, 2018 20:28:36 GMT -6
...because us guys in the âclubâ would prefer that the sport we love & use to teach young men so many lessons regarding hard-work, teamwork, discipline, pride in self / team / school / community, etc to continue. I typically agree with slippery slope arguments, but weâve yet to have a specific example of what new rules have been implemented or are about to be implemented by NFHS or NCAA that will take the âcoreâ blocking & tackling out of the game. fb doesn't need us mortals yapping our gums to teach life lessons. Somewhat serious...have you been drinking all day?
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Post by coachklee on Jul 21, 2018 18:02:36 GMT -6
The club that thinks that making football safer is a good thing? It's a pretty big club. no! The club, imo of course wants the flags. ...because us guys in the âclubâ would prefer that the sport we love & use to teach young men so many lessons regarding hard-work, teamwork, discipline, pride in self / team / school / community, etc to continue. I typically agree with slippery slope arguments, but weâve yet to have a specific example of what new rules have been implemented or are about to be implemented by NFHS or NCAA that will take the âcoreâ blocking & tackling out of the game.
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Post by coachklee on Jul 21, 2018 17:52:13 GMT -6
So the game is no longer the same if a player never hits another player with his head? Do we need high speed collisions that players donât see coming? I still think of Warren Sapp hitting some Packers OL named Clifton... On top of that permitting any head-to-head or head 1st contact is just dumb...hell leading with the head could even result in potentially more catastrophic & instantaneous neck injuries which sometimes can lead to immediate paralysis. Are teaching of blocking has not changed at all except now emphasize use of hands more especially in the open field. Our tackling is now all near hip Seahawks style & regularly includes roll tackling legs. We got cutback less on the last 2 years and only missed one open field tackle that led to a long TD. Not only did we potentially make our players âsaferâ, we definitely made them better football players. We still do some âOklahomaâ in the pre-season & our âLiveâ on Defense with a short whistle twice a week. The rest the time we can be just as effective in âThudâ mode such as inside run or buzzing the near hip in â7-on-7â. I think most of us get where you are coming from, but if you feel those changes are destroying the game it should just be shutdown right now...the game still comes down to which team is going to line up & physically out execute the other team which is what really results in a player or team being tough...not by ignorantly leading with their head or throwing cheap shot blindside blocks. so put the flags on em. And if you believe in the see it coming non sense? You need to join the crowd that wants to outlaw contact sports Never said, âI see it comingâ... Clearly said, âGet where you are coming fromâ... Which means I agree that there is some overhype & especially the targeting of football specifically as opposed to other sports that also have concussions (a few of which do so at higher rates). I see the sport continuing if parents believe their kids are safe. The sport declines significantly if parents donât believe it is safe. You just agreed to put flags on the primary issues that have been recent rule changes to improve safety. We are all still waiting for any new rules that specifically have changed blocking & tackling which Iâd agree are the fundamental âcoreâ of the game... Myself & the majority of dissenters in this thread are struggling to understand how your argument that some of these recent rule changes & emphasis just made the game less macho or tough. As if head contact is the whole point of the game...last I checked it was all about keeping the other team from getting the ball across the goal line, gaining possession of the ball & then getting it across the other goal line using blocking, tackling & since 1905 forward passing & catching.
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Post by coachklee on Jul 21, 2018 15:37:42 GMT -6
Which are? No helmet to helmet? Use of hands 1st on blindside crack blocks? Is only a 5 yard running head start or none on a kick off âchanging the coreâ of the game? Aside from sometimes questionable enforcement of helmet to helmet because offensive player leads with HIS head, what rules lack logic & scrutiny? I think you are mixing up unreasonable hysteria regarding not playing or completely banning the sport with actual rules effecting the playing of the game. in my twisted world view, we keep " evolving" to make game "safer" we will no longer recognize the game we currently know and love. The argument I keep hearing is we are reacting to something that nobody really knows anything about. The safety argument is not consistent across all sports. So that is not a reason to fundamentally alter the game of football. The science, the effort into study cute and concussions is limited to just football, and has no interest in boxing and mma or hockey or the best one is soccer, which we amazingly didn't here one thing about concussions, so science is at best a tainted in motive, and therefore cannot possibly have a comprehensive research that justifies altering the game at its core. At it core meaning blocking and tackling are fundamental in football. And blocking and tackling are in grave jeopardy. And that statement is justified when we hear about taking the head completely out of football and eliminating high speed collisions. So the game is no longer the same if a player never hits another player with his head? Do we need high speed collisions that players donât see coming? I still think of Warren Sapp hitting some Packers OL named Clifton... On top of that permitting any head-to-head or head 1st contact is just dumb...hell leading with the head could even result in potentially more catastrophic & instantaneous neck injuries which sometimes can lead to immediate paralysis. Are teaching of blocking has not changed at all except now emphasize use of hands more especially in the open field. Our tackling is now all near hip Seahawks style & regularly includes roll tackling legs. We got cutback less on the last 2 years and only missed one open field tackle that led to a long TD. Not only did we potentially make our players âsaferâ, we definitely made them better football players. We still do some âOklahomaâ in the pre-season & our âLiveâ on Defense with a short whistle twice a week. The rest the time we can be just as effective in âThudâ mode such as inside run or buzzing the near hip in â7-on-7â. I think most of us get where you are coming from, but if you feel those changes are destroying the game it should just be shutdown right now...the game still comes down to which team is going to line up & physically out execute the other team which is what really results in a player or team being tough...not by ignorantly leading with their head or throwing cheap shot blindside blocks.
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Post by coachklee on Jul 21, 2018 9:16:57 GMT -6
A serious question, even if it might seem ridiculous to some: Do you mean that you want to go back to no forward pass and how it was before Roosevelt? Or which era of rules makes most sense to you? Asking just to make it easier for me to understand and have a good discussion the rule changes stemming from cte/concussion hysteria which lacks logic and scrutiny. Which are? No helmet to helmet? Use of hands 1st on blindside crack blocks? Is only a 5 yard running head start or none on a kick off âchanging the coreâ of the game? Aside from sometimes questionable enforcement of helmet to helmet because offensive player leads with HIS head, what rules lack logic & scrutiny? I think you are mixing up unreasonable hysteria regarding not playing or completely banning the sport with actual rules effecting the playing of the game.
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Post by coachklee on Jul 20, 2018 6:21:36 GMT -6
There was a sport science thing a few years ago that said a player performs better on Friday night if they are full go the day before (if I remember correctly it was chip kelly with the eagles so maybe it doesnt work?!) I started doing it and not sure about the science behind it, but did notice it was taken more seriously in full. It was something he did while he was at Oregon. Iâm guessing the article wasnât written until later.
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Post by coachklee on Jul 16, 2018 5:03:03 GMT -6
I can't speak to your run fits, but for us if a blocker comes up on a kid and he just gets to the right side of the blocker he's more or less in the right spot. What if he should of been in the âleftâ spot?
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Post by coachklee on Jul 13, 2018 8:53:40 GMT -6
Mondays...
We either lift before (we have teaching staff meetings every other Monday) or watch about 10 clips of film (5 O & 5 D)...this is about 20 minutes.
Defense is 10 minutes of Indy or Group depending on opponent / time of season. Then about 15 minutes in which our JV D & Varsity D each get the opponentâs top 10 plays. Allows for us to immediately see if anything needs to be adjusted the rest of the week from our base D / checks.
The rest of the day is offense focused. Indy for 10, Group / Pods for 10, Half-line for 15, Openers / Drive Starters for 10-15.
Then we finish with conditioning in the wrestling room for 15-20 minutes. This really created a higher level of mental / physical toughness the past 2 years weâve added it.
We are usually just under 2 hours every Monday...
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Post by coachklee on Jul 1, 2018 11:10:04 GMT -6
Upon further review, ,most of "Rocky" is kind of boring. [ How was such a blasphemous comment allowed to go through??? I suggest Huey have fantomâs moderator title erased!! One of those posts you want to like part & dislike the other...with a certain digit!
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Post by coachklee on Jul 1, 2018 11:07:40 GMT -6
As long as you allow words to set you off they will have power over you. I'm white, my wife is Mexican, sons are beige, my daughter is Chinese and we're working on adopting a child from Haiti. We have fostered kids of different races over the past few years. When we're out to dinner we look like the United Nations. The ignorant, racist comments we get are astounding. It used to drive my wife & I nuts. We burned a heck of a lot of calories being mad about it. Once we let it go and got over it we were much happier. Now we laugh at their ignorance or ignore them. And I'm sorry, but if people take offense to unintentional slights like the "gutty tough performance" then they are morons. It's easy to be a victim, it's much tougher to acknowledge ignorance and rise above it. That's my $.02. I hear you, I really do but the last line of your post you said "acknowledge ignorance and rise above it". I think it's important that we shed light on some of these things when we can so that people might be put in a position to acknowledge their own ignorance and maybe be more mindful of their own biases. I'm not a big spike lee fan, but I remember reading something from him about how white people love movies like rocky and hoosiers because they follow the same formula, scrappy white people with a great attitude overcome brash loudmouth black people who are physically superior I remember being like holy crap I freaking LOVE rocky and hoosiers...am I racist? I don't think so...but it's probably important that me and others ask ourselves that question from time to time I cheered pretty hard when Rocky beat Drago too! However, I get what you are saying.
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Post by coachklee on Jun 27, 2018 21:42:38 GMT -6
Who's gonna be the first to implement this "new fangled" way of thinking? Who's gonna be seen as a guy who let another coach "out work" him? I have coached teams in the past who could show up and put a couple of weeks of hard work in and be ready to go come that first scrimmage. I have also coached teams where we could have practiced 12 hours a day for months and they still wouldn't be able to get out of their own way.  I agree, the arms race is killing the sport. Not only driving kids away, but I am sure every one knows that one or two coaches in your building who just say they don't want to do it anymore. Not only football, but other sports as well. It just seems that football is the worst offender. Iâll step up and do it. We workout on Tue and Thu during the summer. 930-12. Strength/speed/jump/agility training and then some football stuff. That is 5 hours total a week. If you are out of town (whatever the reason), you are excused as long as you told me beforehand. Workout is online so you can do it if you miss. Try and makeup lifting if you miss. Havenât done a 7 on 7 in 8 years. Donât start conditioning running until after July 4th week. We are close...until July we are Mon, Wed, Thur 5:00-7:00...so 6 hours a week. In July weâll be Mon & Wed 5:00-7:00 with 7-on-7s on Tue & Thur from about 6:00-7:30 so up to about 7 hours a week. And one of our JV Coaches is probably right that we do âtoo muchâ 7-on-7...
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Post by coachklee on Jun 27, 2018 21:28:01 GMT -6
Is #GrindSeason killing basketball or baseball too? I think numbers are declining because football is difficult and it isn't easy to be successful. Football is dependent on strength speed and getting 11 players to do it right. When a program is down there is no one stud player that can change the whole season. Basketball and baseball can count on a small number of players and be successful. A football team can't have one star. Football teams can't win by scoring 1 run. A "game winner" in football needs either a successful series of plays, pass protection a good throw, a good catch, or some collection of events to work. A "game winner" in basketball could merely need an inbound and a quick flick of the wrist. I am not downgrading other sports, but summer basketball and baseball do just as much or more than a one or two hour work out 3 or 4 days a week. I don't work kids to death, but the kids that roll up in August and haven't done anything or tried to be a part of the team can just stay away. I am not #GrindSeason, but I am about kids who care. August guys don't give a rat's ass. Go have fun shooting the ball while we build around a group of dependable young men who have a goal of committing and being successful. No disrespect to your post, but weight lifting is important to being good at football and preventing injuries. It isn't unjust to ask kids to better themselves and their team. Our top 3 seniors are also basketball guys. As a football coach you need to reconcile that you are going to be short some guys in June. Theyâll make it to July lifting/conditioning, TEAM Camp & 7-on-7s that count.
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Post by coachklee on Jun 25, 2018 20:46:25 GMT -6
If you remember as stated above that football is a means to an end it might help. Winning football games, especially in high school is actually very unimportant. Can you help those guys in front of you become men. Can you help them find responsibility, passion, direction and a sense of team. Can you help make them accountable to themselves and their teammates. The answer is no....but you can possibly help them move in the right direction, through example if nothing else. You may not even see the results now but have to trust that what you are doing will help them and your program in the future. I also coach in a very small program 24-30 kids 9-12. When your upperclassmen stink, you stink. But you don't change who you are and what you believe in and the younger kids will see that and want to be different for you. You can tell it is summer & we have too much spare time when one of us digs up an old thread like this!
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Post by coachklee on May 21, 2018 17:57:20 GMT -6
I don't think you have to be game day intense for every lift....I actually think that's a bad idea. To me, it sounded like you might not be making training a priority. Maybe that's not the case. Not everybody has to be a gym rat to make progress BUT everybody needs to make gym time a priority and be consistent. No, I go...I am saying my energy is not the same as it is on the practice field, and game day I might come off as fake in the weight room, but I have energy & enthusiasm. I hoot & holler when a kid gets parallel or has a new best lift...even a failure last set. Iâm not sure where kids perceive my importance of the weight room, but I assume it is high even though I donât âLOVEâ it. There are probably at least 4 players right now who enjoy it more than me (I lift with them during the off-season as our attendance is just barely double digits. In the end, it is as my HC says, âBetter to have fake energy or enthusiasm than to have noneâ!
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Post by coachklee on Apr 11, 2018 19:48:49 GMT -6
it's an interesting study in how we process and value things though, I'm sure there's a name for it that some social scientist came up with, but we will always value things that we pay for more than what comes for free. This comes from the basic human belief we all hold which states WE are awesome and really smart, so it follows that if we decide to pay for something, then that thing must be really good, because we are really smart and awesome. The guy that i'm paying 100 bucks an hour to MUST know more about playing wide receiver than my son's high school coach, because he costs 100 bucks an hour and my son's high school coach is free. The guy that I'm paying thousands of dollars to invest my money must be a stock market expert because he costs thousands, disregard the fact that several studies have shown these experts never out perform random chance when picking stocks. If it costs, it must be good, the more it costs, the better it must be There's definitely something to this. When I was a kid our dog went into heat, another dog jumped the fence & drilled her and we had a dozen puppies some time later. My single mom could barely afford to feed us let alone a bunch of pups. She put them in the free ads and couldn't unload a single one. Then she put them in the classifieds for $25 each and they flew out of there. Lesson learned. Fair enough. Makes no sense & a ton of sense all at the same time!
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Post by coachklee on Mar 28, 2018 16:48:52 GMT -6
From reading responses on here over the years it appears many coaches' main objections to static stretching as warm-up is that it seems to them as if nothing much is getting done because the kids aren't moving-doing football-specific stuff and coaches are standing around not coaching. Well, that and a lack of evidence for it. And as Tim Bolden from Colerain, OH pointed out, one of his assistants as a Vietnam Vet never stretched before running from Charlie but managed not to pull anything running to make sure they were covered & in a coordinated defensive position. A bit extreme & just an entertaining clinic talk...likely! Regardless, we take about 5-10 minutes to do a walking âdynamicâ warm-up after a very âlightâ pre-practice (Line takes 4 steps & strikes the sled while receivers & backs go through 2 ball catching). No significant muscle related injuries in 3 years. Only injuries in game have been bone / ligament (Nasty Broken Knee Cap & Dislocated Hip at the JV level & a few twisted / rolled ankles that just needed some tape) or 3 diagnosed âCâ words.
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Post by coachklee on Mar 23, 2018 17:05:24 GMT -6
This might sound crazy, but Iâm not really a fan of 1v1 drills in general. Specifically ones where itâs two guys with the whole team watching. Itâs not only inefficient (lots of guys standing around) but itâs also not a great indicator of whoâs bad and whoâs not. I wonder if thereâs any other ways to build competition. Anybody who knows anything about high school kids knows that they have massive insecurities and usually arenât confident about themselves. It might not always be the best thing to constantly put them in situations with them on the spotlight and expect the light to come on eventually. Itâs like having a soft team and thinking doing Oklahomaâs and bull in the ring all day will help. It is one of those things thatâll just make people hate football if youâre not careful. Maybe itâs because Iâm kinda scarred from my OL coach in high school. Heâs a better coach today, but he was a young guy who never coached OL before. I didnât learn a thing about OL that year. Every practice was 1v1s and on Thursdays we walked through plays. I was very frustrated because I was awful at 1v1âs. I just simply choked with all the spotlight on me and it ruined my confidence. I was much better during team, mainly because I knew the plays and how they worked and used proper technique that my previous OL coach taught. It was infuriating to have to tell every other dummies starting alongside me their job every play. They didnât start because of technique or knowing plays, they started because âDEM BOYZ GOOD AT DEM ONE ON ONES!â and we had multiple more talented guys having to come in about midway through every second quarter because the board drill champs werenât cutting it. But thatâs enough about me. I probably sound crazy but thatâs how I feel about these things. I maybe wouldnât mind if it was like EVERYBODY doing these things at the same time about once every other week or so as a fun change up but Iâve never been a fan of board drills/pass rush/etc I was coached via the result of the play for a bulk of my college career. It was terrible. It's why I hated 1-on-1's for the first chunk of my coaching career. My perspective changed, tho (see my above posts) Whether we like it or not, OL are in the spotlight every single play. There just happens to be 5 dim spotlights that all get overshadowed by the BIG spotlight. It's impossible to hide on an island, but that was never taught to me as a player. My kids know from day 1 that they are in the spotlight, yet I show thru my coaching that the result of the play is not important. --If they follow the prescribed technique, they get praised. --If they veer from technique, they get corrected. Most kids have a hard time at first, but the upper classmen I have end up with more confidence as a HS player than I ever had as a senior in college Looking forward to it coach! Always find you post good stuff on Huey!
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