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Post by fshamrock on Dec 14, 2021 13:35:53 GMT -6
Like so many of you guys, it's TESTING TIME in our world. Dudes are benching, running the 40, getting in well trained stances to touch cones really fast, the whole deal. We will have a points system, people will be motivated, and invariably, there will be guys who score really high that can't play, and some of our better players will not score high. None of this is new.
I'm always reminded though of this one spot where we had a kid that played outside linebacker, would always score way up there on the offseason points, but could never be effective in the game. We all left his Junior year, new staff played everybody both ways, next time we heard about him we laugh "har, har, har"...because he's the starting runningback.
So of course he proceeds to be a complete beast that year and is 1st team all-league
this kind of thing happens all the time, and I hate it, we get into our heads that a kid can't play, and we end up missing on them. Or the inverse, and kids measurables are so great that we keep throwing them out there only to be proved time and again that they can't play.
I think evaluating is the hardest part of the job, and the real problem with it is that you don't really have that much information to go on, because if you are like me, by the time you have decided who your starters are, the evaluation process is pretty much over. The back-ups aren't going into the game, and we all know that you don't get nearly enough from scrimmages, or beating on each other in spring ball.
So let's lay it out there guru's. What's the drill, scenario, cirdumstance etc....that you've found, is a fairly accurate assessment (outside of playing in games) to determine whether or not a kid can play?
something like....in all my years..a kid who would do (this drill) well, could play, and kid who sucked at it, could not
Seems like it would be a nice little reference library for all of us
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Post by fshamrock on Mar 5, 2020 12:44:51 GMT -6
I thought their tackling videos were very well done and useful. The analytics thing seems like overkill to me though, but I haven't used it. We did our own "in house" tackling analytics, I'll share how we broke it down in case that's something interesting to you. We broke tackling down into three phases Approach - getting to the ballcarrier Contact - making contact with proper fundamentals Finish - getting the sucker to the ground
We then labeled every missed tackle on the year and gave created a column in HUDL and labled them A,C, or F
what we found out?
about 85% of our missed tackles had to do with approach/leverage. I have no idea what we are going to do with this information, because the sad fact is most of those leverage issues have to do with us being slow and the ball carrier being like way fast. I could stare at the near hip of a jack rabbit all day but I'm not catching the damn thing
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Post by fshamrock on Jan 13, 2020 12:24:44 GMT -6
we had a few kids buy them with their own money. They are responsible to have them reconditioned.
is that what you mean?
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Post by fshamrock on Jan 10, 2020 12:18:16 GMT -6
We have a kid trying to pull this....well really it's his dad but same thing every crappy thing about recruiting coming full circle with this jabroni, his kid was full on twitter recruiting warrior the past 3 years, all the emoji's and hashtags bible verses...whole deal so eventually this kid is on enough roids to get beefed up enough to actually get recruited to a mid-major school in the state, his dad...as we have expressed already, is a complete idiot...dad acts like he's the #1 recruit in the nation and must be treated as such, even has the poor kid graduating early so he can go there for spring ball....believe me, this kid is not anywhere near the top of that school's board, and I have no doubt that they never even asked him to grad early for spring ball...he's just doing it because that's what the big time "croots" do so....we are like a week out from our first game and the kid gets an injury...of course it's his "back"...so the dad is immediately on the "we can't jeopardize his scholarship" train and I doubt seriously the kid will play a snap all year so ya.....it has trickled out..the kid is holding out as a high school senior because his dad is an idiot so he's going to miss his senior season, the spring of his senior year, prom, graduation, all of that stuff so he can be fit and ready to go to a college that he will have to work really hard to play special teams at in a year or two and will almost certainly wash out......great plan Coach...I was rereading this old thread (after reading an article about the 2019 college bowl holdouts)... Was curious if this kid signed a few weeks ago? hahahaha! brother this is one the things I've been the most happy in my life to be wrong about. Than and not marrying my high school sweetheart but that's a whole other story the kid came back from injury and did an unbelievable job for us this season, signed and is now on campus at the school. I'm still not sold that him graduating early was a great idea, but he ended up having a hell of year and being really coachable and fun to be around dad is still an idiot but he can't help it
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Post by fshamrock on Nov 1, 2019 10:27:59 GMT -6
I think we need this for coaches as much as players. I know none of you other fellas would have possibly made this mistake but I spend the first few years of my career knowing nothing and pretending to know everything. I was just too fragile in the ego to ask I feel like at the THSCA conference we should have a class just for this that everybody can send their rookie coaches to, would help with a lot of problems at the junior high's and freshman staffs. I think a lot of times these guys just don't know exactly what the HC wants because they don't have the concepts and don't want to ask and sound stupid. Frustration abounds
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Post by fshamrock on Oct 15, 2019 10:03:05 GMT -6
eh, must be more to it, they went from zero to hero pretty quickly must have been some shady dealings happening. I used to know a guy who played there and he was insufferable, acted like he played at bama or something, so in a way I am happy because I know he's probably all puffed up about it as I type this Zero to hero? They've won (or shared) the ASC title every year since 2004. Played in 3 national championships in that time, won 2. Been to the semifinals over a handful of times, 2nd round or higher about dozen+ times, in the playoffs for 16, 17 years in a row. okay ya I don't know what I'm talking about most of the time.
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Post by fshamrock on Oct 10, 2019 12:42:27 GMT -6
eh, must be more to it, they went from zero to hero pretty quickly must have been some shady dealings happening. I used to know a guy who played there and he was insufferable, acted like he played at bama or something, so in a way I am happy because I know he's probably all puffed up about it as I type this
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Post by fshamrock on Oct 4, 2019 8:25:33 GMT -6
That's a good question to be honest it's probably some deep seated resentment over my own mediocre athletic career but the party line is that I hate the vanity of the whole thing. In the same way I hate when an NFL guy makes a tackle after a 6 yard gain and gets up doing a dance and throat slashing move, or the same reason I hate most of what coaches put on social media....everything is me, me, me, me.....and I hate to sound like an old fogey but I think it is representative of a greater cultural shift, we just don't see selfishness as such a bad thing anymore. I read recently about a speech that was prepared for George Bush (the first one) when he was campaigning for president, he sent it back to the writers and asked them to take out all the references of "Me" and "I" and make the talking points more representative of the party in general, he thought people would find it unbecoming if a guy got up and talked about himself a lot, that was a common idea in his generation, the empty can rattles the loudest. Watch any politician of this era and the difference is astounding I've had meetings with parents and really dejected kids about recruiting, and none of it has to do with actually playing college football, it's all about being able to say that you are getting recruited, it's a status thing among the parents, something to brag about at the golf course. I love college football, and I think it's awesome when kids who really love playing the game get a chance to continue their career, but most of the noise surrounding recruiting that I see has very little to do with football and everything to do with status symbols. Or maybe I'm just upset I never got to tweet about being #blessed to receive an offer, who knows I'm just a regular dude with too much back hair and a dodge stratus Social media is a bane of existence. The negatives it has caused outweigh the positives tenfold. If not more. the worst and it ain't getting better, and not just kids we have young coach new on the staff fresh faced out of the college...good guy good coach. Set's up his desk in the coaches office, lays out a bunch of Polaroids to put on a cork board. We're talking 45-50 pictures all collaged up like an elementary school project every.picture.is.of.him him playing high school football, him coaching, him and his young wife, him and his baby, him coaching some more, him playing high school football some more, him on the sideline with a really intense face, him celebrating on the sideline, him in the air doing the hip bumb thing with a kid every picture him him him him him him so I had to say something...i mean had to...conversation goes like this "so hey man your just gonna put like 50 pictures up on your desk that are just you doing stuff?" "yeah........." "no disrespect man but you think people might see that as a little narcissistic?" "um....I guess....I mean...I dunno..I don't really know what you are saying....." "okay man never mind cool collage let's go get Nibb High"
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Post by fshamrock on Sept 26, 2019 8:34:54 GMT -6
That's a good question to be honest it's probably some deep seated resentment over my own mediocre athletic career but the party line is that I hate the vanity of the whole thing. In the same way I hate when an NFL guy makes a tackle after a 6 yard gain and gets up doing a dance and throat slashing move, or the same reason I hate most of what coaches put on social media....everything is me, me, me, me.....and I hate to sound like an old fogey but I think it is representative of a greater cultural shift, we just don't see selfishness as such a bad thing anymore. I read recently about a speech that was prepared for George Bush (the first one) when he was campaigning for president, he sent it back to the writers and asked them to take out all the references of "Me" and "I" and make the talking points more representative of the party in general, he thought people would find it unbecoming if a guy got up and talked about himself a lot, that was a common idea in his generation, the empty can rattles the loudest. Watch any politician of this era and the difference is astounding I've had meetings with parents and really dejected kids about recruiting, and none of it has to do with actually playing college football, it's all about being able to say that you are getting recruited, it's a status thing among the parents, something to brag about at the golf course. I love college football, and I think it's awesome when kids who really love playing the game get a chance to continue their career, but most of the noise surrounding recruiting that I see has very little to do with football and everything to do with status symbols. Or maybe I'm just upset I never got to tweet about being #blessed to receive an offer, who knows I'm just a regular dude with too much back hair and a dodge stratus
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Post by fshamrock on Sept 26, 2019 7:30:27 GMT -6
conference USA, not a power but a D1 program, I'm sure they wouldn't say anything since he's not officially sitting out just milking an injury, but I don't think he's even enough on their radar enough for them to care that much....he's a scholarship guy, not sure if it's a full wouldn't surprise me if it wasn't there were a few other schools interested in the kid that I heard through the grapevine passed on recruiting him after talking to the dad, said he wasn't talented enough to deal with a high maintenance dad Conference USA is an FBS program. Unless something has changed recently, there are only full scholarships awarded in FBS. As far as not being on a school's radar enough to care...scholarships are limited quantities. If they are considering offering (or have already offered), he is on a radar. fair enough, point I'm trying to make is that he's not on anybody's national top 100 list of rivals 14 star recruits, but he's acting like one, and sitting out his senior year behind a made up injury to me seems to be not in his best interest. Pardon my ignorance, I have an inherent revulsion to the entire recruiting landscape so I'm probably not as knowledgeable about it as I should be
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Post by fshamrock on Sept 25, 2019 13:24:55 GMT -6
We have a kid trying to pull this....well really it's his dad but same thing every crappy thing about recruiting coming full circle with this jabroni, his kid was full on twitter recruiting warrior the past 3 years, all the emoji's and hashtags bible verses...whole deal so eventually this kid is on enough roids to get beefed up enough to actually get recruited to a mid-major school in the state, his dad...as we have expressed already, is a complete idiot...dad acts like he's the #1 recruit in the nation and must be treated as such, even has the poor kid graduating early so he can go there for spring ball....believe me, this kid is not anywhere near the top of that school's board, and I have no doubt that they never even asked him to grad early for spring ball...he's just doing it because that's what the big time "croots" do so....we are like a week out from our first game and the kid gets an injury...of course it's his "back"...so the dad is immediately on the "we can't jeopardize his scholarship" train and I doubt seriously the kid will play a snap all year so ya.....it has trickled out..the kid is holding out as a high school senior because his dad is an idiot so he's going to miss his senior season, the spring of his senior year, prom, graduation, all of that stuff so he can be fit and ready to go to a college that he will have to work really hard to play special teams at in a year or two and will almost certainly wash out......great plan You've piqued my curiosity. You say he was recruited by a mid-major. What level? 1AA, low 1A? He's been offered a schollie? Has he signed? I'm wondering what the college thinks of the kid sitting out the season. conference USA, not a power but a D1 program, I'm sure they wouldn't say anything since he's not officially sitting out just milking an injury, but I don't think he's even enough on their radar enough for them to care that much....he's a scholarship guy, not sure if it's a full wouldn't surprise me if it wasn't there were a few other schools interested in the kid that I heard through the grapevine passed on recruiting him after talking to the dad, said he wasn't talented enough to deal with a high maintenance dad
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Post by fshamrock on Sept 25, 2019 12:38:50 GMT -6
We have a kid trying to pull this....well really it's his dad but same thing every crappy thing about recruiting coming full circle with this jabroni, his kid was full on twitter recruiting warrior the past 3 years, all the emoji's and hashtags bible verses...whole deal so eventually this kid is on enough roids to get beefed up enough to actually get recruited to a mid-major school in the state, his dad...as we have expressed already, is a complete idiot...dad acts like he's the #1 recruit in the nation and must be treated as such, even has the poor kid graduating early so he can go there for spring ball....believe me, this kid is not anywhere near the top of that school's board, and I have no doubt that they never even asked him to grad early for spring ball...he's just doing it because that's what the big time "croots" do
so....we are like a week out from our first game and the kid gets an injury...of course it's his "back"...so the dad is immediately on the "we can't jeopardize his scholarship" train and I doubt seriously the kid will play a snap all year
so ya.....it has trickled out..the kid is holding out as a high school senior because his dad is an idiot
so he's going to miss his senior season, the spring of his senior year, prom, graduation, all of that stuff so he can be fit and ready to go to a college that he will have to work really hard to play special teams at in a year or two and will almost certainly wash out......great plan
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Post by fshamrock on Sept 24, 2019 8:59:43 GMT -6
My HC calls the guy who runs our team twitter account the "minister of propaganda" and I love it. When he retires I am leaving it was going to be to boise but nobody answered my thread on that one so I guess not
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Post by fshamrock on Sept 17, 2019 9:57:30 GMT -6
depends on who you are, most coaches here would be gone, only at one school I worked at the sup's wife taught elementary school and she showed up to work drunk several times...the let her take time off to get treatment and swept the whole thing under the rug....the more important your friends are, the more understanding and compassion you get for your mistakes....which is true of pretty much the entire legal system why should school policy be any different
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Post by fshamrock on Sept 10, 2019 10:11:43 GMT -6
Would never go so far as to say "Defense always get screwed." But I've coached with four OCs to this point, and I'm convinced they all suffer from the occupational disease of "one more." One more play, and then one more after that, and pretty soon it's getting dark. We just laugh about it, offensive coaches included, knowing it's gonna happen again tomorrow, 'cause they can't help themselves. And if that's the worst thing that happens at practice today, it was a good day. In my experience, that one extra play is typically when someone gets hurt. ah yes, the old "run that again" mentality short story: I played o-line for a year at a really small college that nobody cares about, small college football is a mixed bag when it comes to coaching you got a few really solid guys and a few that would fit in on last chance U so at any rate I'm the backups backups at pretty much every spot and never should have been there in the first place but I end up as a scout TE on day so I'm run a little spider Y bannana or whatever was on the card and actually catch it for a gain of 8 or so...feeling pretty good about it so the DC who seemed to have a drinking problem screams at the mike backer for not being in the area then screams at us to run the play again....THIS time when I run the route obviously the mike will be there so I just kinda let the ball go through and juke out of the way of a recently screamed at middle linebacker DC comes unglued on me questioning my manlinhood and all the worthwhile qualities I apparently don't possess I remember thinking to myself how stupid the whole scene was.....does it really make us a better defense If I run the route and then allow the kid to kill me? Or does it just make the coach feel better because he can now talk about what a smart and hard hitting defense we have? It also dawned on me then that the level a guy coaches at doesn't have crap to do with how good a coach he is. There might have been two guys on that staff that would have been able to coach with the guys I played for in high school. But I suppose you get what you can get when you are paying like 20k a year plus haircut stamp card and access to the student union pool table.
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Post by fshamrock on Sept 6, 2019 8:39:59 GMT -6
In Texas the private schools don't hurt us too much because they aren't allowed to be in our districts or win out state championship game, they have their own league, which is really nice the big problem is recruiting public school to public school, and the issue there is and always shall be the parents. They will shop these kids around to programs that win more, or programs that throw the ball more, or programs that don't demand any discipline or accountability, and we end up with super teams year in and year out. Usually the "moves" just get rubber stamped and the kids play, I can think of a few instances where districts and coaches did the right thing and kid was told they had to play at the school they live near, but it's not common. Just recently the powerhouse team in our district (12 power 5 recruits!) had guys doing there "commitment videos" over the summer and like 3 of them were posting videos of them hanging out and representing their neighborhood...which is cool except the neighborhood is like 10 miles inside the city limits not the suburban town that they play high school football for...nobody cares enough to do anything about it so I'm not sure why I should, but it seems like the regular towns like ours won't be able to compete for much longer. The kids and parents misguided ambitions is for sure the main problem...however, the UIL is not helping. Have you seen that friggin PAPF form? its insane. "Did the student, at any point, eat more than four fully balance breakfasts in more than one residence in a 3 year period from 2002-2016"...its ridiculous. There are a few programs up here in DFW that the coaches are culprits. There are a few where the school districts themselves are making it worse with open enrollment...but mainly its the kids/families. How would you feel if Texas moved to the model of some other states where you get moved up and down classifications every year based on how much success you have rather than just enrollment? (enrollment still being a factor, you wouldn't move a 2A up to 6A etc.) so if you want to cheat it up and make a super team, you and all of the other super teams get to hang together in 7A while the rest of us play regular football with regular kids and have a great time
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Post by fshamrock on Sept 5, 2019 10:53:16 GMT -6
The other part of the transfers thing is when you get one it's almost always just a PITA. Transfer dads are the worst kind of dads, they roll in thinking that you own them something personally because they moved their half-wit children in to play on your football team, truth be told even if the kid has a little talent he's such a head case he still hurts the team more than helps. I swear it's unfathomable to me, can you imagine the kind of life a kid is going to lead when his parents are willing to freaking MOVE just he can get into a better football situation?...Then wonder why some of these kids think the world revolves around them. If I had suggested to my parents when I was in high school that we MOVE for ME they would still to this day be laughing about it, these kids take it as a matter of course. Dads up in the stands threatening it all the time...yeah yeah i'll move over the school B and they'll treat me special
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Post by fshamrock on Sept 5, 2019 10:11:31 GMT -6
In Texas the private schools don't hurt us too much because they aren't allowed to be in our districts or win out state championship game, they have their own league, which is really nice the big problem is recruiting public school to public school, and the issue there is and always shall be the parents. They will shop these kids around to programs that win more, or programs that throw the ball more, or programs that don't demand any discipline or accountability, and we end up with super teams year in and year out. Usually the "moves" just get rubber stamped and the kids play, I can think of a few instances where districts and coaches did the right thing and kid was told they had to play at the school they live near, but it's not common. Just recently the powerhouse team in our district (12 power 5 recruits!) had guys doing there "commitment videos" over the summer and like 3 of them were posting videos of them hanging out and representing their neighborhood...which is cool except the neighborhood is like 10 miles inside the city limits not the suburban town that they play high school football for...nobody cares enough to do anything about it so I'm not sure why I should, but it seems like the regular towns like ours won't be able to compete for much longer.
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Post by fshamrock on Sept 5, 2019 10:02:34 GMT -6
the disconnect between parents and reality when it comes to their kids we had two kids (brothers) during summer conditioning that we had to stop letting to the bathroom because they would both ask to go everytime they got tired then they would hide in there for 30 minutes
so they aren't good and got placed on the B team....dad wants a meeting, goes on and on about how hard working his kids are and he just can't understand how other kids who don't work nearly as hard as his could possible be on A team if his boys are on B......there is no winning this argument, how do you tell a guy that no....in spite of everything he believes..his kids are definitely not hard workers...in fact they are really lazy...he wouldn't believe us if we told him anyway. So you just nod your head and drive on
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Post by fshamrock on Aug 2, 2019 17:54:22 GMT -6
Teacher meetings. My former school coaches didn’t have to go to any meetings. They filled us in electronically. This new place is the same as the first districts I worked in. Hours and hours of nonsense. It probably has to be done to cover the school and administration but it’s such a waste of energy and resources to sit through people with doctorate degrees reading power points to people with masters and bachelors degrees. We had a hundred educated professionals all making $200+ a day sitting in the library reading or listening to information that could have been sent to us and taken much less time to cover. So basically $25000ish and not one original thought. I hate it so much that when I decide it’s tome to stop coaching it will be those completely unrelated meetings that push me over the edge. ding ding ding, this is the one for me too man maybe it's the natural cynic in me, but the acronyms and re-heated platitudes still get under my skin next week we start the week and half of madness with our "convacation" whatever the hell that means and then we will have talk about our "strategic plan" if your not sure what a "strategic plan" is, it's the same idea some guy made money of a decade ago only then it was a "mission statement" so now...armed with our strategic plan...we now have to not only keep the strategic plan in mind, but actually write up bullet points about how what we are doing in the classroom lines up with our strategic plan i tell no lies we even have to write up purchase orders and such how buying an item aligns with the goals set forth in the strategic plan so instead of just ordering girdles, you have to order them and add "this lines up with strategic plan item A7 - commitment to safety of all students" amazing
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Post by fshamrock on Jul 19, 2019 9:49:36 GMT -6
do yourselves a favor and get off of twitter, it doesn't matter what the original intent, or even the subject matter, all twitter eventually boils over into clickbait bullchit like this. The cream sinks to the bottom and is never seen while the purposefully provocative but meaningless tripe gets attention. It's not worth the one cool blitz you might see every month or so to have to wade through all the self congratulatory asshats and the grown men who seem to need attention as severely as pre-pubescent girls. "coach twitter" is particularly distasteful because everybody is so mind numbingly self righteous. What did me in for good (other than the blessed to recieve tweets) was one year on veterans/memorial/whatever day coach twitter was in full effect comparing coaching to storming the beaches at Normandy. Leave aside the fact that the vast majority of these guys came of age during the war on terror and very few of them elected the serve (which I don't blame them for at all) but then they want to milk military honors and traditions to pretend like they are somehow a part of the same thing because they yell at kids a lot and also have male anatomy (just like soldiers!)
I should have probably started another thread on the topic, but go back to the first line and please think about considering it...get off of coach twitter, it's toxic and will reinforce the worst parts of your character, making you crappier at this job. #grind
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Post by fshamrock on Jul 16, 2019 9:12:53 GMT -6
I take comfort in knowing that there was once a bunch of old guys whining about how lazy kids then were and how they spent all of their time listening to radio programs and big band music, creating a generation of weak people who would destroy the country. Those kids ended up surviving the depression and defeating the Nazi's. There is no technology present or forthcoming that is going to change millions of years of evolution all that much, kids will find easy ways out, they will buck authority then they will mostly grow out of it, adults will always remember themselves as better than they actually were, and will always assume that younger generations aren't as tough/smart/hard working or whatever as they were. And so it goes.
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Post by fshamrock on May 8, 2019 13:15:37 GMT -6
if this post is indicative of your genuine attitude then you are going to be fine. I was just talking to a couple of AD's a few months ago and they were saying that the assistant o-line spot is getting harder and harder to hire because so many young guys don't want to be "assistant" anything. They feel like they've been watching a chit ton of o-line videos on twitter so they are ready to run the whole show now, even dudes straight out of college Friend of mine is at a fairly elite program near a major city and they were looking to fill a varsity spot, found a guy who didn't have much varsity football experience (maybe 3 years) and wasn't at a prestigious program or anything but had played major college football, interviewed well and his second sport was a perfect fit so they offered him the job ..when they offered it to him dude asked the principal (not in so many words) how long it would be until he was the head coach....apparently he didn't like the answer he got and turned them down rumble young man rumble Its funny you mention people saying finding an assistant o-line is hard, because I think my HC was pretty surprised at how open I was to o-line. I've never been an o-line guy, and when he gave me the heads up a few months ago that I was going to get promoted it was supposed to be a receivers position. So I think he was worried when some positions got shuffled around and he was going to have to ask me to do o-line instead, or at least thought I was going to say "no I'd rather do a skill position." And I could kinda see his sigh of relief when I was all about it. smart call by you, coaching o-line will do wonders for your career you will learn how to see what a lot of guys don't, learn how to manage your individual time effectively, learn how to build drills on top of each other and evaluate the results once you've coached that you can adapt and coach anything else IMO
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Post by fshamrock on May 8, 2019 7:19:52 GMT -6
Getting bumped up to "the big show" so to speak. Varsity (co) o-line coach. Did one year of middle school, one year of freshmen, and now a varsity assistant. And I gotta lack some humility here, but I busted my ass for it and feel like I deserved it. I'm just excited to see in what ways I get my ass handed to me in this first year as a varsity coach...luckily we have a phenomenal staff, and the other o-line coach has been a great teacher to me. And we have great kids, quite a bit of talent, and a shot to do some real damage in our district this season. if this post is indicative of your genuine attitude then you are going to be fine. I was just talking to a couple of AD's a few months ago and they were saying that the assistant o-line spot is getting harder and harder to hire because so many young guys don't want to be "assistant" anything. They feel like they've been watching a chit ton of o-line videos on twitter so they are ready to run the whole show now, even dudes straight out of college Friend of mine is at a fairly elite program near a major city and they were looking to fill a varsity spot, found a guy who didn't have much varsity football experience (maybe 3 years) and wasn't at a prestigious program or anything but had played major college football, interviewed well and his second sport was a perfect fit so they offered him the job ..when they offered it to him dude asked the principal (not in so many words) how long it would be until he was the head coach....apparently he didn't like the answer he got and turned them down rumble young man rumble
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Post by fshamrock on May 7, 2019 8:01:53 GMT -6
We got an email that told us all about the impact we make and how important we are. Also the local bond to improve the building got voted down and the state wide raise of 5k that they have been talking about is heading to committee where it will be negotiated down to some drop in the pail number that probably won't come close to covering how much more our health insurance is about to cost. Also involved in that legislation in a program that would allow for merit pay awards that go to "top teachers" which pretty much means that all the people who teach those AP/Pre-AP classes and whose kids pass that standardized test at a high percentage will get a bonus, while those of us who teach knuckleheads will not.
Awesome
but hey....got that email
side note: I never understood why they always want to tie merit pay to testing results. Everybody knows that's stupid, just give the administration of the building a set amount and have them give out the money as they see fit, they know who is actually working and who is a chitbird....The concern there is that it wouldn't be fair because administration would just give the money to people they like...but last I checked that's pretty much how every private company operates since the dawn of time and it's way better than the alternative. I mean, If a few thousand bucks was on the line, I could see how a teacher less scrupulous than me might throw out the entire curriculum and spend the whole semester on nothing but test prep looking to buy a new waterbed or something.
Anyway happy teacher appreciation fellas, if nothing else sets your mind at ease, know that I..a random dude on the internet, definitely appreciate you....unless you are a twitter dude who tries to relentlessly draw attention to yourself then I don't appreciate you at all in fact I think you are killing coaching but the rest of ya'll are cool
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Post by fshamrock on May 6, 2019 13:40:27 GMT -6
The one thing going for you if you get the ring, is that the hayseeds can never say you can't "win the big game"
Madden wrote about it in one of his books, which are really good btw he said that before he had won the superbowl everybody said he could coach but he didn't have "it" to win the "big game". To him it seemed like people would just wait until he lost and then decide that game was the "big game" and then put in the newspaper how he was 0-8 or whatever in "big games"
but once you win the whole thing, they can't even say that anymore
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Post by fshamrock on May 6, 2019 10:59:44 GMT -6
more so than the wife, since when do we let book learnin' get in the way of ball. That right there is why the Ruskies will undoubtedly run this country over in the next great conflict. See how much those dual credit nerds help out when Ivan is staring down your wives and daughters with his greedy gaze.
okay that's a joke but seriously it sounds like the guy just doesn't want to coach
dual credit classes are less work, not more, the kids are easy to get along with and you run it like a college class....lecture, test, paper, repeat
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Post by fshamrock on May 6, 2019 8:10:48 GMT -6
I don't think either is necessarily bad, but i'd say d3 is worse....Juco's you don't pay though the nose to go there at least I am waiting for semi-pro signing announcements. Those will be epic! There was a guy that played for a beer league semi-pro team in the general area of my hometown this league was amazing for a number of reasons, the injuries were horrific and lot of the guys smoked cigarettes on the sideline while they were waiting to go in..anyway....he was an all time classic dude that did many hilarious things he would come into the high school weight room years after he had graduated and load up a bar with 45's all the way out until there was no room for any more....he would then do like 2 reps of barbell shrugs max effort and leave without cleaning any of it up most famously..when he was playing for the semi pro league, they had a gathering at like buffalo wild wings where there was "media" there to report on the formation of the team he wore a suit and bluetooth headset like he was at the draft, when a reporter asked him about how it felt to be playing semi pro football he replied: "I don't necessarily like the label of semi-professional, i mean it's professional football, we are getting paid, I wouldn't refer to you as a semi-professional reporter" he was awesome
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Post by fshamrock on May 6, 2019 8:05:06 GMT -6
We had a kid sign with some far flung school in february. He now has decided he's not going, when asked why he said he really just wanted to have the signing day wasn't really interested in going to the college. This seemed like a perfectly acceptable reason to him.
of course this is the same kid who played center for us and in the biggest game of the year let a mike backer run straight through the A gap in pass protection no less than 5 times
when asked what happened he said he had audibled the protection to something else that he apparently invented on the fly and didn't bother tell any other o-lineman about
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Post by fshamrock on May 2, 2019 10:46:14 GMT -6
Is it "worse" to have a signing day for a D.3 or for a juco? I don't think either is necessarily bad, but i'd say d3 is worse....Juco's you don't pay though the nose to go there at least I've probably been a little too hard on D3's the more I think about and am around education, I realize that D3's aren't really that much more of scam than any other college. So what if the kids pay private college tuition just so they can play sports, there are plenty of way dumber financial decisions being made in universities all over the country. The whole system is geared around getting money off of young and impressionable youngsters, D3's are just swimming with the current
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