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Post by fshamrock on Oct 5, 2016 9:15:48 GMT -6
well..yeah, but a tire doesn't look all badass for your drill tape come clinic season OR, maybe it looks MORE badass because it's a tire and not some prissy $300 piece of equipment! yeah, but with that attitude how do former coaches make a living by selling overpriced equipment to current coaches with leftover budget money? you gotta consider all the angles here
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Post by fshamrock on Oct 5, 2016 7:39:48 GMT -6
We just use car tired for that. Drill a couple holes in the walls so they don't hold water. well..yeah, but a tire doesn't look all badass for your drill tape come clinic season
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Post by fshamrock on Oct 5, 2016 7:38:09 GMT -6
We do film it but we don't wear headsets. Played a team on time that had dudes in the box with headsets, new program that was only plying JV ball since they had just freshmen and sophomores on campus...we understood why they were doing it but it was still funny to see them setting up all intense for the game. They had a blow up tunnel with the dry ice smoke and everything, they ran out of that bad boy to the roar of the dozen or so fans at the JV contest
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Post by fshamrock on Sept 22, 2016 8:49:57 GMT -6
In-season time is limited for all of us. What do you do to try to steal time for anything, whether it be game prep for the following week, personal time, etc.? Looking for some time management nuggets. We try to identify things that are done habitually but may not really be that productive and evaluate whether to cut it out. Some examples: 1. Defensive goal charts. We realized that it didn't materially change anything that we did. 2. Individually grading players. We just don't have true competition at enough positions to make the time worthwhile. In the cases where there is competition we'll look at those players closely. 3. Play cards. Spending hours each weekend drawing a card for each and every play against each and every front seemed to be a huge waste of time. We don't have enough practice reps to see every play. We draw up the plays on the computer and save them from year to year. If the team has a new staff or is running a different offense, obviously the old cards are useless. If they're still running the same stuff we might add a few new cards and then print the old stuff plus the new. Find ways to cut out wasted time. Ya...that's pretty much what I was gonna say For you guys that are so pressed for time that you have a laptop in the bathroom...what exactly are you doing? By the time I get to the end of game planning day on Sunday, I'm pretty much done watching film on that weeks opponent, I mean I might pull it up if I have a spare minute, but I'm dang sure not coming home and telling my family "sorry gotta go watch tape" on the same team I've already seen several times. Have you really seen something on the toilet Wednesday that you didn't notice Sunday that caused you to dramatically change your game plan and led to a big win? If not film then what? ....practice scripts? Isn't your practice format fairly similar from week to week? Grading players?....to echo Fantom, we got rid of that a long time ago, we already determined that a guy was the best guy....what happens if he grades out at 70?...we're gonna put in the slow kid that's scared to death? True story: An acquaintance of mine GA'd for a long time at a power 5 conference school and then finally worked his way up to assistant coach, he loves the job but when I asked him about the worst part...he said it was hands down watching the practice film. They film every drill and group period every day, and the coaches are expected to spend all night or the next day breaking it down and producing reports and grading out the players....and the coordinator never reads any of it, it just get thrown into a basket on his desk and thrown away later because it really doesn't matter and the best players are going to play regardless and they already know what the players are struggling with. He said that if they absolutely had to, they could easily spend a couple of hours a day on recruiting stuff, plus three-four hours a day on practice and meetings, and get the hell out of there, but if they did that they'd be fired after the first loss for not working hard enough. So work is created for the sake of work, then other work is created to make sure that work is being done, and in typical bureaucratic fashion, entire departments full of staff are involved in taking care of work that really only amounts to checking boxes on a to-do list that nobody asked for. I got no sympathy for the guy..I know how much he gets paid, what's concerning is that too many of us feel like we need to model that noise
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Post by fshamrock on Sept 20, 2016 8:08:48 GMT -6
Might want to start doing more 4 way neck and banded good mornings. I get the 4 way neck, but what's the rationale on banded good mornings? Hamstring exercise right? or do you work the neck at the same time by putting the band behind the head?
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Post by fshamrock on Sept 16, 2016 9:52:17 GMT -6
I always thought I could make money hand over fist if I picked up some old equipment and put together a scout team of recent high school grads that still want to play football, hire them out to teams as the scouts for the week. Just send us your hudl and we'll show up ready to roll on Monday. I figure it's a pipe dream, just the liability issues would be a nightmare, but man scout team sucks
we had a kid here recently tell us that the doctor told him he was cleared to play but not to do any scout team.....sweet doctor dude
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Post by fshamrock on Aug 31, 2016 13:05:34 GMT -6
I don't know what's best, but I do know that it doesn't matter to me that wherever I am I'm probably not seeing everything right. I don't know how many times I've watched the film the next day and had no idea that something was going on out there. I think it's really hard to make good smart in game adjustments, so we try to keep them to a minimum. What's the point of practicing all week if we're going to change everything up in the 2nd quarter? Dance with the one that brung ya.
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Post by fshamrock on Aug 26, 2016 8:05:01 GMT -6
We watch film of practice after practice every day. Every day we walk out of the after practice film session feeling good about the game Friday since we just whipped up on our JV. It's awesome
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Post by fshamrock on Jul 23, 2016 14:07:56 GMT -6
Ran across some research of a couple of economists who talked about institutions and businesses that can be either "strong link" or "weak link" dominated. They researchers used sports as example, basketball (they claim) is a strong link sport, meaning that the team with the best player will typically win. I think we all saw an example of this earlier in the summer when lebron james pretty much won a title single handed. The example of a "weak-link" sport was soccer, they researched the most successful soccer programs in the world and determined that the team who had the best player did not have a distinct statistical advantage over the other team, what WAS statistically significant was that your teams 9th, 10th and 11th best players are better than the other teams 9th 10th and 11th best.
I think it's easy to find reasons to agree, basketball seems to me an easier sport for one guy to dominate (only 5 players, small court, limitations of defenses) while in soccer 1 player is a much smaller piece of the pie. The guys try to persuade soccer owners (with no success) that they would win more games if they traded their superstar (let's say messi) for 3 to 4 solid players.
So do you think our thing is a weak link or a strong link sport?
I think you can make some pretty compelling arguments for the weak link theory, like soccer we have a large playing area and 11 people on the field at one time. And I think we can see examples of the theory playing out in the successful teams around us. In Texas, if you had to name the best team of the last generation, you would be hard pressed not to say Katy high school, they have either won or competed for the title in the largest classification in the state pretty much every year for the past twenty. While they have and continue to have division 1 athletes, by the time you get to the 2nd round of the playoffs in 6A, everybody has a few d1 guys. I don't think they have much more, and many times a few less, than the other good teams in at that level. I would however make a paycheck bet that in the vast majority of those games, the 11th best guy on the field for Katy was a lot better than the 11th best guy on the field for the other school. A more universal example might be the Patriots in the NFL, they pretty much have one superstar and a bunch of solid guys and have dominated this era.
So if we assume that football is a sport where the weak link matters more than maybe we thought, how do take advantage? It's not as if any of us are not deliberately trying not to develop players, but maybe we should think twice before we neglect a solid nucleus of guys in order to pander to a star. Or maybe we think differently about how we personnel. Who should be out there? The solid kid that always knows where he's supposed to be but doesn't do anything remarkable, or the young kid with all that speed but his mind wanders at times.
I could (and have) go on and on, but would be interested in you guys thoughts
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Post by fshamrock on Jul 14, 2016 15:48:58 GMT -6
Once saw a team in warm-ups going full tilt live scrimmage. When asked his reasoning coach said his team had been slow to start so he wanted them to be good and "lathered up" before the game even started....seemed crazy to me but whatever works. I think honestly that teams start slow because they want to feel the other team out, (think about two fighters circling for a few rounds) kids who aren't mentally tough instinctively want to get the measure of the opponent early in the contest, if it looks like victory is likely, they will turn it on and go...if it looks like the other team is better they will back away from it entirely so they don't expend all of their energy if they are gonna lose anyway. I'm not saying your kids do this consciously...just happens. Thats how we get momentum in games, all that happens is a play is made and kids think "holy crap we can win this thing" so they get fired up and start attacking, while the other team says "holy crap we are going to lose" and the anxiety they feel from fear of losing causes them to start making more mistakes...thus begins the downward spiral that we've all been a part of. This is the crux of Sabans "process" that people have a tough time wrapping their heads around, Saban tries to create a team that is "momentum proof" because the focus is not on the outcome (final score) but the process (this play)
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Post by fshamrock on May 25, 2016 13:04:35 GMT -6
A couple from Florida's weight room: That last picture looks like advertisement for a male strip club.....just sayin'
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Post by fshamrock on May 20, 2016 8:24:57 GMT -6
I once watched a coach try to demonstrate triple jump to a middle school kid and smooth blew his knee out.....funny stuff
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Post by fshamrock on Apr 27, 2016 12:31:56 GMT -6
Seems to me to be a crazy idea to let some of the people I've seen at high school games carry guns. Certainly no high schools around here allow guns, nor do they allow smoking. Our championship games are played at college stadiums, but I do not believed they allow guns there, either. I know some that do not allow fans to move from one side to another, but many allow them to sit where they want. Venues that allow the sales of alcohol do not do so during high school games, so I would think that if they allowed guns those could also be prohibited in high school games the same way. But heck, who knows? I can see some folks thinking alcohol, guns and football are a good mixture. heck ya man...a boozed up redneck with a pistola who's already upset about his son's playing time?....seems safe
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Post by fshamrock on Apr 27, 2016 12:29:21 GMT -6
Is there a way to change policies for high school events only? For example, I know in IL and Iowa, if games are held in places that normally sell alcohol, they just simply don't offer those beverages during the high school events. I should have specified that I meant high school games. not to be argumentative but why change the policy anyway? If the stadium sells alchohol then rock on and sell it. I never understood it. They have the state championship games here in NFL stadiums but don't sell beer, why not? Might be nice to have one while watching the games, it would probably be 8 bucks like it is at an NFL game but still....
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Post by fshamrock on Apr 25, 2016 13:40:15 GMT -6
OOh I thought of one.....Coach Thompson at West Orange Stark near the Louisiana border, they have some great athletes there, but these guys intensity is on a whole new level. Rumor is that the first day of pads they have Oklahoma drill and the entire community shows up.....in West Orange, if you don't hit, you are forever shunned and your family name is tarnished. They are fun to watch fly around, won state this year with like 28 kids on the roster, but every one of them can run, and will hit you in the mouth
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Post by fshamrock on Apr 25, 2016 9:39:12 GMT -6
Mike Thomas in Texas. Next guy isn't even close. I have never heard of him, where does he coach? Best guy in our part of the state is Gary Joseph, Katy HS. Yeah I never heard of Mike Thomas either, not that I should, don't really keep up with who's who around the state, have heard of Gary Joseph from Katy though...1)because its Katy and they never lose and 2) because he is in a video with Borat
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Post by fshamrock on Apr 20, 2016 9:26:40 GMT -6
Of course, in come cases the assistants do love football but the HC doesn't think so because he's out of his freakin' mind. exact point I was going to make, if we are making progress toward a common goal I am with you, but if we are "grinding for the sake of grinding" then it can get old for everybody, and it has nothing to do with love of football or coaching. If you were in army and the sergeant told you to dig a big hole then fill it back up again over and over, not being excited about it doesn't make you not patriotic
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Post by fshamrock on Apr 13, 2016 10:01:26 GMT -6
I don't know but it wouldn't surprise me, back in the day when I got the print magazine I remember once there was an article about something, but the diagrams that were supposed to be showing what was going on didn't have any lines or arrows, they were just offensive formations with no defense, they even had the writing under the like (figure 2.1 - the H retracts to the .....) but there was nothing drawn there.....seemed like a pretty glaring oversight for a magazine, how does that happen? anyway, it wasn't just that why I canceled, I just didn't think the content was all the fleshed out.
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Post by fshamrock on Mar 31, 2016 13:38:17 GMT -6
It's not just about X's & O's!!! Obviously everyone is entitled to their opinion, with that being said know one is forcing you to have character development in your football program. If you don't believe in it then don't do it, the original person that started the post has a purpose and obviously looking for ways to improve his program. Fshamrock...I'm not sure how coaches looking to do everything possible to help their kids be the best that they can be is considerate taking themselves to serious. Are you the HC? What is the Mission Statement for your program? We are going to continue to do as much as we can in personal development and character development in our program with education to try to help our guys have a chance to be more successful in life. -Nick Saban Once again I'm not saying that character education doesn't matter. I'm making the point that there are snakes in this world who would love to have you blow your taxpayer money on over-fluffed platitudes and half baked acronyms that they promise will make better players and men out of the kids on your team. You know what lessons I remember from coaches? I remember how friendly Coach T was with everybody in the school building, just an overly nice guy that seemed fun to be around. I remember how funny the o-line coach was but how fired up he got, we always knew that it meant a whole lot to him. There are countless examples, the best "character development" I got from coaches didn't come from a family meeting with a manual and mission statements, I saw qualities in those guys that I wanted to emulate when I became a man. Oh we did have one guy who was always talking in terms of life lessons, he had acronyms and everything, he would definitely have been active on twitter/facebook/character blogs etc if they had that stuff back then. We generally just kind of rolled our eyes at him and I don't remember anything he had to say. A few years after I graduated he went to prison because his wife hired a PI who caught him with a female student, turns out he had a history of it. It's not about the crap we say, it's about who we are. character development is fine, my point is not to buy into some sales pitch for a character program, if you really want to do that then let me know and I'll flesh out the OVERALLNESS program for you and sent it over, it would take like 15 minutes for me to type up and you wouldn't get anything tangible out of it so it would pretty much be the same as any other.
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Post by fshamrock on Mar 30, 2016 6:49:04 GMT -6
how are you supposed to come together as one united for common cause if you don't spell out your mascot in unison while doing jumping jacks?
I suspect you're being facetious here.
And Jumping Jacks are probably one of the least useful exercises one can use.
Early in my head coaching career I didn't care if we did any kind of chants, cheers, etc.
In fact one of best teams I ever had went about their business in Pre-Game without any noise, chuckled at opponents who did.
But once the ball was in the air - boy, you could hear them.
However, more recently I have become to believe that "forcing" some enthusiasm as a Team has some value.
How so? If you don't mind me asking....do you feel like forcing it a little can help bring it out of them? kind of a "fake it till you make it" mentality? always been curious about people's take on this
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Post by fshamrock on Mar 28, 2016 12:13:06 GMT -6
how are you supposed to come together as one united for common cause if you don't spell out your mascot in unison while doing jumping jacks?
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Post by fshamrock on Mar 23, 2016 8:08:57 GMT -6
Just want to say publicly here that I wasn't trying to poke fun at anybody in particular on this board with my previous post. The point I was trying (poorly) to make is that I think character building programs that you buy from somebody are a complete scam, very similar to buying somebody's offensive or defensive system. You know your kids and what they need, you should be able to figure it out for your team. One man's opinion anyway.
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Post by fshamrock on Mar 22, 2016 12:56:20 GMT -6
You wanna know what even trumps culture!?!!?
Overallness
That's right men, overallness is the grand totality of all things that you do as a program, it includes strategy, implementation, culture, trust falling, x's and o's, jimmy's and joe's, cone drills, weight room, crossfit and music selections. I know it seems overwhelming, but if your program is not focused on dominating the Overallness, you will never truly achieve your full limitless potential and 111% effort (note: this is even more effort than 110%) I have broken Overallness down into a simple acronym O - out for victory V - very commited E - excellence R - REAL men A - Always getting it L - Limitless L - Love N - Nobody comes between us E - even you S - seriously we mean this stuff S = seriously bro
The overallness program is just what you need to propel you to the next level of greatness, the 7-8 yr. old all star baseball team in Yakema Washington was just average until they decided to use my program and start DOMINATING the overallness, now they are sectional champs (probably would have been anyway if terry didn't show up late since his dad slept in)
see my blog for details on how you can get into the ground floor of the overallness program for 19.99 a month and get one on one life coaching from me or some of my trusted affiliates
(if you are interested in becoming an affiliate the compensation works in a pyramid structure where you get a few guys to sign up, then if they get a few guys to sign up...etc)
Okay seriously not trying to be a d!ck and I know this character building stuff matters but so much of it just reeks of shameless hucksterism to me. It reminds me of corporate "team building" exercises or "self-help" guru's in JC penny suits rehashing the "7 habits of highly effective people" and separating morons from their money. Do we really need a program to teach us how to interact with kids and give a crap about them? To teach them right from wrong? To urge them to care about each other?...seems to me that the game was teaching these lessons long before any of us put on a whistle, let's not start taking ourselves too seriously.
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Post by fshamrock on Mar 22, 2016 9:48:16 GMT -6
If he uses that he needs to pay you shamrock!! dude when I read this I played "take my breath away" by Berlin in the background then started a slow clap that picked up by several others
thanks man..you said it all broDang you're right I don't want to show up on somebody's "testimonials" page on their blog without compensation I've got my "personal brand" to think about....whatever the hell that is
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Post by fshamrock on Mar 22, 2016 9:34:03 GMT -6
The best way to care is to actually care. Not just by saying you care, but truly caring about your players on and off the field. I give my players my cell number. If they have a problem or question they can text me. They can call me. I don't think there is any issue with this. I tell my players this is a family, and we don't need to share our numbers outside the family. If someone calls or texts that I don't know I typically don't respond. They use twitter and Facebook. I am on both. Facebook is more to keep up with friends and former players. Twitter I use to talk ball, network, and share positive information. I may shout a kid out on Twitter. I don't think Facebook and Twitter help you care, they are more for communication. I am going to give you a deep thought here and jump on my soapbox. Coaching is about LOVE. It is about unconditional love. You love your players for who they are, not what they do. You love them as much when they are at their worst as you do when they are at their best. When you stick by them when they are at their worst they will begin to trust you. This does not mean not holding them accountable. Quite the contrary, you will be able to hold them accountable and they won't resent you. Love is spelled T-I-M-E. You must be willing to give them time. You must spend time getting to know them. You must spend time listening to them. You must be willing to help them when they have a problem they don't know how to solve. The first key is getting to know them. Break them into groups of 8 to 10. Spend the first 8 minutes each day asking them about their families, their hopes, their dreams, and their fears. do this every single day in the winter and spring. During this time they will learn about you, you will learn about them, and they will learn about each other. You can use this time to teach character and teach them real life lessons. Here is a link to a blog post I wrote on coaching with a purpose: coachvint.blogspot.com/2015/03/coaching-with-purpose.htmlHere is one on Building Culture, Character, and Leadership: coachvint.blogspot.com/2016/03/developing-culture-character-and.htmlYou can't build trust and unconditional love by chance. You can't teach character by chance. You can't build culture by chance. You have to do these with intent. dude when I read this I played "take my breath away" by Berlin in the background then started a slow clap that picked up by several others thanks man..you said it all bro
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Post by fshamrock on Mar 10, 2016 13:55:27 GMT -6
I saw a guy do a thing with his freshman where every day before workout they threw a football around a classroom and whatever guys he threw it do had to "share" something, typically something that his teammates don't know about him. I was just sitting in but I was amazed how much of their personal lives these kids were willing to share. Typically they talked about things like their parents divorces or the deaths of parents/grandparents. I'm normally not much on this kind of stuff, but I think this one in particular had some merit. It's easy to assume that these kids know each other but often times they really don't. The compulsion to in-group/outgroup is strong in young people, especially those with rough family situations to begin with. This helped me to understand that the more these kids know each other the more commonality they will recognize and they will be more likely to treat each other like family instead of acquaintances I also liked the fact that is was just kids talking to each other and not adults lecturing them about "integrity" or whatever, typically kids just roll their eyes and check mentally out when that stuff starts, just my opinion
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Post by fshamrock on Feb 26, 2016 13:20:49 GMT -6
Might be too far for you but if you are looking for odd front stuff and pressuring like wild men you might take a peek at the University of Houston, staff probably wouldn't try to big time you like power conference places would, and they are doing some interesting things and bringing pressure from everywhere. If you decide to do that, don't get a hotel that is near campus..U of H is in the middle of a pretty rough neighborhood.
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Post by fshamrock on Feb 24, 2016 14:42:40 GMT -6
We need that faster than fly dude to stop telling people about this thing. What separates this site from a ton of other internet resources (those twitter chats definitely included) is that is hasn't morphed into a big giant circle jerk. Those chats pretty much boil down to a group of guys validating how awesome they are to each other, nothing wrong with it but it's really not all that substantive unless you are in need of some ego stroking. There are very few people on this board who consider themselves incapable of being wrong, which is bizarre because it seems to me we work in a profession that is mostly "alpha" types who'd cut off their own thumbs before they'd admit to not being perfect. I think the anonymity of the site is helpful in that regard. It's okay to ask "what is a 3 technique?" on here and get a straight answer without having to worry about looking stupid because you don't really know anybody and they don't know you. I'm glad the site is getting some publicity and hope its founders can make some money off of it, but man it would suck if all the douche's started pouring in with their visors, red bull's..vaping nicotine and telling everybody how it is
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Post by fshamrock on Feb 22, 2016 13:52:39 GMT -6
good job osceola, pretty good talk except it looked on film like you guys are underachieving with all those athletes, when are you guys going to get your crap together?
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Post by fshamrock on Feb 10, 2016 10:56:51 GMT -6
Probably not the way I did as I was being fired from one of my previous stops. Called a meeting and told the kids this- For those of you that supported me and my staff's efforts with what we were trying to do I sincerely thank you and wish you nothing but the best unless I play against you in the future (laugh). For those of you who went out of your way to make this happen, along with your families, I hope you all get what you deserve in life and if I ever have a chance to score 100 points on you or this school in a football game, I will call all 3 timeouts to do so. And then I walked out. that. is. funny as an assistant I always thought it was suspect to have a big meeting to let kids know that you are leaving. The HC has to do this when it's him, you don't, just go. There might be a few kids that you want to text or talk to and let them know because you don't want them to hear it from the grapevine but other than that don't take yourself too seriously. Nothing is more cringe worthy than the DL coach who is leaving talking to the whole team like "sometimes as a man...u gotta make tough decisions bro...life will do that you bro..and you just, like, gotta, do what's best for you man...I really enjoyed making men out of you..but sometimes in life....." while all the kids are looking at each other like "is this over soon so we can go to lunch?"
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