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Post by fshamrock on Feb 4, 2016 14:49:45 GMT -6
Coach, Scheme: Keep it simple The hardest thing for us was managing playing time. Depending on how many you have it can get tricky I'm with you..that part sucks, the only time I was ever involved in something like it we had 2 RB's that only got a few carries at the end of the game. The all star game was all classifications so these two guys were small school studs but didn't measure up the bigger school guys....they were upset, and their coaches were very upset, but what're u gonna do? 1) we wanted to win the game and 2) we knew that people had paid to see the best players in the city....still felt bad about it.
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Post by fshamrock on Jan 22, 2016 13:42:58 GMT -6
that's awesome man good for you and good luck to your team
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Post by fshamrock on Jan 22, 2016 10:37:02 GMT -6
Some company came up with a wristband that you can send plays to on a digital display. I understand there was some buzz about it at the AFCA convention, I watched the video...looked kinda cool except the video never showed the thing actually working, just football players wearing them and running around doing badass poses, did anybody see this thing or know if it actually works?
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Post by fshamrock on Jan 21, 2016 13:55:49 GMT -6
Coach, You have a soph that weighs 212 pounds and he benches 415!!!!!! Did you type that correctly? Was that a true max or something projected. No matter how good you are as a strength coach there is no substitute for the genetic lottery. When I first started coaching we had a kid like that. Power lifting meet is being held at our school out of boredom he signs up and wins it. Cant remember the exact numbers but it was 4+ 6+ 6+. A few months later the city youth bodybuilding competition is being held at our school same thing day of he decides to sign up. I show him the mandatory poses, he plays a random song from his ipad for his routine and he wins. He won the biggest youth power lifting and bodybuilding meets of the year and hadn't even trained a day for them. Irony of it all the didn't like football. He was our kicker had immigrated from Argentina and had no desire what so ever to play a position. I'm not sure that I've ever heard of a youth bodybuilding competition, much less one at a school. Seems strange, is bodybuilding like a big sport is some part of the world? teenage boys in banana hammocks parading around and posing....seems like that would draw a strange crowd...lotta vans in the parking lot, the kind with curtains on the windows
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Post by fshamrock on Jan 21, 2016 13:09:21 GMT -6
Might be another thread completely, and I'm sure I'm about to get smacked with any number of internet tomatoes, but maybe there's somebody else in the wide world who feels the way I do. Don't we take this lifting weights stuff just a touch too seriously in our sport anyway? Every other sport in the world actually "does" the sport in the off-season. Basketball players hoop, baseball players hit and field etc. Other sports implement lifting as a supplement to training for the actual sport, for some reason when our season is over we don't do anything that resembles football at all for months and spend all of that time running around cones(carioca?)and lifting. I know football is a contact sport that requires strength more so than others, but MMA fighters and wrestlers don't even do as much lifting as we do, it's a supplement to the purpose, which is becoming better wrestlers/fighters, It feels to we lost our way somehow and everybody started putting the cart before the horse. I think if you lifted kids twice a week on squats/bench/chin-ups/cleans whatever, institute the principles of progressive overload so they get stronger,then spent the rest of the time working on actual football skills you'd be a lot better off. It's not legal in many states. Even if it is, who the hell wants to do OL drills year-round? I'm with you on that one, but I can't imagine it would be any more boring than the 947th day of the clean/snatch, don't get me wrong, I know that lifting is important, but to me it's just a piece of the puzzle, some guys act like it is the whole enchilada. I'll never forget talking to an O-lineman's dad a few years ago. This kids was super strong in the weight room, not an unbelievable football player, but he loved to lift because that's what he really excelled at. So the dad is regaling me about how the kids is going to some seminars for lifting over the summer to try and get his squat up to 800 or some astronomical number. I explained to him that I thought that was awesome for him if that's what he wanted to do but as a football coach I really didn't care, 500 is a plenty strong squat for a high school player and everything above that is cool and all but I'd rather he spend his summer doing something about the fact that he seems to have two left feet. Dad was unhappy, in his mind, lifting a lot of weight meant that his kid was a scholarship type football player.
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Post by fshamrock on Jan 21, 2016 11:00:20 GMT -6
Might be another thread completely, and I'm sure I'm about to get smacked with any number of internet tomatoes, but maybe there's somebody else in the wide world who feels the way I do. Don't we take this lifting weights stuff just a touch too seriously in our sport anyway? Every other sport in the world actually "does" the sport in the off-season. Basketball players hoop, baseball players hit and field etc. Other sports implement lifting as a supplement to training for the actual sport, for some reason when our season is over we don't do anything that resembles football at all for months and spend all of that time running around cones(carioca?)and lifting. I know football is a contact sport that requires strength more so than others, but MMA fighters and wrestlers don't even do as much lifting as we do, it's a supplement to the purpose, which is becoming better wrestlers/fighters, It feels to we lost our way somehow and everybody started putting the cart before the horse. I think if you lifted kids twice a week on squats/bench/chin-ups/cleans whatever, institute the principles of progressive overload so they get stronger,then spent the rest of the time working on actual football skills you'd be a lot better off.
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Post by fshamrock on Jan 19, 2016 13:55:40 GMT -6
Unpopular opinion but I think it's pretty silly every time I hear somebody talking about "changing the culture" of a football program somewhere. This seems to me to be the new way that coaches can try to get attention on twitter more than anything else. If you really want to "change the culture" of a place you could kick everybody out of the community and only let people back in who buy a house over a million dollars, or the flip-side you could just build up government housing projects...you would definitely see the culture change then. As far as changing the attitude of people and making football cool and getting people excited about it? Winning does that, and good players do the winning.
How many of you if you are being incredibly honest can look at one season where you were part of a program that turned around from bad to good, and honestly say that you were really just a player or two away from sucking? In my "turnaround" season we had a linebacker that we moved to running back his senior year, he went for like 2500 yards and we made the playoffs....we didn't know he was that good of a runningback...boy we really changed the culture.
I guess my point is that everybody has motivational quotes, everybody has themes, everybody has acronyms and stand for some inspiring stuff, there's nothing wrong with that stuff...but it doesn't win anything, not really. It just irks me when I see coaches trying to take credit for a team's success because they had the right "message" I'm sure Urban Meyer is a good dude and a great coach, but he can bring all of the ideas from that book to Prairie View A&M university and they are still going to get smashed by 35 every week.
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Post by fshamrock on Jan 13, 2016 8:42:26 GMT -6
C'mon...it's Wisconsin..the same state from "Making a Murderer" on netflix. They aren't having a stellar 2016 in terms of PR
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Post by fshamrock on Dec 1, 2015 13:24:17 GMT -6
My first year coaching we were up 32-7 at halftime and lost 35-32 don't remember the details, but I remember a valuable lesson, It's better to have a slower kid returning kickoffs that NEVER fumbles, than the fumble-prone guy that is the fastest kid on the team...he lost three of them...three
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Post by fshamrock on Nov 24, 2015 10:16:08 GMT -6
I should preface...I didn't mean to be offensive when I said it "seems kind of redneck", that was in poor taste. I'm not here to judge anybody that decides to do what they feel is best for their family, that's none of my business. Getting back to football though, has anybody else noticed that their better players are older for their grade level?
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Post by fshamrock on Nov 24, 2015 9:16:00 GMT -6
quick and dirty.. My son is a spring birthday, so when he starts school he will one of the youngest in his class. Most coaches in my neck of the woods consider it a no-brainer to hold your kids back and start school late so they will the older rather than younger than other kids. So I did a highly scientific straw poll with our freshman class and I think it was pretty split down the middle. About half of the kids that we know will be good players were old for their age and about half were young. What has been you guys experience? Are most of your better senior players 18 or 19 years old? I'm most likely not going to start my boy late, I don't think he has the genetics to be a D1 athlete in any case, plus it just seems kinda redneck to me, plus I read that kids who are old for their grade kick a$$ academically in elementary school but then they struggle in the later grades because they are used to school being easy...but I digress. thoughts?
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Post by fshamrock on Nov 9, 2015 14:13:42 GMT -6
Only drawback is the players who came off the sideline would probably get ejected and not be able to play in the next game. You could put together a team of guys who don't play anyway and give them a cool nickname and train them up to do this
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Post by fshamrock on Nov 9, 2015 13:32:21 GMT -6
Dark lightning goes beyond RPO, every play is a pass/option/screen, the plays are all POS's Im Really intrigued by the "read all 11" concept thats talked about in the book. It's really more of a scroll than book, etched in fine calligraphy with the 3 remaining unicorn horns on earth dipped in Mayan sacrificial blood. They tried to make an E-book but it destroyed "the cloud" if that sounds too crazy for you, there's always ..... www.scorchedearthoffense.com/
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Post by fshamrock on Nov 9, 2015 12:53:54 GMT -6
How in the hell has this thread gone this far without the dreaded RPO tag! Dark lightning goes beyond RPO, every play is a pass/option/screen, the plays are all POS's
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Post by fshamrock on Nov 5, 2015 9:10:56 GMT -6
Simply put, it will revolutionize the game. Dark Lightning is so deceptive that YOU don't even know what play is being called. The players choose a random number on their wristband that gives them a direction to go at the snap. No two plays that you run next year will be the same! no tendencies! It's based on Chaos theory, String theory, Game theory,Pythagoras and quantum mechanics.
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Post by fshamrock on Oct 26, 2015 12:56:16 GMT -6
Pee-Wee coaching is not the same as High School or NCAA coaching. Hate the coaches who think otherwise. Sorry if my beliefs differ from yours on this subject. 100%. not even close, not the same planet, dimension or anything of the sort. The animosity makes me feel good. I'm happy to know that all of us across the country we all have pee-wee coaches that sit up in the stands and say "man I don't know why they can't win..we beat these guys 44-0 in the 8 year old league...they just don't use the talent right I'll tell ya what"
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Post by fshamrock on Oct 23, 2015 7:42:49 GMT -6
I think the biggest way a young guy (or any guy for that matter) can turn off a staff is to try really hard to establish himself as an X's and O's guru. The internet plays into this, nowadays young coaches have a vast amount of resources to learn football, some guys read this stuff every waking second and then deduce from that they are the smartest coach in the room. I once worked with a dude who was really a good dude and good coach but he told everybody his goal was to be a head coach before he turned 30. He would jump in on every X's and O's conversation with vigor. We used to mess with him like this: We would look up something random like "michigan state's spring draw game" and print out the information on it from somewhere, and then one of use would say something randomly like "hey did you see Michigan State run that spring draw this weekend? I wonder how they block and what their rules are?.....100% of the time this dude would jump up out of his chair and start "drawing it up"...of course the stuff he drew was not even close...it didn't matter if he knew anything or not..he just wanted everybody to think he knew every offense known to man. Some guys get really lucky and climb to the to very fast in this business....typically these are guys with unreal connections (dad was a head coach for a long time, dude played in the NFL, etc.)The rest of us bide our time and do our best. What these dudes also don't get is that when it comes time to actually be qualified for those head jobs, it has a lot more to do with your reputation in terms of what kind of person you are and how you treat people than how much you can draw on the dry erase. If you are smug and treat people as if you are smarter than them because you fap off to XandO labs every morning...who is going to speak for you when your time comes?
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Post by fshamrock on Oct 21, 2015 13:52:40 GMT -6
One thing that I've started to notice lately that hasn't been mentioned is how young coaches will act when they are around opposing teams coaches.
Note to young coaches: you are not playing in the game, at no point will you get into a physical confrontation with the opposing coaches. They are almost certainly decent guys that are pretty much like you in every way. When you see them before the game, or after the game, or in your personal life, there is no reason to spread your lats and bow your neck up like you are mortal enemies about to face off in a highlander style battle to the death. It is perfectly fine to talk to them like you would any other human being.
It always cracks me up when guys do this, It's usually young guys...but not always.
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Post by fshamrock on Oct 7, 2015 7:41:51 GMT -6
hate to be a naysayer but there's not much left to be done. Focus on the young kids that still might care a little, expect to be frustrated for three more weeks, upgrade your drinking regimen
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Post by fshamrock on Oct 2, 2015 7:03:05 GMT -6
motivational speech rule #17 - No math
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Post by fshamrock on Sept 29, 2015 12:30:05 GMT -6
Over the course of your career you will run into other coaches that you don't respect or agree with, some of them will be (in your mind) complete idiots...gotta get past it. It's important that the coaching staff presents a united front, and the kids believe that you all have 100 percent confidence in the direction that the program is going. If the kids get an inkling from you that you think the OC sucks too (which seems to be the case since they talked to you about it) then the whole system falls apart. Consider this a learning experience.
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Post by fshamrock on Sept 24, 2015 9:08:27 GMT -6
I like to tell them the story of the 3 midgets who were waiting in the line at the Guinness book of world records office vying for the record of "world's smallest male organ"
so the 3rd guy goes in, and comes out sad to hear that he has the 3rd smallest one in the world
the 2nd goes in and comes out sad to hear that he has the 2nd smallest in the world
the 3rd goes in cocky, feeling that he has the title wrapped up, but comes out angry as a hornet. The other guys ask what happened, and the midget shakes his head and says "who the hell is (insert name of starting quarterback)"
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Post by fshamrock on Sept 23, 2015 7:49:55 GMT -6
My initial gut feeling when I look at the IMG academy website is to wonder if they have any job openings.
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Post by fshamrock on Sept 21, 2015 11:58:58 GMT -6
In Texas a coach must be full time employee of the school, no exceptions. That doesn't necessarily mean a teacher, but no one just volunteers without a position in the school. thats strange to me. are school districts that diverse in their positions offered? as a software engineer could i get a job at the school? probably not, unless you wanted to take the certification test and teach computer class.....but you're going to get paid like a teacher...not like a software engineer. I've never heard of a district technology support employee being a coach, I'm sure it could happen, but they don't make squat compared to the private sector either.
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Post by fshamrock on Sept 17, 2015 12:26:19 GMT -6
All of these sound terrible. The worst I ever had to do was input a VHS into the computer for DSV...you had to run the film and then cut it into clips by clicking the mouse in between the plays, it took forever, and to make matters worse my DSV partner couldn't figure out how it was supposed to work so he would always stop paying attention and cut like 5 plays into one clip, or he would see something cool and rewind the tape to watch it again and throw everything off. Even when it went smoothly it was tedious. Probably doesn't sound too bad to the oldtimers but it was a pain, besides back in the old days you guys got to smoke cigarettes and pound beers while you cut up film and nobody cared, plus you had those awesome leisure suits to go out in and those sweet open chested collared shirts...I swear I missed the golden age of this profession. DSV sucked
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Post by fshamrock on Sept 11, 2015 8:01:41 GMT -6
What's really interesting is that if I'm the O-line coach from that other school I'm PO'd that everybody in the country is watching a clip of my right tackle doing a crappy job of cutting off a 4 technique on the backside of power
I mean come on dude...
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Post by fshamrock on Sept 8, 2015 13:50:08 GMT -6
Just a few updates for those out of state an assistant coach for SA Jay has been put on leave for saying something to the effect of "that referee needs to pay"
also the district has filed a complaint with the UIL (governing body) about racial slurs made by the ref
for background: John Jay is mostly hispanic, the team they were playing is mostly white*
*to be fair, I didn't look up any official numbers on either school, but just making a guess based on demographics around the state, could be way off on that
so it's possible there's a little more to the story, nothing to justify what happened of course
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Post by fshamrock on Sept 2, 2015 9:24:10 GMT -6
It really varies quite a bit from program to program. Overall I think things are moving in a positive direction. You hear about a lot more staffs that are trying to maximize efficiency and spend less time twiddling thumbs in the field house. You hear some horror stories of other places all the time though, like the guy who tells his assistants they have to leave their cars parked at the field house all night after a loss, so if anybody in town drives by it will look they were there all night "gettin' it fixed!"...but like I said, the culture seems to be slowly changing across the state. Unfortunately there will always be guys that wear those working hours like a boy scout merit badge. It's a matter of pride for some.
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Post by fshamrock on Aug 27, 2015 9:28:49 GMT -6
Varsity football game, we have the lead but not by much and are having to punt it to the bad guys without much time left. they have a dangerous punt returner. So we tell the punter (nickname "caveman" not only for neanderthal appearance but also for his processing power) "hey caveman, don't punt it to that guy, just punt it out of bounds!"....in a masterful stroke of obedience, caveman catches the snap, turns toward us on the sideline, and blasts it directly out of bounds over our heads for a net punt of -7 yards.
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Post by fshamrock on May 22, 2015 9:07:45 GMT -6
I don't know if there are any South Park fans here, but this reminds me of when the kids keep trying to lose in baseball and it's a battle between the different teams to see who can try less and lose. You beat me to it! My favorite part was when they played the team who was so good at losing, they would hit balls into the opposing players' gloves and hit players' bats with pitches. The idea of "going to state" in 7 on 7 is beyond ridiculous to me. no doubt, welcome to our own personal hell here in the great lone star state. The state tournament has become a really big deal. All of the kids get Adidas shorts and compression shirts, and cleats (which is cool for the kids, but I'll be damned if it doesn't make them really like 7 on 7). They have it in July so it's 653 degrees outside and you're sitting out in the sun all day slowly dying. Since the games are timed, every game that is going on has to start and end at the same exact time. So if a kid get hurt and they have to stop the game to check him out, EVERY game that is going on has to stop and hang out (they blow a big horn). It's crazy man, nothing but visor guys walking around with golf tees in their ears for no reason and raging hard-ons, parents sitting there on the sideline with the coaching staff (never a good thing) and to top it all off it's usually the last free weekend you're going to have before things start humming in the fall. Couple that with the fact that your staff is staying in a hotel in a college town so some beverages are likely being thrown down in the evenings. You're trying to ignore the third string QB's dad in your ear while watching touch football and profusely sweating out miller lite and getting skin cancer. Moral of the story, whatever state you are currently in, don't start up a state 7on7 tournament.
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