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Post by bbrown2804 on Jan 30, 2024 12:27:18 GMT -6
We would have our 8th graders start in the spring but they would lift separately from our HS kids. Allowed our frosh coaches to start building relationships with them while the kids got to learn our core lifts, expectations, standards, etc. That way, when summer came around and they did start lifting with sophomores, juniors, and seniors, they felt way more comfortable coming in and understood the routine.
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Post by bbrown2804 on Mar 13, 2023 6:21:51 GMT -6
I think people coaching for 20+ years is a thing of the past. Let alone in one place. This is what scares me. It’s seems to be that people just aren’t wanting to make the commitment to the profession long term as much as they used to. And I don’t think it’s a flaw in the coaches character. I think paying a few thousand dollars to a guy to work year around and deal with bullshitt just isn’t worth it to a lot of guys. My stipend is relatively decent and I still don’t think it represents the actual value of time and effort I commit to the job. I can’t imagine being a guy that makes 1500, 2500 whatever looking my wife in the eyes and trying to explain how a hundred or hundred and fifty extra dollars a month is more valuable to our family than my presence. I've been out of coaching the last two years and I miss it terribly. But I'll be honest: the benefits of not being absolutely exhausted for three months straight in the fall plus the time I've been able to spend with my young kids has not been lost on me.
While I definitely plan on getting back to it in the near future, I can absolutely understand why someone would look at the commitment and sacrifices involved and conclude that around $3k (and that's assuming you have the max number of years of experience) before taxes isn't enough to justify those sacrifices.
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Post by bbrown2804 on Oct 28, 2022 12:38:29 GMT -6
Absolutely awful.
To say I was born with zero athletic talent and two left feet is an understatement. Played for two years and just wasn't finding any enjoyment in it but knew that I loved the game. Decided to try out volunteering at my old middle school my senior year of high school and immediately knew I'd found my place.
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Post by bbrown2804 on Feb 9, 2022 10:22:44 GMT -6
Nah man, we all just sit around and stare at each other. Is that what you do at practice as well? Or is an organized plan in place outlining each coach’s individual duties and responsibilities. The way you presented it - everything would go just as smoothly with two coaches as with 5 as with 10. Based on “more times than not”- seems like on any random day you could have that situation. Why not just set a schedule where coaches are assigned to be there more days than not? Just seems more productive and professional than come more often than not That's actually not how I presented it.
The person that created this thread asked how teams decide who's at lifting and who's not. That's how we determined it and it worked for us while also ensuring that during June and July coaches had flexibility to spend time with their families or take care of what they needed to during the week.
It allowed us to take a losing team to back-to-back conference championships and a regional title. That has nothing to do with being great coaches or that we had incredible Xs and Os. It was a testament to the fact that we had an effective weight and conditioning program that kids bought into to the tune of attendance at 90% or higher throughout the offseason. Most of our kids would tell you that seeing coaches there and involved is a big reason why they made sure never to miss. They felt the coaches took it seriously, so they did.
I didn't lay out our explicit responsibilities or our in-season responsibilities because that wasn't the question that was asked. Maybe that wouldn't work for you, but it worked for us.
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Post by bbrown2804 on Feb 9, 2022 7:30:59 GMT -6
Pretty simple for us during the summer: be there more often than not. In other words, since we go Mon-Thurs during summer workouts, you should be there 2-3 of those days per week. HC was always there and a few assistants that lived in town and didn't have small kids were usually there every day or at least three days a week. We really emphasized that coaches in the weight room means kids will be in the weight room. If coaches don't bother to show up, why should they? What is their purpose? If the policy is simply “be there more often than not” clearly there is no set assignment of duties. Are they literally just there to give an appearance of caring? Nah man, we all just sit around and stare at each other.
We have a set routine that our kids go through for summer workouts, our coaches all know what that routine is, and we ensure that kids are accountable and pushing themselves both during the weight room phase of our workouts and the conditioning phase.
As for the "appearance of caring," I will once again say that if you are a coach that can't bother to show up to a majority of lifting sessions in the summer then you can't blame a kid who questions why it's important that they show up. Being there, interacting with the kids on a daily basis, and pushing them in the weight room is literally showing that you care. Not just "giving the appearance".
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Post by bbrown2804 on Feb 8, 2022 12:29:14 GMT -6
Pretty simple for us during the summer: be there more often than not. In other words, since we go Mon-Thurs during summer workouts, you should be there 2-3 of those days per week. HC was always there and a few assistants that lived in town and didn't have small kids were usually there every day or at least three days a week.
We really emphasized that coaches in the weight room means kids will be in the weight room. If coaches don't bother to show up, why should they?
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Post by bbrown2804 on Jan 13, 2020 9:20:42 GMT -6
I feel that a speaker doing a broad topic isn't really going to give me a lot of information in a 50 minute session versus a speaker focusing on a very specific topic. For example, one of the best clinic sessions I've attended in the last few years was Mike Tressel going through the tackling circuit they use at MSU. That or someone who is going to focus an entire session on something like just how they run Power is going to be a lot better than a session that focuses on "how we run our 4-3 defense" or "how we run the wing-t" in my experiences.
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Post by bbrown2804 on Sept 6, 2012 12:40:06 GMT -6
Saw Mike Vraebel at the OHSFCA Clinic earlier this year. He defined a loaf as a "change in acceleration". Works pretty well. Coach, I assume this means a player gearing it down during the course of the play? Panther beat me to it: If he speeds up, he wasn't going all out to begin with. If he slows down......
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Post by bbrown2804 on Sept 3, 2012 17:03:46 GMT -6
Saw Mike Vraebel at the OHSFCA Clinic earlier this year. He defined a loaf as a "change in acceleration". Works pretty well.
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Post by bbrown2804 on Feb 20, 2012 23:49:49 GMT -6
The Ohio State clinic is April 19-21, 2012. Any idea where info on this can be found for registration and what not? Can't seem to find anything on OSU's site about it.
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Post by bbrown2804 on Nov 29, 2011 22:20:25 GMT -6
You see an ad with X and Os drawn on it and it drives you up a wall that the TE is running a route despite being covered on the line by the receiver.
If you're in college, you open your notebook to study for a final and it takes you twice as long to read everything between all the plays you've drawnup.
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Post by bbrown2804 on Nov 5, 2011 17:11:42 GMT -6
Where is the heck is the school admin? ?? This is what I was about to ask. Where's your AD while all this is going on? I know that if this happened at one of our games, the parents wouldn't be there 5 minutes before our AD would give them the boot and instruct them that their not welcome to return for the rest of the season.
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Post by bbrown2804 on Dec 5, 2010 23:01:47 GMT -6
Jim Tressel - Just knows how to get people to buy into his program. Tony Dungy - Makes players into better people in so many ways. Mike Martz - Growing up as a Rams fan, watching what he did with the Greatest Show on Turf still baffles me today. Would love to hear his ideas and philosophies on the offensive side of the ball. Alex Gibbs - Offensive line genius, enough said. Like has been stated already, probably forgot more about football when he woke up this morning than most people know.
Others would have to be Gus Malzahn, Bob Ladoceur, Brian Kelly and Chip Kelly.
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Post by bbrown2804 on Oct 31, 2010 7:48:12 GMT -6
Some of you need to remember what being 16 or 17 was like and that others may share a passion for something else other then football and that is as real and burning as yours is for the game of football. I think this really hits the nail on the head for me...I think we lose sight a lot of the time that we're coaching kids and at the end of the day, they view football as just another thing they're doing for fun during their high school years. As a 16 year old, if I had a chance to go to a major sporting event in season, there's no way I could honestly say that I would pass it up for practice. If it were a kid who was absent quite often, then I might have a problem with it. If it's a kid who's been there for everything and shown commitment to the program and his teammates, I don't see the problem with letting him go to an event that he may never have the chance to go to again.
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Post by bbrown2804 on Aug 17, 2010 6:50:23 GMT -6
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Post by bbrown2804 on Jan 25, 2010 9:25:51 GMT -6
I know it's already been mentioned, but When the Game Stands Tall is a fantastic book and I'd recommend it to anyone. Just got done reading Bearcat's Rising last month, about the rise of football at the University of Cincinatti and really enjoyed it. "Do You Love Football?!" which is Jon Gruden's autobiography was also a pretty interesting read.
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