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Post by gian3074 on Dec 21, 2015 14:41:15 GMT -6
10 years ago all we heard was how the zone read was a gimmick offense, won't work in the NFL...yada yada. 3 years ago we were told how high-tempo offenses just can't work in the NFL, like the "NFL" is some grand apex of the gameChip Kelly tried the High Tempo offense...and it has pretty much failed. turns out its hard to tell people who are under contract to do anything they dont want to do.... He also traded away some good players and has Sam Bradford and Mark Sanchez as QB. Like people said the NFL shouldn't be the standard, but Chip Kelly proves how different the NFL is from college and high school. With full control of personnel he thought he could run an NFL team like a college team. I think his system would work with better players in the NFL and his problem is that with control of personnel he can't blame anyone but himself if he doesn't have the talent to win with it.
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Post by gian3074 on Dec 13, 2015 1:12:13 GMT -6
Is there enough dead horse for two?
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Post by gian3074 on Sept 16, 2015 21:46:37 GMT -6
I hate having to run the scout team. We are not able to 2 platoon here at my school. I am the OC, so when we practice defense, myself and another coach run scout team. That is a very FRUSTRATING job. If you have never had to run the scout team, I think you should thank the guys that do. It is way harder and more frustrating than I could have ever imagined. The best is when you show them the diagrams on scout and the O-line wants to know if they run block or pass block. I hate bringing this up but even if you've played Madden you should have a general idea of what the drawn lines mean.
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Post by gian3074 on Sept 10, 2015 8:11:48 GMT -6
That to me was one of the biggest takeaways from the article. I understand that the NFL feels that the QB situation is becoming a problem but they either need to pay for a develop a minor league that takes 18-19 year old kids and prepares them for the NFL or they need to stop complaining about college coaches. College coaches are not minor league coaches, and their jobs are not to prepare NFL players.
Since the NFL will never pay for the development of a minor league they need to find a way to adapt to the QB's coming into the NFL.
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Post by gian3074 on Sept 8, 2015 18:36:52 GMT -6
Media hysteria aside I think the NFL definitely had issues dealing with concussions. I know people say it was a job but some old players have stated in interviews that they never feared brain injuries--they were mostly fearful of knee and back injuries. Also, the PBS documentary League of Denial showed that the NFL knew about how head injuries could have long term impact but withheld the information from players intentionally. I agree that the media is overhyping the concussion issue but I can also say that the NFL did cover up the problems.
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Post by gian3074 on Jul 2, 2015 21:38:19 GMT -6
New York doesn't have a separation, but different sections can choose to separate. In Section 6 (Buffalo area) for instance private schools are not eligible for the playoffs but in Section 5 (Rochester area) they are.
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Post by gian3074 on May 14, 2015 20:08:40 GMT -6
Ok so I was the DC standing in the way for a long time. That was until during pregame when the 5' 115 lb WR scout reciever ran a post route at me. I had turned to answer a question from one of my DBS and felt him coming. My natural reaction was to raise my arm just as he hit me. Needless to say he was looking at the ball and unprepared and went heels over head. After the game the opposing coach asked me what the scout reciever did to piss me off. I decided after that to stand further back during team and I squat on the LOS during 7v7 during practice. In one of our scrimmages from last year an opposing player used me to set a pick on a post route!
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Post by gian3074 on May 14, 2015 20:06:51 GMT -6
This year one of the coaches on my team told me that the previous year he thought another one of our opponent's QBs sucked in the 7on7. When we actually played them they threw maybe 5 times because they ran it down our throats. As a staff we see 7on7 tournaments in a little different light now.
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Post by gian3074 on Aug 13, 2014 20:34:39 GMT -6
To end plays and drills? Why do you guys use sheet protectors? I'm in the Bay Area, CA so it's typically perfect football weather. I'm thinking most of you guys use them because of sweat? Upstate NY Buffalo area. One day it will be 85 and sunny next day 60 and rain! Not to mention what the weather will be in October and if we're lucky enough November.
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Post by gian3074 on Aug 13, 2014 20:32:57 GMT -6
That is usually in the coaches' office.
Actually none of our coaches dips at all as far as I know.
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Post by gian3074 on Aug 12, 2014 16:41:59 GMT -6
Yes practical things for myself. My head coach does a good job making sure we have the proper equipment for on the field.
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Post by gian3074 on Aug 12, 2014 15:36:45 GMT -6
Next week I start my first week of football coaching as we begin our season. What are some essentials that I should remember to have as a coach going into a practice? I already know: sunglasses, sunscreen, phone clip. What are some other things I should have or need?
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Post by gian3074 on Sept 26, 2013 17:36:21 GMT -6
I coach in the Buffalo NY area so this story is known to all of us locally pretty well. It's a sad story, but every player locally wears a helmet decal with the kid's initials on them in remembrance.
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Post by gian3074 on Jun 12, 2013 12:15:01 GMT -6
I'm not coaching right now but I have issues with making summer things mandatory. I remember when I played years ago we had "optional" summer practices in addition to workouts but my brother and I were unable to attend the practices because we both worked jobs in the summer.
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Post by gian3074 on Mar 20, 2013 20:57:46 GMT -6
When I played we rarely showered at all. The only exception was for long road games (we sometimes traveled nine hours for a game), so we were required to shower for those ones. No one wants to be on a bus for nine hours with someone who did not shower.
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Post by gian3074 on Feb 4, 2013 14:11:44 GMT -6
I'm getting my certification to teach social studies in New York.
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Post by gian3074 on Jul 20, 2012 21:48:29 GMT -6
But give me a break on the "slave labor" sentiment - playing college football is not even remotely close to slavery. Do the schools make money off these kids? No question. What do they get in return? An Education. Funny - I never hear any other sport being brought up when some start saying "college athletes should be paid". Only football and basketball. One of my coaches, his sister is on OSU's rowing team, they won't the national title - first, how many of you even knew that? 2nd - what would be the appropriate compensation for her? How much money does she get per week or per month? How are you going to pay them? Does Andrew Luck get the same amount as does the #4 QB on the roster? If so - that's not fair. Andrew is out there putting his health at risk while the rest of the QB's on the roster hold clipboards and wear their hats backwards on the sideline. Does RG3 get more or less money that his center? Do players at Florida get the same amount as the kids at UConn? Do the schools make money off of the kids? Absolutely. But I'm pretty sure GM made money off of my uncle who worked there for 35 years - what did he get in exchange? About $30/hr (I don't really know) - he sure as heck didn't get a college education - otherwise he wouldn't have been running the damm hoist at GM, he would have been designing the brake pads for the car... A very well thought out argument and I agree. The number one reason why they won't be able to pay athletes in the two revenue generating sports is Title IX. Paying athletes would be a logistical nightmare. My main argument is that I'm sick of the culture, this idea that television money is the most important thing for these schools. And I hope that no one ever got the impression that I thought the Big East was a great football conference. Reports were that the basketball coaches of Syracuse and Pitt were never asked about the move to the ACC. The athletic directors felt that the football money was too good to pass up, even though now two of the premier basketball schools in the Big East have to now face the gauntlet of ACC basketball. College sports used to be about more than just money (at least on the surface). It was about rivalries and geography. Texas and Texas A&M is now destroyed, one of the oldest rivalries in college. Kansas and Missouri is also gone.
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Post by gian3074 on Jul 20, 2012 20:06:43 GMT -6
I was only referring to the four team playoff being implemented in 2014 by the FBS schools. I actually love D1AA, D2 and D3 football. To me they are the embodiment of amateur athletics. D1A is not in my opinion. It's a farm system for the NFL and I don't like how the athletic directors and the conference commissioners put on this song and dance routine about how it still is an amateur league. They do this song and dance routine so that the profits aren't taxed at a normal rate (bowl games for instance are considered non-profit entities). www.smartmoney.com/spend/family-money/10-things-college-football-wont-say-1317598414326/Yeah but you said that your problem with the playoff is that it's dangerous. Why is a bowl game and a championship game more dangerous than four playoff games in the lower levels? You're right I did say that. That's why I started this discussion just to get some opinions down and challenge my beliefs. You're right I was wrong to say it's more dangerous. I think it's unfair, but it is not any less dangerous.
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Post by gian3074 on Jul 20, 2012 20:00:23 GMT -6
Sorry, I was reading Jason Whitlock earlier and the slave labor metaphor is his favorite to use. I know that the term "slave labor" has a bad history so I probably shouldn't have used it. But it is true that everyone gets rich off of college football, except for the students. Example: Jim Tressel made $3.5 million in 2010. That same year some of his students decided to sell their own stuff for spending money and tattoos, and you swear the world had come to an end. (Source on Tressel's salary: www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/09/jim-tressel-money-217-millilon_n_922593.html) On ESPN's 30 for 30 special about Miami football one of their QB's mentioned how he saw his own teammates stealing car stereos because they needed to sell them for spending money so that they could eat or take their girlfriend out on a date. They weren't allowed a job while playing sports and many came from poor neighborhoods so that was their only option. On the other hand, for some of the athletes (not all, but some) they don't care about the education that they're getting. They go in, enroll in a communications degree or a general studies degree, wait three years and try for the NFL draft. The education doesn't matter because to them playing D1A football is like being on a AAA team for Major League Baseball. It's the wrong opinion for them to have but hey the prospect of making millions of dollars playing in the NFL at 21-22 is a pretty good motivation. Do you think that athletes are the only students on campus who don't have a lot of spending money? No and believe me I was pretty poor and starving for spending money when I went to college (I still am out of college too lol). However I wasn't risking my neck every day at practice and every Saturday at a game so that I could make everyone richer (coaches, administrators) except for myself. Hell even though it would be unfair because the smaller schools would be at a disadvantage part of me likes Steve Spurrier's idea where the players can be paid out of the coaches' own salary. (I don't think such an idea would be fair or practical so I don't actually support it, but I like the spirit of the idea.)
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Post by gian3074 on Jul 20, 2012 19:49:27 GMT -6
It's more or less a sickening culture that surrounds the money sports in college athletics. Look at how Syracuse and Pitt destroyed not only the Big East's football pedigree, but look at what they did to Big East basketball all in the name of securing ACC television money. Look at how Texas forms their own network with ESPN and pisses off Texas A&M off so much they decide to jump ship to the SEC. Look at how Missouri decided that the rivalry game with Kansas isn't worth keeping when compared to the SEC money they're now going to get. The most sickening thing is the playoff system. Sure it's great for the fans, and the alumni and the boosters and the coaches and the athletic administrators. They don't have to play extra games, they don't have to worry about suffering from potentially deadly head injuries. I also love how everyone gets their pockets fattened with the new TV money: the coaches, the athletic directors, everyone except the practically slave labor (student athletes) who actually do the work and can't have any piece of the pie. Coach X can make $3 million but if one of his players has a bartender give him free drinks the NCAA will come down with the hammer and suspend such student. I'm not advocating that players even get paid; I think it would be better to cap coaches' salaries at $1 million. If you wouldn't coach a college team for that amount of money then all of your bs talk of molding young men into leaders is exactly that: BS. The Big East was doomed from the beginning. As soon as they started a basketball-only league that included football schools they were screwed. It was just a matter of time. The playoffs are dangerous? Which playoffs? The D.1A playoff is only one extra game. Lower levels have a full playoff. Is that what you're talking about? If so, if you think that's for the money you're off base. Nobody makes money off of the 1AA, D.2, or D.3 playoffs. Capping salaries? Who's going to do that? Why not do that in HS? Should state associations cap coaches' stipends? At what figure? I was only referring to the four team playoff being implemented in 2014 by the FBS schools. I actually love D1AA, D2 and D3 football. To me they are the embodiment of amateur athletics. D1A is not in my opinion. It's a farm system for the NFL and I don't like how the athletic directors and the conference commissioners put on this song and dance routine about how it still is an amateur league. They do this song and dance routine so that the profits aren't taxed at a normal rate (bowl games for instance are considered non-profit entities). www.smartmoney.com/spend/family-money/10-things-college-football-wont-say-1317598414326/
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Post by gian3074 on Jul 20, 2012 19:39:30 GMT -6
I'm not sure you can call the student's slave labour. Four years education at a top university can be worth up to $200,000. Sorry, I was reading Jason Whitlock earlier and the slave labor metaphor is his favorite to use. I know that the term "slave labor" has a bad history so I probably shouldn't have used it. But it is true that everyone gets rich off of college football, except for the students. Example: Jim Tressel made $3.5 million in 2010. That same year some of his students decided to sell their own stuff for spending money and tattoos, and you swear the world had come to an end. (Source on Tressel's salary: www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/09/jim-tressel-money-217-millilon_n_922593.html) On ESPN's 30 for 30 special about Miami football one of their QB's mentioned how he saw his own teammates stealing car stereos because they needed to sell them for spending money so that they could eat or take their girlfriend out on a date. They weren't allowed a job while playing sports and many came from poor neighborhoods so that was their only option. On the other hand, for some of the athletes (not all, but some) they don't care about the education that they're getting. They go in, enroll in a communications degree or a general studies degree, wait three years and try for the NFL draft. The education doesn't matter because to them playing D1A football is like being on a AAA team for Major League Baseball. It's the wrong opinion for them to have but hey the prospect of making millions of dollars playing in the NFL at 21-22 is a pretty good motivation.
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Post by gian3074 on Jul 20, 2012 9:48:12 GMT -6
It's more or less a sickening culture that surrounds the money sports in college athletics. Look at how Syracuse and Pitt destroyed not only the Big East's football pedigree, but look at what they did to Big East basketball all in the name of securing ACC television money. Look at how Texas forms their own network with ESPN and pisses off Texas A&M off so much they decide to jump ship to the SEC. Look at how Missouri decided that the rivalry game with Kansas isn't worth keeping when compared to the SEC money they're now going to get.
The most sickening thing is the playoff system. Sure it's great for the fans, and the alumni and the boosters and the coaches and the athletic administrators. They don't have to play extra games, they don't have to worry about suffering from potentially deadly head injuries. I also love how everyone gets their pockets fattened with the new TV money: the coaches, the athletic directors, everyone except the practically slave labor (student athletes) who actually do the work and can't have any piece of the pie. Coach X can make $3 million but if one of his players has a bartender give him free drinks the NCAA will come down with the hammer and suspend such student.
I'm not advocating that players even get paid; I think it would be better to cap coaches' salaries at $1 million. If you wouldn't coach a college team for that amount of money then all of your bs talk of molding young men into leaders is exactly that: BS.
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Post by gian3074 on Jul 19, 2012 22:17:44 GMT -6
Please tell me it does not involve PSU. It does but it is also about how schools have let money dictate every decision there is to make in football. He argues that schools need to take back control of the teams and bring them back to their original intention which was involved with academics, or else they should just admit that they're nothing more than a farm system for the NFL.
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Post by gian3074 on Jul 19, 2012 21:21:37 GMT -6
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Post by gian3074 on Aug 10, 2010 16:27:04 GMT -6
The best player that I played with was Doug Worthington, the DT from Ohio State (he forced the game winning fumble against Iowa). He plays for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
The best player that I played against was Naaman Roosevelt, WR from University of Buffalo and now on the Buffalo Bills.
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Post by gian3074 on Aug 10, 2010 14:47:04 GMT -6
After reading both Dr. Saturday's post and the original article (http://www.omaha.com/article/20100801/SPORTS/708019770#barfknecht-tuberville-hire-a-good-move-tech-qb-says) I happen to agree with the quarterback. I'm split over whether it is right for a player to go after his former coach in the media like this (even though Leach last year blamed his team's struggles on their "fat little girlfriends" openly to the media). In many ways I tend to agree with the QB's opinion that Leach's firing was "a blessing in disguise". Now I know that Leach brought this program a level of prominence that Texas Tech had never experienced before, but does anyone honestly think that Leach would ever lead them to a Big 12, let alone a national championship? Under Leach they had been and always would be what Michigan State and Wisconsin are to the Big 10--teams that always win 7-9 wins a year but never make it over the top teams in the conference. His one great year ended with a complete blowout by Oklahoma and a big loss in the Cotton Bowl by Ole Miss. I think that Tuberville is a great coach, and though I am not saying that they would win a Big 12 championship with him as coach I think he gives them a better chance than Leach did. Just my two cents. Wisconsin has won 3 Big X championships in the past 12 years... Good point, I shouldn't have mentioned Wisconsin.
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Post by gian3074 on Aug 9, 2010 21:50:24 GMT -6
After reading both Dr. Saturday's post and the original article (http://www.omaha.com/article/20100801/SPORTS/708019770#barfknecht-tuberville-hire-a-good-move-tech-qb-says) I happen to agree with the quarterback. I'm split over whether it is right for a player to go after his former coach in the media like this (even though Leach last year blamed his team's struggles on their "fat little girlfriends" openly to the media). In many ways I tend to agree with the QB's opinion that Leach's firing was "a blessing in disguise". Now I know that Leach brought this program a level of prominence that Texas Tech had never experienced before, but does anyone honestly think that Leach would ever lead them to a Big 12, let alone a national championship? Under Leach they had been and always would be what Michigan State and Wisconsin are to the Big 10--teams that always win 7-9 wins a year but never make it over the top teams in the conference. His one great year ended with a complete blowout by Oklahoma and a big loss in the Cotton Bowl by Ole Miss. I think that Tuberville is a great coach, and though I am not saying that they would win a Big 12 championship with him as coach I think he gives them a better chance than Leach did. Just my two cents.
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Post by gian3074 on Apr 14, 2010 20:10:14 GMT -6
My most memorable was a little different. We played the Indiana School for the Deaf in the first round of the playoffs. We played them on a Wednesday (not Friday), because they had fall break and all the players would be going home (it was truly a campus). It was freezing cold. They weren't as good as us, but they had the best player on the field. He was a 6' 2'' 210 LBS running back that was the fast man on the field. Problem was, his OL could not block us. He's get the ball and break 3 tackles before churning out a 2 yard gain. He finished with 35 carries for 103 yards. Onye Davis....... He is now a Deaf Olympian www.viable.net/blog/?p=311I set the school record for tackles in a game (23, since re-broken), because I wasn't getting blocked, and knew exactly where the ball was going (they ran behind the same guy EVERY time). I made 23 tackles.........and on all of them I ended up on my back with Onye on top of me. More like 23 "got in the ways" I got our starting FB killed by Onye (who also played Linebacker), because I thought "hey these guys are deaf, I'm just going to call out the DL I'll be trapping on this play." I hollered, "I'm trapping 56" And Onye yelled, "Trap, trap, trap" Our FB was {censored} and informed me back in the huddle that they don't have to be completely deaf to go to school here. At the end of the game (we won easily), we were going through the line shaking hands..........I had gone to our sign language teacher the day before and learned the sign for "good game".......I signed that to the passing players, and I could tell they appreciated it. Absolutely amazing experience. One of the best stories I've ever heard dubber.
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Post by gian3074 on Apr 13, 2010 20:15:06 GMT -6
My sophomore year, we were in the state championship game. We had done very well the whole season but our offense just couldn't put anything together and our defense could barely slow them down. Well the second half started and the coaches decided to put a sophomore in at middle linebacker. He was responsible for the first two or three tackles of that drive and we thought we had some hope on defense. Well that continued on till about 2 minutes left in the third quarter and we were down 31-7. We were able to score and totally took control of the momentum to win 35-31, sealing the win with an interception by our season interception leader with about 18 seconds left. Truly amazing to feel all of those different emotions on the sideline and be part of that game. That is a great story. The section of NY that I played in would not allow private schools to compete with public schools, so we never had the opportunity to play for a state title. It's great that you had that chance, and that your team had to fight that hard for it.
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Post by gian3074 on Apr 13, 2010 19:59:30 GMT -6
In my junior year we traveled to Cleveland to face one of their best teams (my team was from Western New York, near Buffalo). At halftime we were losing 13-7, and this game was wearing down on us hard. Our senior captain and center even shouted for some water to wash the blood off of his jersey before the refs could see it. We shut them down in the second half and won 28-13, and it was described as the best win for any team in my part of the state. That week USA Today ranked us #22 in the country. One of our seniors was also being heavily recruited by Ohio State, and I saw on the internet that Jim Tressel was actually at the game. It was without a doubt the best game I was ever a part of.
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