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Post by Defcord on Apr 23, 2024 12:51:09 GMT -6
Thats a really good list. I left off footballs. Duh. That is really important! Need at least 25 a day in the rain, I read on this very site.
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Post by Defcord on Apr 22, 2024 10:59:10 GMT -6
We are considering going with Focus next season. I was under the impression that it will upload all of the clips automatically? Is there something I’m missing? Hudl Focus is great. It will automatically upload. Yo can even film practice with it and it will be uploaded by the time you come in from practice. You can even film practice with it if you practice on the game field. The picture quality and AI is light years ahead of Pixellot. I am not a fan of the picture quality of Focus. Maybe there are different camera options or packages because our film isn't great. We get way better film from our end zone and drone as far as definition quality. The other thing is on long plays it seems our focus camera can't keep up. Also the tight they offer is just a zoomed in poor quality of the wide. Not sure how that compares to Pixellot because we don't have it. We still have a filmer for all games for this reason.
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Post by Defcord on Mar 27, 2024 13:30:25 GMT -6
When I got where I am now, I bought guys 1 Hoodie or Crew Neck-their choice, 2 tees long or short sleeved their choice and two pairs of shorts for the summer. For the season I got them a game day shirt, pair of shorts and a hat. They were ecstatic because prior to my arrival they got nothing and had to buy their own game day polo. Gear adds up fast. I think you definitely want to show coaches you appreciate them with nice gear. In a perfect world I would get my guys: Summer 2 Tees and 2 Pairs of Shorts (off brand) Season Nike Hoodie/Crew Neck, Nike Game day shirt, Pair of nike golf pants, Nike shoes Christmas Gift Nike beanie I am not a style guy so I don't care if we all match on Friday nights. I ask the guys to wear khaki bottoms and any top that has our football stuff on it. I'm with you on the matching part. I only have two rules on game nights: 1 - all coaches must wear long khaki pants. It is hotter thatn 3 he!!s early in the season, but it just looks more professional. 2 - coaches must wear team issued Nike tops (polo or pullover, no t-shirts) and hats. Our Nike contract requires theat we be in Nike gear. I don't care if they wear the current stuff or something from past years. Two recent trends that I can't stand in coaching: 1 - coaches wearing t-shirts on the sidelins. Put on a polo or a pullover. T-shirts just don't look 1st class. 2. Gym shorts on the sidelines. If you want to wear shorts, fine. At least put on some khaki or other colored buttoned shorts. As the AD, I tell all of our head coaches for other sports to dress they way a college coach dresses in your sport. Be professional and 1sr class. I have a massive head so I hate wearing a hat. I volunteered to coach baseball this year so I could get our head baseball coach to join our football staff. He has a hat rule in practice and games and I comply but he is challenging my loyalty. It wouldn't be so bad if we had fitted hats and he would get a 7 3/4 or 8 for me, but these stretchy options were not made for us big headed guys. We played you guys when I was in South Carolina. I can't remember how you guys looked clothing wise, but your option game was first class. Wish you would have had more clothing rules and spent less time working with your fullback.
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Post by Defcord on Mar 27, 2024 9:45:42 GMT -6
When I got where I am now, I bought guys 1 Hoodie or Crew Neck-their choice, 2 tees long or short sleeved their choice and two pairs of shorts for the summer. For the season I got them a game day shirt, pair of shorts and a hat.
They were ecstatic because prior to my arrival they got nothing and had to buy their own game day polo.
Gear adds up fast. I think you definitely want to show coaches you appreciate them with nice gear.
In a perfect world I would get my guys:
Summer 2 Tees and 2 Pairs of Shorts (off brand) Season Nike Hoodie/Crew Neck, Nike Game day shirt, Pair of nike golf pants, Nike shoes Christmas Gift Nike beanie
I am not a style guy so I don't care if we all match on Friday nights. I ask the guys to wear khaki bottoms and any top that has our football stuff on it.
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Post by Defcord on Mar 22, 2024 8:07:25 GMT -6
I would watch a ton of film with him and tell him how I would coach stuff for a few practices and games. Then I would ask him to go in and do some notes on copies of film so I can see what he is picking up. After that I would watch it together and have him coach me up on it. As he was doing that I would give him feedback on what I am seeing.
I would also remind him regularly to be willing in these sessions to make mistakes. I don't want guys that I am teaching to worry about making a mistake. If they don't make them, then we can't correct them.
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Post by Defcord on Mar 22, 2024 7:00:48 GMT -6
We tell our defense that they are going to play 60 plays a game. That is what we plan for.
I think in most cases at 60 the game has been competitive and could go either way.
When the game is around 30-40 it is a blow out one way or the other. Partially because the running clock, but also because the superior team scores much more quickly.
We play in a small school conference and see mostly Wing T teams so most games we are defending between 40-50 plays.
If I would turn our OC completely, loose we would probably be running a lot more plays. Last year was my first year at the school I am at and they traditionally won 2-4 games a year over the course of the last 20 years. Part of that was because they were bad on defense. So I asked our OC to slow it down so that we had to defend less plays and have a chance to win. We did it and we won 5 games for the first time in 15 years and only the second time in 20 years. If we can build depth and skill, I don't mind running more plays a game. But that's a different topic I suppose.
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Post by Defcord on Mar 15, 2024 9:55:24 GMT -6
This is a good point...I've always preferred having 9th and JV practice together and have them split time/reps as needed more than having JV and Varsity. For the last four years our HC has been firm on freshmen being independent and JV with the varsity so we do what we can with that. Obviously if it's a small school, JV/9th might have to be with varsity just because of numbers. The school I was at last year used JV as scout offense/defense every day and barely got reps themselves, and they complained about it every day the second half of the season. Then they wouldn't give much effort on scout which just hurts varsity. Let JV/9th practice on the other end of the field. Take just enough JV guys if you need them to fill out a scout. A couple schools I was at let the guys who rotated in stand around doing nothing. Make those guys play scout and when they rotate in, they switch jerseys with whoever they're replacing. This helps to let JV/9th practice separate during team. At a small school if those rotation guys are standing around, it's valuable time wasted. I always tell people the challenge is at a small school is you have to teach kids twice as much in half the time because you are teaching them both sides of the ball and splitting practice in half. As a defensive coordinator I noted up the fundamentals of our defensive rotation guys while they were on scout D. Have to find ways to steal reps at a small school and coaching the scout team to get better at the fundamentals is a way to do that. I think the issue with smalls schools splitting the freshmen and jv out is that there's not enough numbers for those guys to go do a team period at the other end. Could do fundamentals though. We only have 35 kids on our roster and two are soccer plays that kick. That means we need 25-26 guys during team period. That leaves 8 at the other end. We do some inside and passing stuff where we can split into an old and young group though, which is the same concept and it's really beneficial for us.
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Post by Defcord on Mar 14, 2024 7:55:59 GMT -6
Get them on the scout teams as much as possible and put a couple of coaches over there that are going to coach the heck out of the fundamentals. Regardless of scheme your fundamentals will be applicable. I am the head coach and defensive coordinator and I coach our defensive scout team. I have a guy run the card and set up and I am coaching fundamentals like crazy. I coach it just like if it were an actual defensive period. I get as many guys in there as well.
If you have young kids that would just get killed during team periods by being on the scout team, I would have one coach take them and work with them. That leaves you six coaches to keep the regular practice working. Defensively you can work block destruction and tackling with every kid regardless of position. Offensively you can work blocking with every kid regardless of position and I would even throw the big kids a ball some.
I don't ever want kids standing around for an extended period of time so they are going in on the scout team or they are going and working with a coach on the side. Even it if it is not a perfect fit in that side group, it's got to be better than them standing around. Kids play football to PLAY football.
We only have 6 coaches and 35-40 on our roster so we have had to figure some of this out before.
Other ideas would be to use them on scout team in untraditional ways. For example if we play a press man team, we will never have a kid who is good enough to cover our best receiver(s) so we might take a young DB presssed on the receiver and have him work the press to disrupt the release and then have a second DB pick up the receiver after he clears the press guy. That gets two young guys working coverage techniques and gives the offense a little better look. There's some other things like this we have done as well. Just trying to steal reps any way we can. Sometimes it is a shitshow but a lot of times we find ways that work.
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Post by Defcord on Mar 14, 2024 4:57:08 GMT -6
I don’t think it’s a bad idea to get a private coach. I think it’s uncommon in our world a little. But my son plays guitar and golfs and we have gotten him lessons in both.
I bet you could find someone with a little digging. Try reaching out to any small colleges near you. Those guys will probably have the time and appreciate the money. Could also reach out to high schools or his high school coach and ask if they would recommend anyone.
The one thing I would do is if you end up doing private coaching is make sure there’s an open line of communication between the private coach and the high school coach. I’d make sure that the position reads and position fundamentals in the private coaching would translate to what he will do on his team. For instance our LBs read guards, but some guys teach reading backs. If a kid for us got private coaching and the coach taught him to read backs it would not be what was best for a kid in our program.
When I was a young, I’d be annoyed by a kid being privately trained but as I’ve gotten older I’d appreciate a kid trying to get extra work. I really think as long if you let his team coach know he’s just looking for extra work and not better work then it could be a good thing for your kid.
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Post by Defcord on Mar 11, 2024 18:44:51 GMT -6
So you spent 3-4 hours a day, all 7 days of the week, 52 weeks a year doing football coaching related activities? Well...M thru Th during the season I spent 3 hours per day doing football-related activities. On Fridays it was 3 hours. On Saturdays it was at least 2 hours. On Sunday it was at least 2 hours. During the off-season it was 3 hours per day M-F excluding Christmas break but working on football related paperwork (including spring ball). If you count attending clinics, speaking at clinics, on weekends in the off-season add that time to the total. During the summer it was 2 hours per day M-T-W-Th with the weight room, staff meetings, and working football camps. The last week of July was a dead week so I got to see the world. I'm not including the years I spent as a college coach. Just HS. So...yeah, maybe it wasn't completely an hour-to-hour, day-to-day, week-to-week, month-to-month time frame but damn close! Also, not including the time spent on my other duties as an AP, a Dean, or an AD. If that qualifies as stupidly inefficient then I guess there's a lot of us who are guilty. Well if you have 2 hour practice, hour scripting, setting up and grading practice, thirty minutes laundry/supervision. That’s a modest three and half hours Monday to Thursday. Game day for us even if we let kids leave (we have them stay) would be 5-11. That’s six hours and that brings up Monday to Thursday average. Four hours on Saturday and Sunday each is pretty tame estimate. 4 hours a day in season seems like a tame estimate. I don’t know off season if we are getting to four hours everyday, but with organization, off season lifting, fundraising, learning from reading, clinics, visits, plus throwing, camps, OTAs, etc. I agree with you that even if not to the full 1500 hours a coach can get close without being a “grinder.”
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Post by Defcord on Mar 6, 2024 11:13:41 GMT -6
Theres a hundred thousand people sitting in multiple stadiums each weekend watching games you're telling me they will all suddenly stop watching because their team a) gets more better players going to the nfl and b) plays more games against better teams (no more vandy, no more East North West State FCS)? I find that hard to believe I think most of this talk is older dudes who don't like it, the old "get off my lawn" approach for every old guy who says "they do get paid, they get a scholarship" there's young fans saying "why is 'bama playing delaware state in week 9?" and there's always going to be rich guys willing to pay to make sure their team is hte best salary cap and free agency didn't kill the NFL, it probably made it better... lot of old dudes thought it was gonna die though when those ideas were floated. No people won't quit watching..what some of us are saying is that the game/league will be changing. It won't be college football per sey, maybe a type of minor league. People will still watch, just will be called something different. The "Rich Guys" will figure out they are the ones in charge now, and can make up their own rules, and will become minor league owners maybe. When or if schools stop being on the names of the jerseys, many casual fans will be gone. I imagine enough to affect the numbers in a meaningful way. My wife watches most Purdue basketball and football games because she is an alum. If teams are no longer associated with schools, those views will dwindle. I think that saves college football. I agree the rich guys will figure it out. There's too much money for it to die. It's like the two party system. It sucks but it will protect itself.
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Post by Defcord on Feb 28, 2024 9:18:27 GMT -6
Addiction...playing was the gateway drug. The reasons we get INTO coaching aren't always the reasons we STAY in coaching. Wanting to share and teach the skill of the game turned into an unceasing itch to scratch of putting the pieces together to always be right when the balls snapped. Its impossible to quit the compulsion of film breakdown, grading, analytics, call sheets, scripts, assessing the d&d, formation, then outcome from the snap (and already moving to the next down outcome before the play is over) I agree with you. To me there is no greater feeling than getting a kid and a team to achieve something that others thought was unattainable. I was the DC at one plays and they kept giving me coaches and kids they said wouldn't ever be great. And sure enough we would get those guys rolling and next thing you know my OLB coach was needed to coach receivers or a starting DL was needed to replace a guard that went down. It was a little annoying at times, but a huge compliment to my coaching abilities. Also I coach offensive line and defensive backs. Both of those spots bring about fulfillment as a coach in ways that other positions don't. With the offensive line when you can connect with that group and get a group of kids who don't get a lot of attention to love the game without the accolades. That's just something special as a coach. With DBs when the game is on the line and the ball goes in the air, I love knowing I am the one that coached them. That's a rush that you just can't get from many other endeavors, especially when you make that play and win the game.
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Post by Defcord on Feb 26, 2024 14:01:40 GMT -6
Addiction...playing was the gateway drug.
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Post by Defcord on Feb 16, 2024 4:29:11 GMT -6
What is the actual probability of a given teams offense actually scoring a td? And the probability of their opponents offense also scoring a td?
It seems in this discussion that is the only outcome that’s being accounted for. Maybe because that’s the most interesting and/or worst case scenario for making decisions.
There has to be some variance in that teams plan to and will stop the opponents from scoring. How does that affect any decisions?
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Post by Defcord on Feb 15, 2024 20:28:39 GMT -6
If you are forced to have the ball first, I think it eliminates your option to go for two. Why? Cost benefit analysis. If you go for two and miss it, then they kick the extra point for the victory. I could be wrong. I just can’t see going for two if you score first.
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Post by Defcord on Feb 15, 2024 20:26:43 GMT -6
When in doubt scream “run the half”! My buddy took a job at an inner city school and filled every weight class with whoever he could get. Taught them double legs, halves and stand ups. Amazing what you can do when you don’t give up forfeits and keep it simple.
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Post by Defcord on Feb 15, 2024 20:18:18 GMT -6
I don’t think anyone is doing that. If your plan is to go for two you certainly aren’t taking the ball first. Maybe I’m missing something. Well you might not have a choice if you get the ball first or not. If you are forced to have the ball first, I think it eliminates your option to go for two.
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Post by Defcord on Feb 15, 2024 20:11:19 GMT -6
I'll be really interested to see how many guys will actually go for two if they score on the first possession over am extended period of time. Miss it and lose to an extra point and that's a tough press conference after the game. I don’t think anyone is doing that. If your plan is to go for two you certainly aren’t taking the ball first. Maybe I’m missing something.
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Post by Defcord on Feb 15, 2024 19:14:26 GMT -6
I agree. But it seems that most people are saying it is a mistake to take the ball first because Mahomes is going to do whatever it takes. But if you play that logic out, that means that the 49ers will HAVE to score a TD and HAVE to go for 2 and get it no matter if they get the ball first and second. That is a tall order. Possessions are the most important thing. If I can get 1 or more possessions than my opponents , then I increase my chance to win and if in sudden death overtime (after both teams get a possession), it should greatly increase my chance. But for some reason, it seems that most everyone on this thread thinks that you should go second. Trying to wrap my brain around how Mahomes is unstoppable and let's possibly give him more possessions helps you win. It just sounds like 20/20 hindsight. If 49ers would have elected to give the Chiefs the ball first and the Chiefs score and then 49ers go down and score, and then Chiefs kick a FG to win, this thread would be so different.
Who can honestly say that before last Sunday night, that they would defend the 49ers decision to give Mahomes an extra freaking possession!!!BE HONEST!!Look at it in this perspective. What's better chances of positive outcome. Let PM know what he must do to win (which he has a track record of in these situations) OR say We supposedly have the best offense in NFL. In an overtime situation let them know what they must do, and if it comes down to a 2pt conversion, or giving the ball back to PM. Is my chances better seeing if my offense can gain 2 yds or give ball back to him knowing what he has to do. My perspective is based on players. This guy obviously is special. Do you allow Jordan to take the last shot to win the championship? or do you make him shoot first and put the ball in your hands for a championship? I feel like people are missing this. Just because it feels like Jordan hit every shot. He didn’t! There’s no good options when playing a literal elite, but these dudes are still mortal. Take the ball stop the human.
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Post by Defcord on Feb 15, 2024 13:28:09 GMT -6
The scenario you are looking for is that they stop the Chiefs and then score. Mahomes as good as he is, isn't going to score every time. The Chiefs didn't score a touchdown at all in the first half and lost 6 games during the season. Mahomes is good, but he's not unstoppable. I agree. But it seems that most people are saying it is a mistake to take the ball first because Mahomes is going to do whatever it takes. But if you play that logic out, that means that the 49ers will HAVE to score a TD and HAVE to go for 2 and get it no matter if they get the ball first and second. That is a tall order. Possessions are the most important thing. If I can get 1 or more possessions than my opponents , then I increase my chance to win and if in sudden death overtime (after both teams get a possession), it should greatly increase my chance. But for some reason, it seems that most everyone on this thread thinks that you should go second. Trying to wrap my brain around how Mahomes is unstoppable and let's possibly give him more possessions helps you win. It just sounds like 20/20 hindsight. If 49ers would have elected to give the Chiefs the ball first and the Chiefs score and then 49ers go down and score, and then Chiefs kick a FG to win, this thread would be so different.
Who can honestly say that before last Sunday night, that they would defend the 49ers decision to give Mahomes an extra freaking possession!!!BE HONEST!!If I am being honest, I only engaged because it's the middle of February and I have my football checklist complete and an hour until the end of the school day. I think you are spot on that an extra possession for the Chiefs is not a great decision and that many are thinking in hindsight. I am not in the party that believes that Mahomes is going to score no matter what in those overtime possessions. If that is the case, you better be working on 2-point plays and taking the ball second.
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Post by Defcord on Feb 15, 2024 13:19:45 GMT -6
The scenario you are looking for is that they stop the Chiefs and then score. Mahomes as good as he is, isn't going to score every time. The Chiefs didn't score a touchdown at all in the first half and lost 6 games during the season. Mahomes is good, but he's not unstoppable. Correct, BUT he did and Has scored when they Must in the playoffs except for one time vs Bengals. His other losses are against the Goat, so they are acceptable lol. Well of course. But do you as an NFL team look out there and just concede that he is going to score? You are a Super Bowl defense. I feel like the game plan and expectation has to be to stop him. Why even play the overtime? Just let them have the trophy and get to bed early.
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Post by Defcord on Feb 15, 2024 13:06:31 GMT -6
Let me ask a question for everyone especially those who say that Mahomes is ALWAYS going to what it takes to win. (By the way, I am not arguing that he won't. Ha). Describe a scenario where the 49ers get the ball second and win? The only one I can come up with is the Chiefs score and kick an xpt and then the 49ers score and go for 2 and get it. The scenario you are looking for is that they stop the Chiefs and then score. Mahomes as good as he is, isn't going to score every time. The Chiefs didn't score a touchdown at all in the first half and lost 6 games during the season. Mahomes is good, but he's not unstoppable.
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Post by Defcord on Feb 15, 2024 13:01:51 GMT -6
Reason #4: you let the best DL for KC go unblocked while faking a sweep play opposite of him with the game on the line. Reason #5...all of the above reasons are not the responsibility of your DC, but you fire him after the game.
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Post by Defcord on Feb 14, 2024 11:20:08 GMT -6
Making physical contact with another human in anger is unacceptable. Regardless of judgement on the situation at-large relationally between the two humans here in Reid and Kelce. I draw a hard line at physical confrontation..it's unacceptable, even if by accident. The consequences can be debated, but to say it is nothing or inconsequential, I just can't get my mind wrapped around that. Had the questionable judgement of verbal confrontation been avoided, then there would have been no accidental physical confrontation. And Kelce has already said as much. Which makes it "nothing" I don't think him acknowledging his mistake makes it nothing. I think him acknowledging his mistake give credence to the level of unacceptability. And should help move to a remedy between him and Coach Reid as well with the public fandom at large.
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Post by Defcord on Feb 14, 2024 11:12:49 GMT -6
Making physical contact with another human in anger is unacceptable. Regardless of judgement on the situation at-large relationally between the two humans here in Reid and Kelce. I draw a hard line at physical confrontation..it's unacceptable, even if by accident.
The consequences can be debated, but to say it is nothing or inconsequential, I just can't get my mind wrapped around that.
Had the questionable judgement of verbal confrontation been avoided, then there would have been no accidental physical confrontation.
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Post by Defcord on Feb 13, 2024 10:38:10 GMT -6
Effort Jerseys Daily #1 Thing.. Currently in the off-season for lifting and other sports - still doing POTW.. We give away gatorade and snacks daily based on practice. Our best rising 9th grader in attendance wins the hard hat award. He brings it to every game and places it on the sledgehammer pre-game. hardest worker. Old School - we called the offense blackshirts - (they got blackshirts when they earned it by having no loafs in a game as long as they played at least 10 plays) REWARD the behaviors you want without embarrassing the other kids. Coach this is great stuff! But I gotta know..what's in that red solo cup?! in the video?
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Post by Defcord on Feb 12, 2024 10:44:21 GMT -6
I know a guy that coached near Hilton Head and there was a big time booster that put him up in his beach house... until he lost of course. re OBX, c'mon you don't like driving 2 hours to get to work? We're in Raleigh for a reason, it WAS cheaper to live here for higher pay. Bought at the right time during COVID but before the boom. I'm paying 40% of what I did to rent and I have a pool out back and a gym in my basement. My wife and I got priced out of Wake County. We rented in Wake County while teaching in Harnett County. Debated switching jobs to Wake County for a shorter commute, but realized we would never be able to buy a house in Wake County, so we bought in Harnett County. Easily a $100,000 difference in the same house 25 miles south. I coached in Harnett County in 2005 and 2006. There's a handful of guys who passed through there on this board. It's kind of wild since it's just a middle of nowhere area.
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Post by Defcord on Feb 12, 2024 8:43:38 GMT -6
I am in rural Indiana currently. We have moved a bunch so we rented the last ten years. We are originally from here so right at the beginning of Covid we bought a 386 square foot lake cottage for like 50K on a 2.75% mortgage.
Last year I took a head coaching job here so when we moved back we stayed in our cottage until we could find something reasonable. We are still waiting. I refuse to pay double what a house is worth knowing that the market reset is possible in the near future and probable at some point soon.
It really hasn't been miserable, but our son is a teenager and dying to get into a real house. Our mortgage is under $300 a month so I am in much less of a hurry.
Housing is rough right now and the cost of everything else makes it way worse. I don't know how people can stretch their budgets to have house payments that take up a significant portion of their income. Being tight on finances stresses me out worse than living in a tiny house.
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Post by Defcord on Feb 11, 2024 7:18:44 GMT -6
I think there’s some nuance to this.
If you are saying hey these are my guys like you have a connection with them. That’s fine.
If you are in a meeting and someone else wants to use a kid in your group for a role that you don’t coach and you say those are my guys as a possessive then that’s a bad deal.
I’ve been at two schools where coaches did the latter regularly and it’s pretty shittty. One of the schools was two platooned and the offensive side would always say guys were there’s and we’d just roll with whoever was available after their guys had been selected. Then we’d take a kid who they didn’t think could play and get him coached up and he’d have a great game on defense and special teams and he’d end one of their guys before long.
That experience made me really despise coaches who hoard players. It’s all ego to make their side or their group perform better without any concern for the overall success of the program at large.
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Post by Defcord on Feb 9, 2024 12:35:19 GMT -6
I am a big do both everyday guy. I think consistency is such a huge advantage over the long run.
This quote really hits home for me on this question.
"If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it."
Jascha Heifetz
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