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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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Post by Defcord on Feb 8, 2024 13:21:38 GMT -6
I finished year 20 this year and in this thread feel like one of the young ones. You guys that have been around for 30, 40, 50+ years have my greatest respect.
I have no intention of getting out. I took a season off 7-8 years ago and was refreshed, but hated the free time. There's only two things in life that I love and that's my family and football. I don't know that it was always in that order but I have gotten to where I can be pretty good at both simultaneously and a decent teacher as well.
I'll gladly give up the classroom when finances allow me, but I hope to die out there on the field some day between the numbers and the hash getting a kid ready for the next play with the officials bitchinng at me to stay in the coaches box. Or fall off the press box celebrating a defensive touchdown that helped win the game.
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Post by Defcord on Feb 6, 2024 17:29:59 GMT -6
Many moons ago, a buddy of mine had his own (not the HC) reward system like this. We had navy blue helmets with a yellow/gold letter logo..... simple, classic. My buddy was the DC. He created a reward/stripe system for his 'Lawyers' --- those that 'laid down the law'. This could be a big hit, being a tackling machine, being a hard nosed eater of double teams, etc...... It wasn't anything that could be statically counted necessairly, just your simple construct of 'being a football player'. He started with his own nomination process but it evolved into letting the players themselves nominate others into the club. Basically if you had a 'really good game' you would get nominated for consideration. If you followed up that good game with another good game then the members would vote on whether to let you in, then you could get elected into the club or they club would place their expectation for getting elected -- number of tackles/sacks/big wow hits/etc.... Your reward was getting a stripe down the middle of your helmet. From there it evolved. First you were a Lawyer = one 1/4 inch piece of yellow/gold tape down the middle of your helmet. If you progressed/kept 'laying the law' you could get more stripes for being a Judge 2 1/8 stripes on each side of the middle stripe. The next step was Chief Justice, and then Supreme Court Judge and stripes to go with it. I thought it was a unique motivational tool, because the kids talked about it all the time both defensive and offensive guys. It wan't just for defense, it was just this one coaches way of making the program and the game of football special. We had a QB get his stripe when he passed for 480+ yards in a game (this was a BIG deal back 25 years ago) and another for being a 'nasty' OL. After Supreme Court chief justice…judge Judy!
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Post by Defcord on Feb 6, 2024 12:24:52 GMT -6
Don't put on a clinic on the field. Coach them on the run and fix it in film is probably the best advice I ever got.
I like this too:
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Post by Defcord on Feb 6, 2024 8:35:05 GMT -6
Not a great look to have a bunch of non striped helmets on the sidelines and a bunch of striped on the field.... Also not a good look to have a bunch of kids who didn't do the right things.
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Post by Defcord on Jan 30, 2024 14:16:27 GMT -6
Some of the teams we have played that were really talented and not so well coached tended to give up more big plays on defense, have more turnovers on offense and committed more personal fouls and presnap penalties.
Playing these teams drive me crazy because they typically can score in one play and make games close, but it beats playing a more talented team that is also well coached.
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Post by Defcord on Jan 27, 2024 7:13:01 GMT -6
It’s me.
Was fun to talk a little ball with these guys.
I’m definitely not big time just a football coach that’s been around here a while and learned a lot from it.
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Post by Defcord on Jan 25, 2024 17:13:14 GMT -6
He posted some Gary Patterson TCU stuff and was assassinated. Rumor has it Cody Alexander was the trigger man
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Post by Defcord on Jan 17, 2024 13:48:26 GMT -6
If the job is still a good job, I would much rather follow the legend at the good job than some turd a shittty job.
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Post by Defcord on Jan 12, 2024 11:30:50 GMT -6
The importance of the eyes as part of performance is something that I really embraced because of Coach Saban. As a coach or player to maximize potential you have to have great eye discipline. I’ve been doing this twenty years and one of the biggest catalysts for improving players across the board had been placing a high emphasis on eye discipline.
Also Coach’s ability to embrace change has been hugely impactful on an old stubborn asss like me.
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Post by Defcord on Jan 11, 2024 5:56:51 GMT -6
I had read 4th and Goal Everyday recently. The level of detail the man had was unreal and his ability to adapt and grow over time was most impressive.
A truly colossal figure in our profession.
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Post by Defcord on Jan 7, 2024 14:27:14 GMT -6
I have had these situations start but the parent contract stops it at square 1. 1. We do not talk about playing time 2. We do not talk about strategy 3. We do not talk about another persons kid I would also add when we have a conversation about your kid, they will be in the meeting. I started doing this because a buddy recommended it. It doesn’t cure all but It cuts right through a lot of the parental BS.
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Post by Defcord on Dec 31, 2023 10:06:40 GMT -6
Yeah that’s happening 🙄I truly despise private trainers. They have zero clue what it’s like out in the real world I’m gonna tell that kid on my team who lives in a run down trailer to eat grilled salmon and brown rice the night before the game Coach you are missing out. That’s the facemelter of diets!
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Post by Defcord on Dec 24, 2023 11:02:53 GMT -6
Mine has a section at the top with my degrees and teaching certificates. Then a list of my teaching positions, dates there and subjects taught. Then a list of my coaching positions, dates there and positions.
That takes up my first page. On my second page I have three professional references and three coaching references.
I’ve worked at 8 schools in five states with this format so either the resume works or I am good looking and smart enough to overlook the flaws. In all seriousness I think in general they just need enough information to know if you are qualified. Then they can get philosophy stuff or whatever else in interview.
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Post by Defcord on Dec 19, 2023 7:24:51 GMT -6
I don't like to put stats on Maxpreps. We stat out our games and share with our kids, but I don't see any major benefit to our program by posting them publicly. We trade rosters and two deep so that aspect of it doesn't make a difference. Why do you feel it's bush league not to share? You're doing your kids a disservice if you don't enter stats. Coaches should be promoting their kids and team whenever and wherever they can. The paranoia of other teams knowing your stats is ridiculous. I have no paranoia for the other team knowing our stats. It's somewhat time consuming and I don't think it really promotes kids or the program much. The only people who see stats on maxpreps are people who are going there to specifically find them. We have to do them because it's a league rule, but if it wasn't I wouldn't do the stats on maxpreps.
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Post by Defcord on Dec 12, 2023 9:37:25 GMT -6
I am a head coach. I don't care what the youth and junior high runs. I ask them to do three things.
1. Make sure kids love football. 2. Make sure every kid that is at ever practice plays and make sure any kid that misses practice can't start/play (have a consistet policy) 3. Make sure kids are working out twice a week and when you workout make sure all squats are parallel.
Other than that I don't care what they do.
The JV practices with us both coaching and player wise so they run what we run. I tell the coaches they can add some trick plays or a special blitz but overall they need to be running what we run. If they didn't, I would have a conversation before it got any further. If it continued after conversation, the guys running the stuff outside of expectation would no longer be making those calls.
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Post by Defcord on Dec 6, 2023 18:07:45 GMT -6
You can certainly make corrections (and also praise good plays) without having to spend time giving each kid a grade on every play. I told our kids we were watching game film in order to construct improved performances, that if we had to tell them every time they did something well-right we would be there for hours. Plus we expected that of them. So they shouldn't take criticism as personal. Also that when I was talking to one player at any position, I was talking to all of them so that they could learn-get "mental" reps whether they were in the game or not. In fact I rarely used a player's name. I would say "PST's first step needs to be more lateral" or whatever. You are spot on. For some reason I took your message as evaluating film more than grade film so I just read it wrong.
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Post by Defcord on Dec 6, 2023 13:41:19 GMT -6
I never felt that "grading" game film helped very much. They're our kids, they're all we've got. Can't trade them or pick up somebody else on the "waiver wire" like in NFL. Plus it's very subjective. If somebody is not getting it done, is the backup going to do it better? If so, you made a bad decision on who should be playing to begin with. That's the kind of the thing you do in college coaching to justify the money you make. I think the big thing in watching film is not so much the actual grade part of grading it. The feedback to the players is huge in improving their play because how they perceive things as they are playing versus how they actually performed is not always the same. Being able to give them and show them specific feedback makes a huge difference. The other thing with the film is that it helps the coach know what kids need to improve on. Even if there isn't another player next in line, by knowing the performance levels of players on specific tasks can help the coach decide on what drills to use and also sometimes what schemes to adjust so that we aren't asking a kid to try to execute something they are not capable of. Grading just to have a percentage never made sense to me. But grading for feedback has made a huge difference in the players I have coached.
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Post by Defcord on Dec 6, 2023 12:28:32 GMT -6
I work on and off for 12 hours on Saturday and about 4 hours on Sunday.
It's a ton of time, some would probably say too much but I actually enjoy that part of coaching. Some of what I can do I could probably cut out but I don't want to. I think a good assistant could probably get everything done in 4 hours or so depending on the opponent.
As a coordinator here is what I did on the weekends task wise:
*For Previous Game -Defensive Stats from previous game -General defensive notes for coaches at all position to make sure we were seeing the same things and speaking the same language (2-3 things by position to emphasize...about 15-20 plays total) -Create position specific notes and share with players (I am noting out almost every play but ask assistant coaches to make a 10-15 play cutup for their groups) -Create a Loaf Reel (high accountability and detailed)
*For next game -Tag formations and play from previous game -Scouting Report on opponent -Our personnel -Practice Script for Monday (formations and top plays to line up) and Tuesday (all group and team periods)
As far as input from assistants, I am all ears as long as they have put in the work. If they have 22 minutes of film done and want to throw random ideas at me when they come to the meeting, I am not listening to them. I am pretty up front about this. If they have watched film and have detailed and logical suggestions, I take them very seriously.
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Post by Defcord on Dec 3, 2023 13:33:12 GMT -6
Is "Face Melter" or something similar on any of those clinic lineups? AHHHHH HEllo I own the patent on that. The Facemelter is a combination of R&S RPO, Wing T Power/DUO with some NMSU sprrinkled on the update. Start building trophy cases when you install the Face Melter. Completely empty formations. Not even a QB…try stacking the box versus that!
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Post by Defcord on Nov 29, 2023 12:56:58 GMT -6
When you are a head coach or coordinator and you hear a position coach, coaching something incorrectly, how do you address the situation?
Do you rip his asss?
Do you correct him on the field politely/respectfully?
Do you wait until you get back in the office and correct him so that he can correct it with the kids?
Do you do something else?
Does it matter if it is something that is new versus something you have explained to him before?
Any thoughts on this situation?
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Post by Defcord on Nov 29, 2023 10:54:42 GMT -6
If we had the time to do something like this during the school day, I would do it all on the field. Maybe set up various scenarios and then let them play them out a few times and explain the situation. I think being out on the field would help kids be engaged.
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Post by Defcord on Nov 29, 2023 8:16:54 GMT -6
I would even add maybe try kicking it out of bounds. We use the sky/pooch kick regularly and have had some go out of bounds and no one makes us rekick ever.
We have a dude that can score on KOR so we always make teams rekick. But I don't think that's the norm.
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Post by Defcord on Nov 28, 2023 12:02:23 GMT -6
The major clinics are all pretty much the same. Glazier, Nike COY, etc. I don't feel like one is better than the other and most of it is just going to get the staff together and have a little fun plus hear some guys talk about stuff that may or may not apply to you.
A guy I worked with before would always set us up to go visit other staffs at schools similar size and demographics to us that had either turned it around or was a traditional winner. It was pretty cool because they would give us the grand tour. Let us see their facilities/weightroom. Give us insight to how the practiced and managed their roster. Sometimes we could talk to their admin about what they thought was important to them from the football program and how they supported it and kept the program strong. Sometimes after the school day was over we would have a few drinks and BS as well. It's a good way to do learn specific to your situation.
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Post by Defcord on Nov 28, 2023 7:44:19 GMT -6
I don't ever kick it deep, especially to a D1 commit, ever.
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Post by Defcord on Nov 22, 2023 12:16:58 GMT -6
I’d say look to where they are putting their best players, where are they putting their worst players and how are those situations affecting their play calls.
Probably also try to figure out how are they calling their strength and what auto adjustments go they have.
How often do they pressure, why are they pressuring when they do.
Things like that is where I kind of look.
But really I’m not going to waste time trying to learn from someone or something I can’t get answers from. Find someone else that runs a similar defense and will answer your questions unless you are studying the opponents defense just to kill time and have fun in the off-season.
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Post by Defcord on Nov 21, 2023 10:31:04 GMT -6
Not physically safer. Just saying that if you fumble the snap under center the ball is right there. Either team could recover it. If you fumble a shotgun snap, you have time to recover. You also have to line up correctly and have someone behind the qb in gun snap in case of a long snap. If you are an under center team, stay under center. If you are a gun team, stay in gun. If I did both, I would choose to be in the gun to take a knee. What to me is risky, is being 100% gun and then going under center to take a knee in a one score game. This is also why it drives me nuts when officials throw a hissy fit and force our guys to lay off on a kneel down. If a spread team is taking their very first UC snap of the game to kneel it down we should at least be able to come off the ball and ensure that they actually get the snap secured. Alas, most officials here act like you've committed a war crime by touching anyone when they're kneeling it If it's a one score game we are putting four guys on the center with pressure, pressuring the other seven and trying to get the ball back. If it's more than a one score game, than we will back off and shake their hands. It's stupid (in my mind) in a one score game to just let the other team kneel it.
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Post by Defcord on Nov 15, 2023 13:15:33 GMT -6
I don't like to put stats on Maxpreps. We stat out our games and share with our kids, but I don't see any major benefit to our program by posting them publicly. We trade rosters and two deep so that aspect of it doesn't make a difference. Why do you feel it's bush league not to share? I could be wrong, but I have talked to a number of college coaches who say that stats on maxpreps led them to become aware of players. It could benefit the kids to post stats. That's understandable. I have had a different experience with colleges having low interest in stats, but if that is true it at least makes me feel like the time is a little more worth it. We have a conference rule that we have to post stats by Monday or our school pays $100 fine. We can't afford it so we put them in. But if I the rule went away or we had deep pockets, we wouldn't do it.
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Post by Defcord on Nov 15, 2023 8:56:30 GMT -6
Maxpreps should be used. I think it's bush league when teams don't post their stats. Kind of like not having an accurate roster on there. Maxpreps is great if the coaches use it correctly and accurately. IME, people here in our leagues are pretty accurate with their stats. Tackles is always a tough one because you never know how accurate those are. One guy might give a kid an assist for being late to the party while someone else doesn't. I don't like to put stats on Maxpreps. We stat out our games and share with our kids, but I don't see any major benefit to our program by posting them publicly. We trade rosters and two deep so that aspect of it doesn't make a difference. Why do you feel it's bush league not to share?
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Post by Defcord on Nov 11, 2023 10:50:48 GMT -6
We stop at 10. I think silky goes to failure We go to failure, but our highest planned reps is 8. So most kids aren't get many more than 10 anyways. Now some younger, inexperienced kids will sometimes get 15-20, but that is mainly because there max isn't correct. During the season, we continue to rep out on upper body, but we stop at what I call a "plus 1" on legs (deadlift, squats, cleans, etc.). So if the planned reps that day is 3, you would stop at 4. If it was 8, you would stop at 9, etc. We use Coach Silkyice’s program with a little more assistant than described but I am telling you drink the cool aid!!!!
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