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Post by Defcord on Nov 10, 2023 8:46:38 GMT -6
A lot of schools that I have seen use this VNN, however it is rarely up to date. When you go to a schools website and click on the athletics link it takes you to an outside source ran by VNN. Our school uses it and I know we have never updated it as a football staff. VNN sucks. Ours has had all kinds of issues getting stuff input and updated. They wanted to keep giving us work arounds so I finally said eff it and refused to use it until it worked properly again. That was about 6 weeks ago. Maybe others have bad better issues, but if someone is actively searching for a source for building a team website, I would not recommend VNN.
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Post by Defcord on Oct 26, 2023 15:47:13 GMT -6
44 gets an "atta boy" from you his coach for the effort. But you yourself said he never stopped BC's progress in either case. Also - in your first scenario, how does 44 "wrap up" the BC if he's "hold(ing) on to his leg"? In your second, if 44's "hold(ing) on for 5 seconds" if he stopped BC's progress whistle would've been blown. He just went for a ride waiting for the Thundering Herd to arrive. Slowing a BC down is not stopping his forward progress and therefore not making a tackle. Right. So 44 is the one who really made the plays, and got nothing. Which is all ok really in my book. I dislike stats, especially football defensive stats. This is also why college coaches don't care about high school stats. AT ALL. Doesn’t the stat definition for a tackle allow for rare cases to have a third player to be credited with an assist. Your situation may warrant that. Guys hopping on the pile late not so much and a guy grabbing but not making the play or setting up the play not so much either. Defensive stats do suck overall, in regards to tackles specifically. Legitimate tackling stats do help gauge defensive production though so I see some benefit in them as a coach.
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Post by Defcord on Oct 25, 2023 13:06:34 GMT -6
We had a kid on our schedule register 151 tackles through nine games. Our top tackler had 63 and our next two had 45 and 44.
Some guys just stat out everyone on the pile.
My second year coaching we had a kid that has 134 tackles in 11 games he’s still one of the top 5 defenders I have ever seen play the game.
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Post by Defcord on Oct 24, 2023 13:11:52 GMT -6
I miss the old trade classified boards when you could post that shitt and maybe get something for it in return.
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Post by Defcord on Oct 16, 2023 14:39:52 GMT -6
Sweep pass is a two minute install and gets a lot of mileage as a big play while also easing the secondary off of your run game.
We have a flea flicker off of our wedge play that is pretty sick.
I’m probably a little more liberal with trick plays than most of the board. I think they’re fun. We don’t run them enough where I am at now but eventually will.
We have faked a handful of punts with varying success. The one that gives teams problems is we run speed option with two of our three shield guys and wheel the punter out of the backfield. The pitch off of speed is usually enough to hold grab the deep player’s eyes enough to clear the QB.
But my all time favorite trick plays is to design something for a lineman. We tell our lineman if they have perfect attendance during the we will get them the ball on offense. We had three guys do it so we have one to still get the ball too this week in the playoffs. When you have a play in for a lineman it adds a ton of energy to your offense that week because no one wants to let that kid down when he gets his big shot. Could be great way to lighten the mood and also find a little extra motivation for your offense coming into a big week.
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Oct 11, 2023 4:53:33 GMT -6
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Post by Defcord on Oct 11, 2023 4:53:33 GMT -6
What I didn't like was officials who called stuff that DIDN'T happen (couldn't see on film) as if they were making things up or materially affect the play (like Holding on opposite side of field from where play was run for ex.). Exactly!!! I've been saying this for years. I don't care if they miss a call that could have been made. I get steamed when they make a call based on circumstantial evidence (ex. kid makes a great, legal block, ref turns, sees blocked kid falling forwards because he turned to the ball carrier as he was being knocked down, ref calls clip, I drink three more tequilas later that evening.) You must’ve had some of the crews we’ve been blessed with this year. Keeping local liquors in business around here too!
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Post by Defcord on Oct 11, 2023 4:51:56 GMT -6
Kids I’ve had like that have to get on campus to get offers. If they aren’t getting invited for visits or camps directly send them anyway. It’s too late for a senior but I had a kid like yours that 6’4 215 and everyone told him they liked him but didn’t offer. He went to camp and got offered that day. Went to another camp following week and another offer. After that other schools started offering him and inviting him for official visits. This was summer before his senior year. I’ve only had one kid get offered without going on campus out of the handful I had. Single parent home. It’s had been super tough for him to get to a bunch of the campuses that have invited him. I understand that. And it’s a tough situation but a few hundred dollars and some Saturday drives could be a good investment in the long run. I’d take kids to the camps myself and usually pay for them out of my own pocket if I had to. Not all coaches are in that position I understand. Some schools will allow you to pay for kids camps out of athletic or booster funds as well. And most will let a coach take a mini bus, district vehicle or pay mileage. I’m sure you guys are doing all you can for your kid, but maybe those are some things you can look into next time. Hate to see a kid slip through. Ive had kids have to decide between walking on or going D2 that I thought were good enough to play D1 but couldn’t afford to walk on. It’s pretty maddening.
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Post by Defcord on Oct 10, 2023 6:47:46 GMT -6
Kids I’ve had like that have to get on campus to get offers.
If they aren’t getting invited for visits or camps directly send them anyway. It’s too late for a senior but I had a kid like yours that 6’4 215 and everyone told him they liked him but didn’t offer. He went to camp and got offered that day. Went to another camp following week and another offer. After that other schools started offering him and inviting him for official visits. This was summer before his senior year.
I’ve only had one kid get offered without going on campus out of the handful I had.
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Post by Defcord on Sept 28, 2023 1:54:27 GMT -6
I took a head coaching job this off season in a program that hasn’t traditionally been very successful.
He plays linebacker and I couldn’t find a linebacker coach so I am his position coach. I thought it was going to suck but it’s actually been very fun.
He’s such a coachable kid and that makes it easy. I’ve had to start him the last two games because of injury and last game he had 10 tackles, 2 for loss and a sack. I was pretty dang proud as a dad.
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Post by Defcord on Sept 12, 2023 19:00:36 GMT -6
O Line coach, "You gotta stop that 1 tech from penetrating the A Gap!" Substitute O Lineman, "Coach, the dude's moving!" Our OL coach in high school accidentally said something like “Boys we cant let anyone penetrate the a hole.” We all giggled. And then he realized why and he was like “gap!!!! A GAPPP!!!!”
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Post by Defcord on Sept 11, 2023 19:59:41 GMT -6
My favorite was we had a defensive linemen who would crowd the ball and the officials would always tell us he needed to back up a little bit.
At half I was trying to be funny and said just move back the amount of your weiner and you should be fine. Another defensive lineman said “Well coach looks like I’m playing safety!”
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Post by Defcord on Aug 24, 2023 17:28:19 GMT -6
What I am seeing is a greater variety of scheme. With the ease of access to film and social media football coaches showing the inner workings of NFL/NCAA teams, the coordinators are getting more comfortable with doing more stuff. Pre Covid we got pretty much generic spread football from most opponents. On the other hand, I am seeing less focus and worse fundamentally sound football. Just basic stuff like stance & start, back pedal, route running, blocking and tackling. My guess is that there are less position coach craftsmen out there who really grind on basics and get the repetitious minutia correct. The running joke around here is the visor wearing OC with the facemelter offensive wizardry, but the truth is scheme is what is getting glorified in football and the people who create football content are pushing their products. You will get more hits on your Youtube page showing the new way to run Mesh that you will showing WR blocking drills. The facemelting is starting to be an issue on the defensive side of the ball, too in my experience... I swear in the last two years I’ve heard a hundred new terms for shitt. I’ll be like what the hell is lightning thunder tornado blizzard check tsunami? Then it’s basically an amalgamation of bullshitt that has an answer for every offensive play ever invented with a punt return and field goal block built in.
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Post by Defcord on Aug 17, 2023 19:54:13 GMT -6
I know a team in Indiana that doesn’t tackle in games, unfortunately!
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Post by Defcord on Aug 10, 2023 20:52:17 GMT -6
Coach everyone here is saying way smarter things than I could.
But on two occasions I messed up my back with over strain. Once while moving and once trying to hit a 5 wood 335 yards which 125 yards further than I could hit it on a good day.
I don’t go to the doctor and that’s all you need to know to stop reading.
But if you are still here when I was walking around and not able to stand up a lady down the hall told me to do side planks everyday on both sides and I’d feel better in a week. I couldn’t hardly lay down and if I did I sure as hell couldn’t get back up. But I hurt so bad I gave it a try. After the third day I felt way better. After a week I was basically pain free. After two weeks stopped the planks and pain stayed away.
It probably won’t work. But I know that it worked well enough to get on here and write this post so everyone can see how stupid I am about pain and doctors.
If there’s no risk of it getting worse I’d definitely recommend trying planks for a couple days. But definitely ask your doctor to make sure it’s not going to add to the pain.
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Post by Defcord on Aug 5, 2023 11:33:47 GMT -6
this reminds me of one of the all time great stories so back in the day of VHS cameras, the coaching staff was sitting around goofing off in the FH after a two-a-day workout, had one of those giant cameras that takes a VHS tape inside. So the guys are getting a little rowdy and one dude is filming "interviews" of all the assistants where they are saying off-the-wall crap. So the final interview goes to the HC who is asked "coach just why did they make you the boss anyway?" "cuz I got the biggest F___in C_ck in the state" he then proceeds to pull it out and show it to the camera everybody laughs and the tape gets rewound and kept in the camera to be recorded over with practice film next day. Time marches on and the season comes to an end, back in them days kids who wanted to make a highlight tape they had to go to a multi VCR deck and pull out each game tape and record the clips they wanted, so this one kids makes a team highlight tape to show at a house party and pulls a random tape out of the box to record it on....you see where this is going house party with team and parents....highlight video ends.."welcome to the jungle" fades away...few seconds of darkness, then the tape starts playing something else "coach..why did they make you the boss anyway?" nobody survived that one This is still the greatest story ever told on here! Classic! Was probably silkyice
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Post by Defcord on Jul 29, 2023 9:44:17 GMT -6
Remember: Water makes them weak. Run them till you get tired! I wake up tired so they won’t be running much
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Post by Defcord on Jul 24, 2023 11:40:09 GMT -6
👀. Right around the corner. What state coach? Indiana
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Post by Defcord on Jul 23, 2023 7:14:40 GMT -6
If it’s within the rules I don’t care what they wear. This is my second go round on being a head coach. The first time I cared about and tried to control every little thing. We looked good but I was in a bad mood all the time.
I’d rather be happy and look silly these days.
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Post by Defcord on Jul 22, 2023 5:17:30 GMT -6
Anyone have a preseason checklist you use to make sure you are ready to roll.
I accepted a head coaching job and when we start on July 31 I want to make sure I am not forgetting anything. I have one made already but if anyone cares to share, I’d love to see it so I can double check mine.
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Post by Defcord on Jul 20, 2023 4:50:14 GMT -6
If you are waiting until just before your first organized practice of the season to test the players you are way too late! You need to test right at the end of the school year to find out what you are dealing with, and to set goals for the kids to accomplish in the preseason. I always thought that a lot of times the testing led to disappointing results for me. You end up worrying about what you don't have. I guess I reached the point where, while I wanted the kids to improve and work at getting faster and stronger, come early August, I'd rather have kids who could learn assignments and play hard, and I didn't have to waste time worrying how they tested out. That kid who runs the 4.5 forty isn't as useful as the kid who runs the 4.9 forty if he is running in the wrong direction. Many moons ago, I was at a program where the HC tested kids at the end of the year/beginning of summer and then right before the season. One was the 40 yard dash. Beginning of summer marked off/painted a start and finish line that was 41 yards long. End of summer marked off/painted a start and finish line that was 39 yards long. When I was a baseball coach at one school we did the opposite in the visitor bullpen. Set it up at like 57 or 58 feet and a high mound. Kids were feeling great warming up and then got in the game and felt like they lost it. It was a pretty big douche move but kind of funny. We ended up resetting the mounds as we built the program because we had a bunch of pitchers and needed them to practice. Leave it to coaches to do silly stuff.
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Post by Defcord on Jun 25, 2023 12:45:16 GMT -6
The school installed speakers in our weight room but I couldn't tell you the make. The boys thought they were good. Careful how you go about music though. I would tell my boys playing music would solely depend on their intensity with the workouts. Also...I let them use their music lists, BUT...the lyrics of ANY song could not disparage, demean, degrade, or be derogatory in nature. Definitely NOTHING vulgar! Surprisingly they would come to me and ask me to listen to their lists first, and again...surprisingly...I only rejected a few songs. Once, and only once, did a kid try to slip a list past me. No music for the remainder of the workout that day. The team wasn't upset with me...but...they let that kid know his place, and that it wasn't cool with them. So you guys listen to all instrumentals?
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Post by Defcord on Jun 24, 2023 12:51:56 GMT -6
I didn’t necessarily mean “highlight reel” literally so much as his MO as a player. I don’t believe Moss set himself apart through technical skill, being driven, and playing hard so much as just being a freak of nature. I will agree with that point 100%. If he wasn't a freak of nature, we most likely would not know he was. Even if he was the smartest player ever, that is not what set him apart. But isn’t there something about putting the two together? Being a freak athlete and a mental elite at the same time?
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Post by Defcord on Jun 22, 2023 20:50:02 GMT -6
I didn’t let my son play until 7th grade. He begged every year but I just didn’t feel comfortable with him playing in the league he would’ve had to play in because of the lack of trained coaches and just overall safety in general.
There’s plenty of other things to do.
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Post by Defcord on Jun 21, 2023 4:26:05 GMT -6
I marked different but worse, but not because of any particular game style/penalty changes or technique differences. My take has nothing to do with football. Kids today don't (as a whole) know how to collision their bodies, or even fall down. They don't know how to fall off a bike, roller skates, or how to tumble. They aren't taught those things and when they even try to 'rough house' aren't allowed to do so. We played tackle football everyday on the play ground. Full blown football without pads. We did it in the morning waiting for the 1st bell. During recess. During 'PE'. If we didn't have time to divide up teams, we played Kill the Man with the Ball. We also played games like King of the Mountain/Dock. I had a pair of boxing gloves and we take an egg timer and box. We used to practice our favorite 'wrasslin' moves on each other. When were actually were taught a skill or discipline in PE, it included things like tumbling and wrestling. In HS my freshman year we had a full 3 week unit in gymnastics; dive rolls, flips, etc... I'm not trying to impress anyone with a back in the day story, but when is the last time 3rd graders were allowed to allowed to roughhouse at all on the playground? Tackling involves a collision. Those are not natural, you have to learn how to brace the body and use certain points of impact. I understand and agree with the points you are making. I will say that the tackling wheels can really help in this regard as well as using dummies in creative ways to work tackling at full speed, physically and to the ground. I’ve been places it’s hard to get good tacking work because the guy simulating the ball carrier won’t/can’t give a solid look to run an effective drill. The tackling wheels really give such a great opportunity to do a lot of stuff to fill in some of the gaps you describe.
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Post by Defcord on Jun 18, 2023 11:39:28 GMT -6
Our tackling has gotten tremendously better in the last 6-8 years. I was a head across, bite the ball tackler because that’s how I learned it.
When we went to rugby tackling and worked tracking a ton, we have really eliminated most of our missed tackles because we rarely give up a cutback any more unless we completely bust on the fit.
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Post by Defcord on Jun 13, 2023 7:57:18 GMT -6
We do a ton of stuff.
We a football golf game with our tackling wheels and pair then by grade. One kid on the team punts the first shot and after that it’s kicked off the ground and the kids kicking rotate each time within their team. They don’t go their next ball until all teams have kicked and I yell go. Then they sprint. We tell them that’s the conditioning part of it. We can usually get 3 holes in in ten minutes. If you want it to go faster you could have them throw it.
We do a long snap relay with teams of four from sideline to sideline. We go down and back.
We will use tackling wheels and do long toss/discus with it and use half rounds and do like a javelin toss.
Relay races are always a good one and can do them different ways. We a lot of them starting with splitting a double team. We always have the double team set up with offensive linemen with hand shields with 2 foot split. We do it to help work out double teams and to help defensive players getting used to playing tough football.
We do a really silly one where we have two kids stand on old square dummies and hold a half round and they have to hit each of with the half round till one falls off.
Tug of war is classic. We use a dog toy rope that is 18 or 24” and so 1 on 1s with it
We have one called snacks in the grass where they tuck a yellow scout jersey into the back of their shorts or practice pants and then they chase each other around and try to pull it out. Last man with a jersey wins.
Obstacle course are always good.
We do NCAA tournament style brackets that pretty fun. If you Google tournament bracket maker you can get free and easy to use ones. We’ve done it with board drills, with 1 on 1s, with paper rock scissors. If you have multiple coaches prepping the next matchups it can go in ten minutes if not could take longer but kids love it.
On stupid hot days we will do a chug relay with Gatorade. Split them in two teams and give them a Gatorade. First guy on team goes and next guy cant go until a cos h confirms he’s drank his whole drink. We finish with coaches usually to keep those guys hydrated as well.
We will do football trivia too and kids love it. Usually put a coach on the team because kids struggle on some of the information but we try to make it pretty easy.
We will do American gladiator style get a ball in a trash can with levels of guys defending it the guy with the ball has to defeat and the last level they have to split a double team.
I’ve probably got a hundred of these things. We believe in competing and having fun so we spend five to ten minute a day doing stuff. Usually it’s pretty football specific but we will get a little gamier at least once a week.
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Post by Defcord on Jun 8, 2023 21:03:25 GMT -6
We are going 6-8 in the evenings Monday to Thursday. I ask coaches to set their own schedule but be there when they sign up.
I ask players to make 3 out of 4. They aren’t used to consistently showing up so I offer 4 to get 3. If we can get a good standard set, we will only schedule three days in the future.
We are basically in weightroom an hour and on field for an hour.
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Post by Defcord on Jun 8, 2023 3:10:23 GMT -6
I am much too impatient to join the middle aged man smoked/bbq'd/grilled/etc club. Don't get me wrong, I love to eat it, but there's no way I could cook it. All that prep, sitting around in the heat for hours, owning 16 different grills. Just not me. Heck, I think 20 mins on my gas grill is an eternity sometimes. Just like a Sat football meeting from 7am-5pm, watching 9 hours of film on a team that can't even snap the ball, or 3.5 hour practices to play a team that drops 80% of their passes but is "Air Raid"- it's a way to get away from their wife and kids. I used to have a guy on my staff that did the laundry on Friday nights after everyone left. Same reason, but a little more nefarious. We were all pretty sure he was sneaking in some ladies afterwards. I used to always tell him I would help him do it and he would have none of it. Later one me and a buddy headed back up there because I forgot my dvd of the game. Sure enough our buddy and our centers mom were, well we will call it soaking the uniforms.
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Post by Defcord on Jun 2, 2023 8:49:59 GMT -6
I get the usefulness of it as a tool, but I really enjoy being a human. As fas using it to find answers during the game, I am skeptical about the actual effectiveness. It feels like buying a system as a quick fix instead of learning how to actually coach kids to execute it. Seems like the best time to ask would be in game planning and then have time to implement the answers, but still I like the personal nature of coaching. I like digging for answers to solve the puzzle and I like the challenge of getting kids to be able to execute those answers. As far as using it as a communication tool, I also see the effectiveness but it’s so generic it certainly can’t match tone or voice of an individual. Kids are using it to cheat and class and it has made it harder to prove but not catch. Used to theyd copy from some website so you could Google a full sentence of an essay and the site would pop right up that they copied from. Can’t do that with ChatGPT. But once you read the essay it’s flawless in punctuation and uses a noticeable different verbiage than the individuals. I don’t mind it in either scenario as a means to start gathering information but to find full and final answers I don’t think it can do that…yet. Back to football. If a team is killing you with power, I would hope as a coach you were expecting to see it and already had your adjustments ready and repped. You can copy and paste into chatgpt and it will tell you if it wrote it That’s good to know. Thank you
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Post by Defcord on Jun 2, 2023 4:09:50 GMT -6
I get the usefulness of it as a tool, but I really enjoy being a human.
As fas using it to find answers during the game, I am skeptical about the actual effectiveness. It feels like buying a system as a quick fix instead of learning how to actually coach kids to execute it. Seems like the best time to ask would be in game planning and then have time to implement the answers, but still I like the personal nature of coaching. I like digging for answers to solve the puzzle and I like the challenge of getting kids to be able to execute those answers.
As far as using it as a communication tool, I also see the effectiveness but it’s so generic it certainly can’t match tone or voice of an individual. Kids are using it to cheat and class and it has made it harder to prove but not catch. Used to theyd copy from some website so you could Google a full sentence of an essay and the site would pop right up that they copied from. Can’t do that with ChatGPT. But once you read the essay it’s flawless in punctuation and uses a noticeable different verbiage than the individuals.
I don’t mind it in either scenario as a means to start gathering information but to find full and final answers I don’t think it can do that…yet.
Back to football. If a team is killing you with power, I would hope as a coach you were expecting to see it and already had your adjustments ready and repped.
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