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Post by Chris Clement on Nov 1, 2015 21:44:59 GMT -6
Well, you can in the NFL, there's enough parity and data to establish a certain level of confidence. If you made a high school chart from teams of generally similar calibres it wouldn't give you useful absolute numbers, but it would be useful in a relative way, you could see roughly what the value of field position is, and which increments of field position are more valuable than others.
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Post by Chris Clement on Nov 1, 2015 18:48:51 GMT -6
I don't think you'd ever have enough data to make such a chart based on one team. You'd probably want at least a thousand data points to feel good about your chart, so it's pretty easy if you include every game on your hudl account.
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Post by Chris Clement on Oct 31, 2015 17:22:52 GMT -6
It's Jr. High, so I assume it's a 2 year school, which is good for you, because you just need to get one good class and then you'll age out the previous culture. You can't get wrapped up in trying to change the high school, that's way beyond your purview. Your job is to help these kids now, and you'll have your hands more than full.
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Post by Chris Clement on Oct 31, 2015 17:05:50 GMT -6
Large by land size, it was in reference to some of the driving distances. It was just a little quip that clearly didn't cross the cultural divide. For example, Quebec is a nightmare because of the way it's structured. There are two cities that dwarf every other municipality and then a never ending expanse of small towns, and then the government arbitrarily decrees some schools as being "sports schools." When I coached at The Zoo, we were 2-5 hrs from EVERY school in our district, but we also played a spring schedule where the leagues were defined geographically, but no school in our spring league had more than 20% of our population, and none had a fraction of our resources. So I have some understanding of Texas' situation, but I can only imagine that the problem is exacerbated because people care probably way too much, which is why I asked a sincere question about whether people ever gerrymander the district lines, because it seems like there's a lot of slop on the equation. Furthermore, I think it would be a really interesting math question to set up a computer to do an algorithm factoring school size, location, historical strength, recent results, and key rivalries to automatically generate the districts on a year to year basis.
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Post by Chris Clement on Oct 31, 2015 15:23:49 GMT -6
So I the end how many "state champions" does Texas have? Seems like 60-ish? Also, I find it cute when Texans think their state is so big, but at the same time I wouldn't want to be involved in that nightmare of a redistributing effort. Sounds like a job for a math grad student. Do people try to gerrymander the process to help their pet school? You find me cute? At what point did you think it necessary to the discussion to slide in a little sly jab about texas? was my post about the size of our state deemed by you to be arrogant or sly? i'm trying to convey the fact that in a pocket of a state that is factually larger than the other 48 continental states there isn't a school of similar size within a hundred plus miles of said school, therefore, they must compete in a league that requires them to have more excessive travel. regardless of me being from texas i simply find it in poor taste to add "i find it cute" in such a condescending way. unprofessional and brings no value to the thread. i have not, to my knowledge, added "i find it cute" to any of your posts despite what i may of thought about their content, validity, or value. there is, likely, quite a bit of "cuteness" to some of your ideas - but if i were to point it out it would be unprofessional and serve no purpose other than to make me seem big by knocking you down. i mean, i think many of us would like to say "i find it cute when people with little to no idea of the inner workings of our area try to tell us how we should be doing things"... yet, as professionals, we realize this type of comment would only stir arguments rather than healthy debate. i'll be sure to read more of your posts to see what i find cute. Ok. Whoa, I was just teasing a little because there are five provinces significantly bigger than Texas. I agree that the redistricting is probably a nightmare, because it seems like Texas is full of small towns of varying sizes and its becomes a nigh-impossible task.
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Post by Chris Clement on Oct 31, 2015 2:51:49 GMT -6
That's a lot of guys, Chris! Yeah, it's a big staff, but most of our guys are coaching around their work schedules, and I forgot to include two backup OL coaches who are 35 and 25, but they're very much occasional guys. In an ideal world we'd have two guys at most positions. We also have 84 guys on the roster, so it gets a little unruly when you have 17 DBs in your group by yourself.
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Post by Chris Clement on Oct 30, 2015 22:48:39 GMT -6
So I the end how many "state champions" does Texas have? Seems like 60-ish?
Also, I find it cute when Texans think their state is so big, but at the same time I wouldn't want to be involved in that nightmare of a redistributing effort. Sounds like a job for a math grad student. Do people try to gerrymander the process to help their pet school?
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Post by Chris Clement on Oct 30, 2015 22:33:09 GMT -6
HC-62 OC-41 DC-42 QB-33 RB-50 RB-27 WR-34 WR-31 OL-35 DL-55 DL-38 LB-25 DB-39 DB-47 S&C-36 Scout-25 Scout-60 So that works out to 690/17=40.58, median of 38
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Post by Chris Clement on Oct 8, 2015 22:13:41 GMT -6
Come a certain point every season we end up with a couple coaches playing DB or receiver, but never in pads. I take my fair of share of bumps in Indy though, but it's worth it to emphasize ball security.
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Post by Chris Clement on Oct 7, 2015 22:12:25 GMT -6
I try to point out instances in game film that resemble specific drills we do.
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Post by Chris Clement on Oct 5, 2015 16:21:07 GMT -6
Dunkirk was an amphibious retreat!
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Post by Chris Clement on Sept 18, 2015 12:26:28 GMT -6
That's more than a little creepy.
I hate laminating and cutting wristband cards. Just min-numbing. I'm really glad I got to delegate that this year.
Tracking all our drug testing stuff is also a major drag, because of the people I'm forced to work with. I have to herd cats to get all the players' info and then deal with an administrative nincompoop at the other end.
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Post by Chris Clement on Sept 2, 2015 15:03:49 GMT -6
Depends how bad he messed up.
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Post by Chris Clement on Aug 27, 2015 14:14:48 GMT -6
3 weeks, around 25 practices? Holy hades, how many 2 a days are you allowed? We can't go 2 days in row with 2 a days and those are a full with a follow up walk through. I slightly miscounted. It's more like 20. We can practice as much as we want within certain dates, so we could have 40 if we wanted, but it wouldn't make much sense.
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Post by Chris Clement on Aug 26, 2015 14:56:56 GMT -6
3 weeks, around 25 practices?
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Post by Chris Clement on Aug 26, 2015 14:56:36 GMT -6
Ebay
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Post by Chris Clement on Aug 24, 2015 20:36:50 GMT -6
How long since his last post? (I'm on mobile)
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Post by Chris Clement on Aug 14, 2015 7:31:20 GMT -6
Scissor lift if people are willing...I went up on one to help film some fireworks for my job, went up at least 4-5 stories. Slightest of movements rock the boat, plus depending on time, season, location, there are for some reason bigger insects high up and they are quite annoying. Maybe city parks department has one they can loan for games? Of the solutions, it'll offer the most room/height to fit everyone on one unit. Perhaps one could buy some climbers clips for safety? For camera person, maybe a bed of a pickup at EZ? I can't imagine the city lending you a scissor lift without insisting on everyone wearing the appropriate harness.
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Post by Chris Clement on Aug 12, 2015 9:29:24 GMT -6
Hey, a {censored} product with good marketing can still sell.
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Post by Chris Clement on Aug 10, 2015 9:38:11 GMT -6
coachwoodall The thread title sounds like the title to a great book. Best wishes this season, and thank you for the thoughtful post. DIBS Here's my pitch: "The Lines Are All Painted" is a story of a football coach constantly trying to break through to the next level of achievement. Late one night, he has a conversation with the school groundskeeper that causes him to start thinking about the game in a whole new way. After his awakening, he begins implementing radical changes in not only the program, but his life as well. Soon the program is changed and doing things never before thought possible while his own life takes off as well. His classes math scores are through the roof, his kids are doing great, his wife decided to leave him... @dcohio has never been happier. As the saying goes, "The Lines Are All Painted" and he knows which direction to go... Coming 2016! Modern lit or YA?
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Post by Chris Clement on Aug 9, 2015 13:14:06 GMT -6
We start on the next opponent before the previous game has actually happened. By Thursday it's too late to be worrying about this week's gameplan, you start on the next week's breakdown. But we have a lot more time to devote to such matters.
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Post by Chris Clement on Aug 9, 2015 11:14:57 GMT -6
No, but in reality you can always find someone you know who was at the game.
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Post by Chris Clement on Aug 9, 2015 11:12:26 GMT -6
Every game in the conference is shared with everyone. It's a small conference so it's easier than trying to share your last two games which would end up with everyone having pretty much every game anyways. It's supposed to be bail able within 24hrs (home team shares). Some teams are better at it than others.
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Post by Chris Clement on Aug 9, 2015 7:54:09 GMT -6
Wife got moved for work, and the opportunity of a lifetime came up.
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Post by Chris Clement on Aug 8, 2015 12:24:29 GMT -6
Well yes, of course guys on salary are spending more time on football stuff, I definitely agree. Actually, that's kind of my original point. If a bunch of very good high school coaches got hired by a big college they'd probably survive on the football stuff, that stuff can all be learned when you have time (and budget) to go do clinics and staff visits and all that.
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Post by Chris Clement on Aug 8, 2015 11:37:53 GMT -6
It's possible that at the very high levels that you are correct, I'm less connected there. In my experience and within my circle of coaches across different college levels there's a buttload off non-football work.
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Post by Chris Clement on Aug 8, 2015 11:24:53 GMT -6
Scissor lifts are frightening under the best of circumstances. You may have a Pugh time finding a harness of the appropriate dimensions. Maybe a cherry picker?
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Post by Chris Clement on Aug 8, 2015 11:19:29 GMT -6
Sure, the public figure stuff is mostly the head coach, but a positional coach is still spending most of his time hounding his guys to do their homework, talking to recruits, dealing with committed guys, making sure they feel loved, getting them to apply to school, do all the basic stuff to get in, checking on their SATs, making sure they apply to residence, playing Jenga with the fragile egos of his players, miscellaneous disciplinary problems, draft prep, trying to explain to some kids that there is no point in doing draft prep, planning junior day/3 day camp, sucking up to some high school coach from Springfield, dealing with unofficial visits from kids who will never ever make your roster, drug testing, making sure everyone has done their drug testing administration, there's an unbelievable amount of work involved with running a soup to nuts PROGRAM.
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Post by Chris Clement on Aug 8, 2015 10:20:00 GMT -6
For whatever this adds to the discussion, a shockingly small percentage of college coaches' time is spent on football, even in-season. If a HS staff got dropped into a major college program they might be able to tread water enough to get by on the schematic side of things; where they would drown is all the other stuff: recruiting, alumni, stupid luncheons, university bureaucracy (similar to HS bureaucracy but up a couple notches), media, kids getting in the kind of trouble that is an order of magnitude greater than high school trouble, eligibility, major marketing deals, compliance minutiae, being used as a figurehead for university marketing, the list of non-football bullcrap is endless.
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Post by Chris Clement on Aug 5, 2015 13:23:45 GMT -6
Nap?
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