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Post by Chris Clement on Mar 14, 2019 5:49:40 GMT -6
A projector would give better resolution than a tv but the picture is only better if it’s aimed properly at a good screen.
If you have a big, uninterrupted wall make that both the white board and the projector screen and put the effort in so it’s really well lined up.
Putting a grid is something I’d definitely do. Probably yeah 1/2” grid, so it would be 27” for a full field, and you can get several field widths drawn in. It really depends on how crazy you’re willing to go.
If the cost is reasonable consider the entire room as a whiteboard
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Post by Chris Clement on Mar 12, 2019 5:53:41 GMT -6
Where staff permits you'd like to have 1 coach with 1 position group, if you're a 2-platoon team. If you're a 1-platoon team then presumably every coach is, at the very least, a secondary coach on the opposite side.
But ultimately, the question is driven by logistics. Do you have enough coaches to do it? Does it fit with your practice plan? Does the breakdown of what each coach knows fit with each coach taking one position?
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Post by Chris Clement on Mar 11, 2019 15:43:51 GMT -6
So, Google Drive searches not just title but also content and metadata. In the file properties you can put in keywords, and if it recognizes the content as text then it will also look for that. So if you just have a few folders of very broad topics and each one has many files you can use the search feature more effectively as opposed to having a folder hierarchy where you try to classify all your files. When you try to classify all your files you end up with grey areas and files that belong in two places. There’s no way to have a coherent system to universally classify all your notes and also have them easily retrievable.
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Post by Chris Clement on Mar 10, 2019 20:32:22 GMT -6
Instead of folders, consider using the metadata. Put in keywords and just leave all the notes loose, or broadly sorted by O/D/ST/team mgmt/whatever. Google’s search will find what you want pretty well just based off the content and the keywords it will be easier than trying to organize it like a traditional hierarchy.
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Post by Chris Clement on Mar 7, 2019 15:28:31 GMT -6
There’s also a survivorship bias there. You hear about guys who ran the same thing, at the same place, for decades. It’s newsworthy. Some guy who’s been more or loess mediocre running the same stuff for decades doesn’t get heard about beyond his own county, or some guy who wanted to run the same stuff forever was eventually forced to change or he was fired when things weren’t working.
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Post by Chris Clement on Mar 4, 2019 18:08:55 GMT -6
Google Calendar together with Google Tasks.
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Post by Chris Clement on Feb 28, 2019 19:21:15 GMT -6
Ok, so there’s at least a little something behind it. Thanks for the references.
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Post by Chris Clement on Feb 28, 2019 18:09:34 GMT -6
Can I ask why? Are these evidence-based positions?
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Post by Chris Clement on Feb 22, 2019 12:53:20 GMT -6
Agree with a lot of what has been said. I like the attempts at player safety. It’s better than watching college or pro basketball. But then again this is a football coaches site - most of us would watch football over anything. It is a minor league and I think it will have a hard time surviving at the level the league wants. There’s a reason minor league baseball or basketball isn’t on tv. Right, but minor league baseball (at least) is surviving via the gate. I learned about this only a few yrs. ago. As far as I knew then, minor league baseball had become unprofitable decades ago, and minor clubs survived only by being subsidized by the majors of whom they were the farm clubs, having many of their players under contract to them & therefore free for the use of the farm team. But I learned that in recent decades, independent (as well as affiliate) minor league baseball clubs have become profitable again! Seems a lot of audiences still want the experience of being at games from May Day to Labor Day maybe with their family or another group, but are priced out of major league games, or can't get tix even at those prices on the dates they want. True, but some of the bigger salaries are somewhat subsidized by the parent club. And minor league teams work their butts off in promotions there’s actually a convention for anyone with a wacky act to set up dates with these teams. Anything you can think of, the dog who’s a bat boy, tumbling down the basepaths, all that minor league goodness.
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Post by Chris Clement on Feb 22, 2019 12:50:34 GMT -6
It might sell better if you include the house number in the job.
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Post by Chris Clement on Feb 21, 2019 6:51:31 GMT -6
Sometimes I’m not even sure if you’re a real person...
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Post by Chris Clement on Feb 20, 2019 18:49:58 GMT -6
From a business perspective it’s not just about profit, but cashflow. They may be in great shape long term but players need to be paid right now while money that the league is guaranteed to receive may not come in for a few weeks.
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Post by Chris Clement on Feb 18, 2019 15:18:02 GMT -6
Every time I slept at school we had an absolute blast but I got about two hours sleep on a cafe table. So if you’re looking for team bonding it’s probably a great idea. If you’re looking to maximize their football learning then not so much. Lock some hallway doors at least to keep them semi-contained, if they have the whole run of the school it’ll be uncontrollable.
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Post by Chris Clement on Feb 16, 2019 14:25:30 GMT -6
“Worth the money” is a question I can’t answer for you, but if you’re going to commit to using it then it’s an amazing tool because you can’t send more balls downrange than you could ever get out of all your coaches and QBs combined. Especially over the course of a season. You could use it ten minutes a day and get a couple hundred well-thrown, full-speed balls. It’s time-efficient and consistent. It’s also good for getting reps for your returners without killing your kickers.
So if you’re going to use it then yes it’s worth the money.
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Post by Chris Clement on Feb 12, 2019 12:38:53 GMT -6
He ran backwards into our own end zone and punted out the back of our own end zone, but it was the kick of a lifetime, it soared into the night sky, over a rock formation, and into the woods.
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Post by Chris Clement on Feb 1, 2019 12:57:36 GMT -6
If he gets the free profile (assuming it hasn’t changed) it’s basically an easy way to make a “profile page” with all his key info. Don’t spend money on it. He can include the link to his page when he emails coaches and it’s easier for them to find the phone numbers and film and whatnot. Don’t spend money on it. They claim to do all kinds of hinges for you if you pay but it’s not worth it. Don’t spend money on it. If they still offer for free what they used to that can be useful but only as a way to organize information to do your own self-promotion. Don’t spend money on it.
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Post by Chris Clement on Feb 1, 2019 12:43:41 GMT -6
By all that is holy I will never understand your kicking rules.
It’s a semi-professional streaming run by the broadcasting program of the home team’s school. Turns out the people behind the camera are the most important part of the picture. The picture is so good you don’t even see the downpour.
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Post by Chris Clement on Feb 1, 2019 12:29:35 GMT -6
livestream.com/CegepJonquiere/events/3402881/videos/1821255676:45 is the punt At 42:00 our HC has a complete meltdown and charges the field, then you see me running after him in my full winter gear, he spends several minutes berating the officials with some very choice language in front of both teams, gets ejected, and you can watch me push him off the field. He tries to get around me and I make a nice little kickslide to reestablish position. It made for good teaching tape with my OL.
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Post by Chris Clement on Jan 25, 2019 8:52:28 GMT -6
Oh, I thought it was a regular season that led into district playoffs so 6-ish teams would be in the playoffs. That said, I do support non-playoff teams scheduling post-season games. Why not? It’s all kind of meaningless anyway, just have some fun. 8manspartan have you figured this out yet? I think your options are pretty clear: 8 game schedule and teams have to sort out their own ninth game 9 game schedule but unbalanced, you’d need to cut out one game at least and those teams would be on their own. 9 game schedule but you need to find at least one game to cross over with another district 8 game schedule and have a 9th game for everyone as a crossover.
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Post by Chris Clement on Jan 24, 2019 11:55:56 GMT -6
As hoc in the sense that you’d be scheduling nominally regular season games after the regular season has ended. You’d have to see who made the playoffs and make your matchups at that time.
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Post by Chris Clement on Jan 23, 2019 22:09:34 GMT -6
Oh. Well if the nets are at 6 feet then I got nothing. Though watching five year olds play basketball seems like torture.
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Post by Chris Clement on Jan 23, 2019 18:19:50 GMT -6
If you can figure out this answer... write a book, sell it, retire. My kids are just entering the youth sports circuit and I have already seen the following on my son's 5 year old basketball team: 1) parents think practice is optional 2) parents think their kid is the best on the team 3) parents ONLY have their child's interests in-mind My son was called for each of the following in his little-league basketball game (again age 5): 1) Stealing - cannot steal the ball because it makes other kids feel bad 2) Blocking - cannot block a kid's shot because it makes other kids feel bad 3) Defensive Rotation - cannot leave your man when someone else's man is dribbling directly to the basket On top of that... they turned the scoreboard off at halftime because they were winning by more than 10 points!!! Sorry, rant over... again those are all things caused by parents getting involved. If you can find a way for them to buy-in and it works, you are gonna have a lot of success. Only regarding #3, I know many youth basketball leagues have to get extremely strict on playing man D because otherwise too many coaches were planting their biggest kid in the right-handed layup lane and then collapsing around the net. I know the response is to just hit jumpers, but it's unreasonable to ask kids to hit a 15-footer with any regularity unless you'd like to see the game end 6-4. So in the interests of not grinding the game to a halt because Coach SuperDad is going to scheme his way to victory they have to ban any kind of help defense. Now if they'd lower the rim to something age-appropriate maybe this wouldn't be an issue, but hey... And the scoreboard thing is also because Coach SuperDad turns into this dude:
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Post by Chris Clement on Jan 23, 2019 14:24:48 GMT -6
There’s been more spreading of the field at the higher levels but the bulk of youth teams still want to give their fastest kid the ball. A 50 front will be more than adequate. Beyond the truly elite teams I’ve never seen nor heard of a youth team passing more than 20%. The spread teams tend to get you by being consistent on the screens and making you tackle, they’re not about to run post-dig-mesh on you.
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Post by Chris Clement on Jan 22, 2019 21:52:35 GMT -6
Easiest way is to move to an 8 game conf schedule with 1 team on the bye per week over 9 weeks - one week you'll need to have 3 teams on the bye to ensure nobody pays 9 games in 9 weeks. As for which opponents each team misses every year, the most transparent way is create a template schedule prior using "slots" then randomly assign teams in your league to each slot to create the final schedule - complete luck of the draw. In that case a good suggestion would be to use the same schedule for back to back years - year 1 schedule and then year 2 schedule home and away flip and the game weeks go in reverse (so week 1 becomes week 9, week 9 becomes week 1 etc) so teams don't get the same bye week back to back. Do the schedule up 4 years in advance and tell teams to schedule their own non-conf games on their bye if they want the 9th game. www.oua.ca/sports/fball/2018-19p/scheduleFortunately it's already been done here. Just map your conference teams 1:1 for each team in the link. 11 teams, 8 games is obviously doable but it's a pain in the ass.
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Post by Chris Clement on Jan 21, 2019 20:07:31 GMT -6
Right but one way or another you will not have every team play 9 games within that conference. Whether teams play ad hoc tenth games afterward isn’t relevant. The easy solution is for one team to have an eight game conference schedule and make it up with a non conference game.
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Post by Chris Clement on Jan 21, 2019 10:07:42 GMT -6
I’m saying it’s impossible, outright. An odd number of teams playing an odd number of games is impossible.
Imagine 5 teams and you want each team to play two games. Easy. Imagine five teams and you want each to play one game. Impossible, right? Fairly obvious? For any odd number of teams they must play an even number of games or imbalance the schedule somehow.
For three games and five teams you have the two games from above and then you have a game that doesn’t work, one team is left out.
Consider each match to be equal to two team-games. Obviously there must be a whole number of matches for it to work, therefore there must be an even number of team-games. Either the number of teams must be even or the number of games must be even or both.
M must be an element of the natural numbers M = 1/2k, where k is team-games ,’, k=2M ,’, k is an even number k=T*G If T=2a and G=2b k=4ab which must be even If T=2a and G=2b+1 k=4ab+2a = 2(2ab+a) which must be even By symmetry if T=2a+1 and G=2b k is even If T=2a+1 and G=2b+1 k=4ab+2a+2b+1=2(2ab+a+b)+1 which is odd.
So the league can either: add a game for everyone, remove a game for everyone Add a team Remove a team Unbalance the schedule
If you imbalance the schedule by removing the game with the longest drive that’s your easiest solution.
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Post by Chris Clement on Jan 20, 2019 16:35:27 GMT -6
Oh and also, it's impossible. If each team plays 9 games that's 99 games, but of course two teams in each games, that means 49.5 total games. It doesn't work.
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Post by Chris Clement on Jan 20, 2019 16:34:00 GMT -6
How many weeks?
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Post by Chris Clement on Jan 18, 2019 18:24:49 GMT -6
There's dozens of threads on this, mostly it comes down to not belittling or alienating the other coaches.
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Post by Chris Clement on Jan 12, 2019 17:15:15 GMT -6
We offer a weekly wash I think. It's not daily but it's reasonably often. Not enough players take advantage but at the same time the equipment guy is often slow with the turnaround so that's a disincentive. Our linemen think it's funny to wear the same disgusting gear, unwashed, all season. It's been a thing for a few years and it's unbearable, I've literally repositioned drills at times to be upwind of them. Eventually I snapped at them because every year some horrendous plague hits both sides of the line and we have a skeleton crew for one game, because they're disgusting and wearing filthy, wet clothes every day that they shove in a hockey bag for 22 hours before putting back on.
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