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Post by Chris Clement on Aug 2, 2015 21:49:04 GMT -6
It sounds a little counterintuitive, but I found it was easier to spread playing time if everyone could play both ways and we drew up "starters" irrespective of "fairness." If my players could only do one thing I was really hemmed in, I couldn't do a double switch to keep a good player to help cover for a weaker one; I could play them more on offense if we played a team that demanded my top CBs, or have my MPPs play defense all game if the opponent's passing game was abysmal. By being aggressive early with MPP playing time I could feel out the game and see if I needed my best guys to get most of the playing time or if I could use this game to build up a certain level of goodwill by loading up with MPPs.
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Post by Chris Clement on Aug 1, 2015 15:08:47 GMT -6
This past off season. Medical center contacted the HC. Coach so and so can't practice for 3 days. The young man shows up to the field and we ask him what happened. His response, Coach it burns when I pee. But I ain't him my girlfriend raw since November... I don't see how that's cause for missing practice?
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Post by Chris Clement on Jul 31, 2015 6:50:01 GMT -6
Saltines and peanut butter with chocolate milk was my perennial post practice snack. If cost is a concern you can cut the chocolate milk with white milk and it doesn't really affect the taste. If you have a bulk barn you can get a lot of dried fruit and nuts and granola for cheap. Knockoff Gatorade powder is cheap. Cheese and apples are a good option too.
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Post by Chris Clement on Jul 24, 2015 6:40:08 GMT -6
Personally we practice 4-7 PM every monday-thursday... that includes any chalk/meetings/film/weights/conditioning and field stuff i usually leave my house shortly after 2:15/2:30 to beat the traffic I am the first coach there (only teacher, so i am off all summer, they all have day jobs) i get everything opened up (field, weight room, my classroom, locker rooms) i usually leave between 7:45-8:00 depending on how long it takes to put away equipment and how much BS-ing i do with the other coaches ( we have great varsity staff chemistry) so typically, 4 days x roughly 5-6 hours per day if you count my drive time add in a couple HUDL watching hours at home and practice planning time at home... Offseason?
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Post by Chris Clement on Jul 22, 2015 14:00:52 GMT -6
Towards the end of the year our #2 QB started taking some scout reps because we noticed he wasn't doing a heck of a lot. Now, I'd whipped our #3 into a very good scout QB, he understood how I drew the cards, the little annotations I made, and the intent of the opponent, so even though getting the #2 should have been an upgrade, as he was a smart, experienced QB who'd been in the program for ages, there were some miscommunications.
One day we had a skelly card where they ran verts. Just verts, nothing fancy, no comebacks on the outside, no conversions, nothing. The concept we run probably 15 times a game, the concept we run in every conceivable variation. This team we were prepping for didn't really read verts, they just fired the ball at the field slot's ear as soon as he cleared the first level and the slot would catch it at about 16-18. So I tell our QB "When Y clears the HB's jam, throw it as hard as you can." No problem, he says. He's played against this team 7 times in his career, their playbook hasn't changed a lick.
So the snap comes, he drops, the slot clears the jam, and I see the #2 QB wind up. All is well. Then he launches it, 55 yards downfield. He overthrows the receiver by a good 25-30 yards. I'm not even mad, I'm flabbergasted. I ask "What the F was that?" but not angrily, incredulously. Apparently he misinterpreted "throw it as hard as you can."
I'd take more blame for not being clear, but he was 23 years old at the time. Twenty-Three.
Another scout rep in skelly he dropped, looked at his first read, second, third. Good coverage, nothing there, time to scramble a little and then he just...stopped. He took a sack in scout skelly.
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Post by Chris Clement on Jul 14, 2015 6:28:49 GMT -6
We had a couple of showers that were busted back when I played, we turned them into urinals and called it "No-Man's Land." Even after they fixed the showers years later nobody would shower there if they knew.
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Post by Chris Clement on Jul 11, 2015 9:22:06 GMT -6
For Boise state or us? our qb is 6 3 180 lbs junior who threw for over 1600 yds and 64 percent last year.. Thrower type.. Dropback..4.9 guy but not a real zone read type. Well as I see it you have one too many superstars. I just don't know if you can be helped, it's a tough situation.
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Post by Chris Clement on Jul 10, 2015 19:52:27 GMT -6
Who's the QB?
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Post by Chris Clement on Jul 10, 2015 6:56:55 GMT -6
Our bye week is always Thanksgiving, so basically the first weekend in October, and it comes after training camp and 5 or 6 games, so it's a ripe time for people to overdo it. We've gotten smart enough to just shut down. We do our workouts and one "practice" with a youth team where about half our team puts the kids through a circuit of fun drills, but once we wrap up the game preceding the bye we don't meet as a staff, we don't meet with players, we don't practice for the entire week, and then we get an early start coming out of the bye and get one extra practice.
This schedule seems to have really paid off lately, I always feel awful going into the bye and then I really enjoy the last part of the season. Last year it split the season perfectly in half, and it really rejuvenated the mood of the team going into some national-level games.
I don't think it makes a huge deal physically; if we practiced during the bye we'd be sitting anyone with any injuries and resting our key guys, but the mental break is invaluable.
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Post by Chris Clement on Jul 2, 2015 19:14:45 GMT -6
While I don't necessarily share the venom of the gentlemen above me, You can't have them sharing helmets. Lice, constantly fiddling with air pressure (twice a day), the nightmare of making sure every pair of players is on the same page, scheduling two practices and doubling your staff's workload, there's too many reasons not to do it.
You need to come up with 10 helmets, or lose 10 kids. I would see how many helmets you can get money for, see how many kids quit, and then you'll have to start making a few cuts. You might be able to make "soft cuts" by convincing a very undersized, undertalented freshman to spend the year "learning" and "growing" while acting as a manager on gamedays.
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Post by Chris Clement on Jul 1, 2015 10:38:02 GMT -6
Don't you live in hippie-land? What's the worst that happens, they try to pay you in bitcoin? Maybe they get mad at you for taking them to the wrong artisanal froyo shop?
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Post by Chris Clement on Jun 28, 2015 9:48:57 GMT -6
It depends on what the football schedule is and if you have the power to change it. I know some teachers work construction because summer is the busy time for that, so if you do football in the evenings it works out pretty well. If you teach in certain fields you might be able to work in that field, I had a chemistry teacher who would calibrate condensing towers in the summer.
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Post by Chris Clement on Jun 24, 2015 21:42:55 GMT -6
I'm from Canada so probably not applicable to a lot of you but ... in Canada almost every school has 2 levels, Junior (Gr 9 and 10) and Senior (Gr 11, 12 and 13 if applicable) with some small schools only having Senior for Gr 9-12. In my school very, very occasionally and under extenuating circumstances a Gr 9 or 10 will move up from Junior to play at Senior (only happened once in my school in my 4 years and it was due to a rash of injuries) but for the most part you play at your age level and that's that. Its not the type of thing where if you play really well you might get moved up, its more like 2 completely separate teams. No play time limits for anyone and the concept of a freshmen team was completely new to me before I found this site. Also worth noting that the HS football in my area is very much 2nd tier to the community summer teams. There used to be midget leagues for all sports in Ontario, this would have ended around 2004-ish, maybe a little later, but just after the double cohort. I find it surprising the club teams are better than the (good) HS teams in an area, I find that to rarely be the case.
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Post by Chris Clement on Jun 23, 2015 22:04:22 GMT -6
$35? That seems like a really bizarre price.
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Post by Chris Clement on Jun 19, 2015 19:44:21 GMT -6
If you wanted to make a better argument, it would be that there's actual scientists involved in international sports. Football is unique in how much it spends without producing anything data-driven.
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Post by Chris Clement on May 31, 2015 19:56:32 GMT -6
I don't get any injury concerns at that age. They're too small and too slow to hurt each other, especially if you put unnecessary and heavy equipment on them, it's like walking around in a weight vest for those kids.
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Post by Chris Clement on May 31, 2015 19:52:39 GMT -6
What a spectacular misunderstanding of history.
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Post by Chris Clement on May 27, 2015 8:12:46 GMT -6
HC goes first for us, followed by anyone with something to say, which is rare. After the team breaks we split positionally. I rarely have more than 3 sentences for my group, but some guys like to go on a bit longer.
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Post by Chris Clement on May 22, 2015 7:48:02 GMT -6
Is this the hill you want to die on? It may be dumb but at least the school has some kind of tradition. 1000yds passing in 10 games hardly sounds impressive though.
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Post by Chris Clement on May 17, 2015 10:38:00 GMT -6
I threw this together in a couple hours. Not my very finest work but we had a deadline and I have to redo it next year anyways.
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Post by Chris Clement on May 14, 2015 7:27:09 GMT -6
Are you still dabbling with the younger kids?
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Post by Chris Clement on May 13, 2015 21:59:24 GMT -6
Why do they want someone just to consult_
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Post by Chris Clement on May 13, 2015 15:14:25 GMT -6
I'm sure that kid has a whole host of issues we don't even understand coming from that kind of money, but if you're getting 10k a month for life I don't think any of us would be very motivated to do much work. I personally would buy a sailboat and spend my days traveling the world. I'm not sure what I'd do but I'm pretty certain that it wouldn't include military school. Grossly overrated experience.
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Post by Chris Clement on May 9, 2015 15:40:41 GMT -6
What experience do you have at the youth level?
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Post by Chris Clement on May 9, 2015 15:39:30 GMT -6
UPDATE...He decided to try to get his GED. He called the admissions office asking for a copy of his transcripts so he knew what he needed to complete. Why bother? Well invested (by someone else, presumably) he can live out his days knee-deep in weed and Doritos in a basement apartment somewhere.
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Post by Chris Clement on Apr 29, 2015 11:12:33 GMT -6
Yeah but I bet nobody makes you wear Uggs and cut your hair like a twit, so call it even.
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Post by Chris Clement on Apr 23, 2015 18:25:33 GMT -6
why?
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Post by Chris Clement on Apr 17, 2015 9:32:52 GMT -6
I once called someone a spread-offense, popped collar, visor-wearing, metrosexual douchebag. He also had a flavour saver. He didn't argue with me.
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Post by Chris Clement on Apr 16, 2015 13:03:32 GMT -6
An acquaintance of the program is headed to Texas for business at the end of July and is bringing the family (son plays at a national HS power). They're looking to get a taste of Texas ball and we're hoping to build our network, can anyone interested PM me?
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Post by Chris Clement on Apr 5, 2015 9:28:52 GMT -6
To fight the problem of short attention spans I'd sometimes do a "double" practice, so we'd do Indy, Group, Team, and then go back to Indy, Group, Team.
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