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Post by Chris Clement on Aug 27, 2014 12:20:03 GMT -6
No, There's way too many variables for it to be any sort of reliable indicator of future success.
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Post by Chris Clement on Aug 22, 2014 7:19:23 GMT -6
A 4-pt stance does wonders for the lopsided shoulder thing, and is a much easier teaching progression from the 2-pt.
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Post by Chris Clement on Aug 17, 2014 17:53:46 GMT -6
If you want to coach with buzzwords, which is good, the buzzwords need to be consistent and have defined meanings.
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Post by Chris Clement on Aug 17, 2014 17:44:50 GMT -6
The weak point of any of those defenses in that family is off tackle. They're nigh-impenetrable up the middle and very strong outside, but it's tough on the LBs to fill off tackle. If you can get a puller then you're in great shape, but don't do it if you're not confident that you can fill for the puller because you'll end up with half the DL in your backfield.
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Post by Chris Clement on Aug 12, 2014 19:46:29 GMT -6
I think we had a thread on this about a month ago.
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Post by Chris Clement on Aug 5, 2014 8:03:23 GMT -6
No. I refuse to believe it.
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Post by Chris Clement on Aug 4, 2014 19:27:19 GMT -6
Oh, ok. so it's for ankle injuries. I thought it was for knee injuries and I was going to wish I'd had one.
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Post by Chris Clement on Aug 4, 2014 11:15:16 GMT -6
What the hell is a knee scooter?
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Post by Chris Clement on Aug 3, 2014 16:16:11 GMT -6
I had a folding chair at practice and when we moved on the field I had a player carry my chair for me.
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Post by Chris Clement on Aug 3, 2014 9:41:35 GMT -6
He's really good. I don't think it's unreasonable for him to go D1.
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Post by Chris Clement on Aug 3, 2014 8:57:16 GMT -6
I was supposed to be doing pilot training in the RCAF but there were too many of us to train at once and then I blew up my knees so I spent four years doing nothing in an office. On the bright side it let me spend 8-12 hours a day on this site and coach three teams at once, and that set me up for my current job.
Nightclub management sounds like an especially scuzzy euphemism.
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Post by Chris Clement on Aug 3, 2014 8:45:52 GMT -6
Something we used to do was have the OL tell the DL before the play "I'm going to cut you," the they would go through the motions. We'd work cutting and defeating cuts during indy.
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Post by Chris Clement on Aug 1, 2014 11:58:28 GMT -6
rising seniors?
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Post by Chris Clement on Jul 31, 2014 18:00:24 GMT -6
I don't know much of anything about football in Maine,but if you ever learn what the Biddeford "Lobster Bowl" is, I would love to know, it has bothered me my whole life.
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Post by Chris Clement on Jul 28, 2014 21:24:14 GMT -6
Sometimes you're just screwed. Are they smart?
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Post by Chris Clement on Jul 25, 2014 7:59:11 GMT -6
If there's a penalty on the PAT, it's automatically good/no good INTs give you the ball on a short field (+20 instead of +40 or w/e)
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Post by Chris Clement on Jul 19, 2014 22:44:47 GMT -6
Our offseason rules
1st miss - email notice
2nd miss - strength coach meeting, tells you you've missed twice
3rd miss - HC/AHC meeting, tell you you've missed three times
4th miss - HC meeting, lose scholarship for the year
5th miss - cut
This runs from December to April until spring camp, then resets from May-August, so you can basically miss three times in each period without any penalty. "Excused" absences need prior approval, and we try to use good judgement on what counts as an acceptable excused absence.
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Post by Chris Clement on Jul 17, 2014 9:50:20 GMT -6
Most of the offers for major recruits come between the end of the junior season and start of the senior one. As you go down the levels it shifts later. There are late bloomers who are exceptions, and there are schools that offer super early to try to get in first, but that's the bulk of it. Big schools massively over-offer, the Top 25 from last year have an average of something like 100 offers out to the 2015 class right now.
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Post by Chris Clement on Jul 17, 2014 9:44:17 GMT -6
How do regular folk have that kind of disposable income?
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Post by Chris Clement on Jul 16, 2014 23:28:10 GMT -6
College program, biggest athletic conference in North America.
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Post by Chris Clement on Jul 16, 2014 23:10:52 GMT -6
Our two biggest line items are travel (airplanes and hotels) and the two full-time paid staff. Other than that, we don't spend anything even close to $150k. Our operating budget is a fraction of that. That's an insane high school budget, where does that money come from?
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Post by Chris Clement on Jul 14, 2014 20:23:40 GMT -6
One season we used "Kill."
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Post by Chris Clement on Jul 14, 2014 20:09:39 GMT -6
Very rough numbers, our opener was about 10,000, then 5,000, then 2,500 for a miserable homecoming game in the rain, then 4,000, then 6,000 in the playoffs, but it was really cold those last two.
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Post by Chris Clement on Jul 13, 2014 10:02:48 GMT -6
We hope to break even this year, but the schools in our leagues with the larger budgets couldn't break even in a million years.
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Post by Chris Clement on Jul 6, 2014 19:12:50 GMT -6
I originally had an entire rant carried out about it, but I am more interested as to how other people felt about it. Personally, I feel it is morally and ethically wrong to do. Personal experience, charging kids to play a sport in which you collect gate from and get business at the snack bar from their efforts is wrong. Never in a million years would I say that they should be paid for their efforts, but they should definitely not be charged money, to make additional money, for the _____________ (I would say school, but I honestly had no idea where the money went) Thoughts? I understand perhaps a little random, just something I started thinking about. Do your teams turn a profit?
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Post by Chris Clement on Jun 24, 2014 18:47:53 GMT -6
While it's definitely something of a toy, it's useful for a lot of different things and you can get precise, accurate measurements very quickly.
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Post by Chris Clement on Jun 23, 2014 19:21:19 GMT -6
Do you know how OFSAA times the 100?
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Post by Chris Clement on Jun 23, 2014 17:22:57 GMT -6
Real HS students running a real 4.4 are so rare as to be nigh on mythical. If the fastest kid on your team runs a real 4.55 that's pretty darn good, and it fits his 100 time, which is probably off by the same amount as the 40 time.
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Post by Chris Clement on Jun 23, 2014 12:30:09 GMT -6
so your times will be .2-.3 slower than laser-laser and much slower than hand-laser, but it will be fairly consistent. should be similar to hand laser. I don't think so, hand-laser starts about .2 after the runner starts, whereas just jump starts .2 before the runner. There's no standard way to do this, because the proper equipment is prohibitively expensive. Ideally we'd have double or triple-beam start and finish and a fixed start point (front foot 18" behind start line) but it's not feasible, so come up with a consistent method and do lots of testing to get baselines.
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Post by Chris Clement on Jun 18, 2014 17:50:34 GMT -6
we allowed the kids to bring food to the field. at the appropriate time, we allowed them to stop whatthey were doing to go eat and also get water like someone mentioned above. we had a coach with a cell phone that had the exact time so the kids would know Wait, isn't Ramadan where they can't eat or drink when the sun is up? Yes, I assume they practiced around sundown.
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