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Post by Chris Clement on Jan 12, 2019 16:53:13 GMT -6
Ideally you'd know your material so well you could do an hour on it with no aids at all, as a defence against technological problems.
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Post by Chris Clement on Jan 8, 2019 8:14:48 GMT -6
If you’re just wanting to put a scare into them have them pee in cups and then throw it out. It only needs to be a semi-credible threat.
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Post by Chris Clement on Jan 7, 2019 11:04:08 GMT -6
And have you considered the logistics of a properly done test? They have to ensure chain of custody the whole time. That means some dude is watching. Not just at a glance, it’s not like The Program. It means teenagers getting fully naked and standing face to face with the tester. The whole time.
Is this the hill on which you would like to die?
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Post by Chris Clement on Jan 6, 2019 17:20:02 GMT -6
You want to spend five figures a year to find out if high school kids are smoking weed? Allow me to save you some money. biggus3 even if there was significant use, and it were considered a problem, and there were the motivation to do something, and you figured you could make it work politically, and you figured you could make it work legally, it's even more cost than the per-test quoted by coachcb, that's just the marginal cost of testing. You also need to consider that you're becoming WADA-compliant, that this implies a ton of additional training for staff AND players. It means keeping a detailed accurate list of addresses and contact info for every player, and knowing where they are at pretty much all times. That means knowing who is or isn't "on the team" which can be an ambiguous question. It means tracking therapeutic use exemptions, which means diving headfirst into HIPAA, so you need qualified and licensed medical staff handling all kinds of documents. Now that you're HIPAA-compliant, asking a kid about what pills he's taking becomes a tricky question, it's none of your damn business. It means the AD handling all of this for every sport, and knowing what's legal or not in what sport, having someone as the go-to reference for what weird supplements may or may not have banned ingredients, and the enormous liability that portends.
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Post by Chris Clement on Jan 3, 2019 12:26:46 GMT -6
Show the troubleshooting. I saw an awesome one from Navy and he went through their core then in game film he’d build on it by showing the adjustments they made and why.
Have a reasonable scope, whatever it is. Are you doing a survey course of your whole offense from a strategic level? Is it about your pass pro concepts on an operational level? Is it a technical talk on your blocking technique? Whatever it is, work within it. Guys are often inconsistent with that, they want to cover their whole offense but we spend ten minutes in the weeds of IZ foot placement. If you have multiple sessions you can progress from OL IZ technique to IZ adjustments to IZ RPOs over the three hours but each one has to be mostly self-contained.
Test run your presentation, it sucks when the last fifteen minutes are just him blowing through play diagrams without sense.
Don’t be that jerk who spends the whole time telling me the GA made the slideshow and he’s never seen it and it’s not quite right. It’s your presentation, own it. Either make the slideshow yourself or have it made early enough to tailor it to your needs. Throwing your GA under the bus is not a good look.
Bring something more. I don’t need to see “intro to the spread offense” another time unless you’re going to bring me into your thought processes, gameplans, adjustments. Telling me you run 31 and 22, IZ, OZ, GT, verts and bubble is not useful unless you get to WHY.
Don’t show me a million variations for no reason. I too can draw squiggly lines for my receivers. Why are you calling one vs another and in what context?
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Post by Chris Clement on Dec 31, 2018 14:45:28 GMT -6
Ok but can we be frank and say that these allstar games suck? I’ve coached a few and they’re glorified scrimmages where we need a ton of house rules and the quality of play is crap because you’re installing in three days and then the game comes down to who better exploited the handshake agreement over formations or blitzes some crap. If I’m already going somewhere to play football I don’t need the validation that comes from this game as much as the next kid in for whom this is the pinnacle of their career and the last chance they’ll ever have.
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Post by Chris Clement on Dec 31, 2018 13:35:29 GMT -6
I want to see football DnD. Start with a 2-minute still from the -20, down 4. O declares a formation, D declares a front, both call plays and submit them to the dungeon master. He adjudicates the result of the play. You’d need to think through the logistics of it, DM would probably have to be the HC and his OC and DC would be playing, just so he can understand his own O and D without needing a lengthy explanation. You’d also need to have a ready list of available calls from both before the game so they’re not making stuff up in the fly. But I think there’s something workable there.
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Post by Chris Clement on Dec 30, 2018 21:47:01 GMT -6
Wut?
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Post by Chris Clement on Dec 14, 2018 22:57:06 GMT -6
Where I experienced it it was because the HS basically owned the youth program and largely staffed the league, usually a HS coach and two senior players as assistants for each youth team in the league. It also helped that the HS has regional hegemony, there’s no other program anywhere near that level of population, resources, facilities, organization.
More importantly, there was care taken never to look down on coaches who coaches younger players. That was a big part of keeping things going where some other programs failed.
Younger levels were never referred to as “lower level.” There was a common playbook but there was a lot of latitude, it was more like guidelines. “This is our word for IZ, this is how we install it, but if you prefer to run trap, this is how we do it.” The JV HC was given his team to run and the varsity HC took care to separate his duties as varsity HC and program CEO. If your team ran smoothly he wasn’t going to interfere.
Allowing ideas to flow up. The grade 7 team came up with a more intuitive way of naming and signaling our base formations and varsity adopted it. It made people feel more invested rather than being peons of a distant king.
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Post by Chris Clement on Dec 14, 2018 15:55:00 GMT -6
Does fireball mean something different there?
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Post by Chris Clement on Dec 14, 2018 11:38:50 GMT -6
Tonic Water with quinine. Works miracles in helping preventing cramps, but also after a player has cramped, helps them no longer cramp and stay in the game. Also good against malaria, and for becoming a 19th century British colonialist.
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Post by Chris Clement on Nov 17, 2018 22:09:51 GMT -6
There’s added value to mixing situations but it’s not something you want to jump into. You need to really know that you’re gorge ones and that you’ve really reached that level. If you’re currently doing one or two unscripted team sessions in a week you’re probably just going to instill chaos if you try to jump into that sort of scripted scrimmage.
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Post by Chris Clement on Nov 16, 2018 18:45:18 GMT -6
For reference, 4th & 18" is about a 60-65% situation on average. If you're struggling on the line that moves it a couple percent, no more than five percentage points - people grossly overestimate the variance in teams. 3rd & 4 is a good bit lower than that, but if you're committed to going for 4th down then it increases your chances a lot. With the amount of slop in the numbers its kind of a push but here are some considerations:
If you really think your line is bad why do you think giving them two chances to be bad is a better option? If you choose to take the penalty are you doing so because you think it's the best option to win or because it puts distance between the decision and the outcome, i.e. If it goes wrong it's less likely people will connect your decision to the failure?
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Post by Chris Clement on Nov 11, 2018 0:10:01 GMT -6
We won. No one froze to death. Serious question though. The spigot on our water cooler froze up by half time and our water bottles froze in the lids. Couldn't drink from them. Any suggestions for the next time it is this cold so we can drink during the game? As was said, the salt in Gatorade will stave off freezing for a few degrees. If it gets below that you need to put in hot water and hope it holds until close to halftime. Beyond that my best suggestion is vodka?
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Post by Chris Clement on Nov 5, 2018 8:45:35 GMT -6
This year I’d say 6/8 but that’s very unusual. We just weren’t on the same level organizationally. It wasn’t the in-game coaching that really mattered but we failed to develop a structure to make best use of our athletes.
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Post by Chris Clement on Nov 5, 2018 7:16:53 GMT -6
First of all, recruiting is overwhelmingly based on finding kids who are big and fast, and dealing with the rest later. Everything else is secondary to big and fast.
More broadly, co sister looking at the WHSFL model. They have about 30 schools but kind of a similar structure. Six powerhouses or simply very big schools, six to eight tweener schools that can compete with the big boys every few years, a dozen midsize schools, and then all the rural schools.
There are three divisions of play, each of ten teams. It’s tough to know which tweener schools will be up or down so they make their best guess and fill the AAA division, then do the same in AA and A gets what’s left.
Come playoff time the top eight AAA teams make a bracket and the bottom two teams drop to the AA playoffs, then the bottom four AA teams drop to the A playoffs.
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Post by Chris Clement on Nov 4, 2018 13:53:56 GMT -6
They've got enough assistant position coaches and quality control people (which is a weird misnomer but hey) that you can just domino the promotions until the missing spot isn't really critical, and if you do replace him mid season it's not going to have a huge impact.
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Post by Chris Clement on Nov 3, 2018 21:04:13 GMT -6
Well, I guess now you know for sure.
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Post by Chris Clement on Nov 2, 2018 17:53:41 GMT -6
From what I've seen, unless it's somehow acrimonious or there's cause involved, they'll call the guy in, deliver the news, he has a little time to sort out his office, and they make a press statement. Asking for his gear back would look weirdly petty, Al Davis-esque. It's not like he's likely to wear it around, and it would be really weird asking him to rummage through his closet to find an outstanding polo. Both parties have a desire to move on.
Contracts being contracts the team will have to pay him out for the duration usually. In college there's sometimes complicated buyouts because there's more risk of guys getting poached so both parties try to write in some protective clauses. In the NFL you can't poach another team's HC so that's not a concern.
There's not a lot of IP that he could steal that's of any value, it's pretty much all in his head already anyway. If he wants to sell off his knowledge of the team's system he doesn't need to take anything with him. There's not usually a need to have him be walked out, and it's typically timed so that it all happens off-peak hours.
The actual firing is a pretty uneventful meeting with HR, the owner/GM, and maybe "Tessio."
Of course, if he's being fired for cause this becomes a whole different thing. HR may box his stuff for him and walk him directly from the meeting to the parking lot.
Everyone's on electronic keys nowadays so they'd email Bob at security to cancel his card.
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Post by Chris Clement on Nov 1, 2018 14:23:30 GMT -6
Some questions here:
Was OPs article written by a 15-year old getting credit for his creative writing class?
Who the hell is setting point spreads on high school football games, and who the hell is laying bets?
Obviously this is the extreme case of 7-1, 1-6; while it seems like a pretty awful system I still have to assume the 7-1 team played an abysmal schedule and the 1-6 team had a murderers row? Can anyone confirm?
This is a huge area for math research, but the idea of point spreads is really bizarre because point spreads tend to reflect prior expectations that already include all available information. It creates a feedback loop. If you beat the spread you’ll just face a tougher spread next week and over the long run every team goes .500 against the spread even if their record is nowhere near .500. This is just bad, bad math.
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Post by Chris Clement on Nov 1, 2018 14:12:51 GMT -6
Team period should take everything practiced in the preceding periods and discussed in that day’s meetings and combine it, all in the context of the overall focus of the day. So if you had day 1 of the week for 1-10 plays script your team period around 1-10 plays you want to call and what you expect through scouting to see from your opponent. If the practice doesn’t have an overall goal then the team period is going to lack purpose.
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Post by Chris Clement on Oct 31, 2018 14:53:47 GMT -6
That’s not the worst idea out there. It has the benefit of max preps being more-or-less apolitical.
Our league has three classes, and while there’s some relegation and promotion there’s also a lot of politics and a lot of it comes down to upper-division teams not wanting to increase their traveling so certain teams can basically never get promoted. All in all it works ok.
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Post by Chris Clement on Oct 29, 2018 8:43:18 GMT -6
Yes, I’d say they were “competitive” because we went in not knowing who would win. But it’s not a 7-point game that became 21 because of a couple breaks, it’s a shellacking from the opening kickoff, you just don’t know which team is going to show up to play.
I don’t know why, this is the only league I’ve really seen that, but it’s been two seasons where I’ve noticed that a certain team will just not show up to the game and get blown out by 40 despite the teams being evenly matched.
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Post by Chris Clement on Oct 29, 2018 6:17:03 GMT -6
In our six team division there were 24 games played amongst ourselves. One team was 8-0 and demolished everyone, they’re on a 31-1 run. One team was 0-8 and couldn’t be classified as a “football team” per se. So those 14 games were a waste of time. Of what’s left half are blowouts and the rest are competitive-ish, either in score or at least you went in thinking it might be close.
It happens a lot that a game features two even teams but one team takes a lead and slowly runs away with it. So games that seemed like they’d be competitive don’t finish that way.
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Post by Chris Clement on Oct 24, 2018 19:14:50 GMT -6
You can buy clinic DVDs for cheap on eBay and watch them as a staff. Any topic you want, and even if the team pays for drinks and snacks it’s still far cheaper, and you can make sure that every speaker is on-topic and good.
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Post by Chris Clement on Oct 24, 2018 13:18:21 GMT -6
Ah. I see the problem.
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Post by Chris Clement on Oct 24, 2018 10:31:50 GMT -6
Where are you located?
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Post by Chris Clement on Oct 23, 2018 7:57:51 GMT -6
Friday was interesting.
Freezing cold, pouring rain. All night.
Way short guys, and a starting guard pulls himself just before kickoff because of his ongoing ankle injury, but also because their DT absolutely worked him a few weeks ago.
We run out of long snappers, so I’m on the sidelines holding impromptu tryouts during the third quarter. The winners are a backup DE who’s just awful at football, and our backup QB.
We send out the DE to snap on punt while we intend to concede a safety. I warn the punter that the snap is going to be iffy. If it’s short or low beware not to take a knee picking it up. If it’s wide or high that’s fine. Just boot it out the back of the end zone. Snap is perfect, punter runs back halfway into the end zone and just kicks the ever-loving crap out of the ball. Out the end zone, over the scoreboard, out of the stadium, over a rock formation, into the woods, gone forever. I think he misunderstood me.
We run out of backs so we take a starting DB off the field to crosstrain him.
We run out of OL but the injured OL doesn’t say anything so a DT comes flying in from 65 yards out to jump in at RT, doesn’t know the play, blocks the wrong guy but at least a logical guy and springs a TD. In the bright side when they saw no RG the RT decides to close down to guard figuring we were better off the no tackle than no guard.
Our HC started in early with the refs and picked up at least four flags. Then he got tossed. Then he REALLY started laying into them and charged the field like Tommy Lasorda. I threw my clipboard at a trainer and tore after him, heading him off around the near hash with the officials at the far hash. He hurled obscenities at them with both sets of players right there, then when he made a move toward the refs I did some half-decent pass pro to guide him away from them and then I had to literally drive block him off the field and out of the stadium as he continued screaming insults. The ensuing kickoff was from the +20.
We had our 7th strong returner on KOR, and more players on KOR were NOT on the KOR depth chart than were.
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Post by Chris Clement on Oct 22, 2018 12:45:52 GMT -6
Game theory is pretty clear on this. You don’t give them the film. It would actually be mutually beneficial to not give them the film AND explain why. “We aren’t giving film because you didnt give film to us. However, if you need film next year, feel free to ask and we will be glad to provide, provided y’all are also willing to reciprocate when we ask.” spreadattackChris ClementThere is actually a branch of game theory that deals with one’s willingness to show that you won’t be f*cked with, and the ramifications of such moves.
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Post by Chris Clement on Oct 22, 2018 6:03:30 GMT -6
I would assume that but it would be hard to confirm without context clues.
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