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Post by olcoach53 on Feb 25, 2014 10:36:53 GMT -6
I want the athletes at the school I work for to be that, athletes. I don't want them to be football players or basketball players or baseball players. I want them to play as many sports as possible. Maybe we as football coaches get a little frustrated sometimes because there is AAU basketball all year long and now fall baseball takes precedence too. Football is often the forgotten sport and we as coaches get burned for it.
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Post by olcoach53 on Feb 25, 2014 6:57:13 GMT -6
People often associate lifting weights with bulking up and with football. I try to tell the multi-sport athletes at the school that lifting weights is necessary for ANY sport. These guys who think they are going to go to college for baseball, basketball or any other sport have no idea the amount of time and work that is put in IN the weight room. A lot of them are in for a rude awakening.
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Post by olcoach53 on Feb 25, 2014 6:55:12 GMT -6
I'm with the golfer on this one. Some of you guys take this sh!t way to seriously. So if the kid doesn't lift and your team isn't successful all is well in the world?
You seem like the kind of coach who likes to say things like "we need to lift to win" but then turns around and tells somebody else that "lifting isn't needed"
Make up your mind.
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Post by olcoach53 on Jan 3, 2014 8:50:23 GMT -6
I have seen things like this before. In 2009 we had a kid literally stop in the middle of a play because of things the opposing teams head coach was saying at him. It was on film, the kid stopped and shrugged his shoulders and raised his hands to the ref because he had no idea what provoked the coach to do that. Of course the coach is a state champ so the refs did nothing.
The next year in our quarterfinal playoff game we had a trainer for the opposing team, probably 6'3 265, try to lower his shoulder into our starting QB when he ran into their sideline on a play. Pretty low class and clearly caught on film too. I spoke to his supervisor who did not want to pursue it any further because the guy was "going through a tough time" I still won't shake his hand.
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Post by olcoach53 on May 3, 2013 8:53:43 GMT -6
I really first started thinking about it when I was a freshman in college and wrote an entire playbook while sitting in my dorm room (Not much of a social life)
The passion was a little dormant for the next few years, I played football in college though so I was around the game.
My former position coach in HS got the head job at my alma mater so I figured I would go help out, 7 years and a new head coach later I love coashing and could not think of doing anything else.
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Post by olcoach53 on May 1, 2013 13:13:57 GMT -6
Offensive Line-DO YOUR JOB!
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Post by olcoach53 on May 1, 2013 9:23:18 GMT -6
We had a former defensive coordinator who would cheat. He would call his defense to blitz or stunt perfectly into the scout team play the offense was about to run. And then we would flip around and our defensive line coach would listen to the play the varsity offense was going to run and then have his defensive line stunt accordingly. I found that to be a real pain in the butt because it caused more problems than it helped. It really forced the team to fight amongst each other as an offense and a defense and not be a team.
I find that the best thing to do is watch film of the opponent and try to match up the skill level of the scout players with the team you will be playing, sometimes it is a little more difficult than other times but we are a large school so our starters on offense who do not play defense often help out on scout team so they can get more reps of football.
We had some defensive backs a few seasons ago who would not step foot on the field during scout team and it showed, we got burned for 500 and 590 yards in two games in a row.
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Post by olcoach53 on Apr 30, 2013 8:53:16 GMT -6
Every staff needs the "extra guy" in the pressbox. He gets put up there so that nobody has to talk to him face to face on the sideline and we can just slide our headsets off when he starts talking, or in the case of the Head Coach can just flip over to defense.
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Post by olcoach53 on Apr 19, 2013 10:46:24 GMT -6
We always let the incoming freshman workout with the team for a few months during the spring so they can slowly incorporate themselves into the program.
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Post by olcoach53 on Nov 13, 2012 11:15:54 GMT -6
Im in Illinois too. I think I had a stipend of 2550 this season or something along those lines. Doesnt matter to me though, I would coach for nothing and still be happy.
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Post by olcoach53 on Nov 13, 2012 11:13:01 GMT -6
Im in Illinois too. I think I had a stipend of 2550 this season or something along those lines. Doesnt matter to me though, I would coach for nothing and still be happy.
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Post by olcoach53 on Nov 8, 2012 12:33:48 GMT -6
This same argument can be said for the whole "you have to be big to play football" spiel. I tell my players that is the biggest load of crap ever. I would rather take a 5'10 190 pound lineman with great technique and tenacity over a 6'4 280 pound kid with bad feet and a lazy work ethic.
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Post by olcoach53 on Nov 8, 2012 8:37:39 GMT -6
You play the smarter kid. We had a 5'8 150 pound sophomore start all season for us at SS. He probably couldnt run a 4.8 but he was smart, tackled efficiently and rarely made mistakes. He actually ended up making over 70 tackles on the season DESPITE his size and he will be a good football player for the next two seasons.
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Post by olcoach53 on Oct 30, 2012 7:32:27 GMT -6
You cant underhype them either. We had that situation this past week playing a 9-0 at 5-4. We underhyped the team because quite honestly they arent very good. Our kids took this as OVER confidence though and borderline cockiness and we got punched in the teeth. I think you have to show the kids they have talent but also that they are beatable. Good luck this weekend.
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Post by olcoach53 on Oct 29, 2012 11:51:02 GMT -6
We were down in numbers this season. We have an enrollment of 1500 and we had 20 sophomores, 30 freshman and then probably 35-40 Juniors and Seniors. This past week for the playoffs we had a roster of 50 that included all grade levels.
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Post by olcoach53 on Oct 24, 2012 7:33:23 GMT -6
It's tough when the basketball coach is telling kids to NOT play football. Our HC in football has told all of our kids though that he expects them to play more than one sport. He was a 3-sport athlete in high school and he feels that was what got him an athletic scholarship.
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Post by olcoach53 on Oct 18, 2012 12:03:39 GMT -6
I will say this because I brought up the trick play thing. Halfback pass that year was NOT a trick play, our RB/WR could simply throw better than our QB so we ran it probably 20 times all season. As far as running up the score which is less classy, running our offense or kneeing it three times then punting?
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Post by olcoach53 on Oct 18, 2012 12:01:24 GMT -6
Many thoughts and prayers heading your way coach. Sure does bring it all into perspective.
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Post by olcoach53 on Oct 18, 2012 10:09:30 GMT -6
If you are up big and the team that is losing does that I would have no problem with just running their offense and trying to score some points and gain experience. We have had that happen to us a few times and I know we have done that a few times too.
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Post by olcoach53 on Oct 18, 2012 7:39:49 GMT -6
I got into a problem with my A.D. a few years ago with this situation. With the running clock rule in IHSA I will score any way I can until I get the clock rolling (unless it is late in the 4th quarter). We were winning a JV game 34-0 at the start of the second half and I ran a halfback pass to get 40 and get the clock rolling. After that I did not call one passing play and my A.D. chewed my butt for it and said it wasn't necessary. I argued and said that I was going to do what I needed to do to get the running clock and that was my decision. He could have chewed me for the final score since we ended up scoring 19 more points and winning 59-0.
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Post by olcoach53 on Oct 16, 2012 9:12:01 GMT -6
He gave your opponent your game plan and your HC STILL wont fire him? That is just flat out gutless.
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Post by olcoach53 on Oct 11, 2012 13:31:34 GMT -6
Sometimes it just takes big balls to run a play like that.
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Post by olcoach53 on Oct 10, 2012 7:38:57 GMT -6
You win as a team and you lose as a team.
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Post by olcoach53 on Oct 2, 2012 11:40:51 GMT -6
Coach, correct me if I am wrong but you are 6-1 with that group. Something MUST be working right. Keep up the great work and keep competing!
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Post by olcoach53 on Sept 21, 2012 11:40:26 GMT -6
This Kyle guy is awesome!
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Post by olcoach53 on Sept 21, 2012 7:39:10 GMT -6
One more thing to add. The previous poster asked, "How much do you emphasize winning?". In the case of our head coach, he never discussed it in the context of wins and losses. It was always about how Friday nights were simply the outflow of what we'd done in practice during the week and by extension all the work we'd done in the off-season. Win or lose, excellence is the goal, always within the context of our abilities. Excellence doesn't always come with a 'W', it comes in maximizing our god given abilities and efforts on every play. I liked this approach, because I think it's easy to become too 'bottom line' in sports. Particularly at the high school level, the process and the journey are so important. If a kid gets too fixated on the scoreboard it may become detrimental to their success. You don't want them playing tight, and playing not to screw up. I get so sick of this type of talk. I'm not a "win at all costs" type of guy. I don't scream your head off if you do something wrong. It's not like I'm some villain. I just want my players to know the goal, and the goal is to win. When I played I experienced a lot of losing, even though I felt like I was very good. After every loss the coach would say something like, "did you play your best?" And I could honestly answer with "yes" because I had. It didn't matter though. I quit before junior year. You know why I quit? It's because I feltthat I was the only one taking the losses seriously. I worked hard in the off season, and I came back that next year stronger and faster than everyone, but I knew that wasn't going to change our outcome. So I quit, and the team had a pretty bad year, finishing 3 and 6. I probably could have made a difference in a few games, but why bother? There was no goal. I don't understand what makes people so ashamed of wanting to win either. It makes no sense. Vince Lombardi wasn't ashamed of it. Go look up some of his quotes. He wasn't out there talking about how his players played to the best of the abilities. He talked about winning. It's not a bad word. This is laughable. You make yourself sound like it is all about you and it was all about you growing up when you "played". So your team didnt win, that is a reason for you to quit on them? That is absolutely ridiculous. You sound like the perfect "ME" guy that you hear about in football. It's all about you and who cares what the team does, I guess that's why you quit on all of them. I'll bet you a dollar that those guys and your coaches were not sad to see you go. Sorry for the tirade, been a rough morning. As far as the original post, I agree, keep grinding and keep competing and good things are going to happen for your program and your kids.
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Post by olcoach53 on Sept 18, 2012 11:27:08 GMT -6
Our band leader pretty much thinks that the Friday night games are for the band, NOT the Football team. They come in and play pregame then wander around and then play halftime and leave...pretty freaking pathetic.
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Post by olcoach53 on Sept 7, 2012 11:13:31 GMT -6
Had a parent get in my face once because his son didnt play in the JV game. We lost the game 30-14 but we had a big rally in the fourth and its not like I had 60 guys to choose from to go on the field. His son never practiced, HID behind everybody when it was time for scout team, never ran on the field to do anything, never worked hard at all or showed up to any off-seaso.n lifting. This is also the same kid who flat out refused to go out on the field the week before because he "wasnt wearing the right number" The parent asked me why his kid didnt play, I responded that his son played defense and I coached the offense and the parent then got RIGHT in my face and pointed his finger at me and said "THAT IS BULLSH*T" I truly thought he was going to deck me and there were even other JV players around who saw it.
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Post by olcoach53 on Sept 5, 2012 10:06:40 GMT -6
I agree with Coach Knight, it could always be worse. You just have to approach it like losing any other kid. Who is to say that this kid (the QB who is leaving) doesnt get hurt or injured the next week anyways (if he stayed) and you have to prepare for that.
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Post by olcoach53 on Aug 17, 2012 11:00:33 GMT -6
First scrimmage tonight. Can not wait!!!!! It only means that when Monday rolls around it is GAME WEEK!
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