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Post by olcoach53 on Dec 12, 2016 18:02:00 GMT -6
On our staff of 12 coaches the HC has a major ego (I'm okay with it, I think it goes with being the HC). The jv OC is extremely insecure and that manifests itself in him being a know-it-all. Everybody else is very laid back and gets along great. With the exception of the two outliers, I couldn't imagine a tighter staff. They are guys from their mid 50's down to early 20's but we still hang around together off the football field and don't hesitate to share personal matters with each other. Some of the coaches are extremely knowledgeable, others are really novices but they all are working to get better. When you have a common goal like that it's easy to build relationships. Backwards visor?
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Post by olcoach53 on Dec 12, 2016 8:54:41 GMT -6
First and foremost there has to be respect. Respect is huge. First comes respect then comes trust then comes being close. I would love to work for and with guys that have those three qualities, unfortunately it doesn't always happen.
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Post by olcoach53 on Nov 19, 2016 9:05:41 GMT -6
I think as coaches we all realize that very rarely will we take over a "winning program" unless we are already on staff. You have to come in and get them to buy into what you are telling them on AND off the field. If they buy in and start to do things right then the wins will eventually come. Might not be year one or two or even three but the success will start to happen.
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Post by olcoach53 on Nov 18, 2016 13:19:12 GMT -6
Finishing. And that is the hardest thing to teach too. Finishing tackles, finishing runs, finishing blocks. Just finishing...
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Post by olcoach53 on Nov 18, 2016 7:54:58 GMT -6
We had a large staff this season. It boiled down to HC OC-QBs OL-that was me WR/DB WR/RB RB DC-ILBS DL DB OLB OLB
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Post by olcoach53 on Nov 14, 2016 9:26:15 GMT -6
We had 4 of them. One was a freak injury, one was a helmet directly to the knee and two I can put on poor squat form and lack of time in the weight room.
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Post by olcoach53 on Oct 28, 2016 7:46:14 GMT -6
Our season hinges on tonight. We win we are in, we lose it's basketball season. Sometimes I don't know who wants it more, the kids or the coaches. So much back talk and whining from kids now. I remember when I played if a coached told me something I said yes or no and fixed it. Now when we try to coach a kid it's excuses and reasons why we are wrong. Just crazy
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Post by olcoach53 on Oct 27, 2016 12:17:42 GMT -6
Dang, sorry coach! Good luck though!
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Post by olcoach53 on Oct 27, 2016 10:14:49 GMT -6
So when do they practice separate? If varsity and JV are running the same schemes on both sides of the ball, as they should, then they don't really need a separate practice. They get the same drills, same indy, same group, same coaching points. Just make sure they get rotated into those drills alongside the varsity. You might want to get them together to work a little bit of team once a week at the opposite end of the field from varsity on the day before a game, but there's no reason to overcomplicate this, and then line them up before the JV games to walk through and review the basic things you plan to run, but it's not a big deal. JV is for player development. We view it more as a reward and a motivator for the varsity kids who aren't yet good enough to get playing time on varsity instead of as a truly separate team. We don't care if JV goes 0-whatever as long as the kids stay out and get better. Are there really schools where this is an issue?
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Post by olcoach53 on Oct 27, 2016 10:13:51 GMT -6
I've been dying to find some Bike coaching shorts! We do a throwback Thursday occasionally and all the coaches dress up old school. That's the one thing I don't have in my ensemble. I was even able to find a pair of old Pony shoes with the flip over tongue that's gigantic. (I think they're old softball shoes or something but they still work). I found a polo in our equipment room from at least '83. Some reallllll bad horizontal striping but the kids think it's funny and we always enjoy it. Its a nice change of pace during the week from my normal visor, long sleeve dri-fit, unfolded gigantic map of the U.S you'd buy at a truck stop - wallet chained to my belt loop. I've searched and searched for some Spot Bilt coaches shoes, but the only surplus ones I've ever found are sized 7.5-8.5 www.shoearena.com/cat_spot-bilt1.phpwww.shoebuy.com/spot-bilt-classic-coach-white/1447
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Post by olcoach53 on Oct 25, 2016 9:45:46 GMT -6
We had a backup DL coach with delusions of grandeur find a game plan once and do this, checking it periodically throughout the game for best effect. It wasn't our gameplan, it was an offensive gameplan for the team with whom we shared a stadium. Good to know you get the slappies up at that level/country too. Our DL coach is just a yeller for the sake of yelling. He likes to make real long drawn out speeches too before, during AND after all games. He kept the JV DL for about 15 extra minutes last night after our final game while the rest of the team cleaned up the field.
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Post by olcoach53 on Oct 25, 2016 9:33:01 GMT -6
Hey know, I wear my hat backwards, I just don't like having the bill in the way and I like having a hat on. I am the furthest thing from a facemelter Doucher too. Facemelter Doucher* I don't capitalize facemelter...I only capitalize real offenses like A11 and Lonesome Polecat.
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Post by olcoach53 on Oct 25, 2016 9:04:13 GMT -6
backwards hats = Facemelting (notice it's capitalized) experts Hey know, I wear my hat backwards, I just don't like having the bill in the way and I like having a hat on. I am the furthest thing from a facemelter Doucher too.
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Post by olcoach53 on Oct 21, 2016 9:40:41 GMT -6
We have done it everywhere I have coached and when I played too. If you have enough coaches I always felt that you switch what is being coached so you don't have big groups during individual time. Then you use those players for scout team when the time comes.
I have seen freshman practice completely separate from varsity/jv before but that was a larger school.
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Post by olcoach53 on Oct 20, 2016 10:39:55 GMT -6
I agree. Go with #2 and have them turn it in ahead of time so you know how much food to get as well.
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Post by olcoach53 on Oct 17, 2016 15:35:12 GMT -6
But what about if you take ANOTHER right.....Nah, I was just kidding anyways. Never run it up if you don't have to.
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Post by olcoach53 on Oct 17, 2016 11:49:53 GMT -6
But three rights make a left....
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Post by olcoach53 on Oct 5, 2016 7:39:33 GMT -6
Never wore headsets for a lower level game. Had a school once apologize for using them though in a JV game, it was kind of funny.
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Post by olcoach53 on Oct 4, 2016 10:29:00 GMT -6
We do, usually an injured kid or a varsity sub. We never watch it with the group though but we do share it on HUDL.
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Post by olcoach53 on Sept 30, 2016 12:13:20 GMT -6
Had too many of these to even start commenting about. Sometimes you eat the bar and sometimes the bar eats you.
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Post by olcoach53 on Sept 30, 2016 6:44:40 GMT -6
Just crazy to me I guess. I can understand the playing with your friends thing totally though.
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Post by olcoach53 on Sept 29, 2016 12:12:45 GMT -6
That right there just sums up a lot of the youth in America right now. What's mine is mine and whats yours is mine too...
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Post by olcoach53 on Sept 29, 2016 12:06:31 GMT -6
He REFUSED to practice with the varsity? I didn't realize that was an actual thing...
I would have cut off my arm to practice and play with the varsity when I was a frosh.
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Post by olcoach53 on Sept 20, 2016 10:29:50 GMT -6
White uniforms are the worst. Our white pants have blue stains on them from a freshly painted field. They also have the normal grass and dirt stains that NEVER come out no matter how much spray, shout, clean and washing you give them.
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Post by olcoach53 on Sept 20, 2016 9:31:51 GMT -6
I love that excuse! I saw it on Facebook or Twitter or my best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who said that Bobby moved away last week.
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Post by olcoach53 on Sept 20, 2016 9:18:52 GMT -6
This has been the craziest season that I've had in a long time. We're 1-3 but that's not what bothers me. The injury bug has hit and we've had some guys quit. Our starting LT moved out of town the day before the season (Didn't bother to tell us). Our returning RT is out with a concussion and his doctor (A pedia-freakin-trician) doesn't want him to come back at all. Our LG is out with a knee and probably won't return. Our RG, a cut 310 pounder, is subject to full body cramps. He had them at halftime this week and the EMT thought it was an anxiety attack. Two kids who were in the mix at CB quit after Game 2. One said that he quit because he's not a bench player. Thing is, he would have been a starter but he'd missed a day of practice every week. Our QB, who had started some games as an injury replacement last year, moved in the offseason and plays for a rival. Scratching our a$$es looking for a QB we moved our projected TE to QB. On paper, he looks great. Throws a nice ball, smartest and nicest kid on the team, lifts with our strongest group but he's not a QB. Problem: He's not a QB. Can't cut loose and throw it. Has to see the receiver completely open. If our OL was as good as we'd expected that might be OK. If we could ground and pound that'd work, too. But the OL problems don't let that happen. Oh, yeah: Our best DL broke his elbow in a scrimmage, our stud DE is out with a concussion, and our best overall player's mother is a psycho (He's OK but she definitely isn't), and we play so many sophomores that our football intelligence is nonexistent. Other than that, things are great. I always hate the kids moving without telling anybody thing.
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Post by olcoach53 on Sept 20, 2016 5:49:10 GMT -6
Scout O is the bane of my existence...immediately followed by Scout D. I am always partial to scout offenses that use a coach as a QB and said QB talks trash the entire session. Second favorite is when the Scout D runs a defense entirely different than what you are preparing for or LBs just decide to blitz for fun. Thirdly I love scout team all-americans! Best part of the job
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Post by olcoach53 on Sept 19, 2016 9:13:52 GMT -6
Wow those make me really feel better about our situation haha. That is horrible. How do coaches and administrators allow that type of stuff to happen?
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Post by olcoach53 on Sept 19, 2016 8:53:48 GMT -6
So we had a big rivalry game this past Friday and won pretty easily 42-7. Come to find out after the game that the opposing teams fans not only ripped our fence down on the bleachers but they also stole footballs from us after the game had ended. We usually do a good job of cleaning our equipment up but this one just baffled me. Not only did they do these things they TWEETED ABOUT IT!
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Post by olcoach53 on Sept 16, 2016 16:51:47 GMT -6
I agree with all the coaches who said just beat them into the ground and that is revenge enough. Don't stoop to their level though.
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