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Post by coachood on Jan 23, 2011 21:10:18 GMT -6
I've read several posts recently concerning players/ parents complaining about positions, or place on the depth chart because of the position that they chose. I've also read about players quitting if they didn't get the position they wanted. When I played everybody just went where the coaches told them too, and that was only 10 years ago. So my question is when, and why did this type of attitude become common for so many programs? Also, is there a way to fix it?
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Post by coachood on Jan 20, 2011 22:11:24 GMT -6
The parents at the new school I am at have requested that the AD install a suggestion box by the game field's concession stand. This way, during games, the "fans" can make suggestions that the coaches can use during halftime. Great idea .....I just wonder how we can possibly win on the road?? I know of a situation where a QB's mother was actually given a headset. No joke. WTF, How did that work out?
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Post by coachood on Jan 20, 2011 22:09:13 GMT -6
What about long- snapper
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Post by coachood on Jan 19, 2011 11:27:24 GMT -6
I thought it was nuts the first time I read about the idea of doing away with the three-point stance. But I'd have to say the doctor here has a lot of credibility. He's one of the two doctors who get the brains of dead former NFL players, and a lot of those were linemen, and he knows those aren't the guys who are getting the major concussions that are getting headlines. And in the story, he did talk about proper tackling technique and enforcing the head contact rules, so I'm starting to come around to thinking the guy has a point. It's gotten me thinking, line coaches on both sides spend a lot of time working on hand placement but when the game starts too often the first move is a head butt. That's probably where the sub-concussive blows come from. Then perhaps they should make the o-lineman go back to blocking with their shoulders, but then again that wouldn't make the passing game better and sell more hot dogs, so why would the NFL do that?
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Post by coachood on Jan 9, 2011 10:55:52 GMT -6
There was a pool under our gym floor, but you had to take the elevator to get there, and you couldn't ride the elevator without a ticket. Some of us older guys made a lot of money selling elevator tickets to freshman.
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Post by coachood on Nov 15, 2010 0:12:36 GMT -6
I think it's bad luck to be superstitious .
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Post by coachood on Nov 10, 2010 22:22:58 GMT -6
Isn't footwork an important part of coming off the ball? There are too many Nike style coaches out there. They want the kids to "Just Do It" without ever teaching them how to do it. I work with a guy whose primary coaching points are "Do good" and "don't suck" I want to leave him behind on our farthest road game so he can't make it back to practice. hes horrible. I'm sick of people not wanting to teach technique. We walk through so much crap that our kids play games at walk through speed. (with crappy technique because we walk through instead of working technique) so now we have kids who play slow with crappy technique, doesn't matter what Xs and Os we are running, its easy to defend when you mix those two. I'm in a similar situation. Why can some people just not get it? The results(or lack there of) should be convincing but I guess that we're dealing with Einstein's definition of insanity.
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Post by coachood on Nov 10, 2010 17:56:28 GMT -6
I've seen a few post talking about team/ individual/ weight room goals for the off season or next year and it got me thinking
How many of you have set goals for yourselves or as a staff for the next season? Personally I want to spend more time in Indy, especially later in the season, and get better at identifying tendencies in my opponents. Obviously I want to get better at everything, but those are the 2 I'm really going to focus on.
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Post by coachood on Nov 8, 2010 12:30:40 GMT -6
I agree with everything above, and will add this. Your players have to learn to really love hitting, maybe you can give weekly awards to whoever has the biggest hit, also IMO you need to run a very physical practice so that players become used to hitting and it will eventually become second nature to them.
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Post by coachood on Nov 1, 2010 22:25:35 GMT -6
Coach, as far as whether or not you should stay or go all that I will say is this. Leave on your terms, when you are ready. Whether or not that time is now I can't say, but some good can come from this season. 1. It can be used to remind players what happens to complacent teams. 2. Treat your experience with the new offense and DC like an experiment, you certainly sound like you learned a lot from it already. In a way this was the perfect year for an experiment because with the poor attitude of your seniors they probably wouldn't have done well in any system. Also I would return to an offense that suits YOU! "buying into", or "believing in" an offense doesn't mean much IMO. I "believe" that any offense can be effective and have seen almost all of them move the ball and score points. But if the offense doesn't fall in line with your personality and overall philosophy then I don't think any amount of time, research, or "belief" will make it work for you. For example, I prefer a ground and pound hit em in the mouth and make em like it type of offense and am having success with that. I would be very lucky to win 2 games a year if I tried to run TFS or any thing like that. The Air Raid is a solid offense and is well thought out and fairly simple(which is also one thing I like) but it's just not for me.
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Post by coachood on Oct 28, 2010 9:15:10 GMT -6
To use a national example, I wouldn't have questioned the toughness of the Florida Gators defense, despite the fact they didn't run a "smash mouth" offense. In fact, going back to the long forgotten Tebow Era, I guess I'd use them as an example of a team that had a very physical spread offense with big interior linemen and a Fullback style QB getting direct snaps. I'd suggest you could be a tough "spread" team. I don't think the formations have much to do with it, it's more a style of play. What's more smash mouth than a direct snap to the fullback?
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Post by coachood on Oct 28, 2010 8:55:04 GMT -6
www.football-defense.com/run-a-tough-offense-to-toughen-your-defense/This article seems to confirm something that I have long suspected, basically the teams who run a more "smash mouth" type of offense seem to have tougher and harder hitting defenses. I know there will be exceptions but I see the correlation a lot. Am I right or am I just to biased to see that I'm wrong.
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Post by coachood on Oct 11, 2010 11:10:31 GMT -6
I've read several post where some one will accuse a certain tactic or play of being "bush league". Exactly what does this mean. From most of the posts it seems to mean that the other team is taking advantage of opportunities they are given, albeit some what"creatively"
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Post by coachood on Oct 9, 2010 23:20:47 GMT -6
When I want them to remember it I give it to them loud and dirty, that way it will stick-George Patton.
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Post by coachood on Sept 26, 2010 12:41:49 GMT -6
2006- My best friend is working at hibbett sports and an 8-man football coach comes in to buy equipment, they talk football for 2 hours and he became their DC. He calls me that night and I become the Line coach. I haven't wanted to do anything but coach since.
2007- That school became so small we couldn't find 8 players for a team. My brother starts going to a private school and I suggest having a football team. I move to TN to find a job and volunteer at the local HS as a DL coach.
2008- Return to GA and take over as OC of the team I helped to start. Still working on a degree so I can do this full time.
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Post by coachood on Sept 17, 2010 12:12:23 GMT -6
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Post by coachood on Sept 17, 2010 12:08:09 GMT -6
I generally plan my offense with the assumption that I will have the least talented team.
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Post by coachood on Sept 15, 2010 21:53:37 GMT -6
I had a kid that "went to puke " during summer conditioning and just never came back.
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Post by coachood on Sept 9, 2010 11:28:52 GMT -6
Chuck Norris Jokes work pretty good for me. Brophy, Do your kids know who in hell Huey Lewis, Mickey Rourke, or Vanilla Ice are?
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Post by coachood on Aug 9, 2010 14:16:27 GMT -6
From my OC in HS Arter a lineman got knocked into the backfield 3 times in a row: Son you're like a French {censored}, just too damn easy. After a senior got a tatto over the weekend: I've got a tatoo. It's a volkswagon beetle on my pecker, when i get excited it turns into a schoolbus.
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Post by coachood on Aug 9, 2010 12:37:59 GMT -6
Can anyone accurately describe this video without using the word "cluster"
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Post by coachood on Jun 1, 2010 10:55:03 GMT -6
I know the DCs are gonna hate me for this, but I like O because if we do everything right then we can't be beaten. There are several advantages given to the offense first, we know when the play will start( this is more important than most people think if used correctly) Second we know where the play is going the defense has to defend the entire fields, but I only have to attack 1 point. As Napolean said " He who defends everywhere defends nowhere" As long as we don't squandor these advantages through lack of technique, effort, or thought the D can only wait and hope we screw up. On the other hand some offenses couldn't score if the defense was in the locker room.
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Post by coachood on Mar 29, 2010 0:16:49 GMT -6
could be valuable as a kick returner
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Post by coachood on Mar 27, 2010 17:56:37 GMT -6
Wrestling is great I do have 1 decent drill to improve toughness and aggression I do it mostly early in the summer. upcoming kids get more reps but everyone does it until I'm satisfied they can and will hit with everything they got. The drill is called Hold the Rope you take a 3-4 ft length of rope( thick rope to avoid cutting into hands) a player on each end grabs the rope with both hands, on the whistle they try to get the other player to let go of the rope. The only rule is that they can't kick. they are allowed to hit with shoulders and head sling the rope to throw their opponent down and drag them it gives some pretty good results
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Post by coachood on Mar 27, 2010 16:06:00 GMT -6
Its a team sport. The sooner every individual realizes that their mistake will cost every one, the better off we'll be. Furthermore neither football nor life is fair. Sometimes you'll play against some one who is physically far superior to you. Refs will make bad or even terrible calls against you. Other teams will lie cheat and steal to get a win. None of this excuses anyone from their responsibility, and none of it cannot be overcome with enough work.
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Post by coachood on Mar 23, 2010 13:08:50 GMT -6
oach Hood
Currently OC at a small private school in GA we play 8 man football Run Split back veer, in 11 man would also run old split -t I have a general interest in rare offenses T single and double wing&any thing option multiple D depending on players
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Post by coachood on Mar 18, 2010 2:32:55 GMT -6
In my playing days we had about a 1/2 hour of time to get dressed and mentally prepared, I used to sit at my locker with headphones and listen to an all megadeth mixtape. Good , mostly clean speed metal but its sung not barked. The last song on the tape was "crush 'em" great song for hitting
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