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Post by bullsvp on Sept 18, 2023 3:17:48 GMT -6
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Post by bullsvp on Aug 22, 2022 17:42:16 GMT -6
We had 3 sets of jerseys and loved the jerseys and the warmup shirts, the pants were too thin and too tight sold them off after 1 year. The main 2 colors have been moved down to JV as we got new ones and the alt color were kept for,varsity. They held up pretty well game uniforms are cleaned by a laundry service each week the colors are still bright we wore them for our scrimmage. They are tight and lightweight, but did not have any issues with holes or tearing after 5 years now
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Post by bullsvp on Jan 17, 2020 20:15:48 GMT -6
We have had 3 sets of sublimated jerseys from Pro Look now for three seasons. They have held up pretty well. We have a couple of hard running RB that had a few small tears appear in shoulder area where there is contact, we have mended them and hasn’t been an issue. Same thing happened with other jerseys that were not sublimated. In some aspects they are better than screen printed jerseys, everything is dyed in so the entire jersey breathes and stretches. You don’t get those tears along sleeve printing or numbers. They stretch a lot so can be tighter that other jerseys. We had a set of pants from them that we used for two years but the players didn’t like them and we have replaced them with regular pants. They were very tight and didn’t have a fly at all, most of our kids didn’t manage to get them pulled up all the way and looked like they were all sagging.
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Post by bullsvp on Dec 1, 2019 21:28:58 GMT -6
The last Thanksgiving game in Louisville was in 1980. It was a tradition for the two oldest schools in the city and state to play, Louisville Male vs DuPont Manual. For awhile Playoffs ended before thanksgiving, then when playoffs were extended the tradition stopped.
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Post by bullsvp on Mar 17, 2019 15:00:42 GMT -6
we use 5 pad, but gear 2000 have held up well and mueller too. we had some Riddell but it had bigger solid pads rather than the thinner honeycomb pads and players didn't like them as well
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Post by bullsvp on Sept 3, 2018 13:12:58 GMT -6
Runner gets 2 yards to spot of foul, then penalty for 10 y
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Post by bullsvp on May 1, 2018 18:43:49 GMT -6
We didn’t get the reversible, but we got 3 sets last year, didn’t have the sleeve pockets either, was t much of an issue. The issue we did have is these are tight. And the pants are even tighter.
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Post by bullsvp on Dec 3, 2017 22:41:21 GMT -6
It’s crazy what high schools pay for balls. When I was with my semipro team we bought as a league once per year from Wilson, got the nfl size ball, stamped with our league name and logo, and got them for $42 per ball, no shipping costs one of our teams was near the plant in Ohio and picked them all up and distributed them at the league meeting. That was the cost in 2011 last year we ran the team.
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Post by bullsvp on Nov 29, 2017 21:34:36 GMT -6
Our County requires reconditioning every year, the schools pay for it. They now also require at least a 4 Star helmet and only supposed to purchase 5 Star from now on, can use the 4 Star until they age out after 10years. When they instituted this we lost 48 helmets that were not rated high enough and all still had 2-3 years left. A grant paid for 20 helmets but he had to fundraise to purchase more to suit everyone up. Coach, what was the grant? I am in Louisville, KY. A local tv station did a story on low rated helmets and even did open records request to get our inventory from reconditioning. Norton Healthcare gave each of the 20 football playing public high schools a grant to purchase 20- 5 star rated helmets each. Then we had a sticker saying Norton Healthcare on the helmets purchased as part of the grant. It was a one time deal and not part of a national thing.
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Post by bullsvp on Nov 25, 2017 10:06:32 GMT -6
Our County requires reconditioning every year, the schools pay for it. They now also require at least a 4 Star helmet and only supposed to purchase 5 Star from now on, can use the 4 Star until they age out after 10years. When they instituted this we lost 48 helmets that were not rated high enough and all still had 2-3 years left. A grant paid for 20 helmets but he had to fundraise to purchase more to suit everyone up.
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Post by bullsvp on Nov 9, 2017 21:12:31 GMT -6
if buying the 2017 helmets does it have the 2017 label or 2018 since these presumably won’t be used until next season. If they still are labeled 2017 you’d only get 9 season out of them instead of 10
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Post by bullsvp on Nov 9, 2017 8:35:44 GMT -6
They are being worn in the NFL, for Green Bay Brian Bulaga, Seahawks Russell Wilson and the center, Alex Smith for Kansas City and a few other Chiefs players. Most games I see 3-4 guys in them
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Post by bullsvp on Oct 27, 2017 21:04:14 GMT -6
We got three sets of the ProLook jerseys, 1set of pants, 1set of compression warm up shirts, socks. Everything is dye sublimated and fits tight. The pants run small and tight if a guy wears a medium Pant in Riddell need a large or XL in pro look. Our biggest kid wears a 3x Russell pant, 6x in pro look (6-6 330 big and sloppy doesn’t play nickname is Big Goofy) Jerseys run tight but about right size in that a medium fits a medium but is tight, no leeway if a regular jersey is tight need to go up a size for these. They seem to be holding up well, and kids like the look and how much they stretch. We have had a few guys develop small holes in front wear jerseys eem to be stretched and wearing against shoulder pads near lace and buckle areas in front. It’s on one RB and a few lineman that all have tight jerseys. A local cleaners cleans our varsity jerseys and pants each week (manager wash the warmups and socks as well as freshmen and JV uniforms). And the cleaners also repair the holes, tears etc just got these this season so too soon to tell real durability.
these just replaced some Russell jerseys wear the Homes were used for 4 years and Whites for 3. We are still using the white pants for varsity with New Jersey since we got 3 sets of jerseys and only 1 set of pants.
JV now wears the Russell, always wearing Home pants and they have held up really well still look almost new for JV. Our AD didn’t want us to use them for JV saying they were too nice. Only lost jerseys from the Russell were ones cut off injured players.
our freshmen wear Nike jerseys with practice pants ( old game pants now used for practice). The Nike jerseys are over 10years old blacks we’re used for Varsity for 6 years, Whites for 7. They have held up pretty well but have lost a few jerseys from each set that were torn up few more cut off injured guys in over a decade of use.
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Post by bullsvp on Oct 18, 2017 9:22:29 GMT -6
Just do it during reconditioning, we used to have black with orange metal flake, changed to matte black and didn’t change the cost since we were already paying for all helmets to be painted, I think it may have went down since losing the metal flake. A different school I was at went from molded red to matte red and it added about $10 per helmet for the painting cost.
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Post by bullsvp on Aug 31, 2017 23:00:23 GMT -6
I looked thru our black jerseys, worn twice and orange worn once and didn't see any signs of wear. Checkout a few belonging to our best RB, top LB, etc and didn't find anything to be concerned about
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Post by bullsvp on Aug 31, 2017 22:58:41 GMT -6
We've got the ProLook Dy sublimate, and the jerseys are tight but pretty true to size, they do stretch a lot, partly because being dye sublimated the printing isn't there to,tighten it up. However the pants run small, at least 1 size in some cases 2 sizes small. We got guys that wear a medium in Russell pants wearing L or XL,. We ordered 85 pairs of pants originally and they didn't tell us about the fit, ended up ordering 45 more pairs of pants and just had to pay shipping. At first they went back and forth but finally came thru with a workable solution for us.
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Post by bullsvp on Aug 31, 2017 10:09:26 GMT -6
We bought three sets of jerseys and one set of pants from them, compression warmup shirts. So far we have worn both home jerseys and wear the away jerseys tonight. (Hurricane Harvey remnants coming thru the area dropping 4-6 inches of rain on Friday along with lightning so all games in Louisville on Friday moved to Thursday night or Sat am.). So far we have washed the blacks twice worn for pictures and 1 game, and worn orange once, washed once. We have worn the warmups for the scrimmage and both games washed 3 times. We aren't had any issues yet but I will be looking now thanks for the heads up. All of ours are dye sublimated as well.
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Post by bullsvp on Aug 28, 2017 13:33:25 GMT -6
Actually Xenith re did their jaw pads for 2017 on both X2E and Epic models, and while the chinstrap parts and pods are the same on both models the comfort liners are different. So you do have different parts for different t Xeniths too. But it has been my experience with Xenith that most of the parts are replaced during annual reconditioning and not during the year in five years of using them have replace 4-5 pods for wear, and one chinstrap was replaced for broken strap another for broken chin cup. Replacing the chinstrap can be a pain on a Xenith, but we've only had to do 2 in season in 5 years, started with just 4 Xenith that first year now have about 35.
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Post by bullsvp on Aug 23, 2017 16:53:10 GMT -6
It depends if we are home or away and if away if locker rooms are available and close. At home we are in our field house at time of the anthem last minute talk, ours takes awhile, we have Marines JROTC, our Lady Leathernecks Drill Team is 2 time defending National Champs, two of our managers are on the drill team. 4 of the JROTC walk out with 2 flags and 2 guards and march to midfield and present the flags then the anthem. Supposed to remain standing while they march out, anthrm, and until they are off the field, can take 10-12 minutes.
Away all of our regular season games are in town, and some don't provide visitor lockers or may provide but far from the field and we don't use unless weather concerns. So most away games we are on the field for the anthem
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Post by bullsvp on Aug 22, 2017 14:20:35 GMT -6
In Kentucky almost all the coaches wear shorts, the refs even wear shorts. With some of the hard core old school guys it's a point of pride to wear shorts the entire season and in the playoffs in November it's cold and can have sleet or snow. On our staff we heckle a young coach that goes pants too quick when it's merely chilly, coaches over 60 get a pass and can bundle up.
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Post by bullsvp on Aug 21, 2017 17:23:54 GMT -6
Our whole staff wears Haggar Cool 18's , there is a Haggar outlet ina nearby outlet mall and we can get them for under $20 for shorts under $30 for pants, also at Kohl's. And they have big man sizes but we get them for a little more from Amazon. Our Head Coach is OCD and if we don't match he gets twitchy.
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Post by bullsvp on Aug 21, 2017 5:28:17 GMT -6
We use Xenith and are very happy with them. The 2017 models do have some changes, the most obvious is they have change the cheekpad from one of their round pods to a padded trapezoid that velcros in. Our players like them, can get a 5 star helmet for under $200. Haven't had any issues with repairs, we get them reconditioned each year and any straps that are bad get replaced. The pods are very simple to repair if one gets worn thru. We have been using them for 5 years and haven't had any rejected or crack. I am in Louisville, KY and our main sporting goods dealer sells them all the time. It was weird you mentioned Dicks in this area they don't even sell adult helmets just youth stuff and mostly the cheaper models of youth helmets
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Post by bullsvp on Aug 17, 2017 8:07:32 GMT -6
What do you do if the kid has a custom mouthpiece made by his dentist that doesn't have a pigtail?
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Post by bullsvp on Aug 5, 2017 15:49:13 GMT -6
For $500 you could get top level Douglas or Riddell Custom Power, they are proven and used by NFL and top colleges, I have never seen these Russell pads in use at any level. I like their uniforms etc but would need to see these in person to trust them
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Post by bullsvp on Jul 28, 2017 20:34:05 GMT -6
Goo Gone works ok, I get it at Target, first I try to remove as much as I can by rolling it up and off can also use a plastic scraper that's not sharp
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Post by bullsvp on Jul 26, 2017 21:07:23 GMT -6
Coach Clint Trickett went to FAU as well as TE coach , the article I saw says he is the youngest position coach in FBS.
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Post by bullsvp on Jul 18, 2017 0:26:15 GMT -6
We went with ProLook Dye Sublimated Jersey and Pants, the team name, numbers, logos, even decorative tiger stripes are all dye sublimated in with no embroidery or screen printing, Makes for a very stretchy and breathable jersey. This first year so don't know how they will hold up yet.
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Post by bullsvp on Jul 17, 2017 22:43:51 GMT -6
Kevlar inserts would not be my go-to for concussion prevention, that's just not the material's forte. I really want to believe in those Guardian caps, I just need to see the data to back it up. I just don't get the guardian caps. To me it's like strapping pillows outside your car. As for any insert it seems like that could work against the manufacturer designed padding. I like that someone said that a kids still got a concussion with these, because I don't think completely eliminating concessions is possible, but helmet manufacturers are making strides and helmet design has changed a ton from late 90's to 2017, but one detriment to better helmets is that hard hits that would,leave your head ringing in an old pro air 2 or VSR-4 are barely felt in current helmet, lately our concussions were seldom from head on collisiosn but from either snapping back against the ground or contact from side or back often unseen by player. Our worst concussion in a few years was when one OL tried to jump over a pile and kneed another of our OL in the back of the head. His consussion was severe, missed a week of school, and stayed away from bright lights etc. when he came back to schoo,had those huge sunglasses given to senior citizens, missed about 5 weeks of football.
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Post by bullsvp on Jun 24, 2017 21:07:10 GMT -6
Our kids get out of school at 2:20, report to two classrooms for quick film at 2:30 split off and def. our field house is down away from the school with an elementary school between, so they leave the film at 3:15 to the field house and do a quick equipment check, if they need anything replaced and be sure their pants, socks, warmup shirts are in their locker. at 3:45 load up buses and go to nearby church that feeds them each week. The youth minister mentors the players and gives a non demnominational talk about leadership, fellowship etc each meal. Then back at field house by 5:15 Specialists get taped first, with specialty meetings that are basically just a quick review of depth chart for each special team and any tweaks for that week. Specialists start warming up around 6:00-6:15, everyone out at 6:30 , kickoff at 7:30.
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Post by bullsvp on Jun 15, 2017 23:06:48 GMT -6
The best thing I ever heard during a game never made it to film. Years ago was working for one of the worse teams in the city, we have 26 high schools with football in Louisville public and private combined and this school is always in bottom 5. If x games were a high school sport they would be city champs. Anyway we had a defensive coordinator that is a great guy, very funny, an awesome cook, former defensive lineman and looked like a soprano character. The team wasn't very good we went 1-9 each year I was there, the defensive coordinator would get frustrated and often thought our players were intimidated by the other team. His own way of trying to get their confidence up was to make fun of the other team. Some of his best lines: "Hey 78, what did those cleats ever do to you?" "You call that tackling or are you rehearsing gay porn" "Was that a tackle or are you in the rodeo, you almost held on for 8 seconds" "Nice hit reminded me of my last massage"
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