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Post by Coach Vint on Aug 2, 2018 11:20:24 GMT -6
I didn't say not to repeat a successful play until the defense adjusted-stopped it. I did that myself many times over 30 years calling plays.
To do otherwise would be poor coaching.
My point was to describe that tactic with any of those three phrases is cliché to the point of meaningless.
I get what you’re saying. Like in practice when the scout team defense picks a ball off and the OC says” don’t worry about that if he sits like that in a game we are going to kill them with this play.” I’m sitting there like how the hell are you just going to say that when the QB hit the safety in the chest with the ball? It was a terrible read It’s always offensive coaches who say that sh!t Truth! A pick is a damn pick! Or when the scout offense busts a big gain on the defense and the DC says, "we won't be in that defense against that formation." When you get exposed in practice it allows you to fix things. Justifying it will get you beat!
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Post by Coach Vint on Jul 17, 2018 20:57:44 GMT -6
Monday we have a ST meeting and position meetings to introduce the scouting report. We then have an 18 period practice. We are going to have only 2 periods of team. We are typically in full pads the first 5 weeks of the season. Week 6 we will often go shells. If we have a Thursday game then Monday is a 24 period practice.
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Post by Coach Vint on Jul 16, 2018 13:10:30 GMT -6
I spent a few years coaching at the DII level. If you are at a good school it is a very good experience. I was at a D2 with 6,500 students on campus and a well-run athletic program. We were a high academic school with a decent budget. The school paid for all of our recruiting travel and our trip to the AFCA Convention and if we visited another school to talk ball. Our head coach was well-organized and ran the program well. We were not fully-funded scholarship wise but the school was working to improve our scholarships. We had 24, and the school had a plan to increase that to 36 in a few years. The pay was not horrible, but position coaches made less than a high school teacher/coach.
If you are going to be a full-time coach, you have to consider the pay. If you are a teacher/coach at the HS level you probably make more than you will at a D2. Will you make enough to live? Is the head coach someone who is going to move up in the profession? Or, is he a D2 Lifer? Has he helped coaches advance in the profession. If you want to coach at the college level, then coach at the college level. I loved the aspect of coaching being 90% of my job. At some D2's you might teach a class or two. It is still much less than your high school teaching load.
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Post by Coach Vint on Jun 23, 2018 17:07:36 GMT -6
This is poor management to begin with. The question is simple: Is he in or is he out? If he ain't going to contribute he has got to go. It isn't fair to the kids or the program to have a coach on staff who isn't going to do everything he can to help the program. If he can get on board, great. If not, he has to go. You need to communicate this to the head coach. It is better to be down a coach than to have a crappy coach on staff. I get that he has been wronged, but if he is going to play victim he will only poison the program.
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Post by Coach Vint on Jun 23, 2018 15:59:36 GMT -6
We are going to have our strength and conditioning workout in accordance with our state regulations. We have a two hour workout block for 4 days a week for 6 weeks in the summer. Basically it's 48 hours total in the summer. We can't do anything with football skills. We have a dad who does a great job with our 7-on-7, and the kids play on Monday night's for 4 weeks in the summer. Our kids will stay and throw on their own on Monday's and Wednesday's.
Being at the office to say you are at the office is stupid. Avoiding work and calling yourself efficient is stupid. Find the right balance for your kids, program, and coaches. Every program and community is a little different.
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Post by Coach Vint on May 17, 2018 21:41:04 GMT -6
Weight room, hiring a staff, fundraising, and recruiting the hallways. Most losing programs have kids in the halls who want to play but don't want to lose. We took over a program several years ago that had lost 27 in a row. They hadn't had a winning season ever in school history, and the school opened when FDR was president. The equipment was old. The weight room was embarrassing. There were athletes walking the halls that said they didn't want to be losers.
We made strength and conditioning the foundation of our program. We used it to build excitement and accountability. Guys got bigger, faster, and stronger, and started to believe we could win. We raised a bunch of money to buy weight equipment and cool stuff for them to wear. We bought new uniforms, t-shirts, shorts, hoodies, and cleats. We got some of those kids who weren't playing to come to the weight room. We ended up going 6-4 the first year and all of a sudden everyone wanted to play. We also spent a lot of time building relationships with our players. That first senior class was vital to our success. They bought in to us as coaches, and we bought into them as players.
You have to change the attitude. You have to get them to believe they can be successful. The weight room is where that foundation is built. When a kid busted through his max we celebrated like it was the biggest deal ever. We blew a whistle when someone tried a new max and everyone came over to the rack and got hype. That builds confidence in players. If they can win in the weight room they can win on the field. We sold them on being the strongest and fastest. We changed everything they had ever done also. We didn't want anything carrying over from the losing in our program.
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Post by Coach Vint on Apr 9, 2018 7:48:19 GMT -6
Heard Deion Sanders talking at the Under Armour Camp this weekend telling kids and parents they should go to a school where they are being utilized properly. Basically he said they should transfer is they don't think the coach is not using them the way they think they should be used. It is that attitude that negatively impacts high school sports. I am pretty sure the video is on social media being spread throughout the land.
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Post by Coach Vint on Apr 6, 2018 9:38:35 GMT -6
There are some guys who do a great job working with kids and helping them improve their skills. They do this outside of the high school kids workouts during the off-season. These are guys who are knowledgable and often are high school coaches. I have a good friend who is a WR coach who works with receivers on weekends. He charges a very nominal fee and works them on releases, stacking defenders, exploding out of their break, and finding the ball. He doesn't brag about who he works with, and he does this to help kids and makes a few extra dollars doing what he loves. I am good with this. He charges kids like $10 for a two hour group session and will have 4 or 5 kids. He is a heck of a coach and has made deep playoff runs. I am good with this.
Then you have the cone throwers. They throw down cones, collect your money, and you get little coaching. Sometimes guys are actually worse than when they started. They tweet out some videos of their substandard coaching and people keep giving them money. They might brag about playing for some big time school or something of the like. They might have a "client" who they say they turned into a 5 star recruit. We all know that kid was a 5 star recruit before they got to this guy.
Then you have the guys who are real leeches. They say whatever they need to collect money from parents. They tell the parent they can make 5-6 160 pound Johnny who runs a 5.9 40 a division one player. They tell the parents the coaches don't know anything. They might run an "elite" 7-on-7 program. They brag about helping kids get to college. It is all about their ego. They bad mouth coaches and programs. These guys ruin our game. The question is, how do you regulate this?
As far as recruiting: We educate our kids and parents on the recruiting process and facts. We educate them on the best way to prepare their kids for the possibility of a scholarship. We try to educate as best we can. The best way they can invest their hard earned money is an SAT or ACT enrichment class, rather than pay a "guru." We ask them to come to us before they give anyone any money. We tell them that one day college camps are a good investment. If they go to a camp they can meet the coaching staff and they will be evaluated. They might even get coached a little. We also tell them it doesn't matter where they play in HS, the college recruits them for their needs. Most QB's I coached were recruited as safeties in college. We had a DB 20 years ago that played Mike LB because we needed him there. He went to a BCS school and started four years in the secondary. We try to give them as much information as we can and help them to make good decisions. We do tell them that their performance and their grades are the first keys. And working hard will impact both of these. If they work hard, have a great attitude, and we win games, they will have a better chance at a scholarship. College coaches don't beat down the doors of 2-8 teams. They want winners. The great thing is, if you do things right, winning takes care of itself.
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Post by Coach Vint on Mar 22, 2018 1:04:21 GMT -6
We don't do much of 1-on-1's in cloth. When we do 1-on-1's we have every OL take 3 hard kicks. The guy going will work either a jump set, or he will work to gain depth. We use 7-on-7 to be able to work landmarks and maintaining the 1/2 man advantage. We coach hand placement, good knee bend, and the punch. When we do 1-on-1's we also do base run blocks. We do this where we tell the OL and DL that it is run. We do this once through, then we go to pass. We will also work run and pass with the defender not knowing what we are doing.
I am not a fan of the 1-on-1's in the underwear olympics. It is so poorly executed that no one gets much out of it, except the guy running the dude's twitter page.
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Post by Coach Vint on Mar 19, 2018 20:33:35 GMT -6
I have not worked for a head coach that did not let coaches run their position group. With that said, great head coaches want to have a handle on what you are doing, why you are doing it, and want to know if it is the best way. If they want me to teach something a certain way that is the way I teach it. Every head coach I worked for would listen and discuss if I had an issue with what they wanted. When we walked out of the office we were unified. As a coordinator I always let guys coach their position, but everything had to fit our system. If I don't understand a drill you are doing I am going to ask you about it.
Coaches need to do their discussing before they walk out of the office, and when they walk out of the office they should be unified. There is nothing worse than a coach who bitches on the field because they don't agree with something. Say your piece in the office and get it worked out. If you can't get it worked out, you are in the wrong place.
If I ever found myself in a position where I couldn't be all-in I would leave. Great coaching staffs don't argue in front of the kids and they don't backstab each other. They handle disagreements like men. They figure it out in the office and once the decision is made they go full speed for each other. There is no room for personal agendas and temper tantrums if you want to be a championship program.
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Post by Coach Vint on Mar 5, 2018 10:09:24 GMT -6
I have used the program for several years. Back several years ago we did handouts and sat in a classroom. Now we use the concepts of the program for a few minutes three days a week. For my spring sport I am our head girls track coach, and we use the program with them. We start with the acronym and then incorporate mini versions of the material. The program is a box set, but the part I use most is the book Building Blocks of Character. It is available on Amazon for about $15. It is a workbook style, but I pose a question and let them talk. I put them into groups to introduce one or two of the questions. Then we share as a team.
The results have been solid. We started the program in January. That month we had eight girls of 46 get written up. In February that number dropped to 1. We have less cussing at practice and the meets. We have less classroom issues. I had negative emails from teachers in January. In February I had 2 negative emails and 18 positive emails.
You don't necessarily need a program to teach character, but I am not smart enough to develop material. The biggest deal is setting an expectation and holding kids accountable to your expectations. When they make a mistake you coach them through it. When the do something well, you emphasize it.
If you love kids unconditionally, meaning as much on their worst day as you do on their best, you will make progress. If you have clear standards and hold kids accountable, you will improve the character decisions of your team. If you put them in adverse situations in workouts and push them through self-imposed limitations, you will improve mental toughness.
Frank DiCocco wrote The REAL Man Program several years ago. He cared about kids and wanted to help coaches. When he passed away, his parents made it their mission to carry on Frank's legacy. I enjoy speaking at clinics and sharing the benefits of the program. They use all of the proceeds of the program to fund scholarships for inner city kids.
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Post by Coach Vint on Feb 16, 2018 15:00:32 GMT -6
jgordon1 He made sure he talked the 1st 5 minutes about where he got it and tried to make sure everyone in the room knew the situation with Frank. He had terminal bone cancer and it was at the point where it would have been excruciating pain 24-7 until if just ended. His family still runs his foundation and I email them from time to time. Frank was a great guy and I have a complete set of his stuff that he sent me before he died. There are a lot of people who use Frank's stuff. I use it as often as I can as a coordinator in my position/group meetings with just the offensive kids. thats awesome..glad he did that..I felt terrible I couldn't remember his name Frank DiCocco. He was a friend and a great guy. His parents contacted me and asked me to speak on the program whenever I speak at clinics. I don’t make a single penny on the program. The money raised goes to the foundation Frank started to fund scholarships for inner city kids. I use the program and love talking about it.
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Post by Coach Vint on Jan 22, 2018 13:47:13 GMT -6
Vegas 2-9/10/11 Los Angeles 2-23/24 Going to absorb as much 3-3 stuff as I can since we are transitioning this year I will be speaking at the Glazier in Vegas on the 3-3. It should be a great time talking ball.
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Post by Coach Vint on Dec 21, 2017 10:10:03 GMT -6
We have a stipend and days. For example, the stipend might be $5k for football, $1k for second sport, and 14 days. The stipend stays the same each year. Our teaching scale has steps, so each year your pay goes up a little, increasing your daily rate. That gives you a small raise based on your days. The coordinators stipend is a little higher than the varsity position coaches. Then we have freshmen stipends which are a little lower.
When I was in New York City we had to punch a clock for athletics. They paid the varsity head coach the per session rate for a set number of hours. I think it was 254. The varsity assistant got 240 hours. The JV head coach got like 150 hours. The per session rate was around $38 an hour when I was there. We only got three stipends. Once you went over your hours you didn't get paid another penny. I was always strategic with how I clocked my hours so it wouldn't get too front loaded. We started a booster club to raise money for new equipment and to pay coaches. We had three teachers in the building who each got about $2k during the season and $1k for off-season. We also had a couple of guys from the community we paid $1500 to. This was paid in a lump sum at the end of the season. I don't know how things are there now.
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Post by Coach Vint on Dec 21, 2017 10:03:38 GMT -6
We do a blocking circuit on offense.
1. Sled 2. 5 yard stalk blocking 3. Cut Blocks
Each drill is modified for each position group. OL works from a 3 point on everything. The stalk drill for OL is a 3 yard drill simulating blocking a backer. For the backs it is an iso drill. For the receivers it is a true stalk.
For the sled we vary the drill each week. We start with 2 steps and punch. Then we work fit and drive. Then we work angles. Each day we rotate what we are doing.
This helps us emphasize the value of everyone being physical when we block.
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Post by Coach Vint on Dec 20, 2017 12:35:40 GMT -6
We have faced more and more defenses that line up in multiple fronts. Our offensive line spends time each walk working through our four run concepts against each front we could see. We then add blitzes and stunts. We divide it up like this: If they run a twist with the tackle and end, we are going to work it. If they run that 2 times a game, we will rep it 2 to 4 times during the weak. If they brought the Will backer 27 times a game, we are going to work that much more. We have set blocking rules that allow us to make easy in game adjustments. We prepare the most for what they do the most.
Our route concepts work much the same way. We have rules for a 2 high shell, a single high safety, man, and zone. The adjustments are built in by rule. If we play a team that plays 2 Read 85% of the time, that is what we will focus 85% of our preparation on. If they run press man 60% of the time, we will spend 60% of our time on press man.
It is always good to have answers before you face problems. If your system as built in answers, you will be better able to handle problems in games.
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Post by Coach Vint on Dec 20, 2017 12:26:42 GMT -6
If I am doing a one hour topic I try to narrow it down enough so I can give information coaches can use. For example, one of my topics is Practicing Special Situations and Installing an Explosive 2 Minute Drill. Another is Implementing and Practicing a Multiple Tempo Offense. Neither of these are X and O based, but I cover how we do each and show practice film and game film. The practice film shows how we teach it, and the game film shows how it translates to the game.
If I am talking about the X's and O's I go into detail about the mechanics of the play, how we teach it, why we teach it, and how it works. I tend to show a mix of practice and game film. I don't change any terminology because I am not smart enough to do that. I try to give coaches something they can actually use with their programs. My goal in a clinic talk is to show the how more than the what. Many people run our what, but I think what separates us is the how. When I speak at a clinic it is very similar to how I would teach the staff.
Another thought is to make sure you don't just throw a bunch of clips up and say, "here's our D1 back, look at him go." I have seen a lot of speakers do that and you don't take anything away from it. The biggest mistake I make is trying to cram too much into each presentation. I am working on correcting that.
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Post by Coach Vint on Dec 15, 2017 8:02:23 GMT -6
Building relationships with your players and loving them unconditionally is a vital component. I have been lucky to have worked for and with some tremendous coaches, and they all are great relationship builders. They all also build kids up. Great coaches get kids to see the greatness they have inside. Because they have strong relationships with players, they can hold them accountable without the player being disgruntled. Mastery of the game is important. Being able to communicate is vital. But when your players know you care about them as much off the field as you do on the field, that is when magic happens. When they know you care you can coach them harder. You can demand a little more out of them than if they think you are just using them to win games. We have to win or we will get fired where we are, and I believe the more we care about our players, the more they will care about each other, and the more games we will win. The most important result of the work we do is that our players will be better fathers and husbands.
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Post by Coach Vint on Dec 12, 2017 15:02:15 GMT -6
I have gone around and around on this over the years. Everyone in the locker room is a leader. They all exert influence in one way or another. Some influence negatively, some influence positively. The big thing is that leadership is not something you say, it is what you do. The best leadership development is done in a small group setting.
One place I was at we divided by position groups and went through a couple of points of emphasis with our position group. We talked about how we all influence others and what we do either brings more energy to the team, or it takes energy away from the team.
Several years ago we did a 15 minute leadership development program with our seniors to be that we came up with. It as very effective. We did it five Fridays during January and February. It wasn't anything fancy. We defined leadership and talked about what good leadership would look like. The big part of it was getting them to understand the leadership is simply helping others get where they can't go on their own. We didn't use a book or a curriculum for that. It did make a difference.
When I was an OC coaching QB's leadership was a big part of our QB Development Program. Again, we defined leadership and talked about how they would use their personality to fit the role of a leader. We talked about our expectations for them and what we expected.
Everywhere I have been we had a leadership council. It was a group of players selected by teammates that met with the HC and coordinators once every 2 to 4 weeks to discuss progress of the team. Typically the players vote on 2 guys from each class, and the coaches add two guys from each class. We had 125 to 200 kids in the program.
Leadership can be developed and there are a million ways to do it. Putting everyone in a big room is not the best way to do it in my opinion. And remember that who you want to be your leaders and who your leaders actually are is two different things. Try to find a way to develop the guys who your team follows to lead in a positive way. There is a different between leaders and captains. A lot of kids want to be leaders, but no one gravitates to them. They can be leaders, but they are not the guys you necessarily want in positions of leadership.
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Post by Coach Vint on Dec 10, 2017 18:06:35 GMT -6
Each year I do a period of research and development. I am researching 4 things. 1.) New Schemes, 2.) Existing Scheme Improvement, 3.) Individual Skill Development, and 4.) what guys are doing on the other side of the ball.
I go to two to three clinics a year and watch guys who offer something we may want to add, tweak or adjust; speakers on the other side of the ball defending things we are doing, and guys who coach my position talking about fundamental skills. I try to visit at least one high school and one college staff each year as well. When guys come in to recruit I try to get them on the board for a couple of minutes to troubleshoot some issues we may have had.
I also will buy one book each spring and one DVD. I also use the Glazier Vault to find stuff that may be of interest, and I try to read a couple of articles from XandO labs.
The big deal is I don't want to get too caught up adding new stuff. I am looking for something that may give us an edge, or maybe something that will give us an answer when we struggle. I record bowl games of teams I am interested in studying and will watch the film to learn about some things they are doing. If it marries to something we do we might talk about it as a staff.
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Post by Coach Vint on Dec 8, 2017 14:09:10 GMT -6
Is it just me, or does it seem illogical to have a tournament with your school team, yet your school coaches aren't allowed to coach (but a parent can?) As coaches, do you go sit in the stands and watch? Coaches have to sit behind the end zone and aren't allowed to coach. We talk to them between games, but that's about it. We played in 2 state qualifying tournaments, and you have to finish in the top 2 to qualify. It is tough to not coach it. Texas coaches are highly regulated with what we can do in the summer.
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Post by Coach Vint on Dec 8, 2017 14:06:24 GMT -6
A principal from a very successful school told me he tries to do the following: Common conference periods for coaches Coaches teaching non-core courses Coaches with no more than two preps. One if it is possible. Coaches get full day subs on game days. Get kids out of school as early as possible for road games, and 2 period early for home games. All parent complaints are referred to the coach/AD. If they haven't talked to the coach, the admin doesn't want to hear it. He was a former coach, and understands the time coaches put into the job. He says they usually can do this for all of their coaches, but occasionally they have to make adjustments. He asks in return that the coaches do well in the classroom and are willing to take on additional duties whenever needed. Overall, this is awesome...but why would a coach need a full day sub on game day and why would kids need dismissed early for a home game? When your road games are 2.5 to 3.5 hours away, having a full day sub allows us to get everything ready for the trip without scrambling. Typically we don't get this luxury, but this principal I visited with makes sure his coaches are taken care of. Our admin is very supportive, but our sub is based on the distance of the game we are playing. We teach the whole day for home games. For road games, we typically get a half day subs unless the game is 3 hours away or more. Then we get a full day sub. I was at a school where we got them out at 2:00 for home games. This isn't very early, but we ate our pregame meal at 2. We had an hour to eat before they started to get dressed. Once they got dressed we had quiet time for one hour. We turned the lights out and they got mentally focused. If we had a pep rally we would only have a 30 minute quiet time. The admin team covered any classes that coaches had after 2. I have been places where they are in school the whole day as well. It didn't hinder us, but it sure was nice to get them a little bit early.
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Post by Coach Vint on Dec 8, 2017 10:39:59 GMT -6
Texas has a state 7-on-7 tourney in June, but high school coaches can't coach it. We basically have a dad or community member run it. We can't transport kids on school buses or vehicles, and the school can't pay for any expenses. The state governing body has not allowed coaches to coach it. The coaches want to coach our kids in the summer, and there is a lot of discussion to do so. Regardless, we want our kids playing with their teammates in the summer as it helps them to develop our pass game and chemistry. We qualified for the state tourney which was sponsored by addidas and the kids got cool gear.
Texas is different than most states in that most schools are well funded and all coaches are teachers in the building. We don't have the same issues we had in other states where the majority of your coaches came from outside the building. Nearly every high school has a coach who is in charge of recruiting and coordinates communication with college coaches.
We are working hard to keep the AAU mentality out of high school football. When I was coaching up north we worked hard to make sure our kids did not play on any "select" teams. We had a kid go play for a select team in 2001 and he said others high schools were trying to get him to transfer. The coach of the select team tried to steer him to another school. The kid was part of our program and quit the select team over this. The Texas HIgh School Coaches Association is working hard to keep 7-on-7 here from becoming the wild west. In Dallas and Houston it is becoming an issue with select teams poaching high school kids for their teams.
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Post by Coach Vint on Dec 8, 2017 10:28:45 GMT -6
A principal from a very successful school told me he tries to do the following: Common conference periods for coaches Coaches teaching non-core courses Coaches with no more than two preps. One if it is possible. Coaches get full day subs on game days. Get kids out of school as early as possible for road games, and 2 period early for home games. All parent complaints are referred to the coach/AD. If they haven't talked to the coach, the admin doesn't want to hear it.
He was a former coach, and understands the time coaches put into the job. He says they usually can do this for all of their coaches, but occasionally they have to make adjustments. He asks in return that the coaches do well in the classroom and are willing to take on additional duties whenever needed.
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Post by Coach Vint on Dec 4, 2017 17:48:07 GMT -6
There is a Glazier Clinic in Vegas in February.
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Post by Coach Vint on Nov 13, 2017 12:00:22 GMT -6
It all depends on where you are. When I was up north we rarely saw them. In Texas, most schools have one. If they don't they run through a sign. Some have both. MOst have either a helmet or a giant mascot. Whether we have one or not has no bearing on performance on the field. Ours is small and not as fancy as anyone we play. If the size of the run through helmet or tunnel helped you win we would buy the biggest one we could get. If it made us lose we would get rid of it. It has no bearing either way.
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Post by Coach Vint on Nov 11, 2017 19:36:33 GMT -6
Alternative viewpoint here. I believe in the weight room, accountability, discipline, as much as any football coach. But when I watch film of struggling teams and when we have struggled there are tons of mental assignment errors. They just mentally screw up more than good teams. Now you can probably trace some of this to physical toughness. But to me this also comes back to teaching and the role of the coach. This is where I believe a great off-season program can greatly reduce the number of mental mistakes on the field. If kids are allowed to show up late, skip reps, and do whatever they want, they will do the same thing during the season. They will make mental mistakes and get stupid penalties. If you have an off-season where they are held accountable to doing things the right way all the time, you will have less mental mistakes on the field.
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Post by Coach Vint on Nov 10, 2017 11:46:41 GMT -6
There are two kinds of toughness. 1. Physical Toughness. This is the love of using your shoulder pads and hitting a man. This starts with the weight room, as the stronger you are, the more force you will hit with. This is where your cleans, squats, and pulls come in. The more hip explosion and posterior chain strength you have, the more explosive you will hit. The second way you build this is through teaching them how to be physical when the block, run, tackle, and come off the ball. We spend a lot of time on both of these. We start practice each day with a board drill. Two guys line up, come off the ball, and try to run their man back. It is a one-on-one physical drill with a very competitive aspect. Everyone knows we start the day with this drill, and they are geared up. We also do a blocking circuit with the offense. Everyone hits the sled. Everyone learns to cut. Everyone learns to fit a man and run their feet.
2. Mental Toughness. This is a big part of our success. This is where you put kids in stressful, adverse situations, and teach them how to respond. We want to teach them how to win when things are not going your way. We teach them how to move on to the next play. We teach them how to respond when a man is talking trash and hitting you late. Mental Toughness is a year round deal. In the weight room do you hold them accountable for having the right weight on the bar? Do you hold them accountable when they don't get to parallel? Do you hold them accountable when they try to cut a rep or a set? This all builds mental toughness. We hold them accountable for their body language. No bad body language is allowed.
We define mental toughness as the ability to overcome adversity and failure without a loss of effort, attitude, or enthusiasm. When things go bad, what do you do? What does your attitude say? What does your body language say?
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Post by Coach Vint on Nov 10, 2017 11:34:05 GMT -6
I went from being a coordinator to being a position coach before the 2016 season. After being a coordinator for most of the last 15 years, I have enjoyed the step back from coordinating to learn a new way of doing things. I work with a great young OC and a first time head coach who is tremendous. I am enjoying my time focused on one position group and building relationships with my guys. Coaching offensive line has helped me enormously to see the what the guys up front face on a daily basis. I don't have a timeline for getting back into a coordinator or head coach role, as I am focused developing a tough, physical, and smart offensive line. Make the most of the opportunity and soak up as much as you can.
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Post by Coach Vint on Nov 10, 2017 11:29:10 GMT -6
You may want to implement some leadership into your off-season and reward effort. Hold them accountable for things that will keep them from being your best. There is no magic pill, but putting kids in a position of leadership and having them accountable to their teammates can help them be better leaders. It does take some time, but it is an investment. You may even put together a leadership council. Your leadership council can meet with you every 3 weeks or so, and could include kids from each class. You can meet with them during lunch (which you provide) and give them some leadership training. Again, there is no magic bullet, but doing nothing means nothing will change.
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