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Post by spreadjet31 on Mar 15, 2022 12:37:45 GMT -6
I’ve been aspiring to prepare a college eligibility presentation that covers all levels and the requirements for student-athletes to be accepted to schools and be eligible to compete in athletics. It occurred to me that many coaches have probably already done just this type of presentation so I decided to see if there were any coaches willing and able to share what they use to educate their student-athletes. Payment would be my enduring gratitude for taking something off my “to-do” list.
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Post by spreadjet31 on Dec 28, 2021 5:37:18 GMT -6
I’ll be working at the Boston clinic. Anyone that wants to, feel free to stop by the Stadium System booth and say “hi”.
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Post by spreadjet31 on Dec 28, 2021 5:32:58 GMT -6
A few of the guys on staff with me are flying into San Antonio for the Convention in a few days...or are we? I’m really starting to get concerned after seeing flight and bowl game cancellations. What do you think? Will it still come off without a hitch? cause of omnicron? lol Is it easier to dismiss if you misspell it?
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Post by spreadjet31 on Feb 20, 2019 15:39:30 GMT -6
I assumed he was just joking. Gotcha. Sarcasm is sometimes tough to discern on a message board. My apologies.
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Post by spreadjet31 on Feb 20, 2019 7:01:14 GMT -6
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Post by spreadjet31 on Nov 20, 2018 15:01:57 GMT -6
trackfootballconsortium.com/new-ideas-for-old-school-football-coaches/I didn't know who Tony Holler was a few days ago, but now I'm intrigued by his ideas as they relate to football practice and not just speed training. He's a very successful HS track coach who's also coached football and other sports for decades with success. The TL;DR version is that he says coaches should cut practice way back from what we normally do. Cut out "conditioning" and other old-school, non-football related activities. Admittedly, that part is hardly revolutionary, but the extent to which he takes it is through provoking. He advocates for 5-6 hours of practice a week with lots of rest, including rest between all-out reps. He says that if he were a HS football coach who wasn't worried about others' opinions, he'd give the team Thursday off and do a 3 day week Mon.-Wed. that would go full speed on Mon., a slower paced "fundamentals" and game prep practice on Tues., and then a full speed day in shirts on Wed. That's it. Personally, I like the idea of being more effective with less time, but football is still as much a game of skill as it is raw talent. I'd worry that not spending more time prepping for an opponent's offense or special teams might lead to giving up big plays that blow the game, or not spending more time throwing and catching would lead to sloppy play. Thoughts? he doesn't believe in what he writes. Curious as to how you came to this conclusion.
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Post by spreadjet31 on Aug 1, 2017 7:10:23 GMT -6
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Post by spreadjet31 on Feb 21, 2017 16:20:30 GMT -6
I am HC of the varsity football team and an asst. indoor & outdoor track coach and I work in the school, but don't have the work load of a classroom teacher by any means. I coach sprinters & jumpers in track, so the workouts I create for my track athletes is virtually identical to what I would put together for my football guys that don't do track. The only difference may be the percentages and rep structures for squats, deadlifts, and bench press. This means I can train all of these athletes efficiently because they are all using the same lifts and skill sets. I thank the hundreds of football and track coaches that have provided valuable information online as to how to best accomplish this.
coachphillip, as for coaching "year round", I find that I still have a ton of extra time in the summer to make it viable. Perhaps my wife disagrees, but she must be a tremendously good sport if she does because she is 100% supportive.
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Post by spreadjet31 on Feb 17, 2017 12:56:13 GMT -6
I'm the HFC and an assistant T&F coach. I coach the sprinters and jumpers so I employ all the tools at my disposal to enhance speed and explosiveness in my track athletes. That being said, I strongly encourage all of my football players that do not already play a spring sport (I will not recruit players away from other sports for personal reasons) to participate in our track program. In the past I've had some of my fb players say they would practice, but not compete. However, by the start of the season they have always wanted to do the meets and see where they stood. As important as sprinting mechanics and speed development from our t&f program is to our football players, I feel that our power development used to aid our jumpers is just as critical, if not more so.
And of all of the sports that lift in-season at my school (including my football team), our track athletes do the most work. We lift 3-4 days per week in-season, depending on what day our meet falls on. That is definitely more than I hold my football players responsible for (2 days/week in-season).
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Post by spreadjet31 on Dec 11, 2016 12:25:58 GMT -6
Ct & Boston as a staff.
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Post by spreadjet31 on Nov 17, 2016 17:17:28 GMT -6
I have 4 coaches in addition to myself. I also have 2 freshman coaches, but other than pre-season, they are separate from us. I'm the HC and par time QB coach. My QB coach is a volunteer with a demanding job so I only see him twice a week and game nights. So I handle QBs when he's unavailable. I also coach the weak and strong safeties in our 4-2-5 defense. Others: DC-LBs/RBs, JV HC-OL/DL, JV asst.-wR/DBs. The Jv asst. and I split special teams.
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Post by spreadjet31 on May 5, 2015 7:15:00 GMT -6
Half would go into the weight room for a new rig system and bumper plates, two things we sorely need. The other $5k would be split evenly between gear for the team and an "investment" in coaching technology. We have hudl, but not with all the bells and whistles. With the sideline technology rules being wonderfully lessened, I'd have to invest in a few tablets.
This is fun!
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Post by spreadjet31 on Mar 12, 2015 7:20:25 GMT -6
After attending the Boston Glazier clinic I have a new favorite speaker. Wes Owens, of Western Ct. State was great. His presentation was clear, informative, and well supported with his diagrams and video.
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Post by spreadjet31 on Feb 19, 2015 9:08:45 GMT -6
David Wilkerson-South Panola HS. Not sure if he is still there, but in 2010 I saw him and thought he was entertaining and had very good content. I ended up sitting in on all 6 of his talks.
Don Brown-Asst. HC/DC Boston College. This is a sentimental favorite for me as I played for Coach Brown in college. I've never had a coach at any level understand how to motivate me more effectively. He is also a great defensive mind.
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Post by spreadjet31 on Feb 18, 2015 14:27:52 GMT -6
HC-$5200 I run all weight room sessions (3x per week year round) for nothing. My Boosters are very supportive of the team and players. Coaches can expect a free polo, jacket, hat, and all clinics paid for (not including travel and lodging). I asked my AD about a stipend for weight lifting since I train all athletes in the school, male or female, all sports and he laughed me out of his office. I'm also an assistant indoor and outdoor track coach at $2300 each season.
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Post by spreadjet31 on Feb 5, 2015 9:47:48 GMT -6
A lot of folks don't like our decals, but my kids do. And I do as well so...on the left. We added the players' numbers on each side under the feathers as well. Coach what's your mascot? We are looking to change our decals. We've used the FSU spear for years. If anyone knows some for Braves let me know. We are the Skowhegan Indians...at least for now. There has been a ton of pressure to change our mascot the past 2 years. We are the last high school in Maine with "Indians" as a mascot. Previously, we used the FSU spear as well and this decal is basically a variation of that. We enlarged the spear and added feathers to the other side. We also added a second color.
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Post by spreadjet31 on Feb 2, 2015 16:07:13 GMT -6
A lot of folks don't like our decals, but my kids do. And I do as well so...on the left. We added the players' numbers on each side under the feathers as well.
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Post by spreadjet31 on Jan 27, 2015 14:13:57 GMT -6
What are some things dealing with misconduct that you won't tolerate? I am one who tries to help kids out as much as I can but at what point do you cut them off and say enough is enough? Obviously I have a set of rules and I follow them, but I feel every situation is a little different so I don't think hard and fast rules work for 14-18 year old kids. I am looking for opinions and advice in situations like this. Coach, I too try to help kids as much as I can. I try to give second (third?) chances in hopes that they eventually figure out whatever the misconduct or poor choice is. But at some point I firmly believe you do have to cut some players off to protect and further benefit more players. I'm dealing with a freshman now that just will not make any effort to improve his grades. He literally does nothing. Hands nothing in, makes no attempt to participate in class, except to cause trouble, and then has the guts to lie to my face. I've told him many times that I speak daily with most, if not all of his teachers and the only reports I get are negative. Long story short, I told him last week that he was done. He will be ineligible to start next season (players must pass all their 2nd semester courses the prior year to be eligible) and he will not be welcomed on the team when he regains eligibility. Not surprisingly, he did not appear to care. Addition by subtraction.
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Post by spreadjet31 on Jan 26, 2015 4:38:27 GMT -6
I'm the sprint/jump coach for our track team in indoor and outdoor track. My players that do not wrestle, ski, or play basketball do track in the winter. My players that do not play baseball in the spring do track. They all learn to run with better technique, but even more importantly, they can continue to work out without the limitation of the other sports. We do not share in the myth that lifting harms performance in track and field as many of the basketball, wrestling, and baseball coaches attempt to portray.
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Post by spreadjet31 on Jan 21, 2015 8:19:13 GMT -6
Someone shared this with me once. Hopefully it applies to what you want to do.
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Post by spreadjet31 on Jan 1, 2015 12:41:40 GMT -6
Being isolated up here in Maine, this site has been my portal to so much information. I don't post a ton, but I remember taking in every post by Coach Coverdale (yspace) and his bunch pass concepts. I implemented those concepts and saw my offense take off. Later, I got all the information, diagrams, discourse, and criticism of IZ and IZ read that I could ever ask.
Even though I never met any of you coaches, I feel like I know you from your many conversations and comments on here. Oh, and Tog and I used to talk jet sweep all the time too!
Great stuff!
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Post by spreadjet31 on Dec 31, 2014 12:42:49 GMT -6
5 years; 1 as a freshman coach, then 4 as a varsity assistant/offensive coordinator. 6 years as an HC now.
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Post by spreadjet31 on Dec 8, 2014 13:09:54 GMT -6
Coach: Any implication on my part that this might be true of anyone else on this thread, even those who equate football with "beating your man", has been retracted and apologized for -- so what is your point? I was simply replying to tiger46 and explaining that my issue was not a confusion of the terms, but rather just the tone you had taken in the first few pages of the thread. Bottom line here tedseay, once you strip away the fancy lingo and citations, is that you have made an observation basically stating "There are fakes/misdirection in football, and there are fakes/misdirection in warfare. So Football is a wargame". You are looking for a discussion, but after tripping away the debate about using the "war" comparison, I think the only other comment is "Umm.. yeah, ok. Both have misdirection. And.... " How is Labeling football a wargame (or arguing that football is NOT a wargame) useful for a football coach? How does worrying about paradoxical logic change what a coach does anymore Is it your assertion that a coach who does not recognize this, or does not value the comparison fails to run counters, fakes, or utilize deception on the football field? No animosity or malice intended, I just don't think many of the coaches here would disagree that football utilizes deception, and warfare utilizes decption. So... Yes? How is constantly arguing an non-point (tedseay does not care if you don't agree with his analogy and neither do many others) for no other reason than you don't like it constructive to anyone? If you disagree, skip the thread. Some of us are very interested in where this conversation in going and the constant sarcastic interruptions are childish and annoying.
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Post by spreadjet31 on Apr 6, 2014 16:28:35 GMT -6
In Maine we basically get screwed from the State Championship games until the Spring sports season ends. We have no Spring ball, can do nothing organized, I don't think we are even supposed to say the word "football" to our players. We can have scheduled workouts, but they must be open to all students in the district, not team specific.
Once the Spring sports season ends, we can have all the practices we want (no contact) until 2 weeks prior to the start of pre-season. This is our "Dead" period. This year it will be from August 4th through August 17th. After that we go 2 days (4 practices) with helmets only, 2 days (4 practices) in uppers, and then full pads and contact on the 5th day and the 9th practice. The length of practice time, additional meeting time, levels of contact and pieces of field equipment allowed (sleds, heavy bags, etc...) progress along these same guidelines. Cannot scrimmage another team before 4:30 pm on the Monday of Week #2 and cannot have an exhibition until the Friday or Saturday of Week #2. No practices, scrimmages, or exhibition games can take place between 11:30am and 3:00pm.
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Post by spreadjet31 on Dec 17, 2012 17:59:29 GMT -6
As a screenprinter I can honestly say that tackle twill will stand up much better than printing. That being said, I would not suggest to the teams and schools in my area to flock to the twill.
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Post by spreadjet31 on Nov 8, 2012 16:33:22 GMT -6
I've got a bunch of smart, slow kids. I want me some athletes!
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Post by spreadjet31 on Mar 25, 2012 7:35:51 GMT -6
The one reason I don't like bench press at linemen challenge is that for the most part we are outside, and I hate dragging kids into the weight room. I also like the idea of having everything being team oriented. So when we do push press we don't do individual times, rather each player has to do 10; and then pass it to a teammate (you time how long it takes a team to get through 5 competitors). If we try to preach that an o-line is as strong as its weakest link, then I think this helps further that idea. We take the bench outside and place it on the Discus pad. Works great for us as the track facilities are right there around the football field.
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Post by spreadjet31 on Mar 23, 2012 16:46:23 GMT -6
We hosted the Inaugural Bulldog Big Man Battle last summer. We will hold the 2nd Annual this summer as it was a huge success and a ton of fun. We had 10 events with 5 individual events and 5 team events. The individual events were bench press (135# for reps), pro shuttle, medicine ball throw, tire flip, and a nasty obstacle course. The team events were 5-man sled push, farmer's walk relay, bus push, team tire flip and tug-of-war. It was pretty cool as the tug was the last event and actually determined the winning team.
And yes, feed the bigs.
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Post by spreadjet31 on Mar 21, 2012 6:05:10 GMT -6
I use liability waivers. Players sign stating they are willingly participating and are aware of the potential for injury and do not hold the school/staff responsible.
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Post by spreadjet31 on Feb 7, 2012 4:46:00 GMT -6
Sunday is for church, family and NFL. I dont believe in Sunday coaching meetings and certainly wouldnt expect the kids to give up family time for hs football on Sundays. I wouldnt coach on a staff that required Sunday hours. Saturday, thats a different story. Saturday was designed for Moms to go grocery shopping and Dads to have coaching meetings. Coach, if I said to my wife what you said, I'd be doing the grocery shopping, and the laundry, and the dishes.
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