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Post by agap on Mar 21, 2024 20:33:29 GMT -6
Not my pig, not my farm.
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Post by agap on Mar 15, 2024 9:00:01 GMT -6
JV/9th grade is separate during Team. I don't believe in taking away varsity reps for JV/9th grade. I also don't think JV/9th should have to play scout team so that's why they're separate. Like my college coach told me, if you have to go to your 2nd or 3rd best player at a position, you're going to lose anyways. This is a good point...I've always preferred having 9th and JV practice together and have them split time/reps as needed more than having JV and Varsity. For the last four years our HC has been firm on freshmen being independent and JV with the varsity so we do what we can with that. Obviously if it's a small school, JV/9th might have to be with varsity just because of numbers. The school I was at last year used JV as scout offense/defense every day and barely got reps themselves, and they complained about it every day the second half of the season. Then they wouldn't give much effort on scout which just hurts varsity. Let JV/9th practice on the other end of the field. Take just enough JV guys if you need them to fill out a scout. A couple schools I was at let the guys who rotated in stand around doing nothing. Make those guys play scout and when they rotate in, they switch jerseys with whoever they're replacing. This helps to let JV/9th practice separate during team.
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Post by agap on Mar 14, 2024 17:54:18 GMT -6
JV/9th grade is separate during Team. I don't believe in taking away varsity reps for JV/9th grade. I also don't think JV/9th should have to play scout team so that's why they're separate. Like my college coach told me, if you have to go to your 2nd or 3rd best player at a position, you're going to lose anyways.
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Post by agap on Feb 18, 2024 12:37:40 GMT -6
I think the new Hudl is way better. I got sick of having to make reports on old Hudl and if I added a playlist or changed data, I had to delete the old report and make a new one. Then repeat this every time we got a new game or something. With new Hudl, it saves so much time.
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Post by agap on Jan 29, 2024 11:20:19 GMT -6
I've never coached an FBS or FCS player. The highest I've coached is D2.
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Post by agap on Jan 19, 2024 21:49:54 GMT -6
My senior season was in 2005. We did cals for about the first 15 minutes and than grass drills. After that we had stations, which was agility, ropes, monkey rolls, etc. We probably spent the first 45 minutes on these things. Than we'd have either offense/defense for the next hour, and then finished with some type of conditioning for the last 15 minutes. We probably got water 2-3 times during that time. Many students would be puking throughout grass drills and stations. We also had to practice on the "practice fields" that they didn't water. If we were lucky, we'd go to the practice field they watered once a week.
I don't remember ever being taught how to tackle. We did the Eye Opener drill where we got concussions every time.
At the time, we had about 4 good helmets each year that the captains got. Otherwise the rest got helmets from the 90s that were probably 15 years old.
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Post by agap on Jan 13, 2024 11:14:23 GMT -6
If we had done it at some point in a game or practice and we needed it to win a game, I would use it. If it’s something we’ve never done, no. At least for defense, if our base defense doesn’t have rules for any type of offense we’d see, we have issues.
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Post by agap on Jan 11, 2024 8:53:22 GMT -6
Pete Carroll retiring (Likely) Bill Belichick retiring They're all the same age. Not a moment too soon with the current landscape on a fast track to the dumpster. The last sinews holding this sports relevance together was the ability to foster a lasting culture of perfection; an incubator of self improvement... Something tbose coaches where renowned for. Is my outlook too pessimistic to believe those days of football being a (masculine) rite of passage are over? That the sport is more about the temporary individual profit rather than joining something bigger than yourself to contribute to the collective? Do kids grow up wanting to be part of the legacy of a program (earn the right to wear such and such colors) or do they just dream of their Jordan dunking on weak opponents to get "the bag"? Belichick is officially done now.
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Post by agap on Dec 18, 2023 15:24:48 GMT -6
I’ll start the Crush the Front Guild then if Flexbone has a guild too.
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Post by agap on Dec 12, 2023 18:24:35 GMT -6
Against the T , 6 down lineman front wiht mostly 1's, 7s, and 9's, 20 linebackers, a "Vampire" at 1 foot behind the linebackers in a 00 technique then 2 safeties at 8 yards over the tight ends in 80 techniques. The defensive front would squeeze and spill. The "Vampire" would read the QB's face mask and flow opposite, safeties would read tight ends edit: We were successful with wide trap, Belly Iso, Dive, toss and play action. However it seemed to be the trend this year. Got film? or install info? Also - what is a 7 and a 9 in your vocab? I was going to ask the same questions. Is there film? What is a 7 and a 9 tech? I coach in MN too but I haven't coached against a T team, yet even though more and more schools are going to it.
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Post by agap on Dec 11, 2023 8:04:53 GMT -6
Returners get the choice to keep the same number or switch to a number that isn't taken. Freshmen pick from whatever numbers are left.
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Post by agap on Dec 7, 2023 8:38:56 GMT -6
I don't know of any teams around here that have pregame meals. Thursday night meals after practice are popular, but I don't know of anyone that has pregame meals.
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Post by agap on Dec 7, 2023 8:37:05 GMT -6
I spent a lot of time on weekends when I was DC, probably too many hours to count.
I agree with some other coaches. Assistants could tell me what they thought about the game plan as long as they watched film and their suggestions fit within our scheme. Most times they didn't care what we did; they just wanted me to tell them the game plan.
I have never been big on meeting as a staff. The team I coach for now met Saturday mornings to watch film and grade our positions. It was something we could have done at home by ourselves. The team before that we met on Sunday mornings to watch our previous film. We just discussed the same things we talked about during the game. Then we'd watch our next opponent for a little bit but barely discussed the game plan. The team before that when I was DC would meet Sunday nights on Zoom. The HC would talk to us first as a whole staff and then we'd split into O and D and I would share the D game plan and the HC would share the O game plan. The meetings were usually around 30 minutes or even less.
We graded each player that played one season a few years ago. I didn't like it because after the top 4-5 DBs, no one else could play at the varsity level so it didn't matter how the starters graded out each week. Last season we graded our whole position group as a whole. They got a + or a - each play as a position group. I actually liked that because it was the whole group and not just individual players.
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Post by agap on Nov 29, 2023 15:11:59 GMT -6
I would correct it right away when I was DC. I rarely chewed out the coach because 99% of the time he wasn't doing it on purpose. He thought he was telling the player the correct thing.
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Post by agap on Nov 20, 2023 19:54:58 GMT -6
The majority of the semifinal teams in MN were 22/32 P all the way from 1A to 6A. 4 of them were Power-T.
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Post by agap on Nov 13, 2023 15:01:02 GMT -6
I download film and put it on Google Drive. I know some programs that put their older games onto YouTube so players that have graduated can still watch. Most programs I've talked to will delete scout film as soon as they are done with those teams. 9th grade and JV film also gets deleted at the end of each season that I've seen.
I always download them as clips. It's easier to watch one it's on Drive if they're individual clips.
Years ago you could upload under Game Footage and it wouldn't count against storage, but they changed that a few years ago or whenever it was.
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Post by agap on Oct 19, 2023 18:11:38 GMT -6
I agree, this isn't Hawk Roll. I'm fine if they ban this across all levels.
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Seniors
Oct 15, 2023 11:41:09 GMT -6
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Post by agap on Oct 15, 2023 11:41:09 GMT -6
Back in 2016, we couldn't wait to get rid of the seniors and juniors.
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Post by agap on Oct 15, 2023 11:40:14 GMT -6
The Head Caoches got fired at the last two schools I coached at because they didn't win enough and both places thought they would win if they ran "spread" offenses. They're 2-12 combined this year but I heard nobody is complaining because of the offenses they're running.
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Post by agap on Oct 9, 2023 7:06:01 GMT -6
I think consultants are valuable because too many high school coaches (at least around here) don't visit other programs and they go to one clinic in the off-season and spend most of the time drinking in the bar. Should high school programs be able to correct things on their own without paying someone else? Absolutely, but that's unfortunately not the case.
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Post by agap on Oct 5, 2023 10:25:09 GMT -6
We haven't but I know other programs that have and they got some great insight from what I heard. At a previous school I was at, the head coach didn't want to pay for someone to come in but I was going to pay him myself to evaluate what we did defensively in practice.
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Post by agap on Oct 2, 2023 20:37:53 GMT -6
We haven't had them on any practice fields I've been at, but we have practiced on the game field late in the season when we were done having home games.
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Post by agap on Sept 21, 2023 21:11:10 GMT -6
I like the new Hudl. I used it al the time when I was DC so I could get tendencies right away instead of having to run a report. As a position coach now, I just use classic Hudl because it's quicker.
I do not like Hudl Sideline though. There hasn't been a week in the past 3-5 years when we didn't have issues with at least something with it.
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Post by agap on Sept 6, 2023 8:57:34 GMT -6
We our in week 2. State championships are Thanksgiving weekend usually unless the Vikings happen to play one of those days like they did last year. We have 8 regular season games, 3 section games at the most (most sections don't have 8 teams), and 3 state tournament games at the most.
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Post by agap on Aug 30, 2023 8:36:16 GMT -6
There's a coach at a smaller school somewhat close to us that apparently has 4-5 different playbooks, and he chooses which one to use each year based on the talent. He's won a couple state titles.
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Post by agap on Aug 15, 2023 17:02:02 GMT -6
I've coached good teams that barely tackled ever in practice and some that did all the time. I've also coached teams that didn't win a game that barely ever tackled in practice and some that did all the time.
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Post by agap on Jul 23, 2023 21:22:09 GMT -6
Short answer: no. Receivers aren’t winning many awards in high school here in Minnesota.
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Post by agap on Jul 23, 2023 12:54:16 GMT -6
I've barely seen any of these at a few different schools I've coached at, so it's probably not a big deal if a coach tells players not to wear them. One school I recently coached at would only let players wear black shoes. I thought it would be a big deal because I had never been part of a program where players had to wear a certain color, but nobody else thought twice about it because that's what they were used to.
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Post by agap on Jul 12, 2023 16:31:12 GMT -6
Most schools I’ve been at, the coaches’ office is in the locker room with a window. There are always a few chairs facing the window so people could always see what was happening. At one school, players changed in the parking lot next to the practice field so we didn’t have to go to the locker room. I didn’t really understand that but they were used to it there.
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Post by agap on Jun 29, 2023 9:06:03 GMT -6
We had three Tuesday night practices for 2 hours in June. We went to a passing tournament during the day a couple weeks ago. We have our three day team camp later in July which is two hours per day, and then we go to a college for camp which is three days. Other teams I've coached for have done similar things since we're limited with how many practices we can have in Minnesota.
It's nice in June because it's basically one night per week. If coaches have vacation planned or something comes up, then they don't show up. I think we had one coach gone from each practice in June. We do more in July but the team camp and college camp are finished in about a week and a half.
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