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Post by nltdiego on Nov 26, 2016 22:13:25 GMT -6
How do players inform coach?
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Post by nltdiego on Nov 26, 2016 19:12:50 GMT -6
What is your policy for a player informing you if he will miss practice???
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Leaders
Nov 16, 2016 9:37:59 GMT -6
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Post by nltdiego on Nov 16, 2016 9:37:59 GMT -6
Understand that you don't choose your leaders, but you choose how you develop leaders. We made the mistake several years ago of choosing our captains based on who we wanted to lead. The problem is, two of the four weren't leaders. They were great kids, but not great leaders. From then on we had the kids vote on "leaders." When we divided them into teams we had 8 to 10 teams with a leader for each team. We took the top vote getters to be the team captains. The kids usually do a very good job of picking leaders. I worked with PSS last year, and the kids did a great job of picking captains and leaders. We then ran a leadership development program for our leaders. We met with the leaders for 30 minutes for four days to do an introduction to leadership. We then met with them twice a week for 10 minutes. We developed their leadership skills. We had criteria they had to meet to stay a leader, and they had perks that went along with leading an offseason team. The entire team went through a character education lesson four days a week for 10 minutes a day. We started this after our 2000 team severely underachieved. We went 5-5 with the most talented group I have ever been around. We blamed our leadership, but we should have blamed ourselves. We did nothing to develop our leaders. From then on we made a conscious decision to develop our leaders and teach leadership. We followed that up with several season where we overachieved. We had talent, but our leadership and character helped us to maximize our talent. For materials we used John Maxwell, Stephen Covey, and Zig Ziglar Materials. I like The R.E.A.L. Man Program for teaching character. We took the off-season leaders to a NY Jets practice where they got to meet with Herm Edwards and a couple of the Jets. I was coaching in NYC at the time and the Jets and Coach Edwards were awesome! Put your kids in positions where they have to lead. Put challenges in front of them where they have to lift up their group. Give them gradually increasing responsibility, and make sure they have clear expectations. Take some time to teach your leaders to lead and you will see better leadership. I don't care what your record is, there is something very satisfying to know you made the most out of the talent you were given. Do you do the team one during the season? Pre season? What are some examples?
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Post by nltdiego on Nov 14, 2016 8:12:03 GMT -6
We have two tackling rings. Great investment. Which one? How much were they?
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Post by nltdiego on Nov 12, 2016 17:39:58 GMT -6
When do you do Matt drills?
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Post by nltdiego on Nov 7, 2016 8:14:54 GMT -6
I want to go back and analyze our film.
What are some specific items to look at?
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Post by nltdiego on Oct 31, 2016 0:13:03 GMT -6
What would you do if a kid missed a week of practice and a game for a baseball tournament not associated with school?
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Post by nltdiego on Oct 31, 2016 0:12:33 GMT -6
What would you do if a kid missed a week of practice and a game for a baseball tournament not associated with school?
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Post by nltdiego on Oct 27, 2016 10:02:09 GMT -6
So how do those schools do it I guess is the question. All in or all out. The ones who aren't committed are the ones who aren't getting on the field, otherwise you're doing it wrong. True but the uncommitted bring the team down in my opinion.
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Post by nltdiego on Oct 27, 2016 6:47:25 GMT -6
So how do those schools do it I guess is the question.
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Post by nltdiego on Oct 26, 2016 19:27:16 GMT -6
Is this a generation thing OR my area. I have guys miss due to sick, senior portraits, job interviews, etc. Anybody else have commitment issues? I thought it was a generation thing or just an our area thing until this year. Our new HC took a hard line on this. Unless it's excused by him, which is for almost nothing, you're here or you're losing playing time. If it becomes a pattern you're off the team. Our attendance has been uncomparable to years past and I'm sold that it's because of how the coach views practice. What was his rule? Do you have a handbook? Does admin suppose you?
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Post by nltdiego on Oct 26, 2016 15:42:01 GMT -6
Is this a generation thing OR my area.
I have guys miss due to sick, senior portraits, job interviews, etc.
Anybody else have commitment issues?
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Post by nltdiego on Oct 25, 2016 21:30:30 GMT -6
So how does practice look? Does a coach only focus on one side of the ball? Or do you have seniors - sophomores with you on position drills? Our sophmore, juniors, and seniors all practice together as a team. Our freshmen have their own team but we will practice all as one at the beginning of the season then they'll be more on their own once games start. So when do they practice separate?
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Post by nltdiego on Oct 25, 2016 15:47:15 GMT -6
To be honest... Assess my staff.
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Post by nltdiego on Oct 25, 2016 15:06:21 GMT -6
I wanted to assess my program and see what Lower level kids know.
Have any of you ever given a written test to lower level kids?
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Post by nltdiego on Oct 25, 2016 7:12:23 GMT -6
My thread is about practicing together and how that looks. Just like any other team. I don't understand how practicing together changes anything unless you have 100 kids We have 75-80. It seems like you have a ton of kids standing around. However I feel plus side is you have varsity coaching at both levels and you build relationships.
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Post by nltdiego on Oct 25, 2016 6:11:31 GMT -6
My thread is about practicing together and how that looks.
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Post by nltdiego on Oct 21, 2016 8:02:13 GMT -6
I've never heard of JV and Varsity not being together. They're all varsity. The ones that don't play much in varsity games play in the JV game. So how does practice look? Does a coach only focus on one side of the ball? Or do you have seniors - sophomores with you on position drills?
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Post by nltdiego on Oct 20, 2016 20:35:20 GMT -6
Anybody ever done this? And or have opinions on this?
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Post by nltdiego on Sept 27, 2016 21:04:49 GMT -6
How many reps (*plays*) of a team session do you get?
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Post by nltdiego on Sept 27, 2016 20:28:09 GMT -6
Anybody have experience with this? If so, I would love help or suggestions???
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Post by nltdiego on Sept 26, 2016 11:32:48 GMT -6
Kids come in Saturday and we watch the game from the night before by position. Monday we watch 20 minutes of opponent film. Tuesday and Wednesday we watch our practice from the day before for 15 minutes, and then watch 5 minutes of our opponent. I require our OL to watch 10 additional minutes of film a week. I create a scouting report as a hudl playlist with 10 clips and 10 slides each week. They must watch that before they come in Monday. A great way to handle the "kids won't watch film" excuse is to make it impact the entire group. If we haven't watched 10 minutes of film by Monday's meeting, we will do updowns or bear crawls after practice. Do this by position. We usually have 1 or 2 the first week. They police themselves after that. You don't have to watch film, but you also don't have to do any updowns. I frame it this way... I tell my guys we have 50 updowns every Monday. For every guy that watches 10 minutes of film on Sunday, we will cut 5 updowns. That way film is a reward. I let them know who watched film and got the number reduced, and who didn't watch film. They encourage each other pretty well after the first week. THIS idea I really like. Anything with accountability is good in my world How do you track if they watched?
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Post by nltdiego on Sept 24, 2016 23:08:25 GMT -6
Coaches,
How much opponent video do you watch with kids during week?
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Post by nltdiego on Sept 22, 2016 7:17:07 GMT -6
How many reps do your 2s get in your practice? They get most of the work in indy but how many reps do they get in team?
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Post by nltdiego on Sept 20, 2016 3:44:08 GMT -6
We are now onto our 7th concussion for the season. How many have you guys seen. Is this the new norm in football?
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Post by nltdiego on Sept 13, 2016 7:27:53 GMT -6
I remember hearing that Harbaugh does something called a "play pen" during practice where he has hurt guys doing ridiculous amounts of cardio. Anybody do something like this with injured guys?
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Post by nltdiego on Aug 17, 2016 8:00:20 GMT -6
Do you guys have kids play both ways?
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Post by nltdiego on Aug 13, 2016 9:03:17 GMT -6
Do you guys do a AM practice after games on Friday nights?
What are pros and cons?
Thanks
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Post by nltdiego on Aug 8, 2016 12:29:48 GMT -6
What if the kid is a turd and is the weak link?
I will take the Rudy like kids. What about kid who missed summer, is of shape for tryouts and can't finish a practice.
You keep that kid?
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Post by nltdiego on Jul 29, 2016 23:40:37 GMT -6
We've never had tryouts but I kind of wish we did this year. We probably have 10 kids that will never touch the field and won't really help us in practice. They are drill killers. Exactly! So what do you do?
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