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Post by coachb23 on Feb 16, 2024 8:54:03 GMT -6
Anyone recommend any good books/programs/curriculums for teaching leadership to your team, doing mini-leadership lessons, something like 20 minutes maximum one day per week over summer workouts?
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Post by coachb23 on May 8, 2021 7:54:55 GMT -6
I've watched a lot of online videos on dynamic stretching, wanting to get away from traditional static stretching & up the tempo to getting practice started. We'd spend the first 15 minutes of practice stretching, did a few dynamics in the endzone, then run out to lines for some static stretching, then finish with jumping jacks.
What are some approaches you guys take? Do you blend dynamic stretching with static stretching, or go dynamic only? Does everyone warm up altogether, or in smaller position groups then come together to start practice? What stretches/how many stretches do you feel are the minimum necessary to prevent injury and be prepared for practice?
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Post by coachb23 on Sept 12, 2020 21:24:05 GMT -6
Our state has recently informed us that we will only be able to operate at 50% fan capacity, so what are some good vendors for live-streaming your games where people have to buy a subscription through your school/program to watch the game? Man I just can't believe some of you guys are going to charge to view your live-stream. It is just such a bad look to the community. Actually, thanks for our Governor we're only going to be allowed 25% capacity now (and that has to include the team, coaches, cheerleaders, support personnel). We're a small school, 1000 seat stadium, that means we can only have 250. That's totally unrealistic, we'll have close to 100 of those "allotted" capacity slots will be the team, coaches, cheerleaders & support personnel. So we're looking at only 150 fans. No program can survive off of that, heck we won't even make enough money on ticket sales to pay the referees. I don't think charging for livesteam is a bad look for the community - in fact, I think/hope those in our community will understand that without their support our program's financials will go into the red.
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Post by coachb23 on Sept 5, 2020 18:37:05 GMT -6
Our state has recently informed us that we will only be able to operate at 50% fan capacity, so what are some good vendors for live-streaming your games where people have to buy a subscription through your school/program to watch the game?
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Post by coachb23 on Mar 9, 2016 16:19:28 GMT -6
A new female teacher wants to compensate her income by working at a local establishment dancing topless in the evening... I can think of more then a few school districts that would frown on this and remove the teacher from their post doing this legal activity. The legality of the activity has nothing to do with the decision of the district. I give it a 10....a 10....a f&@*ing ten!.......Ms. Davis, will you go to prom with me?
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Post by coachb23 on Mar 6, 2016 18:58:29 GMT -6
I know the "traditional" Thursday practice is a walk-and-talk practice in just helmets. Defense works on alignments, maybe runs a few plays against the scout team (without pads). Offense runs plays on air. How many of you do something different for Thursday practices? To me it seems like you could still accomplish much more with that day (it almost feels like a useless day) while also not risking injury the day before the game. Maybe at least have the scout teams with bags/hand-shields? Am I wrong in my thinking?
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Post by coachb23 on Jan 6, 2016 23:14:12 GMT -6
Anyone going to our secret club meeting in Indy Jan 22-24? I'll be there, and I'd love to meet some of our Flexbone Faithful in person and talk ball.
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Post by coachb23 on Jan 3, 2016 19:32:54 GMT -6
Being a gambler I was shocked by the number of "overs" and many of those blew away the number. With defences having a month to prepare I wrongly thought that there would be some low scoring affairs (plus bowl game jitters) but even teams with highly ranked D's often participated in shootouts. Why?? Is it more of a defensive advantage or offensive advantage (trick play packages) to have the extra prep time?? Lots of tricks a la Kevin Kelley where three guys touched the ball that went for BIG plays too. I think it's a conspiracy because everyone wants high-scoring affairs, few like seeing 14-7 defensive struggles anymore. I miss those days...
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Post by coachb23 on Jan 2, 2016 22:54:36 GMT -6
I'll tell you something else that annoys me. Wide Receivers seem like they get up calling for pass interference on EVERY single pass play. Granted some plays there is PI. But I'm talking about on plays that aren't even close to being PI, they get up wanting a flag. It's like their go to reaction on every play. It's ridiculous.
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Post by coachb23 on Jan 2, 2016 0:10:08 GMT -6
Michigan, Alabama's defense, Stanford's Christian McCaffrey and Clemson overall have been the most impressive to me so far. Still looking forward to Oregon vs TCU, and of course the national championship.
Bowl season, and to some extent college football period, has lost its luster to me because everyone is running the spread and there's not significant scheme differences from team to team. I miss the good ole days of a healthy mix of Wing-T, Pro I, Spread, and (my personal favorite) Flexbone. I guess I just like variety.
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Post by coachb23 on May 28, 2014 15:26:55 GMT -6
Another good one for the theme of "full commitment to our new direction" that we had at a previous school I was at was "Burn the Ships" in reference to Cortez who burned his ships fearing mutiny by his men wanting to return to Europe, thereby forcing them to stay the course of exploring the New World. We had a bon fire at mini camp where kids came up and through in sticks they had picked up, symbolizing their commitment to staying the course. Went from 2-8 to 8-4 and 2nd round of the playoffs.
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Post by coachb23 on May 28, 2014 11:56:07 GMT -6
To quote Batman..."The knight is darkest before the dawn"
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Post by coachb23 on Feb 26, 2014 23:23:48 GMT -6
I'll be there
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Post by coachb23 on Feb 4, 2014 11:06:46 GMT -6
We retire a jersey every year...for one year only. Here's what it says... --------------------------------------------- With all of the activities competing for today’s athletes’ valuable time, we want to recognize an athlete who has made football his priority. This award is given to the football player who has made a complete commitment to the sport of football. He has made personal sacrifices to further his football career and to promote the success of the team. He is a leader of high moral character whose actions speak for themselves. This player is the very definition of what xxxxx Football represents. To honor this player, we will retire his jersey for one season. For the 2014 football season no player will wear the number X. I do like this. Other than this idea, I know of a school that does a Wall of Honor and list the number of players who made great legacies at the school. I personally would only retire a number was if they had a player make it to the NFL, because I think that's a great accomplishment and doesn't happen very often. I agree that if you do not make the criteria to retire a number strenuousenough, you can run out of numbers pretty quick at the high school level.
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Post by coachb23 on Jul 16, 2013 20:31:56 GMT -6
We're looking at getting t-shirts for our guys who have gone above and beyond on summer training attendance (missed less than 4). What are some good slogans you guys have used/put on shirts like that?
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Post by coachb23 on Mar 4, 2013 23:58:09 GMT -6
I will be at the 150 in Dallas as well.
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Post by coachb23 on Feb 18, 2013 12:50:41 GMT -6
I can see the merits of both - that's why I believe their is so much difference of opinion on the topic. Carookie, what static stretches do your position coaches do?
This year we have done traditional static stretches in rows (hanging toe touch with feet together and spread, trunk twists, etc.) followed by a 5-min agilities period (high knees, carioca, etc.)
I just would like to figure a way to cut down on our stretching and warm-up routine while also not sacrificing anything to risk injury.
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Post by coachb23 on Feb 16, 2013 20:21:17 GMT -6
What do you guys do for pre-practice stretching? I know there's the more traditional get-in-rows and static stretching, but I've read and heard a lot about dynamic stretching in small positional groups before practice. What do you guys do to get your players ready for practice and to ensure they are warmed up to minimize risk of injury?
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Post by coachb23 on Jan 27, 2013 13:54:02 GMT -6
The idea I've always had (and I welcome feedback because I've never had enough players to try it), is to run two huddles at the same time. So for example when practicing group or team offense, your Varsity offense would run a play vs the Varsity Scout D, then the JV would run the same play vs the JV Scout D. Meanwhile the Varsity O and Scout D are getting the next play while the JVs running & you keep the cycle running at a quick tempo. Coach one group between reps. This requires at least 33 kids, of course you don't want to lose quality of players and have 130lb kids playing Scout D-Line.
You could then do the same thing during group/team defense time. Or, if your program was really large (60+ kids on the squad), you could put your coaches at midfield and the Varsity & JV offenses on one 40yd line and the Varsity & JV defenses on the opposite 40yd line and run Offense and Defense at the same time on opposite sides of the field.
Just an idea until I can actually have enough kids to try it out in practice. Feedback is certainly welcome.
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Post by coachb23 on Jan 22, 2013 1:42:30 GMT -6
"Fun" to me is winning - and it's my job as a coach to put our kids in the best position to do that.
That being said, I played in a Wing-T offense, then have coached Spread and Flexbone. Personally, I believe in running the football and playing great defense, and I love the option. So my offensive preferences are the Split Back Veer and Flexbone. As I mentioned, I've been in the Flexbone before, but after learning about SBV I feel like that offense suits my approach to the game.
Everyone is different. I have a good friend who is in love with the forward pass, and loves the Air Raid and worships Tony Franklin lol. You have to find what you personally believe in to win football games, and as others have said, are comfortable with and knowledgeable enough to coach your kids up.
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Post by coachb23 on Jan 12, 2013 17:23:09 GMT -6
This past season was my first as OC (tried to be a pistol flexbone team, ended up more of a pure spread team), and here's a list I went through each weekend in preparation:
- evaluate/shuffle depth chart based on injuries from the previous game - watch HUDL and tag each play with: defensive front, coverage, blitz - run HUDL reports for tendencies - develop my list of plays that should work sell against the given front/coverage by scheme - go back and watch through all the film again,with the purpose of looking for weaknesses by personnel (i.e. players we can exploit): ------first pass just looking at the front ------2nd pass just the coverage - look at my play list and notes from the 2nd pass and come up with the plays we would focus on that week in practice - develop the practice schedule for the week, which would follow the general lines of: --------MONDAY: TEAM opponent overview, long INDO, GROUP outside/pass game on Monday --------TUESDAY: medium INDO, GROUP inside/run game, TEAM --------WEDNESDAY: short INDO, TEAM regular offense, TEAM redzone/goalline offense - then I would develop my script of plays for each section of practice based on that schedule. We tried to be up-tempo and run at least one play per minute, but because it was a new scheme we often got off of that a little bit, but it got better as the season went along - Wednesday I would make my game playsheet and removed anything I didn't like from the week
Then Friday night after the game I would load it to HUDL, ODK it, swap with our next opponent, and grade the players out - then wake up Saturday and get started again on the next opponent
I would like to get to the point where I can delegate more, particularly HUDL info entry and scouting - such as let my receivers coach do a lot of the work that I do in terms of scouting the secondary, and let my o-line coach do the scouting work for the fronts/blitzes. I coach QBs/RBs and would still be looking at both, but I like getting different perspectives. Unfortunately, I did not have very good assistants in those positions this year and saw early on I was going to have to do it myself.
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Post by coachb23 on Jan 4, 2013 23:14:10 GMT -6
I totally agree - and that's where I was trying to get and just did a bad job of expressing it. It just seems that fans what to see shootouts and throwing the ball all over the field and no one playing defense. But history seems to support that running the ball (whether it be Spread, I-formation, Wing-T, etc.) while having the ability to throw when needed, and playing good defense, and I'll add (as suggested) to win the turnover ratio.
Also brophy, I disagree with you about the LA teams having manchildren - Curtis maybe, but I know OCS and Parkview have just you're average kids you'd find anywhere, they're just EXTREMELY well coached and the kids play in the same system from little league to high school. I know little about Rummel. Curtis is Curtis, and Karr is a charter school with a RB that played at 3 schools in a four-year career, so....we won't even go there....
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Post by coachb23 on Jan 2, 2013 18:01:47 GMT -6
I know a lot of people use this cliche, but with the Spread/Air-Raid offenses with all their passing being so popular and more and more games being shootouts, I'm interested in hearing everyone's opinion on this.
Below are the run/pass ratios and results from this years Louisiana state championship games. In all but one classification, the winning team was the team with more rushing yards (and actually the Neville game was extremely close and came down to a costly turnover). But 4 or 5 state champions seems to agree with the phrase of playing great defense and running the football.
What does everybody think?
Rummel (36 for 184 rushing, 11/13 for 193 passing) Barbe (20 for 97 rushing, 13/26 for 167 passing) Rummel 35 – Barbe 14
Karr (25 for 149 rushing, 10/15 for 143 passing) Neville (49 for 230 rushing, 11/19 for 133 passing) Karr 29 – Neville 22
Parkview Baptist (53 for 321 rushing, 5/8 for 95 passing) Notre Dame (30 for 162 rushing, 2/7 for 53 passing) PBS 42 – ND 7
John Curtis (35 for 316 rushing, 3/5 for 48 passing) Evangel (25 for 90 rushing, 22/34 for 199 passing) JC 35 – ECA 13
Ouachita Christian (39 for 238 rushing, 7/15 for 99 passing) Haynesville (39 for 122 rushing, 5/14 for 95 passing) OCS 20 – HHS 8
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Post by coachb23 on Dec 26, 2012 10:47:22 GMT -6
I think your rules should cover things that actually matter, you should have a minimum of them an enforce them judiciously with proper attention to the specifics of the situation. I believe in being fair over being equal and not legislating yourself into a corner. With all due respect, isn't the more important part of our job as coaches supposed to be molding young men for their futures? IMO there are plenty of rules that don't affect your team's performance on the field, but DO need to be enforced with your team if you are to try and transform these kids to be better people for their futures after high school, particularly at schools where the kids are from situations where they get little to no parenting away from the school.
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Post by coachb23 on Dec 23, 2012 20:21:26 GMT -6
The hair thing is the school policy. Thanks for the feedback
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Post by coachb23 on Dec 23, 2012 19:03:31 GMT -6
I like that coach but was looking for something a little less open-ended. Here's what I had come up with so far. Y'all's feedback for changes are greatly appreciated.
- Facial hair is not allowed; players are to be clean-shaven at all times. - Hair must be kept off the eyebrows, and be no longer than the collar of the shirt on a standard button-up dress shirt. - Players are expected to represent themselves, the football program, & the school community with dignity and class. For all behavior not explicitly covered in this contract, the head coach’s discretion determines which behaviors are inappropriate and what disciplinary action to take. - If a player is disciplined in school (visit to disciplinarian, detention, etc), that player will be required to do extra conditioning following practice, or other disciplinary action as deemed by the head coach. - If a player is suspended from school, that player will not be allowed to participate in practice during the time suspended, and will not be allowed to participate in the next scheduled game, jamboree, or scrimmage. - Any player arrested or convicted with the legal system will be automatically dismissed from the team. - Players are expected to follow all team rules & regulations; failure to do so will result in disciplinary action as deemed appropriate by the head coach.
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Post by coachb23 on Dec 23, 2012 18:46:16 GMT -6
Can anyone share their rules of player conduct that they use? I'm looking to put together a code of conduct and list of rules for players to follow and have them sign like a "player contract" as an agreement of being a part of our team.
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Post by coachb23 on Jun 1, 2012 11:06:59 GMT -6
You gotta admire Belichick's Patriots. Only one losing season (his first) in 12 seasons, including 8 out of 12 playoff appearances. Plus 3 superbowl titles with 5 appearances. That's pretty much the model of consistency in NFL, them and Steelers organization, but the Steelers don't have as many recent superbowl apperances/wins.
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