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Post by klaby on Sept 19, 2019 12:03:23 GMT -6
We work in a fish bowl....
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Post by klaby on Sept 16, 2019 6:46:47 GMT -6
This is way simpler than you think. If you use a uniform vendor such as Ripon, they keep your pattern on hand for ever. You buy the 1st set of jerseys with no names. Your players pick the number they want, you charge them the replacement cost of the jersey + the name (vinyl letters are cheap $15). You send them to local apparel shop and have the names put on. Then you contact Ripon and order your replacement jerseys for the next year. Only do home jerseys. The kids then keep the jersey as a keep sake. Mom happy, Dad happy, Kid happy. School board happy because you have a net ZERO cost for your home uniforms every year. More money for helmets, footballs ect. we did this at my old school, everyone happy, we left now they don't, everyone complaining....why cause a problem you don't need to. Ripon Jerseys are awesome, and little known fact most NFL teams actually get their jersey's from Ripon, they just sew on the swoosh... Works well in areas where kids can afford that. Not everyone is in the same boat to have kids buy jerseys. I agree, and that is why our gridiron club pays for those kids who cant come up with the $100.
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Post by klaby on Sept 16, 2019 6:43:24 GMT -6
Ok The COP in me has some questions. What was this "racial" slur? What context was it said? In this day and age where racial and racism is thrown around just because someone doesn't like someone else or someone else's politics I look at these with a colored lens. Having been accused of this 100s of times simply because I wore a Blue uniform, a badge and carried a gun. I need more info. I also do not subscribe to the punish all for the mistakes of one or the few. Punish the offender(s). You have the video, you know who they are. This isn't a case of not knowing who did it so punish all until someone rats the group out. This is cut and dry. Kick the offender off team, why punish the kids that didn't act like motards? I agree I try to keep my kids off social media, but its hard. What doesn't make it any better is when a pro athlete like Antonio Brown calls his Boss a racial slur and instead of punishment he gets 20 million dollars...kids see this... Also rappers and other entertainers can throw around the "N" word all day and they get a pass, because of the color of their skin. Isn't that the definition of racism? This is poor leadership! What in the covefefe apologist type of excuse is this? A district wouldn’t go to this extreme unless there was serious racist, religiously intolerant, and/or homophobic language used by multiple players; most likely using contextual clues for the area this happened, the N word and other slurs were used. Stop apologizing for “casual” racism and normalizing with boys will say stupid s$&& excuse! Those “stupid” boys grow up to be men who exercise this prejudice and racist outlook on life that affects them, their families and people of color around them. They grow up and rally on college campuses with tiki torches yelling “blood and soil”; more insidiously they often gain positions of power where they have the fate of people of color in their hands. All this technology has done is forcing people to see the ugly underbelly of America’s race problems. I don’t think they would forfeit the gate ticket for a few bigots/ racists making comments; most likely it was enough guys to be suspended that they decided to forfeit. Whether you realize it or not you are creating an excuse for abhorrent behavior. The use of racial slurs has been used to oppress ethnic and racial minority groups in America for centuries. You might say I am a “snowflake” about this, but we live in a day in age where we still have lynchings and the murder of people of color in America daily. Racism in America is not a symptom of something wrong in America, but rather that the system was created to oppress large swaths of the population. It was engrained in our national identity as far back as 1619 and is still deeply entrenched under our cultural veneer of a “color blind” society. The use of the N-word by rappers and black / Afro-Latino people is following a long line of re-appropriation of racial slurs in America it’s similar to how Polish, Irish, and Italian communities turned racial slurs, back when these ethnic groups were not considered “white”. For historical context this only happened as recently the late 70s / early 80s when WASPS vested white privilege to these ethnic groups in return for fighting against bussing and the next wave of Deseg. I would love for us to unpack this in a civilized discussion and could provide anyone interested in learning more with tons of academic resources, books, and other articles. Ok clearly you cant read. I said punish the offender. And you are assuming facts not presented, which is the problem. And you are the problem by making excuses for the N word, because its approved by your culture. You don't get it both ways. You are the one excusing abhorrent behavior not me. I prefer to deal with real world evidence, not assumptions, and I consider any use of the N word offensive. You are clearly in the "I am a man of color therefore I cant be racists and I can say whatever I want because it only offends me if someone who doesn't look like me say it".
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Post by klaby on Sept 13, 2019 15:32:58 GMT -6
This is way simpler than you think. If you use a uniform vendor such as Ripon, they keep your pattern on hand for ever. You buy the 1st set of jerseys with no names. Your players pick the number they want, you charge them the replacement cost of the jersey + the name (vinyl letters are cheap $15). You send them to local apparel shop and have the names put on. Then you contact Ripon and order your replacement jerseys for the next year. Only do home jerseys. The kids then keep the jersey as a keep sake. Mom happy, Dad happy, Kid happy. School board happy because you have a net ZERO cost for your home uniforms every year. More money for helmets, footballs ect. we did this at my old school, everyone happy, we left now they don't, everyone complaining....why cause a problem you don't need to. Ripon Jerseys are awesome, and little known fact most NFL teams actually get their jersey's from Ripon, they just sew on the swoosh...
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Post by klaby on Sept 13, 2019 15:23:46 GMT -6
Ok The COP in me has some questions. What was this "racial" slur? What context was it said? In this day and age where racial and racism is thrown around just because someone doesn't like someone else or someone else's politics I look at these with a colored lens. Having been accused of this 100s of times simply because I wore a Blue uniform, a badge and carried a gun.
I need more info. I also do not subscribe to the punish all for the mistakes of one or the few. Punish the offender(s). You have the video, you know who they are. This isn't a case of not knowing who did it so punish all until someone rats the group out. This is cut and dry. Kick the offender off team, why punish the kids that didn't act like motards?
I agree I try to keep my kids off social media, but its hard.
What doesn't make it any better is when a pro athlete like Antonio Brown calls his Boss a racial slur and instead of punishment he gets 20 million dollars...kids see this...
Also rappers and other entertainers can throw around the "N" word all day and they get a pass, because of the color of their skin. Isn't that the definition of racism?
This is poor leadership!
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Post by klaby on Aug 29, 2019 11:23:00 GMT -6
Treat it as if you are 7 on and have some fun. Chuck it all over and let the kids have fun with it.
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Post by klaby on Aug 28, 2019 8:47:33 GMT -6
Get control of your youth program. Bad youth coaches drive more kids away. I did a little check this year, looked at the HS roster and game stats of a group that had some bad daddy-ball coaches. 1. total number of kids went from 31 at 7th grade to 7 as seniors. 2. of the 5 daddy-ball coaches kids that never left the field. 2 are still rostered and 1 has seen the field in a limited role. 31 to 7...thats telling.
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Post by klaby on Aug 23, 2019 11:06:14 GMT -6
Composite balls are crap, and in some cases not that much less than a leather ball. Instead of a GST, use a TDS ball in practice.
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Post by klaby on Aug 9, 2019 8:30:12 GMT -6
Former "Last Chance U" featured player from EMCC Ronald Ollie was in the Raiders' training camp. He is featured in Episode 1 of the current season of "Hard Knocks" on HBO. Got cut before the end of the episode. He was the same lazy POS he was in the 1st season and Gruden doesn't have time to babysit!
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Post by klaby on Aug 2, 2019 10:34:06 GMT -6
It's coaches like this that give the rest of us a bad name. ICC will now make a hard turn the other way, watch next season, less out of state kids, a more "touchy feely" approach. More Admin oversight... The admin is as much if not more to blame for this train wreck than anybody. They made winning above all else a priority. And fact is if JB won this year he would still be at ICC. He didn't so he is out. Anybody else notice the last episode JB was with "alex" and called him hitler 2-3 times and the kid didn't miss a beat? That was shot months before the text scandal? The kid gets disciplined and a report is filed...maybe it's the cop in me, but if you wait months to report being offended, how offended are you? Not condoning JB's actions, just looking at this with open eyes....I think the Admin needed a reason to get rid of JB because the community had turned against him and ICC and they found one. Which again speaks to the poor overall leadership at that school. Netflix had all they needed months before the kid filed his complaint, but they were either too stupid, too lazy or too inept to ask for it. The felony charges might have had something to do with firing Brown. Those came well after he was let go.
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Post by klaby on Aug 1, 2019 9:33:49 GMT -6
It's coaches like this that give the rest of us a bad name. ICC will now make a hard turn the other way, watch next season, less out of state kids, a more "touchy feely" approach. More Admin oversight...
The admin is as much if not more to blame for this train wreck than anybody. They made winning above all else a priority. And fact is if JB won this year he would still be at ICC. He didn't so he is out.
Anybody else notice the last episode JB was with "alex" and called him hitler 2-3 times and the kid didn't miss a beat? That was shot months before the text scandal? The kid gets disciplined and a report is filed...maybe it's the cop in me, but if you wait months to report being offended, how offended are you? Not condoning JB's actions, just looking at this with open eyes....I think the Admin needed a reason to get rid of JB because the community had turned against him and ICC and they found one. Which again speaks to the poor overall leadership at that school. Netflix had all they needed months before the kid filed his complaint, but they were either too stupid, too lazy or too inept to ask for it.
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Post by klaby on Jul 29, 2019 13:22:40 GMT -6
Safe to say that this issue is a touchy one for all. But I ask you this, are you forced to stay where you hate it?
"hey your a great WR, best in the county, but you live X and here at X we run single wing son, we throw the ball 3-4 times a game". Is this what is best for the kid?
Answer it like a parent, not like a coach.....what would you do as a parent? Would you as a dad, really look your kid in the eye and say "stay at X"....would you really??
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Post by klaby on Jul 29, 2019 12:19:11 GMT -6
Private schools will always recruit, nothing you can do about it. Some parents have unreal expectations, again very little you can do about that. As long as you have parents that believe little Johnny is the next Tom Brady, you will have coaches selling them on playing for them.
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Post by klaby on Jul 29, 2019 12:11:27 GMT -6
I would say get some youth football coaching books. Since you are basically starting adults like they are youth. build the foundation like mentioned above. use KISS system...
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Post by klaby on Jul 29, 2019 12:08:56 GMT -6
Yes we do this. Hand them out to the 8th graders at the end of year banquet, kind of like welcome to teh program stuff. We also have youth night, plus we have the HS staff run a middle school camp, give them future cardinal stuff there as well. What do your shirts say? Are they just for incoming kids or do you just give them a shirt from the past year that the rest of the team had? They very from year to year. We try and do something just for those 8th graders. T-shirts are cheap
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Post by klaby on Jun 10, 2019 10:28:01 GMT -6
When it comes to a system on one side of the ball, I think production is something to look at and not necessarily wins. If you are looking at an Offensive system and they have great numbers, but lose because their Defense just sucks, can you blame that offensive system guy? I would say no. But if you have a guy selling you a "culture" type program and he cant win well then I would re-think it. Plus you also have to take into account your Jimmy's and Joey's right. A college coach can go get guys that work in his system, we don't have that luxury. So again is the system adaptable to the ever changing talent level at the HS level?
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Post by klaby on Jun 10, 2019 10:21:20 GMT -6
Yes we do this. Hand them out to the 8th graders at the end of year banquet, kind of like welcome to teh program stuff. We also have youth night, plus we have the HS staff run a middle school camp, give them future cardinal stuff there as well.
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Post by klaby on Jun 7, 2019 10:42:36 GMT -6
What agap said!
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Post by klaby on Jun 7, 2019 10:41:48 GMT -6
Go see your local Marine Corps recruiter, ask him/her for a NCO leadership manual, use the 14 leadership traits and 11 leadership principals and apply them to football...save yourself some money. Heck they may come a teach a leadership course for free to your team, and they for sure will give you some cool team building exercises you can adapt to football.
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Post by klaby on Jun 7, 2019 10:38:56 GMT -6
Well for fun these is "battle ball". Email the UW Whitewater coaches(erickson the D coordinator runs the camp) they will explain the concept. It is fun, and teh kids love it. In fact every year I coached that camp the thing the kids talked more about was the "borland ball" (old D coordinator now at buffalo) championship than anything else.
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Post by klaby on Jun 7, 2019 10:30:02 GMT -6
Go to your local vinyl print shop, they should be able to do it cheaper that Healy or the other big guys....tell them they can hang a banner on the fence on your field, that should lower the cost
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Post by klaby on Jun 7, 2019 10:27:16 GMT -6
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Post by klaby on May 15, 2019 10:59:41 GMT -6
I bet you didn't know just how little transparency there is in this research. BU doesn't share any data outside of BU, yet BU is the go to research for all that is bad about concussions and CTE. Boston University? yes Boston U.
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Post by klaby on May 3, 2019 10:12:42 GMT -6
Not sure what rating your looking at...but all the Schutts rated above the flex are $900, find it hard to believe Schutt is selling you a $900 helmet for $250??? Schutt does have several 5 star helmets at that price point, but none rated higher than the flex.... www.helmet.beam.vt.edu/varsity-football-helmet-ratings.htmlMaybe I am just getting a special deal, but I am getting 50 F7 VTD’s painted and delivered for $250 each. Plus $10 if extra large. I was shocked I got that deal, but I did. Then I stand corrected...thats awesome for you...
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Post by klaby on May 3, 2019 8:00:21 GMT -6
Coach,
I am sure there is a small local ma-pa shop in your town. Go to them they want to help you, trust me they want you to buy T-shirts from them. Most will not charge you for graphic set up and design if you buy X# of shirts. Most have some College or HS IT geek working for them on the cheap who would love to design your shirts. I use a relative who has a small shop. I pay like $8-$10 bucks a T-shirt.....less of its 1 color design....
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Post by klaby on May 3, 2019 7:53:18 GMT -6
Go Schutt for sure...cheaper and higher rating. I'm getting schutts for under $250 each. Do not fall for the Riddell marketing machine. Not sure what rating your looking at...but all the Schutts rated above the flex are $900, find it hard to believe Schutt is selling you a $900 helmet for $250??? Schutt does have several 5 star helmets at that price point, but none rated higher than the flex.... www.helmet.beam.vt.edu/varsity-football-helmet-ratings.html
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Post by klaby on May 3, 2019 7:34:24 GMT -6
I'll pass. Referring to the concern over concussion-related health as a "brainwashing" isn't going to get anything accomplished, even if I think the game is getting safer every season. Read the book...don't be like the uneducated masses and just read the headline. In the book several scientists and expert from not only the US but Canada and the UK give reasons why the science is one sided, why they say there is too much unknown to make and draw the conclusions they draw. I bet several here didn't even know some states had politicians putting bills on the floor to ban youth football! Why because one center and one scientist has made a blank statement that youth football causes CTE. There are 300 diagnosed cases of CTE in the WORLD...there are hundreds of thousands of football players playing football, and millions who have played football. READ THE BOOK! I bet you didn't know just how little transparency there is in this research. BU doesn't share any data outside of BU, yet BU is the go to research for all that is bad about concussions and CTE. Example Alzheimer research is open transparent everything is shared and reviewed by all schools and scientist trying to find a cure. There are boards of doctors and scientist constantly reviewing data and research. CTE is the exact opposite. I also bet most here don't know the ever changing way that concussions are now treated....days of no computers, no reading, low light, no TV are no more. They PT the brain like they do knees and ankles. If after you read the book you still think this way, then that is what it is. But to dismiss the information because of the title, that's putting your head in the sand....sorry just true. READ THE BOOK!
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Post by klaby on May 1, 2019 10:03:16 GMT -6
So as I always do on vacation I sit my fat butt in a chair by the pool and read a book...about something football.
This spring I read Brainwashed: The Bad Science Behind CTE and the Plot to Destroy Football by Merril Hoge.
This is an eye opener as to how bad the media is, how one sided they are and how corrupt higher education research can be. I have been a cop for 28 years, and with out exception if someone makes me jump through hoops to get information its because they are lying and hiding something....you'll understand more after you read this.
I suggest you buy a box of these and hand them out to every 4th or 5th grade parent in your school who is worried about football, and CTE, and concussions....
Read it, you will come away with a new prospective and information to help fight the "scared" parent!!!
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Post by klaby on Apr 18, 2019 10:50:00 GMT -6
Here is the deal. They are salesmen and they know just because you dont have a D1 Stud this year doesn't mean you wont next year. Most know that you carry a ton of sway with most of your kids. So most will not want to alienate you and have it bite them in the A#@ a year or 2 down the line. Personally I always get a response and I am not a HC. And as far as D3 goes they all respond an open the doors..either way cant hurt to ask, worst is they blow you off, you contact someone else and when they come knocking cause you have a stud. politely ask them WTF they blew you off...I know Jared Elliot at Western Ill is a great guy and will return you email. Kyle Rooker at North Park, Dustin Haas at Carthage, the guys at Oshkosh, Whitewater, and others are usually very accommodating. And most of these guys did some D1 time. I haven't asked Coach Christ at UW, but he attends the clinic every year and offers it up to everyone....
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Post by klaby on Apr 17, 2019 11:01:17 GMT -6
PM me...I have a few
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