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Post by klaby on Oct 18, 2018 14:24:09 GMT -6
Bring up your JV and Frosh kids who are big enough and play with them. Bench the slackers.
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Post by klaby on Oct 17, 2018 9:03:00 GMT -6
Coach you might want to rethink your career choices....sorry but if you cant see that education is more important than football your priorities are just messed up. football is not a priority in life, less than 1% of these kids will make a living with football. football isn't going to put food on the family table. And for a coach that coaches student athletes and not professionals to not see that, indicates to me your in the wrong line of work. I think it's absolutely absurd to assume that OP isn't prioritizing school because he's miffed that a kid wanted to miss an essential part of summer practice for AP classes. The kid probably wanted to use that time to do his summer homework, which was assigned well before the end of the school year. That's how AP works. The kid procrastinated and then wanted to miss practice to cover for it is what it seems like. I'd be miffed about that too, and I'm all in on the classroom. Regardless, the kid showed where his priorities lie. Probably Fortnite. I think its ABSURD to get mad at a kid for putting his future and education before football. Want to know a reason why football numbers are down, its because of coaches that get mad at kids for doing whats right for their future and not yours. Kid made the right choice, you can rationalize it all you want, but the kid was right and so was his parents. Your won loss record isnt important to the future of the kid.
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Post by klaby on Oct 17, 2018 8:37:29 GMT -6
STUDENT ATHLETE....Not paid football player....priorities coach....football ends for everyone School was 3 weeks away. Coach you might want to rethink your career choices....sorry but if you cant see that education is more important than football your priorities are just messed up. football is not a priority in life, less than 1% of these kids will make a living with football. football isn't going to put food on the family table. And for a coach that coaches student athletes and not professionals to not see that, indicates to me your in the wrong line of work.
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Post by klaby on Oct 10, 2018 13:14:40 GMT -6
Last night, the kids were running their warm-up laps and started singing the Marine Corps cadence song from "Full Metal Jacket"... While the AD was twenty yards away.. He was livid, especially because the coaching staff couldn't stop laughing. They must've practiced the song somewhere because all 40+ kids nailed it.. Edit: The HC hollered at them to knock it off and they did but one kid replied "THERE AREN'T ANY ESKIMO WOMEN HERE TO OFFEND!!" As a former Marine i dont see an issue here....
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Post by klaby on Oct 10, 2018 13:10:14 GMT -6
STUDENT ATHLETE....Not paid football player....priorities coach....football ends for everyone
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Post by klaby on Oct 10, 2018 12:34:51 GMT -6
Watching this play out kinda of with my kid's team(I coach at another school). Senior QB has 6 TD passes 7 INTs, the Senior Backup has 0 TDs and 3 INTs. Sophomore QB has 16 TD passes and 5 ints granted at JV level. Now the varsity is winning cause they have hogs up front and can run the ball...the one loss is because the other team sold out run, put 9 in the box and dared them to throw...they couldn't....so am I saying the players wont play for the younger kid, no in fact they want the younger kid to play, but I know the parents will freak, cause they are freaking at the JV level cause the sophomore didnt play youth with these kids he played at a rival org....even though he has 16 TD passes in 8 games. I am sure that coaches take into account politics when making decisions, but at some point integrity needs to take front an center. And letting politics dictate your roster always fails. ALWAYS
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Post by klaby on Oct 10, 2018 12:18:58 GMT -6
If you cant get a kid into a frosh B game then your coaching the wrong level. Frosh games, and B games at that are to get kids on the field, keep them in the program. I had a kid who was 5'7" 167 as a frosh. He is now as a College sophomore 6'6" 325 a man's man. Starting for one of the top D3 programs in the country. kids grow, develop and change at different rates. If this kid didn't have fun and play a little as a frosh, I wouldn't want to have to explain to the Varsity HC why the 6'7" 295 Senior isn't playing anymore. Lower levels are for development, no reason to win the frosh B state title...Frosh B!...now as for forgetting his helmet...thats what hills are for on monday....
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Post by klaby on Oct 4, 2018 14:58:49 GMT -6
so we pass a law? What happened to responsibility? Shame? What happened to child rearing? NONE OF YOU WOULD DARE ADMIT TO LETTING THE VILLAGE RAISE THE IDIOTS CHILD!!! We do have laws. If you swear loudly in public, you can be charged with disorderly conduct. If you swear at someone, you can be charged with harassment AND disorderly conduct. And, yes, it shouldn't be my responsibility as a teacher and a coach to teach a 17 year old kid that hollering out "you're a piece of chit!" in the middle class is inappropriate. But, unfortunately, it is. Ahh not so fast. Using profanity in itself is not DC. In order to be charged with DC, is conduct that tends to cause or provoke a disturbance. Case law is established that the use or profane language in its self may not necessarily cause or provoke a disturbance. Harassment is continued behavior for the sole purpose of harassing a person. Meaning you continue the conduct after being told to stop. Also DC there must be others disturbed by the conduct besides the Copper. However I will say with proper articulation in the report DC can and will apply to most anything I want it to that pisses me off....its the catch all. But if not properly supported in the report the Judge will toss that quickly....if you go in and say your honor he called me a Bleeping Ahole...well the judge will most likely ask who besides you was disturbed by that? If nobody, that charge is tossed....unless of course you call the Judge the same thing...then your doing time...
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Post by klaby on Oct 4, 2018 14:35:23 GMT -6
Parents....dad is probably telling him how go he is...
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Post by klaby on Oct 4, 2018 14:30:05 GMT -6
I dont like comments like "call the cops, swear out a warrant". Last thing we need is COPS policing football games. I say this as a COP. This should be handled by the governing board of the sport for the state. I can tell you that the kid in the black has suffered a concussion as a result of this game, not sure if it is this play. This crap happens for 2 reasons. 1. Bad coaching, 2. bad officials. The refs should have taken charge of this game. Games get out of control when officials dont police the game. Clearly something was going on because of the way the coaches ran onto the field.
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Post by klaby on Sept 6, 2018 11:19:07 GMT -6
Its auto in my state....you have no choice
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Post by klaby on Aug 31, 2018 10:48:58 GMT -6
Take it to a fab shop, have them weld the thing flat so no bolts....
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Post by klaby on Aug 30, 2018 10:51:36 GMT -6
Your scout kids will one day be your varsity kids....when are they going to get better if not on scout? Coach em up! you have what you have, coach em up!
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Post by klaby on Aug 30, 2018 10:44:06 GMT -6
Buy menthol rubbing alcohol (green mint stuff at walmart). Buy about 2-3 gallons, dump in a 5 gallon bucket. Put 15-20 wrist bands in there at a time, let them soak for 2-3 minutes, wring them out and let air dry. 2-3 gallons will last most of the year.
I use this stuff on my kids hockey and football gear, especially teh hockey gloves, worst stink in the world. This kills stink and germs.
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Post by klaby on Aug 30, 2018 10:40:20 GMT -6
Concussions? as in more than 1? 3 years not 1 in our program. we are a Riddell team, mostly flex helmets, no guardian caps, no problems....more than 1 this early....hmmmm....
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Post by klaby on Aug 30, 2018 10:37:49 GMT -6
pay a professional sports cleaning service...its not that expensive
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Post by klaby on Aug 23, 2018 6:50:40 GMT -6
Communication. Put all your "hurt" players in a different jersey, that way no confusion, she is hurt. If she is in full pads and in the same jersey as the full participation kids, then problems like this will occur even with none female players.
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Post by klaby on Aug 23, 2018 6:46:26 GMT -6
Coach your missing the point, you can send all the letters you want. Nobody reads them. If you wait until the last minute to communicate face to face in person with your parents, you will fail to win their support. You can rationalize it all you want, bottom line is without parent support you can be Bill Belichek in the X's and O's and you will fail. Nobody on your school board gives a tinker's damn what you say, or what your rules are, but they sure as hell care about pissed off parents. Pissed off parents vote, pissed off parents go to the press, pissed off parents hire attorneys. Pissed off coach's just get fired. The kid is just that the Kid. The parent controls the decisions of the kid. Your program, do what you want, but you aint coaching the Green Bay Packers....your coaching someone else's kid. And that someone else can get really pissed if they think you are screwing their kid....just saying
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Post by klaby on Aug 22, 2018 9:07:29 GMT -6
I see it as 2 main issues. 1. its us. I just read and responded to a post where the Hc had his parent meeting the day before practice 1, then got upset when a parent said their kid cant make a practice because a pre-planned family event, and the response from the coach was then the kid is benched. So what support will you get for your program with parents when you do stupid crap like that. That is stupid, you wait til last minute and say mandatory this and mandatory that but dont give the parent good notice to adjust. So when a kid says I dont want to play, do you think the parent is like "no you need to stick it out, or it will be fun or you will like it". No the parent is like "good your coach is a Di&* anyway". #2 is FUN, which circles back around to #1 US. How many of you have watched a youth practice lately? If you do, you will see the fun sucked right out of the air. There is at least 1 on every staff, 1 Nick Saban, Vince Lombardi want to be yelling and screaming at kids. Then you will have the daddy ball aspect as well. So a kid goes to practice 4 days a week, gets the crap kicked out of them, has coach crazy yelling at them and then plays 3 plays on Saturday....damn that sounds like good fun to me! I mean where do i sign up.....now that kid is 6'4" 260 in HS and he is in show choir instead of football and we want to blame the kid cause he is "soft". These kids dont get paid to play, yet we expect them to make it their job in the off season. Go back and read some of the posts on the kid who came out late, more than half are "he didnt put the work in, he needs to make up this, he needs to do that". Same people now on this post bitchin cause numbers are down....the reason might just be the guy looking back at you in the morning when you shave....We need to look at how we are demanding from these parents and kids. Not every kid lives, eats and breaths football. Not every family does either. When you tell a kid that he has to do XYZ in the off season or he cant play, dont be surprised when he decides not to play. You make the work outs available, and you encourage, but you also need to understand these are KIDS, not Adults, and Kids need to have fun and that Kids dont make life decisions for themselves, mom and dad do. And if Mom and Dad says your going to spend a month with Grandpa and Grandma in XYZ state during the summer then we need to respect that. These arent your kids, they are your players, big difference. Now college, pros, yes different story, those are adults, making life decisions for themselves. Its just like a youth coach getting mad at a 12 year old for being late to practice....news flash the 12 year old cant drive! He also cant get mad at Dad for working late....So why are you yelling at a 12 year old for being late, or a 15 year old?
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Post by klaby on Aug 22, 2018 8:30:12 GMT -6
Devils advocate here....you have your meeting the day before practice 1. Mom may have scheduled the out of town shopping way before that. So piss poor planing on your part constitutes an emergency on mine? If parents spent money to go out of town to shop or whatever with say grandpa or grandma 2 months ago, and then you meet the day before and say "sorry i know you acted like a responsible adult and planed your trip, but now your kid will not play because I waited til the last minute to tell my team rules". I can see it from a parent prospective. You failed to properly plan your meeting, now you are asking me to change my plans last minute...just saying I think you need to plan better, get the info out before summer so parents can adjust accordingly.....these kids arent paid athletes, and they dont make their own life decisions, mom and dad do. If you want parent support, then you have to communicate better than this. what if you had a trip planned and your AD says sorry but I decided you have to be at this mandatory meeting tomorrow or you cant coach this season. You would be pissed, especially if that trip cost you money...
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Post by klaby on Aug 20, 2018 11:21:17 GMT -6
Yes i agree your ever day drills must fit your system. You dont do option pitch drill if you dont run option. So is your issue is that he is too slow in teaching? or is it he is running drills that are not part of your system? Those are separate issues. Your post says "pick up the pace". Fast pace practices are great, but not at the expense of doing it right. Running through a drill because you have to get to the next drill when your kids dont do the 1st drill right doesn't help you get better, just means you ran a lot of drills. Your team coach you coach it however you want. But micromanagement kills every organization eventually. If you give your coach's ownership and hold them accountable for performance i think you will be happy with the end result. Remember everyone has a plan, until the bullets start flying, then that plan turns to Sh&* and you have to be able to react and adjust. Sticking to your practice timeline is more important than the number of drills you run in that timeline. a Few Good reps are always better than a bunch of bad ones. Its mostly him getting bogged down with a small mistake. One kid takes a bad angle on a block and instead of having the kid get back and do it again- and explaining or showing him the issue while he is moving, he has everyone stop. Walks out and does the whole drill himself, adds a speech at the end about it, and then has the player repeat the drill. He struggles to get through half of what needs to be done, and player end up getting "no reps" at specific skill developments Yea then you need to discuss with him the need to keep drill moving and coach that one kid fast on the side and get him back in. good luck....
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Post by klaby on Aug 20, 2018 10:58:43 GMT -6
Sounds like you micromanage....and that will kill your staff. Give them the indy time and let them do what you hired them to do, coach that group. I have never heard of a HC giving me my drill manual, usually i give him a copy of what my everyday drills will be, but i adjust based on performance. If we are struggling with teh sprint out, we will do drills that help that, if we are struggling with escape again i will add drills to help with that. Basically what you are telling them is I know everything and you know nothing. There is a reason why you have group coaches, so they can specialize at that position and develop drills that help that position. You cant know everything even if you think you do. Let them coach. Now during team time and group practice (Skelly, inside run ect) yea you can manage that. We take notes on the script then go over the issues during indy the next day or when the kid comes out for a few reps. Thats fair, although I look at it this way- I devised the system, the techniques should fit the system, and drills should fit the technique. Example: if he is out there doing a back pedal drill that would be useless because we don't backpedal. I open up January-March to review anything and everything we do; if you feel we would be better off doing something different then we can discuss it then, and if we decide to change we make the change before spring ball and stick with it. It could be what he wants to do, it could not be, but in the end when the plan is laid out we all need to run with it. If that is micro managing so be it, but I believe you have an organized plan and stick with it. This specific coach did not start until mid summer, so I told him I expect him to do what has already been planned out. Yes i agree your ever day drills must fit your system. You dont do option pitch drill if you dont run option. So is your issue is that he is too slow in teaching? or is it he is running drills that are not part of your system? Those are separate issues. Your post says "pick up the pace". Fast pace practices are great, but not at the expense of doing it right. Running through a drill because you have to get to the next drill when your kids dont do the 1st drill right doesn't help you get better, just means you ran a lot of drills. Your team coach you coach it however you want. But micromanagement kills every organization eventually. If you give your coach's ownership and hold them accountable for performance i think you will be happy with the end result. Remember everyone has a plan, until the bullets start flying, then that plan turns to Sh&* and you have to be able to react and adjust. Sticking to your practice timeline is more important than the number of drills you run in that timeline. a Few Good reps are always better than a bunch of bad ones.
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Post by klaby on Aug 20, 2018 8:33:28 GMT -6
Sounds like you micromanage....and that will kill your staff. Give them the indy time and let them do what you hired them to do, coach that group. I have never heard of a HC giving me my drill manual, usually i give him a copy of what my everyday drills will be, but i adjust based on performance. If we are struggling with teh sprint out, we will do drills that help that, if we are struggling with escape again i will add drills to help with that.
Basically what you are telling them is I know everything and you know nothing. There is a reason why you have group coaches, so they can specialize at that position and develop drills that help that position. You cant know everything even if you think you do.
Let them coach.
Now during team time and group practice (Skelly, inside run ect) yea you can manage that. We take notes on the script then go over the issues during indy the next day or when the kid comes out for a few reps.
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Post by klaby on Aug 17, 2018 12:20:05 GMT -6
So you are charting their defense and their offense? Hmmmm. Each member of our staff is responsible for charting their defense based on specific positions. I have the DB's and Safeties. But or WR coach focuses on DBs alone, OL coach has the DL, RB coach has the LBers, OC has the DL and LBers. We collaborate when we are on D to make sure we are all seeing the same thing. Then adjust from there.
And you are coaching both WR and DB on at the varsity level....thats one too many hats, how can you in game adjust if you instantly now must coach the DBs, then switch back to the WRs....
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Post by klaby on Aug 17, 2018 12:13:15 GMT -6
I see a lot of posts about, "he didn't put the work in, he needs to put the work in, missed the summer work outs". If he is a stud and has multiple D1 offers i am pretty sure he is putting his time in working somewhere....just saying....because he isn't working with you, or he is starting late you all think he just laid on the couch all summer....remember what assume stands for....if he is D1 in multiple sports, the kid is working with someone....
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Post by klaby on Aug 14, 2018 11:12:02 GMT -6
To help mold young boys into young men. Lessons learned and taught on the football field are ones that can help you in life. And nothing feels better than seeing the face of a young man when he succeeds at something he once struggled with.
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Post by klaby on Aug 9, 2018 6:17:52 GMT -6
The way I see this is this is the fault of the ADs. The ADs have the loudest voice with the state governing bodies. The problem is they don't speak up, they don't talk to their coaches enough. They just nod and leave the meetings. the ADs need to speak up about this stupid sh&t
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Post by klaby on Aug 6, 2018 8:02:58 GMT -6
No comment is a comment. 29 years in public service I can say that the answer no comment means they will dig harder. Direct any "trick bag" questions to your PR person, they are trained to speak double talk and to keep you out of the trick bag. He should have said something like "please direct those questions to the office of public relations", "If you have a question about football I will take those now".
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Post by klaby on Aug 6, 2018 7:53:56 GMT -6
I thought I heard that Riddell is done making uniforms or that they are going to stop sometime soon. Has anyone else heard this? I know I heard this about Russell, but not Riddell. Riddell partnered with KollegeTown, so they are UA now.
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Post by klaby on Aug 1, 2018 12:00:34 GMT -6
It's almost like you're saying winning and having fun are mutually exclusive. No coach, what I am saying is winning is not what a lot of these kids at that age find to be the top priority in a sport they play. That should (at least we hope will change as they get older). What I am saying is you need to have balance. But the end of the day the kids just want to have fun.
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