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Post by rsmith627 on Apr 23, 2024 9:14:42 GMT -6
I have a running back at Princeton who got plenty of funding. It just isn't allowed to be called an athletic scholarship lol. I don't know entirely what his process was like but I imagine it works pretty similar to the D3s who don't do athletic scholarships either. Is the funding for all or just a handful of relative studs? I am not entirely sure. If you dig into how the Ivy's work it allegedly is all need based funding only.
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Post by rsmith627 on Apr 23, 2024 8:49:17 GMT -6
IDK. It's Ivy League. I thought no scholarships for football were allowed. I have a running back at Princeton who got plenty of funding. It just isn't allowed to be called an athletic scholarship lol. I don't know entirely what his process was like but I imagine it works pretty similar to the D3s who don't do athletic scholarships either.
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Post by rsmith627 on Apr 9, 2024 8:06:58 GMT -6
I'm curious as to how other programs utilize their summer practice days. Obviously, different states have different sets of rules for how their summer days can look in the summertime. In Michigan, football programs are allowed "15 dates of non-mandatory activity with an unlimited number of players" that involve helmets, cleats, and footballs. These are not workouts and look for more like practices. Some of those dates are taken up with 7-on-7's (max of 7 in Michigan) but the rest can be used as the programs see fit. Primarily, I've been apart of programs who organize these days in 1 of 2 ways. They either chunk these days into team camps that are about 3-4 consecutive days or they spread those days out for weekly camps throughout the summer. I think both methods have merit to them but I am a bigger fan of the 3-4 day team camps (usually done in July so they are closer to the start of practice in August). What have you done before? What did you like or dislike, and why? Or, how does your state do it differently? Also in Michigan. We do a 4 day camp the week before our conditioning week, which is close to practice as you mentioned. I like it because you can get into your teaching progression, almost all of our kids are present unless traveling or something, and then practice hits and a lot of it is just review.
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Post by rsmith627 on Apr 7, 2024 14:37:06 GMT -6
hard to answer that. first of all, i know nothing about youth football, and i never coached 10 year olds. second, i don't know your offense, formations, etc... figuring out good ways to simplify it would require some familiarity. what could work in one system might not help in another system. looks like you already figured out one way to shorten it. i would say, keep thinking of other possible ways. one of the problems i see might be eliminated simply because of my unfamiliarity with youth football. do you send the plays in? does the qb have to call it? or is the coach in the huddle at this level to call the play? having a qb that can handle repeating that call at that age, and kids that could take the play in to relay the play call without screwing it up would be pretty unusual, i would think. it needs to be something they can easily remember and repeat. our jh kids at any school i coached at could not have done that. not sure our hs kids could have. i would think - formation, (tag if needed), play (tag if needed), snap count. and the formation and play tags would not be all that frequent. so usually, the call would be formation, play, snap count. unless you just planned on using a particular formation or play tag a lot for that particular opponent that week, to take advantage of something they do. and that may be what you're doing. again, those are things i don't know. and, just my opinion - if you have all that in your offense, it sounds to me like way too much offense for that age. i would suggest throwing a lot of it out. again, that's just me. i operate on the kiss principle. also, keep this in mind- my earlier reply was mostly just me being a smartass and poking fun at myself, because i'm retired and bored. you may have a lot better suggestions in all the other replies, but i couldn't stay awake reading thru all of them. but you almost never go wrong going the simple route. regardless of the level you're coaching He’s just gonna argue with you and do it his way. Doesn’t really matter that your points are good.
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Post by rsmith627 on Mar 20, 2024 11:05:39 GMT -6
This would probably go better on the defensive board and I'm sure it'll get moved.
I am an O guy but I would start with fronts and fills. How you stop the run is probably most important. I'd then get into my coverages, and how those fit in with your front if they aren't fully divorced. Fun stuff like stunts and other adjustments after he understands the basics and your base D.
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Post by rsmith627 on Mar 19, 2024 11:00:08 GMT -6
We don't do true doubles any longer. We go 8-10:10:30ish with a 15 minute break, and then come back out and are done by noon. The kids love it, it's less exhausting for us as well. Second shorter session goes pretty quick and we are out before it's too hot.
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Post by rsmith627 on Mar 16, 2024 17:41:46 GMT -6
So to seriously answer the question:
I needed some volunteer hours with kids when I was in college and reached out to my coach. He let me open and close the weight room twice a week. I had zero interest in coaching at the time but hanging out with the boys and that camaraderie made me want to stick around, so I asked if there was anything I could do during the football season to help out (was thinking set up equipment, film, whatever grunt work, etc. Didn't matter just wanted to be around ball.) Coach said yeah, come meet me up at the stadium tomorrow night. This is the Friday before the season starts.
I get there and he hands me a bag of school gear and lets me know I'm coaching freshmen OL. Haven't looked back since. Was totally hooked in.
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Post by rsmith627 on Mar 15, 2024 6:26:42 GMT -6
If he is a starter on the varsity he's not playing JV. If he is not a starter on the varisty msot likely he is getting significant JV reps. That's always been the general rule on teams I have either been an assistant or head coach. What's your take on this if he can be a huge contributor on specials, and maybe find some reps elsewhere during the game? We have some twins that we know are pretty good. We brought them up as freshmen so they could get our coaching.They played every special and were ass kickers on them. Then we would sneak them reps on O and D when it was appropriate. We used to agree with your post. If you aren't gonna start, stay down, but this kind of shifted our thought process a little.
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Post by rsmith627 on Feb 28, 2024 10:28:37 GMT -6
For the coaching after parties and free swag.
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Post by rsmith627 on Feb 22, 2024 13:34:30 GMT -6
If you Google it apparently both D3 and Ivy are able to do the NIL thing. Not sure why the Ivy League wouldn't be other than football isn't all that important to them and they're still pretty restrictive with academics even for athletes.
D3's may just not be able to raise the money, but I'm sure some could.
Interesting topic!
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Post by rsmith627 on Feb 16, 2024 5:32:33 GMT -6
Then probably I should've worded the question differently. Instead of presenting the longest possible string of words our play call could be and asking whether that would be too much, I should've just asked, "How many words in a play call is the most you think the average 10 YO can remember?" Because my aim is to implement a modular play call system, and it's just a matter of advice as to what's the maximum number of tags that could be expected to put on a play, so I can determine just how long to attempt. I'm not scuttling the idea of a modular play call system, since others have done it, just determining its limit. I'm not taking "0" for an answer! Good luck to you. Again I would ask though, why would you be willing to "F up" the season for a bunch of innocent 10 year olds and create a frustrating and potentially miserable football experience for them when it is not necessary? Just to serve your ego/curiosity? To show that you are more clever than the other coaches? It isn't a science experiment man. It is an experience for a kid. One you seem hell bent on screwing up for no apparent reason other than your own ego. To be more direct to your question-- it shouldn't be "how many words in a play call is the most you think an average 10YO can remember". It has to be "How many words in a play call is the most that my WORST PLAYERS, my LEAST INTERESTED PLAYERS, my LEAST ENTHUSED PLAYERS will be able to hear and process in a manner that they can have success so that they just don't start hating the game?" I would say maybe 4. But it isn't about remembering. It is about being able to process and execute, and I am telling you with 100% certainty that just because it makes sense to you, and just because to you it is as simple as "This word means this. Anytime you here this word just do this... That word means that. Anytime you hear that do this. These words apply to you, you and you...the others can ignore. And these words apply to you you and you- the other words you can ignore" it will NOT play out like that for the kids. The above video (you will probably have to click on it) is Chris Simms...a grown man from a football family showing you what it will look like. This is what I was picturing precisely. Also it's bizarre to come in to solicit opinions, be told by several people that this might not be the best idea, and triple down and say you're doing it anyway. It's fine if you're hell bent on doing it, but why solicit opinions then?
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Post by rsmith627 on Feb 14, 2024 11:02:04 GMT -6
That's too much for me, a 37 year old. Which part do you think you'd have trouble remembering between when you broke the huddle and when the play was run? If it was any of the formation call, you'd have your teammates to help you. It's unlikely they'd all forget the formation call, and because you'd be lining up in relationship to the rest of them, that would be obvious before the formation was all set -- in fact probably halfway to the line. If you were the center, quarterback, fullback, or tailback, do you think you'd forget "direct" (or think you'd forgotten it when it wasn't there)? If you were the tailback, do you think you'd forget "rocket" (or imagine you'd heard it)? If the wingback, do you think you'd forget "fly" or "blimp"? If you were on the line, do you think you'd forget "trap" or the second digit of the play number? Or that you'd forget "pass"? If you were a back, do you think you'd forget either digit of the play number? Or do you think you'd forget the snap count? How much would it ease your memorization task if the same cadence were used every time, with the fullback calling the snap based on where he saw the motion man (if any)? The fullback would still have to memorize where the motion back would have to be for that play. How much would it ease it if the "over" tags were combined into one? I guess I was thinking more about install, and the limited practice time that youth teams have. As mentioned above 2-3 word playcalls are too much for some kids in that age group, let alone this. Would I personally forget any of that? Absolutely not, but I'm not a squirrely 10 year old anymore either.
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Post by rsmith627 on Feb 14, 2024 7:55:13 GMT -6
That's too much for me, a 37 year old.
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Post by rsmith627 on Feb 13, 2024 10:15:41 GMT -6
Oh man, I looked and registered in October of 2011. I remember being pumped to find such a treasure trove on knowledge, and a mostly safe place I could ask all of my dumb questions LOL!
Can't believe it was already that long ago though.
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Post by rsmith627 on Feb 12, 2024 6:54:54 GMT -6
We snuck in right on time re NC housing. Right house (old, needs work, but not bad) In the right spot (near highway but off the path in an old neighborhood) For the very right price/interest rate If I wanted to buy right now I'd be F'd We did in Michigan as well. Paid $154,000 and locked in a 2.8% rate on our 1700 sq. foot home that is now valued at around 100k more than what we bought it for. Snuck in literally a month or two before prices shot up a few years ago.
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Post by rsmith627 on Feb 11, 2024 17:57:58 GMT -6
Have never been to Jackson Hole and Wyoming in general, being an east coast guy. But I have often wondered the same thing in "vacation destinations". Where do the teachers live? We love Hilton Head Island, not a cheap place to live at all. Every time I go, I wonder where I would live if I worked there. I believe here in NC on the Outer Banks those districts offer some housing options. The schools on the Outer Banks are generally smaller, the housing options are few, and expensive. I know a guy that coached near Hilton Head and there was a big time booster that put him up in his beach house... until he lost of course. re OBX, c'mon you don't like driving 2 hours to get to work? We're in Raleigh for a reason, it WAS cheaper to live here for higher pay. Bought at the right time during COVID but before the boom. I'm paying 40% of what I did to rent and I have a pool out back and a gym in my basement. I lived in Hope Mills (neighbors Fayetteville, NC) in 2010-12 and paid $525 for a 2 bed 2 bath apartment that was almost 1000 square feet. Wife and I were both teachers at the time combining for all of $60k and it was our easiest financial times ever lol. Last year we combined for 130 and are just beyond living paycheck to paycheck. Crazy.
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Post by rsmith627 on Feb 7, 2024 9:10:49 GMT -6
So the boys are saying you don't have $1.4 million for a 3 bed 1 bath 1,000 square foot house? You almost can't afford NOT to buy it.
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Post by rsmith627 on Jan 10, 2024 11:23:06 GMT -6
Personally I love the Chrome on matte look.
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Post by rsmith627 on Jan 7, 2024 13:26:43 GMT -6
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Post by rsmith627 on Dec 20, 2023 12:46:39 GMT -6
If all you guys are "UC Flexbone Triple Option Guild" Journeymen - Does that make tog the "Overlord"? I would start a "Split-Back Veer Triple Option Guild" (UC implied) but I'm afraid I would be the only member! I'd join up just to learn lol Was a Navy flexbone guy for a bit, but that was before my stop here which is already about ten years ago now.
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Post by rsmith627 on Dec 19, 2023 13:23:49 GMT -6
Look at you option folks. Got guilds, associations, cult meetings. Love it!
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Post by rsmith627 on Nov 7, 2023 13:43:21 GMT -6
We've used reversibles and finally moved away from it this year. They're a total pain in the ass and waste of times with kids having to flip them around.
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Post by rsmith627 on Oct 26, 2023 10:28:11 GMT -6
It's also a great way for coaches to grow (lower level staffs). Most stops I've been at the varsity guys left us alone. That prepared me to be a pretty decent varsity guy myself. There's something to be said for having separate staffs if you're able to, but including them in the program on Friday nights. Where I'm at now, before I moved up, I was either in the press box helping our DC or on the field with a headset on doing substitutions and running sideline meetings with our kids between series. Great learning experiences. Lower level coaches working the sideline and helping with personnel, game engagement, etc. is great IF the players know those coaches and have a relationship with them. Makes sense if that coach was their coach back when the kids were freshmen, etc. But if it's a new guy they don't know and only see on Fridays, it can actually make things very difficult. Lower level coaches working in the booth, communicating with coaches about down-distance-hash-yardline, how the secondary away from the sideline is aligning, etc. works great!!! Good point on pre-existing relationships being necessary if they're going to be interacting on the sideline.
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Post by rsmith627 on Oct 26, 2023 4:55:26 GMT -6
It's a great setup BUT I have to give you some slight caution. Since Varsity is what keeps you employed, it will be VERY easy to focus your time and energy on them and unintentionally slight the lower level groups. After reflecting, I've realized that this has happened to us before but I didn't even recognize it while it was happening. The positive thing about having lower level staffs to themselves is that that's their world and they will give it the full energy it needs. The negative thing about it is that you don't know what might be taught over there and those guys get to you and you wonder what the heck was going on down there in previous years. It's also a great way for coaches to grow (lower level staffs). Most stops I've been at the varsity guys left us alone. That prepared me to be a pretty decent varsity guy myself. There's something to be said for having separate staffs if you're able to, but including them in the program on Friday nights. Where I'm at now, before I moved up, I was either in the press box helping our DC or on the field with a headset on doing substitutions and running sideline meetings with our kids between series. Great learning experiences.
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Post by rsmith627 on Oct 24, 2023 10:48:52 GMT -6
Not with the junior high, but I was at a place that had all 3 high school teams working as one program.
We had an O staff and a D staff. While we were practicing varsity O, the D staff would take the frosh/JV players and go coach D, and then we would switch half way through.
Not necessarily the ideal set up, but I liked getting to coach my guys for all their years and already have those relationships once they got up to varsity as you mentioned. Plus, you know things are being coached the way your staff needs them to be.
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Post by rsmith627 on Oct 20, 2023 7:26:06 GMT -6
Fyffe High School is running former DW guru Tim Murphy's Gun Wing (it isn't really a DW any longer). It is run out of a balanced line, most of the time. It retains most of his blocking schemes from his Double Wing Offense. I guess my question for this kind of offenses is this- But why? Why not just run DW? Is it because you're trying to market "your brand"? The one that really gets me is Gun I with an offset FB next to the QB. So dumb... Probably trying to keep the philosophy while appeasing coaches up in the stands.
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Post by rsmith627 on Oct 18, 2023 15:53:10 GMT -6
Wait a minute. The Hip-drop and gator roll are NOT the same thing. A hip-drop involves wrapping up then intentionally dropping your weight on the runner's legs. How does an official determine tackler "intentionally" vs. "unintentionally" dropping their weight on ball carrier's legs? Sounds like Supreme Court justice who said "I don't know definition of pornography, but I know it when I see it." In other words, strictly judgment. Like penalizing a defender who wraps up QB from the front, takes him straight back to to the ground, and gets flagged for using his body weight on the tackle. They can't determine intentions. That's why the targeting rule sucks sometimes too.
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Post by rsmith627 on Aug 27, 2023 19:10:25 GMT -6
Brah, you mid. Your plays are sus............... Where'd you get that playbook? The toilet store?!
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Post by rsmith627 on Aug 22, 2023 7:45:17 GMT -6
I'd say this year 6-/9 teams we play are going to be very well coached. The others will be tough because they're blessed with talent all over the place.
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Post by rsmith627 on Jun 1, 2023 11:43:48 GMT -6
I really hate to say this, but a lot of these negative comments that talk about his low football IQ, him only being a good player because of his athletic ability, and only getting the job because of his personality come off with some pretty negative racist undertones. I think the difference (at least for me this is the case) is that there is nothing remotely intriguing about Jeff Saturday. He was a reach, and I don't think anybody really thought that was a great idea. Prime brings a whole lot of personality, star power, and attention (this is part of why he got the job) and has an immense ability to create a lot of buzz. As for the comments here relevant to this particular thread about Prime, you're probably right.
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