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Post by rsmith627 on Apr 13, 2016 9:18:44 GMT -6
UA shoes in general are awful. We had them as coaching shoes at my last school. I only wore them for games and I was up in the box. They were falling apart by our third or fourth game.
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Post by rsmith627 on Apr 13, 2016 8:00:57 GMT -6
I can't imagine caring about some of the stuff you guys talk about policing. Amen. Policing the stupid in my classroom is enough without worrying what color shoes a kid buys or if he wants to wear a visor. I hate visors but I'm not going to get on a kid for wearing one.
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Post by rsmith627 on Apr 12, 2016 17:40:57 GMT -6
You're right DC. And publicly I can't say that...regarding the chickens. But honestly...the last three crops of chickens would be 3rd stringers or worse on our better teams. The good news is...that our current junior chickens...might be chicken salad...compared to chicken {censored}. Also...since 2000 our school has lost 1500 students (declining enrollment much?). And yet...we still play in the same classification. I know. I know. Nobody wants to hear that, but it's the truth. We play the BIG BOYS....with less bullets in our holster. To keep on the thread...I would also say...that if you live in a small town...you keep your mouth shut. I live in a small town and keep my mouth shut. But the loud mouths didn't last. Gotta understand the politics of your situation. Taking a spoon to a nuclear battle?
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Post by rsmith627 on Apr 11, 2016 16:36:13 GMT -6
That's how it's being sold to us in GA. If we, as high schools dont get involved, 7v7 will become like AAU basketball. And the problem for the high school coach is that his work load never ends and there is no monetary reward at the end of the day as a result of it. While it's all about the money for the 7 on 7 coach who is doing a fraction of the work the high school coach does. The sad part is that the 7 on 7 pimps actually sit around waiting for this time of the year. It's the sad truth and there's a lot of work put into something that doesn't even truly produce results for Friday night. And it can cause coaches stress and result in a lack of confidence if they don't do well or a false sense of confidence if they do. And let's be honest, have any of you ever lost a game in the season and thought to yourself: "well that never would have happened if we did better on a 7 on 7 in May."? We were state runner up in 7 on 7 one year. We proceeded to go 1-8. Hc was baffled. He thought we were going to make a run for sure.
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Post by rsmith627 on Apr 8, 2016 18:30:41 GMT -6
I wish I didn't suck my first 10 years coaching. Arrogant, scheme-oriented, teaching too much stuff, thinking I know everything, taking opportunity and position for granted. Guys who are young like me: THIS This might be the best post on this thread. Read it. Think about it. Read it again. Think about it some more. Once you have done that, look in the mirror. This is something that I think almost ALL young coaches do.
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Post by rsmith627 on Apr 8, 2016 12:13:29 GMT -6
Not me, but I have a buddy who teaches and coaches. We went to high school together and are best friends.
Anyway, when we graduated he went to Michigan State. Our HC had an in for him to do some gopher work for Dantonio and he passed on it.
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Post by rsmith627 on Apr 8, 2016 8:58:10 GMT -6
Listened to my gut and not jump at that first varsity job with an incompetent head coach just to say I was a varsity coach. I would've been better served finding a great program in the area and volunteering as a freshman assistant. Oh well. Live and learn. I think I read on here, "More careers are decided on the jobs you don't take than the ones you do." Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Same. I have been varsity OC in some garbage programs. Right now I am a JV OC in a great program and am probably far better off and learning and growing far more as a coach.
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Post by rsmith627 on Apr 8, 2016 8:23:50 GMT -6
I hate music at practice and in the weight room. I'm not a yeller and I hate being forced to be one.
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Post by rsmith627 on Apr 6, 2016 18:55:39 GMT -6
Ours lift in football class or after school. They have player organized 7 on 7 twice a week, and that's all we do. In Michigan we don't have spring football though.
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Post by rsmith627 on Mar 28, 2016 15:49:59 GMT -6
My wife is the same way. We have a 17 month old who has many complications. She has Down syndrome and was born with a heart defect. She has been through two life saving open heart surgeries.
Our second one arrives in September. I mentioned not coaching this year and she told me not to even think that way.
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Post by rsmith627 on Mar 25, 2016 16:15:00 GMT -6
I don't think we have a requirement, but it isn't a problem. We only had one team give us a garbage film, and we probably would have beat them just as badly if we had no film.
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Post by rsmith627 on Mar 23, 2016 4:03:29 GMT -6
I think 7 on 7 is probably overemphasized, but it can be a great teaching tool under the right circumstances. I can teach my QB his reads/progressions vs 1/3 shells, 2/4 shells, and cover 0 which is valuable to me. It becomes less valuable if you get a garbage defense designed only to win a 7 on 7 and that would not actually be used in a game. You get 0 in 7-on-7? More 1, but none of the teams that do it run any kind of man coverage during the season. We see a ton of MSU style quarters during the season but most teams don't run it at 7 on 7.
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Post by rsmith627 on Mar 22, 2016 20:18:00 GMT -6
I think 7 on 7 is probably overemphasized, but it can be a great teaching tool under the right circumstances.
I can teach my QB his reads/progressions vs 1/3 shells, 2/4 shells, and cover 0 which is valuable to me.
It becomes less valuable if you get a garbage defense designed only to win a 7 on 7 and that would not actually be used in a game.
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Post by rsmith627 on Mar 21, 2016 18:01:51 GMT -6
I know of some teams that have their players write in a journal once a week. Why?
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Post by rsmith627 on Mar 19, 2016 5:29:37 GMT -6
I'd personally rather see video than a bunch of power point slides, but I'm a visual learner. I think just like students, everybody is probably different.
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Post by rsmith627 on Mar 16, 2016 7:39:54 GMT -6
For those of you that attended - how much of what the Pro coaches presented can you use in your HS situation? That was my beef with the clinic. I find that usually you can't use much. Cullen got into the nuts and bolts of technique and that was awesome and useful. Another one spoke on how he goes about identifying skill needs and designing drills, everybody can use that. The high school coaches were all awesome and even the college guys. The NFL guys live in a completely different universe most of the time though.
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Post by rsmith627 on Mar 16, 2016 7:33:57 GMT -6
On a side note, I was kind of disappointed that nobody had the balls to ask Coach Cullen about his naked drive through experience.
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Post by rsmith627 on Mar 15, 2016 16:40:39 GMT -6
I'm working with QBs this year. Thursday: Briles and then the 3 back running game guy from Texas who I thought did a decent job. Friday: RPOs, Beamer, Power run game, Harbaughs, Mornhinweg, Trestman, Joe Cullen, Ravens DC On Friday i thought the RPO session was good, the power run game was good, the Harbaughs were good, Mornhinweg was alright, Trestman was awful, Cullen was good, and the Ravens DC was good. The chalk talks at the end with M coaches were also great. I'm not a special teams guy, so Beamer just didn't do it for me. Can you post some notes on the Power run game? Let me see if I can get with my line coach. I sat in but didn't write much down because I'm the OC and work with QBs and we are a zone team. We don't run much gap stuff if any, but he took some detailed notes.
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Post by rsmith627 on Mar 14, 2016 7:54:43 GMT -6
Yeah, Briles is obviously an exceptional football coach. I thought he was a less than exceptional speaker. As said above, he had some good motivational sayings but that was about it. My takeaway was that the facemelter saves programs (which we all know isn't true). I heard him at the Auburn clinic last year. It was not very good. He mentioned multiple times that he had little idea what was on the presentation and that his GA put it together. He showed video of Baylor running routes on air in practice for 10 minutes. Riveting stuff.
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Post by rsmith627 on Mar 14, 2016 7:48:26 GMT -6
I was also there and greatly enjoyed it. I'm not sure why some of you are down on Trestman, that was probably one of my favorite sessions. Marty Morninweg was the biggest disappointment for me. He had nothing prepared, made a couple jokes and then took questions. It was obvious he has the knowledge, just not nearly as thorough or engaging as say Joe Cullen (Ravens DL coach) I don't think Trestman's info was necessarily bad. He knows his stuff and is an offensive genius. He just didn't hold my attention. I'll throw in that I'm a super ADD case though and have a hard time focusing on much of anything for that long so I found myself zoning out. Cullen definitely held my attention. Anytime you have a guy who speaks with so much intensity, how could you zone out? I don't work with DL but Cullen was still probably my favorite guy. I picked up a few things from him that I think I can apply. It was a good clinic all in all, and I'll definitely be looking forward to attending future clinics at Michigan.
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Post by rsmith627 on Mar 14, 2016 4:44:38 GMT -6
Yeah, Briles is obviously an exceptional football coach. I thought he was a less than exceptional speaker. As said above, he had some good motivational sayings but that was about it. My takeaway was that the facemelter saves programs (which we all know isn't true).
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Post by rsmith627 on Mar 13, 2016 14:02:47 GMT -6
IMO the clinic was just ok. Harbaugh came and sat pretty much right next to me in one of the sessions which was pretty cool, even though I root for the green team on Saturdays. The high school coaches that spoke were great, the Ravens DL coach was great, Trestman didn't impress me and neither did Frank Beamer. I took away a handful of things that I might use, which is all you can ask of any clinic. I was there. I thought it was great. Rsmith not sure what position you coach, or which sessions you went to, what you were wanting to get from the clinic. Which are all things that would change opinions of the clinic. I came away with something from each speaker. There was a sports psychologist, strength coach went through some stuff you can do to listen kids hips, Ravens coaching staff was great, chalk talk with michigans staff was great, how often do you get to hear frank Beamer talk special teams. He gave out his KO and punt block schemes. I will agree trestman wasn't great. I am not a QB guy though. I was able to take away from him the team that finishes +1 in the takeaway battle wins the game 80% of the time. The person I got the least football knowledge from was art briles. I'm working with QBs this year. Thursday: Briles and then the 3 back running game guy from Texas who I thought did a decent job. Friday: RPOs, Beamer, Power run game, Harbaughs, Mornhinweg, Trestman, Joe Cullen, Ravens DC On Friday i thought the RPO session was good, the power run game was good, the Harbaughs were good, Mornhinweg was alright, Trestman was awful, Cullen was good, and the Ravens DC was good. The chalk talks at the end with M coaches were also great. I'm not a special teams guy, so Beamer just didn't do it for me.
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Post by rsmith627 on Mar 13, 2016 13:20:34 GMT -6
IMO the clinic was just ok. Harbaugh came and sat pretty much right next to me in one of the sessions which was pretty cool, even though I root for the green team on Saturdays.
The high school coaches that spoke were great, the Ravens DL coach was great, Trestman didn't impress me and neither did Frank Beamer.
I took away a handful of things that I might use, which is all you can ask of any clinic.
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Post by rsmith627 on Mar 7, 2016 19:40:14 GMT -6
Don't be a d!ck Come to think of it, that's my only classroom rule too. This is where I am too. Don't be a dick (I laugh seeing auto-correct to Richard), arse hole or little biotch . Tell the kids in my classroom, the weight room & practice field that there are SMART choices & DUMB choices so make smart choices! I'm in year 6 as a classroom teacher. I used to go through rules and procedures and had a ton. Now I eloquently say don't be a d!ck and have them come up with examples of what that means.
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Post by rsmith627 on Mar 7, 2016 19:25:51 GMT -6
Don't be a d!ck
Come to think of it, that's my only classroom rule too.
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Post by rsmith627 on Feb 29, 2016 10:30:31 GMT -6
I feel like it is kind of an arms race. Coaches have them because if the panel is interviewing 10 guys, 9 will have it so you should too.
I've interviewed a few times and I'll usually send it ahead of the interview. I've only ever had 1 panel actually look at it.
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Post by rsmith627 on Feb 23, 2016 16:04:22 GMT -6
Agree. I get a ton off of Twitter.
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Post by rsmith627 on Feb 23, 2016 14:32:57 GMT -6
I'm doing the U of M one in a few weeks but that's more to be a fanboy. Michigan staff, Ravens staff, Briles...gonna be good stuff and if I can take away a thing or two great, if not at least I got to hear guys I respect.
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Post by rsmith627 on Feb 23, 2016 14:20:37 GMT -6
As it should. This site is the best. I don't even like clinics anymore because I know I can come here and get educated way better.
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Post by rsmith627 on Feb 18, 2016 18:48:21 GMT -6
I don't know if I agree with this even remotely nor can I honestly day that I disagree, but interesting thoughts.
One of the schools I was at in the past was a turnaround job in a high poverty high crime area. Half the kids didn't know where their parents were, they had no support, and college was a pipe dream. Those kids would ball out and play for themselves knowing that a scholarship was likely their best way out. Is that selfishness? It certainly was never detrimental to the team.
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