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Post by rsmith627 on Jan 1, 2016 17:50:32 GMT -6
I got a Baylor hoodie. It was on sale haha. Im okay with that. Oh yeah, and a new drawstring back to carry all my junk. I got a Michigan State Nike quarter zip....might wait to wear it for a while after last night. Going to pick up that Urban Meyer book. My little one has her second open heart surgery coming up on January 11th so I'm going to have a lot of downtime in waiting and recovery rooms.
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Post by rsmith627 on Dec 24, 2015 14:10:40 GMT -6
I don't care about rushing/passing yards, points per play, etc. I care about points on the board being more than what the other teams scored and the W/L column. Those are the metrics I care about.
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Post by rsmith627 on Dec 14, 2015 6:14:52 GMT -6
Because us OL coaches are an odd breed in and of ourselves, even though I have been converted to the rare 250 pound QB coach.
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Post by rsmith627 on Dec 11, 2015 6:04:20 GMT -6
I still think it's ridiculous the stuff that Light has gone through, including Auburn last year. He's a personal friend and has no bad intent. Just loves the game and breaking down what people do. There is no copyright on this crap. Not if it is game film that already is broadcast on television or streamed online that we (or anyone else) only turn around and watch for entertainment or educational reasons! Even if it's All 22 it's stupid for them to get bent out of shape. I coached for a guy that had coached at Navy and BYU. He had every game all of his opponents had played in going back several seasons. For a team like Auburn to get mad at Light for breaking down a couple of films is ludicrous. Their opponents have EVERYTHING on them that there is to have. For somebody to reach out and make him take down run and shoot resources is also pretty absurd. I don't care if people reprint my stuff as long as it is properly credited to me. SMU and Jones' name were all over those resources, and honestly there isn't really anything that anybody is doing out there that is super secret.
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Post by rsmith627 on Dec 10, 2015 18:02:46 GMT -6
I still think it's ridiculous the stuff that Light has gone through, including Auburn last year. He's a personal friend and has no bad intent. Just loves the game and breaking down what people do. There is no copyright on this crap.
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Post by rsmith627 on Dec 4, 2015 21:54:54 GMT -6
Varsity has 9 counting the HC, JV has 4, and Freshman have 4. We are a school with somewhere between 2800 and 2900 students and the third biggest school in Michigan.
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Post by rsmith627 on Nov 29, 2015 20:58:57 GMT -6
We had a girl where I was last year. She was phenomenal. Had all of our stations set up by the time we hit the practice field every day, hustled her butt off during games doing different things for us. She genuinely loved the game of football, understands it, and could honestly be a good coach one day if she ever wanted to and could get someone to give her a shot. She even coached some of my OL drills with my supervision and did a really good job. She would listen to my coaching points and could even point things out that I missed that players weren't doing perfectly (but wasn't an annoyance and didn't want to get in the way). She only did it when I encouraged her to.
She also was cute, so the guys worked harder in their drills when she came around. I know this can backfire if the ladies become a distraction, but in this case she worked out well.
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Post by rsmith627 on Nov 27, 2015 12:06:49 GMT -6
We have also reached out to NHS kids who need community service hours.
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Post by rsmith627 on Nov 26, 2015 18:04:31 GMT -6
Every where I have been we have used special Ed. kids. Some are obviously more trainable than others but many want to be a part of something. We give them a jersey and gear them up and they work really hard to play their role.
My own daughter has Down syndrome. I hope that she is interested in getting involved some day with what her dad does.
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Post by rsmith627 on Nov 26, 2015 10:15:52 GMT -6
Ia this always true? I mean I know Defense, spent time as a DC. But I am an offensive guy no doubt. I pretty much give my DC free reign. He is good, now of course I have input in the game plan, but I usually don't bother them. I have defensive guys on staff than offensive. Even if you are an "offensive guy," you have to understand the structures-weaknesses, possible adjustments of Defenses in order to attack them. Totally agree. I'm an "offensive guy" as I have said before. I understand what defenses do and how attack those different things. If I were told tomorrow I was the new DC I would have a long offseason ahead of me of preparing though. Understanding things doesn't always mean you know how to coach it, but I think if you understand it you have a good start.
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Post by rsmith627 on Nov 24, 2015 10:22:59 GMT -6
Agree 100%. Some of those mid-week MAC games are the best games to watch during the season. They're exciting for one. From a coaching/analytical standpoint a lot of those guys are pretty innovative too. I can almost always pick up a new idea watching, even if it's an idea I'll never use. Living in Illinois with the Tim Beckman fiasco at the UofI if I have to hear one more time about the Illini fans not wanting another "MAC coach" I'm going to start punching people. There's a lot of good coaches that have come out of that league- Saban, Meyer, Jones, Kelly, etc- and a lot of really good ones in it now. I hate fans. Who exactly do they think that program is going to draw to it? It's a stepping stone job just like the Mac.
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Post by rsmith627 on Nov 24, 2015 10:16:49 GMT -6
If I have the NFL on, it's usually as background noise as I'm trying to take a nap. The pro game bores me to tears. I'd rather watch Illinois State vs North Dakota State or a DIII game. Give me some hot MACtion and now we're really talking. Agree 100%. Some of those mid-week MAC games are the best games to watch during the season. They're exciting for one. From a coaching/analytical standpoint a lot of those guys are pretty innovative too. I can almost always pick up a new idea watching, even if it's an idea I'll never use.
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Post by rsmith627 on Nov 22, 2015 19:50:59 GMT -6
I had to walk the hc back to the locker room after a game, the coach's wife said she heard that one of the players dad was going to go after him after the game, one school I was the hc at I had to deal with all this crap, had a parent ask me if I watched some nfl show that was on that went through the breakdowns of plays, I said no, I don't have time to watch that because I busy with hc stuff, he said maybe that is why we are not doing good, he also asked me one time why his kid wasn't getting more playing time, I said he can't remember what to do, what it really was his kid was a penis and would not do what he was supposed to do, he said I thought you weren't playing him because you thought we were jewish, I said you could be atheist for all I care, if he does what he's supposed to he plays This sort of sh!t and even the short of sh!t I watched just our JV HC deal with this past year makes my desire to be a HC at some point lessen greatly.
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Post by rsmith627 on Nov 22, 2015 16:02:18 GMT -6
Detroit this year if you want to see what not to do.
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Post by rsmith627 on Nov 22, 2015 8:44:24 GMT -6
for EA to bring back the NCAA football games. My fans are starting to forget how to call plays. Plus it's fun to hold a tourney for your seniors at the end of the season AND kick all their butts. I really do wish they would revive these games. Madden just sucks. I want to run the facemelter, not the pro I.
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Post by rsmith627 on Nov 20, 2015 20:18:20 GMT -6
Only once did I react to a parents complaint. This guy was a nobody, but liked to tell people that he was "on the roster" with an nfl team during the 2000s (which I quickly confirmed he wasn't.) He went to other parents telling them we didn't know what we were doing. That our offensive issues were scheme and not players (if they only widened their splits... Type stuff) It finally came back to me that he was even going as far as telling people that he was going to punch me if I ever talked to him... So what did I do? In front of as many parents were there that day, I walked right up put my hand out to shake his, and as loud as I could started talking to him about his NFL playing days, but the conversation was quick.... he couldn't recall his coach, or the scheme they ran, or any of his teammates...how odd... He didn't show up much after that.. Sent from my VS986 using Tapatalk Was this at the middle school level too? I'm not asking to ever diminish middle school ball. I don't have the patience to deal with that sh!t and would never want to do it. Mostly though, I'm finding joy that you guys deal with the same kinds of asshats that we do.
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Post by rsmith627 on Nov 20, 2015 10:19:00 GMT -6
Yes! All of the cool colleges like Oregon and probably Baylor do it, so it must be the secret to long sustained success. Just the other day I was unveiling some new plays in our facemelter package to our staff. I decided to blast music really really loud over the presentation. The coaches were so hyped to install these plays with our kids over this offseason that I know the hype is going to carry over to the kids, and it's all because I blasted music over my talking. I don't even know why other teams will bother getting off of the bus to play us, that's the level of hype I am talking about here. I'll add that the coaches in this meaning really got rowdy when I passed out this year's new visors. I always love the "it's done bc cool colleges do it" argument, as if HS coaches that follow suit are incapable of their own thought or it makes them less of a coach than those that do what has always been done. I think you'll find most of those colleges do it for the same reason most of the high schools do it, because they have found benefit in it. I suppose what ever helps you feel superior though I was only kidding around. I have been at schools that have played music and I like it because our kids were more upbeat and we just seemed to have a better practice tempo, and I have been at schools that haven't. If you really find benefit in doing it, then go for it. If you don't see a benefit or just don't like it, don't do it. It's as simple as that. The school we are at now really can't do it because we border a neighborhood and get noise complaints.
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Post by rsmith627 on Nov 20, 2015 7:14:47 GMT -6
Does playing music at practice help you win? Yes! All of the cool colleges like Oregon and probably Baylor do it, so it must be the secret to long sustained success. Just the other day I was unveiling some new plays in our facemelter package to our staff. I decided to blast music really really loud over the presentation. The coaches were so hyped to install these plays with our kids over this offseason that I know the hype is going to carry over to the kids, and it's all because I blasted music over my talking. I don't even know why other teams will bother getting off of the bus to play us, that's the level of hype I am talking about here. I'll add that the coaches in this meaning really got rowdy when I passed out this year's new visors.
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Post by rsmith627 on Nov 19, 2015 19:19:13 GMT -6
I think that there's no way that you can be both, however I think that the evolution of a good coach includes understanding the relationship between the two and how one can help the other. I think when we are young or inexperienced that we often have this attitude of "do your job"... meaning it's the offenses job to score points and the defenses job to keep them off the scoreboard. Later on, if you're around the right people you start to understand it's not that simple. I do think the burden of change is on the offense, because they can win several different battles (time of possession, keeping the defense off the field, running the ball and running the clock, FG, TD), the defense can win only 2 (Holding to only a FG, or keeping them from scoring altogether). They absolutely work together. We had a really stout defense this past year. Knowing that my defense would bail me out 9/10 times allowed me to be far more aggressive of a playcaller on offense. Not that I want to put our defense into tough spots ever, but I still knew that I could come out and take some shots here and there that I might not take in most years.
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Post by rsmith627 on Nov 18, 2015 6:54:59 GMT -6
I think both is possible. I have known guys who have been tremendous coaches on both sides of the ball.
My DC when I played high school ball is now one of the best OCs in the state at the same program.
I'm in a point in my career where I'm way more of an offensive mind. As an OC I can coach any position on that side.
I would not be comfortable if tomorrow I was told I was now the DC. I understand what defenses try to do to shut me down, but I'm not confident that I could teach that at this point.
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Post by rsmith627 on Nov 16, 2015 18:40:45 GMT -6
More truth to your statement than you think. I'm sorry, what has more truth?
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Post by rsmith627 on Nov 16, 2015 17:21:30 GMT -6
I think it's a cool idea, just hard when you have sites like jameslightfootball, Brophy, and a ton of guys on this very site blogging for free.
Heck, I post videos and analysis of what we do and I'll never charge for it. Nothing I do is revolutionary and even if it were I just like talking ball with guys.
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Post by rsmith627 on Nov 15, 2015 13:05:13 GMT -6
Had a kid a few years ago tear his ACL or MCL (don't remember which right now) doing walking lunges in the morning on the first day of camp.
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Post by rsmith627 on Nov 13, 2015 19:01:43 GMT -6
I really don't understand why we as a culture give a damn about what anybody is doing in their bedroom.
I lived in Utah for a while and the kids were making fun of one of their teammates because he got laid (by a girl). WTF?
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Post by rsmith627 on Nov 10, 2015 20:05:32 GMT -6
Great points on how the game has changed. On our JV squad this year I was the OC. We were by no means loaded, but we had kids who had a blue collar mentality, banded together and went to work every week. The couple athletes we did have I gave up the defense, and will continue with this philosophy. If I load up the defense I can play offense a little differently and a lot more aggressively knowing the D will bail my ass out 9/10 times if I screw up.
If it's tight and I need a stud, I'll borrow one from D and use him on O in certain situations. We gave up 6 points on average this year, and scored 35 on average. Again, we weren't loaded, we were creative in finding ways to get our slow small receivers open. I'll save that for a facemelter thread though.
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Post by rsmith627 on Nov 10, 2015 19:54:13 GMT -6
The school I'm at now had a state championship year where we placed 21 players on the All-Conference team. Gave up something like 5 ppg and scored 32. This was in the 90's. The game has changed so much in the past few years with up tempo offenses that I'm not sure you can see that level of dominance unless a team is just loaded with D1 talent. This is a fair assessment. Where I'm at now won state titles the last 2 years in the biggest division in Michigan. This year we got bounced in the first round. The difference was for those 2 years they were absolutely LOADED with D1 talent. Also, they added me to their staff LOL
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Post by rsmith627 on Nov 10, 2015 19:52:46 GMT -6
The topic here is obvious based off of the thread's title. The TCU thread got me to thinking, can you be great on both sides? You don't see many teams in college that play stellar on both sides of the ball. The entire Big 12 is tough on offense, but none of them play defense. Michigan State has had good defenses with the exception of this year, and I think they've been more than adequate on O, but they aren't going to go out and hang 70 on anybody. In high school I think it can be tough. We are a big enough school that we can platoon for the most part, but I think as a whole some of our better skilled guys end up on defense some years, and other years they end up on O, but we usually aren't lights out on both sides of the ball. Aside from that, at the level most of us on here are coaching at we have little to no control over what we are going to have in our program in a given year. What do you guys think? Is it possible to be amazing on both sides on a consistent basis? Alabama for the last 7 years? In 2014 they were ranked 9th in terms of total offense, 2013 32nd, 2012 19th, 2011 30th, 2010 22nd, 2009 15th, 2008 41st, 2007 67th and as of this point this year they are ranked 47th. While they are definitely in the top tier that are hardly consistent, and most years fall well short of being anywhere near the top 10. Their offense is adequate, but I don't know if I would call that elite. And don't misunderstand what I'm saying. Alabama as a program is elite but I think they're better and more consistent on D. I'm interested in looking up their D stats to see. espn.go.com/college-football/statistics/team/_/stat/total/year/2014
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Post by rsmith627 on Nov 10, 2015 18:42:39 GMT -6
The topic here is obvious based off of the thread's title. The TCU thread got me to thinking, can you be great on both sides?
You don't see many teams in college that play stellar on both sides of the ball. The entire Big 12 is tough on offense, but none of them play defense. Michigan State has had good defenses with the exception of this year, and I think they've been more than adequate on O, but they aren't going to go out and hang 70 on anybody.
In high school I think it can be tough. We are a big enough school that we can platoon for the most part, but I think as a whole some of our better skilled guys end up on defense some years, and other years they end up on O, but we usually aren't lights out on both sides of the ball. Aside from that, at the level most of us on here are coaching at we have little to no control over what we are going to have in our program in a given year.
What do you guys think? Is it possible to be amazing on both sides on a consistent basis?
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Post by rsmith627 on Nov 6, 2015 14:44:36 GMT -6
We have a guy that calls Swinging Gate "Captain Jack". I've worked with guys that have called it Water Bucket as well. I learned it as swinging gate, so that's what it is.
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Post by rsmith627 on Nov 5, 2015 17:26:41 GMT -6
New to the website (and I have to say this is a goldmine) but after I've gotten my feet wet and read some of the older threads, I have a few questions... Mainly, what on earth is the "facemelter"? Just a joke here with the members, or what? Coach welcome to the forum.
Haters are going to hate.
For just 29.99 Ill share the introduction to the classic Facemelter with you.
If you PM now, Ill throw in the advanced FM X package for an additional 29.99
You can bundle the "Trouble shooting the facemelter" which is only 30 seconds long btw, with the other two by simply paying the shipping.
Is trouble shooting the facemelter new material? I thought there were no problems with it ever. It just melts faces.
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