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Post by mrjvi on Mar 18, 2024 13:51:13 GMT -6
I stopped 2 a days about 15 years ago. I went to the states 2 of my 4 times having 8-11 practices during the pre-season so it was definitely doable. We did install somewhat with a 4 day camp earlier in the summer. The former player and coach I'm doing weights and the line for now (I'm not a head any more-my choice) wants 8-12. Not terrible. I'll live with it and the kids can have the rest of the day.
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Post by mrjvi on Feb 9, 2024 19:30:50 GMT -6
I guess I refer to them all as my guys even though I'm now a position coach rather than the head. They definitely are in the weight room I run-including the JV guys.
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Post by mrjvi on Feb 7, 2024 17:08:59 GMT -6
42 years coaching. Head last 35 until 2 years ago. Now I'm OL and strength training for a former player and coach. He deals with all the stuff and I just coach. He's young and teaching and I've been retired from teaching for @ 8 years. I think I could do this for quite a while longer now.
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Post by mrjvi on Jan 29, 2024 17:25:45 GMT -6
I've had quite a few but only 1 played in the NFL (7 years) OL
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Post by mrjvi on Jan 20, 2024 14:18:23 GMT -6
Fall 1976 I was playing center on our HS team. My right guard was a buck 30 maybe but hit harder than anyone on our team. One play he pulls and levels a guy with his head. He comes back to the huddle and says, "John" (me), "the lines on the field are green and the grass is white". I got him out of there fast. He was back in the game the next quarter.
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Post by mrjvi on Jan 19, 2024 6:52:01 GMT -6
Played HS football from falls of 1973-76. Lots similiar to the other posts. There never was anything like a trainer. If you got hurt (really hurt), they called your mom and she came and got you. You came back to playing when you felt you could. Coaches would "re-set" your fingers if they got mangled. 2 a days were brutal. I remeber doing hit and rolls (scrambled eggs) until many puked and had to stop. Water was maybe twice during a 3 hour session. Went to the head coaches' camp for 3 days to start the season. Had to run 2 miles to and from the field (pasture) each session. Helmets were suspension. Had meetings on Sundays where most of the guys showed up somewhat drunk. Never understood why the coach never dealt with it. Summer workouts were just conditioning. I was the only one who lifted. They thought I was weird to do it and it was bad for you. Tackling was taught with no regard for spearing. I finally tackled hard the huge RB we had with my head down and it totally rung my bell. They were pleased and said I had finally "arrived". Too many more crazy stories to list here. I head coached at my alma mater for 20 years from 97-2016. My practices looked A LOT different. One thing I can say is that kids usually played 3 sports. No "specialization"
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Post by mrjvi on Jan 15, 2024 13:02:27 GMT -6
I have been VERY lucky ( ?) to have taken over at places that were lousy before I got there. The only advice that I think might help is to sell whatever you do to the players. If you have the players usually you have the rest. But change things as slowly as you can and use what made the previous coach successful, specifically to that unique community.
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Post by mrjvi on Nov 11, 2023 20:56:06 GMT -6
We lift without any shoes on.
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Post by mrjvi on Nov 9, 2023 10:53:52 GMT -6
YES. Most wear jeans or sweats anyway.
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Post by mrjvi on Sept 26, 2023 9:45:39 GMT -6
One of my first years as a head varsity coach our AD told me I had to cut my 2 heavy practice days to an hour so our guys could coach powder puff teams. It was rival and homecoming week against a great team. I protested but she "made" me do it. We got obliterated in that game 55-0. A week later she asked what was wrong because I seemed mad at her. YIKES !!!!!!!
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Post by mrjvi on Sept 6, 2023 11:40:23 GMT -6
In NY, except for LI and NYC, We are either in the 1st game this week or the 2nd if you played a zero week game. If you make it to the state final you will have played 13 games. The 4 times we made it to the final were very exciting for the kids and coaches but we were really tired after those seasons. If you don't make your sectional final you end up playing 9 games.
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Post by mrjvi on Aug 30, 2023 13:12:09 GMT -6
"It seems to me that guys that like the ground and pound dbl tite sets are kind of married to them. Is that not a distinct disadvantage when you have smaller olines and less powerful runners?"
Not if you utilize double teams and tight splits. IMO if you use traditional offenses (wider splits) with small linemen and non powerful runners, you may be in trouble anyway.
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Post by mrjvi on Aug 29, 2023 14:00:54 GMT -6
irishdog: This is exactly what I try to do. An adaptable "scheme".
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Post by mrjvi on Aug 13, 2023 17:46:00 GMT -6
The article mentioned no contact. ??
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Post by mrjvi on Jul 18, 2023 11:10:02 GMT -6
We occasionally did some 80's but usually never more than 40's. Won states while doing no direct sprint work other than what was done in practice during drills and scrimmaging. High effort-always game speed. It's certainly OK to agree to disagree. The fastest anybody goes for a random 40 yard section of the mile is about 7 seconds. I just never wanted to condition the players bodies with anything that slow. I was PE also and most of my players could run a fair mile without training longer distances. Sprint intervals will still help people run longer distances acceptably but distance work does not increase speed. I guess IMO. I liked Barry Ross' philosophy and adapted it to football as best I could.
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Post by mrjvi on Jul 17, 2023 10:17:16 GMT -6
blb, Love your post and do things very much the same-minimal test items. The only one I'd never do is the mile, though. Don't want them running mileage, I want them sprinting. If I had the mile on the test, some would be out running miles all the time.
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Post by mrjvi on Jun 13, 2023 5:14:48 GMT -6
(1 of my first years) I used to coach out in central NY. The first year that NY "allowed" practices as long as they weren't school sponsored, 1 school (I won't mention the name) had full padded practices for 3 hours all week, all summer, REQUIRED by the coach or you didn't get to play. They started the season ranked very high and won their first 4 or 5 games big. We played them somewhere around week 8 or 9 and beat them pretty good with a team that wasn't near as good. After the game the kids from both teams were talking and I could hear the other teams kids saying how sick they were of playing by then and couldn't wait for the season to be over. They had been pounding hard for @17 or 18 weeks. They actually lost their last 4 games. I've always had 4 possible days/week to lift and do some plyo/sprint work and maybe a touch game and I wanted them to try to hit 2 a week. Rewards if they hit like 18 for the summer but no penalty for not getting that many. O and D schemes are simple and run oriented and we've always been near or at the top most years. Crazy summer stuff isn't necessary, at least where I live.
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Post by mrjvi on May 20, 2023 4:56:24 GMT -6
I will watch "select" college games. I'm sick of the similiar to everyone spread stuff. I'm a contrarian and I like contrarian teams. Loved Johnson at Georgia tech. Like the service academies but they are changing some. I will admit when I see a team that runs a lot, I tend to root for them. I really don't watch other sports much. I tend to watch action and sci fi movies more.
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Post by mrjvi on May 9, 2023 10:05:46 GMT -6
As the head coach we never met on the weekend. That's over 40 years. Staff stayed together because they had family life on weekends. We might stay late after Monday's practice if we needed to.
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Post by mrjvi on Apr 19, 2023 17:39:11 GMT -6
video is huge and as we say never lies. My problem was I always had 30+ throwers of each gender. (60 not multiple genders ) Hard to video them all.
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Post by mrjvi on Apr 17, 2023 16:05:34 GMT -6
I coached track for over 40 years much of it as the throws coach but a lot as the head. I always told throwers that even though they will progress to a full throw at different speeds, all will start with stands until they master the basics of power generation. First year kids rarely get to full throws that year. Your kids are like 1st year throwers. You have given them opportunities to have their last 2 throws a full throw. The parents saying that are idiots. Most likely they never threw and if they did weren't very good. If they were good throwers they would know better. My 3 daughters threw for me. One had great body control and learned the full spin her 2nd year. The other 2 spent the second and some of the 3rd year doing a south african drill inside the circle for their throws but often had to stand to make finals. People think the event is simple but force generation is very hard to learn well. Lastly, using drills of more than stands but less than full throws help a lot. They also show kids that if you can't get further throws with drills that are more than stands,(half drills, south africans, etc.) you haven't learned to use momentum yet and full throws will not be achieved.
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Post by mrjvi on Feb 28, 2023 7:19:45 GMT -6
My brother lives in Arizona and the div.1 players in the Pheonix, Tempe, Mesa, etc. areas is impressive.
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Post by mrjvi on Nov 9, 2022 17:17:34 GMT -6
Good for the kids but I hate them.
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Post by mrjvi on Nov 2, 2022 11:05:48 GMT -6
I was OK in HS. Had a valuable skill though-long snapping. Walked on at Utah State and made the team with that skill. Stayed a couple years then Transferred to Cortland to pursue PE teaching. One huge advantage at USU was that being just the long snapper and maybe the 3rd center, I snapped to the QB's (both who played pro)who were doing their QB work and had a great opportunity to observe all of our coaches. Learned a lot that was very useful in my future coaching. Also one of our players played for Coach Shepard in HS who had just started the BFS program so got very familiar with his program-many principles that I use a lot still.
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Post by mrjvi on Mar 18, 2022 9:19:44 GMT -6
NY doesn't have spring ball but IMO you need to be careful even in the summer unless you are a huge school. Many years ago when I first became a head coach, a school (I'll call B'ville) decided to practice 5 days a week with full pads from June on. NY had just made it OK to practice whenever you wanted as long as it wasn't "sponsored" by your school-sort of like a camp. Our team played B'ville in game 7 or 8. We beat them and should not have. They had been pre-season ranked in the state top 3. When our kids talked to their kidsafter the game, their kids said they were totally sick of football, having practiced 5 times a week all summer. They and we were big schools. They said they couldn't wait to be done. Huge lesson for me and my coaching. Balance their work with letting them be kids. We have some games on saturdays but I've never made any committments for the kids on weekends. We also, by the way, never met on weekends as coaches either. Calls or e-mails. I think we get more kids playing than otherwise and my coaches stay a lot longer. Pandemic did screw things up, though.
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Post by mrjvi on Feb 15, 2022 7:06:25 GMT -6
If I have an assistant who wants to organize a fundraiser I say go for it. In the last 25 of my 40 years I have never fundraised and won't. If our football budget can't handle new stuff when needed, we do without.
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Post by mrjvi on Feb 11, 2022 7:10:04 GMT -6
You make more than I do as a head coach.
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Post by mrjvi on Feb 10, 2022 9:41:03 GMT -6
I don't get paid for anything off season or the summer. I do it (mostly alone-1 coach helps) because it needs to be done if we will be competitive. I have some incentives to attend but I no longer get real stressed about it. I clearly tell the kids what strength levels we need to be at to be a contender and CONSTANTLY remind them how bad a lack of strength is, even during the season. I tell them that give or take a couple games (wins or losses), 50% of our fall success is off season. 25% is summer and 25% is during the season. Our player leadership from kids who have some future vision usually determines our attendance. If ANYONE whatsoever questions anything about my committment or when I run stuff I tell them I come up well over 150 times to weights all year w/o getting paid. (personally I'm retired so don't have high money needs, though gas prices.....) I really don't get headaches though from people, I just get $hitty attendance lately. Small school.
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Post by mrjvi on Jan 16, 2022 15:28:34 GMT -6
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Post by mrjvi on Jan 16, 2022 15:25:44 GMT -6
I may be too optimistic but the need for good coaches and a good structured football program should become invaluable now more than ever. If we can re-instill some positive values in the ones we are able to get, that must count for something. Tall order I know. I'm not THAT naive.
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