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Post by mrjvi on Feb 14, 2013 11:33:18 GMT -6
silky beat me to it. Low weight high reps is the exact opposite of what you should do IMO. That is more like bodybuilding which is what our baseball coach THINKS we do. Doing a 5-3-1 to a 95% single will take far less out of you than higher rep and set programs which are actually very un-baseball specific. Baseball is very short, explosive activity and the training should reflect that.
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Post by mrjvi on Feb 7, 2013 11:23:45 GMT -6
We got new uniforms for the 2nd time last year which was 15 years at this school.
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Post by mrjvi on Feb 7, 2013 11:21:02 GMT -6
My daughters and my extended family know that I won't miss a game during FB season. I've had assistants miss and accepted it but not being the head. My wife's brothers wedding was on a game and I coached. I couldn't feel good about the precedent I would have set and coaching is better than weddings-hands down.
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Post by mrjvi on Jan 25, 2013 6:15:57 GMT -6
We have games on Saturdays and Fridays, either JV or varsity(both Saturday or one each). Nothing Sundays except coaches calling or meeting on their own because I expect the plan to be presented after practice on Monday.
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Post by mrjvi on Jan 21, 2013 13:43:00 GMT -6
The section football committee makes it from coaches suggestions, to a degree, then AD's give final approval.
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Post by mrjvi on Jan 16, 2013 7:31:54 GMT -6
Always loved the strategy of the game so I went as far as playing would bring me then started coaching out of college. Always was watching how coaches did things even when I was playing.
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Post by mrjvi on Jan 7, 2013 19:27:21 GMT -6
Hate losing sums it up for me as well. Eternal optimist. I always think I can do it better.
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Post by mrjvi on Dec 21, 2012 11:03:05 GMT -6
My situation is similiar to irishdog.
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Post by mrjvi on Dec 21, 2012 6:08:07 GMT -6
WOW. I've stated before I am one who lets the coaches and kids have a life on weekends. I have a bit of a perspective change that makes me more glad to coach in NY even though FB isn't as big in the community (at least at our school-even though we are successful) I would not like the pressure of Texas, Fl., where ever it is expected to do time. I LOVE FB but I do love other things. For 5 grand I guess I'm right where I should be.
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Post by mrjvi on Dec 19, 2012 9:50:56 GMT -6
I had a player twitter about what a bleeping, bleep I was.(8 lines of stuff) I wanted to boot him right away and so did the AD. The AD felt he needed other administrative support. All of the administrators including the super said we were "educators" so we couldn't remove him. He got a 1 week suspension. I will just boot them in the future and make the administrators have to tell me they need to come back. Plus, I certainly don't need to play them again, which I didn't. I've been coaching a long time and this is a new area for me. I agree with what was said earlier, that typing on a screen is impersonal.
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Post by mrjvi on Dec 14, 2012 10:03:07 GMT -6
I delegate different jobs to my assistants. Offensively I don't need to do a major amount of game planning as we don't know what d we'll face. We prepare for a variety all the time. My d coach does more prep obviously but he has our other coaches look for certain things and text or call with any questions. I give jobs to the players and hold them accountable during the season including locker room cleanup and security and we as coaches take turns each day with supervision. I have the week plan always done from a template so all the coaches know how much time and when they will have their groups. Just like teaching it gets easier to use past practice plans with tweaks so over the years it just gets easier. My d coach lets me know before Monday's practice an idea of his plan and so does the special teams coach. Any excessive variation from our pre-season meeting plans would be a problem that I would have to deal with done time-wise. We need to be on the same page before the season. We just don't meet on the weekends unless it is a unique situation. My coaches set time on the weekends on their own and always have a great plan, maybe because they can do it when they want.
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Post by mrjvi on Dec 13, 2012 13:32:43 GMT -6
My schedule of very little on weekends and being home for dinner most nights allowed me to feel good about my time with my 3 daughters. Being the head, I became very good at delegating and not micro-managing. My expectations were (are) clear to my staff and I had to let some go during my 32 years total at 2 different schools- 21 as the head. No-one wants to win more than me but this is still high school football. We have won an average of just under 6 out of 9 games throughout those years with some championships and 2 state final visits. Would we be better with substantially more time? Maybe, but I won't change it. I feel I've been able to make our planning very efficient. I learned when I was an assistant that we really did waste alot of time.
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Post by mrjvi on Dec 12, 2012 17:12:40 GMT -6
Silky, Ours is almost identical. Keeps coaches and families happier and it doesn't diminish our effectiveness. Doubles do become extremely important as they set up everything for the season.
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Post by mrjvi on Dec 11, 2012 5:06:11 GMT -6
cscs and norcal: That is the format we have used for my 32 years of coaching and I've had fantastic longevity keeping good coaches with me. Unless all I do is coach football as a job, that will be how it will stay.
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Post by mrjvi on Dec 10, 2012 13:25:56 GMT -6
My d coach has more to do film-wise then me on the o. We run DW so we prepare for anything we might see and spend more time with our game time adjustments to anything with our set rules. Very few teams do the same against us and always change during a game as well. I guess that me trying to dictate what we do rather than react to a pre-set notion of what they might do actually gives me more weekend time to a degree.
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Post by mrjvi on Dec 10, 2012 9:42:52 GMT -6
We play some games on saturday and some on friday. I do any film exchange and get tapes ready for my staff to pick up when they can. I let my D coordinator and special teams coordinator make their own plans and I make the O plan. They already know their time allottments in practices. We call each other at times during the weekend to throw ideas around. We don't formally meet as a group until after Monday's practice which is a bit shorter for the kids. Sometimes we stay a while especially if it's an unusual team we will play. Having weekends more flexible has given me a happy staff and hasn't IMO negatively affected our success. Coaches work harder on their own when they know we will meet Monday and will stay as long as necessary but they arrange their weekend how they want and can have a family life. Since we still do very well, I won't change it especially since we aren't making mega$$$$.
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Post by mrjvi on Dec 7, 2012 11:07:43 GMT -6
I'm one of the old farts also. I would like to believe that the players I've had have gotten some postive direction and things like that from their association with me and our staff. One thing I will absolutely agree with is that I never developed anything that wasn't there to a degree. I also believe there is an age where your influence will be minimal. My father was a consumate education for 40+ years , at the top. He said that moral right and wrong is set somewhere around 5 years old. Once you are 14,15,16 social right and wrong are set barring an extreme emotional event and sometimes not even then. Many coaches told me they can't accept that they don't have major influence after that age. Unfortunately it hasn't been proven wrong in my life...but I will bust my a$$ trying to influence a freshman and to a degree sophs but juniors and seniors don't get the effort youger ones do. By their upper class I need something back and they should be examples to my younger players. Do you guys think you have great impact on kids you get late?
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Post by mrjvi on Dec 4, 2012 20:35:34 GMT -6
Great site
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Post by mrjvi on Dec 1, 2012 16:58:52 GMT -6
Burnt Hills , New Rochelle are 2 perennials in NY
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Post by mrjvi on Dec 1, 2012 16:56:00 GMT -6
Football being important in the community is huge. Our HS x-country team had 65 kids this year. I've had kids quit football to be one of those 65. Probably didn't want them anyway but it does say something about our school's kids emphasis
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Post by mrjvi on Dec 1, 2012 12:33:35 GMT -6
recruiting the halls works with me for freshmen and sophs. Some of them are looking for an identity and don't do many sports so I try to build them. Many of my players have had to be made. Juniors and seniors that haven't played are not pursued. If they want to play and come to see me, I give them every opportunity but I don't get "excited". More often if I get excited about them I get burned. But...occasionally some of them have been great. In terms of the thread, as long as the coaches have been in education, they seem to be similiar to in the past in terms of good and bad. Occasionally, some school takes a chance on a parent or someone who was on a college staff somewhere. These tend to be big failures.
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Post by mrjvi on Dec 1, 2012 12:22:30 GMT -6
Great stuff. Deuce-right on as another one for me.
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Post by mrjvi on Nov 30, 2012 11:51:20 GMT -6
If I could get them to show up strong in the fall, I wouldn't care how they did it. From my 30 years of records, my TEAMS with the best squat and clean strength (except for 1)have been my best records. More specifically, regardless of talent, when I got 10 kids or more at my levels in these lifts, we challenged for the sectional championship. (the one year we did well despite the strength levels though my back was the state player of the year-also the best pound for pound lifter I've ever coached) I would even accept the other coaches honestly saying the lifting was OK instead of the many who "forbid" it. I know there are alot of factors in winning seasons but these numbers are interesting. Back to the origin of this thread, we share lots of athletes in Middle School, then very few. For the last 4 years no more than 2 varsity athletes each year have played football, basketball and baseball. SPECIALIZATION BABY
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Post by mrjvi on Nov 30, 2012 10:38:44 GMT -6
This might not be a long thread but after 31 years of coaching, 24 as a head coach there are still some major things I can't get to happen. As evidence from some of my rants, one of mine I can't seem to get is the whole school buying into progressive strength training for all sports. I'm wondering from any coaches who have alot of years in coaching, who by now probably have many if not most things figured out or at least have a good workable system (reason for coaching so long) , what thing(s) have still eluded you.
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Post by mrjvi on Nov 30, 2012 10:19:31 GMT -6
jrk-I agree. I encourage kids to take a day or 2 a week to work on shooting skills for basketball if that area needs work or go to a batting cage a couple times a week. Or go skiing for that matter. I would also encourage any kid who wants to be a throwing QB to spend a couple days a week throwing. These are individual sport skills, not general workouts. Most of those skills do nothing for another team's sport and don't have a high energy drain. Strength training helps them all and I wish it was part of their programs. I understand you guys with the "hands off" approach and I tried that for about 4 years 7 years ago-a conscious effort on my part. Worst 4 years I've ever had. Since I've re-pushed strength work to everyone for the last 3 we are NEAR the top again. If I have to just accept it, I should get out. Lastly, since when is wanting the kids to strength train year round just for football? ? And yes, kids do go to all kinds of open gyms and other activities during the FB season and all other seasons as well.
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Post by mrjvi on Nov 30, 2012 7:20:40 GMT -6
If we had a unified program where all teams did a progressive program for all 4 years of the athletes HS I would be overjoyed. I want kids to enjoy all sports and the cream will rise to the top even with 3 sport athletes plus it may give them some great choices fo post HS. I spent alot of time designing one but "territory" once again. I don't care where they get stronger as long as they are doing it progressively and correctly. A unified program implemented by the AD would help alot with getting kids out for multiple sports. A school in our division has mandatory strength training for every sport. They have been to the state final for the last 4 years and won it this year. All of their sports are near or at the top. It's not an accident. I had more athletes than this team for the last 2 years but we still can't beat them because they are stronger across the board.
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Post by mrjvi on Nov 29, 2012 19:34:38 GMT -6
Why isn't the weight room part of being on a team? jjm-my thoughts exactly.
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Post by mrjvi on Nov 27, 2012 16:34:11 GMT -6
And that is the problem. The AD!!!!!!!!! We have a situation just like GDN and it is VERY frustrating. All of our coaches are very possessive. "No one better touch MY athlete" to the point that they say if we lift in winter or spring, we are coaching football out of season. I need to calm down
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Post by mrjvi on Nov 26, 2012 15:11:50 GMT -6
Thanks to all who wrote on this thread. It has definitely put things in perspective BUT..... like rsmith, I am obsessed with the game. We just started our morning workouts and I'm excited except that other sports are already getting territorial. They do need to be careful as some kids are already not wanting to be told they can't lift during their seasons. Also I agree above with BLB about playoffs having sometimes the opposite effect. We keep getting eliminated in the semis but the added pressure is probably largely from myself.
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Post by mrjvi on Nov 24, 2012 10:06:07 GMT -6
I've been the head and offensive coach for 32 years and our best athletes have to play defense 1st. I can rotate on the O.
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