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Post by gccwolverine on Oct 21, 2019 9:40:31 GMT -6
Monday & Tuesday = 2 hours/15 minutes. Wednesday = 2 hours. Thursday = 90 minutes. You CAN shorten EACH of those by 15-30 minutes late in the season IF you can get everything done. Thats about what we are (way shorter on thursday). Are you 2 platooned or not? We have 6-8 guys going both ways and have to practice O and D separate O first then D or vice versa and even at 2:15 feels like you're shorting somethings when you're structured this way. Bigger rosters with full platoon can get in and out much quicker and get more done.
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Post by gccwolverine on Oct 17, 2019 6:31:28 GMT -6
We hit and never take anyone to the ground in practice but still wear pants. What does wearing shells take away or conserve? We view it as a protective solution in case someone falls to the ground at some point so wear don’t tear up their knees. In my program the coaches before me havent held kids accountable for the inventory that they hand out. I had to completely replace the knee pad inventory this year as there were none left. By only going shells and girdles everyday we don't have every 3rd kid misplacing knee pads. If we do wanna go full we just treat it like game day hand out and collect everything back that night. It seems to have worked so far as we have had much less "lost gear" this season. "Somebody" and "Someone" must be to busy at other places to get over to yours and steal gear. I know they've both been busy at our place.
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Post by gccwolverine on Oct 15, 2019 11:40:24 GMT -6
This. This is it. A lot of guys use coaching as an out to not take care of business at home, and then wear it like a badge of honor about how much you work. I think dudes blatantly wait to leave the field house mid-week until kids are asleep and done eating. Then they leave early enough to avoid breakfast and morning whatever on Saturdays and get back during nap time. Why have kids? Single here + no kids, and I love it and wouldn't have it any other way. So admittedly my view is clouded and biased. But I enjoy the work, I'm not a grind for the sake of grind guy I just want to make sure its organized, well structured, and we are out there accomplishing a purpose with everything we do, not just running around and winging it off the cuff.
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Post by gccwolverine on Oct 15, 2019 11:08:00 GMT -6
I use Hudl practice scripts for everything. 4 hours is not insane between breakdown, Friday review and corrections, game planning, and practice planning for the week. Last week I logged 13 hours on Hudl alone when I looked at the time logs. I'm curious about this. Guys who spend meeting time planning, how much do your practices change from week to week? Structure of practice doesn't change at all. Special, Special, Indy O, Inside/Outside O, Team O, Indy D, Inside/Outside D, Team D Go home. What changes / needs to happen in my opinion is everything within those individual segments is fully planned and choreographed. I want to get as close as we can to every call practiced, against every possible look, with every kid that could possibly be in the game getting work at them. That doesn't just happen that takes some work.
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Post by gccwolverine on Oct 15, 2019 10:56:34 GMT -6
If you're scripting everything on O and D for all your practices and drawing cards for every look on both sides of the ball that's 4 hours of work right there easily. If you're going out and winging it then more power to you but I can't operate like that and don't enjoy / haven't enjoyed being on staffs that attempt too. Use hudl for practice scripts - even allows you to tag film clips to it. 4 hours is insane. I use Hudl practice scripts for everything. 4 hours is not insane between breakdown, Friday review and corrections, game planning, and practice planning for the week. Last week I logged 13 hours on Hudl alone when I looked at the time logs.
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Post by gccwolverine on Oct 15, 2019 7:08:45 GMT -6
Just off the top of my head some specific issues beyond what I've already mentioned that come up for us due to lack of meeting: Because Offensive scout D Cards aren't drawn for inside or team we spend an inordinate amount of time on the practice field saying, "what do you want here," or "give me this, no put him there and when this guy goes in motion he does this." F**k that put it on a card and lets go. Because of the above we don't guarantee that certain plays get run into certain problematic looks throughout the week. Sometimes we get this covered just through the organic process of winging it but alot of the times we don't. We don't and can't ensure that certain kids get to see certain looks. There might be a certain route a team runs and I want to ensure that the 1st set of dbs see it out of 2 different overages and the 2nd set of dbs see it as well I can't ensure that because we don't sit around and script out our practices. I don't get the opportunity to say ok on Monday in outside period we are going to see this 12 plays and I want the DB rotation to be this so that so and so gets to see this play out of this look. Indy in some groups aligns closely with what the kids are going to be asked to see, do, and perform in team, but in alot of groups on alot of days it doesn't and if it does its out of the sheer chance of the wing it method. Do I think staffs need to meet for 12 hours? No, but I think they need to meet, talk and discuss deeply about some items get on the same page and put a comprehensive plan together. I can see both sides of this. At my last school we would draw scout cards for almost every period and have a huge binder every week. It let us take what was on film and put it up for the kids to see so they were in the right places. Of course they still screwed it up all the time but at least it was there. At my current school we do some scout offensive cards for the defensive periods (wishbone/full house T/veer/etc aren't looks we already have in our playbook), but we just tell the defense if we want odd, under, over, or stack box and what coverage. We're lucky in that our D has all of those looks available and gives us a good look. During blitz pickup periods we just want them to throw everything at us. I haven't drawn a single scout card for offense this year and it's worked just as well as it did at my previous school. The other thing that happens as a direct result of not meeting for any sort of meaningful length of time is that invariably every Tuesday or Wednesday someone on staff says, "hey have you noticed when ......." "what if we did this when they......" well F*ck guys its Wednesday and I'm not putting in something new, or making a change to the plan on Wednesday with 1 day left to practice it. In my opinion all that should be done and set over the weekend and we should be looking on Tuesday and Wednesday to take things out not throw things in. But you can't get that to happen if you aren't meeting discussing and really grinding the film as a staff together. And sometimes these are really good suggestions or thoughts that if I would have heard or had to consider on Sunday would be apart of the plan of attack.
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Post by gccwolverine on Oct 15, 2019 6:00:02 GMT -6
Just off the top of my head some specific issues beyond what I've already mentioned that come up for us due to lack of meeting:
Because Offensive scout D Cards aren't drawn for inside or team we spend an inordinate amount of time on the practice field saying, "what do you want here," or "give me this, no put him there and when this guy goes in motion he does this." F**k that put it on a card and lets go.
Because of the above we don't guarantee that certain plays get run into certain problematic looks throughout the week. Sometimes we get this covered just through the organic process of winging it but alot of the times we don't.
We don't and can't ensure that certain kids get to see certain looks. There might be a certain route a team runs and I want to ensure that the 1st set of dbs see it out of 2 different overages and the 2nd set of dbs see it as well I can't ensure that because we don't sit around and script out our practices. I don't get the opportunity to say ok on Monday in outside period we are going to see this 12 plays and I want the DB rotation to be this so that so and so gets to see this play out of this look.
Indy in some groups aligns closely with what the kids are going to be asked to see, do, and perform in team, but in alot of groups on alot of days it doesn't and if it does its out of the sheer chance of the wing it method.
Do I think staffs need to meet for 12 hours? No, but I think they need to meet, talk and discuss deeply about some items get on the same page and put a comprehensive plan together.
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Post by gccwolverine on Oct 14, 2019 22:41:27 GMT -6
People say that all the time about it being the age of technology... I like technology and I use it myself but what I've really found though with this approach of we can do it all without meeting is that things either don't get done in a timely fashion, or get done half assed, or not everyone is on the same page, or there's a lack of understanding about certain things amongst the staff. I've found that things devolve to the least common denominator under this type set up. Currently we do all of our breakdown stuff on our own at home. HC brings everyone (staff) in on Sunday's (kids don't come in on weekends which I love) that staff meeting isn't nearly as long as I'd like it to be if it were my call (but it's not) or as long as I think it needs to be. It's about 2-3 hours. We "review" Fridays game (each position guy talks about his group each coordinator talks about the unit as a whole), we've got some guys that it's painfully clear haven't watched the entire tape or haven't bothered to make detailed notes and corrections. Then we talk about the up coming opponent this is coordinator lead again it becomes apparent that some guys haven't watched the scout film accept to get their breakdown data done. Cards aren't drawn, practices for the week aren't planned in detail, not everything is fleshed out as much as it could be or should be in my opinion but it's not my decision and I roll with the it and do my best with the situation we have. I as the DC draw the cards each morning in my classroom and then get them posted on Hudl for our defensive position coaches. Our offense doesn't draw scout D cards which is mind boggling to me. Indy each day for most of our position coaches (who aren't named DL and LBs) gets hastily put together about 30 minutes before practice sitting around in the coaches office and thats also frustrating. I don't think you can be really effective this way not taking time to sit down and think deeply about how everything works together. I think to do it right there's some degree of time sacrifice that has to occur on the part of the staff as a whole. But that's just me.
For the record I'm a 31 year old 2nd year DC, coordinated on the offensive side for 2 years prior to this. So I'm not some 63 year old old head who want people off his lawn. I think my need and want for order, planning, and meeting comes from the 2 years I spent as a GA DL coach at the collegiate level.
I always say "this isn't reccess and it shouldn't be treated as such" we've got some guys that just seem to want to roll the balls out and let the kids play. I don't think it can or should be done that way. Maybe I'm wrong though.
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Post by gccwolverine on Oct 14, 2019 21:00:33 GMT -6
If a coach is screwing with other school sanctioned events, the coach has earned what is coming to him. We are out at noonish on sat, here for 4 hrs on sundays. Kids are here sat morning for about 90 min. We do not mess with sunday mornings, college football at all. Holidays if we need to but is over in time to do thanksgiving at noon for example. We do not interfere with hc. We hold am practice to get work in though. 4 hours on Sundays are ridiculous. There’s no way you need that much work in a week. If you're scripting everything on O and D for all your practices and drawing cards for every look on both sides of the ball that's 4 hours of work right there easily. If you're going out and winging it then more power to you but I can't operate like that and don't enjoy / haven't enjoyed being on staffs that attempt too.
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Post by gccwolverine on Oct 10, 2019 12:37:24 GMT -6
Does anyone just go helmets? Or just go shells once a week and helmets the rest?
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Post by gccwolverine on Oct 9, 2019 13:15:24 GMT -6
Safe to say that this issue is a touchy one for all. But I ask you this, are you forced to stay where you hate it? "hey your a great WR, best in the county, but you live X and here at X we run single wing son, we throw the ball 3-4 times a game". Is this what is best for the kid? Answer it like a parent, not like a coach.....what would you do as a parent? Would you as a dad, really look your kid in the eye and say "stay at X"....would you really?? I hate transfer policies. Zero reason a state athletic association should have a say in what a parent can do with their child. How is a move for athletic reasons a bad thing if it’s what the family wants? For the record we get zero transfers that are not in the foster system. We also lose zero. So maybe I’d have a different opinion if we did. Because generally lack on continuity in education and constant change in education is a bad thing. Kids that hop school have far less success academically then kids who stay put and aren't living the transient life style. Governments have a vested interest in ensuring the best possible educational outcomes for kids, and hoping from school to school looking for better athletic fits are contrary to what the goal of this whole thing is and should be.
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Post by gccwolverine on May 24, 2019 8:08:42 GMT -6
The fact of the matter is you can safely practice Run Blocking / Run Block Destruction, Reading a Block and Tackling a ball carrier in much safer and effective ways. The only thing an Okie is good for is hype. Find a drill for your athletes to compete and generate the hype. If that's your argument then I don't see how you can feel comfortable asking your kids to go play the game of football on Fridays. Either the game is to dangerous or it isn't.
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Post by gccwolverine on May 23, 2019 12:35:15 GMT -6
Actually the version shown in the video was a nutcracker, but "oklahoma" these days seems to cover all variations of m-on-n players in a miniature scrimmage. The NFL can easily skip these and other contact drills because their players are so experienced and good already that they need only work on small refinements that they can isolate in other ways. For inexperienced players, as at the level I coach, oklahomas or something like them are indispensible for developing football sense, plus a lot of fun. After all, the drill is just a little game of football, and considerably more controlled in terms of space, time, and matchups than an actual football game. If you want to say oklahomas are too dangerous, then you're really saying tackle football is too dangerous, for what goes on in such a drill that doesn't go on in games? Except in games the coaches and officials are farther away, and can't pick out the players they want to send against each other, and the players may be coming from who-knows-what direction and distance. Thank you. If this is too dangerous then asking a full back to kick out a DE on power is tantamount to child abuse same with asking a FB to ISO a mike lber in the hole on 3rd and 2. Asking a Guard to trap a 3 technique who isn't looking is then a felony. I've been saying this for years - no one want injuries and we all want to prevent them as much as possible but at some point in time we either have to come to grips with the fact that football is a dangerous violent point of attack game that can't be made safe and everyone knows what they are signing up for or we have to just shut the game down. The absolute worst thing we can do is have football people continue to chip away at the essence of the game by trying to appease to non football people. You take KR away there is always going to be a next most dangerous play, you take punt away next, there is going to be another one, you say ok you can't throw a post over the middle anymore because that results in potentially dangerous scenarios, then the none football people shout and that power play is now the most dangerous play in football that needs to go too. You can't win and we won't win by whiddling away the dangerous things because guess what..... FOOTBALL the game isn't and can't be made safe. We can teach good and proper technique to be as safe as possible we can practice safer and not have as much contact but on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday it's going to be dangerous if you're asking 1 man to move another against his will from point A to point B.
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Post by gccwolverine on May 23, 2019 12:27:19 GMT -6
I nixed it years ago as a deterrent to avoid injury. The NFL seems to be bent on anything remotely relatable to concussions. Then they better cancel 9on7 drill, physical downs like 3rd and 2, 4th and 1 all those things result violent point of attack collisions where a human being is trying to move a person against his will. Oklahoma fine whatever we use it literally once a year anyways and its modified to a stacked tunnel OL/DL...... OL or RB / LB....... WR/DB but my bigger concern is they also canned pods and half line work. Those things literally simulate the game of football in a controlled environment. If we can't justify practicing things then how exactly can we justify playing the game full speed. If point of attack collisions are bad on Tuesday then they are bad on Sunday as well.
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Post by gccwolverine on May 8, 2019 9:17:24 GMT -6
Check my last statement because we just got an e-mail saying that we can wear jeans the rest of the week. They did that instead of giving us a Christmas bonus also. Christmas bonus??? I've worked in 3 districts for a total of 7 years. I've received 4 Christmas bonuses. $500, $300, $500, and $750 respectively. 1 district did if both years I was there another district did it year 1 and this year year 3. District 1 was in Oklahoma, District I'm currently in is in Georgia. My other time was spent in Ohio. No bonuses there.
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Post by gccwolverine on Mar 28, 2019 11:55:21 GMT -6
I see a couple of problems with banning cell phones from the classroom. For one, with all of the worry about school shootings I can see that there will be a pushback as a safety issue. Secondly, a lot of schools are pushing the use of cell phones or tablets as teaching tools. For example, in our leadership class last year, the text was loaded to the internet and the kids used their phones or school-issued tablets instead of a paper text. As big of a PITA that using the phones for social media in class is, I don't see a ban anytime soon. As a math teacher, I learned a long time ago to provide calculators for the kids and ban cell phones. There's too many apps out there that will not only do the work for the kids but show them every step. I still have kids that use the apps on their homework for hat little credit it's worth and then bomb tests and quizzes when they don't have access to their cell phone. I tell them, time and time again that those apps are useful tools for checking their work but that they'll be screwed if they rely on it to carry them through their homework. This year, I started letting kids listen to music on their tablets but I warned them they wouldn't have access to them come test/quiz day. Sure as chit, half of the kids used internet sites to do their homework for them and then completely bombed their tests and quizzes. It was included in my syllabi and I emailed a few parents when kids scored a 10% on a formal assessment. I was told I was "setting the kids up for failure" by "letting them cheat" on their homework. My administrator backs me up on it so I just smile and nod every time I get a p-ssed off email from a parent about their kid's 100% score on homework but they're failing the class. Atleast you have administrative support. I've heard of places where the administration would put that back on the teacher calling them a bad teacher if kids are getting 100s on HW but bombing assessments.
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Post by gccwolverine on Mar 28, 2019 11:43:04 GMT -6
I see a couple of problems with banning cell phones from the classroom. For one, with all of the worry about school shootings I can see that there will be a pushback as a safety issue. Secondly, a lot of schools are pushing the use of cell phones or tablets as teaching tools. For example, in our leadership class last year, the text was loaded to the internet and the kids used their phones or school-issued tablets instead of a paper text. As big of a PITA that using the phones for social media in class is, I don't see a ban anytime soon. IDC what anyone says, no learning happens in the classroom of an average class on cellphones. In order to be able to do work on learn on a phone you have to have an extreme discipline and focus to not be engaged with any of the other junk on your phone - that of which the average high school student does not have. And there is no way for the instructor to monitor the phones when they are out. Zero learning happens on a phone in an average hs setting. Now if you have an AP class of like 10 kids who are all serious academics they may have the ability and focus to be able to handle doing school work on their phones.
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Post by gccwolverine on Mar 28, 2019 9:16:13 GMT -6
So, I'm wondering if other schools or programs are having the same issues we are with social media. Over the last three years, every single fist fight we've have has been spurred on by social media interaction. One of the fights happened between two basketball players when I was AD so I got to see the social media posts that fueled the fire. Needless to say, I was shocked by what the kids were saying to one another and I was no angel when it came to running my mouth at their age. They keyboard warriors were out in force before that fight finally broke out and the administration and I dragged all of the kids involved and their parents in to discuss is as we was trying to sort everything out. In the end, the two kids that actually duked it out were suspended for a few games but we actually kicked a kid off of the team who didn't throw a single punch. The chit he was spitting out over social media was way out of line and some of it was happening during school hours so the administration gave him a few days ISS and I booted him from the team. We had a multitude of other kids that were punished via detention, ISS, and consequences on the basketball team. But, what really bugged me about the whole situation was the fact that all but one of those kids showed back up to school with their cell phones. I ended up confiscating two phones a few days after all the consequences were laid out as they didn't turn them before my class started.. I had pushed for them to lose all cell-phone privileges in school but the administration wouldn't touch it as it would have "violated policy". In my three years here, I have pushed to change our policy to completely ban cell-phone use during the day. The kids can have them before school, at lunch and after school but that's it. No cell phone allowed in classes, PERIOD. But, I get push back from staff members over this as well.. I think the prob is exactly as you describe. It's philosophical. Some parents, faculty & admin all differ in their views on this. Hence, you can never get a clear constituency. Besides, that it's an addiction so even of they are banned they are still gonna try. Plus, many teachers are just as addicted so your faculty is split on upholding the rule leaving the admin pissing in the wind. I think school and athletics is a GREAT place & opportunity for kids to GET AWAY from electronics and work on communication skills. I think that would be much mentally & emotionally and SOCIALLY healthier for all of us. But unless it's enforced legally (never gonna happen) I think we are left to deal. In fact, I believe before I retire (8-9 years) online schooling from home will be well on it's way, thus eliminating even more personal social contact. JMO. Never going to happen, I just don't see it. Parents who work - want / need "baby sitters" for their kids. Most parents who don't work want the kids out of the their hair and house for most of the day.
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Post by gccwolverine on Mar 27, 2019 5:46:01 GMT -6
I've said this before, but there is pretty much nothing I hate more than any phrase involving "taxpayer" and some sort of complaint. News flash to Johnny tax payer. We all pay taxes and his tax dollars don't entitle him to anymore of an opinion on a matter than anyone else. Also, the tax payer - is generally unqualified and under educated on whatever matter they are bitching about. Yes, we all do. But I don't think many are that under educated or unqualified when it comes to looking at a property tax bill (National Average is 1.2% of Assessed value of home) and finding out that a large portion of that bill is going to a school system that finds kids playing sports going to class a little more than 4 hours out of a 7 hour day. That is a far cry from Johnny tax payer telling the cop who pulled him over "I pay your salary" I'll do you one better. If you play sports, and are in band here you take only 2 academics a semester. You're in class for only 3 hours a day. Yet those kids (sports + band) are consistently our best academic kids, our highest test scores, our college track kids.
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Post by gccwolverine on Mar 26, 2019 9:42:37 GMT -6
School starts at 8:15. They have football 4th block year round all four years. They get a PE credit for it. Wow. So the kids are in actual academic settings from 8:15- 1:06 (minus lunch, minus time between classes) 5 days a week for 4 years? I guess since it does eliminate a bit of the transition time waste because of fewer classes, but taxpayers haven't complained that kids are basically going half day? I've said this before, but there is pretty much nothing I hate more than any phrase involving "taxpayer" and some sort of complaint. News flash to Johnny tax payer. We all pay taxes and his tax dollars don't entitle him to anymore of an opinion on a matter than anyone else. Also, the tax payer - is generally unqualified and under educated on whatever matter they are bitching about.
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Post by gccwolverine on Mar 22, 2019 11:02:33 GMT -6
We have the same set up except we don’t get them for enrichment. We have them for 1:30 everyday before school let’s out. They do the block for all 4 years and our school day is 8-3:15. All athletes(girls and boys)have athletic period. So 25% of your athletes school day is athletics? All year, for 4 years? Same set up here. 4 - 1 hour 30 minute blocks. Football guys are in a weight training during 1 of those blocks every once in a while we'll lose a kid from it who is in academic trouble because he failed a class or 2 and has to get caught back up. During the season HC has almost 90% of the team in 1st block. 2nd Semester they are scattered. It counts as their PE credit.
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Post by gccwolverine on Mar 20, 2019 7:55:01 GMT -6
It’s mainly in the south. I know. I was wondering if anybody outside of the south have them. I also saw a lot of southern coaches who were surprised that not everybody has athletic periods. I'm in Virginia- not far enough south to have an athletic period but far enough that we're a right-to-work state. The worst of both worlds. If you're going to tell me I can't have a union that has any teeth, at-least give me athletic periods, and the ability to freely bargain for other amenities like extra planning, extra months, extended day pay, or higher stipends.
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Post by gccwolverine on Mar 7, 2019 9:22:06 GMT -6
Districts should tie them together. This teaching position is tied to these coaching positions so on and so forth. I am aware this can't be done with all spots but this would at least alleviate the issues. And I'm aware that some districts have absolutely zero interest in doing so. That's probably why they are places people want to work too. How would one be evaluated with regards to job security? Who has the power to hire/fire? Does Jefferson High lose its best chemistry teacher because the HC ran up the score on an opponent, and an assistant coach/chem teacher called him out on it, resulting in being fired? Is a coach whose wife just had twins forced to choose between losing his teaching job because he wants to take a season off, or not helping out at home in a manner that he and his family decides is best for them? Just too many issues in my opinion to make that a broadbased policy. So a guy should be able to be hired to teach PE and also coach and then 4 years down the road quit coaching or be removed from coaching but not leave the school hamstringing the school by not freeing up a spot for them to go out and hire a teacher to get in the building who coaches? If this happens 5-6-7 times in a small school the school all of a sudden has zero on campus spots available. Hurting the kids more than anything. When Dave the accountants wife has twins no one is at the office talking about how Dave should do less during tax season because you know life happened. Do your job and balance life. Dave the accountant shouldn't be able to do less and keep the job he was hired to do. If he wants to do less he should apply for a a position which will result in him doing less.
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Post by gccwolverine on Mar 6, 2019 12:23:41 GMT -6
Districts should tie them together. This teaching position is tied to these coaching positions so on and so forth. I am aware this can't be done with all spots but this would at least alleviate the issues. And I'm aware that some districts have absolutely zero interest in doing so. That's probably why they are places people want to work too.
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Post by gccwolverine on Feb 13, 2019 9:15:46 GMT -6
I get it to a certain degree, but actually both sides are playing the same game. Schools making more offers than they can actually give; players taking offers they have no intention of following through with. The underhanded recruiting scheme I hate is not for the 3/4/5 stars, but the other kids that are so desperate to play at the next level and they recieve 'offers' to play and the scholly is only $500-$1000. The kids walks in the first day excited and they go through registration and the burser says, "Okay here is your $1000 football scholly. Do you have a check for the other $24,000 (or more...)? No? Then go into that room right there and get on the computer and apply for a student loan." That doesn't happen. No one goes somewhere without knowing the full price tag. Now the general public might here scholly to podunk U and assume the kids on a free ride but the kid the coach and his parents have at some point in the process seen a full offer sheet showing exactly what they are responsible for out of pocket including loans.
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Post by gccwolverine on Feb 13, 2019 9:12:10 GMT -6
Some of the tactics mentioned in the article have led me to believe the system "should" switch to one with instantly binding acceptable offers managed by a clearinghouse. For example : Florida State really likes Joe Kane. They want to "offer him" a scholarship for the class of say 2022..they create an entry in the data base, To accept the offer, Joe Kane must do so through the data base. As soon as he does, boom.. binding. Should Joe Kane crap out and not be a great player, to bad. And FSU should only be allowed to extend say 300% of the available spots that they have in offers. So if you have 25 scholarship spots available in the 2020 recruiting class you can only have out 75 offers in the portal or database at any given time. If Joe Kane doesn't accept said offer then you can pull it and extend it to someone else if you wish or you can sit and wait but you only get to extend 75 and actually sign 25.
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Post by gccwolverine on Jan 28, 2019 13:42:36 GMT -6
Am I the only person who has really soured on the experience of coaching Twitter? It could be and should be such an amazing tool for growth, discussion, sharing-finding-implementing new ideas, drills or scheme, and empowering each other as coaches. However, to me it has turned into: 1. an ego fest nightmare of guru snake oil salesman coaches looking to push their most recent “book” “system” or “newest innovative idea” 2. a place where people flock to look for as many likes and retweets as possible 3. an increasing and alarming trend of group think where individuals push the idea that there is only 1 way to do things anymore and only 1 way the game should be played (the most tilting and newest aspect is the increasing number of individuals who appear to think there’s only 1 way offensive football should be played because that’s the "safest" way football can be played – as if you can’t do other things outside of this group think and still stress player safety or care about player safety). It’s gotten so that individuals that I once really loved and enjoyed to follow because I felt like they brought a wealth of new information I just don’t enjoy following anymore for a variety of reasons. And I'm reluctant to engage in any sort of conversation or discussion because if you don't follow the group think then you're some terrible coach out to harm his players. Just the other day I saw an OL coach share an unpadded offseason drill that I thought was actually a pretty decent drill that made me think hmm that could be useful for us – first comment I saw was another coach flaming him for the things that were wrong with the drill because the athletes head was slightly forward (as a result that coach clearly doesn't care about athlete safety) and the athlete wasn’t driving off the midfoot. And as predicted the group thinkers joined the party quickly. How can any individual grow in that instance? Or why would they feel comfortable in sharing ideas and having discussions about what they do if they are just going to get flamed instantaneously? We’ve all seen the guys post vidoes of their athletes doing cringe worthy things in the weight room. I’ve only ever seen comments and retweets criticizing the coach and athlete I’ve rarely see comments of “coach if you stress this or change this or give the athlete this que you might see an improvement here in this regard.” It must just be so that it’s easier to criticize and tear down as opposed to share in an effort to improve. My biggest pet peeves are the group think of new age avant-garde OL guys who act as though all of a sudden they have developed the only safe way to play offensive football. That their offensive lineman or athletes never ever experience any incidental helmet contact because they have developed the superior technique and no other drills, ways, ideas are meaningful, useful, or worthy of being considered. That their athletes are capable of perfectly executing this new era “safe technique” on every snap of a game therefore eliminating risk for their athletes and as a result making them the most superior of superior coaches to ever grace the game of football with their being and as a result we should all be so thankful that they are willing to engage with the rest of us minions. IDK it just seems that coaching twitter has run its course for me and resulted in me engaging less and less these days as a result for all of the above reasons. And no I'm not a grumpy old man get off my lawn type. I'm 29 years old. Coach, I'm taking a guess that your are referring to the OLP Posse...LOL. I really like Bentley's stuff and actually pay $10 a month for his site (although I'm in the process of deciding if it's worth it) but he has a few acolytes on twitter that can be a bit much to take in. I bet I know exactly what OL drill you're referring to. The funny thing is, I agree with probably 99% of what these guys preach...the thing that seems to be different about twitter is the mutual respect and camaraderie of a clinic. I'm all for debating safety and best practice, but I think it can be done in a respectful manner. I don't know, maybe I'm too old to understand the tone of twitter. Yes but its not just them its also those other issues I brought up. But in regards to them a few things I that grind my gears the most and again I like alot of his stuff and used to really enjoy following him. 1. the virtue signaling that they are the only people in the world concerned about the safety of their athletes 2. this idea that the only way to be safe is to do it their way 100% of the time 100% correctly 3. it seems like 75% of his time is spent in the pass blocking game - and that's just not who we are 4. not nearly enough talk of down hill gap run schemes and technique for my cup of tea 5. also the constant flaming of anything outside or contrary to their ilk or ways. 6. the HS guys who act like because they follow LB or do things his way that they are superior to everyone else and gods gift to the game and or LB himself...... you're not you're just a guy who follows LB. 7. and maybe this is just the contrarian in me. But I hate - I mean I really really loath group think.
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Post by gccwolverine on Jan 28, 2019 12:31:25 GMT -6
Am I the only person who has really soured on the experience of coaching Twitter? It could be and should be such an amazing tool for growth, discussion, sharing-finding-implementing new ideas, drills or scheme, and empowering each other as coaches.
However, to me it has turned into:
1. an ego fest nightmare of guru snake oil salesman coaches looking to push their most recent “book” “system” or “newest innovative idea”
2. a place where people flock to look for as many likes and retweets as possible
3. an increasing and alarming trend of group think where individuals push the idea that there is only 1 way to do things anymore and only 1 way the game should be played (the most tilting and newest aspect is the increasing number of individuals who appear to think there’s only 1 way offensive football should be played because that’s the "safest" way football can be played – as if you can’t do other things outside of this group think and still stress player safety or care about player safety).
It’s gotten so that individuals that I once really loved and enjoyed to follow because I felt like they brought a wealth of new information I just don’t enjoy following anymore for a variety of reasons. And I'm reluctant to engage in any sort of conversation or discussion because if you don't follow the group think then you're some terrible coach out to harm his players.
Just the other day I saw an OL coach share an unpadded offseason drill that I thought was actually a pretty decent drill that made me think hmm that could be useful for us – first comment I saw was another coach flaming him for the things that were wrong with the drill because the athletes head was slightly forward (as a result that coach clearly doesn't care about athlete safety) and the athlete wasn’t driving off the midfoot. And as predicted the group thinkers joined the party quickly. How can any individual grow in that instance? Or why would they feel comfortable in sharing ideas and having discussions about what they do if they are just going to get flamed instantaneously?
We’ve all seen the guys post vidoes of their athletes doing cringe worthy things in the weight room. I’ve only ever seen comments and retweets criticizing the coach and athlete I’ve rarely see comments of “coach if you stress this or change this or give the athlete this que you might see an improvement here in this regard.” It must just be so that it’s easier to criticize and tear down as opposed to share in an effort to improve.
My biggest pet peeves are the group think of new age avant-garde OL guys who act as though all of a sudden they have developed the only safe way to play offensive football. That their offensive lineman or athletes never ever experience any incidental helmet contact because they have developed the superior technique and no other drills, ways, ideas are meaningful, useful, or worthy of being considered.
That their athletes are capable of perfectly executing this new era “safe technique” on every snap of a game therefore eliminating risk for their athletes and as a result making them the most superior of superior coaches to ever grace the game of football with their being and as a result we should all be so thankful that they are willing to engage with the rest of us minions.
IDK it just seems that coaching twitter has run its course for me and resulted in me engaging less and less these days as a result for all of the above reasons. And no I'm not a grumpy old man get off my lawn type. I'm 29 years old.
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Post by gccwolverine on Jan 28, 2019 8:57:05 GMT -6
maybe its just me maybe I just haven't been around a bunch of really dedicated assistant caoches (not HCs or most coordinators), but when someone tells adults to do something on their own over the weekend I've found that like 90% of people either don't do it or do it very sparingly and then try to pass it off as they really did it and dug deep into it.
That being said I'm all on board the no kids till Monday philosophy. I just think the adults should be coming in to work.
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Post by gccwolverine on Jan 14, 2019 13:16:06 GMT -6
Just had a meeting with our AD. Another team is joining our conference to make us an 11 team conference. We can only play 9 games before the playoffs, so the conference is trying to come up with solutions to this problem. Does anybody have any experience dealing with something like this? One solution is that 2 teams wouldn't play each other that year, but what do you do to determine who skips who? Do you create subdivisions? Our conference gets 4 teams into the playoffs, and from a geographic standpoint, the 4 best teams are traditionally from the same geographical area (our conference from a bus standpoint is huge--7 hour bus ride 1 way for our furthest game). Would love to hear some ideas/thoughts. Thanks! Sub divide into 2 divisions 6 and 5 one side plays 5 divisional games + 3 cross overs vs the other side the other side plays 4 divisional games + 4 cross overs vs the other side that covers weeks 1-8. Week 9: 1v2 for the conference title 3v4 5v6 7v8 9v10 11 get the basketballs out probably should have had them out 5 weeks earlier since you know...... THEY ARE IN 11TH.
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