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Post by gccwolverine on Aug 10, 2017 9:27:04 GMT -6
IDK..... maybe use some research skills and google.... "boston.cbslocal.com/2017/08/08/concussion-expert-football-child-abuse-cte-nfl" I bet you get there. What are you talking about? Clearly my CTE acted up this morning.............
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Post by gccwolverine on Aug 10, 2017 5:41:14 GMT -6
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Post by gccwolverine on Aug 9, 2017 7:23:21 GMT -6
Good piece by the huff post but then this....... boston.cbslocal.com/2017/08/08/concussion-expert-football-child-abuse-cte-nfl/#.WYsIxzRH_q8.twitter we are losing the battle
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Post by gccwolverine on Aug 9, 2017 7:18:01 GMT -6
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Post by gccwolverine on Aug 4, 2017 13:31:35 GMT -6
To play devil's advocate, shouldn't the AD of the school the coach worked for be following and monitoring the message and image? Or another Admin if not the AD (I know in some places AD positions are more paper work and clerical in nature and not particularly management). Absolutely. But hes not harming kids by posting updates to often on social media move on with life.
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Post by gccwolverine on Aug 4, 2017 12:42:17 GMT -6
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Post by gccwolverine on Aug 4, 2017 12:21:57 GMT -6
Didn't know this was possible..... I though ever ex football player died a miserable death a 52 years old or sooner either drooling on themselves or worse blowing their heads off with a double barrel shotgun because....... football. Must be fake news. While I understand you are trying to be humorous here, not every smoker gets lung cancer. Are you encouraging your sons and daughters to light up? Point being, the "nothing to see here, you people are ridiculous" lines didn't work for the tobacco industry, why are football coaches trying it? No but I will put them behind the wheel of a car the minute they turn 15 and a half where god only knows there is a chance any number of absolutely awful things could potentially happen to them. Did I say there was nothing to see here? Where did I say that? I cannot find that phrase or those words anywhere. Maybe you have some reading skills that I don't know about but I can't find it anywhere. Lets try this instead of you reading inference into my words that I didn't put there. CTE is real. Football is dangerous. Life is too. Head injuries are going to happen but they can be reduced through best practices such as reducing contact throughout the week, teaching proper fundamentals, using good medical judgement for recovery when an injury does occur, penalizing head to head contact, and enforcing the rules on the books. What isn't real is this perpetuated idea that 99% of ex-football players are walking around drooling on themselves from beating their brains silly over the years. There are literally hundreds of thousands of ex players walking around today as fully functioning human beings many of whom are actually better off for having played the game. What's too be done beyond the things which I listed? We keep beating a dead horse and eventually the dead horse is going to result in a fundamental change to the game or more, and some of us seem not only willing to let that occur, but actually seem to be encouraging the hysteria or at the very least just passively not getting the way of it. And the end game result of all this is going to be something like taking the kickoff out of the game because, and I've even heard football coaches say this of all things, "It's the most dangerous play in football." Well yea it is. But guess what the minute you take kickoff out of the game, punt becomes the most dangerous play in football, then a post over the middle into a single high safety becomes the most dangerous play in football, then ISO becomes the most dangerous play in football. Then block down kick out power or trap becomes the most dangerous play in football. FOOTBALL IS DANGEROUS. We can mitigate it to the best of our ability through smart intentional coaching but that's it. Accept the risks know the rewards and lets {censored} move on with our lives and stop seemingly fighting the media and attackers battles for them.
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Post by gccwolverine on Aug 4, 2017 9:53:56 GMT -6
Didn't know this was possible..... I though ever ex football player died a miserable death a 52 years old or sooner either drooling on themselves or worse blowing their heads off with a double barrel shotgun because....... football.
Must be fake news.
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Post by gccwolverine on Aug 2, 2017 19:37:02 GMT -6
I'm as liberal as they come..... I coach my kids {censored} hard and expect physicality, toughness both physically mentally, and great {censored} effort. I hold my kids to the highest standard possible in terms of expectations.
Just shut up.
Just curious... Do your players stand up during the National Anthem? I really don't see how this applies to anything what so ever but they do..... but if they didn't want to that'd be their {censored} right and I'd support it just like I'd support the one's who choose to stand. I was at the college level 2 years ago for 2 season and last year a year after I left I had 2 former players that I coached on the DL who chose not to stand the local media made a big deal of it I saw it and I reached out to both of them just letting them know they were still loved and supported by me and I understood where they were comming from.
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Post by gccwolverine on Aug 2, 2017 0:04:23 GMT -6
I'm 31. I was raised in football. I watched my older brothers play and I recall my playing days greatly. Simply put, our current culture is pussifying kids. I also coach basketball. I see it across the board. Too many parents don't want Johnny to be mentally or physically strained, and little Johnny certainly doesn't want to be pushed. This is not all kids, but it is the 30% to 20% that aren't coming out for football and thus resulting in your lowered numbers. We're down from 36 to 26 at a small school. It hurts. My best kids are the ones from tough home lives. You can coach the hell out of them, they do not feel entitled to anything, and they are hungry to earn your respect and have a relationship with a male adult. I love those guys. I too am worried about the games future. Our culture used to embrace toughness, rigor and the type of "toil" Theodore Roosevelt spoke of. Now kids are much more individualistic, they all act like superstars on social media, they want the attention and fame but too many of them want it easy. Oh well, the world will keep spinning and we'll keep trying to figure out how to have success in a culture that is increasingly turning against the principles that make up the game we love. Great post! I know that you libs will recoil at this, but Rush Limbaugh spoke at length on the woosification of America and the destruction of football on his show on Thursday, July 27. He is right - in so many ways! The libs are emasculating our youth. I dare you to listen to yesterday's broadcast! You won't disagree even if you live in California! I'm as liberal as they come..... I coach my kids {censored} hard and expect physicality, toughness both physically mentally, and great {censored} effort. I hold my kids to the highest standard possible in terms of expectations.
Just shut up.
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Post by gccwolverine on Aug 1, 2017 23:43:36 GMT -6
As a former player and a current coach here are my 2 cents, then I'll leave it alone... I bet firefighters burn to death way higher than the normal average I bet cops die from gunshot more than the normal average I bet chefs die from heart issues more than the normal average I bet truckers die from car accidents more than the normal average I bet fisherman die from drowning more than the normal average Everything in the world has risk... does the positives you experience from being in a team sport, along with all the positive things you learn about yourself, your coaches/players/family, and life outweigh the possibility of the negative? We are all going to die of something, unless someone learns how to undo the 3 laws of thermodynamics... it is all going to be self caused... too much CO2 from driving too much, starving to death if we don't drive our food from where it is grown to where it is needed. Cities near the coast could flood and kill a lot of people... should we all move to Nebraska? Oh wait... tornados suck ass too! My daughter is 7 and is begging to play football next year... she will My son is 4 and wants to play football... he will in 4 years Name me something that doesn't have negative impact on somebody, somewhere... I live in Utah and coffee is a huge deal... I made some kids do a research project and see what killed more people last year. Drinking coffee or drinking water. Looked it up. Only 3 people died last year from ANY caffeine related issue. All 3 inhaled 100% pure caffeine powder. None died from drinking it. More than 100,000 died from DRINKING WATER... We should ban water. It can kill you. Keep fighting the good fight. Educate the kids and parents and let them make the decision. If I end up dying 10 or 20 years earlier than I may have because of the damage I took from playing football, basketball, and baseball for a very large portion of my life up til now... so be it. All of the friends, values, lessons, ups, downs, emotions, pain, joy, and everything else that makes life worth living far outweigh the negative thing that COULD happen because of it. Cars kill more people a year than football ever will. We are not going to make driving illegal. Planes crash, boats sink, people will die. We still live in a universe where we think we are the only thing immune from the "eat or be eaten" existence of life. At the end of the day, we are just here for a short time, and the universe will chew us up and spit us back out. Use the grey matter between the ears, make the best decisions you can, and accept the consequences. If you want your kid to be a sit-at-home computer nerd to keep him safe, have fun paying for the, glasses, carpel tunnel, diabetes, and counseling when he has no real friends and pisses himself if he sees a girl in real-life. RE {censored} TWEET! best post ever!!! I'd like to by you a beer sometime...... oops wait that'll kill us. Maybe coffee then?
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Post by gccwolverine on Jul 26, 2017 21:45:19 GMT -6
This stupid ass study and the people that take it as gospel should be thrown off a tall building. My wife has an aunt that is worth a couple hundred million. A few years ago she funded an education trust for my two sons and one daughter that will pay for them to attend private university, all expenses paid. Last night she emailed this article (or one similar) to my wife and said she "couldn't, in good conscience, allow them to receive those funds if they play football because it would be a waste since they will suffer irreparable brain damage." My daughter said she's glad she doesn't play football, my younger son is relieved because deep down he'd rather be playing baseball and my oldest son (who is a senior this year) was unfazed, saying, "I guess I'll just have to get a football scholarship." I really hate stupid people. Thanksgiving dinner must be a {censored} blast. Jesus Christ.
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Post by gccwolverine on Jul 25, 2017 20:31:07 GMT -6
And where is the data on CTE in the general population, which would give us some sort of perspective on the risk for football players relative to everybody else? 100/
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Post by gccwolverine on Jul 25, 2017 12:21:57 GMT -6
Study proves that people who exhibit symptoms of a disease, actually have the disease. The study even says it was a highly biased sample group, players who already had symptoms of CTE whose brains were donated by the families. {censored} thank you. A self selecting study where we study the brains of people who are expericing neurodegenerative symptoms tells us nothing. Look everyone dies no one fets out alive might as well live life while we are here.
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Post by gccwolverine on Jul 1, 2017 22:09:28 GMT -6
"Don't over coach it"...... usually most often stated by someone who is in no danger of ever over coaching anything..... F*ck that 100% over coach it
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Post by gccwolverine on Jun 19, 2017 16:08:44 GMT -6
Big school = They play freshman level Small school = They play JV I could very well be mistaken, but I took his question as "those of you who have 1 team for grades 9-12. Varsity team only. Maybe 20 players total in the program etc. 20 players in total........ Find a new job
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Post by gccwolverine on Jun 10, 2017 0:10:40 GMT -6
Guys who are EXTREMELY willing to learn are 99% pre-made - it's all about their character. You can mentor your coaches all you want but if they're not willing to put in the work to develop themselves and do the bitch-work that no-one else is willing to do early in their career you can't really do much about it. This was my fear. How do you find coaches like this? Game of chance? Hire guys who have ambition and drive. I'm not a HC but the day I get the opportunity to become one you can be rest assured I am going to hire guys who want to be coordinators and who want to one day be head coaches. They have an internal drive to grow and learn as much as they can.
Hire guys who have ambition and drive. I'm not a HC but the day I get the opportunity to become one you can be rest assured I am going to hire guys who want to be coordinators and who want to one day be head coaches. They have an internal drive to grow and learn as much as they can.
We have a staff of 8 guys. of those 8 we have 3 that are pretty good coaches in terms of scheme, technique, practice organization, game planning, tape breakdown, finding solutions to in game problems, drill development, making sure said drills apply to the scheme and technique and show up on game film etc. etc. etc. The HC / offensive play caller, a defensive assistant (who is new so we actually only had 2 last year), and myself the OL/OC (and I was new last year so in 2015 our HC only had himself). We have a young guy who isn't there yet but will at least take the time to ask questions and will pick up football stuff / think about football outside of just practice and game time. Then we have 4 other guys who are just guys (nice guys) but just guys, their drills don't apply to the schemes, there is little to no technique being taught, film watching is none existent etc. you get the great gems such as, (block some one, catch the ball, tackle him...) no understanding of schematics or in game adjustments. 1 is even our DC. For example, We played 2 high 6 man boxes to 20 personnel and 21 personnel teams all of last year (because that's just what we do and it's easy without having to make changes or adjustments) and we got gutted from day one on. From day one on I subtly attempted to suggest that this cannot continue we have to have the ability to get another man down vs these types of offenses. No change nothing because of a lack of understanding or willingness to study or learn outside of just 1 thing. They are simply content to just be there, collect the extra stipend and go they think football coaching is only from the time practice begins to the time it ends and they put little to no thought to it throughout the rest of their day / life. The reason being is they don't really have a desire to climb hire or go anywhere else or do anything else. Hire guys who do.
Read more: coachhuey.com/thread/77523/developing-coaches?page=1&scrollTo=830914#ixzz4jZtHkSoG
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Post by gccwolverine on Jun 5, 2017 16:36:33 GMT -6
Baseball is the worst because there are no physical prototypes. That doesn't mean that we're not going to get a daddy who thinks that the 180 lb. lineman or the pudgy, 5.2 TB would be headed to Ohio State if we'd just let him show what he can do. Also the lack of free substitution in baseball makes it more pronounced..... There's the bench sit and wait son and work while you sit an wait.
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Post by gccwolverine on Jun 2, 2017 20:41:34 GMT -6
Coach: Kids you need to .......... Wife: Don't use your coaching voice in the house. Coach: What? Wife : You're yelling at the kids. Coach : I'm not yelling. Wife: Yes you are. Coach: I'm just projecting my voice through my diaphragm. Wife: Whatever, turn your coaching voice off when you get home. maybe the kids should listen the first time?
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Post by gccwolverine on Jun 1, 2017 17:02:31 GMT -6
August 7th in Iowa, which I think means Thursday 8/24 or Friday 8/25 is when most teams will play their first game. Teams are allowed to scrimmage the weekend before that.ay The Kentucky date is the one that always blows me away in terms of how early it is. football has to end before basketball gets going..... GET IT OUT OF THE WAY AND OVER WITH in Kentucky
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Post by gccwolverine on Jun 1, 2017 17:01:22 GMT -6
We've started between July 31and August 2 every year since at least 2004 and every year guys say we seem to start earlier and earlier. 😂. My senior year which was twenty years ago had our first game September 7th. Scrimmage would have been September 1st. Now our first game is August 18. That's zero week in Georgia. So the real week one is only a week earlier than it was 20 years ago. Ah... why let facts get in the way of feelings and non factual anecdotes.... If it feels like the season starts sooner and sooner then it must be true.
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Post by gccwolverine on May 21, 2017 18:56:46 GMT -6
Trust me... we can't 10-20 is definitely an overstatement but I can think of at least 5. 10-20 is a giant leap compared to 5. I had it happen once at a really poor rural school and even then it was 2 guys. 1 didn't play and was a jacka$$ the other started and let the jacka$$ influence his decision. Anyway, it happened that one time and never again. I can see it both ways and if you have the means to keep kids after then that's great but we couldn't feed them there so we had to let them go. Very poor rural school is us. We have to keep them. 1 don't know if they'll get back or when or in what condition. 2 no guarantee they will have eaten anything prior to 7pm if we don't keep them and feed them. Welcome to South rural Georgia.
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Post by gccwolverine on May 21, 2017 17:25:37 GMT -6
I've coached at some pretty tough places but I've never been at a school where we couldn't trust our guys to go for an hour or so after school without getting high. Trust me... we can't 10-20 is definitely an overstatement but I can think of at least 5.
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Post by gccwolverine on May 21, 2017 17:00:54 GMT -6
We play at 7:30, a lot of seniors are out of school by 12:30 or 1:00, so we let them go home and do whatever they do when they are out of school. Have roll call at 5:45 or whatever for guys that are getting taped, etc. but they do whatever they do in the time between school ending and roll call.
We'd have 10-20 come back high on that funny grass if we did that
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Post by gccwolverine on May 20, 2017 18:46:39 GMT -6
I can't begin to express how much the phrase, "quality time" drives me crazy. All time is equal regardless of how we choose to spend it. He's talking about sex I know what he's talking about. I'm talking about hating the phrase "quality time"
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Post by gccwolverine on May 20, 2017 17:21:34 GMT -6
Lord no. That's a great nap time. Ummm... I go home then and spend quality marriage time. I can't begin to express how much the phrase, "quality time" drives me crazy. All time is equal regardless of how we choose to spend it.
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Post by gccwolverine on May 19, 2017 7:17:00 GMT -6
As to kids asking questions, I've noticed that "kids these days" just don't watch as much football and have a much more limited understanding of the fundamentals than they did many years ago. Typically, our kids don't ask questions because they don't want to look like a dunce in front of the other players. When I explain a drill or concept and ask if there are questions I usually just get a bunch of kids shaking their head "no". It's to the point now that I pick out a couple kids and ask, "Okay, why are we doing this?" or "Why do we do it this way?" It has helped tremendously. I think a fundamental difference in kids today vs kids I coached even 5-10 years ago is the kids I deal with more now have zero interest in figuring anything out. You used to be able to tell a kid to do something and they would eventually figure it out if you didn't have time to full on explain it at the time. Today it seems like more and more they want you to hand them the answer (if they listen at all) rather than thinking about it and finding it out. Which drives me insane because I've always been a guy that tries to figure EVERYTHING out by myself. Well when we teach them to the test from K-12 can you really be surprised when they've been ingrained to expect to be spoon fed the answers to life?
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Post by gccwolverine on May 18, 2017 14:37:01 GMT -6
new thing for me: ID badges...for some reason the geniuses decided that kids all have to wear one at all times. So at least twice a week as I'm walking through the hall thinking about something that matters like lunch or my chances later with the wife, I get some hen telling me "coach that young man just walked right past you without his ID on!" so I say "oh sorry I was preoccupied"...or even worse I run over to make a copy and some hen stops me for not having MY ID on..."we have to model good behavior for the kids!!" gimmie a break...whoever's idea this was should be fired....we've created a stupid rule that's really hard to enforce and has no tangible benefit when those kids got caught breaking crap in one of the classrooms, a teacher sees them and they run off...but guess what..they took their ID's off those crafty criminals...so no benefit there, and I'm not real sure that the potential school shooter is going to head into the building ready to blast away but then turn around and go home because he got stopped for not having an ID badge on. "dude did you plant the C-4" "naw man that old lady stopped me because I didn't have my badge on...operation 666 murder is aborted" "curse that ironclad security system!"
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Post by gccwolverine on May 12, 2017 19:52:29 GMT -6
Haha that's funny. I had a kid a few years ago during spring running his mouth in class about how he was going to come out and be a lockdown corner. Literally talked about it from bell to bell about how he was better than the other corners, our receivers sucked and the offensive coaches were "trash". Needless to say he came out for a day and was about the most worthless 150 lbs of flesh in the county in 1s vs 1s with receivers. That segment was filmed and I showed clips of him getting posterized almost every rep to the class with him in it the next day. One of those things you don't want to go to drastic measures to teach someone to watch what they say, but sometimes you have no choice. LOL Both of these stories are dumb. Why even get mad at this stuff?? Kids are ignorant but they know when another kid is full of sh!t. More than likely the whole school already knew that both of those kids were morons false .... almost all kids know nothing or close to nothing... because they are kids... as example I enter into evidence exhibit 1, "Coach gccwolverine, what happens in college when you get in trouble? Do they send you to ISS"
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Post by gccwolverine on May 12, 2017 10:29:42 GMT -6
The local newspaper has a video everyday on their website everyday that summarizes current national and local events. It's about 5-10 minutes long and seldom has bias so I think it's extremely applicable to show to my American Government classes. I showed it to my class yesterday and for about the 30th consecutive day, a specific student made a smart ass comment about how the news is stupid and whined that the class shouldn't have to watch it. Ordinarily I roll my eyes at him or flat out ignore him, it is my belief he is attention deprived and I don't want to dignify his actions in front of an audience. However, I have recently been stressed out and am irritable. So when he made his stupid comments, I paused the video and told him in front of the class "if watching 10 minutes of the news is the worst part of your life, you have the best life of anyone I know", and proceeded to give him a bunch of return envelopes out of my desk from bills I owe, and gave him a quick lecture of how much baby formula, diapers, mortgages and gasoline cost, and to please swap places with me because I wish on my lucky stars watching the news for 10 minutes was the most stressful part of my life. I normally don't fly off the handle like that and can count on one hand how many moments like that I've had in the classroom, but somebody needed to tell this kid how it is. towards the end of a freshman government / geography class yesterday a freshman DL for us was talking about how good he is and is going to be "maaaaan ima be like aubrey solomon (the #1 DT in the country). This kid mind you can't do a full squat with 230 on the bar, can't bend, cant run, can't do anything. And I lost it.... "HEY what in the world makes you think you can sit there and make some asinine delusional comment about how you are in anyway similar to Aubrey Solomon? Are you out of your mind?? Then I proceeded to pull up Solomons highlight tape show him visual evidence of how they are nothing alike, nothing at all. It was probably over the line but I got my point across and the kids thought it was entertaining.
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