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Post by CS on Dec 1, 2019 6:12:06 GMT -6
Thanks awesome! Congrats
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Post by CS on Nov 25, 2019 19:32:11 GMT -6
I didn’t do anything football the day after. Sunday I started again
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Post by CS on Nov 23, 2019 17:37:06 GMT -6
I’m bitter and stirring the pot, you can dig thru my posts on this site that I know and love but after 11 years I’m not the same guy I was then. I find myself posting and reading this section more and more because when you become the head man it’s more about the stuff in this Section than X’s and O’s but I’m floored as to why “coaches” are above teaching a guy to take a snap under center and run something quick hitting to gain yards. Because it’s not sexy
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Post by CS on Nov 21, 2019 17:16:42 GMT -6
I'd imagine the struggling districts are struggling to find good educators, so having a stringent process makes sense from that point of view. Logically? I think it's insane. I've filled out a lot of applications looking for coaching jobs because a lot of districts down in Florida make you fill them out even if it's only a supplemented position. It's definitely made me much more deliberate in where I want to apply. In my opinion this logic is flawed. Generally speaking the ones who are willing to jump through all of the hoops are people who are desperate for a job or at best desperate for a new job because they hate the one they have. Plus these districts don’t generally pay an overwhelming amount of money so that’s not a draw. There is really no logical reason to have a more rigorous application process
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Post by CS on Nov 21, 2019 7:40:56 GMT -6
I'm curious if anyone else finds that the worst school districts as far as academic achievement are always the ones that have the most ridiculous applications to fill out? By ridiculous I mean they basically want all your report cards k-12 and a colonoscopy to turn in.
I'm wondering if its a state thing so they look like they are bringing in the highest quality teacher or what?
I'm not saying they should take anyone but people aren't clamoring to go and work in these places.
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Post by CS on Nov 20, 2019 9:58:14 GMT -6
We always face at least one team who runs, as I call it, "Sling Dat B!!CH" They have a few good athletes. QB is a freak who runs around til he sees someone deep, then he slings dat b!!ch. They're usually good for 1 long QB run and a few deep balls a game. Keep everything in front of you and they wont score more than 6 (they never have a kicker) We also see the massive, slow white team running triple option who feel the need to run rocket every other play. Their smallest OL is bigger than anyone on our team yet luckily for us they wont give the dive more than 8 times a game, usually cuz they're in 3rd and long after we gang tackle their "fast" kid for a loss on rocket. Lol! We have seen some enormous offensive lines this year and we are extremely small on defense but have great speed and they don’t mash us. They try and run screens and sling it here and there it’s mind boggling
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Post by CS on Nov 19, 2019 10:29:37 GMT -6
tuxedo
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Post by CS on Nov 18, 2019 18:30:37 GMT -6
Has anyone else seen or heard someone called a numbnut recently?? Bravo sir, that made me chuckle I read last week in Athletic Journal that a coach just got fired for calling his players "numbnuts." Another great word ruined. I bet he got fired because they wanted to fire him and used that to get the job done. If they wanted to keep him and they didn’t like that word being used they would have just told him not to use it again
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Post by CS on Nov 13, 2019 18:22:52 GMT -6
The best recruiter is a well run program that the kids you currently have will sell to their buddies and you will retain more.
I have gotten kids to come out just by gaining a relationship with them but I have only had like 1 of them pan out. Some quit after a little while or just plain couldn’t play. The kids know who needs to be playing and will pressure them to come out
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Post by CS on Nov 7, 2019 18:02:31 GMT -6
I have often wondered how some of these coaches that coach at traditional powerhouses would do at some of our schools that do not have much traditional. I'm not talking about coaches that built their schools into powerhouses, but inherited the tradition. Would they be successful? Could they handle losing? I know of one coach who won some state championships at a Catholic school and left to go to a public inner city school. He built that program to the point where they were in the playoffs, though he never won a state championship with them. I will always give that guy a ton of credit. What are your thoughts? When you know how to win you know how to win. You may never see state titles in some places but you will more often then not be competitive
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Post by CS on Nov 7, 2019 12:35:35 GMT -6
I have heard it said time and time before that there are stages in rebuilding a program...first you lose big, I have felt that burden in various games throughout my 4 years as a head coach....70-0, 81-8, 50-0, yeah I have lost by all of those margins with our group. Then you learn to lose close, win close, and win big.....this year has been weird. We are probably the least athletic team in the area but we are very coachable. Our school is known as a perennial loser and prior to this year we have made the playoffs just 3 times in a 68 year history and had a winning record just 13 times in that time frame. Now on to 2019, same group of kids largely that went 1-9 last year is sitting at 6-3 currently. Of our 3 losses I truly believe if we were 100% healthy we'd of won two of those ball games but them's the breaks. We have learned to win close. (Twice winning by 1 point and 3 times by a touchdown or less). We have learned to come back (trailing in 4 of our 6 wins and tied in the fourth quarter in another). We have learned to battle through adversity and get the 14th winning season in school history and have a shot to qualify for the postseason for just the fourth time in school history. My question to you all, we graduate a good amount of seniors but bring up a lot of kids from a currently 7-1 JV program (wild bc our JV team my first 3 years won 3 games combined). I think we have finally turned the door to "win close" type of program. How do we keep pushing? Urban Meyer described it as the "chase" when he aimed to be as good as Alabama when he was at Ohio State. Our chase to this point was to get a winning season and to get the school's fourth playoff appearance and our seniors largely ran with that for four years. My question is how do we make the next move? Did you win conference? If not that should be your next “chase” IMO
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Post by CS on Nov 7, 2019 10:54:44 GMT -6
Young gun here - Do guys reach out via email? Phone? What's the best approach in your guy's experience? Some schools close some farther out of my range but not sure if they'd be as able to share info unless you visit in person...Scheme important of course but I'd love to reach out to schools more on process like gameplannig, scout, etc. What division are you looking to go to? I’ve just called local D2/3 coach’s directly and talked to them, like I’ve said those guys are usually pretty happy someone wants to come visit and are usually down. Now D1 Power 5 often you get a secretary or a generic voicemail or some low level staffer in the football office and it’s harder to get through those layers unless you have a contact or direct line. Also don’t be surprised if you do get through and visit to find multiple other staffs jammed in a room with yourself. Now I’ve had some great experiences at major programs but was also at a school that they were actively recruiting players from. And I know there are many stories of guys having great experiences with getting into places as well but it’s not always easy at all. Now all the D2/3s have been awesome experiences as well sitting there all day with multiple coaches and getting anything you want from them. Sometimes guys, not you necessarily, get stars in their eyes and think lower level programs aren’t worth visiting when they end up missing out on a ton from those places. Some times you can catch a rising star in the profession as well. We went and sat down with Brent Dearmon 2 years ago a few times when he was the HC at Bethel a little NAIA school in Tenn. He's now the OC at Kansas. Don't think becasue guys are at small schools they aren't as good as the big guys. You will find sometimes they may be better
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Post by CS on Nov 3, 2019 10:19:15 GMT -6
It gives you the option to just send the wide shot when you exchange with the other team
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Post by CS on Oct 31, 2019 4:01:11 GMT -6
OP asks for a football 101 curriculum to be used to catch up jr high and freshman football players. You post something 20 pages long and that requires appetite for the game and time investment that you use for your Varsity Quarterbacks.... and somehow you never ever see that this is a very common action on your part. Hey "numbnut" - What have YOU contributed to the OP??? You are just trying to ruin another thread and somehow you never ever see that this is a very common action on your part. One day the fact might dawn upon that giant intellect of yours that what I post is NONE of your damned business!!! Has anyone else seen or heard someone called a numbnut recently?? Bravo sir, that made me chuckle
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Post by CS on Oct 30, 2019 17:52:23 GMT -6
I’m pretty sure this topic comes up once a year. I would teach them the gaps and defensive techniques like 1’s 5’s 9’s etc. Positions, route tree, types of blocks, “scoot in” means towards the ball not back up etc. Depending on how MUCH detail you want, we can always give them what we teach our QB's (a manual we give QB's & Coaches on a complete study of DEFENSIVE STRUCTURE updated from a SEC Coach): 1. AIGNMENTS/FRONTS 2. GAP CONTROL 3. CONTAIN 4. SUPPORT 5. FIELD ZONES 6. HORIZONTAL ZONES/VERTICAL SEAMS 7. COVERAGE ID 8. COVERAGE VERIFICATION 9. BASE COVERAGE RESPONSIBILITIES 10. MOF OPEN 11. MOF CLOSED I think it would take quite a bit of scaffolding to get middle school kids up to speed on something an SEC coach gave anyone
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Post by CS on Oct 30, 2019 16:54:45 GMT -6
I’m pretty sure this topic comes up once a year.
I would teach them the gaps and defensive techniques like 1’s 5’s 9’s etc.
Positions, route tree, types of blocks, “scoot in” means towards the ball not back up etc.
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Post by CS on Oct 28, 2019 17:43:25 GMT -6
Either way they have to score a touchdown to beat you. I’m taking the safety and making them drive the field.
If you choose to punt it gives them a short field and leaves the defense very little room for error.
If they have to drive you can make a mistake or two and maybe it doesn’t hurt as bad
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Post by CS on Oct 28, 2019 11:11:25 GMT -6
How reliable is your deep snapper?
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Post by CS on Oct 23, 2019 12:34:02 GMT -6
Thanks, men. Another way to pose the question in a nutshell: if you’re taking over a very downtrodden program and you know the first couple of years will be very rough, is it better to focus on a more conservative style of play that may bring some wins sooner and shorten games so the scores look better, or are you better off coming in and saying “damn the torpedoes, we’re going to build some immediate excitement and buy in by setting some school passing records even we go 0-10 and get blown way out doing it?” In our area it’s becoming increasingly common for athletes, especially QBs and WRs, to transfer to schools they think will better “showcase their talents” or just quit football to specialize in other sports rather than hand off or block all night. I used to think those kids were just being selfish and not worth catering to, but after talking with the other guys coach with I wonder if they might have a point. However, when I see most local teams who’ve tried this approach they just don’t coach or execute the flashy spread stuff (blocking, screens, quick game) well enough to ever get things turned around and they just wind up getting blown out worse. I think kids are attracted to programs that are ran well. I'm not sure if it matters what offense and defense you run to the kids as much as it does to the parents. That's the real kicker right there.
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Post by CS on Oct 20, 2019 6:53:10 GMT -6
How many schools play football? How many different divisions or classifications do you have? How many teams a year in all classifications have a legit shot at a title? How many of those teams that have a legit shot have a pretty legit shot most years? Not sure but a lot We have 7 classifications. The top 3 have 4 conferences Depends on the year. There is always a favorite. I would say that roughly 4-6 have a legit shot each year in each classification
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Post by CS on Oct 16, 2019 4:19:45 GMT -6
I don’t need to meet on a weekend to know what we’re doing on offense as an OC I don’t need to meet to tell the position coaches what we’re going to work. I don’t need to meet to know the week schedule. I don’t need to meet to watch film. It’s all a waste of time. I can do my job effectively without it, and I don’t get paid for it. Interesting, do you feel that if you were a DC (and not an OC) you would need to communicate with your ACs about creating a scouting report or drawing up opponent plays that you have not yet seen. Or about potential game plan input- if they have any. Specifically: what calls you would like to make in given situations, how would you like to attack their pass pro, any need to double team or bracket, etc.? I wonder if being an OC makes it require less communication on your behalf? This is a whole other thread but being an OC is infinitely easier that being a DC. I do agree some people spend too much time meeting but I think it makes it easier to meet at some point on the weekend just to get all your ducks in a row. Some people don’t work from home effectively and it benefits them and your staff to meet. How did this meeting thread sprout from a sweeping generalization?
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Post by CS on Oct 14, 2019 19:14:55 GMT -6
If you’re one of those guys who makes sweeping generalizations about people’s choice of profession based solely on them hating one week of distraction is douchey. Also who the fuk are you to judge how a staff works to prepare? I know some really good staffs that meet on the weekend and some that don’t. I meet with the defensive guys for an hour on Sunday but if I thought we needed more time we would stay all day until the job was done. Worry about your own and let others worry about theirs To each their own. Keep wasting you and your staffs time. That’s fine. Just get a kick out of watching staffs who spend all year 24 hours a day in the field house go 5-5 and get out coached by old man river running the wing t or single back offense. Those same guys make fun of the old man and there out dated cavemen offense to get beat by it. Funny how that works. Less is more. Get your players in shape and strong, and be simple on both sides and you’ll have success. I work for old man river and we run the flexbone soooooo.,,
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Post by CS on Oct 14, 2019 17:24:09 GMT -6
If you’re one of those guys who Hates homecoming week I believe you are in the wrong profession in high school coaching. High school sports are about fun and being competitive. If what you are doing on O and D require your kids to be so locked in that they can’t enjoy homecoming, you’re part of the problem in ruining high school football. If you’re one of those guys who makes sweeping generalizations about people’s choice of profession based solely on them hating one week of distraction is douchey. Also who the fuk are you to judge how a staff works to prepare? I know some really good staffs that meet on the weekend and some that don’t. I meet with the defensive guys for an hour on Sunday but if I thought we needed more time we would stay all day until the job was done. Worry about your own and let others worry about theirs
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Post by CS on Oct 13, 2019 13:51:18 GMT -6
This year's homecoming wasn't too bad. It was certainly a distraction in many ways but there weren't activities scheduled after practice that caused headaches. when I first started coaching, I worked at a school that had the following evening schedule for homecoming week: Monday: Float building, right after school. We actually had kids asking if they could skip practice to go build floats. Tuesday: Car/truck parade starting at 6pm. Everyone would deck out their car or truck and drive around town. We had kids whining that practice wasn't over early enough so they could drive around.. Wednesday: Homecoming dance. Yup, you read that right. A homecoming dance in the middle of the week. Thursday: Volleyball game followed by snake dance, pep rally and a bonfire. Friday: Parade starting at noon, ending at 1230pm and followed by another pep rally. Y’all play very well?
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Post by CS on Oct 13, 2019 12:24:36 GMT -6
I've worked in 8 different schools. You'd have got laughed out of the room if you told them that in every single one. At my first school the principal tried to write me up for not going to help build the parade float with the freshmen. They did it at 3:30 when school let out so right smack dab in the middle of football practice and I was the DC.
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Post by CS on Oct 13, 2019 5:46:58 GMT -6
My point was that everyone else cares about the activities, not the football game. I know it has nothing to do with the game. I know it’s a great experience for the kids and I would never want to deprive them of the homecoming experience BUT it would be nice on Friday if the players weren’t doing stuff all day. And we do dress up days all week and the kids are rowdy at school and I hate it....so there’s that also
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Post by CS on Oct 12, 2019 12:22:31 GMT -6
I just wish they involved the football team less. It’s for the girls. Our seniors had 2 pep rally’s yesterday and did homecoming sh!t all day. Guess who had their worst performances of the season???
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Post by CS on Oct 12, 2019 9:59:48 GMT -6
Absolutely a hectic,crazy, and aggravating event introduced into the football season. That said, I have come to realize in my old age... that football coaches are in the very tiny minority that think that homecoming has anything to do with the football game. I’m not following?
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Post by CS on Oct 12, 2019 7:43:15 GMT -6
That is all
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Post by CS on Oct 11, 2019 15:26:21 GMT -6
That works in most cases, but not all. Example because of numbers I am basically starting a good JV team vs Varsity teams all season. It was somewhat of a joke
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