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Post by bluboy on Jun 26, 2019 14:22:11 GMT -6
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Post by bluboy on Jun 25, 2019 6:40:10 GMT -6
SATURDAY MORNING: Staff in at 8:30, players in at 9. Varsity players do yoga while junior varsity lifts. Defensive guys start tagging next opponent's film. When finished with yoga, varsity guys watch film from previous night(defense in one room-offense in another), and junior varsity does a walk-through. We will not watch entire game. Since most of us coaches have viewed film before arriving at school, we usually show 15 clips(The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly). Players are dismissed by 11:00; coaches are finished by noon at the latest.
SATURDAY AFTERNOON: Sometimes we have to scout, but this is rare since most of our opponents play at night. If we are not scouting we are off to do work at home. I usually have to finish tagging film, so I do that. One thing that helps is having one of our young assistants tag the simple stuff (O/D/K, down, distance, yard line, hash, run/pass). All I have to tag is formation and play. Once all the tagging is completed, I then do the tendency stuff.
SUNDAY MORNING: Informal staff meeting at 8:00. It's informal because some guys have young families and some have older/grown kids. We break into offensive and defensive staffs and work on game plan. When we're finished, we discuss Monday's practice; that's it. We're usually finished by 10 or 11 AM. This Sunday meeting really helps us get ready for Monday since our Monday practice is more than some running and film-watching. Monday is a real practice.
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Post by bluboy on Jun 6, 2019 19:13:21 GMT -6
We watch film with players on Saturday morning. We watch about 20 plays which we label the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. After this viewing, film is shared with players and they can watch on their own. As soon as scouting film is tagged, it's sent to players. We will watch film with players Wednesday after practice.
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Post by bluboy on Jun 6, 2019 5:38:32 GMT -6
I was not clear,duhhhh. The BC carries a hand shield in front of him, not in place of ball. We have found that this helps prevent "collateral" injury.
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Post by bluboy on Jun 1, 2019 12:14:43 GMT -6
Saturday-bring players in 8:30am-treatment, weight workout, watch previous game film in 2 groups(offense/defense)- only 15-20 plays the GOOD, the BAD, and the UGLY-kids out by 11 am after kids leave brief coaches meeting- coaches out by 12 Scout film sent to team and all assistants - coaches are expected to watch film on thier own Sunday- informal staff meeting(8-10 am) to discuss game plan ideas for both sides of the ball Monday-formal staff meeting-game plans finalized, personnel discussed, etc
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Post by bluboy on May 31, 2019 11:10:58 GMT -6
We never use a ball when tackling. The ball carrier always carries a hand shield.
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Post by bluboy on May 30, 2019 13:21:47 GMT -6
On Tuesdays and Thursdays throughout the season we do combo pass without a ball. Tuesday's focus is seeing what the offense wants to do. Thursday's focus is review without having a scout teamer bang into someone while trying to be an All-American..... Our HC loves this idea.
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Post by bluboy on May 29, 2019 15:29:28 GMT -6
"We get as many kids going at once but keep eyes on our starters the majority of the time to correct mistakes."
We do the same. We adhere to the "racehorse" philosophy of practice. A player doing something, even if not correct, is better than a player doing nothing but killing grass. Our HC goes nuts when he sees 3 players doing a drill and 10-15 other kids standing in line.
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Post by bluboy on May 23, 2019 7:11:29 GMT -6
"...I stick to the big 3 (Nike, UA, Adidas) and just buy them at outlets. Find the deals. But it is so worth your time and money. When I stray away from those 3 I find that things fit weird and they don't last as long."
Totally agree!!!
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Post by bluboy on May 21, 2019 7:57:14 GMT -6
"...Wednesdays being a very short or even a "No Sweat" type day." We did that about 5 years ago with an experienced team, and it worked for us. We tried it the next year with a less experienced team and found that we had to go back to the practice schedule we previously used. Why do you think it didn't work in year 2? We had a much younger/inexperienced team and needed to make Wednesday more of a work day in uppers. It was not a full-contact day, lots of thud. We did not have individual periods, but we did have group and team periods. These group periods were shorter than normal and the team periods were a bit longer than normal. It boiled down to the fact that we needed to go over so many things that we have to have a longer practice than the "No Sweat" practice afforded us. We felt that it worked for us.
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Post by bluboy on May 17, 2019 16:27:02 GMT -6
We meet with incoming frosh parents late May/early June(at night) and handout/explain all necessary paperwork, as well as handout calendars and important dates. Parents must sign-up kids through FamilyId. We meet with upperclassmen players in June and give them important paperwork, calendars, etc. Meeting with upperclassmen parents is same night as meeting with players. Anyone who missed any of the meetings can get the info from any of the coaches.
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Post by bluboy on May 17, 2019 9:47:40 GMT -6
We do one with two kids standing in middle of circle holding 25-lb plate arm's-length in front of body. One who holds it out longer is winner....
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Post by bluboy on May 16, 2019 8:37:55 GMT -6
"...Wednesdays being a very short or even a "No Sweat" type day."
We did that about 5 years ago with an experienced team, and it worked for us. We tried it the next year with a less experienced team and found that we had to go back to the practice schedule we previously used.
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Post by bluboy on May 3, 2019 12:02:54 GMT -6
I coach DB's. IMHO, a 101 drills are good for camp.I don't want to teach a new drill every day. Once the season starts, I have 5 drills I use during game week; kids don't get bored because we make the drills competitive. One thing that helps me is how I break-up time in individual. I usually get 10-15 minutes of individual; I do feet, shed/tackle, ball drills. In-season, I use part of my individual time working on a skill that is necessary for game plan coverages/fits.
"SCRIPT EVERYTHING It makes everyone's job easier b/c you know were your eyes should be on every play." Totally agree!!!
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Post by bluboy on Apr 17, 2019 12:24:14 GMT -6
"...reach out and ask...Hey coach is there a time you have to meet with me to talk?" Good luck... It depends on whom you want to see. If it's a BCS guy, IMO, chances of meeting/talking are slim and nill. They are very tough to corner; UNLESS you know someone at that particular school. And even then, you might not much, if any time. We've contacted some big name coaches about coming to their spring practice and have never received a response. When we've visited schools, we have always gone after signing day and before spring practice, or after spring practice has gotten started. When we visited between signing day and spring practice, we were able to spend some quality time with coaches and/or GA's.
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Post by bluboy on Apr 3, 2019 18:08:37 GMT -6
If you define meeting as entire staff sits down to discuss football, that usually happens one afternoon right at the end of the school year. Most of our staff coach 1 or 2 other sports in addition to football, and some key members of the staff are adjuncts who are not teachers (have real world jobs). Some of us meet informally to discuss plans/ideas for next year. To combat this situation, we meet every day the week prior to our start of pre-season practice. We start in the morning and meet most of the day (HC springs for lunch). It's the only time that he can get us all together and we are all focused on football. It's not the best situation, but we are all on the same page on the first day of practice.
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Post by bluboy on Mar 30, 2019 8:56:29 GMT -6
I just ordered this book, looking forward to reading it......
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Post by bluboy on Mar 27, 2019 15:41:13 GMT -6
IMHO, he should make all the players put their cell phones into a box outside any/all meeting rooms. Players can get thier phones back when they leave.
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Post by bluboy on Mar 25, 2019 17:26:20 GMT -6
"His podcast is solid." Agree... If the quality his system is anything like his podcasts, you will definitely get your money's worth.
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Post by bluboy on Mar 13, 2019 10:15:54 GMT -6
During In-Season practices - when do JVs get to do Team? Are they going against Varsity? What do they do day before their games? During preseason the JV's get as much team time as varsity (we will run 4 groups during team periods). Once the season starts, scout offense and defense are really the JV team periods. Our JV games are on Mondays. JV get some "alone time" Thursdays while the varsity goes through pre-game and on Saturdays while varsity is watching film.
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Post by bluboy on Mar 12, 2019 15:17:54 GMT -6
Sorry for the double post; I hit the wrong button. Our frosh practice separately (2 paid coaches and a volunteer); they are never with the varsity. From time to time we will send our lower level sophomores down to work/scrimmage with frosh. When we do this, we also send a coach. Our offensive scout team is often comprised of sophomores, but we don't let the varsity guys tee-off on them. Group and team periods are often thud with the defense simply getting to the BC and holding him up. We never tackle to the ground during these periods. We try to get more upperclassmen on the scout defense and work-in sophomores. Again, we don't want to beat-up the young guys.
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Post by bluboy on Mar 12, 2019 15:09:19 GMT -6
For those of you who practice V/JV together - what do you do with your freshmen? I was leery enough about having sophomores go against seniors, can't imagine having 9th graders going against kids who are older, more mature physically, had more time in weight room.
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Post by bluboy on Mar 11, 2019 6:53:08 GMT -6
We are a NIKE team (all apparel).
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Post by bluboy on Mar 10, 2019 8:34:06 GMT -6
We start the season dressing about 55-60 players. As young players earn a varsity jersey, we dress more (eventually everyone dresses). We give seniors one of their jerseys (27 jerseys this year) at the end of the year, so we order replacements for those numbers. We inspect all jerseys and order new ones for any jersey we feel is in poor condition. Other than the senior numbers, we don't usually have to order a lot of jerseys. When we order an entire set of jerseys, we order #'s 1 to 99. As we order new sets of jerseys, old jerseys get cycled down to JV's and frosh (those squads are generally smaller than varsity).
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Post by bluboy on Mar 7, 2019 14:49:25 GMT -6
We have 90 kids grades 10-12. There are 8 paid coaches and 2 volunteers for grades 10-12 and 3 paid coaches and 1 volunteer for frosh. Everyone coaches an offensive and defensive position with a "lead coach" and an assistant (these are my terms); we practice offense and defense every day. At the start of the season every player learns an offensive and defensive position. As the year goes on, some players play only one side of the ball, but we are not two-platoon. I am the DC and coach the secondary. During individual offense and group pass I coach the JV/Soph receivers while another coach is the "lead coach" who works with the varsity receivers. During team offense, another coach and I run the scout defense. During individual defense, I work with the varsity DB's, and another coach (the WR lead coach) works with the young guys. Both coaches work with both varsity and young guys during group pass. Both coaches also work with varsity during team defense-we do not wholesale sub during team defense; we will sub-in only the 1A's. In a perfect world, we would two-platoon and coach one side of the ball; but our talent pool does not let us. At some positions there is a big gap in talent between our one's and our two's.
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Post by bluboy on Mar 6, 2019 10:33:26 GMT -6
In my area, twenty-somethings don't want to build character. All they want to build is bank accounts and reputations. Many young men would rather work long hours at high paying jobs, rather than work with young people. Those who are in education are busy working on graduate degrees so they can become administrators(where they can earn more than a teacher). Now compound this by the fact that in most districts there are a thousand hoops of fire that adjuncts have to jump through in order to coach, not to mention the time-related conflicts of a job in the real world. Another issue in my area is that principals don't view good coaches as good teachers. So instead of hiring QUALIFIED candidates who can coach, they hire these eggheads who not only can't teach a fish to swim, but do nothing to enhance the school. It really p!sses me off when the principal brags about Mr. XYZ being such a great teacher when Mr. XYZ knows nothing about his students, let alone the one who is a football player who lives out of his car. I apologize for the rant, but I am a teacher and a coach and darn proud of it. I would not trade it for anything. IMHO, being called"Coach" is still an honor.
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Post by bluboy on Mar 5, 2019 5:37:49 GMT -6
Lots of lines of drills going, but make sure you put the 5-10 kids you are counting on in the same couple lines so you can watch them most closely. I hate to say this, but you are not going to play 35 OL. So make sure the kids who you are counting on get reps and do the best you can with the rest. I do this same thing. I coach DB's and usually have a ton of them. The ones who are going to play are in the front. Everybody doing something is better than some guys standing around. The "young guys" will get better, eventually.
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Post by bluboy on Mar 4, 2019 12:28:01 GMT -6
I use Fantastical on my iphone for my stuff (my wife doesn't). My wife is somewhat old school in that events must be written on the calendar that hangs in the cupboard. If something is not on THAT calendar, it's not on the calendar.
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Post by bluboy on Mar 3, 2019 13:37:00 GMT -6
Most of my scans are done at home with a desktop scanner. When I scan from my iphone, I use Scanner Pro from Readdle.Scanner Pro does a great job of converting scans to PDF; it has makes finding the edge of pages easy. I am not an "aficionado" of any apps, let alone scanner apps; but I like it. It does what I need in an easy fashion.
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Post by bluboy on Mar 2, 2019 19:16:45 GMT -6
"...scanning all of them with an app from my phone and putting them in google docs and somehow organizing them from there..."
This is exactly what I have done. I still have a ways to go.
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