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Post by wingtol on Apr 24, 2015 6:24:47 GMT -6
Didn't happen under your supervision so shouldn't be your problem. That simple. School needs to handle it and you need to let the players know you know and if it's during football season or something under your supervision they are gone if it happens again.
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Post by wingtol on Apr 17, 2015 18:32:31 GMT -6
I was at the same Clinic. I agree completely. The keynote was so unprepared...and I was looking forward to hearing what he had to say. What I was ashamed of was, like you said, the massive group in the back having a grand ol' time. I get it, you're bored as hell and this guy is horrible right now, but have a little respect anyways. I was shocked to say the least. why take the invite if you are intendin to or going to take a crap on the job? I assume you mean the keynote speaker. I know from past experience depending on the clinic, like the Nike COY most of those keynotes are contractually obligated to speak at x number of the clinics by Nike. I know guys who have worked the clinic who have literally picked up keynote speakers at the airport two hours before they spoke and drove them back to the airport an hour after they were done speaking so they could get back home.
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Post by wingtol on Apr 14, 2015 10:27:18 GMT -6
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Post by wingtol on Apr 13, 2015 7:01:03 GMT -6
We do not. Reminds me of a story Chuck Klausing, the legendary wing-t coach, told at a clinic on why he did not do stickers. He was coaching at Pitt and they awarded stickers when he was there. So he decided not to give one of his RB's a sticker for something because he thought the player didn't give enough effort in the game. As he was walking out to his car the player ran out of the building and was screaming at him about the sticker and chased him around his car demanding he get a sticker for the game. Until other people calmed the player down. Turns out it was Craig "Ironhead" Hayward that was after him. He said after that he never thought stickers were a good idea.
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Post by wingtol on Apr 11, 2015 16:50:54 GMT -6
I believe it was the Chinese philosopher Wu-Men who said can't live with them, can't live without them. Norm says it best
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Post by wingtol on Apr 5, 2015 11:42:14 GMT -6
There are a number of obstacles for teams. We have parts of our state that due to geography (among other things) have a hard time getting players. I know not everyone has feeder programs but they are a pretty big deal. Waiting to try to get kids in HS is an uphill battle. You can end up with the soccer, baseball, basketball rejects. If you can get into the elementry and middle schools. We don't try to get the kids to give up their other sports. It's great for their development but we want them to play football. That with a great offseason program makes a big difference. We also have to get away from the eye test a little. There are some great HS players that don't look the part but can play. Do those teams play other teams with the same issues though? Or are they scheduled against teams with different circumstances? In our district for our class, the smallest of four in the state, we are split,into two regions with about 8 teams in each region. Basically split into the north and south parts of the district. The south region has won like 20 of the last 21 district championships. The last school I was at we were the only north team to win it and played in the title game twice. The north part of the district has about 300k+ people living in it. The south maybe 100k. They have also dominated the the next class up from us. Why? Simply they take it more serious down there and are located near a small city area with all the schools within a half hour or so of each other. The north region(s) are very spread out. We have a couple teams that take us about 2 hours on a bus to get to. Not like 2 hours on a highway like 2 hours of Gods country. Farm,farm,farm,farm,boom football field! Those kid live 30-40 miles from school. Hour bus rides. Think they have a great off season/ summer turn out? Think they can hang out with team mates all the time? Meanwhile teams in the south are all clustered around a place with city type amenities and what not. That plays a huge role in our district. For or example we are located right on the border of the 3rd biggest city in our state, now we are a small district but not out in the middle of no where. First round of playoffs the team we played had a 30 foot tear away banner to run through, end zone cam, 50 players, and what seemed like the whole town there at the game. Think we had about 100 fans. Not to say people don't support us but the other team had a following if you know what I mean. Its hard are to say why some places have talent and some don't but there are some factors that definitely contribute.
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Post by wingtol on Apr 4, 2015 13:24:39 GMT -6
What level is summer ball for? What would you call a true okie drill? We have moved more to the vortex drill with one on ones between the dl/OL then rb/lb and last the wr/db five yards apart with the lane getting bigger for the rb to run through.
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Post by wingtol on Apr 3, 2015 18:17:32 GMT -6
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.
Applying any of this statisticts to HS football is about pointless if you ask me.
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Post by wingtol on Mar 30, 2015 16:48:28 GMT -6
‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
Who gives a s**t let the kid wear the jacket. According to the article he has Downs and Autism and people are gonna complain about him wearing a jacket that makes him happy? i mean honest to God the kid has enough going on in his life and some a$$hole wants to complain about a stupid letter jacket? I weep for humanity sometimes. As far as people comparing it to everyone gets a trophy or equality wtf this could be one of the highlights of this kids life I mean like a top 3 event and people even question if it's right or wrong to let me wear the jacket.
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Post by wingtol on Mar 28, 2015 7:18:09 GMT -6
Dealing with our recruiting I have been thinking about this and trying to figure out if it is normal as you asked in the OP. I guess we have always had contact with schools who were after our guys at some point int the process wether it be at a recruiting night, school visit, phone calls, email etc. But we have also had a few, very few but some, just end up playing somewhere with out us being involved at all. Now those were D3 schools and most of those places if you show up and want to play and have the finical stuff figured out they say come on down! Not saying that's the case for D3 in a nut shell we have had lots of kids heavily recruited and given aid thru football but most places will take a player to get those tuitions on campus. Anyways I do find it a bit odd that this late a D 2 is giving a kid football money with out talking to anyone from the HS.
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Post by wingtol on Mar 24, 2015 19:05:04 GMT -6
If baseball Pitchers have pitch counts....then why shouldn't football players have hit counts? Makes perfect sense too me. If you cant two platoon in 11 man ball....play 8 man. Cant do it in 8 man...play 6 man. Its still football. How does that solve anything? I don't even know what 8 or 6 man football is to be honest or how you could even enforce that. What if a kid got hurt and you couldn't two platoon? Cancel the season? The bottom line is that we as coaches seem to have no voice on this subject. You never see anyone, just as an example don't want anyone getting their panties in a bunch, like the NRA when gun rights come up advocating for football. It just seems we sit back and take whatever lies the media puts out there about our sport. The AFCA NFL Pop Warner D1 coaches who ever need to start standing up for the game. Or we are done.
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Post by wingtol on Mar 24, 2015 7:14:40 GMT -6
I have been attending the Glazier clinics for years and I couldn't agree with you more! I have always coached at small schools also, and it seems that over the last couple years the problem you stated has gotten worst. I don't see any speakers from schools that are the size of my school. Why would the difference in school size make a difference in the usefulness of the information? I think there are some cases, myself coaching at a small school, where you don't relate to or can't do what guys are talking about who are at big schools. "We run three scout teams at our defense to keep the tempo up". Well we have coaches holding bags some practices and can't even put out a secondary at times. "We have 6 OL groups rotating thru blocking stations with a coach at each". Well we have 6 coaches for the whole program. " every Saturday the staff goes to watch the 10 youth teams we have to make sure they are running our stuff". Well our youth players play two towns over cause they can't get enough for one team. As as a small school coach I can relate. If your talking scheme and x and o's it really doesn't matter but when you get into stuff like I mentioned it becomes useless information to some of us. I usually walk out on these guys when they start rambling on stuff like that.
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Post by wingtol on Mar 17, 2015 9:42:00 GMT -6
Chris Borland has decided to retire from the NFL at the age of 24 due to concussion concerns. While I don't think it will have any immediate impact on the NFL and what the fans think of it, I can see a lot of parents now using this as another mark against their kid playing youth or HS ball. Anyone else think this, and if so what is your plan to address the fears of parents when they bring this up. Ems linkI point out that this is an NFL thing, not a football thing. I'm 61 and played HS, college, and semi-pro football. I'm OK and so are my former teammates. My former coaches, a generation older than me, are OK too. This, of course, is minus the guys who had substance issues or who weren't right before they ever played a football game (and every team I was on had a couple of each). So, point out examples of people that the kids know-coaches, grandfathers, uncles, etc.- who played football and didn't end up drooling idiots. Amen. This is where the media distorts everything and gets people all worked up. They do not understand the difference between playing football through high school and being a professional football player. This guy stepped away after a year because he was worried about what if... As far as I know he wasn't symptomatic at all and all power to him for doing what he feels is right for him. But it will lead back to all the players who have problems. But the media never points out for this guys who were in the league for 10 years or however long that they probably played more football in one year than most HS kids play in their careers! When you factor in middle school, high school, college, pros for those guys you're talking decades of playing compared to 5-6 at most for a kidmwhomplays through high school. But the media never talks about that. Because there is a war on football no matter what you think.
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Post by wingtol on Mar 12, 2015 17:58:46 GMT -6
Best Speakers I have seen: 1. Larry Johnson - OSU (great passion, good technique, has great drills) 1b Tosh Lupoi - Bama (best Dline technique guy I have ever seen). Concise presenter. 1c Bret Vieselma - used to be HC of Valor Christian Worst 1. Lenny R - Starts clinic talk off a bunch of F bombs. Some guys leave, as they are leaving calls them wussies etc. Throws up some slides - no Scheme, no intro, and states "you wanna stuff guys run theseb blitzes" and just stands there smiling. The fact that this dude has been a D1 DC is crazy. Honorable Mention - RS and JC. Serious guys why are people buying what these two are selling? Gang Green 4-2-5? How about 50 alignment. Other times he gives presentations about building programs. Come on. JC runs every front known to man. Never discusses how kids can learn this or the reads. And coaches JV. Ok. You have peeked my intrest. Who is Lenny R? I wanna go see this guy now.
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Post by wingtol on Mar 7, 2015 18:18:59 GMT -6
At our last school we came into a situation where the program had lost 21 straight games, like bad losses. We got things turned around and had great success over a decade. Ranked in the state several times and always a favorite to win the region. We embraced it and took pride in it, really reminded kids it was a pride in the program not the team. We would talk about it as a great thing. But remind them it was something they worked hard for and guys before them set the tone for the program and they were now carrying the torch that year. Get them to buy into the tradition. Also the biggest thing we stressed to them was that guess what? You are every teams biggest game, they are all gonna get up to play you, everyone wants to be the team to beat you, you got a big target on your back. With that you have to out work the other teams.
So we used it as a big motivator for our teams. Instilled a sense of pride in them knowing they were part of something good, not just as a team but as a program. Then the administration f'ed everything up but that's a story for another time...
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Post by wingtol on Mar 7, 2015 18:04:51 GMT -6
No. Hell no. First for well all the reason you stated in the OP. Second, and I told a guy I started coaching with this and consider a good friend, never hire the guys that want(ed) your job to start with. He didn't listen and it came back to bite him in the ass in a big way.
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Post by wingtol on Mar 2, 2015 17:21:50 GMT -6
we live in a sad sad world where copyright trolls are all around us, ready to pounce. anyway to make a quick buck in the court room... one more reason to hate auburn The other side of the story would me, "We live in a sad, sad world where we give somebody material in confidence and then we see it posted on the internet". We live in a sad sad world where people think they own and can do whatever they want with other people's property because the Internet that's why. Kind of backs up my point of a generational difference when it comes to this stuff.
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Post by wingtol on Mar 2, 2015 7:30:51 GMT -6
Maybe I am just getting old and am from the generation that remembers life before the internet but why is anyone surprised by this? I mean it's their film they can do what they want with it. Even if it's a TV broadcast pretty sure they run disclaimers saying it's the property of the network or league when they show games. You just can't go posting anything you want, their still is ownership of that material and the owners can do what they want with it.
Seems like as the internet becomes a bigger and bigger part of our lives those who lived without it for years maybe understand better than those who have always had it and don't know life without it.
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Post by wingtol on Feb 23, 2015 7:01:04 GMT -6
We hit any time we are in full pads. Full pads = full contact. Try and have quick whistles during team D but sometimes they aren't quick enough.
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Post by wingtol on Feb 23, 2015 6:58:08 GMT -6
Talk to them. Its really that simple.
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Post by wingtol on Feb 21, 2015 13:51:25 GMT -6
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Post by wingtol on Feb 21, 2015 11:01:01 GMT -6
PA is so wack on this it's hard to even explain...
No spring ball here but if you get a letter from your principal you can be in shells basically when ever you want. Spring summer when ever with no contact. We start July 1 in shells and go for about a month 3 days a week. Then our state association decided they needed to mandate a "heat acclimation" period for 3 consecutive days no less than 72 hours before your first official padded contact practice any player who misses a day starts over until they do three straight days. Hear they may make it 5 days soon. Meanwhile just about everyone in the state is holding summer work outs which apparently the association doesn't care about because we have no dead periods or no contact periods of time. It's mind boggling sometimes.
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Post by wingtol on Feb 21, 2015 10:50:30 GMT -6
I always find it funny in these threads when people post their playoff schedules where it's like 3 games in 7 days or something crazy but then state associations pass all kinds of "safety" regulations about practice time, contact, heat acclimation, etc...
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Post by wingtol on Feb 19, 2015 13:59:41 GMT -6
Played many Thrs night games due to stadium/ref aviability at our last school. We would bring them in Sunday and do our Monday stuff so every day would be bumped up a day as far as practice scheduling. We would give them a long weekend and let them rest since its a bit of a grind doing the Thrs night game. Just start over the next Monday. I think once we had a Sat game then Thrs game. That sucked as you can tell our AD at that school had no clue.
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Post by wingtol on Feb 15, 2015 8:04:35 GMT -6
I receive $5200 as an asst, $5000 for strength and conditioning, $1000 for ten days of camps and $19000 for coordinating our fundraising program. Just how much does your fundraising program bring in if it can afford to pay you $19K to coordinate it!? Oh boy here we go again... for myself 800 this year. Had to split a jv salary this year at new school as the guy we kept has been there forever and got the one paid varsity salary. I am DC/OL/Ast head coach etc... Lowest pay I have ever had in my career including a frosh Ast coach at a privte school. But we don't do it for the money right... Oh yeah a No and lol for,the rest of the questions.
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Post by wingtol on Feb 13, 2015 13:03:52 GMT -6
Don't know if it bothers other people as much as it bothers me, but dressing in team apparel or colors is always a good way to go. I don't go all in with the khakis and tucked polo, but I at least wear khaki shorts and a school hoodie/jacket like I do at games. If you don't have an affiliation with a program currently, don't wear apparel from other schools/programs/organizations. I went to the San Francisco glazier last week and I never knew so many of Oregon's and the 49ers' coaches attended local clinics. I can't say that it bothers me much but fan gear does strike me as kind of goofy. But... A few years ago our staff visited Clemson. There was another staff there, including a young coach, a big guy with wild hair wearing a Cowboys polo. In our meeting room our staff was kind of snickering among ourselves about the fanboy. Then I had to go to the bathroom and in the hallway literally bumped face-to-face with Jimmy Johnson (he was shorter that I thought). The big "fanboy"? Dave Wannstedt. It's the internet so all things get hijacked.... Similar story we were at a Pitt spring practice and were kind of joking about a guy and how disheveled he looked had a giant wallet like George Costanza hair all messy. He turned around and it was Norv Turner .
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Post by wingtol on Feb 13, 2015 10:29:11 GMT -6
We could never do that as it's track and baseball season during that time for us. Would never get enough kids to fill out a team.
Kind of along these lines I saw that graphic going around saying of the 50 players Ohio St has signed in the last two years 45 were multi-sport athletes in HS. Some times less is more and trying to do stuff like this just because other teams are can be counter productive.
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Post by wingtol on Feb 13, 2015 8:14:36 GMT -6
www.coachcharacter.com/This is what we use. Highly recommended. Wade does a great job with the program and comes from a football family, couple brothers coach big time D1 and dad was a D1 HC. Great stuff.
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Post by wingtol on Feb 12, 2015 7:09:46 GMT -6
When we do a Thrs morning walk thru it's a full team activity, of course we are at about 40 kids 9-12 so we need every swinging d**k we can get to do anything in practice. JV's play Sat or Mon so no big deal for them plus they are the back ups. Also our school district is about 2 miles square if not smaller so it's not a huge issue for kids to get there. Think went 6-7:30. All coaches were there of course some had to leave for work and what not as we do not have anyone working in the school. I don't get why all the coaches wouldn't be there, do they not show up if it's an afternoon walk thru?
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Post by wingtol on Feb 10, 2015 12:38:44 GMT -6
We have a youth tackle league that run year round indoors and out in our area now. It's owned and operated by the HC of the local power house all boys Catholic school but that is an issue for another day. They star at like 6 I think which is insane. 5th grade is the youngest I think they should start and even then it is close to being to young. I feel it's not even physical so much as mentally being prepared at that age. Sure people will disagree but just MHO.
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