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Post by wingtol on Oct 26, 2014 10:52:55 GMT -6
Just remember as I once heard a wise coach say "Your players and other coaches aren't going to be the ones who decide what nursing home you end up in some day."
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Post by wingtol on Oct 24, 2014 8:15:25 GMT -6
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Post by wingtol on Oct 8, 2014 7:14:15 GMT -6
topics.nj.com/tag/sayreville-football-steroids/posts.htmlNo details have come out yet on what exactly happened but it doesn't sound good. One parents said freshman were afraid to even change in the locker room with upperclassmen. Again no details out yet but stuff like this really shows the importance of not just coaching the game but coaching the individual and having a good character education program.
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Post by wingtol on Oct 6, 2014 9:18:25 GMT -6
How much really useful info can they really get there though? One of our WR's account for 45% of our completions, 60% of our receiving yardage, and 75% of our receiving TD's. The teams in our area know that, and he is starting to get bracketted. If he goes the final two regular season games with so-so games, then he comes into the first round with a "clean slate" from a scheme standpoint. Maybe a small advantage, but we'll take it. Wouldn't that be pretty obvious on film?
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Post by wingtol on Oct 3, 2014 8:19:19 GMT -6
Sounds like you have a bunch of turds floating around that need flushed! Reading the OP it sounds like there are more problems than not yelling at kids. Why are players sitting on their buts during practice? Why are you running plays on air? Why are you running drills on air? Sounds like an overall culture change is needed there! Yelling at a kid in that situation isn't going to fix what's broken. If things aren't going to change then you need to hit the road and find a new team.
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Post by wingtol on Oct 1, 2014 7:14:43 GMT -6
No idea whay it wont let me edit...but after reading this went on maxpreps and checked out stats. Low and behold we have a kid tied for int lead in the state, so of course I tweeted that out! LOL Sometimes ya gotta throw a dog a bone...
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Post by wingtol on Oct 1, 2014 6:27:47 GMT -6
We use maxpreps and most of the reputable teams in our state do as well so the stats are pretty accurate. Of course there are always those teams especially like others have pointed out on defense with out landish stat. I will also admit I use that stats to fire our teams up, we like to point out where we are rushing in the state to pump kid up and like I said it's mostly the good programs so our kids get a kick out of seeing us listed with the big power houses in the state.
Be honest I wish our state would mandate reporting of stats to a maxpreps like site. I enjoy seeing state leaders and all that since we have a governing association that isn't the best in doing that kind of stuff. Not to beat a dead horse but of course defensive stats would be all over the place since everyone has a different definition of a tackle.
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Post by wingtol on Sept 25, 2014 9:45:36 GMT -6
Down around Pittsburgh two coaches have resigned in the last two weeks. The most bizarre was a former college assistant who was hired at a school that was moved up a class and is the smallest school in the state for their class. He resigned due to "player safety" said he wasn't coaching but "game planning not to get kids hurt". Not sure how quitting three games into your first year as a HC makes it any safer for your kids but I guess he thinks it does.
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Post by wingtol on Sept 25, 2014 6:22:01 GMT -6
Lack of numbers can be a real problem in a program. But why do some people, coaches included, lean on it like a crutch for their loser's limp? So what was the point of this now? Are you on a staff with guys blaming low numbers for a bad season? You play someone who said this? You don't believe that low numbers contributes to losing?
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Post by wingtol on Sept 24, 2014 11:30:14 GMT -6
Is he in school and not coming to practice or absent from school those days?
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Post by wingtol on Sept 23, 2014 12:31:07 GMT -6
Have you ever coached a team with twenty guys 9-12? Ever try mad run a scout team with 9 guys? Ever have to put together an OL with 3 true linemen? Numbers can kill you when they get low enough, it effects everything you do. You don't have kids going two ways you have three way kids who never step off the field. We finished with 20 kids last season, it was a crazy season to say the least. Not to mention if someone goes down you don't lose one you lose five cause now your te has to go to tackle and your tackle to center and your back up fb to te and so on.
Changes everything you do as a coach. Maybe you have coached a team low in numbers, but if you haven't then you have no clue what it's like. We never used it as an excuse but it was evident our numbers had a direct impact on our 3-7 season last year.
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Post by wingtol on Sept 12, 2014 9:37:40 GMT -6
We have moved away from it the last few years but have replaced it with the vortex drill, dl vs ol lb vs rb db vs wr staggered at 5 yards with cones going out getting wider and one ball carrier. We can get more position specific work done I feel rather than just mashing them all in there and creating a giant cluster. We do it wed of camp after a few days of hitting and blocking fundamentals.
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Post by wingtol on Sept 10, 2014 20:56:48 GMT -6
So as I was eating dinner after getting the kids to bed and all that fun last night I started watching something on TV, can't even remember what now. As I was sitting there I almost felt guilty that I wasn't watching film or breaking something down, got a new ipad from school so now it's even easier to access and watch film at home, almost like I wasn't doing my job as a coach because I wasn't doing something football related. Anyone else ever feel with all the technology advances in the last few years that there is almost more pressure to be watching film or what not? When I started not to long ago being able to take film home was a process because you had to make copies of the vhs tape or take the only copy and could only watch it when you were in front of the tv with a vcr, now it just seems with HUDL that there is almost a pressure to be watching all the time. And really what can you possibly pick up after watching the same thing like 50 times! Maybe I am the only one I don't know just was wondering if anyone else ran into this or if I am just going psycho this season LOL Do you feel that you're prepared? If you are what good will watching another couple minutes of film do you? Oh yeah I feel prepared and confidant, my point was just with the ease of access to film I almost had like a mini-panic attack that I wasn't watching enough! LOL
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Post by wingtol on Sept 10, 2014 6:25:30 GMT -6
So as I was eating dinner after getting the kids to bed and all that fun last night I started watching something on TV, can't even remember what now. As I was sitting there I almost felt guilty that I wasn't watching film or breaking something down, got a new ipad from school so now it's even easier to access and watch film at home, almost like I wasn't doing my job as a coach because I wasn't doing something football related. Anyone else ever feel with all the technology advances in the last few years that there is almost more pressure to be watching film or what not?
When I started not to long ago being able to take film home was a process because you had to make copies of the vhs tape or take the only copy and could only watch it when you were in front of the tv with a vcr, now it just seems with HUDL that there is almost a pressure to be watching all the time. And really what can you possibly pick up after watching the same thing like 50 times! Maybe I am the only one I don't know just was wondering if anyone else ran into this or if I am just going psycho this season LOL
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Post by wingtol on Sept 4, 2014 9:42:58 GMT -6
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Post by wingtol on Aug 31, 2014 12:41:46 GMT -6
Carpet tape to hold the pads and jersey together? Do they have that weird lineman cut on the jersey where there is almost no sleeve?
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Post by wingtol on Aug 31, 2014 12:39:52 GMT -6
www.coachcharacter.comSure you can put kids through all kinds of physical situations to prepare them but that only goes so far. You can push them to their breaking point but if they don't have the mental tools at that point don't have character at that point then it's all for not if you ask me. That is the program we use for character education. Best around if you ask me. Wade, the founder, is a huge football guy. Dad was a FCS HC brothers coach at top 25 programs so he has a feel for athletes especially football players.
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Post by wingtol on Aug 24, 2014 6:37:45 GMT -6
Everyone is optimistic at this time of year. I was watching some previews our tv and paper did the other day. Every kid and coach was saying "Oh yeah we think we'll be good this year. We worked real hard. We have a great system. We should do real well this year. Blahh blahh blahh"
What do you want a coach to say "We'll ya know the left side of our line stinks and we won't get any yards that way. Our MLB takes plays off. Our secondary can't cover. We should win about 3 games this year."
Not to mention the media will always try and make everyone look good in those previews.
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Post by wingtol on Aug 22, 2014 6:34:47 GMT -6
I would think with 55 kids there shouldn't be too much of a problem getting a decent scout team going. Sure you will never get a true 1 vs 1 type look with that number but we have had teams in the 20's an found ways to get looks. Sure you have guys who aren't starters on one side but start the other side of the ball, make em play scout. If you have 44 guys for a scout team rotate a lot of them at least they will be fresh and give a bit more of an effort, might not be the best quality but better than nothing.
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Post by wingtol on Aug 20, 2014 19:29:35 GMT -6
We moved to a new school this year. HC was handing out practice schedules the other day. The guy who is a hold over from the last staff said "Coach this has your old teams name next to our helmet on the paper and the date says aug 18 2011!"
So yeah we don't change our practice routine very much at all.
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Post by wingtol on Aug 19, 2014 5:44:08 GMT -6
Think we had 60 one year at my last school, smallest class in our state, out of 170 boys 9-11 (that's how they do the enrollment in our state). Before that was at school in the biggest class and I think we hit 80 on varsity one year with prob 30 on JV and Frosh team each.
On a side note saw yesterday that Hoover in AL had like 260+ kids in their program. That's just insane. Imagine all the hangers on through the levels with that many kids. I would rather have a smaller team than have all that dead weight in the program.
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Post by wingtol on Aug 17, 2014 10:15:29 GMT -6
Just so you guys understand, I am a former player turned coach who is very loyal to the HC. He is a good friend of mine and we have a lot of trust in each other. However, a friend/former teammate of mine has joined the staff from the youth program and we began to talk of how the HC has become "soft" over time (even the DC has since then, who was also our coach) especially compared to when he was coaching us. He never had kids back then, but now has two and I believe this is the root of it. I'm not sure this happens naturally, because I'm sure there's coaches out there who started to have kids but still stayed stern and tough. My question is, how do you bring this up to the HC? Especially if you think by him being a little tougher/demanding on the kids would help the team reach their potential? Maybe he hasn't gotten softer at all. Maybe he was never as hard as you remember him as when you were a player. We had a former player come back and help us for awhile in the summers when he was around. He would always tell us we were softer now than when he played for us. Things is we were doing the exact same stuff as when he played! Our HC flipped on him after he said this a couple times and that was the end of it. My advice, keep your mouth shut and keep coaching the way he wants it.
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Post by wingtol on Aug 9, 2014 19:25:37 GMT -6
3 of our starters are special ed! With all due respect to what ever one else has posted and not to sound like a di*k this is your problem! If 1/2 or over 1/2 your OL is special ed and you're trying to teach them this offense with no rules, goodnight! Your HC may be special ed as well if he can't figure this out himself! Sometimes you can't make chicken salad out of chicken sh*t! Trying to get special ed kids to run trap 9 ways will end anyone's career!
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Post by wingtol on Jul 24, 2014 13:18:22 GMT -6
I don't know where you are in your pre-season or what you have been able to do so far but I would have to say that it is just way to early to tell what is gonna shake down with him. We don't make any kind of decision on starters until we see them when the bullets are flying for a few days. I know we start trying to put kids in position and think we know who the starters are before we go live but usually after the first two weeks it's not what we thought. I think kids like that usually find their way on to the field at some point, a kind of it's not where you start it's where you finish type deals.
If he does get beat out he can always help you in other ways, special teams would jump to mind or maybe even a different position on defense as others have said. If he's a decent athlete and tough put him on the DL for a switch up. Kind of create something for him to do that can help and boost them like that.
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Post by wingtol on Jul 19, 2014 8:16:51 GMT -6
Going back to the OP I would guess this guy was a great people person. I may be wrong but to be about .500 for a career isn't great, that's pretty average. I am gonna guess he was a great person first and everything fell into place behind that.
The longer I coach the more I realize it's about the relationships more than anything else. There are a bunch of guys around here who could X and O me under the table. Guys I like and don't mind being around but when coaching their players in a local all star game and the kids say things like " I hope he dies!" " I hate his f'ing guts" and so on I come to see that there is a lot more to being great than your record or how much you know about the game.
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Post by wingtol on Jul 13, 2014 17:19:47 GMT -6
The school we just left is a small private school. We use to say the only people in the stands were cousins and c**ksuckers aka not real big crowds. School we are at now is same region but more of a community so maybe around 1000 a game.
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Post by wingtol on Jul 1, 2014 6:18:07 GMT -6
You can get riled up with the "dumb and lazy" tag but it is what it is. If you don't script then you, or anyone else, is doing their program an injustice. If you want to defend it, I would love to hear why it is better to not script than to script. I spend hours a day doing it, so I would love to know why it would be advantageous to me to not do this. Never scripted a defensive team session in my career. Hand the scout team the cards and say here, I will tell them what to run more of or only give them 8 or 10 cards. I don't try and stop everything they do just their best and most run plays. We aren't to fancy on D with 3 or 4 fronts and two coverage so scripting I feel gives me nothing more than giving a guy some cards and saying here run these. And we won 78 games in 10 years so I guess it worked ok for us. Sure if you asked no one would call us dumb or lazy.
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Post by wingtol on Jun 26, 2014 15:53:29 GMT -6
This is why I hate 7-7's.
I use the be an athlete line all the time, usually when someone trips over a cone or bag or falls doing our warm ups. Is that wrong lol
I hate "CATCH THE BALL" like he was trying to drop it or had no desire to catch the ball.
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Post by wingtol on Jun 22, 2014 7:16:55 GMT -6
PA just pushed through the 90 mins of full contact a week for this season. Their defenition of full contact was 11-11 tackling to the ground. So basically it means nothing. We can still do all drills etc in full pads with contact just have to limit basically team O/D to 90 mins. Which if you are doing that much anyways you should probably have your head examined!
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Post by wingtol on Jun 16, 2014 10:01:23 GMT -6
I kind of gave myself the title of assistant head coach in our program LOL The HC and I have been best friends since we were 4 so he didn't care. Basically I am the right hand man if the HC isn't there I am in charge kind of thing. I also kind of added it to my title just to make it sound a bit more official since I do all the recruiting, film exchanges, publicity type stuff (getting info to media and online sites), ordering stuff, etc so I just kind of thought the title would give me a bit more juice! We also have a great staff where everyone knows their roles and have no problems with the power structure, we are all pretty close friends and have been working together for over a decade as a staff with little turn over. So assistant head coach doesn't offend anyone or create a power struggle within the staff.
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