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Post by larrymoe on Jan 21, 2024 15:39:36 GMT -6
I just don't understand why you have to argue this same argument over and over and over and over and over... And yes, I don't like much of what HS football has become. Fair point. Likely for the same reason that others have to post the same "option as panacea" statements over and over and over and over and over, or complain about teams that don't run them over and over and over and over. You could just ignore them you know.
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Post by larrymoe on Jan 21, 2024 15:09:03 GMT -6
I don't know anything either, other than you will be here instantly to argue against them. And you my friend, will be here instantly to comment on that, or tell us how much you hate football I just don't understand why you have to argue this same argument over and over and over and over and over... And yes, I don't like much of what HS football has become.
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Post by larrymoe on Jan 21, 2024 12:56:22 GMT -6
What I do know is that when it comes to this particular topic, many presumably high quality HS football coaches start to sound like Uncle Rico in the stands. I don't know anything either, other than you will be here instantly to argue against them.
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Post by larrymoe on Jan 19, 2024 13:10:47 GMT -6
Living in Illinois you get all the stupid policies of California, without the scenery and weather. It's fantastic... Who you vote for is important. Problem is, most people don't know what they are voting for, and in actuality, vote against their own interests It doesn't matter who I vote for in Illinois state politics. We are completely overridden by Chicagoland.
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Post by larrymoe on Jan 18, 2024 18:34:54 GMT -6
Looks like football under 12 is on the way to being banned in CALI Interesting fuckkkk california in every way except the beauty and climate but that is {censored} up Living in Illinois you get all the stupid policies of California, without the scenery and weather. It's fantastic...
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Post by larrymoe on Jan 18, 2024 10:17:11 GMT -6
Huey is becoming a conspiracy theorists dream not for nothing, but we infer what you're saying with this term is "made up speculation". Those vociferously supporting Coach Sanders continue to fall back on "maybe he...." "it could be", "who knows whats going on" deflection via uncertainty and conjecture when presented with 'smoke' / foul odor from the locker room. This isn't a 'conspiracy'. Simply TALK to any of your trusted coaching friends that have been on that staff or been intimately around that program and you'll get instant, credible supporting accounts. HE AIN'T HARD 2 FIND. for me, its not a personal witchunt. Its a guy LARPing as a Head Coach, who has been gifted keys to something he did not earn on merit. He's jiving his way through this grift by assuming some Baptist pastor personna that insulates him from negative critique. He's not nickel slick enough to pull this off at the DI level. While entrusted with this responsibility, his inexperience by hubris gets exposed at every narrow turn in the process. buuuut we'll keep making excuses for poor execution and lack of fundamentals because thats what we do in society now.... I point all this out simply to say, this will be his undoing. These shortcuts will be a daisychain of poor decisions where he believes he can outsmart fundamentals of success. He's been allowed to do this because there is zero accountability to "PRIME" because 'but muh endorsements!'. This situation offers a tremendous learning tool to pay attention to (as it happens) for those thinking they just NEED to be head coach without having the experience while also having the bull-headedness to not receive any critical feedback This is a far more eloquent wording of my personal feelings on this entire "Prime" situation.
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Post by larrymoe on Jan 15, 2024 17:36:11 GMT -6
I took over for a guy who had been HC for 25 years, went to the playoffs 18 of those years, multiple quarterfinals and one semifinal. They had waned his last few years and numbers were down. He had wanted to continue coaching after he retired as principal but the school board said no. He was very helpful when I took over, but it was clear a change was needed. I changed just about everything just to fit my personality. Changed the weight room, the practice schedule, the offense, the defense, special teams, uniforms, helmets, literally everything I could. He and I are VERY different people and it showed in my 3rd year when he came back to help out. We went 4-5 my first year, 6-4 my second and 10-1 and 11-1 my 3rd and 4th year. Went 11-17 my last 3 years and it was time to move on. They've went 19-34 in the 7 years since I left. This was my 2nd go around as HC. The 1st one I took over for a guy who was a town legend, but had only been HC 4 years. However, in those 4 years we went from 0-9 and only scoring 26pts the whole season to 10-3 and state semifinalists. I'll went 5-5 and was gone after 1 year, but that's because I told the super to get bent. My 3rd job as a HC I took over for a HOF coach who was only at the school 3 years, but went to the playoffs at a place who hadn't made them in a while 2 of the 3. I'm fairly familiar with the concept...
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Post by larrymoe on Jan 13, 2024 17:18:21 GMT -6
There is zero chance of HS FB being banned in my lifetime I’m completely in favor of this bill. I think it could be the best thing for FB in a long time I hope you're older because there's a million things that are legislated now that if you'd have told anyone it would be a law 20 years ago they'd have laughed you out of the room.
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Post by larrymoe on Jan 12, 2024 16:36:52 GMT -6
I won't say I got it from Saban, but before I crawl a kid the first thing I ask is "What did (read key) do?" Maybe I heard it from a Sabanite, but that was always the first thing I asked a kid. Dating back to 2005.
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Post by larrymoe on Jan 12, 2024 16:34:01 GMT -6
We only had 2 hand touch in Jr high and I quit after a couple games as an OL. I wasn't going to play in HS because of how miserable my experience in JFL was. I was basically kidnapped by the freshman coach the last week of Jr High and "forced" to play.
As a coach and especially a HC, I had 2xs more All Conference/All State players come from kids who never played football before HS or quit in JFL than I ever did from kids who played JFL. In fact, JFL "all stars" rarely even played 4 years let alone were any good.
The expansion of youth sports has done more damage to HS football and other sports than can ever be imagined.
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Post by larrymoe on Jan 11, 2024 18:25:17 GMT -6
Apparently, they don't watch 8-year-olds play football. It's more wrestling than hard-htting football. But...they're probably against wrestling, too. I was just going to post that those that don't like football also don't like wrestling.
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Post by larrymoe on Jan 11, 2024 15:49:11 GMT -6
That was certainly his situation the last years he was at Alabama. It was most certainly not the situation when he started there. And his REAL competition had similar resources. Yes.
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Post by larrymoe on Jan 11, 2024 15:42:58 GMT -6
True, a great football mind. But don't forget that he had the "pick-of-the-litter" when it came to recruiting and hiring. When you have the best of everything working for you, it's hard to lose. That was certainly his situation the last years he was at Alabama. It was most certainly not the situation when he started there.
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Post by larrymoe on Jan 10, 2024 15:46:50 GMT -6
Thank God.
Ban it everywhere.
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Post by larrymoe on Jan 8, 2024 18:56:20 GMT -6
Legally speaking, those contracts aren't worth the paper they're printed on at a private school either. Maybe so, but there has always been those "individuals" who have challenged coaches' decisions. Some taking things further than others. However, in my experience MOST individuals either back off, or drop their challenges when a prepared document written in the best "legaleeze" is presented with THEIR own signatures acknowledging their agreement and support of the document, especially when the school administration stands behind it. Your last 8 words is more valuable than that contract ever will be.
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Post by larrymoe on Jan 8, 2024 16:32:14 GMT -6
Those contracts aren't worth the paper they're printed on. I was blessed to have spent most of my 50 year career coaching/teaching in private/parochial schools where those contracts were an extension of the student-parent handbook, mandated, supported, and reinforced by the school administration, so they certainly were worth more than the paper they were written on for us. Those "contracts" were considered "preventative legal insurance." I had many coaching friends who worked in government schools (aka public) where my experience was not necessarily the case for them. Legally speaking, those contracts aren't worth the paper they're printed on at a private school either.
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Post by larrymoe on Jan 7, 2024 14:45:38 GMT -6
Those contracts aren't worth the paper they're printed on.
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Post by larrymoe on Jan 5, 2024 19:22:15 GMT -6
Well, 1. It's in Naperville, so entitled has to be thrown in 2. Lots of power words and educational buzz phrases thrown in by the parents and asst coaches 3. In the end, this just boils down to the parents were pissy, decided they'd "show that coach" and the coach said " {censored} that {censored}" and beat them to the punch. It’s actually Hinsdale. But 6 of one, a half dozen of another. My bad. At the same time, is there a difference? In my defense, I read that and posted at 4:30 am. Pre workout had not taken hold yet.
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Post by larrymoe on Jan 5, 2024 4:54:34 GMT -6
Well, 1. It's in Naperville, so entitled has to be thrown in 2. Lots of power words and educational buzz phrases thrown in by the parents and asst coaches 3. In the end, this just boils down to the parents were pissy, decided they'd "show that coach" and the coach said " {censored} that {censored}" and beat them to the punch.
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Post by larrymoe on Jan 2, 2024 17:06:57 GMT -6
If the question is whether Sanders' first year was a success I think that the fact that so far there are six pages talking about him and CU football says that it was. Before he got there nobody who wasn't an alum or lived there cared about CU football. Are his methods sustainable? Who knows? But isn't that the answer with every new coach? This thread is only 6 pages for 1 reason.
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Post by larrymoe on Dec 31, 2023 17:42:30 GMT -6
I don’t see how your bringing up turnover on the staff is an indication of a lack of success THIS year. Red flag in that the way things are being done at CU rubs some the wrong way? Probably. any coach worth his salt is getting the {censored} out of there As are most of the kids. You can't go to the media and continually tell them your players suck and then expect kids to play for you.
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Post by larrymoe on Dec 24, 2023 14:33:54 GMT -6
Mine has a section at the top with my degrees and teaching certificates. Then a list of my teaching positions, dates there and subjects taught. Then a list of my coaching positions, dates there and positions. That takes up my first page. On my second page I have three professional references and three coaching references. This was pretty much mine as well and I worked in 8 different schools as well, with 3 stints as a HC.
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Post by larrymoe on Dec 16, 2023 5:00:01 GMT -6
If you count mirrored plays, I probably ran around 30. Wedge Trap Belly Belly lead Iso Pitch Double lead Rocket Wham Counter trey Jet Wrap QB Iso QB Trap Stretch There were a couple more over time. I would count that as 15. And would also assume Iso and QB iso and Trap and QB trap are similar for the line. I would count it as that too, but mirroring was mentioned as being separate plays. And they're all pretty similar for the line. There's really only like 3 schemes and each play has like 1 player being deviated.
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Post by larrymoe on Dec 15, 2023 16:37:42 GMT -6
If you count mirrored plays, I probably ran around 30. Wedge Trap Belly Belly lead Iso Pitch Double lead Rocket Wham Counter trey Jet Wrap QB Iso QB Trap Stretch
There were a couple more over time.
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Post by larrymoe on Dec 14, 2023 19:07:22 GMT -6
Was a freshman coach in a program where the fresh team and the varsity ran Double Wing with at least 1 WR most of the time. Fresh played Thurs and varsity Fri. The next Monday our JV comes out in triple I double tight. I was sitting in the booth next to the camera and pretty loudly said "What the hell is this?" I meant it as, what the hell are they running? Apparently during film the JV coaches turned the sound up and made fun of me as if I wasn't smart enough to figure out their mastermind scheme. The JV coach eventually got fired/resigned before the season was over. He applied for the HC job that winter when I ended up getting it. Needless to say, I had a lot of problems with those JV kids in my 1 year as a HC there. That coach continued to hang around the program while his kids were in school and cause problems until even his wife had enough of him and divorced him. Guy used to have kids over to his house to show them highlight films of him playing in HS and college. He was that guy. And then he became famous as 3 year letterman I can assure you, that man didn't have a funny bone in his considerably large body. One year we made the playoffs and our HCgot the staff Tshirts. He immediately let us all know his wife was going to have to sew the sleeves up because they were just "too tight". And they were. Not in a Hulkster python way, but more like Bertha's busted biscuits coming out her legging top.
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Post by larrymoe on Dec 14, 2023 7:15:40 GMT -6
I never ordered #1 or #69. Those numbers always attract the same kind of kid. I know you'll still have those kids on your team, but I didn't want to feed them. Ha! Every kid I have ever known who wore 69 was a smartass! 😂 Don't get me wrong, I love a good smart-ass, but the 69 kinda smart-ass isn't my fave. I veer more Monty Python smart-ass, less 69 version.
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Post by larrymoe on Dec 12, 2023 12:30:49 GMT -6
Was a freshman coach in a program where the fresh team and the varsity ran Double Wing with at least 1 WR most of the time. Fresh played Thurs and varsity Fri. The next Monday our JV comes out in triple I double tight. I was sitting in the booth next to the camera and pretty loudly said "What the hell is this?" I meant it as, what the hell are they running? Apparently during film the JV coaches turned the sound up and made fun of me as if I wasn't smart enough to figure out their mastermind scheme.
The JV coach eventually got fired/resigned before the season was over. He applied for the HC job that winter when I ended up getting it. Needless to say, I had a lot of problems with those JV kids in my 1 year as a HC there. That coach continued to hang around the program while his kids were in school and cause problems until even his wife had enough of him and divorced him.
Guy used to have kids over to his house to show them highlight films of him playing in HS and college. He was that guy.
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Post by larrymoe on Dec 12, 2023 12:25:39 GMT -6
This is followed closely by taking a knee in gun for me. But yes, snapping the ball 5yds backwards to gain 6inches has always been a mystifying choice to me. I'll defend taking a knee from the Gun. If a (frustrated) defense wants to blow up the Center, they're not going to disrupt the exchange. The Q can take a knee without the threat of fumbling from people falling all over him (or just gettting hit for no reason). Again, see my posts about this. In Illinois, at least, if you say you're taking a knee the refs make the other team stay off you.
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Post by larrymoe on Dec 10, 2023 18:25:08 GMT -6
As a guy who changed numbers 5 times in 9 years, I never really understood the big deal about getting a certain number. Some kids want number of their favorite player, others the number their dad or older brother wore. Wasn't a big deal to me either so long as they were legal. I wore like 62 in JFL, 65 my fresh year, 70 my soph and Jr year and had to switch to 77 my Sr because 70 was a large and I grew out of it. Was 78 in college all 4 years because the guy in front of me took 77. My jr year of college I switched to defense full time but 99 was already taken by another jr.
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Post by larrymoe on Dec 10, 2023 18:22:10 GMT -6
On a side note, I am phasing out 40s and 80s. No one wants them. I never ordered #1 or #69. Those numbers always attract the same kind of kid. I know you'll still have those kids on your team, but I didn't want to feed them.
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