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Post by coachg13 on Jan 27, 2016 12:54:38 GMT -6
I also speak more to players than coaches. I know all other HC's in our area pretty well. For whatever reason, not much is said after other than good game. But we will text/talk on phone the next couple days at length.
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Post by coachg13 on Jan 26, 2016 12:08:49 GMT -6
I'm at a tiny tiny school. We have 37 boys in the high school. 4 of which have medical conditions - 1 epilepsy, 2 severe back issues, one special needs. That leaves 33 males. We had 30 on the squad this year. Next year will be a higher percentage with 3 of the above 4 mentioned graduating bc every 8th grade male participates except 1 who is our ball boy so I'll count him. You beating the bushes and recruiting the hallways will get a few more out if you are a new HC just bc that raises some interest and excited to start.
Our staff pounds home how special it is to be part of our group. The kids take pride in it. The "peer pressure" is what brings the participation up big time. It was my first year here, and there was a baseball stud that refused to play football. After 2 days of spring practice he came and begged to play. All his friends talking about how different it is and the pride they exhibit from being in the football program did that. Concentrate on the kids you do have. Get every one of them to buy in completely and take pride in what they're doing every day. A kid telling another kid he needs to be out on the football field goes a lot further than any coach saying the same thing would go.
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Post by coachg13 on Jan 25, 2016 18:00:19 GMT -6
There are several schools/districts that have lost lawsuits for head injuries occurring with helmets that were reconditioned every-other year. We do ours every year just to cover our asses.
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Post by coachg13 on Jan 15, 2016 12:05:57 GMT -6
Spielman got shut down several times over the course of the game. It was almost uncomfortable to watch. Some of the looks he got from the coaches just let you know what they think of him.
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Post by coachg13 on Jan 7, 2016 14:02:01 GMT -6
Defensively: 1. Wrong alignment - set up for failure from the start 2. Kid gets out played/athleted - sometimes a kid just makes a great catch, makes a tackler miss, etc 3. Loafs
Offensively: 1. Missed assignment - people left unblocked at the point of attack 2. Scheme - poor play calls/strategy 3. Offensive line gets out played - can't handle the defensive front
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Post by coachg13 on Dec 15, 2015 21:10:23 GMT -6
brophy - This is public schools they're talking about. I've never heard of anything except a pure exchange student at public schools. Maybe they exist somewhere but I have never heard of any boarding situations at public schools - that would make things interesting ha.
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Post by coachg13 on Dec 15, 2015 20:59:23 GMT -6
Well now that I think I know exactly where you coach thanks to coachwoodall ha - turf/field is definitely the biggest for y'all. He's right. The new realignment's going to be very interesting next season.
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Post by coachg13 on Dec 15, 2015 14:48:45 GMT -6
Since your in SC, go visit Colquitt county GA in Moultrie. You'll get a lot of ideas of how to spend money and things you can build. Haha...I'm a HC in SC...our budget this year was 10K...got any openings lol. Seriously though - that much money 1. Make weight room the best it can be with everything you could possibly need - that's what gets teams over the hump 2. Take staff visits to best programs around 3. Turf field - I know some districts around here are re-doing every field already 4. Do you have a football/athletic facility? I'd try to get everything - weights/lockers/meeting rooms/offices all in one central location
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Post by coachg13 on Dec 15, 2015 8:16:50 GMT -6
@coachsmiley - do you mind us asking where you are located?
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Post by coachg13 on Nov 29, 2015 15:46:43 GMT -6
We have the gym. We played in the state championship last week. Was pouring down rain on Tuesday...the cheerleading coach offered to "share" it with us if we needed to go inside.
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Post by coachg13 on Nov 23, 2015 7:32:01 GMT -6
Great season, Coach. We lost as well Saturday in the State Championship. Were completely dominated physically for the first time all year. Feel bad for the kids, but they have a lot to be proud of. Good luck and congratulations to anyone still playing!
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Post by coachg13 on Oct 21, 2015 8:41:44 GMT -6
I like that idea coachbdudI wasn't going to let our guys wear pink - we did a fundraiser and donated all the proceeds instead. Apparently we have a lot of mom survivors, I got emails, voicemails, in person confrontations...too many to count. One mom told me she would "rather us wear pink than donate money to cancer research" Decided to stop fighting that battle. Ended up buying a 40 pack of socks for homecoming from Walmart and dying them myself. The matching pink socks were the only thing they were allowed to wear that was pink. We have a rule in general though, only things approved by HC (me) are allowed to be worn.
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Post by coachg13 on Oct 8, 2015 20:25:10 GMT -6
HC at a small private school here. Was at our middle school game tonight. We were down 19-0 at half and the other team is steady throwing the ball all over the field to start the 3rd quarter. Our MS coach looks over at me like "Can you believe this chit?!" I just say at some point we have to line up and stop them. Giving them the benefit of the doubt...it really wasn't that bad. Even calmly and politely told our MS coaches to stop complaining in front of our players about the other team throwing it, how it sends the wrong message, no excuses blah blah. So our team runs the ball every play during the 4th quarter, just trying to get out of there. At this point it's 35-0 for the other team.
57 seconds left in the game, they get the ball back....half back pass. Couldn't really say anything to our coaches about that one.
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Post by coachg13 on Sept 26, 2015 20:13:01 GMT -6
Not necessarily "awful" coaching per se, but a decent story. Playing against a successful, well known coach in our league last night, we were up by 7 with about 8 mins left. They had it 4th and goal from the 12 after we got a sack on 3rd down. Our CB had good coverage on a wheel route and just blatantly shoved the chit out of the WR for no apparent reason as the ball is coming. They call pass interference which was the absolute correct call. I calmly walked over to our linesman to make sure the crew knows its not an automatic first down (you never know). So they mark off half the distance to the goal. 4th and goal from the 6, we say great lets get one more stop. Opposing team breaks the huddle...FB dive up the middle for 1 yard. Our defense runs off pumped up and offense runs on the field. The coach on the other sideline is freaking out screaming and hollering at the refs...
We drove it down and scored again, so it may not have made a difference, but it pays to know the rules.
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Post by coachg13 on Sept 17, 2015 6:50:09 GMT -6
Not way back in the day, and anyone in 2A in SC might remember this. 4 years ago - right before HUDL took off all the head coaches went to seeding meeting for playoffs. They all agreed everybody exchanged films. Well a team in our side of the bracket got home they got the tiebreakers wrong and they should be hosting a game instead of traveling 2 hours. It turned into about 20 assistant coaches driving all over the state to get the right films.
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Post by coachg13 on Sept 16, 2015 5:43:57 GMT -6
You're reading this thread AFTER your practice for the day.
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Post by coachg13 on Sept 15, 2015 7:00:23 GMT -6
Take a knee.
Other questionable coaching - Friday we ran power out of 21 personnel 39 times for 250 yards. The opposing team stayed in a double eagle look with a 9 technique AND he ran upfield the entire night. Never got out of it.
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Post by coachg13 on Sept 12, 2015 9:49:17 GMT -6
I'd fire myself...I was looking through our state scores last night there was 72-64 game. Didn't think that one would almost be doubled up!
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Post by coachg13 on Aug 25, 2015 13:30:48 GMT -6
I'm not a fan of "Blah Blah Football" We put our logo on the chest. That way it kind of works for all athletics stuff. Not that big of a deal but I coach our MS BBall team too. I just feel dumb wearing a shirt with "Football" on it coaching basketball. Or I guess they could just increase the basketball budget to get me a damn shirt.
T-Shirts and spirit packs each year we get one with the sport specific "football" on it. But for the nicer polo/jacket stuff I just like the logo so I can recycle it for other sports ha.
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Post by coachg13 on Aug 20, 2015 18:31:16 GMT -6
We run 4 formations a week. Plus a 2x2 "Spread" and a "Goalline" set. I have color - just red, I fill in the cells with the formation names in them. Just helps me separate it a little bit. Other than that I'm like groundchuck - just the plays for me. All that other field position/hash/down & distance/3rd and 3.684 yds stuff is up there somewhere in my head. We do put a number beside each play. We have about 60 plays a week - that includes the formation in the play name. So we just run "Play 3" in and QB reads the whole call off his band. I type it because I'm OCD about neatness and my handwriting sucks plus I was a finance major so I like excel and have it linked from the sheet to the bands. The biggest thing though is our OL coach likes a copy on Fridays and if I wrote it he couldn't read it.
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Post by coachg13 on Aug 19, 2015 20:27:47 GMT -6
We never base block, like ever. Never would expect one of our guys to do that. SO we use half-line for this. Go good and good full tilt and run your stuff. D has an advantage bc they know which way ball is going. I like that as the OL coach bc it puts a magnifying glass on our rules/technique. We build our half-lines up to be the biggest thing in the world. Surround the guys and everything. Looks just like the image of an Oklahoma in your mind, just way more productive in my opinion.
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Post by coachg13 on Aug 19, 2015 19:46:01 GMT -6
Documented everything today.
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Post by coachg13 on Aug 19, 2015 9:33:54 GMT -6
That was the first thing I had to do walking into my new school. Had to order all new helmets for middle school. Every one of the old ones was 13+ years old. Just google helmet lawsuit, there's a bunch of stuff. Also a school district in NC recently lost a lawsuit over a kid sustaining a head injury. Helmets weren't reconditioned prior to the season even though they were reconditioned the year before which by the letter of the law is legal. Gotta do it every year.
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Post by coachg13 on Aug 18, 2015 21:03:26 GMT -6
The hard part for me knowing the kids just a pu$$y is we do not have a trainer at practice, only on Friday nights. Dumbest thing ever, you need one more M-Th in my opinion. Problems of being at a small school. My old school our trainer played college FB before he got certified, so he'd say get your ass back out there, he was tougher than all the coaches. That kid even though he's lacking in manhood and we all know it, is a lawsuit waiting to happen. I told him not to come back if he wasn't going to pull that crap. Our coaches have better things to do than babysit.
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Post by coachg13 on Aug 18, 2015 20:00:22 GMT -6
Update on that same kid today...do dynamic warm-up then split up to offensive indy. Exactly 2 reps in the combo drill we start with every day - dizzy says he's going to faint and doesn't know his name. Yesterday it was back spasms.
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Post by coachg13 on Aug 17, 2015 22:05:21 GMT -6
Holy cow! School doesn't start until after Labor Day. We have pay to play fees. The office lady who handles it is on vacation this week. We still have 50 kids who still need to pay. One of our captains and one of our QBs were caught with weed in the car. They are both out for at least the first game. This off season has been a freaking circus. Sent from my SM-G900V using proboards You must be at my old school...
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Post by coachg13 on Aug 17, 2015 22:03:44 GMT -6
Kids dad watched us condition today staring me down the whole time. Approached me when we came off the field and asked the following: 1. Do we have knowledge about heat acclimatization? 2. Do we give them water during practice? 3. Do we check on players for heat exhaustion/dehydration?
I responded to all his questions as politely as possible, and then asked him why all the questions.
Said his son came home and told him that he took his own blood pressure and it was 40/20 and that he almost died... Practice that day was a walk through in the gym bc it was pissing rain and storming.
Not sure where the kid found the blood pressure apparatus or how he's still walking if his blood pressure was 40/20.
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Post by coachg13 on Aug 13, 2015 21:52:00 GMT -6
Another update I forgot to share - we are a small private school and played a solid 3A public program in a scrimmage, and "won" 3 scores to 1... I had to then sit through a board meeting where the vice-chair explained that he paid money so his son could play against "small private school kids, not bigger, faster, stronger ones"...
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Post by coachg13 on Aug 13, 2015 19:03:22 GMT -6
Splendidly for us...first week - 3 players down
1. TE/DE - breaks ankle running around a pool 2. OT/DT - breaks arm playing "500" - I didn't even know people still played that 3. Backup TE/DE - Breaks foot - ranover by a golf cart in his neighborhood
I told them today if anyone else gets hurt not on a football field they're gonna wish they had died instead
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Post by coachg13 on Jul 28, 2015 12:55:16 GMT -6
Here's what we are going to try with our first one.
No special teams. Each time it starts on the -40 yard line. Team 1 gets 8 offensive plays no matter the outcome - turnover or TD the ball goes back to the -40. After 8 plays ball is placed back on the -40 and Team 1 starts an offensive drive until they are stopped. Inside the +30 you can go for it on 4th down.
Once the drive is over, teams flip.
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