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Post by dodson10 on Nov 28, 2018 13:47:26 GMT -6
Are you a THSCA member? If you wait until a few weeks after Christmas break there will be a few more jobs posted. About February-March there will be job boards full of open jobs posted on the THSCA website. It's too early for any assistant jobs to be posted. There will be a lot more head jobs posted before any assistant jobs are.
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Post by dodson10 on Feb 12, 2018 11:17:57 GMT -6
We encourage kids to do everything that they can here. We are a smaller school in Texas with 350 kids in the high school. We have to share kids in order to make sure all of our teams are as good as they can be. Our track team will workout at 6:30 on Mondays so the kids can go to baseball right after school on Mondays. Baseball plays on Tuesdays so if you are in both you go to the baseball game on that day and not track practice. Wednesdays are track priority after school, but we keep practice light so they can get to baseball right after. They are usually off the track after 45 minutes. Thursdays are track meet days so the kids who do both will go to the meet and not baseball. Friday is another baseball day so they will be at baseball if they are in baseball. We also lift our kids 3 days per week in the offseason period here. If you're competing that day you don't lift. It would be nice to have kids that can practice more, however I've had plenty of kids who could practice both and be good at both. 5 years ago at a similar size school our shortstop was the district MVP and qualified for the regional track meet in 5 events. I've always had kids that crossed over and were successful. I've also been blessed with baseball coaches that were supportive and helped us get kids in a position to be successful. Again we are in this business for the kids. If we can win some track meets along the way that's a bonus.
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Post by dodson10 on Sept 20, 2017 12:32:49 GMT -6
I think it would be the same for us coaches if the fans didn't have to sit in the stands. If they were there a few feet from us and telling us exactly what they think all of the time we would get sick of it as well.
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Post by dodson10 on May 15, 2017 13:19:59 GMT -6
in my classes, fidget spinner use is up but phone usage is down. So there's that. That's a win. Probably less distracting than Snapchat or playing a game. At my school we have these things where kids store their phones for the hour. I don't use mine because they can use their phones during a lot of my lessons and honestly they aren't that huge of a problem for me (a kid or two every hour will abuse their phone but overall it isn't too rampant). We had these for the first two weeks in our school. They told us to tell the kids that it was mandatory to put them in there during the class period. I told mine they could do that or put theirs in their backpack on silent. Either way I wouldn't care. The second week of school one of the kids phones shattered bc the teacher didn't bother to secure it very well. After the $400 phone broke, the school made an announcement that they never said they were mandatory, but merely a suggestion for teachers. Felt really bad for the kid too. On topic, fidget spinners are forbidden unless it's in the IEP. We have some crazy things in IEPs, but I don't fight them bc it's law. I have participated in every ARD for kids in my class, so I get my two cents in during the meeting rather than after.
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Post by dodson10 on May 12, 2017 12:35:38 GMT -6
In Texas you don't have to be a classroom teacher, rather just employed full time by the district. Several schools have employed coaches under maintenance titles (HVAC repairmen) for the district so they could coach there. Doesn't mean they actually go and work on the AC units, just means that's their title. One of my former coaches was the head coach of a Dallas ISD school and he had a school security guard that was a coach for him. Didn't last long, but it was better than going without a coach for the year.
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Post by dodson10 on May 11, 2017 9:03:17 GMT -6
We had great kids who understood what being a captain meant. I think if you lay out what your idea of a captain is it helps kids to determine those characteristics when they vote. It also helps that it's a secret ballot. They aren't afraid to vote honestly if it's private.
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Post by dodson10 on May 10, 2017 12:33:27 GMT -6
We voted weekly and it was a ballot vote so nobody knew who got the votes. Put your name in the top right hand corner so we know who voted and put 4 names on the sheet. Top 4 vote getters got it. We had a center who went to TCU on a full ride who was never a captain. Kids knew he wasn't a hard worker and he never got a single vote in 2 years.
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Post by dodson10 on Feb 14, 2017 13:29:31 GMT -6
New head coach was having a meeting with the parents before the football season. Introduces the staff and starts to talk about how things will go. He was trying to convey that we were going to be tough on the kids, but still care about them. He said, "we are going to get in your kids britches, but we're going to love 'em up at the same time". Everyone in the gym is looking at each other to make sure that they heard him right. None of us coaches can keep a straight face for the next 10 minutes or so of the talk. When he gets done we tell him what he said and he is completely mortified. We always brought it up when someone was coaching a kid hard.
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Post by dodson10 on Jan 25, 2017 8:32:20 GMT -6
We have a dedicated athletic period in Texas and we still have kids that will be at school all day and then get their parents to check them out for athletics on particularly hard weight days. Kids who don't want to show up will find ways to not be there. I admire you guys who have optional off season activities and keep participation up. I often wonder how many kids we would have here if it were optional.
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Post by dodson10 on Jan 9, 2017 11:05:37 GMT -6
We use it. It's a great resource for your kids and coaches. It is going to take some of your time that you have for strength and conditioning, but it's definitely worth it. The lessons are easy to follow and applicable for kids today. We take turns doing lessons with our guys as coaches.
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Post by dodson10 on Oct 18, 2016 13:08:44 GMT -6
Our DL coach brought a new way to do gassers this year and our kids love it. You get in 6 lines and blow a whistle, when the kids take off you call out two names and they go try to tag someone else running. If they get someone that person has 5 pushups. It's hilarious to watch some of the linemen corral another lineman and try to get him. It's been good for us to get them in shape and have fun doing it.
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Post by dodson10 on Jan 6, 2016 11:55:19 GMT -6
I have not personally tried it, but I did work with one of the creators. His name is Darrick Ware, and he is a great coach and role model. He and another coach put this together and it is a great resource for your kids. I recommend it because I know he personally lives the lessons that are in that book.
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Post by dodson10 on Apr 2, 2014 9:30:49 GMT -6
You have to be employed by the school district you coach for full time to coach in Texas. However almost all coaches teach class. However some school districts have coaches that are the HVAC repairman for the district. They don't actually do that job, but that's what they're paid for. I have seen some that are also paraprofessionals.
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Post by dodson10 on Apr 1, 2014 10:19:54 GMT -6
We used to have the kids take around a weekly grade sheet. At first the teachers didn't care for it, but then they loved it. We had a section on there for behavior and we punish kids for not turning work in and poor behavior. The kids had to turn them into a specific coach by Thursday each week. We punish on Friday during the athletic period while all of the other kids are competing. If a kid is failing he has to get 30 minutes of before school tutoring in that class and get it signed by the teacher on his next grade sheet. If he has between a 70-75 he has to get 15 minutes of tutoring. It helped us keep track of grades and keep the kids in line with the teachers.
The new HC has us do gradesheets still, but the process is a little different. Still every week, but tutorials are daily and punishment is for missing tutorials daily. Either way you do it gradesheets are awesome. They are a pain in the butt to deal with, but so is losing a kid to grades.
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Post by dodson10 on Feb 26, 2014 11:26:33 GMT -6
So are you saying dangit and d@mnit are essentially the same thing? I'm saying kids should use better language, not necessarily a substitute. If a kid says shoot when he gets mad it's sure a lot better than the alternative? I'm not saying that cussing makes a person bad or that i've never done it, but I'd rather a kid find a better alternative. Our taliback yelled the F word this year at a basketball game after getting his 5th foul. I was at the scorers table and cringed when I heard it. I'm not a basketball coach this year, but I kept thinking about the repercussions for that kid. He's a great athlete so what if a college coach would have been there to watch him play. I know it's going to happen on occasion, but I'd rather the F word not be the first word out of their mouth when they do something good or bad.
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Post by dodson10 on Feb 26, 2014 10:58:38 GMT -6
It's realistic to expect them to find another word to use at the time. I used to have a problem with language and I found other words to use that help me to vent frustrations. God bless America does well for me when I get mad and nobody is going to get onto me for saying it. I was raised by an old school coach and we didn't cuss. Any cuss word was 50 pushups on the spot. F bomb was 200. If a kid was hurt and he cussed there was some leniency. But if a kid cusses each time he gets mad I don't believe that's acceptable. We have plenty of kids who do that where I'm at and they know if they are heard they will do pushups. If our supt. is on the sideline and a kid cusses like a sailor he will wonder why we are letting that go on. And then he will wonder whether or not we are fit to do our job. I believe we are helping to them to become young men, and not cussing is something that is lost on the current generation. Not saying I'm right, just what I believe.
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Post by dodson10 on Feb 21, 2014 13:20:30 GMT -6
Beau Dodson
WR Coach at Farmersville HS in Farmersville, Tx
Also coach Jh Bball and Golf
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Post by dodson10 on Feb 14, 2014 10:14:24 GMT -6
Joker if you don't mind who are the choices? Might be able to help some. I'm from Texas.
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Post by dodson10 on Feb 13, 2014 9:36:18 GMT -6
The stadium was funded through a bond and you can't use that money for anything but facilities. I live 5 minutes south of Allen. It is a tight knit community in the middle of the metroplex. They have over 5700 people in the school. Their old stadium wasn't big enough to account for the growth, so they built a brand new stadium. I would imagine it's a fundraiser to help the football players out with the buying of their rings with the profits from the rings sold to students. I'm not personally for it, but other teams have done this in the past. I wouldn't imagine many people buying them.
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Post by dodson10 on Feb 1, 2014 19:50:53 GMT -6
I completely agree about presnap alignment in scout periods. Our jv is our scout team so getting them to be an exact replica of the other team is tough for us. I meant more of a post snap look. I don't care who wins practice reps. I just get a little angry when a coach chews out a sophomore trying to do his best to run another teams offense and thinks he should know how the other team runs their offense.
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Post by dodson10 on Jan 31, 2014 10:46:09 GMT -6
It's already been said, but when either side of the ball says "They don't line up like that", or "They won't do that". I think it's great to prepare for the worst case scenario as well as the best. If it always works in practice and it doesn't on Friday night maybe someone will see a correlation.
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Post by dodson10 on Jan 17, 2014 12:39:54 GMT -6
I could be ok with the mandated ball all year so I could get used to it in practice and get it scuffed up. As a QB I was very particular as to which ball we used. Not that it made a big difference, but I felt it was something I could control. I always love to come on here to see how different people do things. Our state(TX) does this for regional basketball tournaments, so the teams in the state that plan on going there have all bought that brand of ball. Great thing for the basketball company.
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Post by dodson10 on Jan 17, 2014 11:51:14 GMT -6
I'm not saying a ball would cost someone a game, I just didn't even know this existed. As an option QB in HS we used a Wilson ST-5 which was a little bit longer and skinny so it was a little easier to handle in the mesh and pitch phase. Not saying we couldn't have adapted to another ball for this, but it seemed to be more comfortable to me. However throwing it was a little different because of the fact that it was a little longer and skinny. If it wasn't a good spiral it tended to fly funky. Again it's not something that couldn't be overcome, just became a comfort thing for me.
When I got to college we used a different ball and it took me few weeks to get used to the new ball, but after that it wasn't a big deal.
This is going to sound like a dumb question, but I'll go ahead and ask. Do you get to use your own balls as long as you use the approved ball choice? So if I'm on offense I get to use my ball, and they use theirs. Or is there a set of designated game balls? Again not familiar with this idea so don't assume I'm an idiot please.
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Post by dodson10 on Jan 17, 2014 11:36:47 GMT -6
That's crazy. We are allowed to use whatever ball we want as long as it's inflated enough and meets the size specs for HS. I always liked the fact that football was the sport in which you could use your own ball preference.
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Post by dodson10 on Jan 15, 2014 11:52:04 GMT -6
I have see programs (college mind you) where rolling is punishment. They make them roll the length of the football field for every minute they are late or x number of times for missed class. Rolling. WTF??? I know it is punishment but really?? We did forward rolls and log rolls as punishment when I was in high school. My dad was a coach and he personally rolled me many lengths of the field. This and bear crawls was by far the worst punishment I had to personally do. It was definitely a deterrent for me to continue my poor behavior.
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Post by dodson10 on Nov 24, 2013 19:26:25 GMT -6
Fighting Heart Award
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