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Post by tabs52 on Aug 16, 2016 4:02:15 GMT -6
In the past couple of years, I had more kids come and complain of headaches then ever before, some might be legit but others know that this was an easy way out of practice. As soon as a kid says anything about their they go right to the trainer, I'm covering my ass. Over the last two years, I think we might of had one concussion, from a player that does not have a history of concussions. We had a few players who had a history of them. I feel most important is education and the stark reality that your son can have a chance of a concussion and that we will do everything to prevent it.
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Post by tabs52 on Aug 10, 2016 20:05:41 GMT -6
Our district let us decide on our own what we could do, we got screwed because everyone had a game in place for that second week, we got stuck with a scrimmage. The new classification for us was the best thing that could happen, it got us away from the big boys in district What district
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Post by tabs52 on Aug 10, 2016 15:54:25 GMT -6
cbh Thank you for your service, but there is a coach on our staff that didn't play since 9th grade, no real experience coaching or with football except as the typical arm chair qb. I would suggest contactinga local and like said before volunteer whether its filming, equipment, etc.... I know my program would is always looking for help in terms of volunteers
Also I have to 100% with brophy
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Post by tabs52 on Aug 10, 2016 15:42:10 GMT -6
We're still in our 5 day mandatory heat acclimatization. Even though we had 3 work outs a night all of July in shells these 5 days will make all the difference... No full contact till next week and with a move to 6 classes our state has only given us one week of pads and one scrimmage instead of two like every other year before our first game. You must be in Pennsylvania, I hate this week. It is as important as camp. Thought you could still do 2 weeks of camp but in my school's case we start in service earlier this year so we can only really have a 4 day camp
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Post by tabs52 on Aug 8, 2016 19:37:53 GMT -6
Not just for the kids, but as a coach I would like the time go home and do some things to clear my mind for a little bit. Get to see kids before I leave. I think for as a coach being at school at 630 am and not getting that break before a game would be draining.
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Post by tabs52 on Aug 4, 2016 8:11:24 GMT -6
I would agree with what fantom said, that is why you train hard in the off season, for this purpose right here. Believe a board drill is not going to do damage to them, but as the s and c coach look for ways to recover them in the season alter how you train during the season
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Post by tabs52 on Aug 3, 2016 21:37:23 GMT -6
We are a smaller that consistently plays about 7 guys both ways. The only ones that wouldn't go both ways was the qb and a few of our bigger linemen who just couldn't. I don't know if there is a one size fits all solutions. Our problem is that the drop off between our 1's and some 2's and our scout team was huge. We never got great work especially in our team sessions. We are switching to the plan that coach Irish suggested this year, in the that's the coach's job. I had a linebacker who didn't need the reps in practice, plus he played just about every play on Friday including special teams he needed the break on Tues/Weds. He got the mental reps in indy time as well technique. I hope this make sense
The other thing to do is give the days off if you can, if you a saturday game give the monday off or if there is a team you should steam roll give the monday off
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Post by tabs52 on Jul 27, 2016 20:20:42 GMT -6
Fantom How has that worked out for your team. We are switching to that format this year.
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Post by tabs52 on Jul 27, 2016 6:57:30 GMT -6
We try to keep most of them off because they wouldn't help us but some of our better athletes are along the line, also with our roster size its tough to get enough quality on those teams without using them.
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Post by tabs52 on Jul 26, 2016 21:03:24 GMT -6
Last year we did that where we did both during a practice and I hated it. This year we are having a offense day focus and defense focus day. When you only 10 minutes of indy one day and you had to install all new line blocking schemes every week you didn't get much drill work done
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Post by tabs52 on Jul 24, 2016 7:14:08 GMT -6
Both myself and my wife are high school coaches and have worked under a variety of AD's. The best AD is one that will communicate with you, leave you alone, and have your back unless you do something stupid. I'll give you an example of a similar situation my wife and myself went through.
A few years ago we had a senior whose dad was the midget team coach, after his junior year he rallied the guys and a select group of followers to get us fired. After a couple days of this going on, the AD and school admins called the seniors in and told them that the staff wasn't going anywhere.
My wife coaches cheer leading at another school, this year three girls started to say she got fired and that they were in charge of the squad. My wife approached him about it and he said he would bring the girls in and end the issue, about a week ago she got a text from him whats going on with cheer leading. In the end he never took care of anything and let girls ruin the squad.
Two different reactions to a similar situation.
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Post by tabs52 on Jul 19, 2016 10:07:25 GMT -6
That is crazy the amount of items the team needs to provide for the players. At my school we could never be able to raise that kind of money
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Post by tabs52 on Jul 16, 2016 7:57:42 GMT -6
I am under a coach who can coach every position or give tips for every position but doesn't unless necessary. He coaches the QB and lets everyone coach their position. I feel that if a HC who has a position to coach tries coach everything can not give enough attention to what they need to do. That being said I feel an HC should be able to coach every position or be able give pointers for every position.
One piece of advice, we had guy come on a few years ago who also coaches our WR's, he a does a good job with his position but when it comes to understand the game concepts itself he is still struggling, since you never played my advice to you is sit with you HC and pick his brain on the why's of game
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Post by tabs52 on Jul 16, 2016 7:52:26 GMT -6
We charge 75.00 and were are in the a similar situation where I believe their students who can't afford and do not participate. The problem with our fee is that is for athletics only, so clubs and our musical do not have to pay. Worst part about is that the money they raise from the fee does not even go back into athletics
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Post by tabs52 on Jul 10, 2016 6:18:34 GMT -6
I tend to try this but my wife will always delete my games off my dvr, so my question is for the tech savy coaches, is there a way to get the recorded film from my dvr to my computer to be able to upload it to hudl
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Post by tabs52 on Jun 1, 2016 7:51:16 GMT -6
I strongly suggest you try to keep three teams. The only way to be consistently successful at your level is Vertical Continuity. If you lose a Sub-Varsity team your kids will be a year behind, always playing catch-up, and your numbers will suffer. I felt if we had at least 17 kids we could have a team. Less than that at either level we would have to combine Freshmen with JVs (Sophomores). I completely agree, i see the development of our freshmen being behind because of this
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Post by tabs52 on Jun 1, 2016 5:05:10 GMT -6
In the region I coach the trend has gone to 7/8 grade and then freshmen to varsity. Being where I coach, and the teams we played recently our freshman did not get any game time unless it was mop duty on Friday night, there time was JV. The real problem came in practice, they didn't the time spent on them to develop them as needed. Our school forced us to cut our Jr High program then forced us to cut coaches as well. We have toyed around with different schedules for practices and such but just still have not found a great way to schedule to get them the reps they need. Ideally this year our JV will be our 9th/10th graders only, except for those that play varsity
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Post by tabs52 on May 31, 2016 9:39:20 GMT -6
We were in a similar situation where our school forced us to get rid of our jr. high program. This program was for students 7-9 grade. It has been a detriment to our program, 9th graders are not ready to compete against varsity guys, and are not ready for the season long grind they will have to go through. Their season typically would be about 8 weeks, this past year it was 12 weeks. I would not get rid of the freshman team, I feel that is too important.
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Post by tabs52 on May 26, 2016 5:22:20 GMT -6
Best Story, not so much in what a coach but what happened. It was during our summer workouts and we were sluggish. Our HC goes on this tirade about how other teams are out working etc.... Mind you he has dentures, so about half way through his tirade his teeth fall out
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Post by tabs52 on May 25, 2016 10:11:39 GMT -6
The best story I have to have is in late 80's early 90's we had a coach who was from the deep south, mind we are north of pittsburgh, our team mascot is the lions-during the pep rally he begins the cheer give me L give O give I give N give an S what does that spell student body responded loins
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Post by tabs52 on Apr 19, 2016 6:23:29 GMT -6
Actually it would depend, we would usually give our jv's off on monday, they do but our games would be at 10 usually over by 12 so they would still have all day saturday to do film. In our area no one would play a JV game on thursday
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Post by tabs52 on Apr 18, 2016 20:04:20 GMT -6
bring jv in for there own practice on saturday morning
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Post by tabs52 on Apr 18, 2016 9:35:57 GMT -6
we use to play our jr high games on wednesday night and the kids loved it then we were forced to move freshman up to varsity so they lost that opportunity to play at night
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Post by tabs52 on Apr 18, 2016 6:32:06 GMT -6
actually we are looking to move back to monday jv's, 15 years ago everyone played on monday then someone switched to saturday morning and everyone followed. We want to switch back to monday and allow the players to be on center stage, no one really shows up to our saturday am jv games. moving them to monday nights will hopefully spark more interest in younger kids to play
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Post by tabs52 on Apr 14, 2016 15:18:44 GMT -6
Actually where I coach we are bound both my school district and league policy, if kid is failing so many course he is ineligible until the grades are brought up. This is a weekly thing so it very fluid. Our league has a policy where if a student is ineligible at the change of nine weeks or semester he then is ineligible for 10 school days.
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Post by tabs52 on Apr 11, 2016 9:24:22 GMT -6
Yea but when the HC opens up the discussion wanting ideas on how we can move forward with the program,
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Post by tabs52 on Apr 11, 2016 8:29:24 GMT -6
Actually he is the one who brought the idea of change, in a place where we could be considered the odds on favorite to win conference title and compete for a district championship. Ill give you an example: Last year was the second year we had 9th graders up on varsity, in one of preseason meetings we sat down and created a practice schedule that would allow us to get the most out of team, by giving the freshmen certain days off, allowing the JV's their own time for practice, while the varsity was watching film etc.... The plan lasted not even one week until we were back to the way we always did things.
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Post by tabs52 on Apr 8, 2016 7:57:01 GMT -6
i guess a little of both
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Post by tabs52 on Apr 8, 2016 7:50:40 GMT -6
which i agree with you but some of the items like changing practice plans or schedules fall on his shoulders not mine
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Post by tabs52 on Apr 8, 2016 7:01:58 GMT -6
We had a staff meeting last night, it seems like we have the same one every year at this time, where we discuss changes we would like to see to our program. Our HC is always on board and we devise a plan but when it comes time to implement the plan he always seems to revert back to his comfort zone, what we have done in the past. How do you truly get the HC to make changes and stick to these changes
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