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Post by knightfan64 on Aug 21, 2019 12:16:53 GMT -6
We are also up, but have a lot of seniors and freshman and when the seniors graduate that bubble could burst. This is what I worry about currently have 19 seniors out of about 75 kids, so looking at about 25% which wouldn't be bad but we count 8th graders for JV....currently there are just 4 of those kids. Might create a little participation bubble, but our JV is loaded with sophomores experiencing their first taste of football (athletes recruited from other sports)
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Post by knightfan64 on Aug 20, 2019 10:00:59 GMT -6
Normally between JV and Varsity we are pushing 50. This year we are pushing 80. We went 1-9 last year, so the retention/new recruit rate, in all honesty, baffles me, but anyone else have this happen lately despite football being on the decline nation wide in terms of participation?
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Post by knightfan64 on Apr 24, 2019 4:12:25 GMT -6
I’m gonna sound like an old man, but the best “speeches” are when you go through the game plan, tell the kids exactly what’s going to happen, and then it actually happens on the field. Best one I remember, we were down 13 at half, but weren’t playing terribly. We made some defensive adjustments and I told the kids, “We’re going to get the ball to start. We’re going to march down and score. They’re going to go 3-and-Out. We’re goig to march down again and score and take the lead. Believe!” We did exactly that. Ended up losing by 2. Heck this reminds me of my first year coaching offense. Pre game of Game number 1. I went over play #1 and I was just BSing but I told the kids “so we’ll take this to the house on the first play”. It was a dang bubble screen out of quads, and wouldn’t you know it they lined up how we thought they would and 72 yards later we scored on play #1 of the season
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Post by knightfan64 on Apr 17, 2019 12:34:17 GMT -6
In our area, coaches have been great on opening the doors to meetings and practices. Best example I can think of, I went to the UVA (Virginia) spring practice over my spring break. Bronco Mendenhall and his staff opened up all team meetings and walk throughs, and all the practice and Bronco made sure to personally thank each high school coach that came and speak with them while a position coach sort of took them through everything.
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Post by knightfan64 on Apr 5, 2019 10:22:30 GMT -6
So fellas what would you do here if this was your schedule.....we are a program in the middle of a major rebuild/rebrand.....
Game #1 at 0-10 team (we beat them 56-6 last year) Game #2 vs. 1-9 team (only team they beat was the 0-10 team from Game 1) Game #3 vs. 6-4 team (NEW COACH just hired) Game #4 vs. 1-9 team (NEW COACH not yet hired) Game #5 vs. 4-6 team (NEW COACH not yet hired) BYE WEEK
All familiar opponents but much more beefed up competition.
We lost to teams 3-5 last year, but 3 and 4 graduated a lot and lost their coaches.....so how do we prepare at this point? I am assuming with the 0-10 and 1-9 teams to say they would stick in what we have them on film doing last year is well a stretch. then 3 new coaches.......so any thoughts on that one?
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Post by knightfan64 on Apr 5, 2019 9:57:53 GMT -6
The real thing that is going to keep HUDL in a monopoly is needing it to trade....Period. We have developed ways through google cloud, and other competitiors, I think to put film up on the web and have your kids and coaches to easy access. I think sheets and google cloud would be perfect but if you need HUDL to trade you're stuck. We looked at Krossover a few years ago, but the problem was they couldn't trade with HUDL then (maybe they can now). HUDL can then monopolize this by saying simply that their server cannot accept non HUDL trades or downloads and they can program it that way. So we are back to DVD uploads and all of the convenience of one click and your film is there is gone. You don't need a competitor you need someone to push them to the brink of losing their business and forcing them to accept cross system trades.
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Post by knightfan64 on Apr 5, 2019 9:54:01 GMT -6
dang am I the only one down for the shady drug deal type trades? Especially being a small school in the middle of nowhere we play atleast two opponents a year a minimum of 2 hours away.....could you imagine all the fast food parking lots in the middle of nowhere I could cross off my list of places to travel to?
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Post by knightfan64 on Apr 4, 2019 10:34:11 GMT -6
so who is going be the first coach to go back to burning DVD's and meeting half way on a Saturday morning in a suspect parking lot somewhere to trade film?
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Post by knightfan64 on Mar 12, 2019 13:11:18 GMT -6
I purchased the book, while I enjoyed it....seemed like a lot of stuff that I think is relative, I took some good ideas, but I coach at a school with 40-50 football players, not an athletic period, and not 3000 kids in it....I didn't enjoy the ton of anecdotal stories in it though, just being a critic there. I think at my level (small school) the jimmies and joes lead to more wins than anything......and wins lead to culture.....I think you need some studs to get anything going first just my opinion.
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Post by knightfan64 on Mar 4, 2019 12:46:42 GMT -6
Let's see..... My wife went to hospital with a placental abruption first day of practice. We were installing a new offense and I am the HC and OC.....10 day hospital stay.....then bed rest for the entire time til son was born in October....we do well in scrimmages to give false hope....new AD, new teaching position so new challenges.....go 1-9. When O was good, D was bad and when D was good, O sucked type of year....fast forward to the offseason, so far personally 1) Had parents both have life threatening surgeries 2) Have spent some time in hospital with my son 3) Had my wife kick me out the house because I wasn't around enough (this is ongoing). 4) Had one of my better coaches quit to go pursue a playing career which he has no business doing......yeah I need a drink after typing this Hey appreciate all the guys who have reached out....Been a rough two weeks, but I still get to see my son which is a plus and I got moved into a rent free house while the wife figures out her deal, also got back into church, etc so things are starting to look up.
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Post by knightfan64 on Feb 26, 2019 14:49:14 GMT -6
Let's see.....
My wife went to hospital with a placental abruption first day of practice. We were installing a new offense and I am the HC and OC.....10 day hospital stay.....then bed rest for the entire time til son was born in October....we do well in scrimmages to give false hope....new AD, new teaching position so new challenges.....go 1-9. When O was good, D was bad and when D was good, O sucked type of year....fast forward to the offseason, so far personally 1) Had parents both have life threatening surgeries 2) Have spent some time in hospital with my son 3) Had my wife kick me out the house because I wasn't around enough (this is ongoing). 4) Had one of my better coaches quit to go pursue a playing career which he has no business doing......yeah I need a drink after typing this
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Post by knightfan64 on Nov 20, 2018 13:11:47 GMT -6
I have a theory that 90% of all coaches are slow over-achieving white guys who busted their ass. The mediocre results these guys got from their hard work fueled their interest in coaching.
That was the quote that got my attention in the article.....sort of screamed what football coaches are to me, and I fall into that criteria too.
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Post by knightfan64 on Nov 19, 2018 9:24:17 GMT -6
We had two coaches in boots this season (myself included).....I was being a jackwagon and was trying to block an extra point on a Thursday...rolled my foot and the next morning (on game day) it was black and blue and the size of a melon)....other guy hurt his on summer vacation.
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Post by knightfan64 on Nov 19, 2018 8:25:51 GMT -6
Hey Fellas, Looking for any and all ideas for this one. We, like many schools, are in need of a major bump recruiting wise in the halls to get overall program numbers up. Any ideas? I've had mailers for kids (wrote each kid a personal letter last summer) had a middle school recruiting night, talked to kids personally etc. I am at the middle school and am now in 8th grade not 6th grade which is a step in right direction as I now see kids that will be coming to me the next year, and I have a willing and enthusiastic assistant at the HS level now. Any major ideas? I sit in gym class, talk to kids, scour youth league rosters, etc. We are in middle of a rebuild and it's tough to sell, but got a lot of winning kids coming up from rec program So are you wanting to get numbers up at your MS, or is this for the varsity program, too? Sell weights in the offseason. Don't even focus on football. Just try to get kids to come out and lift and talk about how fun it is to get jacked and strong. You'll get a bunch of them for football if you can get them in the weight room now. The big thing, though, is to get the kids to recruit for you because they will always be your best recruiters. Let it be known you want them to get their friends out so you can have a better football team. That will go a long, long way towards getting enthusiasm up. I['m recruiting MS kids to join our JV. Im the head varsity coach but teach at the middle school level. Not ideal, but we work it out. Only issue I have seen, but I have seen this all my life is when you push the weight room, we will get kids who use as a free gym membership. But, I'd rather get a kid through the weight room then get them to come out last second. We had a kid at my old school who in 4 years worked out every off-season, only played one season of football (sophomore year on JV). He was a pretty good undersized LB, but he used our weight program to the max throughout the school year, then would disappear in the summer only to return again the next winter lol
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Post by knightfan64 on Nov 14, 2018 12:00:06 GMT -6
My first year at school had a Mike LB who I swear ate nails. Two stories...
One I sent him on a blitz from mike on his senior night and I have never seen this at varsity level he tackled the qb on a simple toss sweep, like as the QB was turning to pitch bam, blew him up from under center, no time at all ball goes flying.
Our trainer told me the second story a year later. His brother was a killer athlete, one year younger, but not nearly as mean. Comes out with an ankle sprain and is getting it checked out. The mike runs over there and essentially tells him to get his "p*$$y a$$" back in the game.
Both kids come from a mean as heck Daddy so didn't surprise me when told a year later
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Post by knightfan64 on Nov 13, 2018 12:41:38 GMT -6
Good point carookie.....I do have a lot of good rising seniors that are selling on the experience, camraderie, etc. and that helps. That is my usual path - I have the kids recruit who they want to go to battle with.... positive peer pressure works way better than coach pressure... I like the idea "who they want to go to battle with". Kids know who will put out for you generally. Interesting story near me happened this past year when an OC took over at his school. He was pulling in over 100 kids at workouts, getting the whole school out practically. Well he recruited a few of the wrong jimmies and joes and got fired for coaching the way he had been coaching as OC and the team had been run for years...some kids you pull in could be the death of your program.
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Post by knightfan64 on Nov 13, 2018 9:22:02 GMT -6
What are you selling them on? W's, camaraderie, getting to play a game, becoming a better athlete? Have your athletes been echoing in this in the halls themselves? Not meaning you should have kids go be pitchmen, but rather if you are selling a great experience playing football and your players are always complaining about getting yelled at and doing updowns then it won't sell. (not writing that you are doing this, rather giving an example) Good point carookie.....I do have a lot of good rising seniors that are selling on the experience, camraderie, etc. and that helps.
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Post by knightfan64 on Nov 12, 2018 12:46:02 GMT -6
Hey Fellas,
Looking for any and all ideas for this one. We, like many schools, are in need of a major bump recruiting wise in the halls to get overall program numbers up. Any ideas? I've had mailers for kids (wrote each kid a personal letter last summer) had a middle school recruiting night, talked to kids personally etc. I am at the middle school and am now in 8th grade not 6th grade which is a step in right direction as I now see kids that will be coming to me the next year, and I have a willing and enthusiastic assistant at the HS level now. Any major ideas? I sit in gym class, talk to kids, scour youth league rosters, etc. We are in middle of a rebuild and it's tough to sell, but got a lot of winning kids coming up from rec program
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Post by knightfan64 on Oct 10, 2018 22:18:24 GMT -6
My problem I guess is when I call plays since I am the OL guy too I am watching the blocking protection and scheme more than I am the skill guys, but I have other coaches who watch that and know that. Having several guys into the different elements of the game is necessary when watching practice as is film. My HC taught me to watch the OL
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Post by knightfan64 on Feb 26, 2018 7:23:57 GMT -6
We do something competitive at just about the end of every workout. Some type of competition, I like to see who is willing to compete, we do a lot of what you mentioned above, cat and mouse type games, relay races, 7 on 7, etc. Kids love pick up 7 on 7 and you can find some athletes there. One drill I just put in we do in the weight room when they are dog tired is we have a ton of cones, all different colors, I started timing the kids on picking up the cones in different orders that I shout out and putting them on our cone hook. Have to be in the right order gotta, get the direction from the coach and sprint about 15 yards to get the cone and remember which one it is. Try to test who can listen to directions, and take in information on the fly
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Post by knightfan64 on Feb 23, 2018 16:00:31 GMT -6
well that is about the same as paying an assistant coach around here haha....I had a guy who's big benefit to us was painting the field...for about $2400 for 3-4 months of work.....hmmm the machine would probably do more with less issue than a bad assistant lol
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Post by knightfan64 on Feb 23, 2018 14:28:47 GMT -6
So, I got an email from ECU today regarding their coaching clinic, ho hum here's the schedule come to our clinic email til I got to one part where it says "Due to new NCAA rules High School coaches can no longer speak at clinics or coach at camps" is this true about the speaking at collegiate clinics part? I went to UNC's clinic last year and they brought in some top notch NC area and national area HS coaches. If that is true, that really sucks
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Post by knightfan64 on Feb 22, 2018 7:21:57 GMT -6
With all of the fear / respect talk, the thing I think that got missed was trust. We coach our guys with the assumption that we all (coaches and players) want the same thing. To play at a very high level and win. Players will do what they are coached to if they TRUST you. This is the area where you find out how good of a coach you are. Do my players do what they are supposed to in pressure situations? Scenario: Coach says "When the OT veers down you squeeze hard down the line and spill the kick-out block". In the game the player runs up the field and gets kicked out. You say "what happened?" Kid: "The tackle veered" Coach: "What are you supposed to do then?" Kid: "Spill the kick-out" Coach: "Why didn't you?" Kid... The awkward silence at the end of that conversation means that the kid didn't trust what he was taught, and may not trust the coach who taught him. The higher the stakes the tougher it is to trust. We have to earn this from our players. We earn it by coming through when we say we are going to, being experts at our craft, and demonstrating genuine care for them as people. Its a 2 way street. We tell players that they have earn our trust to get on the field. "Can I trust that you will do it right when you get out there?" We also absolutely understand that we also have to earn their trust in our ability to help them be better players. Great post on trust you are right and each bunch seems to take something new to gain trust, each stop in my coaching career initially I had something like this happen. Took about a year or so in each case, as both an assistant and a HC, to develop that trusting relationship where they trust what you are teaching.
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Post by knightfan64 on Feb 21, 2018 20:09:14 GMT -6
The big thing we preach to our kids is communicating absences or tardies...had big issue my first year was in kids constantly being late for tutoring, clubs, etc....we bumped practice back 30 minutes to give kids time to see a tutor....gave some type of conditioning every day for being late. Uncommunicated absenses were my big thing....if you know you're going miss you're still going have to make it up, but gosh darnet let me know before I get out to the field and see you aint there....that's when we gotta sit you, not only did you fail to be at practice, but you failed to even have the respect to let me know you couldn't be there for XYZ....and we will call you out if it is a BS excuse.
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Post by knightfan64 on Feb 21, 2018 10:39:43 GMT -6
As far as playing time vs. physical punishment....we had a senior this past year who had a crappy attitude, wanna know what phased him the most? When the best 11 were called for first O or first D and he wasn't out there. Kid was one of best on my team and ended up with something like 1100-1200 all purpose yards receiving and rushing...after basically not playing 3 games on offense bc of his attitude....(I didn't want him on offense til he fixed a lackadaisical effort)
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Post by knightfan64 on Feb 21, 2018 7:19:19 GMT -6
Issue with fear is they usually only fear the HC so the AC's are left with disgruntled kids at their position group What do you do if your admin wants you to rule by striking fear into kids? Asking for a friend
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Post by knightfan64 on Feb 15, 2018 10:50:57 GMT -6
Any of yall have specific footballs that are fairly inexpensive (right now best I can get is $35-40 a ball for a composite GST) that work for practice. Figure I am still going GST leather for games and composites for bad weather.
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Post by knightfan64 on Feb 14, 2018 13:24:07 GMT -6
The red meat part I actually have experienced the health affects there. Felt a lot better eating steak in the morning or for lunch than carbohydrates primarily. But dang chips, and potatoes or the lack there of would do me in second though. Any of you fellas experienced with intermitten fasting? Been given that a whirl and been losing weight and have had good energy. Basically don't eat after 7:00-8:00 and don't eat til 11:00-11:30.
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Post by knightfan64 on Feb 14, 2018 12:41:52 GMT -6
my god.....sounds like heaven to me.
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Post by knightfan64 on Feb 14, 2018 12:21:41 GMT -6
rosey65 so what kinds of stuff do you eat in that diet? Just curious. Help a newb out
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