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Post by jg78 on Feb 5, 2023 16:10:40 GMT -6
The internet, smartphones, social media, etc., have changed the world. Young people have opportunities they never would have had 30 years ago when I was a teenager. It’s easier than ever before for the young to monetize their talent.
The smokin’ hot 20 year old woman at Florida State who’s willing to bare all no longer needs gatekeepers like a Hugh Hefner. She can go straight to TikTok and OnlyFans. No one cares if she’s just a general studies major. But John Doe All-American with a talent greater than 99.9% of the country and is a household name can’t cash in too?
I don’t blame the athletes. If there’s any “blame,” it’s for the fans/adults for caring way too much about who wins in a collegiate extracurricular activity. Young people are just taking advantage of overzealous adults. Doing so is part of capitalism.
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Post by jg78 on Jan 28, 2023 8:05:19 GMT -6
Agreed. Different skill sets.
Deion might might turn out to be a great college head coach, and if he is it will be because of his charisma, name recognition, and ability to keep the program on the road. I think he would be a terrible DC. He played in a different era (hasn’t coached much in this one) and even then his role was to shutdown one guy and let the other ten defenders do whatever. He wasn’t involved in complex schemes.
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Post by jg78 on Jan 23, 2023 5:27:57 GMT -6
To the average guy in the town, what else does he know about the school other than how the sports teams are doing? No one is sitting in sophomore math class but many go to football games.
I’m not being critical. It’s just reality. In a world where college football coaches make several times what the university president makes and star players are household names and will make more in NIL deals than professors will in a decade, it isn’t hard to believe.
The benefit of a winning football program to a school might sometimes exist only in public perception - but we all know that’s important too.
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Post by jg78 on Jan 22, 2023 19:06:08 GMT -6
The former.
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Post by jg78 on Jan 22, 2023 17:07:09 GMT -6
Looking for opinions... What are the pluses for both a school and a community for having a perennial SUCCESSFUL Football Program as opposed to just having a Football Program? Many years ago my dad (a successful high school football coach in Alabama) was working toward his masters in education. He took a class one time in which the professor said, “You can stop by any small town gas station or restaurant in Alabama and ask people about the quality of the high school. If the football team is winning, they will say it’s a great school. If it’s not, they will say it’s lousy. And none of it has anything to do with what’s going on in an English classroom.”
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Post by jg78 on Dec 30, 2022 11:32:29 GMT -6
1. My dad was a high school football coach. After I graduated college, I coached with him for five years. Growing up, I never thought of doing anything else.
2. The hours. It’s a tremendous commitment to prepare a football team and to continue to develop yourself professionally. I coached for 20 years and gave it up this year to pursue other interests. I just didn’t want to devote so much of my time to football anymore.
3. Most football games are won by the players on one team being bigger, faster, and stronger than the players on the other team. Try to go somewhere that tends to have a good talent base, recruit if you can, and get what you have in the weight room.
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Post by jg78 on Oct 28, 2022 22:03:48 GMT -6
Whatever your base adjustment to trips is, you can run that all night and possibly be successful.
Offense requires more variation.
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Post by jg78 on Oct 28, 2022 16:33:23 GMT -6
On defense, it’s possible to run the same front and coverage for an entire game (and the offense knowing you won’t change) and be effective against comparable talent. On offense, it’s not possible to do that against equal competition. You would have to be vastly superior to score running a FB trap 50 times in a row with the defense knowing it’s coming.
So you naturally have to mix things up a little more on offense.
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Post by jg78 on Oct 27, 2022 4:49:28 GMT -6
Agreed.
I have coached plenty on both sides of the ball. IMO, coaching defense is harder Saturday-Thursday. Coaching offense is harder on Friday.
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Post by jg78 on Sept 6, 2022 13:01:57 GMT -6
Losing bothers me a lot, whether it’s my fault or not.
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Post by jg78 on Aug 27, 2022 17:15:19 GMT -6
I think if many coaches took a year off, or maybe just a summer, they would step away or at least step back and do less. Until I did that, I didn't know what I was missing and how silly it was for me to put so much importance on coaching. That being said, most of you all are doing great work and helping kids and our society needs it, so thank you. Maybe that's true for some, but not everybody. I took a year off (not by choice) and I became DC right away. I've said this on other threads, but I realized during that year off that sitting around and relaxing is the most boring thing ever. I’m out of coaching but a very active person. If I were still in my old coaching job from last year, I would have spent today watching film on a team that would have kicked my a$$ this coming Friday night without much I could do about it. But instead of that, I was hiking in South Carolina without a care in the world and did not miss it in the slightest. Full-time coaching (and doing it right) is for people who can’t live without it or just don’t have any other interests pulling on them. Another thing that has at least something to do with your passion for coaching is your success - which has a lot more to do with players than coaches. If you’re coaching studs every year and you have a realistic chance in every game, that makes it more enjoyable. You feel like you’re getting something worthwhile for your effort. But spending a week preparing for a game you wouldn’t win if you coached circles around the other staff and armed your players with machetes…. I don’t see how that’s fun for anyone. The dread of those games and bus rides to and from them is another factor that drove me out of coaching. Losing is misery.
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Post by jg78 on Aug 24, 2022 11:11:20 GMT -6
One of the big things to me is it’s just not worth the money unless maybe (and I do mean maybe) you’re the HC. Coaching is something you have to love. And if you fall out of love with it, I strongly suggest something else. Coaching full time is difficult. It’s very difficult if you’re not passionate about it. Interesting...I would venture that most here would say that the HC's compensation is actually one of the worst compared to responsibilities. It wasn’t for me.
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Post by jg78 on Aug 23, 2022 4:57:44 GMT -6
One of the big things to me is it’s just not worth the money unless maybe (and I do mean maybe) you’re the HC. Coaching is something you have to love. And if you fall out of love with it, I strongly suggest something else. Coaching full time is difficult. It’s very difficult if you’re not passionate about it.
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Post by jg78 on Aug 22, 2022 16:41:54 GMT -6
I have a long history with football. I’m 43 years old. My father was a high school football coach. I played nine years from elementary to high school. I was a walk-on at Alabama for four years. I coached for twenty years through the 2021 season. I felt burned out after a few tough seasons and likely more on the horizon. I got out of it this year and went to strictly teaching. I don’t miss it at all. When I heard that my former school lost the opener Friday night 53-6 I damn sure didn’t miss it.
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Post by jg78 on Jul 24, 2022 13:13:06 GMT -6
One of the frustrating things for me (being a 3-4 coach) is I really needed eight players to run our scheme the way we would in a game. i need 11 Ha! Well, the DL would be nice to have in 7 on 7 but as far as pass coverage is concerned I need at least eight. I think the “ideal” situation if your offensive or defensive scheme doesn’t translate well to 7 on 7 is to have enough athletes on your team that you can run an effective pass skeleton at home and adjust it how you see fit. Or do so with a like-minded coach from another school who isn’t treating it like it’s the Super Bowl.
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Post by jg78 on Jul 24, 2022 12:21:45 GMT -6
One of the frustrating things for me (being a 3-4 coach) is I really needed eight players to run our scheme the way we would in a game.
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Post by jg78 on Jun 27, 2022 17:47:55 GMT -6
Depends a little on the kid and circumstances.
Let’s say we’re playing a team with a hyped RB (#22) and we have a tough, edgy MLB who’s intense but isn’t a dumba$$. First play of the game they run a toss sweep to our bench. MLB makes the play with a hard hit for no gain and gets up saying, “It’s going to be a long night for you, #22,” and jogs back to the huddle.
I would let that go. If it were “It’s going to be a long night for you, b!tch,” I would absolutely handle it.
Clean trash here and there I’m *probably* not saying anything. Anything continuous or profane (penalty or not) would be cut off.
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Post by jg78 on Jun 22, 2022 5:05:55 GMT -6
Colin Cowherd (of all people) once said something along these lines when talking about how Nick Saban has changed through the years and I thought it made a lot of sense. He said, “It’s not as important to be right as it is to get it right.” In other words, you don’t necessarily have to be the person who develops some killer scheme. You just have to be willing to change and “get it right” when the game moves in a different direction. He mentioned Saban being ground and pound in his early Bama years and then being willing to bring in Kiffin after getting stung by some of the offensive innovations we’ve seen in the last ten years.
Saban didn’t innovate but did evolve.
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Post by jg78 on Apr 30, 2022 19:03:35 GMT -6
Talent.
Elite teams generally aren’t full of overachievers.
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Post by jg78 on May 18, 2021 19:25:24 GMT -6
I don't think it matters too much either way. I've never walked off a field thinking, "Ya know, if we had warmed up a little differently we might have pulled that one out."
Just have a short, productive, organized way to get them moving and get the blood flowing. I think it's more important not to overdo it. Some teams will run pass routes forever in pregame in 90 degree heat in August and everyone heads back to the locker room soaked in sweat before the ball's even kicked off.
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Post by jg78 on Apr 20, 2021 18:35:30 GMT -6
Most HS administrators are only interested in keeping the job they have currently, or getting to the next one. Coaches do not help them do that. Especially if you're not their hire. Admins are less likely to defend someone they didn't bring in themselves. If Principal Smith comes in and Coach Jones is struggling (for reasons that may or may not be his fault) and a few parents complain, it's no skin off his nose to let you go.
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Post by jg78 on Mar 16, 2021 10:19:24 GMT -6
Every school where I have coached has had a seven period schedule. What you're given to work with during 7th period makes an enormous difference in terms of time management at practice. If you have all your coaches, all your players, and any other kids are at least athletes, you can get a good head start on the workload and send them home earlier. But if your DC is in math class, your OL coach is in history class, some of your football players have tutoring or an elective, and half your class consists of worthless turds no one else wants or eggheads who can't walk and chew gum at the same time, that 2:10-3:00 window during the day goes from productive to a pain in the a$$ real quick.
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Post by jg78 on Mar 14, 2021 9:07:28 GMT -6
I am not religious as far as breaking down the film that night. That being said if for some reason so I don't, it is nearly impossible for me to revisit it as I have moved on to next week. Back when I was making decisions for the defense and when I was in the groove; I was over watching film before Friday. We had a good relatioships with most teams in our region so we would early trade for the following week. On game days I would be watching/inputting data for the following week's game as my kids worked on their weekly quiz. It actually was a very relaxing exercise to get my mind off the task for that night by problem solving another team. It was almost like taking a mental nap to rest up for the game that night. Like a lot of things, it's amazing how much exchanging film has changed through the years. I'm 42 years old and can remember my dad (who was a coach) watching film on a projector in the early '80s. Even when I started coaching in the early '00s I had to meet someone halfway on Saturday morning to exchange a VHS tape, make copies of it, etc. Very tedious. This past season we had a bye week, and I went out of town for the weekend. I had already received a couple of films on our next opponent from other coaches to get a head start but when the time came Saturday morning for the official exchange I made it through my phone while driving down the road in New York state and broke down their last game from my hotel room that night. "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -- Arthur Clarke
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Post by jg78 on Mar 9, 2021 10:30:45 GMT -6
I would love to see Paul Johnson make a comeback (especially at the P5 level), but if I were him there's no way I would go to Kansas. But if he does, I will be pulling for the Jayhawks. They are probably one of the few P5 schools that might would hire him just because they have been so bad for so long and will never get the players to go toe-to-toe with anyone and outathlete them. What's the old saying? If you can't be good, be different.
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Post by jg78 on Nov 9, 2020 17:55:49 GMT -6
No pep rallies has been great. I don't like them even when we're winning, but it's even worse when you're losing. Speaking to the crowd when you got your arse kicked last week and about to get it kicked again in a few hours isn't very fun. Being able to do something productive during 7th period was nice.
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Post by jg78 on Nov 1, 2020 15:33:36 GMT -6
they weren’t exactly winning titles. They went to a couple of Orange Bowls (winning one) and beat Georgia 2-3 times. Let me know when that happens again.
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Post by jg78 on Oct 31, 2020 16:15:14 GMT -6
And now they suck.
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Post by jg78 on Aug 14, 2020 16:07:11 GMT -6
I hate that for the kids if they don’t let them play in spring. Just crazy how different it is from state to state. I feel sorry for spring sports athletes-coaches. They've already lost one full season. One plan that was floated by MHSAA executive director the other day was end winter sports early (end of February), have football March-April-May, and spring sports May-June-July. www.mlive.com/highschoolsports/2020/08/mhsaa-executive-director-talks-possibility-of-fall-sports-in-march-april-may.htmlWould be really short (too short?) turnaround for 2021 football season, especially for kids who play spring sports into July. Whatever we do I hope it doesn’t include sports in June and July. As a football coach and AD, that would suck.
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Post by jg78 on Aug 8, 2020 6:43:08 GMT -6
The Missouri Football Coaches Association is polling it’s members whether they want to move the season to the spring. I’m going to be honest. I don’t want to play this fall. All the regulations have taken the fun out of it. There comes a point where poor circumstances can make even the things we love miserable. I’m at a small school without a lot of resources and manpower. The kind of school where coaches are often relied upon to do the dirty work that will be greater than normal this year. 8:00-3:00 is going to be stressful enough without football on top of it. I would be just fine stepping away for a year. I am going to get paid the same thing whether we’re undefeated state champs or we don’t play a snap. As for spring, our spring sports had probably 80% of their season last year wiped out by COVID. I don’t know how we justify taking at least part of this spring season to make room for fall sports that had a full season last year. Let me also say that I’m not an alarmist. Not at all. If I were in charge of the world everything would be open and you accept your own risks. If you want to stay home 24/7, do it. If you want to go to a packed concert, do it. But with all the regulations imposed on us, screw all this.
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Post by jg78 on Aug 7, 2020 13:14:17 GMT -6
GA. Zero chance we will get a full season as things currently stand. We will practice, maybe even get a game or two. One team with an outbreak will cancel season state wide. I’m in Alabama, right on the Georgia border. Why are we even waiting on an inevitable outbreak?
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