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Post by coachmonkey on Sept 21, 2020 13:27:25 GMT -6
I am in need of a new paint sprayer. I do not know much about brands or anything. What brands/models/styles have you had goo results with? Thank you.
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Post by coachmonkey on Sept 18, 2019 8:28:05 GMT -6
How smart is your team, or not smart? Serious question not like they don't know anything about football type intelligence. If you get grade reports how many kids are failing one or even more classes? IEPs? Etc.... I am curious why you are asking?
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Post by coachmonkey on Sept 17, 2019 7:12:05 GMT -6
Good luck brother. I also am all for the entire team gassers because peer pressure and teammate accountability go a long way in correcting behavior as well as long as its not to the point of bullying. - Coach Thurm That's what I was hoping for. One of my players came up to me during one of the breaks and we talked about his frustration of some of the players not working hard. I told him that maybe him and our senior captain should hold a team meeting to express their feelings. This is considered hazing. You may want to look into that. It can lead to a very bad situation.
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Post by coachmonkey on Dec 14, 2018 8:48:41 GMT -6
I should also add we just had a coach tell the kids they eat like garbage. He talked them through how to eat throughout the day. That was after the first game and our three best and best in shape athletes were cramping. Turns out they were only eating once or twice throughout the day.
Second game and rest of last season and all this season - zero cramps. no pedialyte or anything other than water. Just eating better.
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Cramps
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Post by coachmonkey on Dec 14, 2018 8:46:25 GMT -6
Are your kids able to drink that and go back in the game fairly quick?? CoachMcKie i give it to them before they drink it pre emptive i buy a ton keep it in my room on thursday and friday they come by and get a few sips i leave a few bottles in the locker room they get a few sips and it has reduced the number of crampers by a lot since i started doing it 3 years ago They should drink about half the bottle throughout the day, then drink the other half throughout the game. I was told once a lot of NFL teams have Pedialyte and Coconut water in the Gatorade jugs on the sideline.
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Post by coachmonkey on Dec 3, 2018 9:56:25 GMT -6
I think if you quite it's a mistake. You think you have talent coming up, like the facilities, like the teaching job. I think it sounds like you would improve upon this years record. Then the kids would start buying in even more. It was unrealistic to think you will change culture overnight. Everyone hates change, so they resist change.
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Post by coachmonkey on Oct 16, 2018 14:14:02 GMT -6
STUDENT ATHLETE....Not paid football player....priorities coach....football ends for everyone School was 3 weeks away. 4 AP classes going into freshmen year? Football is probably not his future. If it is, he is smart enough to pick anything you are doing on the field in a fraction of the time as others.
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Post by coachmonkey on May 15, 2018 11:11:06 GMT -6
PVC and rope.
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Post by coachmonkey on May 15, 2018 11:08:10 GMT -6
Ya so the place we were supposed to move is about 3 hours away. At first she was all for it, then reality hit her I guess. We have a 3 month old and she isnt seeing the benefit of moving so far from family. Live in learn I guess! Got myself in a little bind, but I might look for jobs closer to home. I am not sure where yall are from, but here in Texas a DC job is hard to get your hands on. Not worth making the wife pissed for years though IMO. Being away from family with a little one would be very hard on her. My guess is they help her in a ton of ways that you are not even aware of during the season, or will.
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Post by coachmonkey on May 8, 2018 11:13:20 GMT -6
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Playing Rule Article 8: It is a foul if a player lowers his head to initiate and make contact with his helmet against an opponent. The player may be disqualified. Applies to any player anywhere on the field. The player may be disqualified.</p>— Brian McCarthy (@nflprguy) <a href="https://twitter.com/NFLprguy/status/978732318130139136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 27, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
. Pretty sure this is/was already a rule. You cannot spear an opponent. If the NFL had called this all along we'd be in a much better place now.
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Post by coachmonkey on May 8, 2018 11:11:24 GMT -6
I would pull him aside and mention that it was pointed out that you have posted some things that are not in the best interest of the program. We like your confidence, but posts like this are going to help motivate the teams we play. Rather than posting about how great we will be just keep working hard like you have been and let your play on the field do the talking for you, and us.
Then I'd probably remind him (if he is looking to play college ball at all) college coaches check out social media, and posts like that would turn them off to him as a recruit. They are looking for reasons to NOT recruit and not reasons TO recruit you.
Something like that.
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Post by coachmonkey on May 4, 2018 11:14:23 GMT -6
You can play defense on emotion IMO, but not offense. Also, once heart rate gets above 170 bpm (I think it's 170 anyway) fine motor skills start to deteriorate. I read it puts you in a monkey brain. You are incapable of thinking of new ways to do things, fine motor skills break down, so all you can do is try to smash things harder to make it work.
This is why I think you can play defense on emotion but not offense.
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Post by coachmonkey on Apr 24, 2018 10:58:06 GMT -6
We don't stretch at the front end of practice. We stretch when we are done with practice. I don't remember the last time a kid pulled a muscle.
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Post by coachmonkey on Feb 6, 2018 10:23:41 GMT -6
So that those instances are the exception. Over the course of a 30+ game season that was the only instance that a player was late to pregame (although we did bench a kid for being late to school check-in early in the season) If no rule was in place then that probably wouldn't be the case. I get it. Don't have rules that you don't intend to follow. But I thought the adjustment and compromise I made was fair and justified. You had to justify not punishing the whole team to win. In that case, I'd argue just change the rule so the player is punished individually like you did. Did you change the rule after that or leave it in place?
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Post by coachmonkey on Feb 6, 2018 10:11:29 GMT -6
I'm all for sticking to your guns and doing the best for the program. But I wavered once. It was when I was a Baseball HC (Interim though - never coached baseball and was leaving the school after the season, so take that with a grain of salt). We're in the state playoffs. Had a strict policy about if you're late, you don't play. Our junior starting pitcher was not there on time. Since our #1 threw the night before, it would've left us in a real bad spot. I was ticked. But I sat the seniors down. Explained our options. I told them its their season and if they think it is fair for him to play and make up for it with conditioning the next day then we'll roll with that. So we did. Ran the absolute pi$$ out of him the next day. But we won that game and kept winning too. Given the choice again I would do the same thing even if it was my program for the long run. For football I think the rule would be more of a sit first quarter if you're late. The hardest thing to balance is that in a way you're not just punishing him - you're punishing all the other kids that put in their own hard work. Its a tough choice to make and it may feel like you're sacrificing values or being inconsistent. But I think the key is that if you explain it, have the team on board, and some alternate punishment, then it can work out. But I also am not gonna second guess anything Belichik does. He's absolutely earned that. Then why have the rule?
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Post by coachmonkey on Dec 22, 2017 10:55:35 GMT -6
it would be interesting to think about how to study the biomechanics of everything else that happens in a football game there are probably all sorts of subtleties in things like the biomechanics of blocking people, or getting off blocks, or making crisp cuts, that are poorly understood, probably even at the highest levels of the game Lou Tepper does a good job of talking about some of what you are talking about. For Getting off blocks he says he has seen guys from High School up through the pros talk about hands in getting off blocks, but that hands don't matter if your feet are not correct. As far as movement I have studied my ILBs to see how do they actually move in a game versus how I teach them to move. They were not exactly moving how I coached them to, so rather than beat a dead horse, I looked at how do they move and taught them how to move more efficiently using how they play the game. Play to their strengths rather than to my limited knowledge.
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Post by coachmonkey on Dec 1, 2017 9:56:26 GMT -6
We did it once before. Clocked them in week 2 42-7 and then faced them again in the Quarterfinals and lost 36-26. We had the same. Beat them first time, lost second time. It's hard to convince kids they can lose to a team they beat handidly. Also, the losing team can try an entirely new gameplan because they lost. So I think the losing team has the advantage if they can convince their kids they had a shot but blew first time around.
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Post by coachmonkey on Dec 1, 2017 9:54:12 GMT -6
Lesson in Karma perhaps. Remember the draft when he refused to play for a team in San Diego? Now they are refusing to play him. Perhaps they feel a running QB will be able to stress a defense more when you have no offensive weapons. I agree, no lessons for HS coaches.
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Post by coachmonkey on Oct 9, 2017 10:06:38 GMT -6
I want all of my football players playing 3 sports. The research for this is there, which is why most successful college coaches are not looking for 1 sport football players these days. As one of my college coaches said, give me a football player he can play one position. Give me an athlete and he can play multiple positions on either side of the ball.
How would you feel if your school had a solid basketball program or any other sports team and they were telling kids not to play football? I would think in this day and age most other sports are at least getting their kids in the weight room 2 days per week.
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Post by coachmonkey on May 19, 2017 7:38:48 GMT -6
As to kids asking questions, I've noticed that "kids these days" just don't watch as much football and have a much more limited understanding of the fundamentals than they did many years ago. Typically, our kids don't ask questions because they don't want to look like a dunce in front of the other players. When I explain a drill or concept and ask if there are questions I usually just get a bunch of kids shaking their head "no". It's to the point now that I pick out a couple kids and ask, "Okay, why are we doing this?" or "Why do we do it this way?" It has helped tremendously. I think a fundamental difference in kids today vs kids I coached even 5-10 years ago is the kids I deal with more now have zero interest in figuring anything out. You used to be able to tell a kid to do something and they would eventually figure it out if you didn't have time to full on explain it at the time. Today it seems like more and more they want you to hand them the answer (if they listen at all) rather than thinking about it and finding it out. Which drives me insane because I've always been a guy that tries to figure EVERYTHING out by myself. Build this into practice. We do it. 4 plays from a certain part of the field and offense can run anything they want and zero coaching during this 2 minute segment. We stack the cards against them to see how they respond. This actually helped us in a game as a team came out in a crazy formation that our kids repped something similar in this period and we didn't even call time out. They ran 3 plays and ended with negative yards.
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Post by coachmonkey on May 12, 2017 12:34:59 GMT -6
Just start using them as teachers and parents and the kids will stop. Simple solution.
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Post by coachmonkey on May 5, 2017 12:46:08 GMT -6
One thing that I learned to do that kept me nearly sane during my long career was to not worry about what happens in other classrooms. I enforced all school rules, even if I didn't especially like them, but what happens in another room is not my business. Sure, kids tried, "But Mrs. ___ lets us wear hats". What's that got to do with me? I have enough problems of my own without worrying about somebody else's. Great teachable moment. I deal with a lot of discipline and we have a lot of students who first thing they say, "Well, so and so did whatever" and I tell them never compare yourself with so and so as that will only lead to misery and suffering in your own life. You knew the expectations and broke them. Even if every other kid in the class did to, you got nailed for breaking the clearly posted expectations. I thought it was just a kid problem, but I see adults are guilty of it too.
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Post by coachmonkey on May 2, 2017 9:56:27 GMT -6
Yes you can. You see talented teams get beat quite a bit by less talented teams with kids that are willing to do what the talent won't.
Are you talking about they just won't workout hard? I know as coaches we want them all to, but the reality is that's life. Some people are just flat out better than others at things without working as hard.
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Post by coachmonkey on Apr 11, 2017 12:54:37 GMT -6
For us, usually, family dinner. Not saying its the same for everyone, and as I already stated I am willing to sacrifice my time as well for the job (I willingly accept that). Just don't be wasteful and inefficient with my time and assume its okay because 'I probably am not going to be with my kids anyways.' I don't believe in wasting time either. We don't do things like mark tape, draw scout cards, etc. as a group. I just have a hard time buying into the idea that texting can replace in-person meetings. Hate to hijack the thread, but I am curious, what do you do for 3+ hours? (also, with hudl, you can screen shot things and send it to coaches, which is a huge help in showing what you are talking about for the offense.)
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Post by coachmonkey on Apr 11, 2017 12:19:35 GMT -6
The RB should have dove on the ball and he wouldn't have got hit like that. The Defensive player was moving full speed and the back was trying to pick up the ball. I do not think it was targeting as you should be expected to get hit if you are the player trying to pick up a fumble. Now, they may have rules that no one goes to the ground on a fumble which is common, so whatever the coaches decide is fine. I agree with others, as an offensive coach I'd be mad, as a defensive coach I'd take note, as a player, he did what he is suppose to do. I doubt he is getting cut for that hit.
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Post by coachmonkey on Apr 11, 2017 10:19:55 GMT -6
Yep, first guy in will tag as much of the hudl video as possible. Some weekends its me, some its the passing game DC, some its the DL coach. Over the past 6 years we've seen over 100 different formations, few teams in our conference run the same offense. We are typically physically smaller than teams so they try to power at us in power formations. When that doesn't work they will try to spread us out. So we've come up with answers for our system to a lot of different offenses. However, weekend meetings for us "youngerish" coaches seems like a waste, so we don't meet. I understand others feel differently. However its hard to ask people with young families to give up their weekends in my opinion, so we don't. Our head coach is great at helping us all manage our time as coaches, teachers and husbands/fathers. On a side note, we do a lot of character building stuff during the season. It's hard to preach family and ignore your family during the season. The players can see through that. I've never completely understood that "Weekends are for families" argument. I understand not wanting those marathon all-day Saturday and Sunday meetings but I do think that there's value in a short (three hours or so) meeting. For me, all my life, the weekend is over by 5:00 Sunday evening. People have completed marathons in just over 2 hours. Many more have completed them in 3 hours.
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Post by coachmonkey on Apr 11, 2017 10:17:11 GMT -6
Heck, sounds like you got it all figured out. Maybe you should sell it to people like that one guy on here. We just have a system that works for us. I don't have all the answers. That's why we utilize technology. It's almost like meeting, without being in the same room. I know it's a strange concept to many. For many staffs I understand meeting works or is necessary, i was just stating there is also an alternative way that may work. I think it's all about balance and I think we have found that because - it works for us.
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Post by coachmonkey on Apr 11, 2017 8:30:36 GMT -6
Yes, I'm rarely on it during the day. On the weekends I will generally only try to do football related things when my kids are in bed. All I really need to know to be prepared are the offensive formations and a top players. It doesn't take hours of watching film to see this. To send off a couple texts takes me a few minutes here and there over the weekend at a time when I am able. I have the added advantage of coaching with the exact same defensive staff for 6 years now so we have a pretty good idea of what each other are thinking. Are you the DC? Yep, first guy in will tag as much of the hudl video as possible. Some weekends its me, some its the passing game DC, some its the DL coach. Over the past 6 years we've seen over 100 different formations, few teams in our conference run the same offense. We are typically physically smaller than teams so they try to power at us in power formations. When that doesn't work they will try to spread us out. So we've come up with answers for our system to a lot of different offenses. However, weekend meetings for us "youngerish" coaches seems like a waste, so we don't meet. I understand others feel differently. However its hard to ask people with young families to give up their weekends in my opinion, so we don't. Our head coach is great at helping us all manage our time as coaches, teachers and husbands/fathers. On a side note, we do a lot of character building stuff during the season. It's hard to preach family and ignore your family during the season. The players can see through that.
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Post by coachmonkey on Apr 11, 2017 8:13:39 GMT -6
With technology now a days, I don't see any reason to meet on the weekends. I enjoy time with my family. If you're on your phone all the time enjoying your technology, are you really with your family though? Yes, I'm rarely on it during the day. On the weekends I will generally only try to do football related things when my kids are in bed. All I really need to know to be prepared are the offensive formations and a top players. It doesn't take hours of watching film to see this. To send off a couple texts takes me a few minutes here and there over the weekend at a time when I am able. I have the added advantage of coaching with the exact same defensive staff for 6 years now so we have a pretty good idea of what each other are thinking.
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Post by coachmonkey on Apr 11, 2017 7:41:56 GMT -6
With technology now a days, I don't see any reason to meet on the weekends. I enjoy time with my family.
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