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Post by mhs99 on Jul 26, 2015 13:24:24 GMT -6
I officially steal the term First World problem and will use that and 3rd world problem when talking about issues. Ours is managing expectations with all of our OL back and a real talented RB (8 of 11 defensive starters too) and realizing that despite our success last year we lost to our league rival who went on to win a state title and they are not hiding from us. They are the hill.
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Post by mhs99 on Jul 14, 2015 22:54:05 GMT -6
Years ago coaching JV we had a freshmen DE kid who we had to tape Rip on his right forearm pad and and lion on the left one because he had sensory overload when he had to put rip/right and lion/left together on strength calls. Couldn't you just say "Timmy right" or "Timmy left" (or whatever his name was) and have everyone go off that? Wanted to keep terminology similar and all levels, and to be honest my assistant thought the kid got his right and left mixed up all the time. Truly sad on so many levels.
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Post by mhs99 on Jul 14, 2015 22:51:26 GMT -6
I pay $20,000 out my athletics budget (I am also the AD) and she covers all practices and games during the athletic calendar. She is fully certified ATC and worth every cent in terms of brings professionalism, knowledge, and rehab to our athletic department every day. We hire her as a contracted worked, not full time (district does not want to pay medical). It can be tough as many certified trainers work for rehab places where you would have to get a contract with the rehab place and pay extra. Look for kids going out of college that just got certified , they may be a good start.
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Post by mhs99 on Jul 14, 2015 22:41:51 GMT -6
Maybe more amusing was in a televised state title game as we were winning big and our freshmen offense was in to finish the game I told our freshmen QB, who was a sharp kid, to take a knee to kill the last :30 seconds. On this last play our left tackle who was a big, strange cat and our left guard, who was pissing himself playing in a NFL stadium, both take a knee on the cadence and stay there for a couple of seconds. I have it on film somewhere.
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Post by mhs99 on Jul 14, 2015 22:36:04 GMT -6
Years ago coaching JV we had a freshmen DE kid who we had to tape Rip on his right forearm pad and and lion on the left one because he had sensory overload when he had to put rip/right and lion/left together on strength calls.
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Post by mhs99 on Jul 2, 2015 17:02:46 GMT -6
Your principal should be fired. Get the helmets for every kid. Sends a terrible message to not have enough equipment. Parents in your community will not be happy. Hit up the booster club.
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Post by mhs99 on Jul 2, 2015 16:59:31 GMT -6
Point out when kids show physical and mental fortitude at practice and on film. Praise it, harp on it, make it the the centerpiece of your program. We are a traditional I-formation team in middle class, blue collar community. We play this up and the kids buy in 100%. We constantly talk about beating on people and wearing opponents out on both sides of the ball. That mentality trickles down to all levels of the program and is embraced by the community.
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Post by mhs99 on Jul 1, 2015 22:26:34 GMT -6
I personally cannot stand this rationale. I agree with you about kids leaving a school that is a dump or ready to be taken over by the state. But....the above stated premise that a talented kid should transfer to a school where there is more established talent. Really? This is an AAU premise, find out where the best situation is and go there to win and get looks. Bottom line if you are good they will find you and the truly great ones are those who can carry a team or a program and establish a new identity in a struggling program and school. So many kids look for the easy way out today and the mindset that kids can transfer to a school that has success when their school struggles is a poor mindset and is not teaching toughness and perseverance in our kids. I saw this firsthand at a school that has become a rival of ours. The football program was near death, almost closed down completely. Their best kids went to large Catholics for years. Then they had a kid who came into the program and turned the whole thing around. 6'4 290 beast OL/DL kid shunned the Catholics and boarding schools and was quoted in a paper as a soph. "I am not going anywhere, I grew up here with the kids in my class and we want to bring a title to here (town) and establish our legacy". Kid won 2 sectional titles and now plays at an ACC school and his high school now is flush with numbers and all of their kids are staying as they see this kids success and message. Game changer.
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Post by mhs99 on Jun 30, 2015 19:01:16 GMT -6
To help prevent recruiting if it is illegal. Also, I said I have no problem with it, not that I necessarily am in favor of it. Alabama has this policy. The point is there are legimate reasons for an academic transfer: better facilities, technology, academic profile etc. but let's be real when you have kids who are terrific athletes and average or subpar students aren't leaving for the AP Chemistry offering silkyice. Force kids to sit a year on the transfer if they were varsity kids that are transferring to a different school and not moving (ie schools choice, inter-district transfer, etc.)
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Post by mhs99 on Jun 28, 2015 21:44:16 GMT -6
School choice must die....put a stringent transfer rule in and these things will slow to a trickle
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Post by mhs99 on Jun 23, 2015 21:23:19 GMT -6
I must be in the minority, but I seem to disagree with nearly everyone here. 33Coach I cant disagree more that flag ins't of value. Flag is similar to soccer in that it teaches kids to burst and sprint and especially important, forces change of direction skills. I live in a community where the high school program is 4 and 5 wide throws 20+ times a game and you better believe that flag has helped hone kids with quickness and kids that can actually catch the ball. Traditional Pop Warner/Youth Programs are run heavy at a younger age and there are limited movement skills being developed. My own kid is 8 a good athlete who plays soccer, flag, basketball, and baseball and I could less when he begins playing tackle football. He wants to in the worst way, but is 60 pounds and does it really make a difference if he starts now or at 10? I am a head coach in a neighboring community where I live and coach in a program that is pro I and based on being very physical. I have parents ask me all the time when they should have their kids begin playing football: 6,7,8,etc. The answer, I could basically care less. As long as they are playing something and being athletic we are OK with that. We want to have them in pads by middle school because we can begin to coach them up with our staff at that point. I might have a slanted point of view as we have had a poor youth football program (now defunct) that was more about winning and less about teaching technique. We are a small program that has seen 4 linemen play college football (3 scholarship) in the past 4 years, 3 of those kids played soccer until 6th grade, they had great feet and that was that separated them from just being big kids. The injury issue of tackle vs. flag is not a huge concern. I am sure if I was around really good, fundamentally sound youth program, i would be much more likely to steer kids that way.
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Post by mhs99 on Jun 7, 2015 22:10:01 GMT -6
6 weeks of weights (4 days/ploys included every day)- 2 max lifting sessions, June and August Weight program is an integrated BFS, still with focus gaining powere and speed with lower reps schemes We do not do a lot of running until the week before our preseason camp. 7v7 for seven sessions (plenty of conditioning) Preseason Camps 2 weeks before football starts- 4 days Week before camp is a 3 day condoning circuit and "walktrhtoughs"
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Post by mhs99 on May 26, 2015 19:07:37 GMT -6
I prefer fried chicken
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Post by mhs99 on Apr 9, 2015 20:26:57 GMT -6
If you have an assistant you feel completely confident in turning QBs over to - the two places that could use an extra coach most are OL (especially TEs if you use them) and DBs (can split Corners and Safeties). Both areas extremely critical to Team success that require a lot of teaching-coaching. Great points on TE's. I coach them up and work them with OT's. We split OT's/TE's, Guards, and Center and do a ton of specific stuff with them. Have 2 OL coaches and myself to help, we get a lot out of these periods.
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Post by mhs99 on Apr 2, 2015 20:25:15 GMT -6
See New England Patriots the past 15 years. With the exception of Brady, how many Hall of Fame guys were on some of those teams. They are all about value and do not waste money on hype or become too attached to guys.
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Post by mhs99 on Jan 31, 2015 22:10:08 GMT -6
We are a small program and let me tell you what, if you have kids working their butts off in the weight room everyday they will find their way on the field. For us the hard working nonathletic kids end up playing WR on run plays, weak OLB, or weak OT. I can see that in huge programs it being an issue, small programs hardworking kids find the field athletic or not.
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Post by mhs99 on Jan 31, 2015 21:52:52 GMT -6
Great point by dubber, look at starting field position and if you are consistently winning that battle big you will win a lot of games. Quick field position correlations: If you have great starting field position is usually because: 1. Your defense causes a lots of 3 and outs 2. You are limiting explosive plays. 3, You have done a great job in the punt/kick return game via scheme and execution. 4. You have stud skill guys who are great in space and the other team is too stupid and kicks to them. If you are pinning teams it usually is a direct reflection on: 1. You consistently get first downs and are winning the field position game. 2. You have a great punter and kicker 3. You coverage teams are excellent. We have lost 2 league title games that were a direct reflection on being pinned down on long fields against one team that had a great punter and one team that had great coverage teams and a great kicker. We out gained both teams by 100 yards and lost 14-6 and 26-6.
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Post by mhs99 on Jan 22, 2015 23:04:20 GMT -6
Let me put it like this: they don't have to like you, but they can't hate you. I've seen some good coaches who take the stance "I don't care if they like me"....and seem to push they persona until their kids have a hatred toward their HC and then Rome goes down in flames.
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Post by mhs99 on Jan 3, 2015 23:51:43 GMT -6
Let me start by saying that this board has made me a much better coach and I realize that many guys who are not HC's know a whole hell of a lot more about the game of football than i do. I was an assistant at program that to that point had football for about six years (small school). I accepted the head coaching position in the same program I was an assistant at: program was 6-43-1 in the previous five seasons before i took over. There was talk about shutting the program down. I actually tried to talk my AD out of accepting the position the night before i was to be introduced (he talked me down, he was much smarter than I). Went 6-4 in our first year and have only had one losing season in ten years. We had a 9-2 and 10-1 team in years 3 and 4 and, despite turning around a nearly dead program, got the tag of not being able to win the big game. Our highlight was running the table and going 13-0 a couple of years ago, winning a state title in an NFL stadium with 33 kids in the entire program against a Catholic school with 100+ kids in their program. We have seen a lot of great kids come through (as athletes, students, and people), had a lot of success (75% win percentage) and I have a loyal, hard working group of assistants. It is a ton of work at a small school but with all the right pieces in place (administration, parents, kids, coaches) and on board, good things happen. There is nothing better than helping kids grow and become a part of them becoming great men down the road.
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Post by mhs99 on Jan 3, 2015 23:24:43 GMT -6
Four years as an assistant (high school). Was unpaid 1st year. Ran freshmen team, have been a head coach for 10 years was no where near ready year one, stepped into a great situation and have made it a great run.
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Post by mhs99 on Nov 30, 2014 22:21:38 GMT -6
Key point here I think: Throw away all the numbers and advantages of not punting and the such......I think more importantly when begin to play "unconventional football" you must mentally prepare your kids to be in stressful situations for the entire game. We have mentally tough kids but I went for it and failed on 4th and 2 from my 30 and our opponent scores, that has lasting effects moving forward in that game. I would assume that you must have total buyin and begin to train a program Mentally from day 1 that plays this style of football and really change the mentality of your team, school and community. Not easy, you have to be very secure as a coach in many ways.
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Post by mhs99 on Oct 21, 2014 20:34:18 GMT -6
Sorry for the late response We play at downhill style on both sides of the football pro I base on offense and attacking 4-4 and 43 on defense. Because we have low numbers we can't practice physical all of the time it tends to be more of a mentality anything than else we emphasize great double teams we emphasize great knock out blocks and we emphasize playing on the other side of ball. Our kids now I've done this for many years and I bought in what we are doing. It is now an expectation of the program
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Post by mhs99 on Oct 16, 2014 19:07:55 GMT -6
My first year as a head I inherited a clunker of a program that there was talk of shutting down completely, it had not won a league game in three years. I had been a JV coach in the program for some time and when I took it over the kids were great, bought in, hit weights etc. We went into our last game of the year at 5-4 had won a couple of league games but hosted our league champion who was 9-0, killing teams and would later go on to win a state title. It was Senior Night and our kids were jacked we jumped out to a 26-0 lead, they woke up and blitzed us in quarters 3 and 4 and went up 31-26 on us with 1:57 to go and we got hit with a clip on the kick return and started at out 9 yard line.We went no huddle for the first time all year and marched down to the 11. We threw a comeback on 4th and 10 and scored with :18 left, missed the 2 and went up 32-31. They got it back the kid heaved one 60 yards and it bounced around twice in our end zone and they dropped it. Our students, players and parents rushed the field; awesome stuff. I truly believe that win propelled our kids and staff to another level as we have had great success since including a couple of league titles and a state championship. A great upset is often like a pebble in a pond as there are many ripples that get larger over time.
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Post by mhs99 on Oct 16, 2014 17:44:07 GMT -6
1. Put kids in the right positions (especially defensively) to take away an opponents strengths and maximize our kids abilities.
2. Play physical on both sides of the ball, a thread that runs throughout the teams in our program.
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Post by mhs99 on Aug 18, 2014 21:05:03 GMT -6
60 in a school that at the time was around 600 Now at 32 as the school is at 400....changing times
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Post by mhs99 on Aug 4, 2014 21:12:40 GMT -6
Adidas Climacool pants are best of the best, UA shorts are the best i have had, but New Balance has outstanding coaching shoes.
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Post by mhs99 on Aug 2, 2014 19:03:50 GMT -6
We have all of that through Family ID where our parents complete all the contact info,medical info, concussion info, and releases. Great program for short money and i can print all the inof out and hand it to my coaches in a folder.
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Post by mhs99 on Jul 31, 2014 20:40:45 GMT -6
We have 16 solid varsity guys, no need to post depth charts....guys know who is who in the zoo
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Post by mhs99 on Jul 4, 2014 17:33:54 GMT -6
We had New Balance team shoes and they got our kids very good cleats at $40. Kids are all about Nike and Under Armour, but even they had to admit the New Balance cleats performed great, looked good, and held up a hell of lot better than "brand" cleats 2-3 times their price.
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Post by mhs99 on Jun 27, 2014 21:24:25 GMT -6
We use to kill each other 3 days a week on game weeks when we had big numbers and I was a young and stupid 30 year old HC. Now we only go live for 2 days in the preseason, BUT we also have 4 scrimmages in the preseason instead of 3 and get 30-40 reps for 1's and some 2's, so we do still get live. We still tackle a lot (1-2 times per game week), just a lot of form and thud stuff.
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