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Post by coachphillip on Apr 15, 2024 9:02:46 GMT -6
I think it depends on the job you're applying to and whether or not you can add those skillsets from other jobs you've had. I always include my coaching background on my resume, but it's more of a footnote than a major talking point. It ALWAYS comes up in interviews that I coach and I tend to slip into "coach talk" since that's how I naturally speak nowadays. But, I wouldn't say that the skillsets someone is asking for in a professional setting is something I developed while coaching teenage boys, even if we all know that that's the case. The people doing the initial screening (HR or TA) will not think of football in the manner you do and it won't make sense to them. When I interview someone who has coaching in their background, it ends up serving as more of a common touchstone between us during the interview than a true judgement of whether or not they can do the job they're applying for. If I ask you if you've had experience utilizing data sets to draw inferences and then used those inferences to develop real time strategies to boost KPIs in your department and you hit me with "Let me tell you about this team that ran two distinct plays on 3rd and long whether they set their H to the boundary or to the field" ... I'm not looking for that. Just my two cents from what I've experienced over the years.
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Post by coachphillip on Mar 1, 2024 15:43:03 GMT -6
I may be in a different boat than most in that I'm really not big into the x's and o's anymore. Truth is, I haven't been for quite some time. At the end of the day, I don't get fired up about coverages and run fits anymore. What will ALWAYS light me up is the relationships. Getting to coach with folks who make it their life's work to leave the world a better place is awesome to me. Over the years I've learned that my purpose in this game is to build relationships with players and then leverage those relationships to bring out the best in them. To leverage those relationships to get those kids to become versions of themselves that they didn't know existed. That's why I do it now.
As for why I got into it ... I didn't know what to do with my life and didn't feel like being a 5'9" offensive tackle after high school. Coach threw me a whistle and said I was going to help coach freshmen ball. Thank god for that man and the rest of the men who coached me.
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Post by coachphillip on Mar 9, 2023 13:35:31 GMT -6
Two added benefits to working the box at the JuCo level was seeing personnel changes better (more prevalent in JuCo and up versus HS where your best 11 are usually out there all game) and also seeing what was going on with hurt players on the opponents' sidelines. If a starter goes down and is getting checked out by the trainer on the opposite sideline, you have a way better vantage point of what exactly it is they're looking at on him and whether he will go again or not based on mannerisms.
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Post by coachphillip on Mar 9, 2023 10:13:24 GMT -6
Always liked being behind the offense during practice and I think it rolled over into games. Helps me with understanding what the offense is trying to do and where my guys' eyes are.
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Post by coachphillip on Mar 9, 2023 10:11:34 GMT -6
You mean I can actually see where they are lined up from the box and not have to take the word of a 16 year old kid or some coach in the box who doesn't know a 3 tech from a triple cheeseburger? Deal. I will now forever associate a single cheeseburger as a 1 tech, a double as a 2 tech and a triple as a 3 tech. I do not care if no one else knows what I am talking about. "Yeah, coacher. Looks like a double double with bacon to the field and single cheeseburger plain into the boundary."
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Post by coachphillip on Mar 9, 2023 10:07:56 GMT -6
Thought the same thing about coaching, in general, for that long may not be a common thing anymore. Coaching is so much work that a lot of guys are opting out. I don't even chalk it up to the "these young guys nowadays" type of stuff. Just a TON of hoops for the sake of putting people through it.
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Post by coachphillip on Mar 2, 2023 13:09:05 GMT -6
All good. What was the issue? Curious. Didn't hit Vegas this year.
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Post by coachphillip on Mar 1, 2023 14:00:26 GMT -6
Annual question of the year:
Who's going to the Glazier's Clinic in Concord, CA?
See you guys there Friday and Saturday.
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Post by coachphillip on Mar 1, 2023 13:51:14 GMT -6
I've worked for some great guys in my career. They all helped me get better as a coach and as a man.
Jesse Rodriguez - Mt. Eden - Great human being and a real father figure for me in my youth. Taught me that we coach kids, not football. Exceptional at building relationships with kids and then leveraging those relationships to bring the best out of us. I most model my coaching style after him. I owe him a lot.
Paul Perenon - Mt. Eden - The man has plenty of critics, but one thing you could never say about Paul was that he didn't care about his guys. He would fight tooth and nail FOR YOU if you were loyal to him and the program. Also, incredibly detailed at program management and not one thing was overlooked in regards to preparation.
Eric Fanene - Chabot College - Phenomenal culture builder. He cares about every single person who wears black and gold. I learned so much from him in regards to linear continuity between all positions on a unit. Everything had a purpose. He didn't invite you onto his staff. He invited you into his family.
Denny Molzen - Castro Valley - Incredible human being. Always made an effort to treat his coaches and their time with respect. We never got out of things late or ran over. Always made an effort to relate football to life for our kids. Really bought into the idea that if football is about life lessons, then we need to make sure we think those through ahead of time and make time for them.
I was fortunate to have coached for who I have in my career. Biggest common denominator is they were good, honest men who believed in the mission. If you don't respect the man you're coaching for, leave. Period.
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Post by coachphillip on Jan 11, 2023 12:01:19 GMT -6
Good stuff there. Enjoyed reading all the other responses at the end. Good stuff.
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Post by coachphillip on Jan 11, 2023 11:25:14 GMT -6
Always glad to see a guy move up in the world. Congrats to him. He has a large following from the Twitter guys from what I've seen. Seems like a smart dude and well spoken.
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Post by coachphillip on Jan 11, 2023 11:21:21 GMT -6
I'd say about 75% of the time. Kind of a hard thing to say because of the way the talent is being coached. I've always told coaches that talent sets the ceiling and culture sets the floor. That holds true 100% of the time.
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Post by coachphillip on Nov 17, 2022 16:21:32 GMT -6
Didn’t grade in high school. Never saw the point. The guy is the guy.
Graded in JuCo. ATAK* was the criteria. Alignment. Technique. Assignment. Key Read. * was extra bonus point. Every play was possible 4 points. If you aligned, used proper technique, nailed your assignment, used actions dictated by your key read, and made a huge play then you got 5 out of 4.
Just how we did it. Not very hard. Excel formula did all the math. Total points for a game. Average points per play. Also allowed you to do average points by criteria in a pivot table. Can also use data points to show improved field of play over the course of a season. Example being a player averaged 0.78 points (essentially a 78% score) in alignment through the first five weeks, but bumped to 0.93 points for the last five weeks.
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Post by coachphillip on Oct 14, 2022 10:05:38 GMT -6
As far as a price if I was going to pay $50.00 is about it. The only reason I would worry at all about payment is if you get kids to start doing things like social media, banners and so on then you run the risk of everyone wanting to get paid. There are of course ways around that.
This is my issue; it sets a precedence that I wouldn't want to deal with. We have a few art students who put a lot of time and effort into a mural in the weight room as a part of a project. The polite way to describe the mural is "It brightens up the room". In other words, there's no way we'd pay the kids for the work. And, knowing some of these parents, they'd be demanding compensation, even though the school paid for all of the material and they did a good chunk of it during the school day.
Exactly that. It's not a business. Sets a bad precedent.
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Post by coachphillip on Oct 13, 2022 15:44:06 GMT -6
When I’ve had it that late in the season before, we used it for picture week if it wasn’t done already. Then go mental Monday, offense Tuesday, defense Wednesday. Off Thursday and Friday. Better to give kids a chance to rest up that late in the year.
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Post by coachphillip on Oct 13, 2022 15:42:07 GMT -6
Yeah. I’d pull the plug on that just to show the parent that that’s not how it works. Too bad that kid was affected by their stupid parent.
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Post by coachphillip on Sept 19, 2021 21:58:49 GMT -6
A lot of it is just the kids and their collective personalities. You can try to work on it by starting practices fast if you can and hope the behavioral change sticks.
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Post by coachphillip on Feb 11, 2019 13:59:00 GMT -6
Any word on when the Alabama clinic is this year?
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Post by coachphillip on Feb 10, 2019 23:03:26 GMT -6
I liked Vegas. Grand Valley State Coach, Matt Mitchell, was good. Knows his stuff and sticks to it. Swears a LOT, but it’s cool with me. I know some guys aren’t too down with all that.
Noel Mazzone was entertaining as always. Lots of tangents, but you can always glean one or two things from those.
Jerry Azinarro was great. Old school dude who is perfectly comfortable being who he is.
Met cqmiller. Always good putting a face to a name. Good dude and still rocking the Rocketbook.
Looking forward to SF this weekend.
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Post by coachphillip on Jan 30, 2019 22:52:14 GMT -6
Bay Area looks okay. You’re right. Hitting Vegas next week. That should be fun. We got a great first time in Vegas story from last year. Come find us when you are there Sounds like a plan, Coach. Looking forward to meeting my fellow Hueyites.
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Post by coachphillip on Jan 29, 2019 23:25:00 GMT -6
Bay Area looks okay. You’re right.
Hitting Vegas next week. That should be fun.
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Post by coachphillip on Dec 13, 2018 19:11:10 GMT -6
Is it worth going? Don't really know much about the clinic.
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Post by coachphillip on Dec 13, 2018 19:05:39 GMT -6
1 time in 12 years.
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Post by coachphillip on Dec 8, 2018 8:43:28 GMT -6
I coached at a lower middle class public school and we talked to our kids about stuff like this every other Thursday in the offseason. I felt like we had an opportunity to do it because the kids chose to be at practice, and an obligation to do it because our school has nothing like this in regards to curriculum. There are no “life skills” or “develop for success” classes.
A lot of our kids come from single parent homes, low income housing, or have immigrant parents. Their parents don’t know how to apply for financial aid for college. Their parents don’t know how to write a resume. Their parents are just hard working people doing their best who don’t have time to do these things with their child because they’re probably working two jobs just to pay the bills. We step in for thirty minutes twice a month and help lessen the load.
The use of alumnus is a cool idea because it allows them the ability to network and see that there are people who played at your school who went pro at something besides football.
Have you thought about having the kids fill out an application and turn in a resume for your football team at the end of the offseason? I knew one coach who used to have kids interview for their positions as well. Just to get a good practice run in for the real world.
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Post by coachphillip on Nov 24, 2018 19:50:57 GMT -6
If a kid goes down hurt I've had refs tell our players they have to remain on the field of play and coaches cannot coach them up. I never thought to question it, but is this even a rule? I'd rather have my players just get to the sidelines and stay loose while we wait. Good question. Why not ask in the Rules section? I'm curious, too. Players are allowed to be on the numbers and coaches can talk to them so long as they don’t come onto the field. Throw them some water bottles and talk to them from the sideline.
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Post by coachphillip on Nov 24, 2018 15:14:01 GMT -6
We don’t do it. We get crap for it. Is what it is. Feel free to get worked up over our guys taking a knee or not. We get our guys to the sideline and get them some water.
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Post by coachphillip on Nov 20, 2018 23:01:05 GMT -6
This comes with a penalty. Not on the same tier as cheating. There is a penalty too if you have a player run in off the sideline after the snap to catch a pass behind the defense. There is a penalty too if you intentionally hold while your punter runs out the clock. And I imagine there is a penalty for violating rule 7-2-5 which states "On the first three downs, you can only have one interior lineman, the long snapper, wear an eligible jersey number. At least four others must wear ineligible numbers. " This was the one I mentioned initially. I think the difference with the Defensive PI is that you’re essentially trading one consequence for another rather than trying to get one by the refs in hopes of not receiving any consequences at all.
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Post by coachphillip on Jul 13, 2018 9:51:57 GMT -6
Always used Monday as a Lift / Film / Install day.
Started going full go on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. Haven’t done it long enough to know if our kids looked for the better or for the worse.
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Post by coachphillip on Jun 30, 2018 21:01:53 GMT -6
Absolutely agree with results. At the end of the day, if you show them what the weight room can do for them, it'll start to sink in. It's a process for sure though.
Don't know who it was on here, maybe BDud, but a coach said "It's my job to get them physically impressive enough to where a girl kisses their bicep. They'll have perfect attendance for the rest of their lives after that!"
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Post by coachphillip on May 24, 2018 21:19:48 GMT -6
Not a teacher and don’t think I ever will be. The situation is too messed up to sign myself up for that kind of a pay cut as a new guy.
Have a boss that understands and works with you. Just remember, if they’re willing to be flexible there then you need to pay them back somehow. They won’t forget they let you leave early when those dreaded shifts for weekends and holidays come around.
Try to get a fixed schedule if you can’t be there every day. Otherwise, it might be best to not be a position coach but a position assistant. Can’t be a head position coach with someone else coaching it 50% of the time. Not fair to the kids.
Be organized. If you’re walking straight into the weight room or onto the field from work, you need to know what drills you’re running, what components of play you’re working on, what groups you’re working with, what equipment you’ll need, etc. That all needs to be thought out AHEAD OF TIME. Nothing makes you look like a bigger slap than stumbling out there with no plan.
Think about coaching freshman. The time commitment is far less and the expectations are as well. Those kids need help too. And from my experience, varsity head coaches would KILL for quality lower level coaches who just go out there and teach the kids the system and how to have fun and be a team. Those guys are soooooo hard to find.
I’ve been off campus for 12 years and I love it. It’s my relief from work and the best part of my day. No matter how messed up work gets, I get to see my boys. And they’re usually a lot happier seeing you than the guys on campus they see all day.
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