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Post by coachphillip on Aug 30, 2013 7:00:08 GMT -6
at our school, if you quit a sport. you cannot participate in another one until the season is over for the sport you quit. one of the few things our county does right. That's good stuff. My dad used to tell me to be sure about wanting to play a sport because I would be seeing it through. He found out one of my friends quit soccer halfway through the season. I wasn't allowed to see that kid again. "Hang out with losers and its only a matter of time until you are one too."
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Post by coachphillip on Aug 30, 2013 6:57:48 GMT -6
I coach varsity (When I'm NOT in Afghanistan) My wife is the band director... Kids do both, no big deal. The band loves having someone to cheer for! Sent from my Nexus 7 using proboards Our school's music programs are both very strict. The band and choir pretty much force the hands of the kids who try to do both. One of our RB "worked out a deal" with his band director to only come to band every other day and go to football every other day. When we tried to tell the band director that you can't play football showing up half the time, he said the same thing applies to band. To which I responded, "Band is year round. Football isn't. Besides, if you miss half of your band practices, you don't get smacked upside the head with a tuba." Little dictators.
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Post by coachphillip on Aug 29, 2013 9:12:25 GMT -6
Had to share this one, coaches.
Had a freshman who was shaping up to be a halfway decent guard. Smart, decent size, good feet, very coachable. He tells me he "has to quit football for personal reasons." I told him he was making a huge mistake, gut out a season and then decide. He said he had already made up his mind. We shook hands and off he went.
Fast forward to our scrimmage this last Saturday. The kid is in the marching band! So when I ask him what his personal reason was for not playing football ... "It would interfere with my music career." Now, for some of you, that would seem like a silly notion but understandable considering we're dealing with kids who are trying to figure out who they are as people. But, here's the kicker: he didn't know how to play an instrument! He spent all summer at football so he never got to learn how to play an instrument. During the marching band routine, he walked around in formation with his hands in front of him pretending to play the trumpet!
My starting freshman guard quit football to pursue his career in playing in an AIR BAND!
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Post by coachphillip on Aug 28, 2013 23:13:40 GMT -6
Lombardi was the OC on that Giants' staff. Landry was the DC. Yikes!
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Post by coachphillip on Aug 28, 2013 12:22:50 GMT -6
"When Dante's in we might as well call it Cover 0."
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Post by coachphillip on Aug 28, 2013 12:16:38 GMT -6
At what point is it okay to put my child in Bull in the Ring?
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Post by coachphillip on Aug 28, 2013 12:07:52 GMT -6
That's was my reaction to our scrimmage this past Saturday. This year, we have more parents actively involved in the raising of their children and we love it. But, our staff met after and was talking about how much our parents loved us. Yeah, because we destroyed the other team. We were still harping on kids about the usual mistakes you see in scrimmages (ie. sloppiness, laziness, poor fundamentals, not finishing plays, etc.). But since we scored a lot, we were "strict and upholding our standard of play". If we had gotten trounced, we would be "overbearing and taking a kids' game too seriously." I would never want parents, much less a television audience, seeing one of our practices.
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Post by coachphillip on Aug 27, 2013 22:48:14 GMT -6
Like Roll Tide/War Eagle.
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Post by coachphillip on Aug 26, 2013 10:18:50 GMT -6
After coaching, I don't watch pro ball anymore. It usually turns into "Will somebody please wrap up and make a decent tackle?! This is why my kids hit everybody and tackle nobody!" College is awesome. Teams that run different offenses and defenses. Watching pro ball is like watching a guy play Madden against himself using the same teams.
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Post by coachphillip on Aug 24, 2013 19:41:04 GMT -6
That is an awesome idea with the scout wrist bands.
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Post by coachphillip on Aug 23, 2013 21:45:09 GMT -6
Nobody liked you because you held them accountable. But, the good ones will eventually appreciate and respect you. Keep your standards high, coach.
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Post by coachphillip on Aug 23, 2013 14:51:08 GMT -6
Had a RB coach who swore by monkey rolls for ball protection.
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Post by coachphillip on Aug 23, 2013 13:02:28 GMT -6
We run that Navy drill. We call it King of the Ring. Good stuff.
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Post by coachphillip on Aug 23, 2013 13:01:56 GMT -6
I always knew Bull in the Ring to be one guy surrounded by a circle of his teammates. The coach would either point to, yell the number of, or walk the circle and push players to charge the player in the middle and deliver a blow.
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Post by coachphillip on Aug 23, 2013 10:46:04 GMT -6
Extra tape for your camcorder unless you're digital. Medical kit stuff for the kids unless you have a trainer. I always carry a couple screwdrivers (to get mud out of cleats or to help with helmets), cleat tool and extra cleats, extra mouth pieces.
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Post by coachphillip on Aug 23, 2013 10:43:26 GMT -6
Lol. Had an OC yell "I get knocked down! But, I get up again!" One of the assistants said "ain't ever gonna keep me down!" OC realized what he had done and started laughing. Kids were clueless.
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Post by coachphillip on Aug 23, 2013 9:07:47 GMT -6
whats so bad about bull in the ring if you don't hit in the back? we run it where the guy in the middle calls out who he wants to hit I don't think that's what most of us would call Bull in the Ring. One coach I knew ran it by calling out numbers. Another ran it by silently pointing. One is vastly different from the other.
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Post by coachphillip on Aug 23, 2013 9:06:07 GMT -6
My favorite stupid drill: I was running late getting to practice for my freshman squad. It was supposed to be a defense day, but I told the OC to just run offense and we would make up the day later on in the week. So as I'm jogging up to the field I see one of my kids, brand new to the game and as wet behind the ears as you could be, standing with his back turned to a full charging beast of a middle backer, the single freakiest athlete I have ever coached. They were twenty yards apart to start and when the backer was 4 yards away, my OC blew a whistle and the little guy had to spin around and "stand and fight the block like a man." Kid lowered his shoulder to protect himself, backer destroyed him, OC laughed and clapped him on the back, kid suffered a separated shoulder. I started screaming "What the eff is going on here?!" OC says "I was warming up the defense for you." It took the whole staff to hold me back from "warming him up".
If your drill doesn't simulate playing conditions, have variables that you can control for safety, practice important skills, or hold up to coach's "witness test" then it should not be a part of your practice, illegal or not.
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Post by coachphillip on Aug 22, 2013 12:06:03 GMT -6
Yeah. I coach in a pretty ethnic neighborhood. That isn't going down pre game lol.
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Post by coachphillip on Aug 22, 2013 10:05:50 GMT -6
"It may be cold outside tonight boys, but it's warm in here." (Points to heart) "And that's where we have to play from if we want to win this game tonight!" This is the cheesiest thing I have ever heard a HC say. I only hope that one day I can tell my own team something as lame. That is hilarious. I keep picturing this talk around a country side camp fire. I couldn't say it with a straight face. My old HC when I played once said, "You have to be smart out there. You have to use this. *points at head* Cabeza!" It took everything I had to not bust out laughing and get benched the second half.
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Post by coachphillip on Aug 21, 2013 23:36:30 GMT -6
Up late, can't sleep and thought this would be a fun thread to have. What has been the cheesiest thing you've ever said while coaching? I mean so cheesy that you immediately thought in your head "What the hell am I saying and why am I saying it?"
Yesterday, my team was having a terrible practice. There was a lack of leadership and nobody was taking ownership. We got out of conditioning and ended practice. When we were huddled up to end, I went off about how the best programs are the ones where kids take ownership, where kids realize that coaches are there to help them get as good as they push themselves to be. Everything was going well, until I said ... "What I'm looking at right now is a ship without a captain! And ships without a captain, they don't make it to the dock! Let that resonate for a second!" *face palm*
Kids being kids, they didn't realize how cheesy it was and allowed themselves to get caught up in the moment. I think they actually bought in and liked it. But afterward, my coaches let me have it. They want to have our first staff pre game meal at Long John Silver's so that "we can be sure we get back to the dock after".
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Post by coachphillip on Aug 21, 2013 13:48:02 GMT -6
A lot of high school coaches believe youth ball is a "lower level" of kid which results in a lower level of coaching of lower level ball. They are sorely mistaken. He clearly has no respect for you.
I love that line, 33coach. "Buy in or bye bye." Don't keep the guy around if he's going to bad mouth the program. He's now preemptively given the kids an excuse for when they meet adversity. "It's not me, it's the system. Why try harder when the problem could be solved by merely changing the system?" Keeping guys around because you need help is one thing, but if he's not helping then he's just sticking around and doing harm ... like cancer.
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Post by coachphillip on Aug 21, 2013 8:55:35 GMT -6
Four team sessions at 15 plays each. First session: inside run/PA. Second session: outside run/boot. Third session: pass/draw/screen. Fourth: all.
This is our defensive team schedule. Defense isn't supposed to be on the field for 60 plays in a row or until I see what I like. Each team session is followed by an individual session to fix what we saw and prep the next period. We start with 20 minutes of fundamentals and a 15 minute tackle circuit. Practice takes about 2 hours including conditioning. We're low on numbers too. We have 25 frosh/soph and 25 varsity.
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Post by coachphillip on Aug 20, 2013 10:02:10 GMT -6
Absolutely. But like you said. It's a personal experience vs the good of the team. When those two start to conflict, you have a problem. If you can address it and correct it, good. If not, one has to be sacrificed.
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Post by coachphillip on Aug 20, 2013 9:51:44 GMT -6
Reading these posts infuriate me. Parents need to be parents.
We have a kid who has a freaking 0.4 GPA. He's not going to be eligible to play. I don't think he's going to graduate high school. What does his dad do? Hire a tutor? No. Stop him from playing? No. Hires him a personal trainer to help his strength and explosiveness because when he comes to practice we just have him do his summer school stuff instead of working out. "How is doing this bookwork going to help his 40?" "How is increasing his 40 going to help him GRADUATE HIGH SCHOOL?!"
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Post by coachphillip on Aug 20, 2013 9:46:08 GMT -6
Wow. Texas is nuts. But, a fun thing I do with my freshmen is I let skill guys be OL and OL be skills. They really get a kick out of "living the dream".
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Post by coachphillip on Aug 20, 2013 9:20:50 GMT -6
Best story was of a kid I coached out in the Stockton area who flat out didn't try. He was constantly bad mouthing the program. We were a new school and in our first year of varsity competition. He started telling other players that our offense would never work and that our defense made no sense. It wasn't that he was lazy and not trying. I finally flipped when he started saying these things at a contact camp. Buddy ended up having his mom drive two hours out to pick him up. Never played again. Now he is a dropout who works at the McDonalds down the street from the school. I'm sure that wasn't his fault either.
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Post by coachphillip on Aug 20, 2013 9:15:16 GMT -6
Excerpt from our Parent/Player contract which must be signed before attending a single practice:
"Any behavior that is seen as causing direct or indirect harm to the program will be dealt with accordingly by the coaching staff. Continual dismissal of corrective behavior will result in being removed from all team events, including spectating games. To represent this school in athletic contests is a privilege and an honor, not a right."
It's rarely used. The way I see it, only cut kids who are an anchor. Kids who just flat out refuse to show up, repeatedly talk back to coaches, start fights or cause drama, etc. Kids with crappy attitudes are fine as long as you can manage them and help adjust it. Once it starts to permeate though, you gotta cut them loose.
I understand the whole "we gotta help this kid" mentality. I've been a player and a coach on staff with kids who totally ruined our chemistry but stayed on because our head coach wanted to keep them off the streets. I saw it as a disservice to the 39 of us who busted our butts to constantly be punished for the terrible habits of 3 of us. I'll never stand for it again.
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Post by coachphillip on Aug 19, 2013 9:14:26 GMT -6
Pretty much what you do. I also like to give inspirational quotes or YouTube videos. I post pump up music or videos on game day.
A good tip would be to make Facebook events for every game you play, that way kids can look up their schedules on their phones. No more "Coach do we play team A? Where? When? What jersey? Is the varsity there? Do we get to watch? How much? Blah blah blah."
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Post by coachphillip on Aug 19, 2013 9:04:22 GMT -6
Guess I didn't pay enough attention, my bad! I didn't either till we were blasting some of his music through our stadium speakers 8am on Saturday lol Had this happen before. I've never been more aware of an f bomb in my life. "F this N. Don't be a B my N. F all these B's my N." Now we only play my ACDC mix.
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