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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Mar 1, 2019 6:15:54 GMT -6
Ok, so there’s at least a little something behind it. Thanks for the references. No problem, has interesting applications, not totally convinced on it, but is interesting
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Feb 28, 2019 19:12:00 GMT -6
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Feb 25, 2019 18:15:44 GMT -6
Pretty much don’t care about accessories as refs deal with excess bands, sleeves, and other flair. Visors I don’t mind as the dark and colored visors are not wearable. Only accessory I have issues with is gloves on WRs. Basically for my group they are something they have to earn. If you cant catch and refuse to stalk block why do you need gloves? They learn quick
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Hair cuts?
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Feb 25, 2019 18:10:24 GMT -6
It’s against the law now in NY for just what we are talking. Good luck getting Latino and African American community’s support on this matter. Test scores and life skills matter more than haircuts
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Feb 24, 2019 10:40:43 GMT -6
Hair is so culturally important to so many different groups of people that I would not mess with it. We’re high school coaches, not the Yankees... where I coach and live at I am more worried about my athletes having a meal and clean clothes than whether or not they have a crew cut.
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Feb 1, 2019 15:57:02 GMT -6
March 8-10, and yes. It's still in Aurora Thanks!
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Feb 1, 2019 14:59:09 GMT -6
What are the dates for CLE Glazier? Is it still being held in Aurora?
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Sept 13, 2018 18:41:07 GMT -6
Why not go 5-3 if you’re a 3-3 Defense? 8 man box depending on their formations should help.
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Feb 17, 2018 16:01:49 GMT -6
Teachers in hallways monitoring and greeting / screening students and adults in hallway. Enforcement of no hats and hoody hood on head. Close down access points and funnel guests through office only. Don’t open doors for people you don’t know, politely tell them to go to the office. Mainly it’s all about being present and observant.
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Feb 10, 2018 13:55:02 GMT -6
We like video playbooks because X & O on paper does NOT MOVE! Been experimenting with this on Hudl as you can animate the plays unless I have completely lost it, which is a total possibility. I think if you have the animated play, video, and regular walkthroughs then it really hammers things home.
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PBIS
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Feb 1, 2018 5:11:31 GMT -6
Restorative Justice practices and natural, logical progression of consequences (positive and negative) better way to go. For example positive consequences are get in weight room and look good at the beach, get to brag about being on the team, get swag, etc. work way more than artificial programs like PBIS, most urban ed schools don’t have the resources, training, or teacher buy in to even do PBIS “correctly”
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PBIS
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Feb 1, 2018 5:06:27 GMT -6
How many of you guys are involved with PBIS? I’m part of our schools implementation team and I’m constantly thinking back to how this also applies to coaching. For those who are new to it or unaware, the basic gist is trying to create a system to positively (and socially) reward students for the kinds of behaviors we want. It’s the new hotness of culture building but for your school. It’s really got my wheels turning for how I could approach building a programs culture in positive way, curious if anyone else has gone through this process and made the same connections. PBIS sounds great in concept but actually de motivates students to because it reinforces that there are “good” and “bad”kids (anti- growth mindset), cripples intrinsic motivation, and leads to kids stealing the rewards from each other. It ends up with you rewarding kids for doing base line functions and creates learned helplessness. People do it because it’s an “easy” way to seemingly improve behavior and shows limited results for a short period of time. The following links explain this paradox more clearly and give a blue print on how to shift away from this: ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2017/08/29/how-ending-behavior-rewards-helped-one-school-focus-on-student-motivation-and-character/ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/category/mindshiftpodcast/
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Jan 1, 2018 11:06:31 GMT -6
While hard to see what happens in the secondary, it’s a good chance to watch some of the line play, especially the few moments they show the tite shots. I would say watch the game and then see if you can find all - 22 or tite film if you’re interested after watching the game.
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Nov 25, 2017 21:45:14 GMT -6
What are 4/5 star helmets? Never heard that before. What do you do about paint and disinfect them if they aren’t sent back? Just curious everywhere I have been all are sent back every year. www.beam.vt.edu/helmet/helmets_football.phpVirginia Tech studies and rates the safety of helmets.
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Nov 20, 2017 17:08:47 GMT -6
3 guys must have head sets, 2-3 others can have them, too chaotic otherwise. Was on a team with about 30 coaches Var through Frosh and seemed like all 30 had headsets which created confusion. Keep it in chain of command, ask if you need something seen from box. The Must Guys: HC, OC, DC
Guys you want on a mike: spotter for D/ Signal Caller on field if DC in box OL coach or other spotter for offense in box
Hand your head set over: Any other coach or player.
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Oct 9, 2017 10:53:48 GMT -6
Depends on the area you're in and politics around you. Bigger cities will generally be more accepting and rural areas have the stereotype of being less so, what it comes down to is the culture your HC puts together. If they're open to you coaching, then the family motto works and they accept you without conditions as y'all are working together for one goal, to win! (IMO should be this way for all things: race, religion, creed, orientation, etc., funny how conservative / libertarian ideals are considered liberal now) Anyone brings up the ole Pedophilia excuse to exclude LGBT men from coaching you can always counter with the "funny how no one seems to blink at the 22 yr old straight guy coach of an all girls Catholic / Christian school team... It comes down to this I would never harm a child and sexual orientation does not determine if one will be a pedophile or not," Good luck, while strides have been made, Football can still be a deep rooted bastion of homophobia along with deep seeded racial bias, etc.
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Oct 1, 2017 5:12:28 GMT -6
Guess I go against the grain when it comes to this. We are multiple in what we do on defense. I want answers to everything we see, and because we are multiple we have answers. I'm not going to prepare for Flexbone like I would Wing T. Or DTDW like I would spread. They are all completely different. One week we might play 4-4 cover 3 the entire game because of the offense we're playing. The next week we might be running 3-4 quarters. It's not a different defense. It's the same kids, running the same defense we've ran since day 1. If that's not your style, whatever. We will never get out coached. It would be my fault if we lost because I did not put my kids in something that gives them the opportunity for success. The only way we are going down is BFS, as a coach I don't have a simple fix for that. If we lose because of BFS, I can sleep at night. We didn't have the cats, that simple. If I didn't run something that gives us the chance for success, I failed as a coach. If I ran the offense I would have the same mindset. Multiple yet simple. Works on defense because (I imagine) you have specific rules by coverage and position that your players can run to be right regardless of alignment. As long as you have rules that allow them to play fast, you can be multiple. Offensively, I feel having 4-6 blocking schemes if you're gap scheme (power, counter, counter trey, trap, wedge and / or OZ) or be a inside zone guy and run IZ, OZ, and maybe power or counter if you two platoon. Rep the hell out of your rules with the OL and don't change anything for them all year. Use backfield alignment and motions to add the "new" look weekly to Offense.
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Sept 12, 2017 18:44:50 GMT -6
I find it interesting that I almost never see the inner city kids, who have every reason to feel oppressed, take a knee during the anthem. We played an all-African American team from a very rough part of KC. Their coach said 1/2 of their team was sick from the pregame meal because it was the first true meal they'd had in months. But when the anthem was played, every single person on their team and their families in the stands stood. They were all in unison, straddling the sideline and everything. In my limited experience with this, the people that kneel for the anthem are the furthest from oppression. When we played a team from an affluent suburb in STL, they knelt for the anthem. I guess they feel like they need attention because they believe they have more of a platform? I 100% support the movement to improve racial tension in this country. But I am sick and tired of seeing everybody bash this country. People strive to be as irrational as possible because it'll gain them the attention they crave and that's what's wrong with 2017. Depending on the team they're playing and what part of the country they're playing it could definitely be a safety concern leading to it not being done. I remember playing a game in small town AZ, most of our team was Latino or Mixed and by the looks of it probably a 1/4 of their team was similar. We had rocks thrown as us by a good section of the opposing stands as we walked by, I was spit on by multiple people, called wetback and spic, and (strangely) told to go back to Puerto Rico.🙄😐😶🤔, AZ education isn't the best... this was a reaction to us in a time that wasn't hyper charged with political tension. No one is bashing the country with these statements and protests. It's a call for equity as citizens regardless of race, religion, or creed. If anything they are being more American than anyone, our nation was founded on protesting inequity. I would highly suggest y'all read A Colony in a Nation, it explains clearly how we've created two separate Americas. One is for the mainly white upper middle class and the other for urban minority population centers and rural poor white areas. It makes a strikingly conservative explanation of how we treat minorities and the poor in America now is similar to how the British treated American colonials. This happened way back in 2002- 2003
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Sept 12, 2017 18:40:38 GMT -6
I find it interesting that I almost never see the inner city kids, who have every reason to feel oppressed, take a knee during the anthem. We played an all-African American team from a very rough part of KC. Their coach said 1/2 of their team was sick from the pregame meal because it was the first true meal they'd had in months. But when the anthem was played, every single person on their team and their families in the stands stood. They were all in unison, straddling the sideline and everything. In my limited experience with this, the people that kneel for the anthem are the furthest from oppression. When we played a team from an affluent suburb in STL, they knelt for the anthem. I guess they feel like they need attention because they believe they have more of a platform? I 100% support the movement to improve racial tension in this country. But I am sick and tired of seeing everybody bash this country. People strive to be as irrational as possible because it'll gain them the attention they crave and that's what's wrong with 2017. Depending on the team they're playing and what part of the country they're playing it could definitely be a safety concern leading to it not being done. I remember playing a game in small town AZ, most of our team was Latino or Mixed and by the looks of it probably a 1/4 of their team was similar. We had rocks thrown as us by a good section of the opposing stands as we walked by, I was spit on by multiple people, called wetback and spic, and (strangely) told to go back to Puerto Rico.🙄😐😶🤔, AZ education isn't the best... this was a reaction to us in a time that wasn't hyper charged with political tension. No one is bashing the country with these statements and protests. It's a call for equity as citizens regardless of race, religion, or creed. If anything they are being more American than anyone, our nation was founded on protesting inequity. I would highly suggest y'all read A Colony in a Nation, it explains clearly how we've created two separate Americas. One is for the mainly white upper middle class and the other for urban minority population centers and rural poor white areas. It makes a strikingly conservative explanation of how we treat minorities and the poor in America now is similar to how the British treated American colonials.
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Sept 12, 2017 17:24:14 GMT -6
How I view it is if they want to, it's their constitutional right to do so as long as they don't make it into a circus. If a bunch of neo Nazis and KKK guys can do what they did at UVA and get a legal pass, then a kid kneeling peacefully doesn't bother me. I think saying they are mimicking pros is dismissive of our player's intelligence and emotional needs. Our HS kids are smart enough to know what institutionalized racism is and how it works in America; especially our male athletes of color from urban areas. If we have to respect a kid's right to pray or not pray then we should respect their right to make a stand. I don't encourage it, but would not chastise a player who does it. The National Anthem before a game is a political statement, kneeling is a political statement as a democracy we have to respect non violent protest otherwise we creep into the abyss of authoritarianism. If you're gonna waste pre game or post game time on that and not game planning ok, but I wouldn't.
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Sept 8, 2017 4:47:28 GMT -6
Shirts must be on, considering there is MRSA and other hygiene related diseases, bacteria, viruses, etc and we work with HS boys who are not always known for the best hygiene.
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Aug 15, 2017 4:14:25 GMT -6
Always on OL or DL. A quality to game changing level OL/ DL player can help win you many games especially since games are won and lost in the trenches.
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Aug 3, 2017 15:58:41 GMT -6
The state line area can be a tough place in terms of coaching turn over and ecomic issues that the Beloit/ Rockford area face. There is a lot of athletic talent, but academic and socioeconomic factors make it difficult to keep the galant focused and eligible. With these factors in mind it can be very hard to get programs running competitively, especially as they face loaded private schools and suburban districts that have greater resources. Seems like there is a lot of behind the scenes beef between the HC and AD and there seems That both sides have a bit of blame to share. Hopefully it gets sorted out so the kids can continue their success. On a side note I am extremely surprised the mom would move her kid to the new school, seemingly based on football alone, from Rockford Lutheran. It's a good school with a great staff, but parents seemingly will do anything to get "Johnny" D1 bound, even if it doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Jul 31, 2017 13:16:27 GMT -6
Holy lack of cultural competency Batman!!! From what was seen coach Williams (DL coach) and the D.C. Holly we're the most competent,and I feel the OC, and we're able to legitimately build relationships with their players. Coach Stephens makes his life off the efforts and abilities mainly young black men, but instead of uplifting them he denegrates them and plays the white missionary messiah role, based on what you see on the show. He's as culturally competent as a big city midwestern school district.
He calls them thugs, says they lack control, and make stupid decisions when he should be seeing his reflection in the mirror. The whole "Christian Coach" routine irks me as he says it yet acts the opposite way. It is amazing that he blames everyone around him for distractions and for creating problems on game day when he creates half them. That end with his OC is totally uncalled for and unprofessional and he comes across as a bully. Rant over...
P.S.: if life is /was fair I would love to see a program run by coach Williams the DL coach.
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Jul 24, 2017 16:56:23 GMT -6
Pretty sure it's foggy ground for a passing league coach to be at a school where summer league players are at. isn't it that AAU coaches can't be coach their respective high school coaches? [/quote Was part of the argument that led to Greenfield's( Milwaukee suburb) HC being let go. Not saying that it was intentionally done but a lot of teams took umbridge with the HC being the HC of a traveling 7on7 team. Kids from far away burbs and the North side of Milwaukee ended up coming to play at the school after being part of the travel team.
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Jul 24, 2017 16:51:53 GMT -6
School has won two consecutive league titles, had the same HC for for four years now and by almost all accounts is an environment in which we have the best interest of the kids at heart. Two kids (both returning starters) are now enrolled at another school that's won 5 games in 3 years and has had 4 head coaches in 6 years. Come to find out their passing league coach is working on that campus and is good friends with the head coach. Idiotic parents and passing league clubs strike again. (Vent over) Do you not have transfer rules in your state? In MO if a kid did that, and it was proved they moved for athletic reasons, they would be ineligible from all sports for 365 days. Only way I've seen people make it work is going private to public and showing they couldn't afford tuition. Or the parents get a new job and moved to the new town. They should have to sit out the year in many states unless they can prove hardship for transfer, esp epically if they didn't move out of the school's boundaries. Unless you're in a situation like several rust belt cities like Cleveland and Milwaukee where you can pretty much go to any school of your choosing at any time.
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Jul 18, 2017 7:43:41 GMT -6
I know this sounds nitpicky/whinybaby/negative nancy but : You may have no problem sending players to run a drill, but I don't know if the AD/principal/district risk manager/school district legal representation would feel the same. I can appreciate the idea behind it, but I just believe that such actions fall into the "indefensible behavior" category that I desperately try to avoid in my teaching career. Things that seem harmless to me (or in this case you) but should something bad happen or should someone complain, there is no real defense to the situation. In our super litigious society, I just think rather innocent things fall into the "no defense" category. I don't mean that the actions are reprehensible, just to be clear. I don't want you to take that the wrong way at all. Another "no defense" category even that happens all the time at my school is I see teachers having students move desks/furniture. I teach in an Elementary School. The kids are 5-12 years old. While it seems harmless, should something happen, I don't see a teacher being able to defend her position on that. Another is music played at our "dance" (really, who needs a 5th grade dance). While there is no explicit profanity, the underlying themes and suggestive language (if a word is edited out, the word is still suggested) is still "indefensible" in my opinion. Should a parent decide to complain, the teachers (and subsequently the principal) have no argument. They will just have to sit there and take the tongue lashing from whichever supervisor the complaint went to. Good looking out! Honestly hadn't entered my mind. Have the leaders do it pre practice format. Have them do step review, formation recognition, blitz review, any drills or walk through a that are minimal to non contact and build muscle memory. That way you coaches can coach the contact drills. When your running inside run have your backup QB throw to the WRs so they get reps and timing, then switch and have your starting QB throw while your backup gets time in inside run.
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Jul 18, 2017 7:38:09 GMT -6
Simple offense: say outside zone scheme, power scheme, counter scheme, and maybe trap out of 11 or 21 personnel, have a quick game and play action off your runs. Have a TE or 2 base formation because it will shore up your run game and you can maximize teaching minimal position groups (OL, backfield taught as one unit, and your 1-2 receivers). Teach everyone how to block, especially footwork for OZ and how to kick out block. Keep things simple, nurture a (legal) nasty streak in your OL. Out formation opponents and use motions to put defenses in conflict; basically you will have to out game plan opponents a ton. Defensively, I would suggest a 50 front. Reasoning again is that you can teach players on the front to be interchangeable along the front, fewer position groups to coach, and these fronts give option teams a little more trouble on their combos and block identification. I would coach the DL and LBs as a unit and have my other coach teach DBs unless you have a good OL/ DL coach on your staff. If you have 3 coaches then y'all can split the three position groups up based on your strengths. I would suggest being a one gap 50 front and avoid (at least basing out of) a slant and angle 50 front as it takes much more coaching than it seems you'll be able to put into it with the staff size you have. Depending on what your opponents do you can be a 5-2 or 5-3. Take 2 maybe 3 coverages and teach the hell out of them. If 53 I'd say teach Cover 3, cover 1, and possibly 0. If 52 teach quarters and 0, maybe cover 2 if teams you face pass a good bit. Hope this helps! Good Luck
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Jul 17, 2017 12:38:51 GMT -6
Best athletes/ football players at QB and RB (based on scheme) then best players go to conflict positions based on scheme / front/ coverage matters. Usually best players at DE/ OLB and safeties/ overhangs.
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Jul 2, 2017 10:01:41 GMT -6
You have to read people and the situation. Kids aren't softer than in the past for any reason other than that adults have enabled them to become less emotionally tough and accountable. We have made it easy as a culture to give up, not care, and make mediocrity the new norm. It has come down to too many people wanting to be their kids' friends or not having the time (socioeconomic factors) and / or the will (lack of maturity or lack of empathy) by the adults in their lives.
"We" have instilled, the collective societal "We", the criminal mentality Brophy mentioned and the mentality of blaming others instead of being accountable. You have to actively teach them that I will be loud if necessary and the loudness is to get the message across and also as a way to communicate on a game night.
You need to have relationships with the kids and get to know your players. If they know you care they will respond generally well when you yell because they know it's just correction and/or you're trying to make them better. If they know WHY you're yelling, then they will generally accept it and will make corrections even if they do so grudgingly. If you're going to yell then you need to yell praise with feedback that engravings the behavior and skills you want to re-enforce. It's all management tactics. I teach my players that if I don't talk to you or don't get loud then you should be worried because I can't make ou any better because YOU have chosen to shut me out and not be your best. The reason kids are softer is because pushing yourself to be the very best is hard; takes a special boy or girl to rise above, especially if there is not a community concept of pride in work ethic and that being tough doesn't necessarily mean being able to fight, but rather it means that you're accountable and able to learn from mistakes and from others.
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