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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Jun 14, 2017 11:23:44 GMT -6
Big school = They play freshman level Small school = They play JV I could very well be mistaken, but I took his question as "those of you who have 1 team for grades 9-12. Varsity team only. Maybe 20 players total in the program etc. As stated if you're at a small school (say a 1A/ 2A team in AZ or a Division VII Ohio) they have to contribute in some way to help the varsity. Make it where there are 3 teams that they can start on. Make Special Teams an actual team and put a good. Freshman on if they hustle and can play. If they are athletic and can make tackles. Also, make scout team competitive. Tell them to play the right technique and show they have the position skills needed to play. Get better scout team play and you can see if the kiddos can ball or not. Just my 2 cents
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on May 6, 2017 21:01:20 GMT -6
We already have free and reduced lunch programs!! So what percentage of the population not in free and reduced lunch programs do you think are taking advantage of the system? I just don't believe that number is statistically relevant enough to warrant a problem. Maybe I am wrong. The middle class mind set sadly is the greatest and worst aspect of American culture. It creates a strong sense of independence and work ethic, yet it blinds us to regional and generational poverty and the inequity of the system. Sadly, we all too often put racial blinders up to this issue as well and if affects, subconsciously, how many see this issue. What it comes down to is those kids will remember the small kindness of you letting them eat and they will usually work their a$$e$ off for you if you. On top of that if you coach in the community you teach in that hungry kid could become your starting Mike or QB in a few years, especially if you teach elementary or middle school.
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Mar 23, 2017 9:39:57 GMT -6
Would also add Solon's HC and Mogadore's HC to the list.
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Mar 23, 2017 9:36:24 GMT -6
Coach Shaun Aguano - Chandler High School (AZ) Coach Norris Vaughn - Mountain Pointe (AZ) Coach Jay Campos - Sabino HS (AZ) Coach Jeff Rotsky - Euclid HS (OH) Coach Tiger Laverde - Kirtland HS (OH) Coach Steve Trivisano - Mentor HS (OH)
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Mar 8, 2017 19:40:14 GMT -6
I tried to avoid the other track thread, but in my experience, unless you have a really good track coach there is no relation to track and football success. Every year you'll have at least 2-3 of the top 10 track teams in Illinois whose football teams go 0-9 to 2-7. About the same number of the top 10 are good at football. One of the best teams consistently over the past 15 years in Illinois didn't even have a track team until about 6 years ago. And I'm not sure any football kids do it even now. I have seen this in poor track programs or programs that are solely focused on distanc runners. Out in Ohio, Wisconsin, and Arizona I would say there are teams that use track to build up their football teams. I remember Jeff Scurran's Santa Rita teams had tons of football players run track and they had OL run as sprinter and not just be allowed to throw. other good football programs like Safford, Snowflake, etc at the middle to small school level have benefited for track.
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Mar 8, 2017 19:34:19 GMT -6
Whenever the track team is "lifting", it is a f*cking joke. Basically 40 minutes of unsupervised grabass. Why I feel you need to get the weights / PE teacher on track staff or have football coaches on that staff. You can structure it then to help football and track kids. Work with Track coach and hey maybe more "track" kids will come out for football as long as y'all treat the kids right and don't berate them or have syrup bottles on hand...
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Feb 14, 2017 19:47:47 GMT -6
I will take the job if following conditions are met ... and I run the flexbone. - My Pay $120,000 - DC comes with me his pay $110,00 - We are both in the weightroom together. - All football players lift first hour. - If a parent talks to me about their son (other than he loves me), or my program, they are band from games for a calendar year. I will probably have a couple of other stipulations upon my interview. You think this is St. Ed's, Ignatius, or Steubenville ?🙊
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Feb 12, 2017 18:53:54 GMT -6
Perhaps redcoach's school needs to consider going to 8-man Football (if Ohio has it). Starting to happen with some schools here. Seen where I believe St. Wendelin, Open Dorr Christian, and Toledo Horizon Science Academy have at least played 8 man teams. The Division VII in OH, is interesting. Those schools are comparable to the 8 man programs you see in states like Arizona. Comparable size if not smaller to Heber Mogollon, St. David, Bagdad, Patagonia, and Valley Union. A lot of talk in Ohio about co-op or combining school districts to keep OH 11 an man haven. Would be interesting to see how 8 man would play out here, especially with all the charter schools opening up in Cleveland, Toledo, Cincinnati and if those schools would jump into the 8 man fray.
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Feb 10, 2017 19:20:28 GMT -6
At small school level, regardless of the state, a team will be as good offensively as their OL coach. Execute correctly your scheme and have a rhyme and reason to it. Proper technique will make smaller OL be successful. In OH, a good OLcoach and D.C. are invaluable to a program D5 and lower. Kirtland does well because they have a good blocking scheme and execute if well.
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Dec 15, 2016 4:50:47 GMT -6
OL stance and butt level. Seated back less weight on hand a general pass tell, butt high weight on hand run. OL or FB leaning in stance can inidicate pull or direction they are kicking out or leading to. In HS you can sometimes tell if a WR is on a route or stalking based on body language of their stance; a lacsidasical stance possible stock. Kid in rigid stance doing best usain Bolt impression, he's on a route.
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Dec 2, 2016 20:28:38 GMT -6
Teams shouldn't be punished because of success, but I feel leagues should be based on enrollment. Conferences can be a bit of a wired situation especially we you have conferences with team from 3-4 divisions playing in them. Cleveland suburb and exurbs deal with this a lot. I feel you should, in league play play teams in a relative enrollment band. That would eliminate situations where teams who are division 4 or 5 play division 6 or 7 teams on the road to a conference title. Also feel the state should create a private / parochial playoff, but it won't happen
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Nov 25, 2016 10:22:19 GMT -6
The reasoning for last comment is you need to have as many staff and community members behind you as you can for the 1st few years until your version of "The Process" has time to take effect. Also as much as you recruit the halls, recruit the parents and community to create a strong booster program. They can be the people you go to get resources a struggling football program will need and can leverage pressure on the school district to provide better resources.
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Nov 25, 2016 10:18:43 GMT -6
Have a philosophy of how to teach your offense and defense and make sure you are teaching to the most minute details. What I mean is explain who the #2 receiver is when explaining your coverages and use that language constantly or you might have a discussion with your guy who is reaponsible for #2 yelling at you that the kid was wearing #85😳. Weightroom is the big equalizer and promote your program as one that will improve athletic performance in multiple sports. Get other coaches to buy into your system and you will get more kids. kids are kids and if they see themselves become and look stronger they will spread them word. Once the weightroom shows results on the field then you will begin turning the program around. Also, make sure to represent the program well and make sure your kids do the same. Don't accept them to act like a holes.
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Aug 2, 2016 4:10:08 GMT -6
Teach like others have said about hydrating the night/ day before and instead of water breaks have water caddies placed at every position group's sector of the practice field. Make sure coaches are trained to recognize signs of heat stroke and heat exhaustion and practice in the AM before the hottest parts of the day or so so in the evening say weights from 5-6 and practice 6-8 pm.
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Apr 26, 2016 13:51:43 GMT -6
Add to Ohio: Not an exhaustive list, but a newcomer's perspective Jeff Rotsky - Euclid Trivisonno - Mentor Lombardo - St. Efward's LaVerde- Kirtland For what he does and his respect in the 'Land Ted Ginn Along with coaches at Avon, Stow, and NDCL Hey everyone, I have a question for you all.. In your opinion, who are some of the BEST * ACTIVE* high school football coaches in your state and why? Most of us probably know the best coaches in our own respective state but I thought it would be interesting to see who others name in nearby states who are still coaching. I know for our program, I am always searching out successful coaches to not only talk X & O's but program building stuff as well. I will include Ohio and Michigan in my response since I have spent 10 years coaching in Ohio and this past season as the Head Coach at a school in Michigan... OhioMike Vicars / Tim Spiess- Swanton High School Tim Goodwin- Marion Local Greg Dempsey - Toledo Central Catholic Chip Otten (John Reed too RIP)- Coldwater Steve Specht- St. Xavier Steve Channel- Miamisburg Michigan
John Herrington- Farmington Hills Harrison (which is closing at the end of next year) Tom Mach- Detroit Catholic Central Ralph Munger- Rockford John Shillito- Zeeland West Jack Giarmo- Monroe SMCC Personally I would like to know who the best Wing-T coaches are in your state or successful coaches at small programs...looking forward to your responses
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Apr 22, 2016 4:55:27 GMT -6
Massillon is a major name, I'd throw in Stuebenville, Cinncinatti, and Cleveland as massive football towns. Cleveland Metro, especially with St. Ed's, St. Ignatius, Benedictine, Euclid, Glennville in more of the city proper and Solon, Mentor, Strongsville, and Kirtland (had like a 50 game in streak until this season) in the burbs.
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Feb 24, 2016 19:41:36 GMT -6
Visit Akron, Mount Union, Baldwin Wallace, Ohio Northern, Wooster (Great young DC there) and Malone in Ohio. UW's - Whitewater, Steven's Ppoint, Oshkosh as well as St Norbert (Beloit College toothey have a DC who gets a ton done with limited athletes at times).
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Mar 3, 2015 22:27:26 GMT -6
UW-Whitewater, UW - Stevens Point, and UW - LaCrosse / Eau Claire are your best bets.
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Mar 2, 2015 22:38:36 GMT -6
Coaches, We are always looking to provide a quality product for student body, staff and community with football Friday night. The sadness is that it seems at least for us that less and less of all three parties are attending games for a number of reasons. The opportunity to promote your program as well as having a great fan experience is something we are always looking to develop. Has anyone tried or implemented anything that has been successful? Ideas: Half-time Contests (kicking or passing) with the opportunity to win money, gas cards, or technology. Catered tailgating Bounce houses, games and field experience for youth Fan items - thundersticks, shakers, etc. Theme - color, category, etc. Raffle - field seats, press box seats, game experience. Thoughts? All work if you have a strong booster program. They help manage this stuff while you focus on winning Friday night. We are implementing elementary and middle schools night. Students at these schools get in free wearing their school t shirt. We will have halftime showcases by the youth football and middle school programs. We are also looking into Midnight Yell / March Madness event for our first full pad practice in August. Also show people you care about their activities when it is your offseason and they will show up more in my experience.
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Jul 9, 2014 20:38:44 GMT -6
Had a tagged blitz for my Jack (WOLB) so I made a hand signal in the shape of what I thought was a J. I was teaching the signal during a walkthrough and my friend who was the girl's soccer coach looks horrified then busts out laughing. She explained what it looked like and boiled down to doing something crude to a giant as she put it.
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Mar 29, 2014 22:25:24 GMT -6
Pullups especially for your big skill players, builds the upper body strength needed for the push / pull part of blocking and block destruction. Also stabilizes the core.
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Feb 15, 2014 17:14:06 GMT -6
The problem is that he is using his position as coach to give power and legitimacy to his words. By using the title coach he is using the power and credibility within a community that the title carries to espouse his views, whether they're right or wrong. He's using the, "Hey I am a football coach, a pillar of most communities in America, someone of authority you can trust and who knows what's best" form of persuasion. He is within his rights as an American to espouse his views, but is on blurry, shaky ground when he uses his position as a coach and teacher as a way to validate his words. As stated before his videos, especially the one on bullying and the "Gay Agenda" would make him way too controversial a liability for many school districts. If he used these positions and held the same views as a far left atheist it would be equally unacceptable. It doesn't matter if he is Christian, Jewish, Muslim, or a Pastafarian in this case. He has limited himself to mainly private schools and certain areas in America by tying his position as a coach to his personal beliefs in these videos.
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Feb 10, 2014 16:09:46 GMT -6
Somewhere in the last two weeks before the youth preseason.
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Feb 3, 2014 21:39:19 GMT -6
Could also look into the 3 - 4 defense, with a few adjustments it can look just like the 5 - 3, but if you have a number of LB types it can be very effective.
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Post by wildcatslbcoach24 on Jan 29, 2014 14:50:28 GMT -6
Agreed about not talking down on them,creates a better working atmosphere. Coaching them up on schemes, terminology, and drills is what I think they need the most, especially when it comes to OL and DL. If they run schemes like yours, then help them learn the basic skills you want your future players to have down (or mastered in the best case scenario) before the come to you at the HS level. If they have been coaching man blocking schemes and you run zone teach them how to coach this. If they have been a one gap team and you want the DL to two gap then teach them what to look for and how to teach two gapping and vice versa. Help HCS find guys that are good coaches that will create an exciting environment to get interest in the program. At the end of the day teach them how to create players that are technically sound at their positions and work with them to create an identity that stretches from 3rd to 12th grade. They can be a great asset as they can be the tool that gets the local boys to want to be a Wildcat, Bear, Bandit, etc. from a young age.
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