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Post by natenator on Jul 30, 2016 12:49:44 GMT -6
Has anyone seen it? I'm I find his language shocking. Not familiar with Mike Leach huh? Lol
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Post by natenator on Jul 29, 2016 6:53:09 GMT -6
What about coaches? We have several volunteer/low pay coaches who come from work and from time to time an be a few minutes late. The coaches usually let me know and I don't really have a problem with them working football into their work schedules. However, I have a hard time punishing/motivating/teasing a kid about being a few minutes late when there is a coach walking into practice at the same time the kids is getting there (late). I've been late a few times to practice for the HS I help out at. My HC had some players who were routinely showing up a bit late. One day he took them to task. One piped up that I had been late as well. My HC replied... "Coach Nate has to leave work early to come here and coach which means he has to work at night or on weekends to make sure his work is getting done so that he can continue to help us. You have to walk 30 seconds outside the backend of the school 30 minutes after school is done for the day. He's allowed to be late, you aren't."
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Post by natenator on Jul 28, 2016 8:54:14 GMT -6
I'm really starting to believe that the cost AND practice to game ratio is starting to become a factor.
In my organization here in Canada we run a Youth house league which has seen declining numbers for several years. A big reason for that is poor marketing over that time period but outside of that I routinely hear the time commitment (we're only 2 practices plus one game/week - 6 hours total) is an issue as is the number of games given the cost.
We charge $425 (including providing equipment) for roughly 10 weeks of football. 3 weeks are preseason practices (2x/week) and 7 weeks of games plus championship day. We get complaints about there only being 7 games meanwhile other sports like baseball and lacrosse charge half of what we do and have triple (or more) the number of games.
House league hockey costs are rangey and on the pricier side of a most rec sports but they are on the ice at least 2x/week from October to March with at least 1 game/week which means they play roughly 30 games in a season.
While I think there is an injury fear factor I think parents look at the cost to game ratio and feel the value isn't as high and then players see they have to practice a lot but don't get to play in many games as not being very fun.
I'm hoping that with better marketing that we can help change our fortunes around to bring out more players.
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Post by natenator on Jul 28, 2016 8:26:16 GMT -6
You could try CFL teams, they keep some scouts around the country and might take you on for the right price. The right price being you pay them lol
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Post by natenator on Jul 26, 2016 21:48:20 GMT -6
https://www.reddit.com/r/footballstrategy/comments/4h5536/james_light_football_now_private/ We already knew this
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Post by natenator on Jul 26, 2016 19:34:39 GMT -6
Maybe spreadattack can put a word in for the huey brethren and get us access?
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Post by natenator on Jul 19, 2016 20:14:53 GMT -6
Good idea!
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Post by natenator on Jul 19, 2016 14:31:07 GMT -6
Hi All, I was looking to use an air horn for practice, just wondering where I could find a quality one. Coach Macn Might want to look into insurance options for an untimely death. JV HC used one to keep everyone on time and his staff came pretty close to killing him lol
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Post by natenator on Jul 19, 2016 14:27:15 GMT -6
Scotch. Lots of scotch
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Post by natenator on Jul 15, 2016 21:12:51 GMT -6
Meanwhile where I am in Canada the average football fee is $250 per season.
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Post by natenator on Jul 15, 2016 16:39:16 GMT -6
As a DC I can coach every position (except for FS - I struggle with that a bit) on our defense including the minor details required for each position as it fits within my defensive philosophy.
Every year when I sit down to refine my system from the previous season I start by evaluating our play and whether the practices drills we use are showing up on game video. If not, I try to understand where the breakdown was and whether or not we need to scrap the drill, find a way to enhance it or change how we teach it. I then spend a lot of time with clinic material (in person, books or DVD's) to see what technique or scheme improvements/adjustments I can make and then I work hard to understand all the nuances and details so that I can implement it.
The skinny of it is, if it my defense then I better know every single detail required because you never know when you'll be coaching a position group that you didn't intended on coaching or (most often) having a coach on your staff who doesn't really know what they are doing so you have to teach them so they can teach the players.
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Post by natenator on Jul 14, 2016 10:48:43 GMT -6
I coach competitive travel ball here in Canada during the summer and you get half as many practices before your season starts as I do my entire preseason and regular season combined. We had 45 practices over 20 weeks this year. is it common for you to get first year players up there? Very. I can think of at least 10 kids who were brand new to football on my grade 7/8 team this year. We even get newbies on our JV team, although not nearly as many (probably around 5 every year).
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Post by natenator on Jul 14, 2016 10:42:46 GMT -6
You have the experience and thus the advantage over me here, 33 - but player or coach I would not want to practice for five weeks before playing a game. The light at the end of that tunnel would seem impossibly far off. And it seems to me that two weeks practice with no contact (I assume no pads) would be wasting a lot of time. there are parts of it i like, and parts of it i dont. like i think 1 week is more then enough for no pads...... but i dont get a say in that. i do like having at least 3 weeks before a scrimmage, mostly because we don't get any kind of spring or summer program. I coach competitive travel ball here in Canada during the summer and you get half as many practices before your season starts as I do my entire preseason and regular season combined. We had 45 practices over 20 weeks this year.
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Post by natenator on Jul 13, 2016 16:02:49 GMT -6
its nonsense because of all the data showing that 1 sport is injuring more kids then playing multiple - 15 year olds are getting tommy johns surgery because baseball coaches have decided to sacrifice some for the hopes of getting kids who are baseball studs.
they do the equivalent of a youth football coach "banging heads" year round for multiple years in hopes that the HS will have better players - nonsense.
also, yes those numbers are accurate - 85% dropped, 15% returned 10% new. probably should have clarified. Excessive PITCHING is causing a small percentage of kids to have some troubles. Kids playing year round Centerfield or Short, or 2nd base etc are they having elbow issues? I have read a few of your posts where you reference "the real world". Coach, this is just a real world situation. Your organization is not offering the kids a better experience so that they choose football over fall baseball. All situations are not equal, and your organization is probably facing a tougher battle on this front then say youth football in Louisiana, Texas, etc. Culture makes it tougher for sure, but you still need to focus on overcoming the primary issue if you want to have a program next year. And I have hockey kids who skate year round that are starting to need significant athletic therapy from overuse injuries. Some things the body was not meant to do repeatedly. They aren't playing hockey year round simply because they think it's fun. They (parents most likely) are playing hockey year round because they think it will lead somewhere.
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Post by natenator on Jul 12, 2016 7:21:00 GMT -6
Cattle prod
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Post by natenator on Jul 9, 2016 4:40:32 GMT -6
I'll happily pay for my own room lol
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Post by natenator on Jun 23, 2016 12:59:51 GMT -6
My primary coaching consists of coaching summer travel football in Canada. We are usually a weaker team talent wise compared to some of the other teams we face which means we typically finish with an even record and may pull out the odd playoff win here or there.
I've been repeatedly amazed that we have p!ss poor practice attendance and effort after a big game where we either won or came very close against a team we likely should have been blown out against. It never fails.
Two weeks ago we were down 14-0 at half and came back to win 23-14 in very dominate fashion playing our best football to that point and the next practice we had 30 of 54 kids show up. I should no longer be stunned but it never fails to exasperate me.
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Post by natenator on Jun 21, 2016 6:41:01 GMT -6
But we better do everything we can as coaches to make it as enjoyable as possible or participation will drop. Mind sharing some ideas on how you do that?
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Post by natenator on Jun 19, 2016 20:00:16 GMT -6
I like having clear rules where a coach doesnt have to be a judge. What if a kid misses because he has a personal trainer? in my opinion, it is the same thing. We had a kid miss significant football this year because his mom was dying from cancer. This same kid missed all but one practice in the week leading up to our championship game because he was busy tending to his family and making funeral arrangements for his mom who just passed away. Not only did he start but he played the entire game. If we had of used your archaic rules without judgment then we would have denied a kid some semblance of normalcy during an extremely difficult moment in his life. Every situation is different and e don't endeavor to treat players equally, we endeavor to treat them fairly - equity not equality .
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Post by natenator on Jun 12, 2016 23:45:14 GMT -6
Can't imagine what this issue is like for some of you. It has to be a real challenge to deal with.
Thankfully here in Canada I only have to deal with one player/year who thinks they are going D1 or D2 down south but boy oh boy the delusion struggle is real.
They aren't even the best player on their HS or summer travel team but yeah, Saban is all over your junk lol
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Post by natenator on Jun 8, 2016 11:47:12 GMT -6
If they're shooting at you then you're doing something right
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Post by natenator on Jun 2, 2016 6:15:29 GMT -6
I also think you should be able I defend every rule you have, just like you should be able to defend every drill you run. If a kid asks why you make everyone wear black socks you should be able to respond with a straight face that you really believe the enhanced team unity will lead to wins. If you have a rule that kids can't chew gum in their living rooms you should be able to justify it. What's wrong with the my house, my rules justification?
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Post by natenator on May 27, 2016 19:26:10 GMT -6
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Post by natenator on May 25, 2016 20:22:41 GMT -6
an asst. coach I work with now. Told the kids that coaching them " was like herding cats". Deer in the headlights was the only reaction from the kids, I've used this line myself before
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Post by natenator on May 19, 2016 12:11:10 GMT -6
Charlie Francis
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Post by natenator on May 13, 2016 9:13:03 GMT -6
We're in a small rural area so e just get a couple of the OL to go to the creek next to the practice field, it's in the horse pen, the water is usually pretty clear, and fill up a barrel and put it on the sideline. Use a ladle to get their drink. We tell them to whack the side of the barrel a couple of times to chase the tadpoles down to the bottom. Works pretty well so far, nobody really gets too sick. Most of the players think that it's better than what they get at home. This is equal parts of the best and most disturbing thing I have ever read on this forum lol
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Post by natenator on Apr 21, 2016 6:22:48 GMT -6
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Post by natenator on Apr 8, 2016 9:48:49 GMT -6
nothing is worse to me than HS bands i can not stand live bands, bands at games really make me mad we (coaches) have silenced our band during games before because they have been so annoying and play non stop during the game the only thing more annoying in all of sports is probably a girls softball dugout lol! You hate live bands at like bars and stuff too? haha I love live music. But ya I get that some HS bands are super annoying and never shut up. I love the HBCU style bands we have here. Theyre freakin turnt all game. Good stuff. Did you really just write turnt? Fuk me
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Post by natenator on Apr 4, 2016 2:11:22 GMT -6
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Post by natenator on Mar 31, 2016 9:17:29 GMT -6
We removed two kids from the team this year after giving them numerous chances (this year and previous years) to correct their behaviour and actions.
Both were kicked off for using drugs (witnessed by coaches), skipping classes and not showing up for the remediation set forward by the HC and Principal. It was a situation where enough was enough and that there needed to be consequences for their actions.
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