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Post by wolverine55 on Jan 3, 2016 14:49:05 GMT -6
It always amazes me that a group of coaches--who should know better--automatically associate spread with "chuck and duck" style of football. Baylor is one of the most physical and run-oriented teams in college football.
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Post by wolverine55 on Jan 1, 2016 15:58:34 GMT -6
I liked a couple concepts Northwestern ran, although obviously the game as a whole didn't go well for them. I watch Baylor pretty closely all season, but I really wish I had DVRed that game once I got home that night and saw the stats! I agree with the sentiments on Harbaugh too. I'm not an I formation guy, but his thoughts on overall program management would be good to discuss!
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Post by wolverine55 on Dec 22, 2015 12:37:19 GMT -6
Worst team I ever played or coached for was my first year of college playing D3 football. I've been told to not watch D3: Football's Finest, because several scenes of that movie will describe our situation! Our HC was fired after one game, we went 0-10 with our closest defeat being 17 points, and by the end of the season, we started freshmen or sophomores at 19 of the 22 positions, or something close to that.
One story that sticks out is we were playing our Week 9 game and, coming off our best performance of the year, thought we had a good chance to win...yet were down 49-0 at halftime. Our HC walks in and says, "I'm not going to name names...but Mike Watson! You quit on that play!" Three or four guys had to restrain Mike Watson from going after our HC, the rest of us just looked at each other wishing the season could end right there!
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Post by wolverine55 on Dec 17, 2015 14:07:00 GMT -6
End of the school day for us is 3:00, "pre-practice" at 3:15, and then practice starts at 3:30. The Pre-practice time is pretty informal, although I generally use the time to walk through plays and concepts with the OL.
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Post by wolverine55 on Nov 23, 2015 12:10:44 GMT -6
I personally think it's always a bad idea to change the schedule when it has been announced to parents and kids, ESPECIALLY if that change is doubling the practice time. In echoing what others have said, obviously what you're doing has worked if you're still playing this late, so I'm not sure why you wouldn't just do what you normally do on a Thursday, just earlier due to the holiday and no school in session.
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Post by wolverine55 on Nov 20, 2015 10:51:58 GMT -6
I'm a music person. Always have to have it when working out or doing school work. There were days where it helped me get up a little bit for practice more than I might have after some rough school days...
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Post by wolverine55 on Nov 19, 2015 13:53:30 GMT -6
Maybe it isn't that hard, but our HC put the playlists together himself, but it was instrumental versions of the songs so we didn't have to worry about language.
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Post by wolverine55 on Nov 13, 2015 13:51:42 GMT -6
My favorite missing practice story goes back to my first coaching job. I was standing outside my classroom door during passing period and a freshmen comes up to me and gives me the "Sorry, Coach, I won't be at practice today" talk and I just simply nodded my head and said, "Okay, thank you for letting me know." Then, when he walked away, it dawned on me that that was a kid who quit and hadn't been at practice in at least a couple weeks. I still have no idea what prompted him to approach me that particular day!
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Post by wolverine55 on Nov 6, 2015 14:26:45 GMT -6
There is obviously a need for clinics and good face-to-face discussion on topics, but I will say I honestly don't have an overwhelming need or desire to go to clinics anymore largely because of this site.
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Post by wolverine55 on Oct 13, 2015 13:04:03 GMT -6
I don't remember doing or saying anything specifically, although I am sure I did. I just wish I had done a better job of taking advantage of my first coaching job. I was on a great staff and didn't learn nearly as much as I should have and didn't seek out the learning opportunities nearly as much as I should have.
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Post by wolverine55 on Oct 5, 2015 8:11:26 GMT -6
Given the blowout situation, I wonder if it was a case of the scoreboard operator not paying attention and forgetting he had already put the 6 up originally?
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Post by wolverine55 on Oct 1, 2015 6:36:27 GMT -6
The nice part would be having enough quality athletes to where this position is a necessity! That hasn't been the case at any school I've worked for.
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Post by wolverine55 on Sept 25, 2015 13:31:12 GMT -6
Oh, as much as I don't like Homecoming, I think an atmosphere like that would bother me way more. I don't think our school has enough spirit but it seem that bad.
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Post by wolverine55 on Sept 25, 2015 6:49:18 GMT -6
I just can't wrap my head around 'Homecoming'..... Isn't 'Homecoming' about the folks that graduated from the school, left, and are trying to reconnect with THEIR classmates? One of the reasons I don't like it at the high school level: students have no idea what "Homecoming" actually is.
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Post by wolverine55 on Sept 24, 2015 9:47:14 GMT -6
I don't like it, but more from a classroom perspective than football perspective. Our practices have been pretty good this week, actually.
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Post by wolverine55 on Sept 17, 2015 10:00:19 GMT -6
I thought it was okay and about what I expected. To go along with some of the other points, I'm not sure why people would have expected more. Quite frankly, most fans don't give two poops about the actual X and O stuff.
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Post by wolverine55 on Sept 17, 2015 8:04:24 GMT -6
As recently as 2005, I had to drive two hours to do a VHS film exchange and missed a Saturday morning pep rally for it. Although, given my feelings on pep rallies, I actually preferred getting that assignment.
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Post by wolverine55 on Sept 12, 2015 9:55:25 GMT -6
A team in Illinois scored 95 last night. I think the losing team was in the 40s, but not 100% sure of the exact score.
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Post by wolverine55 on Aug 15, 2015 16:52:02 GMT -6
I agree. It's obviously about personal preference. There's an assumption--largely from people outside the coaching community--that everyone tries to move up, but I can honestly say I have no desire to coach college football.
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Post by wolverine55 on Aug 9, 2015 9:22:17 GMT -6
I agree with that. I can honestly say I would never leave my current coaching job for money, because in my neck of the woods, coaching stipends are pretty standard. We would be talking the difference of a few hundred dollars and that's a few hundred dollars per year, not month!
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Post by wolverine55 on Aug 8, 2015 21:41:31 GMT -6
Scissor lifts are frightening under the best of circumstances. You may have a Pugh time finding a harness of the appropriate dimensions. Maybe a cherry picker? I was sort of thinking this same thing. While a higher vantage point is obviously important, I'm not sure any of the suggestions mentioned are worth it!
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Post by wolverine55 on Aug 6, 2015 18:12:20 GMT -6
I was going to post a similar sentiment. Our first game would be perceived in a similar manner as the original post described. However, they are a good team, we know we'll have to play well to beat them, and despite them being a class smaller, it'll be a quality matchup to prepare us for the rest of our schedule.
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Post by wolverine55 on Jul 31, 2015 19:03:17 GMT -6
We have a supportive, but fairweather community. The first home game is packed and the rest depends on how we're doing. Saw another local school that was SO dominate a few years ago (beat EVERYBODY by 50+ for multiple years) that their home crowds were much worse than ours and we were winning half our games. Once the playoffs hit though they had a packed house. That was a very odd environment.... I've seen this a few times with dominant basketball teams, but not football so much. They're so far ahead of the local competition that their fans don't really go to the games except for a few times a year when an out-of-area team is brought in to compete with them.
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Post by wolverine55 on Jul 28, 2015 14:40:18 GMT -6
According to the Principal I didn't get fired, they just didn't renew my contract. Technically, this is what happened to me too, although that's basically the same thing as being fired. Fortunately, my current job came with a teaching job, so I would have been moving on after only one more season anyway.
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Post by wolverine55 on Jul 25, 2015 11:54:24 GMT -6
I too just thought of another one and more recent this time as it was just last season. I was one of our booth coaches and one day in practice a kid asked me why I always left right before the game started. He actually thought I was leaving, not heading for the booth!
And, a different kid asked me one day why our HC/OC spent the whole game talking to himself. He too didn't realize there were booth coaches for him to talk to. I should have asked him what he thought the headset was for!
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Post by wolverine55 on Jul 16, 2015 13:22:03 GMT -6
This happened years ago, but I just now remembered it. I coached in a conference where the normal schedule was varsity Friday nights, freshmen game Saturday morning, and then sophomore game Monday evening but with teams sharing fields and homecomings, freshmen/varsity double headers on Saturdays weren't uncommon. On one of these days, our freshmen HC kept telling the freshmen they could "Set the tone for the whole day" if we went over and won the freshmen game. Well we won and then as our varsity is trying to take the field, one of our freshmen players is literally shoving several of them and screaming at the top of his lungs, "That's right, varsity! We set the tone!" over and over and over again. Kind of a had-to-be-there moment but definitely cracked us all up at the time!
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Post by wolverine55 on Jul 7, 2015 10:19:17 GMT -6
OK, I'll come out and say it-working a 90 hour week for HS football is nuts. No matter how tough your league is, no matter how much pressure you're under there's only so much that needs to be done to get a team ready. I've long believed that a lot of the stuff that's being done is done to soothe the HC's nerves and to show the admins and fans that you're trying to outwork the other guy. I realize that my attitude might not work in Texas but that's fine because I ain't going. 90 does seem like a lot. I just charted my typical week on paper. I came up with 60 hours teaching and football put together. That number does include watching film during the week but does not include film I watched on Saturdays as that number varies greatly. Sometimes I have a good feel for what I need to prepare for after watching a team once while sometimes I'll watch a team 4-5 times and still have no idea! I will admit that being a SPED teacher helps me. I have very little, if any, outside the school day planning and grading and if I have a good group of independent workers, I can sneak some film watching in during my resource class periods.
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Post by wolverine55 on Jun 24, 2015 21:13:41 GMT -6
Several great responses already. I think you owe it to the kid, the team, and your program to at least talk to any player in regards to why they want to quit. And, depending on that answer(s), is when you try to talk him out of it or wish him well in other pursuits.
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Post by wolverine55 on Jun 21, 2015 21:14:59 GMT -6
The only food I've seen in the pressbox is for media people, PA announcers, and other people who are working the game; it's not for coaches, although I wouldn't be able to eat during a game anyway. Never been fed by the home team when we go on the road, but our boosters bring lunch meat sandwiches, granola bars, and Gatorade for our players to eat afterwards. This is based on experience in southeast Iowa and western Illinois.
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Post by wolverine55 on Jun 16, 2015 20:54:11 GMT -6
For us, JV is for sophomores and juniors who don't start on the varsity team. Last year, we had a couple freshmen dress the last few JV games, but that was a combination of reward for them and very little DL depth on varsity, which led to even less DL depth on JV. We did also play two seniors last year in JV, but they were kids who had never been on the team before and weren't that good so they weren't going to get much if any varsity PT.
Our state's rule is a kid can play in 14 games and a single play counts as a game played. However, there are two big caveats to that rule. If a kid plays only special teams, that doesn't count as a game played. And, we have a 35 point running clock mercy rule. If a kid doesn't play until after the running clock has been established, that doesn't count as a game played either.
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