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Post by wolverine55 on Feb 21, 2015 11:57:23 GMT -6
A less serious one I got from a HC I used to work for: "If you got time to lean, you got time to clean." What's awesome is I was able to use that one in my summer restaurant job in a completely different context!
I like the simplicity of this one. I used to credit Mike Ditka for it, but I think he got it from someone else: "If you think you can, you're right. If you think you can't...you're right!"
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Post by wolverine55 on Feb 21, 2015 11:41:52 GMT -6
The thing that's crazy about the Iowa structure is that it really isn't done so shave time off the end of the season, at least the way I understand it. It's done to ensure all the semifinal and final games can be played at Northern Iowa, which has a domed stadium.
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Post by wolverine55 on Feb 20, 2015 14:25:05 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? These aren't bad ideas, but I also agree with the others who have posted that they shouldn't fall under the already huge list of duties a HC, or any coaching staff member, already has. I would start with the student body and meet with the student council or maybe student leadership team--really any student organization your school has--and see if they are willing to undertake the project along with maybe your booster club. But, if not, I honestly wouldn't worry too much about it.
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Post by wolverine55 on Feb 19, 2015 15:15:31 GMT -6
I agree with a previous post on Jerry Campbell. A common criticism of his is that while he seems to be an expert in many areas, his teams don't win many games. To me, that doesn't mean you can't still take a way a lot of info from his talks.
Also, for those of you in the midwest, current Illinois College HC/OC Garrett Campbell is a great speaker on both offensive philosophy and program building ideas that are also very applicable to the high school setting.
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Post by wolverine55 on Feb 19, 2015 15:05:41 GMT -6
I coached in a league where one season, due to an odd number of teams, once a season we played on Friday then played the following Tuesday! In other cases, it was having Friday off, but then playing Tuesday AND Saturday of the following week.
In answer to the question, though, I would consider Sunday the "Monday" of game week and then stay as routine as normal. I would also bring the kids in the Friday after the Thursday game, but then give them Saturday and Sunday off so the get that extra day back, so to speak.
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Post by wolverine55 on Feb 16, 2015 18:11:12 GMT -6
Brophy posted the Iowa route above. It may be a tad different now, but it's still basically four classes consolidated into two weekends. One of the classes we had to tape an ankle and I did so poorly at it the instructor asked me if I'd ever have to tape an ankle in real life. I told him that we had a trainer and at least two other coaches who could tape ankles. Once I assured him I'd never actually have to tape an ankle, he passed me!
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Post by wolverine55 on Feb 16, 2015 15:49:41 GMT -6
on a side note.. I feel like im the one bringing *some* of them up from the grave... I'm new to the site and literally started on page 1 and am to 243 haha... I try not to dig em up but some of them are interesting! if this annoys everyone let me know and i'll stop haha No problem from me. I like re-reading most of them. Interesting to see what was talked about from past years, how posters may or may not have changed their style, how I posted, etc.
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Post by wolverine55 on Feb 15, 2015 16:03:18 GMT -6
What a douchbag I was 7 years ago. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using proboards I sometimes cringe when I read these old threads and actually hope I DIDN'T contribute! It's kind of fun seeing several of them brought back to life the past week or so, though.
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Post by wolverine55 on Feb 14, 2015 13:06:20 GMT -6
I'm not a Trent Dilfer fan. I may have to steal that description of him for use in the future!
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Post by wolverine55 on Feb 14, 2015 12:31:06 GMT -6
I believe mine is around $3300 for varsity football assistant. For our set-up, we have the varsity HC getting a stipend, four paid varsity assistants making the figure I posted, and then two freshmen assistants making slightly less. I don't know the other amounts. It goes up slightly every year, because it's based on a prorated percentage of a first-year teachers salary.
My answer to the rest of the questions is no, but it's never bothered me because I've considered the stipend a year round amount for all the coaching work I do.
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Post by wolverine55 on Feb 13, 2015 8:10:31 GMT -6
I don't know if this would be legal in Iowa--probably not--but we still wouldn't be able to do it, because soccer is a spring sport here and many of our skill kids play that.
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Post by wolverine55 on Feb 11, 2015 13:35:49 GMT -6
I will admit that I watched the whole first season. There should be a day coming up now that they're 3-4 episodes in where they show all of the back-to-back. Against my better judgement, I'll probably use that to catch up on this season. Rsmith's post goes with why I watch...
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Post by wolverine55 on Feb 2, 2015 11:52:49 GMT -6
Brophy's advice is pretty good. My advice will come from a situation in which I didn't take advantage of and regret it to this day. First, become a master of your positions within your system. Then, branch out to another coach on staff--like Brophy suggested--to learn the nuances of other position groups but still within your system. Then, you can branch out into other methods of football to gain overall knowledge. I worked with a GREAT staff my first three years of my career, but I didn't take advantage of the opportunity to fully learn from the other guys.
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Post by wolverine55 on Feb 1, 2015 9:00:02 GMT -6
I was always intrigued by football as a young kid. I watched Michigan play all the time--like most kids, it was the helmets!--and remember playing Gamebreaker on Playstation and the EA Sports college games. It was hard for me to really relate, though, as my high school didn't have a football team for me to look up to. Fortunately, my school was asked to form a co-op with a neighboring school for my junior year. I only got to play two years of high school ball but still developed into a college player. Very thankful that the school board approved that co-op as the decision literally shaped the rest of my life!
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Post by wolverine55 on Jan 28, 2015 17:20:47 GMT -6
In our case, Sunday morning was a mutually agreed upon time. None of us were churchgoers and it actually was the best time for us to get together as a staff.
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Post by wolverine55 on Jan 28, 2015 7:49:41 GMT -6
Monday: JV night, so it could be as early as 8:00 or as late as 10:00 depending on home or away and how far if away. Tuesday/Wednesday: Regular practices from 3:30 until 5:30. Home by 7:00 and it's only that late if I go to the Y for a short workout aftewards. Thursday: walk through plus team dinner. Generally, home by 7 Friday: game night. Our games generally run late in Iowa because of freshmen/varsity double headers. Even if it's a home game, it's generally midnight or later before I get home. Saturday: Nothing scheduled as this is the day our staff watches film on it's own time. Two hours of film normally Sunday: Staff meetings at 9 in the morning. Generally, we're done by 11 and it's gets even shorter as the season goes on.
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Post by wolverine55 on Jan 26, 2015 14:49:34 GMT -6
I sat in on a talk with a very successful Missouri coach about this topic. He said that they started it with the freshmen group. His rules were:
1. The best athlete in the freshmen class plays QB no matter what. They were an option based system and felt they could teach the best athlete the skill set to be successful.
2. The second and third best athletes started defense no matter what and if the backup QB wasn't one of those two he started on defense as well. This was done to keep the kid in the program in case the number 1 QB didn't stick with the program.
3. After those three, maybe four kids everything boiled down to the individual strengths of the players. It wasn't really a "draft"; it was just more about placement and identification.
Obviously, there was some changes and fluctuation in the freshmen year, but by early in the freshmen season, this staff really felt they had the kids identified properly.
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Post by wolverine55 on Jan 25, 2015 17:17:06 GMT -6
Maybe this is an issue at bigger schools where there are more athletes, but I've honestly never seen a track kid who does track only and no other sports that would strike me as a good football player and someone I'd need to recruit onto my team.
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Post by wolverine55 on Jan 16, 2015 7:39:15 GMT -6
Our school sends out a list every Wednesday of every student who is failing a class because we have Wednesday study tables that are mandatory for those students. Our HC works in our middle school, so for the high school players, I take it upon myself to contact players who are failing classes. I agree with the above point on overkill, however. I don't normally go out of my way to contact a player unless it's a very low grade or we're getting close to a grading period ending. The way our school is structured and with the way we're targeting bad grades as a whole school, any student getting an F is already getting a talking to from multiple sources.
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Post by wolverine55 on Jan 15, 2015 8:20:26 GMT -6
As a general rule, I think the defense as a whole should look a lot better. In theory, the OL should be okay because almost everyone runs the same blocking schemes now, so the only adjustment should be to new terminology. However, cohesion is huge with this group and unless you just happen to have a teammate get selected to the same game, it can be odd playing OL with a whole new group of guys.
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Post by wolverine55 on Jan 11, 2015 14:48:01 GMT -6
We have this set-up on Wednesdays as well, but it's an early dismissal for the students who don't have F's. They get out at 1:45 and practice starts at 3:30 due to teacher professional development. There is a school-wide study table for all students with F's on this day from 2:00-3:00, so some of our players stay for that even if they aren't flunking classes since they have practice anyway. We generally speaking don't have a problem getting the kids back that leave campus though. If you feel you might, perhaps make a mandatory study table for your players to attend on these days if you can get supervision.
Also, it's good to bring this up with administration now so a plan can be developed. Some administrators are so out of touch with how athletics work that this may be an issue they haven't even considered yet.
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Post by wolverine55 on Jan 4, 2015 8:29:58 GMT -6
I almost left teaching 5-6 years ago. I'm thrilled I stuck with it as I'm in a job now that I love and work for great administration currently. However, I fell that article is very accurate. Based on my experience, it seems like a lot of schools have poor leadership at the top and that leads to collaborative relationships that aren't all that good either.
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Post by wolverine55 on Jan 1, 2015 9:50:32 GMT -6
I actually don't remember how I found the site, but I remember I was at Mt. Vernon, IL coaching when I did find it so that was the 2005-06 school year. Hard to believe it's been that long!
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Post by wolverine55 on Dec 21, 2014 9:15:41 GMT -6
I agree. If I ever become a HC, my team won't do any padded work in the summer even if we're allowed to by state regulations.
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Post by wolverine55 on Dec 18, 2014 8:16:04 GMT -6
I think I'm very good at my practice organization. Our HC does the plan every day and it rarely cahges, but I know each and every day and each and every drill what I want my lineman to do and get out of the drill. We don't do film sessions of practice--not every day anyway--so as a part of that I feel I'm good at communicating the next day some pointers from the previous day if I don't get a chance to before then.
I need to be more forceful when it comes to jumping players who need a fire lit under them. I'm a very calm person and I feel for the most part that is a strength but sometimes outbursts are needed. Although, based on an incident the other night, my 7th grade basketball players may feel I'm improving in this area!
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Post by wolverine55 on Dec 17, 2014 10:49:54 GMT -6
Are all your coaches there? We have a staff of 7 and generally speaking, 4 of us could be there each time. One coach was first-year teacher, so he needed to work a summer job and then the other two aren't teachers in the district and couldn't be there in the morning but normally were able to make our 7 on 7s if they were in the evening.
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Post by wolverine55 on Dec 17, 2014 7:40:13 GMT -6
We met four days a week Monday through Thursday from 9:30 to 11:30. Generally speaking, it was the first hour in the weight room and the second hour on the field. Most of the time, though, it was about 45 minutes on the field due to the weight lifting running over a bit. We were never in pads for these sessions and rarely came together as a whole team. The skill guys were running routes and playing 7 on 7 while the lineman were down on the other side of the field doing indy drills.
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Post by wolverine55 on Dec 13, 2014 16:47:32 GMT -6
Pretty early in the game still for teaching openings. What are the odds of a job opening up at the other school? Or would you not leave your current job regardless?
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Post by wolverine55 on Dec 2, 2014 6:32:12 GMT -6
I'll add that until just a few years ago, the Missouri schedule used to be similar, I believe.
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Post by wolverine55 on Dec 2, 2014 6:31:12 GMT -6
I coach in Iowa now. Our Week 9 games are played on a Friday, then the first round games will be played the following Wednesday. The second round games will then be played on the Monday after that. So, if you make it the second round, you'll play three games in an 11 day stretch. After that, some normalcy returns to the schedule, I think. I haven't been fortunate enough to make it that far yet!
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