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Post by wolverine55 on Nov 22, 2014 18:48:57 GMT -6
Those of you who go the whole week, do you get any grief from administration about taking time off right after Christmas Break? I know it's not really "time off" as it's a professional conference--at least in theory!--but I've always had a hard time justifying asking for it off given the timing on a high school calendar.
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Post by wolverine55 on Nov 21, 2014 19:40:17 GMT -6
I agree with that sentiment. I absolutely LOVE coaching...but at the same time, I'm keeping my teaching job for as long as they will have me. After years of sub teaching and part-time teaching jobs, I've landed in a great spot. If there ever comes a time where I'm not wanted/needed to coach at my current school, but my teaching job is set, I'm staying put!
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Post by wolverine55 on Nov 2, 2014 7:36:39 GMT -6
Barnes77, the Glazier clinics are pretty good in that a speaker normally has almost three full hours to present information on a single topic or a couple topics. They can go into a lot of detail wit that much time. However, they can be expensive if you aren't part of a staff or school where some of the cost can be covered. Most areas have several local clinics that will start up at the end of January and February. If you are on a staff currently, your HC should get or already have a lot of information on where some clinics will be. If you aren't on a staff, express interest with the coach at a local HS and he will probably help you out.
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Post by wolverine55 on Nov 1, 2014 16:26:58 GMT -6
We do a team dynamic stretch (high knees, lunges, sprint, etc) but it has always seemed like a waste of up to 15 mins to me. Do y'all just go into Indy? I would just cut it down. We do dynamic stretch in our defensive groups to start practice, but it's five minutes tops. We do a form jog, high knees, butt kicks, toe touches, "monster walks", one more form jog, a few different static stretches and then it's into our pursuit drill or we just stay in defensive indy. I do agree that a team stretch is a waste of time. I coached in one program where our stretch routine plus jumping jacks was so long that we'd be 20 minutes into practice...and that would be all that we'd accomplished
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Post by wolverine55 on Oct 28, 2014 9:25:53 GMT -6
The effect on other sports is a legitimate question and in Illinois, moving to an independent would be a scheduling nightmare, although there are a few who make it work. Don't know they dynamics of scheduling in your state, however.
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Post by wolverine55 on Oct 21, 2014 5:24:19 GMT -6
Not being critical here, just an honest question: What do you do if you lose the game you've based your whole offseason and preparation for? I think it would be hard to regroup mentally both as a coaching staff and team as a whole if you lose the game you've based everything on.
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Post by wolverine55 on Oct 16, 2014 13:56:50 GMT -6
I didn't really have a varsity role as I was a freshmen coach, but back in 2004 I coached at a 5A program in Illinois. We played the number 1 team in our class in the playoffs and they were a conference opponent who beat us 41-14 in the regular season. And...it wasn't that close! But our kids played a great game, they made some mistakes they normally didn't make, and we upset them 21-14 in the rematch, which came in the second round of the playoffs.
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Post by wolverine55 on Oct 12, 2014 15:50:18 GMT -6
I coached at a school like coacharnold just described. I wasn't there for all 27 of these, but an 0-3 start in the 2006 season took the losing streak to 27 games. Then, we won a game...and the team felt their job was done! We finished 2-7 as we did manage one more win, but really we should have been 5-4 and possibly 6-3 if things had gone right.
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Post by wolverine55 on Oct 9, 2014 17:06:28 GMT -6
If I was at a school that didn't/couldn't offer an in-school weight lifting program, I'd take the weight lifting in a heartbeat.
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Post by wolverine55 on Oct 7, 2014 19:54:05 GMT -6
The big thing with scout team--I think anyway--is to really emphasize the positive. We have enough numbers as a coaching staff to where me and another coach are able to run the scout offense. More him than me, but we go nuts in a good way whenever we run a play that gains positive yards. "Way to go, Scouts!" "Hey, keep kicking their ass, Scouts!" and stuff like that. We have our scouts get a break whenever the session is over just like the defense does: "Scouts on three...1..2...3...SCOUTS!" and stuff like that.
One thing that helps too is a lot of teams in our district run some sort of two-back shotgun stuff, so I can almost always tell the OL to block the play as if it's one of our plays and give them an exact play call. That obviously helps with their confidence too.
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Post by wolverine55 on Oct 6, 2014 10:49:08 GMT -6
My Fridays are the same all school year, actually. I'm a special education teacher, so Fridays are the days I have my students do their IEP probes for goal progress. It gives me a little grading to do on gameday, but it's easy grading and generally only takes me 10 or so minutes to do and then maybe another 5-10 minutes to record the info on the IEP website. Co-teaching is part of my assignment, so there's a couple classes that give me more to do on a game day than I'd prefer!
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Post by wolverine55 on Sept 23, 2014 7:14:18 GMT -6
Has anyone ever had a rival that the blood was just so bad each team tried to hang as many as they could? I've been on both sides of the score like all of us. There have been just programs I've coached or played against that hated each other and some times those games got out of control as far as scores At my last coaching job, our rival had us down 41-0, which started the running clock, before we scored twice to make it 41-14. I don't know if they were mad we scored or what, but they actually went no-huddle and threw two deep passes on us at the end of the game trying to tack another one on. It was with their second string offense, but still...
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Post by wolverine55 on Sept 21, 2014 7:23:05 GMT -6
Heck I get fired about once a game.... At my old school a coach was considered a rookie until he was fired twice during games. Yesterday during the Alabama-Florida game, Nick Saban on at least two occasions was caught on camera yelling "What the phuk are you doing?!" at Lane Kiffin. And, this was on a day where the Alabama offense was pretty much lights out!
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Post by wolverine55 on Sept 11, 2014 10:33:15 GMT -6
You're crossing over into "parent" territory by the way you sound. He's obviously not a great QB. JUst focus on DE for this season. I wasn't going to be this blunt, but I agree with it. If there's three better QBs in his own class--not taking into account kids a year older and a year younger--his primary focus definitely needs to be on becoming the best DE he can be.
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Post by wolverine55 on Aug 28, 2014 17:29:06 GMT -6
This is one area I've been very fortunate in over my career. This fall is my 12th season and fifth different program, but in all those years and different staffs, there's only been one guy I can say I didn't really enjoy working with. My current staff especially is enjoyable as we're on the same page with pretty much everything.
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Post by wolverine55 on Aug 28, 2014 8:19:56 GMT -6
I'm glad to hear this opinion of the movie from a couple people I trust! I really had my doubts when I saw the first couple previews for the film.
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Post by wolverine55 on Aug 20, 2014 5:30:30 GMT -6
Our practices are pretty much the same format. Other than lessening conditioning as we go through the season, I can't think of anything we really change.
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Post by wolverine55 on Aug 16, 2014 20:23:49 GMT -6
I agree with some of that. I definitely wouldn't use the word "soft" but I would maybe ask why he's doing some things differently. Again, use specific examples. There could be very good reasons for why he has changed some things.
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Post by wolverine55 on Aug 16, 2014 15:19:26 GMT -6
In Iowa, teams play their Week 9 games on Friday, then have to turn around and play the first playoff game on a Wednesday. We had helmet and shoulder pad practice on Saturday with some film thrown in. We have hudl so the film trade was possible that quickly. Sunday and Monday we went ahead with light but full-padded practice and then Tuesday was the typical pre-game walk through. I worried about our kids being in pads those weekend days, but they handled it just fine. It's important to keep the practices--especially the Sat and Sun ones--pretty short and sweet.
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Post by wolverine55 on Aug 9, 2014 13:47:12 GMT -6
Wow, I don't really know what to say after reading all that! At least there seems to be some carry over...if I was you now, the only thing I'd do is discuss the use of indy time with your HC. If he really wants all of that ran, you'll need all of your indy time to review scheme and just keep repping it and repping it and hope it sinks in with the players.
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