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Post by wolverine55 on Nov 12, 2021 7:45:26 GMT -6
I have found that giving detentions were more punishment for me than the students. Other than that, I to some extent agree with almost everything said in this thread.
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Post by wolverine55 on Nov 10, 2021 7:44:52 GMT -6
Solon High School in Solon, Iowa. Also, probably City High in Iowa City, Iowa.
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Post by wolverine55 on Nov 8, 2021 8:45:43 GMT -6
Personally, the way my school schedule worked out this year, I have an almost two hour break in the middle of the day between an advisory period, lunch, and then my prep all consecutively. So, that's when I do most of my Coachhuey time. When I'm at home on the weekends, I can find plenty to do that doesn't involve my computer or as others mentioned, I'm actually watching games on TV.
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Post by wolverine55 on Nov 4, 2021 12:04:00 GMT -6
Back in 2008, I coached under a guy who basically went off "gut feeling" for when to go for two and when to kick PATs. Sometimes we went for two, sometimes we kicked and there honestly wasn't any real rhyme or reason as to why. Anyway, we were playing a team we were better than and were up 39-6. Not sure how exactly we got to 39 due to the reason listed, but anyway we did and then scored to make it 45-6. We kicked the PAT and missed it...so no running clock.
I figured it would still be a quick rest of the game as we were both run-first Wing T teams. Well, they come out and proceeded to pass literally every play the rest of the game, we never did score again, and it was the longest second half I've ever been a part of.
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Post by wolverine55 on Nov 2, 2021 8:14:59 GMT -6
I will point out that the current Iowa rule is that the clock starts to run whenever the winning team gets a 35 point margin, but then it returns to regular timing if the losing team gets the margin to less than 35.
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Post by wolverine55 on Nov 2, 2021 7:36:26 GMT -6
In Illinois the clock doesn't run until your up 40 and not until the 2nd half. Unless both coaches agree to it earlier. We did agree to start it in the 2nd quarter one game as the team we were playing only had 14 kids available to play so we took it easy. Another time we were up 42-0 with about 4 mins left in 1st quarter (12 min qrtrs). The other coach didn't ask for it to run, so we just took out starters. One year we were playing a loaded team and I was still coaching in IL at the time. We were down 37-0 at the end of the first quarter and then in the second quarter, there were several moments where the timekeeper "forgot" to stop the clock on dead balls. Unfortunately, I don't have too many examples of putting a running clock on someone early, but at the school I currently coach at, they put it to someone 56-0 after just one quarter. That was a couple years before I joined the staff.
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Post by wolverine55 on Oct 30, 2021 8:28:05 GMT -6
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Post by wolverine55 on Oct 28, 2021 11:18:45 GMT -6
This is probably common sense to most of you, but I've been a part of two different programs that learned this hard lesson: take plenty of towels to EVERY game so that it becomes habit. Then, you probably won't forget towels to games when the forecast is calling for rain. Doh!
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Post by wolverine55 on Oct 21, 2021 13:24:17 GMT -6
Man, we've had a little bit of everything in my tenure. One year, we had two seniors who had legitimate 45 yard field goal range and a JV kicker who had legitimate 35 yard range. Then, in other years, the PAT was challenging enough.
My high school conference (which no longer exists due to co-opping and consolidations) was dubbed "Farmer Ball at it's finest" because of how small but good some of the schools were. It was a legitimate shock if anyone tried a field goal instead of going for it on 4th down regardless of the distance needed to get that first down.
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Post by wolverine55 on Oct 20, 2021 10:27:23 GMT -6
Good point. We are, by Iowa standards, a bigger school at around 600 students. And even then, we really don't have a kicker so we squib. Even with no one around them, most of the upbacks/middle returners/whatever you want to call them just dive on it.
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Post by wolverine55 on Oct 20, 2021 10:14:55 GMT -6
We played against a team whose kicker would balance the ball sideways on an upside down kicking tee and squib it like that. Impossible to cleanly field and the coverage was generally on top of you by the time you did field the ball, so you had no choice but to just go down.
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Post by wolverine55 on Oct 18, 2021 7:50:01 GMT -6
Maybe not the answer you're looking for as we did still do 11 on 11 team sessions, but back in 2005 I was at a big school that ran a double TE inverted bone offense. The spread hadn't completely taken over the game in 2005 but this was still a pretty unique look. So, we didn't really do scout team per se other than to watch the other team's goal line look. We had our version of scout team start in a 4 man front, then move to a five man front, then move to a six man front as the session went on, because that kind of replicated what most of our opponents did.
To clarify, the reason I didn't consider this "scout team" was if our upcoming opponent based out of a 4-3 Cover 2, we didn't bother having our version of a scout team line up in this look, because we knew they would never defend our base offense in that look.
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Post by wolverine55 on Oct 11, 2021 8:38:40 GMT -6
This is my first year as DC and I'm hitting right at 5 hours a week. Not attempting to watch that much, that's just how it works out. Previous to this year, I was anywhere between 2 and 3 hours a week. It would be a tad more, but we have four coaches for a roster of about 55 and our managers are primarily game day help, so we literally don't have anyone to film practice for us.
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Post by wolverine55 on Oct 1, 2021 9:46:01 GMT -6
I can start a new thread if needed, but I fall into "Our team is really bad, but I like my boss!" Lol
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Post by wolverine55 on Sept 18, 2021 18:52:10 GMT -6
Exactly. We had 37 accepted penalties both teams combined in our Week 3 game. And it was against a rival, so yes it was a little chippy but honestly nothing extraordinary.
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Post by wolverine55 on Sept 18, 2021 17:39:03 GMT -6
I can't say I've noticed a difference where I'm at. In fact, in last week's game it almost seemed like the refs assumed that a pancake block must have been a hold. I had to start Monday's defensive film session with by telling my defensive end: "You know you weren't held on this play, right Colin? You literally just got your ass kicked..." lol
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Post by wolverine55 on Aug 30, 2021 8:49:27 GMT -6
Thanks for the heads up! I actually haven't even tried the Huey search in years because it used to be easier to just google it.
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Post by wolverine55 on Aug 29, 2021 11:46:18 GMT -6
My brother used to coach women's college basketball at the JUCO level. To his credit, one of the many reasons he doesn't anymore is that he felt slimy recruiting girls that he knew would never play in his program, he was just under orders from his administration to have a roster of at least 18 girls. I think that was the number anyway...
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Post by wolverine55 on Aug 29, 2021 7:02:05 GMT -6
I played football at a D3 school and am extremely proud I did so. Football wasn't the decision but the opportunity to play was part of it. No regrets at all...granted, I think the price tag for my freshmen year was something like $12,800 as opposed to the $50,000ish it would be today...
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Post by wolverine55 on Aug 26, 2021 12:25:34 GMT -6
Having Sub-Varsity games on Saturdays would not be good idea around here. Hard enough to get coaches as it is without them not getting at least one day off a week (assuming staff does work on Sundays either together or virtually). During my career we had to finish some games on Saturdays due to weather. Talk about a good way to screw up your weekend. My first coaching job--which goes back to 2002-2004--we did varsity games Friday night, freshmen games Saturday morning at 10, and then JV Monday night at 6. I was a freshmen coach, so the saving grace was I didn't really have any varsity planning to be responsible for on Sundays. But, man, it still made for a long weekend...
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Post by wolverine55 on Aug 26, 2021 6:54:08 GMT -6
Our JV is supposed to play Mondays...but due to numbers we've combined our Friday night freshmen games into fresh/soph games. Sophomores only play in those if there is no chance of them getting any varsity time, however.
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Post by wolverine55 on Aug 25, 2021 9:16:43 GMT -6
I don't know if every conference in Iowa does baseball this way, but if school A is playing school B the JV double header will be at school A and the varsity double header will be at school B. Our conference had several JV double headers cancelled or postponed this year because there weren't enough umpires to fill the number of varsity and JV games being played on the same day. Football-wise, the issue doesn't seem as bad, but we're getting there...
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Post by wolverine55 on Aug 14, 2021 19:23:19 GMT -6
I honestly don't know if there's a set guideline in Iowa. We actually had a JV game canceled a few years ago because we played an IL team and it wasn't supposed to get below the threshold until 8 or 8:30 that night.
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Post by wolverine55 on Aug 9, 2021 19:20:29 GMT -6
Tomorrow is our first day and honestly we'll have anywhere between 45-60. We're a school of about 550. That may seem a wide range but our incoming freshmen have been all over the place with summer attendance. Also, for whatever reason, we'll have 1-2 kids that haven't missed anything over the summer decide not to play when August hits and then conversely, we'll have a few who attended nothing over the summer decide to play. Yes, I quoted myself... We had right at 45, but two kids either forgot or "forgot" to tell their bosses the needed their work schedules changed and should be at practices the rest of the week. An incoming freshman and his family are on vacation this week. At least two others that I think are playing, but not sure why they weren't at practice today.
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Post by wolverine55 on Aug 8, 2021 20:15:27 GMT -6
Tomorrow is our first day and honestly we'll have anywhere between 45-60. We're a school of about 550. That may seem a wide range but our incoming freshmen have been all over the place with summer attendance. Also, for whatever reason, we'll have 1-2 kids that haven't missed anything over the summer decide not to play when August hits and then conversely, we'll have a few who attended nothing over the summer decide to play.
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Post by wolverine55 on Aug 5, 2021 5:40:23 GMT -6
I actually made it into my coaching career without knowing what a Burpee was. Was never forced to them as a high school or college player...
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Post by wolverine55 on Aug 4, 2021 19:43:50 GMT -6
Illinois and Iowa. Up downs. Your post is the first time I've ever heard them referred to as down ups, although that may make more sense!
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Post by wolverine55 on Jul 20, 2021 14:21:09 GMT -6
our practice field is literally next door to a budweiser plant. On hot days, it can make a man thirsty Y'all have good sponsorships?? When I was in Colorado a couple summers ago, I walked past a dispensary that had a sign in the window saying they were a proud sponsor of the local football team!
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Post by wolverine55 on Jun 10, 2021 5:37:45 GMT -6
I asked what they were doing for four hours 5 days / week. Lift (this spring they just did bench, TBDL and back squat... no super sets, aux's or variations), condition (lots of gassers), agility (this spring was just the L Drill & shuttle on repeat LOL) and a full practice after (indy, 7on7, team, etc). If a coach can't get his team coached up and ready to play without all that nonsense, maybe he doesn't have the teaching and leadership skills necessary to be a head coach. Just sayin'. Here's one of the best lessons I learned: Just a few years back I took over this program. We had 2 DBs who had been starters the year before and who were supposed to be pretty good players. Both were in family situations where they were gone the entire summer, something beyond the players' control--we didn't get to work with them all summer. They were both there when official practice started. They were never lost, never out of place, ready to play from day 1. Both made all-conference, both were stellar players all season--including game 1. It made me rethink some things. Ironically, my example involves two DBs as well. This was the summer of 2013 and our starting safeties were about all we returned from the year before as we were senior-heavy in 2012. Then, these two each made a 7 on 7 and almost nothing else all summer. As we were having our last staff meeting before official practice started, our HC said, "Guys, I know we're all a little down on Patrick and Bryce right now. Just remember they're two of our best football players." And, they were just fine by week 1. About a year ago, I bought a house and Patrick's wife was my realtor actually!
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Post by wolverine55 on Jun 2, 2021 14:24:52 GMT -6
I don't have numbers to back this up, but in Iowa it seems like there are more late openings than normal. We had a relatively routine season playing in August, September, and October but it seemed like a ton of openings popped up in May.
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