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Post by RuningOutOfOptions on Sept 12, 2017 13:04:32 GMT -6
first of the usage of the term "snowflake" is so stupid it takes away every point you are making. Of course you can support what Kap is doing if you see police brutality, racism and systematic mistreatment of African Americans in this nation. A mistreatment the rest of the world thinks is odd and sees America as a racist nation thanks to. How are they disrespecting their community, if you don't mind me asking? It always puzzles me when people say that. The rest of the world? Seriously? Because the rest of the world is so wonderful? Your concerned with what the rest of the world thinks? Give me a break. Tell me where a person of any race has a better opportunity than right here. Tell me where you'd rather live than right here. Well, people of African decent earn on average a better wage in the EU, even in nations that have a lot of bigotry like France, Spain and Italy. I love living here in the US, but I can tell you that the issues America has with racial profiling I have not seen in neither Sweden or Germany where I have lived before. The US is a great nation, but if you can't admit it's flaws it's hard to improve. As football coaches, that is a reality we all face, right?
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Post by RuningOutOfOptions on Sept 12, 2017 12:45:52 GMT -6
If a young man was to play on Friday nights, he had better not take a knee during the playing of the national anthem. Or players will stand, if for no other reason than to show their respect for those in our community who have served in the armed forces. I cannot believe the passivity and hypocrisy of so many coaches on this board. Furthermore, I cannot believe that any of you support what "Kap" does and says! For those of you worked about a lawsuit, how do you enforce any of the other expectations that you have for your players? That's a cop-out! You just don't want to upset your snowflakes! Be a leader. Teach your athletes to respect the flag. They live in the greatest country in the world! first of the usage of the term "snowflake" is so stupid it takes away every point you are making. Of course you can support what Kap is doing if you see police brutality, racism and systematic mistreatment of African Americans in this nation. A mistreatment the rest of the world thinks is odd and sees America as a racist nation thanks to. How are they disrespecting their community, if you don't mind me asking? It always puzzles me when people say that.
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Post by RuningOutOfOptions on Sept 12, 2017 10:53:01 GMT -6
Are we not selling them a bit short? Sure you can make sure that the kids understand what they are kneeling/sitting for before letting them do it, which I believe is a good solution.
I just believe that as a white male I can never say what an african american say or do in protest to systematic racism that I will never face, therefore can not understand his point of view. Same goes for sexism against women.
You can call my a heart bleeding liberal, but that is my view of the matter.
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Post by RuningOutOfOptions on Sept 12, 2017 7:46:36 GMT -6
The black kid who plays QB .... why does that matter? What lengths are we willing to extend to any social media posts that are unrelated to the program? Are players extensions of the program? yes Are you willing to boot kids who post any questionable content online or just some? If just some, then what are you using for your selective application? I've seen countless teen social media posts that are downright criminal but we accept because we don't understand "the culture", so why accept questionable content from some but not others? I think you have to draw the line when it's hate towards teammates. All white team might be different, in my opinion if you can put on a KKK hood and play with an African american quarterback, you don't deserve to be recognized by either your dumba$$ online friends nor the team.
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Post by RuningOutOfOptions on Sept 12, 2017 6:07:47 GMT -6
Pardon my ignorance, but who or what is "Pepe the Frog"? An internet meme, it's safe to Google, but I would recommend safe search just in case. The internet is a dark place when you start getting into that stuff.
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Post by RuningOutOfOptions on Sept 11, 2017 13:42:15 GMT -6
Had a similar funny moment a few years ago, thanks to translation issues. Was coaching in Sweden, the opponent had the ball by the end of the half (team with a lot of new players to the game), their coach yells at them to spike the ball(spike sounds like Swedish "spark" which means kick) and the center runs up to the ball as soon as the umpire puts the ball down and kicks it with all his might. Clock ran down after their penalty for delay of game.
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Post by RuningOutOfOptions on Sept 11, 2017 6:57:24 GMT -6
To answer your last question: The same we benefit from art, music and other extra curricular activities, we keep our kids busy. Coming from a small village, boredom leads to you finding trouble. If I grew up somewhere where I could be active with football during my teenage years, I would have made a lot fewer dumba$h decisions and maybe would've stayed out of trouble. So it's a shakedown? Trick or treat? Provide us with recreation or we'll steal or vandalize your property? It may be effective, but then the argument for tax-supported football is the same as it would be for tax-supported theater, concerts, libraries, fireworks, or movies -- and jobs -- and there's no reason to think it would apply only to those for children or teens. (If you look at the most crime-prone demographic -- men in their 20s -- it would seem they'd be the squeakiest wheel who should get the most grease, so there should be a lot more adult football teams!) Some of those things are, to a greater or lesser degree, and varying over time & place, tax-funded. So is it all a matter of arguing how important my thing is vs. your thing for the limited tax $ available -- or that taxes should be increased to make more available? Of course every $ taxed is $1 less that person has to put to the use s/he decides. I know that I am the exception to the rule in my generation, since I was working at 14, but how many HS kids do you know that can afford buying helmet, shoulder pads, girdle, etc.? Saying the parents can do that is of course fair, but that would turn the sport into hockey basically where only upper middle class and up are prominent. For the players in the 20's, you are a legal adult and there is an option for you in semi pro football. Sure semi pro has it's flaws, but it can still be valuable. Heck, if I hadn't had too many concussions I would be playing semi pro right now. I believe that my responsibility as a coach and one day a parent is to try to make the world a better place for my players and my kids later, if that means helping them have better opportunities with doing sports by paying a few bucks extra in tax? Sign me up!
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Post by RuningOutOfOptions on Sept 6, 2017 13:18:42 GMT -6
You're right on the second part. There is little intrinsic reason why schools absolutely need to field sports teams, which is why I said this is off topic. I think it's a good thing that they do, as would most coaches on here, and we have our reasons, but that's a totally different argument. The first point, though... "becuase people need something, you have to force them to buy and use it?" That is buggo. I may not want to fund the police, fire department, the military, paved roads, utilities, etc. That doesn't mean that we, as a modern society, don't need those things because we all benefit from them as a social group. Therefore, we use taxes to pay for them and require that people have them. Education is the same thing. You know who benefits from public education? Every single person who lives in our society or deals with us, including you, even if you don't have kids in the system. This idea that people can have a functional modern society where everyone just pays for stuff they want and doesn't share any social responsibility or obligations is ridiculous. Unless your idea of a utopia is the Mad Max films, there's no way to think of this as anything but crazy. That's my last comment here. This is off topic to the original post, which raised some good points. Let's focus on football here. Sure, people benefit from each other's learning. But they also benefit from practically every other investment they make in anything else, too. Somebody invests in retail stores, everybody who shops benefits. You want to make everybody invest in retailing? Like there wouldn't be retail stores if people weren't forced to invest in them? Everybody benefits from communication cable; you want to make everybody invest in that too? But I'm surprised you're making this argument in a thread about sports. You want to argue that sports are so necessary that everybody should have to invest in them? Because of all the things you could say are a benefit to those who aren't involved, sports has got to be one of the hardest cases to make! I have plenty of friends who can't stand sports, or who have no interest in particular ones; how's football making their lives better? To answer your last question: The same we benefit from art, music and other extra curricular activities, we keep our kids busy. Coming from a small village, boredom leads to you finding trouble. If I grew up somewhere where I could be active with football during my teenage years, I would have made a lot fewer dumba$h decisions and maybe would've stayed out of trouble.
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Post by RuningOutOfOptions on Sept 5, 2017 10:34:22 GMT -6
I believe I can contribute to this question actually. I coached my first 2 seasons in Sweden, where football is a club sport. I was completely unpaid (got the team swag, paid for my own trips, got my training paid for) and it was a club where the players had to buy their equipment (everything from pads to practice clothes and helmets). I also played in that environment.
I believe soccer is easier to do this with because you need less numbers, less equipment and fewer coaches. When I coached my first year we were 2 coaches. This meant I coached almost every position on offense at least one practice and also helped coach most positions on the defensive side from time to time. We also had to deal with the unknown of if we were going to have 30 players at practice or 5, same issue most semi-pro teams have.
All in all, some things could probably be better, but coaching at the high school has been an upgrade in a lot of ways for me, personally. It helps with the peer pressure and if you are a teacher at the school you get to see the kids more as well.
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Post by RuningOutOfOptions on Aug 31, 2017 10:20:05 GMT -6
What frustrates me is when for example coaches chew out a player they do not coach. For example a DB coach yelling at a RB for cutting inside too early. If you don't know 100% what they are being taught, don't try to correct them. THE WORST! It seems like there is always that guy on every staff though. The sad part is usually HIS position group is the worst coached group on the team. Has happened to me several time, I've even done that once my first season coaching. But the HC asked me politely to walk with him, at which point he told me he would throw me out of the staff with my head up my behind if he caught me doing it again. All with a calm voice and smile on his face. Glad I coached under him.
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Post by RuningOutOfOptions on Aug 31, 2017 9:30:10 GMT -6
What frustrates me is when for example coaches chew out a player they do not coach. For example a DB coach yelling at a RB for cutting inside too early. If you don't know 100% what they are being taught, don't try to correct them.
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Post by RuningOutOfOptions on Aug 21, 2017 11:19:21 GMT -6
I wear Skechers. I'm a pretty large person (6"4 320 lbs) with size 15. They are usually a bit wider, which is perfect for my feet. I swear by them as of now, usually end up going to DXL to buy them for their sizes.
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Post by RuningOutOfOptions on Aug 21, 2017 9:01:05 GMT -6
Don't every kids have a cell phone now a days? Tell them to use the "selfie" cam and sunglasses and they will get a good look in a safe way. Heck, they will probably even take a selfie with it. Luckily, I work off campus with a desk job so I don't have to deal with school politic stuff like that.
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Cramps
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Post by RuningOutOfOptions on Aug 18, 2017 11:01:26 GMT -6
Pickle juice always works. Second that, plus it's delicious.
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Post by RuningOutOfOptions on Jul 27, 2017 14:35:48 GMT -6
One extra note in this discussion: The players they are talking about is prior to the focus of safe tackling. I bet I was not the only person taught to tackle the guy with my head in front of the person because they could not "run through my head".
This has been on the rise within recent years, and there have been a lot of rule changes the last 10 years. (Pepperidge Farm remembers the Wedge for KOR and wedge breakers) We have to see that most players that this study must have been on played in the 90's and prior. The game is changed and safety wise it is for the better.
Us coaches doing a heck of a job teaching safe mechanics we will never see the fruit of our labor, only our players. And I believe we are making a difference.
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Post by RuningOutOfOptions on Jul 26, 2017 11:20:00 GMT -6
there are two "IFAF's" that are fighting for political power of the international football. One of the fractions (One is called IFAF New York and one is called IFAF Paris, named after where they had their first meeting after the split) and IFAF Paris that controls the World Games suspended USA Football and do not recognize them as the governing body for amateur football in the US. In comes USFAF USA Eagles, who was suppose to jump in and take USA Footballs place in the tournament. I'm glad USA Football didn't get recognition by IFAF Paris, because USA Football is just an opportunistic front of the NFL. I don't know USFAF; I do know USFA, the US Football Ass'n, whom I trust as a legitimate grass roots organiz'n. I'm guessing USFAF might stand for US Feder'n for American Football, who I guess might just be ad hoc. I have to admit that I am not neutral in this fight, and I agree with you 100% because this will be the easiest way for IFAF Paris to start a fight with the big dog of the playground. This World Games will hopefully be the straw that breaks the camels back, because Wiking (President of IFAF Paris) and company is currently caring more about their egos than the growth of the sport. Which is a shame since we now have more athletes coming over from Europe to play college ball.
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Post by RuningOutOfOptions on Jul 24, 2017 14:48:19 GMT -6
just finished season 2. 1. I got the vibe in season 1 that Ms. Wagner was getting plowed by half the team -Watching season 2 i get the feeling that she thought that after watching it herself on TV, and seemed to distance herself some from them this year. Maybe i am weird. 2. The whole deal with the OC in last game seems like a set up. 1 of 2 things... either total set up for fake drama for TV... or That QB coach Trickett set the whole thing up. He popped up and smiled SUPER FAST when buddy got pissed at the OC. Like way too fast for it to be a normal reaction. If it wasnt a TV set up, then my theory is Trickett had been in Buddy's ear for awhile saying OC was undermining him (hinting OC wants to take over as HC). My theory is he undermined the underminer to get to take over. 3. There is like zero coaching that actually happens in the whole series. The only thing they ever say is they need to play harder or simply "want it more" 1. not getting the same vibe,but I miss those vibes. 2. I know the OC called himself a coach in waiting, and he got the position of vice AD after last season. I would not be surprised if Buddy is getting one last chance this season, and if it does not go better now 2017 it would not be shocking if he looses his job if they don't win the national championship. 3. The only person I hear talk a little bit of coaching is the DL coach. But mostly it seems to be the coaching staff shaming the players. Could be cut that way. Would be nice with a version but with all the coaching instead. would be pretty cool to watch.
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Post by RuningOutOfOptions on Jul 24, 2017 12:15:20 GMT -6
Well, the story is longer. First of there are two "IFAF's" that are fighting for political power of the international football. One of the fractions (One is called IFAF New York and one is called IFAF Paris, named after where they had their first meeting after the split) and IFAF Paris that controls the World Games suspended USA Football and do not recognize them as the governing body for amateur football in the US. In comes USFAF USA Eagles, who was suppose to jump in and take USA Footballs place in the tournament.
Unsure what lead to it, USA Eagles lost funding for the trip and ended up from what I have heard just send players who could afford going from the US and players who played in Europe. This lead to a rag-tag team of USA players who have not practiced together loose to Germany 13-14 in the semi final and tie Poland 7-7 in the bronze medal game.
This is just the tip of the iceberg regarding the issues with the IFAF situation. Until CAS (sports court in Switzerland) looks over the case and give the control to one of the fractions, the international football stage will be hurting and not grow. It's sad, and I am happy I coach in the US and don't have to worry about these issues daily anymore.
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Post by RuningOutOfOptions on Jul 7, 2017 13:36:20 GMT -6
Swedish coach living in the states. Coaches women's football. OL/DL. Zone, Man, Wing-T and vertical pass set is what I have the most experience with on offense.
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Post by RuningOutOfOptions on Jun 15, 2017 10:29:07 GMT -6
Looked at film a couple of years ago from a tight game with one of our main rivals. We heard about the play before we got the film and could not believe it. The team lost by 3 points by missing a 30-yard field goal with a really good kicker. The reason he missed it was because a seagull flew by and got hit by the ball just after the ball crossed LOS. Had to see it with my own two eyes to believe it.
Unfortunately they could not add: No animals was hurt during this video
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Post by RuningOutOfOptions on Dec 13, 2014 2:03:52 GMT -6
I'm a offensive coordinator from Sweden, I can say that the athletes here in Europe are great, we got coaches with amazing knowledge. Our biggest issue, at least in Sweden and the age group I coach (U19) is time, getting coaches and players to the team.
Time: we practice about 2-3 times a week, usually for 2h. If we're lucky and fortunate we have 22 guys to be able to play teams. Usually we don't.
Coaches: last year I coached U17, we were fortunate and practiced with the clubs U19 team so we had enough coaches but we only had me and HC, which meant that last year I coached OL, DL, DB, QB and WR/TE. I and the head coach were passionate and rescheduled our work schedules to be able to be at practices and games.
Players: we face the same issues as american coaches with players balancing school, family and sports. Don't forget girlfriends/boyfriends, which I think every sport is facing issues with. The biggest difference here is that we are the small sport that is "cool" and some players just want to get pics of them in gears and then they don't show up, because soccer is more glamourus (I got no idea how to spell that, sorry), ice hockey is in full off season mode and unfortunatly parties and drinking is something the kids wants to do, our season is from spring to autumn so in the summer that is an issue.
Sorry for the long post.
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