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Post by lws55 on Apr 17, 2024 13:04:18 GMT -6
The new hudl does have a chat feature but you have to be on the same play as the other person to see their comments. In real time it is kind of annoying if I am on play 58 and making comments and other people are on a different play so they don't see my comments until they go back to play 58.
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Post by lws55 on Mar 19, 2024 11:33:44 GMT -6
I would echo the above post in that the coaches gear is important. As an assistant we want to feel taken care of and that what we do matters. If only to show that your staff can look professional on the sideline during the game. When I was an HC the one thing that surprised me was socks. Our kids got home and away sock each year and one year I had a bunch extra so I threw them in the coaches swag bag, I really didn't think anything of it. The next year I did not include them (I had them available I just didn't put them in). That was the first thing the coaches asked about, so I have included them every year from then on.
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Post by lws55 on Mar 14, 2024 13:18:14 GMT -6
as an assistant coach last year we received 2 t-shirts, 1 hat, 1 pair of shorts, 1 game day polo. All of our gear was Nike (we are a Nike school). Don't know the cost
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Post by lws55 on Mar 14, 2024 13:15:57 GMT -6
If you straddle the post on the ground as you come up to tackling, it would mimic the shimmy of approaching a tackle, closing space, but just looking at the video I think if you tackle it in that fashion it would send the kid up and over when you tackle it.
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Post by lws55 on Mar 12, 2024 8:01:29 GMT -6
I personally would love to be able to coach high school football as a living. If I was single then I would coach college, but I love being around my family too much to want to spend all that time on the road recruiting in the off season. Let coaches get paid for what they bring to the school.
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Post by lws55 on Mar 12, 2024 7:53:45 GMT -6
This coaching cycle in South Carolina, we have had 2 coaches from Florida (1 HC, 1 DC) hired as Head Coaches in South Carolina and 2 coaches from North Carolina (1 HC, 1 DC) hired as Head Coaches in South Carolina. Both of those states are notorious for not paying their coaches well.
Let them get paid, who cares about the hours if the state is willing to pay them, let them get theirs. Football is the front porch of a school, a good program can do wonders for the attitude and culture of your school. More so than any other sport IMO. Football is the one true melting pot sport that is left in the high school setting.
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Post by lws55 on Mar 11, 2024 11:25:50 GMT -6
We have a weight lifting class. I actually teach two a day. Right now each class has about 15-18 kids. But had 35 at one time. I like to keep it at 24. To few they fly through the workout, more they don't get it done or can hid. We have block scheduling that changes every 18 weeks. So the students I have 1 semester won't be the same the next semester expect for a couple. Some of the problems I face are I don't get all my players in the class. I also get seniors that have been working out since 8th grade and students who didn't even know we had a weight room. Taking a day off is also a problem I ran into. We have a severe shortage on substitutes, so I tried to get a person that knows their way around the weight room, but they are few and far between. Has anyone used the Rack Coach software? I was at a school that used it. Once the kids understand it and how it works then it can be effective. The big thing was having kids of the same strength working together. If they have to change weight all the time it will kill the flow of what it is supposed to do. Also, have the kids name on a list with which number in the group they are, Lifter 1, 2, or 3. That way you can look at the sheet and know who is supposed to be lifting. Kids that want to skate and skip sets and reps are going to find a way but it is a nice way to keep them on task. It does not leave a lot of room for coaching the lifts as you go either.
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Post by lws55 on Mar 5, 2024 13:52:41 GMT -6
Can someone let me know if Chief Pigskin is worth the $100 price tag for a year?
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Post by lws55 on Mar 5, 2024 6:45:14 GMT -6
anybody have a tutorial on using excel for football data mining? Would love to look into this more
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Post by lws55 on Feb 21, 2024 14:10:24 GMT -6
If you force kids to do a double block be ready to handle some backlash. I teach a freshman level class but ended up with seniors in my class (my class is required for graduation) because the previous school they were at did this and they never had time in their schedule for all the electives that they needed to graduate. They spent the last semester of their senior year taking all those classes while the other seniors had early dismissal and late arrival. Needless to say the parents of those boys were pissed.
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Post by lws55 on Feb 14, 2024 14:25:00 GMT -6
www.foxnews.com/sports/49ers-players-admit-unaware-overtime-rules-super-bowl-lviii-surpriseThis blows my mind. 49er players saying that they didn't know the rules and the Chiefs' player that caught the Super Bowl winning TD didn't even know that won the game. I get they all have second jobs as plumbers and all, but you would think someone would explain new rules and situations with them at some point during the 18 week season. I get there are restrictions on how much they football they can do in the NFL like 8 hour days max and having Tuesday off and all, but surely at some point they could go over this stuff. Maybe like during a 5 minute water break or something like that. Asking a lot, I know, I know. Eh- if those guys don’t have input into the situation does it truly matter. Kind of surprised yes, but does it realky impact the game? I am much more surprised and shocked by the amount of HS coaches that post here on Huey that don’t know rules such as the scrimmage kick rule (aka “tee punt” ) I have seen lots of reporters and talkibg heads try to frame this as “look at any reid being such a great coach”. Eh maybe. But in 2008 his starting qb didn’t know the regular season overtime rules Do you think that maybe Andy Reid said "You know what in 2008 my starting qb didn’t know the regular season overtime rules, so I am going to make sure that all my teams from now on know the rules"
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Post by lws55 on Feb 9, 2024 12:22:05 GMT -6
Both every day. I agree with what the others have said above in that kids will forget. Plus my first 7 years of coaching I was an option guy and there is no way that I would go a day with out practicing our mesh and reads. I am at a school that has separate O and D. But we have a D priority day and an O priority day, so any players that do play both ways can get a focus.
During O priority our DC stays with the O and runs scout team, the rest of the D staff coaches up the JV. We flip it on D priority but our WR coach runs the scout O and the rest of the offense coaches up the JV.
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Post by lws55 on Feb 6, 2024 14:10:13 GMT -6
When things go well spread the love, when things go bad take the heat.
As a head coach this was a lesson that I thought was under utilized. Too many times a coach will say something about how his team didn't perform well in a losing effort and while it may be true, kids think they put out great effort and if you throw them under the bus they are not going to want to get better.
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Post by lws55 on Feb 2, 2024 12:02:37 GMT -6
I have specific column sets for everything... O, D, DT, Scouting Opp O, Scouting Opp D, Scouting Opp ST, Game Info, Practice We are up to 95 columns of data we use and with 6 competent coaches, you can get all of them done for your game in 30-45 min and a little more on the scout film because you are doing 2 games. We can go over any details you want if you PM me and we can setup a Zoom to go over it. Defensive Responsibilities from 20236 Coaches Total - 2 DL, 2 LB, 2 DB (I was DC and was 2nd DB Coach) Staff did not meet with players on weekends - Coaches could do jobs at school or from home Photo of Weekend 2023 D ResponsibilitiesOffensive Responsibilities for 2024Not finalized - Staff meeting in a few weeks for me to teach the guys the system & how to do it 11 Coaches Total - 3 OL, 1 TE, 2 WR, 2 RB, 2 QB, (I'm the OC and not in those 10) You can see names of coaches are missing but the general outline is the same. Photo of Weekend 2024 O ResponsibilitiesNot to be "that guy" but both of the links are for the O Responsibilities. Would love to see the D Responsibilities if it is availabe.
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Post by lws55 on Jan 31, 2024 11:45:46 GMT -6
They are actually very effective in teaching the catch on the clean. But relay races, slamming them, throwing them over stuff, long tosses.
Those are just the first things that come to mind
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Post by lws55 on Jan 29, 2024 12:53:50 GMT -6
I have been fortunate to be on staffs with D1 talent, as far as me coaching them not so much. 2 D1 lineman, 1 D1 DB (played in the national championship with Oregon, signed as an undrafted free agent in the NFL), 1 D1 running back (ended up playing corner in college, signed as an Undrafted free agent in the NFL), 1 D1 QB (Preferred walk-on), and 1 D1 Kicker!
Ton of kids have gone to Juco for a semester or so but never really finish out. Had one kid who played Juco and then went on to p pretty decent college career and is finishing up this year, he has been told that he might have a shot at being an undrafted free agent this year. Several kids that tried small college ball but did not last. Most said it was more of a job and was not fun after high school
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Post by lws55 on Jan 24, 2024 7:00:30 GMT -6
Kids want to win, because winning is fun. So if you are a new coach well versed in the triple option, you would have to come in and win games to get kids to play for you. If you struggle then kids are going to seek opportunities elsewhere.
I am a flexbone triple option guy. I know it works on the high school level, but if I was to take a HC job I would not sell out to the Triple because I would probably have a lot of kids that choose to go elsewhere. Most of us coaches on this board realize that most of the RPO stuff we see is just triple option with throwing the ball instead of pitching the ball. Really any "read" based offense is an option based offense. Does it look more sexy to line up in trips and run a bubble then to line up in flexbone and run the same play? Absolutely! Do the kids know the difference? NOPE! But now the A back is a wide receiver and that is way more sexy then be an A back.
If I had to be in charge of an offense I would do a lot of what you see in this tread. I would run Power, Counter, maybe Trap but I would also have midline, and an inside veer type play. I would have TE sets, H back sets, and TE/H back sets because the extra gaps give defenses fits.
The great thing about option is a kid has to stay disciplined for 48 minutes to beat it, and any teacher on this board will tell you is that is a very hard thing for a 15-17 year old kid to do.
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Post by lws55 on Jan 23, 2024 8:34:13 GMT -6
I graduated in 1994. Was a starter all 3 years of high school (we had junior high so Freshman were not in the high school). I never came of the field. On offense I played Guard, Tackle, and Center in that order from my Sophomore year forward (I did get to play some fullback on big boy package). On Defense I was a end and then my senior year I was moved to Middle Linebacker. I was also the long snapper and on all the special teams. My sophomore and junior years we had to play JV on Mondays and then the Varsity game on Friday (we would not have enough players to field a JV team if we didn't play both games) Seniors were not allowed to play JV.
We got water, from a PVC pipe that was bolted to the fence and had holes drilled in it. We had 3 coaches, our HC was our OC and an off campus real estate agent was our DC and then one assistant that kind of coached everything. We had no structured off season program, other than our HC would open the weight room and then sit out side of it until 5 reading the newspaper and then would tell us when it was time to go home. We learned to lift from Body Building Magazines and Arnold's Encyclopedia of Bodybuilding. I didn't know what a clean was until my Senior year when a guy that gone to college came home and was lifting and did them during his workout.
I dislocated two fingers on my hand, when I came over to the sideline to get help the DC kept telling me the next play we were going to run, I was trying to show him my hand and he ignored it, I was dumbfounded. Meanwhile the assistant coach came around behind me grabbed my fingers and popped them back in. The DC gave me a pat on the helmet reminded me of the call and sent me back out.
I was one of 2 guys that was able to play football in college, going to one of the top jucos in the nation at the time. Wouldn't trade my time at Juco for anything. I won more games my Freshman year in College than I did my entire 3 years in High School.
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Post by lws55 on Jan 22, 2024 8:26:49 GMT -6
We use BSN for almost everything, they are not my favorite Curious: What makes them not your favorite? It might be the reps I have dealt with but they have messed up several things for us. The first school I was at in South Carolina used them for everything, cloth, equipment, anything related to sports. Our AD at the time was just looking for a one stop shop and didn't care what the quality was. We would get the wrong material or the wrong sizes. Equipment that was ordered together would show up at random times but never all together, even when it was the same thing. We ordered a bunch of 10 pound bumper plates for our freshman, middle school weight class and we received 2 one week, 4 the next week, 1 the week after that. It ended up taking about 6 weeks for 20 of them to come in. Our rep didn't answer phone calls and would call you back a day or two later. All in all I was not impressed.
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Post by lws55 on Jan 19, 2024 12:19:09 GMT -6
We use BSN for almost everything, they are not my favorite
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Post by lws55 on Jan 18, 2024 14:20:36 GMT -6
we are still cutting them, however, our HC ordered like 500 of our strips so we might be cutting for a while
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Post by lws55 on Jan 18, 2024 9:35:21 GMT -6
Today I learned what LARP is and will now use it to describe the bag men, personal trainer, 7v8 coaches. (yes 7v8 cuz you run the 3-4 and drop 8 in passing league dip sh!ts) We send the 8th guy, just sometimes he is clueless and doesn't go! We have to make sure the fundraising kids get their reps!! Besides it gives you a realistic look of a delayed blitz. Not any worse then the offensive guys that send their RB straight up the middle at a full sprint, because they wouldn't have to get through all the traffic of the OL and DL to be able to run that.
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Post by lws55 on Jan 17, 2024 13:26:52 GMT -6
Don't tell me about the 300 pound nose guard you have that can bench press a truck and 2 gap, demands a triple team and allows your LB's to just run and make tackles. That doesn't help!
Worst thing I ever heard at a clinic was a college coach talking about how his safety could come from the opposite hash and fill the alley to the field to make a TFL. When asked how he would adjust if he didn't have that type of kid, He said and I quote "Well then we wouldn't have recruited him to play for us"
If you are talking on defense tell me what type of kid plays the position. I don't need body weight specifics but information like he is a wrestler type kid, small for a LB but slow for a safety type kid. A description of the type of player that we can picture in our head.
Best quote I ever heard at a clinic, "Good Afternoon, we all know why I am up here talking to you guys today. I had the best kids last year, lets get started"
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Post by lws55 on Jan 11, 2024 8:31:17 GMT -6
California has been trying to ban youth football for several years now.
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Post by lws55 on Dec 18, 2023 12:35:05 GMT -6
We used to have a Madden tournament but our admin decided that was not a good way to spend the "exam" period in a football weightlifting class. We would put it up on the projector so it was huge in the weight room and fill out a bracket and have a tournament. We would usually bring in some snacks and the top three players would get some sort of prize. T-shirt, hat etc
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Post by lws55 on Dec 11, 2023 12:39:54 GMT -6
We played several teams this year that had a player wearing the "0". We don't have one in our inventory, but I am sure it is coming.
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Post by lws55 on Dec 11, 2023 9:55:21 GMT -6
Based it on grades, then weight room attendance, and the tie breaker was fundraising. Returning starter, senior year, and little sophomore has the exact same points as you? Better raise more money then him if you want that number.
I had a kid go out to his car and collect the change so that he could have 21 over another kid. All is fair when it comes to numbers.
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Post by lws55 on Dec 8, 2023 11:50:25 GMT -6
Falling under the category of "you have done a good job so I want you to do more work that no one else wants to do"
I have now been tasked with doing the special teams stats as well. So Question for the group:
1. How do you figure punt and kick off with returns? I know on Punt that it is from the LOS and not where he kicked it from and KO is obviously from the 40. Do you subtract what ever yardage the returner brings it back from the distance? So we kicked it from the 40 the returner catches it on the 10 and returns it to the 20 is that 50 yards (40 to the -10) or is it 40 yards (40 - 20(where it was caught + the return)?
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Post by lws55 on Dec 6, 2023 12:19:13 GMT -6
Where I was in California JV and Varsity, both played on Fridays, we had team dinner Thursday night, parents brought a dish that could feed 10-15 kids and everybody ate together.
On Fridays we would have a sandwich, fruit and water and Gatorade for the JV (their game was at 4:30). Varsity for us was a little different because I had a dad that owned a Chinese restaurant, so he would make these rice, broccoli, and Chicken bowls for each player, it was awesome! Unfortunately, he only had 2 sons in the program so after those two graduated he stopped doing the bowls. But that also coincided with my last year at the school.
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Post by lws55 on Nov 29, 2023 6:49:16 GMT -6
Also, a reminder for the young bucks (and us old farts too), you should be spending half of your offseason time learning the other side of the ball. Not to mention Kicking Game. Which brings up a pet peeve of mine - Some HS coaches will spend a lot of time developing QBs, but none developing Punters, Place kickers, Deep Snappers. Would you just hope a good passer somehow shows up or you can't throw the ball? Same goes with other Specialists. Kicking is 1/3 of football. Breaks happen in the Kicking Game. You have to coach it as well as other two phases or risking losing there. I always sent my kickers to a kicking camp. The program would pay for half of it and I made the kids bring me back a practice plan that would make them a better kicker. I never kicked, even for fun. My older son was a college soccer player and he couldn't kick a football. How am I going to coach that? I did, however, long snap in college so I do coach that aspect up. For the last 13 years I have taught every one of our long snappers.
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