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Post by tigerscoachbuck on Nov 14, 2017 10:01:09 GMT -6
We have had situations like this before, on both sides, and the question always is, who runs up the flag first. Is it our responsibility as the ass-kicker to take the foot off the gas, and sub in players? Or is it the opponents responsibility to start taking their players out and concede victory?
Answer is convoluted. If it is a team we play often and have a good respectful relationship with, we will institute mass subs. But the starters will be on stand-by until we know the opponent sees that we are either taking it easy on them, or running up the white flag.
If it is a team we do not play often, or are unsure of what the opponent will do, typically we will have our line stay and replace the backfield. This goes for being way up or way down. At least if the line is in, some of our players have a chance of survival against starters. That way we can protect the "cute kids" with our "big uglies" until we can figure out the gameplan adjustment by the opponent. I would say that this is what we typically do. It also helps us reinforce our preaching of playing until the final whistle regardless of score.
There are a very select few opponents that we do not get along with, and we will almost always leave our starters in one way or the other until the final whistle. These teams we could count on one hand. Actually its probably only one or two.
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Post by tigerscoachbuck on Oct 30, 2017 8:45:52 GMT -6
Facts of Life
Players play, Coaches coach, parents complain.
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Post by tigerscoachbuck on Jun 13, 2017 7:10:29 GMT -6
I am the assistant OC and WR's coach at our school. We preach accountability to our team and that starts with us on the staff. The HC makes sure that we are all using HUDL and breaking down our film. Then the O and D staffs will develop a gameplan and present it to the HC and their counterparts so that before our Monday practice we all know what the plan is for that week on both sides of the ball. That's the biggest way, in my opinion as a young coach, to develop them. Challenge them to do more. Challenge them to create plays, scheme, coverages ect. But then challenge them to explain the who/what/where/when/why/how of their ideas.
The other way to develop is to have the coach in the offseason study his opponents position. As a WRs coach in the offseason I read and research a lot on the play of CB's and Safeties.
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Post by tigerscoachbuck on Jun 13, 2017 6:59:00 GMT -6
We have kicked the idea around recently but have not executed it as of yet. We have a small budget and stickers are expensive.
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Post by tigerscoachbuck on Jun 13, 2017 6:56:37 GMT -6
In order to grow the program you need to keep kids involved and having fun. Practice sucks for the kids, they want to compete on the grand stage under those Friday Night Lights. We are a small program as well and will not have enough players to comfortably field a JV program. We will only have 37 at the start of training camp if enrollment stays as is. You need to try and get some Frosh involved however possible just to keep them in the program. We try and get younger players in on the Special Teams if there is no significant drop off in talent. Just to give our "Iron-Men" a blow and some water to avoid cramping, because exhausted soldiers can't charge.
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Post by tigerscoachbuck on Jun 12, 2017 11:07:43 GMT -6
I'm a new hire OC who has been on the coaching staff for 14 years. In my history, the middle school has never been on the same page as the high school program. That is now changing with me in this role. I have ms coaches that are on board with helping the program. We will get 25-30 kids out per grade if it's a good year. Many don't have extensive football knowledge. We are a hybrid wing t hs program. Charting out a wish list I have 5 runs, 2 play action, and quick passes for 7th and one more of each for 8th. These kids will not begin to practice until the 2nd day of school and play their first game after 5-7 practices. Thoughts or ideas on what I should go into the meeting with the MS coaches on what is reasonable that the kids should be able to do when they leave for the HS? I think the most important thing for the kids to know on the way to the HS is the verbiage. These kids have to learn a new language and if they can understand the concepts of the plays by the end of the year and the offensive a defensive language you should be successful. Other than that it is just the basic fundamentals like ball security, blocking/tackling skills, throwing and catching ect. I wouldn't say be too complex just master the small things.
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Post by tigerscoachbuck on Mar 24, 2015 19:28:32 GMT -6
While extreme measures to simulate difficulty could help a little, in my experience the main thing to practice ball skills with is lots of reps under any conditions, and checking on the players to make sure their form doesn't get sloppy after a few reps. Usually it's not a matter of water on the ball switching it on or off; rather, as I saw with our team in 2014, form that's marginal is good enough for good conditions but not good enough for bad conditions. The rain just brings out a problem that was there all along. What kind of snap form were you using when you had trouble in pistol in the rain, and what exactly was the failure mode on the snaps & fumbles? In practice, check the QB's eyes to make sure he's not taking them off the ball as it's snapped. You might want to present him with some distractions to induce him to glance away at the wrong time, just to check on that tendency. So first off we use a dead ball snap. The center snaps holding the nose of the ball so that this is little to no rotation on the ball when the QB receives it. We are a pistol wing t offense and we use that technique because we run Jet Motion a lot. It allows our QB to not have to mess around with the ball too much before handing off that quick jet sweep to the wing back. We do an 8 minute ball security circuit twice a week in practice, so my players were getting what I thought was enough reps. Of the fumbles we hand that were not simply the QB/C exchange they came from just strips while running. Just your average drag down tackle that popped the ball loose. The reason it was so maddening is that they came from 2 different players, (whom were also my best ball carriers), that I doubt put the ball on the turf the entire season. It may have just been that the weather exposed some flaw in their running style, or as much as I don't want to admit it, just wasn't our day.
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Post by tigerscoachbuck on Mar 13, 2015 21:22:00 GMT -6
Thanks for the ideas guys. Baby oil may be the way to go. Like said above we practiced with water soaked balls that entire week to no avail which is why I'd like to do something a little more drastic. Most times I try to create a situation as game like as possible, like rotating wet balls in during practice, but my idea of this is that if they can hold onto a greased up ball, then a water soaked ball would be easy in comparison. As far as ruining the balls I am lucky enough to have plenty of balls so one or two that may get ruined or set aside for "bad weather weeks" would not be an issue. I tend to have to retire balls annually anyway.
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Post by tigerscoachbuck on Mar 10, 2015 17:53:36 GMT -6
Hey Coaches I have been racking my brain all off season so far as how to practice bad weather conditions so that my kids will be prepared for the situation. I always dedicate a small portion of practice everyday to situational football, whether it be goal line, 4 or 2 minute offense, down and distance ect. But after losing our League semi final because of rainy weather and my inability to prepare my kids for the situation, I have been looking for some different ideas. Before our playoff game I did even look to the weather forecast and had my kids use wet balls that week in practice but, we still managed to muff 2 QB/C exchanges (and we are a Pistol Team no less), and gave up 3 fumbles, 2 of which were in the Red Zone and we lost by 6. I wouldn't think much off it but we lost the T/O battle by 4. I stress ball security and we were in the plus category all year in turnover margin. I'd hate to think it just wasn't our day because of how hard we worked in practice that week.
I have thought about using a ball in our team period covered in Vaseline, but in this day and age if Little Johnny gets a rash from it because he is allergic to everything including oxygen, I'll be strung by my entrails. So I was considering foot cooking spray, unscented lotion, dish soap but I was wondering if anyone had any other ideas. The more unorthodox the better, so long as it forces us to practice in harder situations than in the game. My kids look forward to the crazy situations I throw at them and something ridiculous would only stir their competitiveness into more of a frenzy.
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