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Post by poundtherock1 on Apr 12, 2021 12:48:36 GMT -6
Yeah, I get that, but on the flip side a 10 yard penalty from LOS (and repeat the down) vs a 7-10 yard loss and loss of down (sack). Doesn't seem like any type of punishment for offense. Much better to just hold than it is give up the sack. Not much incentive to not hold all the time and hope to get away with it. Disagree. 1st and 20 is plenty incentive to not hold. 1st and 27 is just to punitive. I understand what you are saying, but that is after the fact thinking. You get sacked, man, we should have held. Just because you hold, does not mean that you would have given up a sack for sure anyways. Another example is the wing t on buck sweep. Pulling lead guard gets called for holding (of course he really didn't - dang ref - ha). Let's say he is 4 yards in the backfield. It is now 1st and 24. If he doesn't even touch the guy, the hb most likely could have cut up for a 1 yard gain anyways. so 2nd and 9 vs 1st and 24. 2nd and 9 - fine in the wing t. 1st and 24, you aren't converting unless you are just better or get lucky. I would add that the biggest reason holding should be LOS or spot downfield is because 99% of the time the guy throwing the flag for holding doesn't hit his mark with the flag. I've seen countless holdings occur on the line of scrimmage, but the umpire rips a flag 4-5 yards deep into the backfield and then not replace the flag to the spot.
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Post by poundtherock1 on Nov 4, 2019 8:05:57 GMT -6
In N.C. 12 weeks to play 11 games. 5 rounds of playoffs. With basically 8 playoff divisions. Not a huge fan of how we do it here. Regular season is too long and they need to cut down on teams that get in IMO.
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Post by poundtherock1 on Oct 7, 2019 9:27:54 GMT -6
^^ Play card needs to be at least the size of a waffle house menu and have multiple color coded sections.
If you're more specific on this site with your questions then you will get some really strong answers. Also reading through old threads is really valuable.
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Post by poundtherock1 on Oct 7, 2019 9:07:00 GMT -6
Agree on the subtle D adjustments. Usually the best adjustments are minor ones. I will also say that sometimes as an OC you run your early game script and then venture back into your comfort zone... when in reality that script was repped and perfected all week. Sometimes it pays to run through that thing multiple times (or reduce your game plan in general but that is another discussion) This is hands down my biggest weakness as a play caller and something I am constantly trying to break free of. Especially when what you are comfortable with isn't necessarily what your players are best at executing.
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Post by poundtherock1 on May 15, 2019 9:44:21 GMT -6
I'm stepping back into an offensive coordinator role after a bit of a "sabbatical" year. I spent time with my wife. Took trips on the weekends and during off days from school. Summer was great since we both teach, had a lot of time to travel to some cool places. Watched our area schools on Friday night's when I wanted to, didn't watch when I didn't want to.
Use it to re-charge. I have a fresh perspective just from watching from the stands. Not necessarily schematically, but how to treat people. I would suggest finding ways to take advantage of some extra family time.
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Post by poundtherock1 on May 14, 2019 8:05:57 GMT -6
First time in my life that I will be working with a group of people that know football, but know people better. One stood with me at my wedding, another has become a close friend, and a young guy who just graduated but essentially volunteers as drop-out prevention alongside his teaching duties. Pair that with a group of kids with very few, if any, bad attitudes. At the very least we should have fun.
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Post by poundtherock1 on Mar 25, 2019 9:24:53 GMT -6
I thought my favorite part of being a coach would be the kids. It's actually selling my offensive system on twitter. /s
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Post by poundtherock1 on Feb 11, 2019 14:23:42 GMT -6
My thoughts are simple. This is more like pretty good college talent vs. not quite NFL talent. I'd like to see the NFL give some practice squad guys a shot at this. And any football is better than no football
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Post by poundtherock1 on Jan 30, 2019 12:47:06 GMT -6
I used to love it, but I went purged who I was following pretty heavily about 6 months ago. Some stuff still pops up and I typically just fly past it.
My least favorite part of coaching twitter, and I have not seen this mentioned here yet, is when the Chiefs, Rams, Oklahoma, whoever, runs a pretty cool concept, they immediately jump in and say "we ran this back in '14 with a lot of success".
Sweet dude. Want a cookie?
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Post by poundtherock1 on Sept 25, 2017 10:24:03 GMT -6
"Be the same person everyday".
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Post by poundtherock1 on Sept 9, 2017 7:27:10 GMT -6
Hey hang in there, man. On our 4th quarterback and maybe 5th depending on a doctors visit today by #4 going into our 5th game.
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Shoes....
Jul 8, 2017 9:41:30 GMT -6
via mobile
Post by poundtherock1 on Jul 8, 2017 9:41:30 GMT -6
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Post by poundtherock1 on Jun 23, 2017 19:04:13 GMT -6
About 1100 kids in NC.
Office is probably about average. We have an old school and it hasn't really been renovated much. HC has his own personal office that is attached via hallway with a bathroom. There's two entrances, one to the locker room, and that's where the kids come to ask questions. We have a big whiteboard with a table in front of it, but nobody really sits there. We have a bunch of attached desks around the perimeter. Two computers and one of those motorized drop down screens with a pretty good projector.
Our rules are pretty much the same as you said. I wish we had Directv in there, but my wife doesn't.
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Post by poundtherock1 on Jun 21, 2017 13:55:44 GMT -6
Not a fan of 7on7. The only good work you get is when you're on the same page with the other coach and you treat it as practice. I'm looking for fast decisions, and competition.
Side note, I hate how these things make coaches act. It very could just be where we are, but some of these coaches treat these things like life or death. Getting loud at kids, putting in freaking seams from the backfield on smash. I just don't understand doing that stuff. But maybe that's just me.
Played a team at one where their coaches were getting fired up over completions where the receivers basically broke off their routes after 4 seconds of backyard play. QB was still in the pocket. If that happens on a Friday night then our staff should be fired
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Post by poundtherock1 on Jun 16, 2017 17:51:07 GMT -6
I don't even run the test through the scantron anymore, the program I use gives the kids and me the feed back immediately, and the grade is automatically added to the grade book. One of my buddies holds the answer sheet up in front of the camera mounted on the computer in his classroom to grade his tests. is that how scantron works now? We have a program called grade cam that does this. Pretty awesome.
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Post by poundtherock1 on May 4, 2017 11:24:01 GMT -6
There's literally a football chat about everything some are more specified then others Each chat happens 1 hour a week and will be in Q and A format i.e. Chat will tweet "Q1 What's your favorite 1st down call #xxxfbchat" everyone will answer "A1 power out of unbalanced single wing #xxxfbchat" to name a few: #txhsfbchat- gives a wide variety #flhsfbchat- variety.... ran by coach mac at play fast football so bring your pro wrestling gifs #hogfbchat- for the O-line guys #airraidchat- these guys run daily #'s such as "#meshmonday", on meshmonday everyone will dump some good variations of mesh onto twitter. these cycle each week and will continue to cover every single concept in football #swarmfbchat- defensive chat for the dark side I am definitely missing a ton of chats... XXXfbchat sounds way more fun than any of those other chats.
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Post by poundtherock1 on Jan 6, 2017 20:57:30 GMT -6
We have them, and thank God we do, You can not convince me that every referee is consistent with the 25 second clock.
We went the entire season with arm up at 10 seconds, chop at 5. Until the last week when they skipped the 10 and only chopped. That killed our QB, made him feel really rushed. And it often felt like a 20 second play clock.
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Post by poundtherock1 on Jan 4, 2017 12:01:25 GMT -6
We have two playlists that we use for the weight room, each one has about 50 songs on it so it isn't too repetitive. We let the kids tell us what songs are popular right now and put the clean versions on shuffle, and loud. I don't really give a rip if they're rapping along or dancing a bit between sets. It keeps the energy high, and if they associate fun with the weight room, that's a good thing.
On Fridays, we listen to country.
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Post by poundtherock1 on Dec 7, 2016 13:54:27 GMT -6
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Post by poundtherock1 on Dec 5, 2016 9:37:12 GMT -6
Already booked, paid for, and a done deal for the wife and I to attend the AFCA in Nashville, TN... pvogel is trying to get me to put together the money to come stay with him for the Tampa Glazier though... don't know if I can afford 2 cross-country trips in one clinic season... we'll see. How is it taking your wife to clinics?
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Post by poundtherock1 on Nov 14, 2016 11:35:01 GMT -6
I work with one now. He's awesome. Coaches our LB's and gives awesome info to our DC on game days. It's neat to watch how quickly he picks up on tendencies from our opponents through film and on gamedays.
Kids hate him while they're here, and love him when they leave.
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Post by poundtherock1 on Oct 26, 2016 9:14:58 GMT -6
It's not so much the season/wins/losses/kids for me this year, as it is the schedule. We have a 10 week regular season, but in SC you can petition to play what we call Week Zero; the week usually everyone has their last jamboree/end of preseason. We had a odd number of teams in our region, so we married up with the next region over that was also in the same boat and drew lots to match up. So we worked it out with the team we drew to move the game back to the non-region portion of our schedule and then scheduled a Week Zero game. That way we had a bye week during region play. Then hurricane Matthew came the week of our bye week. It didn't really affect the Upstate and we had a bye week anyway, but the weather and subsequent flooding cause many schools to miss 2 weeks of school. So the HSL pushed back the start of playoffs 2 weeks to allow those missed games to be made up before the playoffs started. That meant that half the state would have had 2 weeks after the conclusion of the regular season before the playoffs started. So the HSL allowed teams to move one of their final games back a week to alleviate this long lay off. We moved our last game back a week. Original schedule: Regular season - Week 0 (August 19)/Week 1 (August 26) - Week 10 (October 28) with a bye Week 7 for us Play offs - Round 1 (November 4) - Finals (December 20) New Schedule - Week 0/1 - Week 10+2 (November 11) Playoffs - Round 1 (November 18) - Finals (December 17) So, our end of the year run looks like this: Sept 30 Region game #1 October 7 original bye week October 14 Region game #2 October 21 Region game #3 October 28 bye week/original final region game/Week 10 November 4 Region game #4 November 11 bye week/end of regular season November 18 Playoffs start So that means that from the start of region play (this determines who makes the playoffs and where you are seeded) until the beginning of the 1st round of the play offs we play 4 games in a 42 day period. Feel you. In NC, our schedule makers graciously gave us our bye week the last week of the regular season (This sucks). Then they moved the playoffs back to start November 18th, much like yours. So we will play Friday night, October 28th, and not play again until November 18th.
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Post by poundtherock1 on Oct 1, 2016 20:55:20 GMT -6
I mean if you know that you are doing things that right way, treating the kids well, and have a strong culture-- that means this parent is an idiot, and you never try to reason with an idiot.
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Post by poundtherock1 on Sept 23, 2016 6:46:19 GMT -6
We have had 3. Suspicious about two of them. They were never in a game or a contact situation and were really happy being a manager for 21 days since they went to see a family practitioner. Side note: Never let your players go see a family practitioner. I really don't think kids make up concussions, it's easy to think they are fake because it's not a visible thing. What do you mean they seemed happy?? Like they weren't telling you they were mad about not being able to play. If a kid gets knocked in the head and has symptoms he probably has one. If the kid can tell you are suspicious that's kind of messed up to be honest. Because they didn't have symptoms, were never in a contact situation, and have been happily acting as a manager for 34 days now. The kid went to his family doctor with a cold, and came back with a concussion diagnosis and has put off going back to be cleared because he truly loves running water at practice and at games. My point was to not let your players go to a family doctor to get diagnosed. Do most kids fake concussions? Hell no. That's a serious freaking issue that I take more seriously than most. But, sometimes that's a way out for kids who don't have the gonads to to tell you they want to manage.
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Post by poundtherock1 on Sept 20, 2016 7:11:56 GMT -6
We have had 3. Suspicious about two of them. They were never in a game or a contact situation and were really happy being a manager for 21 days since they went to see a family practitioner.
Side note: Never let your players go see a family practitioner.
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Post by poundtherock1 on Sept 19, 2016 17:48:53 GMT -6
Getting 5 twice is easier than getting 5 four times.
Getting 10 once is easier than getting 10 twice.
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Post by poundtherock1 on Sept 16, 2016 12:19:29 GMT -6
It seemed a little strange to me. And as an aside, I don't like how the footballscoop guy is so forward with his opinions. To me that isn't how an aspiring networking news webpage should operate it's social media, especially reading over some of the back and forths he has on twitter.
I don't know what I would have done in that situation. Heck, as a player, I don't think I would have liked to suffer an injury like that and hear the other team essentially gave us a win.
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Post by poundtherock1 on Aug 27, 2016 14:19:34 GMT -6
For a 7:30 kick, we are on the field at 6:35 and off at 7:15. Whole team is on the field from 6:45-7:15
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Post by poundtherock1 on Aug 4, 2016 12:07:04 GMT -6
We treat our 2 way guys as backups on one side of the ball. That way they are fresh and never off the field on their dominant side, and effective for 10-15 plays on the other.
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Post by poundtherock1 on Aug 2, 2016 15:32:41 GMT -6
Keep him at offensive line. That's an unnatural position to learn, and if he's never done anything before then he might have a decent shot of succeeding with no bad habits.
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