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Post by hunhdisciple on Aug 24, 2017 9:33:50 GMT -6
I had this discussion with a friend recently, and I'm curious everyone views these kids.
How do you handle the kids who clearly need football more than you'll ever need them? I'm all for giving them more chances to redeem themselves if they're in that situation.
How do you guys deal with the kids who will most likely never be of value to your program, but need the structure and guidance and positives from football?
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Post by hunhdisciple on Aug 19, 2017 11:53:16 GMT -6
I am a big fan of the golf shoe. It looks a little better, gives great traction, and most are made to stand up to wet conditions.
And I love just about any lightweight golf pant.
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Post by hunhdisciple on Aug 16, 2017 20:44:23 GMT -6
I tell kids to cut them. No risk of it getting pulled on means no risk of losing teeth if you bite too hard.
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Post by hunhdisciple on Aug 15, 2017 10:12:57 GMT -6
An interior OL or a solid FS.
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Post by hunhdisciple on Aug 1, 2017 20:55:53 GMT -6
A few years ago, a new school opened. The state classified them straight in the middle, and the school got a massive influx of students due to open enrollment for the first year or so.
They get out in our district, with almost double the student population. They come play us, bring 4 buses of players and I heard some of their fans talking that "we must not be good, because not many kids are playing." They got moved into correct sized class after a few years, but they all seemed so smug about themselves before.
I'm always a guy who ultimately doesn't care what happens in games that don't concern me. I want my friends to win, but I want good-for-the-sport games all the way around. Except for them. I wanted them to lose by 50 every chance they got.
Our state commisoner got a lot of heat over that.
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Post by hunhdisciple on Jul 21, 2017 10:48:15 GMT -6
We have always done it, and it does seem to show some results. If we have a stretch of days with multiple practices, we tend to go towards the end of those days.
I've done it for myself a time or two at my house if I'm just really sore.
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Post by hunhdisciple on Jul 19, 2017 16:02:10 GMT -6
I usually enjoy 7v7 stuff. Not from a real football standpoint, but there's almost always something kind of crazy that happens.
I wasn't aware that there were travel teams until a year or two ago. I have never seen one in KY. I'm assuming it's basically the same as AAU basketball?
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Post by hunhdisciple on Jul 16, 2017 16:24:48 GMT -6
I think too many people use "character" in an attempt to shape kids into what they want them to be.
I know far too many times when the "character" they preach about just ends up being their political and social beliefs. Not actual morals and character, but political. And it ends up causing friction when there are coaches who don't align with said beliefs.
A lot of the stuff on teaching it to them comes from you simply being that way. The amount of stuff they will absorb from you, positive or negative, will be huge.
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Post by hunhdisciple on Jul 12, 2017 10:11:24 GMT -6
I think the summer is your best bet for the most impact. I know places that will have their 10-12 grade practice at a certain time, and then have a 20th grade practice before or after. It's a less intense practice, a lot of teaching and walking through things. Then usually 2 weeks later, they combine them.
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Post by hunhdisciple on Jul 9, 2017 17:41:22 GMT -6
I just laminate and then buy one of those retractable clips from Wal-Mart.
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Post by hunhdisciple on Jul 7, 2017 14:11:22 GMT -6
Barefoot? I've frequently gone without shoes when it's blazingly hot or wet.
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Post by hunhdisciple on Jul 5, 2017 7:49:50 GMT -6
I think you've got to understand how you are as a coach, at any level.
If you're the HC and been a career OC before that, maybe find a DC. If you're a career DC, then I'd say find someone to be your OC.
I know a guy who is the HC/OC/DC/STC/S&C. I get that its his show, but he is not an offensive guy. Apparently he will frequently make incorrect formation calls or call something and then say something to the effect of "Dang, I didn't want to call that." He justifies having total control as it being "his job" on the line. I know several of the people on his staff, and I would gladly trust some of them to call O.
I had a HC starting out, who gladly gave things for guys to do. We always had an OC and DC, although the OC was more of a consultant role. The DC got pretty much limitless control on what to do. He worked with then to develop a system he thought would work well for us, and then let then do what they wanted to do. He was involved with the gameplanning (obviously) but the DC could be his own on Friday.
I don't think either one is more or less correct, and it all depends on who you are and what you have. But I think if you're going to do it all, you have to make sure everyone trusts you to be good at it. And you better know exactly what you want to do, on both sides. And I'm not talking about a system, but more in game. When it's a short yardage with the game potentially in the balance, what are you going to do? If you're scrambling to find something and end up seemingly settling with something to avoid a delay of game, you might need to give something up. If you can quickly know what you're doing or what needs to be done, you're good to go.
I don't ever want to be an HC, at least not right now, so I can't say what I would or wouldn't have done. But, as an asst, if I don't trust your ability to do it, then there are issues. If there isn't asst buy in, then you've got problems.
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Post by hunhdisciple on Jun 30, 2017 4:01:54 GMT -6
We have the best few years in school history, by a mile, and the parents lobbied to get coaches fired and money lessened, in an attempt to make us even better. Does that count? For real?? That was their motivation?? They could get rid of two good to get 1 great, was ultimately their logic. And that we were paid too much. This one was after our fees to go away to camp rose, so we had to charge kids $10 more. And, they act surprised when there is basically no interest from outside coaches to come here in any capacity. Had a HC change, there were parents trying to lobby to have all the coaches fired because they felt they could get a "championship winning" coach if they let him bring his own full staff.
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Post by hunhdisciple on Jun 29, 2017 22:13:48 GMT -6
We have the best few years in school history, by a mile, and the parents lobbied to get coaches fired and money lessened, in an attempt to make us even better.
Does that count?
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Post by hunhdisciple on Jun 29, 2017 14:39:29 GMT -6
I once coached with a guy who had the tact of an elephant with chainsaw hands.
He was a walking "what not to say" clinic.
Using the words: Retard, moron, vagina, are all worthy of being banned.
Two of my least favorite are, "Go" and "because." They're both lazy and arrogant.
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Camp Ideas
Jun 27, 2017 18:56:21 GMT -6
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Post by hunhdisciple on Jun 27, 2017 18:56:21 GMT -6
We have always done a roast. Kids get to roast the coaches, coaches get to return it. It's always really enjoyable, because you learn some of the things that you aren't aware kids pick up on.
And we always have one evening practice that ultimately ends with someone physically challenging and kind of one of the "separates the men from the boys" type things.
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Post by hunhdisciple on Jun 27, 2017 18:52:49 GMT -6
I don't yell, but I also am not someone who yells in general.
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Post by hunhdisciple on Jun 24, 2017 21:56:49 GMT -6
I was talking with a friend, and he reminded me of this glorious story.
We had a really jittery/wirey kid, and he always seemed to cramp up regardless of how much he actually did. He always insisted that mustard was better for him than anything else. And, it seemingly did work better. He hated pickle juice, thought sports drinks were too sweet. He just wanted good ol yellow mustard.
One game, his junior year, it was just stupidly hot. Kickoff was delayed for heat. It was miserable. Mid 2nd, he starts cramping up, as usual. He kept his own bottle just for those occasions. Because why not? So, he gets some water and starts pounding back the mustard.
Apparently, it didn't sit well on his stomach at 100°+ weather that felt like a swamp. He had gotten a decent bit down, and then it all came back up. Dude had bright yellow projectile vomit on the sidelines. You could actually see it happen on film, mid-play. About 10ft away was the always high strung DC, who loved to yell and swear. He turns around, looks at the kid and loudly asked "did you just f--king puke mustard during the G.D. game? Jesus Christ son, you got some f--king distance too. You good to go back in next series?"
It smelled awful. Had a manager go get some sand and just cover it up. Kid was good the rest of the game.
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Post by hunhdisciple on Jun 24, 2017 21:45:05 GMT -6
Kids have a movie from 1-3, eat at 3:10. Walkthrough around 4. If kickoff is at 7, we start taping at 5. Specialists go out at 6, OL/DL 5 minutes after that. Full pregame, take them back in at 6:45. Final talking points, captains at 5 til.
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Post by hunhdisciple on Jun 23, 2017 23:30:32 GMT -6
It's about the size of an average room. White boards on 3 walls, 2 couches, a table, some chairs and a desk.
Kids have to knock, mainly because it automatically locks.
We aren't really strict about no players in the office. Usually, if a coach is there really early, a few kids will come in and talk or hang out. But once it starts to fill up, everybody leaves.
If the plumbing backs up, it leaks. If it rains too much, it leaks. Just a different type of liquid.
The best advantage is that it's the coolest and warmest room in the building. And the couches are pretty good for a nap.
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Post by hunhdisciple on Jun 23, 2017 8:34:18 GMT -6
Had a kid 6 years ago that was in the best shape of anyone on the team. Come to find out he was smoking 2 packs a day. Once he asked to go pee. I told him wait 5 minutes until practice is over. He then proceeded to piss his pants on purpose which started a chain reaction of some other players pissing thier pants. It was like billy madison. Out of the 10 kids in that senior class 7 of them where on probation and id have them all back on a second if i could lol. If peeing your pants is cool, then consider me Miles Davis.
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Weird kids
Jun 22, 2017 19:48:54 GMT -6
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Post by hunhdisciple on Jun 22, 2017 19:48:54 GMT -6
Girls dip just like guys. However, they don't want to mess up their smile so they put a pinch between their toes. It's all about the thickness of the membrane between the tobacco and and the blood vessels; simple biology. I had never ever thought of that. I mean, it works biologically, but I've never heard of that.
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Post by hunhdisciple on Jun 22, 2017 18:48:17 GMT -6
You all have some hardcore kids. Ours just vape obsessively. and the chicks dip between their toes, so their teeth stay white I'm sorry, what now?
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Post by hunhdisciple on Jun 22, 2017 13:43:40 GMT -6
I mean, I took a massive bowl of chili in the box for the second half of a game last year. We were up by a lot, and I was hungry.
We had a kid not play his freshmen year because he didn't want to practice in the summer. Because his older brother was going to college, and he wanted to spend time fishing and frog gigging with him.
Had a kid as a freshmen, and he quit a few weeks into the season. Moved after the school year. He started following me on social media, and I checked up on him. Dude is 16 or 17, and is currently engaged to a 36 year old he had known for 4 months.
Once had a kid drink 3 of those liquid nicotine containers that go on one of those vape stink things. Missed practice to get his stomach pumped.
Kids are weird. And every day, I just hope I wasn't as weird as they are.
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Post by hunhdisciple on Jun 18, 2017 6:41:03 GMT -6
This is an extremely broad topic. I'd say in certain cases you need to accept compromises that you wouldn't have to worry about in other places. A recurrent mistake that I seem to see too often is coaches wanting to play Lieutenant Scheisskopf with their players. I kind of wanted it to be very broad. No one here has the same situation as someone else. I thought it would be beneficial for some people to hear what things did or didn't work, or did or didn't matter. And, it also asks the question if there are any universal things regardless of the situation, that simply aren't worth the time and effort?
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Post by hunhdisciple on Jun 17, 2017 20:58:32 GMT -6
There has always been and will be the threads and discussions about building your specific culture that you want for your team. Those are needed, those are great.
I'm wanting to know the battles we choose to fight against the school atmosphere, the immediate team/program support, and the larger community as a whole. The places where football, or much of anything, is not well thought of or respected.
I'm not asking about how people bring their own ways of doing things, I'm asking how people fight to keep s--tty communities from impacting your program. When your community is poverty stricken, how do you work those major issues?
I've been reading a lot on larger culture issues in history and such things, and it made me start to wonder about these things. How are you all fighting the "can't work, won't work" communities with your culture? How are you handling the irrationally behaving fans with your own actions?
How are you using your positive culture to win over negative cultures at school and at home, as well as the community? What are we doing with our football culture to combat and ultimately attempt to thrive and survive against negative societal cultures?
This might seem kind of off the wall, but I really think there is something to be understood about how we combat negative energy and culture from outside sources that you ultimately may not have any control over.
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Post by hunhdisciple on Jun 13, 2017 5:28:30 GMT -6
Big school = They play freshman level Small school = They play JV This. And, I always try to sneak some of them in the game if it's getting out of hand.
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Post by hunhdisciple on Jun 4, 2017 10:39:40 GMT -6
Windex has worked well for me with similar things, but I've never tried it on helmets.
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Post by hunhdisciple on Jun 1, 2017 9:19:16 GMT -6
I have received their emails. Their work is not up to snuff. I feel like I've done most of the stuff they claim, on my own. And it was free.
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Post by hunhdisciple on May 23, 2017 16:04:59 GMT -6
Returning seniors Returning juniors Returning sophomores New seniors New juniors New sophomores Freshmen
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