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Post by hunhdisciple on May 19, 2017 18:24:33 GMT -6
Lord no. That's a great nap time. Ummm... I go home then and spend quality marriage time. Well, I've never been married during a season. I'll let you know how that works this fall.
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Post by hunhdisciple on May 19, 2017 15:15:49 GMT -6
Lord no. That's a great nap time.
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Post by hunhdisciple on May 5, 2017 18:51:30 GMT -6
I've never seen players make the incorrect decisions in captain choosing.
We have had great athletes who have won us games and are also crappy off season kids. The other kids know that when they were doing more, their friends weren't. Those kids have always gotten very few votes.
I think you let the kids vote, and then keep your finger on the scale when doing the results.
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Post by hunhdisciple on May 5, 2017 6:53:58 GMT -6
6 in the box?
We have always had 2, total.
I've been in the box 3 times, and each one was a drastically different experience.
Who you put in the box ultimately depends on what you want from them. If you need basic info and things like that, it doesn't really matter. If you need "the guy" up there to be everything you need, then your choices are probably limited.
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Post by hunhdisciple on May 4, 2017 12:30:35 GMT -6
I think the kids who come out during 11th or 12th grade and stick it out and contribute are the ones who would have regardless. Kids who come out in 11th and then quit because it got hard, would have quit for the same reasons in 9th. I'm going to disagree a little with this. A 9th grader who doesn't instantly play will be more likely to understand that he has a lot to learn and knows that he still has three years to play. First year seniors feel that the clock is ticking and are less patient and are quicker to pull the plug. I meant that more in the sense of the "Football isn't for me" type kids. You're definitely correct, though.
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Post by hunhdisciple on May 4, 2017 12:05:01 GMT -6
I think the kids who come out during 11th or 12th grade and stick it out and contribute are the ones who would have regardless. Kids who come out in 11th and then quit because it got hard, would have quit for the same reasons in 9th.
We had a kid a few years ago who played his senior year after not playing since 4th grade. Extremely solid OLB, super great athlete. After the season he apologized to the staff for not playing sooner. We asked him why he quit and he said after a practice in 4th grade that his neck was really sore. And, as a little kid, he thought you could "become paralyzed" from just a sore neck like it was something gradual. And that he was too proud to come back out after that. That's always going to be one of my favorite stories.
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Post by hunhdisciple on May 1, 2017 10:55:19 GMT -6
I am an assistant coach going into my 7th season. What has been most beneficial to me has been having good examples to emulate. The expectations you have for an assistant should be the same expectations you have of your self. I think this is very relevant. And at the other end of the spectrum, it's kind of helpful to see bad coaches, and learn what not to do. I've probably learned just as much from good coaches as I have from the bad ones.
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Post by hunhdisciple on Apr 28, 2017 13:17:39 GMT -6
I would have a rotation, and a grading scale for both of them. Let them know what is expected, and adjust PT based on the grades. That has helped me in the past.
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Post by hunhdisciple on Apr 28, 2017 12:24:14 GMT -6
Who is younger?
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Post by hunhdisciple on Apr 26, 2017 11:24:42 GMT -6
I'd have to say one thing that usually irks me is when a coach picks someone to be "their guy" and toss out his name as a recommendation for whatever position needs to be filled. Need a good LB? My boy Scotty can do it. Need a DB? I think Scotty could play there. A solid Nose? Scotty needs to reps there, I think he could be the answer.
In the same area, it also bothers me when coaches attach themselves to a good athlete that was on the team they were on staff with, but they never coached him in any capacity. We had a former coach retweet a kids college commitment and say something like "yet another player from one of my teams playing on the next level." Even though he was the asst. OL coach when this kid was a freshman RB who was hurt the rest of the year after week 4, and the guy resigned his position 2 weeks after the season was over.
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Post by hunhdisciple on Apr 26, 2017 9:59:41 GMT -6
In the past, we have done 10-10-10-10 of O and D. Then a varsity quarter. Then a JV quarter, and then a series of 10 and 10 for anyone who hasn't gotten in the game. We also might toss in a 2 minute segment for each team, if it's wanted.
We are usually pretty flexible with the quarter. If the offense is in the middle of the drive, we extend it to the end of their drive.
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Post by hunhdisciple on Apr 21, 2017 10:30:12 GMT -6
We had a kid quit because his girlfriend didn't like the way he smelled after practice and before he showered. She threatened to break up with him.
We had a kid quit to try and become a rodeo clown.
We had a kid quit because he got tripped during summer 7v7. And his exact words are "If high school football is gonna be like that, then I quit. That's cheap. Ain't no reason to be actin like that." Here's the catch: It was purely an accident. Long ball, guys feet got tangled. That happens. But apparently, it was just the worst thing to ever happen to him.
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Post by hunhdisciple on Apr 14, 2017 5:41:02 GMT -6
Have it be lemonade, not apple juice.
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Apr 12, 2017 18:59:01 GMT -6
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Post by hunhdisciple on Apr 12, 2017 18:59:01 GMT -6
Last year, I didn't expect to return (but I did, long story) and I made sure that I had all of my stuff and all the work I had done was saved on my jump drive and was printed off.
My fiance knew what was going on when I came home one evening with around 1000 pages printed out.
And even if someone leaves on the best of terms, I take everything and leave nothing. Because you never know when that might be used down the road, in a year or two, from somebody who got it in exchange for some film.
I know a lot of that might be being paranoid, but I'm not one to take those kind of chances of stuff getting out there.
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Post by hunhdisciple on Apr 10, 2017 8:56:05 GMT -6
I think it's been said here and other places before, but it's a big advantage to make some of it less about football. Most kids understand that a coach is there for them for sport things, but the kid who has bounced around the foster system might not fully understand football and family, until you show him family first.
Although sometimes, you can't make or force family. Having them do things together and on their own helps as much as any team activity.
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Post by hunhdisciple on Apr 6, 2017 1:36:24 GMT -6
A few years ago, a school hired a new head coach.
He was bad at his job. They were a bad school with a bad team and bad support.
We played them week 3.
Got the film exchange, and like everything about them, it's bad as well. Some plays are zoomed in too far, pulled out too wide. It's just bad film.
But they line up yo punt it, which they do a lot. And we only count 10 guys. We figure a guy on the sidelines got cropped out. Next punt, still 10. Full view. Next punt, 10. Next punt, 10. Every punt that week had 10. And there were a lot of them.
Next game, they're still bad, and they still have 10 on their numerous punts.
So we go through all the film of their punts, and we are correct. It's 10 every time. Lined up the same way, almost like he planned it that way.
When we play them, we win easily as expected. And, as expected, they had 10 on punt every single time.
After the game, our HC asks him why he only punts with 10. And, he looks baffled, shocked, surprised, mind blown.
He sent our coach an email a few days later to say that he copied all of his playbook stuff at once, and apparently the 11th person got cropped out and no one noticed.
So, they were lining it up just like it was drawn up.
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Post by hunhdisciple on Apr 5, 2017 22:22:26 GMT -6
There may be a legal grey area, but I don't consider it unethical in the slightest. It's the same thing as letting someone borrow it, except multiple people can use it at once. That's what the DVD was intended for, to teach people. To play devil's advocate though, if a purchaser wants the convenience of being able to have multiple users at one time, then that purchaser can PURCHASE multiple copies and pay for the convenience. Saying "it is the same thing as letting someone borrow it, except multiple people can use it at once" isn't really a logical statement. What one is doing by putting it on Hudl is letting MANY people borrow it simultaneously...which is the same as having many copies while only paying for one. I think that's valid, to an extent. I thinking "teaching" DVD's are meant to be shared, within reason. I mean, it would be more useful to upload and share with the staff or team. If you're uploading it and exchanging it with people and it's just getting out to several different groups, that's a bit excessive. Although I guess the nature of the content isn't legally relevant. The more I think about it, the more I'm not really sure. I mean, so many of them are meant to be shared with the team or groups within the team. And HUDL is the easiest way to achieve that, all the way around. I don't know, man. This is bothering me now.
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Post by hunhdisciple on Apr 5, 2017 7:29:51 GMT -6
There may be a legal grey area, but I don't consider it unethical in the slightest. It's the same thing as letting someone borrow it, except multiple people can use it at once. That's what the DVD was intended for, to teach people.
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Post by hunhdisciple on Mar 23, 2017 8:38:49 GMT -6
Maybe it's just me, but "don't show kids your penis" seems to pretty much the baseline of things not to do.
Job interview questions are going to take a weird turn, now.
"So, if we hire you and there is a cook out, and players are talking about the size of hot dogs, would you show them your penis in a hot dog bun or no?"
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Post by hunhdisciple on Mar 13, 2017 21:37:55 GMT -6
The worst is when your kids take a knee when an opponent is just cramping up.
Even worse yet, when he's "cramping" on a drive where you're going blazingly fast and shredding them for the 2nd straight drive.
This issue doesn't really bother me one way or the other. Although I do get it from the youth side as more of a crowd control issue.
And I feel like you see it in college or the NFL if it's a serious injury. But never for anything minor.
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Post by hunhdisciple on Feb 23, 2017 13:21:28 GMT -6
Ours is North-South. And it's a pain to be on the home sideline when the sun is setting, because you can't really see much of anything. If you go N-S, I'd make sure that the home sideline isn't facing into the setting sun. Early season games have given me a headache if the sun was bright enough.
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Post by hunhdisciple on Feb 22, 2017 10:49:21 GMT -6
I've never had a desire on any level, to be the HC.
I mean, aside from the purely fantasy situations of coaching an NFL team to back-to-back-to-back-to-back SuperBowl wins, I have no yearning for that.
Too much crap that I don't want to do.
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Post by hunhdisciple on Feb 21, 2017 10:18:02 GMT -6
If you are always yelling or loud, eventually the kids will tune you out, so even if your message is a valid one it will not be received. You need to learn how to use your voice, can't be a robot. Must think about what you do and say. The more I coached I didn't raise my voice often but when I did the kids understood it was danm important. It is not necessary to be a "juice" man to get your team ready to play Friday night. There are of course coaches who have success using dramatic or emotional means. Point is you don't have to be an actor of the method school to motivate. When I first started, a guy on our staff told me something pretty similar. It was something I didn't fully understand until later, but it really helped me to get that I didn't have to be someone I'm not. It takes a lot for me to yell. My guys know that. For me, when people are way too emotional, it's because 1 of 2 things happened. A kid gave minimal effort and doesn't really care, in which case throwing a tantrum won't really change him. Or, he probably wasn't properly coached to do something, which isn't really on him. With that being said, I know plenty of guys who are walking aneurysms, and perpetually have that bulging vein on their forehead. And they're some of the people who I respect the most, and who are a hell of a coach.
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Post by hunhdisciple on Feb 17, 2017 14:11:01 GMT -6
I don't remember the last time a football coach wasn't the head coach of either the boys or girls track team.
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Post by hunhdisciple on Feb 15, 2017 23:05:19 GMT -6
I've never watched our last game completely. Maybe a few highlights or notable plays, but that's it.
I don't feel like there is much that can be learned from be rewatching it.
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Post by hunhdisciple on Feb 15, 2017 18:18:24 GMT -6
Coaches get saddled with the loss. Players earned the win.
Is that accurate? Of course not. But, there is a difference between not having the horses, and those horses completely dropping the ball (literally and metaphorically), and those horses just not doing what they were taught.
If you're in this long enough, you'll have all 3 of those situations happen.
Do I blame the kids, in public? No. But, will I not hesitate to make sure the kids are aware of the cost of their actions? Oh yeah, I think those are great teaching moments.
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Post by hunhdisciple on Feb 14, 2017 10:24:52 GMT -6
We would have a team meeting every Monday for about an hour. We would go through everything from the previous game and for the upcoming game.
I don't think they are really needed, but might work for the right group of kids.
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Post by hunhdisciple on Feb 2, 2017 6:06:00 GMT -6
I saw them for 5 last year. I'd just make enough copies to cover the cost of making them. You could always make more as needed.
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Post by hunhdisciple on Jan 26, 2017 10:23:53 GMT -6
I once heard a head coach scream at one of his LB's to "Put that f--king receiver in a f--king wheel chair the next f--king time they run mesh." And then he just let out a high pitched primal scream.
This wasn't during a game. It wasn't during a closed practice. It was during a 7v7 "game." Score wasn't being kept. Each team had 10 plays to run what they wanted, just for practice looks. There were 4 teams there, 2 on each end. A few parents and families were scattered around to watch it.
He was so loud that everyone heard him. The other teams looked around, the parents were horrified.
Fast forward to November, they're getting trashed in a round 1 playoff game, and dude apparently started yelling at officials, got thrown out, yelled at his Super, the principal and their AD as he was being escorted off the field. Tried to fight his AD on the sidelines.
He, um, he got fired pretty quickly after that.
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Post by hunhdisciple on Jan 20, 2017 12:26:29 GMT -6
A few years back, we had a kid tweet about how much he enjoyed practicing a fake punt in practice that day.
The week of a rivalry game.
That got shared and retweeted a ton.
We didn't run it.
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