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Post by 50slantstrong on Dec 3, 2016 12:13:35 GMT -6
Glazier in Vegas and Los Angeles. And I might be speaking at our local Pop Warner's clinic this spring. TBD
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Post by 50slantstrong on Nov 23, 2016 13:40:29 GMT -6
The staff that I work with took over a program that hadnt won a game on any level in 3 years. The first thing we did was change the way workouts went. We did sit ups at the end of the workout instead of the beginning, we posted the workout in a different part of the weight room. We even had the kids enter through a different door. Basically we tried to do everything as differently as possible as the prior coaches.
We won 5 games in 2 years. It wasn't a movie type turnaround but I think the kids left the program having a better experience with football than kids prior to us.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Nov 16, 2016 9:27:48 GMT -6
My first year I was a lunatic....
I was coaching a JV game and a player got hurt. I had to help him off the field along with the trainers and managers. So a couple series later we were returning a kick and had 10 guys on the field. The missing guy was the said injured guy. I proceeded to lose my ish, completely forgetting he was hurt.
Good times
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Post by 50slantstrong on Nov 14, 2016 11:54:01 GMT -6
I don't think coaches who played in the NFL bother me as much as people (administrators, parents) who worship them like they're football gods do.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Nov 10, 2016 13:19:00 GMT -6
Next year I'm going to have our injured players stay away from our drills. This year the school I coach at has been the walking wounded and I've found injured players cause distractions if they're near the drills. If you're hurt, you're on filming or water duty, or something away from the guys who are suited up. Other than that, I can't think of any way I am planning on "redefining" practice structure that goes beyond being observant of things I wasn't previously observant of or simplifying things I didn't simplify this year. Although when I go to the Glazier Clinics again this winter, I'm sure I'll find something that changes that
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Post by 50slantstrong on Nov 9, 2016 11:27:13 GMT -6
There's a team in our league that has no business playing tackle football. Not sure why they're still members of our league but that's above my paygrade. Every year we play them, we play poorly because our kids know they're going to win and don't take practice that week very seriously.
So this year, instead of focusing on them and what they do, we focused on our previous game and our flaws in our fundamentals and made an emphasis of correcting that during the week. I think other than a block of alignment and assignment for the defense once a day, we didn't do any unit stuff all week.
And this year was the first time in recent memory that we actually went out against them and did our jobs without committing a bunch of stupid penalties and letting them hang around when they have no business being on the same field as us.
But I say that hesitantly. This year they were exceptionally (even by their standards) bad and our team was peaking around the week we played them. So for all I know our idea was idiotic.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Nov 9, 2016 9:35:04 GMT -6
A few assistants I've worked with need to read that.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Oct 18, 2016 10:15:40 GMT -6
I got an assistant job at a program that hadn't won a varsity game in 3 years and hired a new head coach. The first thing the new head coach did in January was to do things almost the opposite as the previous head coach. The team had started their workouts with sit ups so he ended workouts with sit ups. When doing a warmup lap, the team had always gone through a specific gate, so he locked that gate and made them go through a different one. Constant little things to remind the players that this isn't the past, this is a brand new program. We didn't have a great turnaround (5 wins in the next 2 years) but it was still better than when we got there.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Oct 13, 2016 11:43:36 GMT -6
I like Glazier much better..the Nike clinics are more geared to "name" speakers..they rarely give you anything I like Glazier for that reason plus many of the speakers at Glazier speak in multiple sessions allowing them to get into greater depth. Hard to get a helluva lot out of a 50 minute talk. With that said, the speaker schedule and location have a lot to do with it. There'll be a Nike less than 20 miles from my house so I may attend it and a Glazier this year. I agree 1000%
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Post by 50slantstrong on Sept 28, 2016 12:10:19 GMT -6
I feel your pain. The most frustrated I've ever gotten and the biggest blow ups I've ever had have been a direct byproduct of the scout team. What makes me almost as equally mad is coaches who are "too good" to coach the scout team.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Sept 28, 2016 12:07:36 GMT -6
I think a lot depends on the needs of your team. For example, this week we're playing a double wing team and we haven't seen a lot of double wing type concepts all season so we're going to need to be on the field longer. However, the week after we're playing a spread zone readish type team and that's what our offense does and that's the identity of the majority of our opponents to this point so we probably won't be on the field as much.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Sept 28, 2016 12:02:06 GMT -6
A school I coached had players go and vandalize an opposing team's field the night before the game. Most ashamed and embarrassed I've ever been, worse than any loss I've ever been a part of.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Sept 7, 2016 8:31:23 GMT -6
We're down about 15-20 from normal at the school I coach at in Southern California.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Sept 7, 2016 8:26:05 GMT -6
Not every practice, but we frequently end practice with some sort of football-related competition. Groups of 4 racing each other in a 3 cone shuttle drill, bear crawls through bags, etc.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Sept 7, 2016 8:20:54 GMT -6
1. Between 35-40 4 minute segments (140-160 minutes) 2. Yes 3. Yes
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