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Post by 50slantstrong on May 17, 2018 21:14:22 GMT -6
Translation - old money legacy parents thought their spoiled brat kids should get more playing time.
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Post by 50slantstrong on May 15, 2018 11:50:22 GMT -6
Interesting fact about Don Markham - before he was a coach, he was an LAPD officer and he was one of the first on the scene of the Sharon Tate murder.
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Post by 50slantstrong on May 11, 2018 21:11:40 GMT -6
Could be worse. You could be doing something else besides coaching the greatest team sport ever invented.
Remember in Goodfellas when Henry says “those goody-good people who worked sh**** jobs for bum paychecks were dead”? That’s how I feel about other people on campus stiff-arming kids to get to the parking lot after school while I’m going to the practice field.
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Post by 50slantstrong on May 10, 2018 12:41:00 GMT -6
The other funny thing I forgot to mention is he claims he's a LB and RB on twitter. All the highlights of himself he tweets over and over are of him playing DL, including his sophomore year, when he got in the second half of a game against a team that didn't know they could have 11 guys on the field.
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Post by 50slantstrong on May 10, 2018 11:49:28 GMT -6
The kids like that at my school usually get made fun of pretty bad by their peers so they end up stopping it. How do his teammates respond? I'm pretty sure it's one of those things where they just tolerate the guy and ignore him as much as possible. He's basically the loud idiot in staff meetings who's not a bad teacher...
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Post by 50slantstrong on May 8, 2018 11:06:31 GMT -6
Long story short...a player on the team is addicted to twitter. Normally he posts the mumbo jumbo about how "it's my time to eat" "doing agilities, gettin this work!", "#riseandgrind", and other overused millennial athlete cliches. He probably averages between 30-40 tweets a day and it's obvious he's a kid who uses social media to create a facade.
Last night he tweeted that we are going to go 10-0. I'm kind of dumbfounded; not that I think we're going to be bad or that I mind having kids with confidence, but there's no warrant for it, especially considering he's not the hardest working kid in the program either.
What do you recommend, Huey brethren? Do I call him out and put him in his place, do I cordially remind him about social media etiquette or do I look past it and chalk it up to just another stupid tweet?
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Post by 50slantstrong on May 7, 2018 12:38:07 GMT -6
I have called parents directly after similar incidents and told them that if they are going to be that disrespectful their kid will not play. Then I always get the "hey don't penalize my kid b/c of me" to which I always respond, you still have a choice. Behave appropriately & we're all good. Don't, I pull him. It's actually your decision not mine. I have never asked admin if this was okay. I just did it. Went this far twice & both times it worked. Just my 2 cents. PS - I tell the kid the same thing. Little Johnny it's not personal, just can't have the distraction. Now dads getting heat from his own kid to. My opinion is if a parent wants to run their mouths, I don't allow drive - by's. It's either a high noon draw or shut the f#ck up. I can't honestly say I agree with that decision. I coach at a school that has an epidemic of parents who want to live vicariously through their kids' football experience. As you can imagine, they're quite vocal and embarrassing during games. I can cite multiple instances of parents telling coaches' families we don't know what we're doing, using expletives in front of our kids and at one point forcing a ref to stop a JV game because of terrorist threats. Most of the kids whose parents that describes develop as thick skin of apathy about the game by the time they're upper classmen. You can only hear the "you're the best player on the team. The coach doesn't know what he's doing" talks so much until you find out it's untrue so many times until you read the writing on the wall that your dad is an idiot and he's embarrassing you. Getting one of these kids and sitting them is only going to build the wall more. You're going to have to deal with a kid who's tuned out completely. If it's a parent whose prerogative is to be negative and unrealistic, there's a slim chance you'll ever win their favor. I'd rather not even go through the headache of calling him/her and would just coach their kid up knowing that he knows his dad is an a-hole and put my teaching hat on and finding my own ways of motivating them.
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Post by 50slantstrong on May 6, 2018 11:01:57 GMT -6
Reality usually does that so I don’t have to LOL.
But in all seriousness, 99% of the kids know by the midpoint of their senior season if they’re capable of playing at the next level or not. If they still think they’re college football material, I’ll strongly encourage they go the JuCo route, where they’ll have a chance to prove it. Fortunately we’ve had a few guys sign the last few years so they can never say it’s the coach’s fault.
Now getting the parents to come to the same realization is another story....
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Post by 50slantstrong on May 5, 2018 10:52:22 GMT -6
Kids hold step over bag at waist. Other kids are in front doing stance and start.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Apr 26, 2018 13:40:11 GMT -6
My head coach tells us every year we have to mind our P's and Q's around the kids. All it takes is one with a cell phone to ruin the program.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Apr 26, 2018 13:34:09 GMT -6
baseball staff a couple of years ago, somebody had a fake twitter account trashing the baseball team and coaches relentlessly, insider stuff, kind of things only somebody on the team would know so the head coach gets the guys together and says hey guys we're having a secret meeting and I don't want to be recorded, everybody put your phones in this box......soon as they hall all of the phones one of the assistants pulls out his phone and replies to one of the fake accounts tweets lo and behold disgruntled "howcome I'm not the short stop" johnny's phone lights up busted That's actually really smart. Wish we could do that with our parents and some local message board.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Apr 20, 2018 9:40:15 GMT -6
I'm in the southern section and grade level is almost irrelevant here. If you're in HS you can play ant level your coach chooses. We've had seniors on JV and brought up freshmen to play varsity.
I don't think it's a big deal for 11th graders to play JV. Better to let them develop and maybe get decent for their senior year instead of sitting them on the bench for a full year.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Apr 10, 2018 11:10:08 GMT -6
We've a group of 4 rising seniors that I've been banging my head against the wall trying to get them to come out and run track for me. They're all terrific football players, but they would all be better served with some speed because WHO WOULDN'T BE. It's been frustration for the last two months. I see them training with one of our JV assts (who is a certified trainer) last Saturday at our field. Talking to them yesterday, I ask how much they're paying for that. $20 a session, but "it's worth it, he's helped me so much with my 40 times!" TRACK IS FREE AND WHAT THE F*** DO YOU THINK WE DO WITH THE SPRINTERS??? That's really shady IMO. If the guy needs money, there are other ways he can get it. Not taking it from your kids in exchange for what other coaches in the program can do for free. I would definitely nip that in the bud or find out the guy's true motivation.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Apr 9, 2018 12:42:15 GMT -6
aceback76 You are not understanding the context in which the word "trainer" is being used in this thread.
It is referring to someone offering services as a personal coach away from the school program, as in training the athlete for performance, not an individual responsible for injury treatment and rehabilitation.
Perhaps the OP 50slantstrong or one of other posters on the subject will corroborate.
FYI I'm a Special K guy. This
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Post by 50slantstrong on Apr 6, 2018 12:32:16 GMT -6
The trainers, 7on7 coaches, street agents are absolutely ruining Texas High School Football. For every one commendable trainer like newcoryell there are 99 criminals. There are kids transferring schools almost daily due to these street agents Sounds just like SoCal
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Post by 50slantstrong on Apr 6, 2018 8:56:41 GMT -6
What are your off season rules as far as how much time you can spend with a kid? What are the rules in Texas? We can do pretty much whatever we want sans for 3 weeks a year...
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Post by 50slantstrong on Apr 4, 2018 14:35:25 GMT -6
As a coaching community, I believe something can be done.
I don’t know what it’s like in your parts but here in Southern California there is an epidemic of con artists disguised as trainers, 7-7 coaches and position experts who claim to be responsible for their athletes receiving scholarships. They mislead parents about knowledge of the process, their kids’ abilities and how their high school coach should be doing his job and in turn finesse parents out of money. Parents buy these clowns’ acts hook, line and sinker. After all they’re paying them and they have a really cool instagram with pictures of NFL players they supposedly trained.
Based off of conversations the staff has had with kid and parent, it seems like once again a returning starter is transferring because him and his parents think that he's not playing the right position and it's the reason he's not being offered a scholarship. He's been a great kid the last three years, a serviceable (but not great) 3 tech and occasional 5 tech vs power teams, and for the most part a pleasant kid to coach. However, he has about a 2.5 GPA, and ran a 5.2 in testing 2 weeks ago. Him and his dad insist that he's a linebacker and fullback (even though we run a spread) and that their trainer agrees and thinks in order to get a scholarship, he needs to play those positions.
When asked who his trainer was, dad showed us a social media account of videos of kids doing cones and ladders with rap music playing and a list of clients that included Derek Carr, the St. Brown brothers, Jamaal Williams, etc. No testimonials or pictures with any of said guys of course. A lot of the younger kids that he can verify he did train have transferred schools, I'm assuming because of his influence. Guy also claims he played at USC, of course when we googled his name, nothing came up.
This is not an isolated incident. Last year a 7-7 guru told a group of our parents and his customers that their kids need to go play at his fellow 7-7 guru's school in order to win a championship and the year prior another 7-7 guy told one of our all-league D lineman (who literally couldn't squat parallel or do drive-crossover-drive agilities) that he's a DB and as a staff we had him out of position. All kids transferred with predictable results.
Guys like this are bad for business. They make coaches' jobs even harder, they fleece parents out of their hard-earned money, and worst of all, they lie to kids. What do you think a realistic sollution is?
I do not believe it is crazy to assert that all coaches, trainers, etc need to obtain some type of a certification from USA Football. In turn as high school coaches, we can emphasize to our kids and parents that if they wish to seek outside training, it will be in their best interest to make sure they retain a trainer whom is certified by USA Football.
What are your guys' thoughts on the potential of adopting such certifications?
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Post by 50slantstrong on Mar 27, 2018 19:42:22 GMT -6
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Post by 50slantstrong on Mar 22, 2018 20:26:34 GMT -6
The biggest leaps I took in coaching were when
1) I took a job working for a different staff than the one I’d come up with. Not that they were brilliant revolutionaries, it just introduced my brain into a whole new approach to teaching, evaluating kids, and evaluating opponents.
2) I made a concentrated effort to listen to Joe Daniel’s podcast and watch one glazier eclinic per day.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Mar 20, 2018 15:45:22 GMT -6
I would be straight up and ask them. Talk about how they’re new on the schedule and it’d be fair for both sides to get a look, maybe kiss his ass about how good you think they are looking at some of their scores from the previous season or how another coach you respect said they’re doing a really good job with the program. From my experience the only coaches who haven’t been willing to share in situations like that are bums who don’t last long in the profession.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Mar 17, 2018 17:35:54 GMT -6
I'm not a fan, really. You can work a little pass pro, but I tell my OL to attack the breastplate in pass pro so taking all the pads out screws up our teaching. I am a fan of working a lot in shells, though. I'd rather use non padded practice to work footwork and other non-contact drills. DL are taught to knock down the hands as soon as the OL commits them. If anything, not being pads is going to reinforce that teaching point from a DL coach POV. If you don’t knock his hands down, you’re going to get a “ti*** twister”
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Post by 50slantstrong on Mar 17, 2018 10:01:38 GMT -6
I kind of actually like it for OL. It’s going to teach them to keep their weight back. For the DL you’re kind of screwed if you want to bull rush but if you want to use a hand knock down move you’re still good to go.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Mar 15, 2018 22:03:44 GMT -6
Ive been in programs that have done it both ways. In 2013, we Started in January going once a week, twice a week by February and four times a week by the end of April. Also been in a program that didn’t do a lick until April. Had success both ways; failed both ways.
I feel it’s most beneficiary in the early stages of building a program. It helps you establish the importance of practice and expectations and seriousness of what you’re trying to do. However, if you’ve got a good culture established practicing so much can sharpen the knife until it’s dull.
When creating your calendar you’ve really got to get a gauge on your returners. Not so much how talented they are, but how bought in they are.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Mar 10, 2018 16:41:49 GMT -6
LA city schools are not the places to visit. I'd suggest going to Anaheim and visit Bruce Rollinson over at Mater Dei. Been a powerhouse for decades. I’m sure he could give a great clinic talk on how to win when you have scholarship players from 8 different counties. Har har har
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Post by 50slantstrong on Mar 10, 2018 14:57:08 GMT -6
Corona Centennial is likely the best quality program you could find in the region in terms of coaching. Their head coach is a good guy and genuinely wants to help other coaches too.
Probably couldn’t go wrong with St John Bosco, Mission Viejo, Valencia, Murrieta Valley, Heritage or San Clemente if CC isn’t an option.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Mar 9, 2018 20:36:43 GMT -6
I like the Rick Stewart “from worst to first” DVD. I can’t recall his name but there’s a HS coach in Missouri who spoke at the Glazier clinic in Vegas a few years back and he had a month by month plan on how to run a program.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Feb 28, 2018 19:44:59 GMT -6
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with having kids hold bags. I actually kind of prefer it since it gets more people involved.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Feb 26, 2018 22:35:20 GMT -6
Wish I could make it. Reno is a little too far for me. About a 10 hour drive (when the weather is good).
I looked at the lineup. Some interesting speakers I wish I could see: Jon Osterhout (American River College OL) Mike McBride (motivational speaker) Ty Gower (North Norman HS 3-4 defense)
I’ve seen Tim Randall (3-3 defense, Clovis). He’s the man.
The Tim Randall vs Andrew Coverdale chalk war sounds like it’s going to be epic. You boys better bring your popcorn.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Feb 26, 2018 10:56:40 GMT -6
When I coached OL, I felt the guys who could two feet in the ground and blow up the bag on progs, regardless of how small they were or how goofy their stance was, turned out to be good offensive linemen.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Feb 24, 2018 20:54:23 GMT -6
I'm in the chalk wars with rick stewart if anyones interested. Ive been in his lectures all day I didn’t see this post until after. I saw him against Jason Bornn’s 3-4 and Tim Randall’s 3-3. I thought all were great. I liked how they did it. The chalk wars in my coaching office turn into a pissing contest of who has the better players.
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