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Post by 50slantstrong on Jan 21, 2018 17:15:10 GMT -6
Long story short, no. We’ll never tell a kid not to participate in a sport or competitive activity.
If we can find out specifics of what negative things are being enabled in other programs, we’ll try to rail against it when we have our time with the kids but not mention the other sport specifically.
For example, our baseball team had a ditch day a few years ago and they posted a video of themselves drinking liquor and smoking at the beach during school hours. Our HC used this as an opportunity to preach about how digital footprint will follow you forever, college coaches will see it, etc.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Jan 21, 2018 13:38:06 GMT -6
100%
Zero concussions in practice the last two seasons we’ve had them. It also lets parents, staff, etc we’re taking initiative to keep the kids safe. Win-win.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Jan 18, 2018 23:10:27 GMT -6
Vegas 2-9/10/11
Los Angeles 2-23/24
Going to absorb as much 3-3 stuff as I can since we are transitioning this year
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Post by 50slantstrong on Jan 18, 2018 23:06:52 GMT -6
I would call them on their BS out of the gate (suspected drug dealing, sneakiness, etc) and tell them exactly how difficult things would be and what you expect from someone to be on the team (including how they will behave). Most people won't stick around and try to pull one over once they know you are on to them. I’d be careful with that approach. You’re going to call a kid something he hasn’t been proven to be. Admin, school board etc can put a foot in your a for that one. Not worth having to deal with all that noise for a kid who’s probably not going to make it anyway.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Jan 18, 2018 17:25:01 GMT -6
It depends. Are you taking over a program that has been bad? I’d read the riot act about how they’re going to work harder than they thought possible and that the school isgoing to win with or without you. So if you can’t handle working hard, there’s the door.
"Reading the riot act" to kids who already have been losers, don't think they can win, and thus Football isn't fun would be counterproductive in the extreme.
Be positive but demanding.
Tell them you believe there is talent at school to win or you wouldn't have taken the job.
Show them you have a plan to be successful if they will buy-in (GWTP).
I didn't mean it in a derogatory "you suck" type way. I mean it in a "I'm passionate as hell about winning" type way....
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Post by 50slantstrong on Jan 18, 2018 13:42:44 GMT -6
In your situation he probably won't make grades so that problem might solve itself.
We've had foul balls come out before and the conversation with them usually is "This isn't a rec league team. We don't just let anybody who shows up with a pair of gym shorts be a part of the program. Just so you know, the principal has brought your name as a person of interest in x, y and z so you're on everybody's radar. If you want to shape up and be a part of this, we'll be happy to have you. If not, you're on a short leash, not just with us, but with the school as well. Tread lightly".
And to be honest, every single time we've had that conversation, that kid has never shown his face again, or they realize they're biting off more than they can chew and get gone within the span of a few weeks.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Jan 14, 2018 20:14:04 GMT -6
It depends. Are you taking over a program that has been bad? I’d read the riot act about how they’re going to work harder than they thought possible and that the school isgoing to win with or without you. So if you can’t handle working hard, there’s the door.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Jan 12, 2018 23:25:20 GMT -6
Coaches who show kids 20+ year old pictures of them padded up and steroided out when they were in community college.
Really? That’s what you have to do to get these kids’ respect? You suck at life.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Jan 10, 2018 10:03:16 GMT -6
We average a fake punt or PAT/FG a game. We have a bunch and they’re installed during the summer. We run a different one every week. Our linemen snap down on PAT and FG and even though we do this every time we still get teams to jump all the time. Nice! What's your install time look like? What's the success rate? We put them in over 5 weeks (3 practices a week), putting in about 2 a week. We dedicate about 4-5 segments of practice a day to them (16-20 minutes). And then of course we practice them more during camp and game week. Success rate for fake PAT/FG is probably 80-90% and fake punts maybe 50-60%
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Post by 50slantstrong on Jan 9, 2018 23:58:36 GMT -6
I don’t have a list for you but our HC does a great job of making sure our kids understand the team mentality. One thing I’ve noticed - he never talks about himself, rather, he consistently talks about how players’ actions effect the team as a whole and not him. For example, “you cheating your reps on the weight room won’t effect me. Im not on the field playing next to you. It’s going to hurt all of these other guys who are doing all the reps they’re supposed to be doing, all of whom are trying to help you. Cheating reps isn’t lazy, its selfish”
I’ve also never heard him say “my” when talking about something other than his family. It’s always “our”.
I wish I could tell you some cool activities for you but I’m shooting blanks. But I do think it starts with the weight room and an emphasis about how this is a group and community program and how nobody under any circumstances is bigger than the program.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Jan 9, 2018 23:50:32 GMT -6
We average a fake punt or PAT/FG a game. We have a bunch and they’re installed during the summer. We run a different one every week.
Our linemen snap down on PAT and FG and even though we do this every time we still get teams to jump all the time.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Jan 9, 2018 23:40:47 GMT -6
Cutcliffe was exceptional. I’d want my son to play for him. All the other guys were great as well.
Side note - I lament the fact they can’t have a coaches panel break down an all-22 shot of every game. I don’t need to see close ups of the coach yelling or QB calling the cadence and hear “RPO” every time the QB waves the ball.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Jan 9, 2018 14:30:32 GMT -6
My HC kicked a kid off who was a 4-star recruit. He threw a football at his position coach and challenged him to a fight.
He ended up transferring to another school, taking two teammates with him, and winning a division title.
When I've talked to my HC about it, he said he regrets it. Not because the kid won a division title (and we wouldn't have had a chance that year even if he stayed), but because removing somebody simply for making a mistake is the wrong message and changing the social order by removing an alpha has a ripple effect.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Jan 2, 2018 20:14:58 GMT -6
If he can legitimately explain why, I don’t have a problem with it. I’ve been on the wrong end of those conversations and as humiliating as it can be in some ways, I just always tell myself this is his show. The success and failure of this program hinges on him not me. So if he’s uptight and something isn’t to his liking, tear me apart.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Jan 2, 2018 11:42:14 GMT -6
Gary Patterson was excellent. Seems like he has a great sense of humor. They all showed unique and funny human personalities you can’t see from watching them coach or even in interviews.
What really stood out was how much they talked about specific players not so much concept and strategy (they talked a bit about it but way less than I anticipated).
“Players not plays”
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Post by 50slantstrong on Jan 2, 2018 11:19:38 GMT -6
I used to try to figure everything out but drove myself insane because of the camera work that isn’t coach-friendly, now I look at the formation and try to identify the front and run concepts as well as formations and personnel. If it’s a big game, I’ll actually pull out my phone and read some of the Twitter coaches’ commentary. James Light and James Vint have some really good stuff.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Dec 31, 2017 11:45:56 GMT -6
Looking for some suggestions on player game grades. I have done numerous methods, had all position coaches grade each play, I have had players grade themselves etc... any suggestions out there thanks I’m a DL coach and I grade players each play on specific biomechanics: get-off, first step, hand placement, read and effort. It’s timely but I think it’s worth it.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Dec 29, 2017 21:43:23 GMT -6
Every time something like this happens I wonder how much of it was influenced by the new coach being in admin’s ears
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Post by 50slantstrong on Dec 29, 2017 17:04:50 GMT -6
My first coaching job I was passed up for a teaching spot to a person who’d never taught nor didn’t coach. I left and took a teaching/coaching job elsewhere. A few years later the principal DM’d me on Facebook (real professional ish right there) asking if I’d be interested in a teaching spot on campus. I politely declined but in my head I was thinking to myself “you wouldn’t support me in my biggest time of need. I won’t take your handout now. Find another f’ing history teacher”
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Post by 50slantstrong on Dec 11, 2017 18:47:51 GMT -6
"I looked at the bracket. That ring is ours" after getting in as a wildcard and having to play the #1 seed in the first round and if we won, we'd have played the team that became the eventual champs.
I literally heard a parent say this and they couldn't name half of the schools in the division or what leagues they came from. When I told the parent "School X is from League Y and it's pretty competitive" they responded with "They got nothing on us and what we've been through. I've never even heard of that school or league." Yea you don't coach high school football for a living. No ish you don't the names of other schools or the leagues they're in.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Dec 10, 2017 0:35:43 GMT -6
“Why is coach bringing up freshmen if he’s not going to play them?”
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Post by 50slantstrong on Dec 9, 2017 15:13:19 GMT -6
Good one I’ve heard a bit of - “this group of kids won a conference championship when they were all together in youth. There’s not a reason they can’t win it all at this level.”
Other gems - “my son won (insert generic award in a youth sport). He could be the best player on the field if coach would give him the chance”, “Johnny told me teammate x starter is thinking about transferring. Coach should give him reps to get him ready”.
There are some other gems. I’m going to have to go back and look at old rosters to help jar my memory.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Dec 7, 2017 19:59:59 GMT -6
I used to work as a position coach at a school without a lick of talent but the admin had our backs
Some of the things they did for us include: -Getting me and another one of our position coaches jobs as resident subs (this was while I was working on my credential) -Making sure our players had the right teachers (this school had at least a dozen teachers whose fail rates were 60%<) -Let us skip work to go hang out with some local college coaches and signed it off as "professional development" hours -Giving the head coach a 6/6 in which his 6th class was an online credit recovery class with less than 10 kids in it
All of that on top of fielding parent complaints and not letting it become an issue with the coaching staff's ability to coach
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Post by 50slantstrong on Dec 4, 2017 13:01:59 GMT -6
Good morning coaches,
I have been tasked by my head coach to accumulate a list of local coaching clinics in the Southern California and Nevada areas. I know it is somewhat early to start planning this out, but I'd like to get a create a list, share it with the staff and plan out how we're going to attack the clinic circuit this offseason.
Does anybody here know the dates and locations of various clinics in the said region? Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Coach B
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Post by 50slantstrong on Nov 17, 2017 21:51:08 GMT -6
We had a player in 2012 whom I’m pretty sure if we’d been keeping track had half a dozen grandparents die and another half dozen dentist appointments in the span of a month and a half. There was also a couple “church functions” he had to go at 3 in the afternoon during the week but the guy cussed like a sailor. Don’t miss him at all LOL
I’ve had a kid play the “i didn’t know we needed equipment” BS. He was a scout player but he was playing the other team’s feature player who lined up all over the place on offense. It was about week 8 or 9 and he knew he needed to bring it. Then he pulled the same ish when he was supposed to play in a JV game. Maybe I’m a heartless prick but I still hate him to this day for pulling that. I turned down his social media friend request (LOL that showed him) and purposely didn’t acknowledge him when we were at a mutual friend’s wedding. Dude is a firefighter now. I actually hope I see him on the job just so I can say “did you bring your equipment today?” Yes I’m a jerk.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Nov 17, 2017 20:58:40 GMT -6
We had a kid who missed practice. When we got back to the field house/locker room there he was sitting in the locker room. We asked why he missed practice and the kid tells us "I was locked in the locker room and couldn't get out". The door has a latch to unlock it from inside where he was sitting throughout practice. We still laugh at this one from time to time. Please tell me he was a reserve scout player and or bag holder. Wow what a winner.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Nov 16, 2017 14:00:16 GMT -6
Side note: whatever I look for, I chart over an extended sequence of game(s). I used to work for an offensive coordinator whom would watch a series or two and automatically assume the defense would do everything just like they did in those few series when they came to play us. I can't tell you how many times that season we would put in a reverse or run trap, only to crap ourselves because players we were trying to mess with didn't do what those few series said they would do.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Nov 16, 2017 13:52:38 GMT -6
A relentless weight room and culture that refuses to accept excuses.
Side note: from my observations, if a coach has to get to the point he's harping on his kids to "get tough", he's already lost that battle...
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Post by 50slantstrong on Nov 7, 2017 22:00:34 GMT -6
We have one. Our worthless ASB director forgets it every other week. He pins it on the coaches like it’s our job and we don’t have anything else to do. The guy literally doesn’t have to teach or coach anything. He has four periods of ASB and one of student store. Meanwhile, the coaches teach science, PE and special ed.
Every time he opens his mouth around me I want to cut him off and use the Mark wahlberg line from the Departed “I’m the guy who does his job, you must be the other guy”
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Post by 50slantstrong on Oct 31, 2017 11:34:10 GMT -6
Do you have an older coaching mentor in the area you can talk to about it? They probably know the school and the local politics better than we do...
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