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Post by 53 on Jun 28, 2017 21:21:38 GMT -6
Which is good and bad. It's great that we're building wealth and getting richer as a society. One of my grandfathers had to drop out of school in the third grade to work at a sawmill. I can't say that I'm jealous about missing out on that character building experience. If you look at stats though, fewer people have wealth than did a generation ago. The middle class is becoming an endangered species. Part of kids not working is adults are being pushed into jobs that used to be reserved for kids and part of it is we as a society don't want to do physical labor regardless of age. There is something to be said for kids learning a work ethic early and realizing that things don't just materialize out of thin air for free. I agree with you on work ethic but I disagree on the other parts besides the middle class has declined. That's not a negative though since it was due to more people moving to higher social economic classes. I'd say technology has killed more job opportunities due to the increase in labor cost than adults taking those jobs. I use to mow and work hay fields all summer. Now it's either round rolls or a square bailer just drops 8 hay bails in a bundle and you pick them up with a front loader on the tractor.
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Post by 53 on Jun 28, 2017 20:18:36 GMT -6
Lots of truth to what you're saying. Kids don't work/have jobs like we used to. We used to work because we wanted a car and because we needed gas for the car. One thing I've noticed is that kids don't drive anymore nor do they really seem to want to. Not sure if this is true everywhere but this is definitely something I've noticed within the last 3 years or so. They seem perfectly fine with their parents taking them everywhere. I was too embarrassed to have my mom dropping me off everywhere. I can't tell you the last kid I had that had a job in the summer before they got to their Jr year. I distinctly remember most kids my age started doing something in the summer between 8th grade and Fr year. Usually detassle. Today it seems kids either have parents that just buy them stuff- be they rich or poor- or as you said, kids that just don't care and rely on others for things. I was a little abnormal- and not just about work- but I started working for my grandpa mowing cemeteries when I was 9. Which is good and bad. It's great that we're building wealth and getting richer as a society. One of my grandfathers had to drop out of school in the third grade to work at a sawmill. I can't say that I'm jealous about missing out on that character building experience.
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Post by 53 on Jun 28, 2017 15:56:26 GMT -6
I've read coaching books from the 40's and 50's talking about how football is one of the last bastions of building work ethic and toughness in today's society. So I don't think this is anything new.
I coach with a lot of energy and I'm naturally loud, but it's a game and we should never make it personal with the kids.
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Weird kids
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Post by 53 on Jun 22, 2017 18:57:58 GMT -6
Had a o lineman that i found out after the season was chewing redman during the games and spitting the juice on defensive linemens hands during pre snap. My middle school head coach served during World War II. He told us about one of his teams from the 50's that the entire offensive line would spit on the DL before each play. Apparently that's a way to know you have a team of ass kickers.
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Post by 53 on Jun 22, 2017 13:58:35 GMT -6
Coached a kid who would cut out half his mouth piece and put grizzly wintergreen on that side. Defensive player
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Post by 53 on Jun 22, 2017 13:55:22 GMT -6
One of my assistant coaches swears they'd light up a cigarette in the huddle and pass it around during timeouts when he played.
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Post by 53 on Jun 14, 2017 6:10:13 GMT -6
marshalls Is hard to beat on cleats if you don't care about colors.
I also keep a stockpile of old cleats so players can grab some if they need too.
Tire stores will gladly give you old tires for running through and agility drills.
Hit up local hardware stores for their cull lumber for building chutes and for board drills.
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Post by 53 on Jun 9, 2017 20:18:00 GMT -6
Splatter drill and try to ability group them the best that you can.
Some will never like contact but try to do it in steps. Don't get amusement from your big hitters knocking the {censored} out of a kid that doesn't have confidence.
They will shut down faster than anything.
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Post by 53 on Jun 3, 2017 7:38:47 GMT -6
Does anyone feel the early starts cause them to lose players (want to keep their jobs longer, other sports, vacations, etc.)? Not on the jobs or vacations because our first day of school is August 1st. The heat does keep some of the basketball kids from playing. They'll just tell you it's too hot.
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Post by 53 on Jun 1, 2017 11:26:11 GMT -6
July the 24th in Tennessee.
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Post by 53 on May 22, 2017 9:47:14 GMT -6
I think we can all agree that it is far easier to play any game than it is to practice the skills it takes to be competent in the sport in hopes to become good and or great. This is why travel baseball/softball, club soccer and AAU basketball is more popular than school sports. The travel/club/AAU teams do not practice near as much as they play and that ratio is reversed when it comes to school activities. That is probably also a major reason why I've seen an overall decline in sport specific skills in all of my freshmen PE classes over the past 10 years. You're seeing a dynamic decline because the world is increasingly becoming less physical, at least in developed countries. This isn't just in sports but labor too. Kids have a lot more options on their entertainment and most of it isn't centered around being physically active.
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Post by 53 on May 15, 2017 20:16:27 GMT -6
I generally think we some times focus too much on our best players at the cost of the team. So your answer to the question would be...? I don't have any great answer. I like lots of individual and small group time during my practice and less team team reps. Which hopefully after enough emphasis during practice, it becomes a habit.
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Post by 53 on May 15, 2017 20:10:03 GMT -6
What do all these kids with ADD do when they get out of school and their job doesn't allow them to have an IEP or 504? How does this help them long term? I say all the time that I really hope their parents enjoy spending time with them because kids like that will never learn how to function on their own and will end up living at home as an adult. They'll also be drawing two checks though, so there is that incentive.
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Post by 53 on May 13, 2017 20:54:33 GMT -6
I generally think we some times focus too much on our best players at the cost of the team.
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Post by 53 on May 13, 2017 20:48:15 GMT -6
Lucky bastards. My dad gave me my first fidget spinner when I was around 10. It was a sthil weed eater.
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Post by 53 on May 9, 2017 19:12:07 GMT -6
If you're not funny, don't force it.
seems like it would get old pretty quick.
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Post by 53 on May 6, 2017 14:34:33 GMT -6
Find your ass kickers and work on them. That's who the kids are going to follow.
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Post by 53 on Apr 29, 2017 20:40:29 GMT -6
Go marry a doctor and then just coach.
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Post by 53 on Apr 26, 2017 14:58:58 GMT -6
Have any of you recently purchased lockers for your football change room that you are very pleased with? I have a long term project of redoing our football locker room and I'm having a hard time finding lockers designed specifically for football (i.e. locker has places to put your shoulder pads, helmet, cleats). We are NOT looking to build our own for several reasons. We want to purchase a quality football locker that is durable. If anybody has a website or insight please share. Talk to any local prisons that have wood working. We have a prison in the area that builds them, and they're really nice and you're only out the cost of materials.
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Post by 53 on Apr 23, 2017 21:04:41 GMT -6
My middle school coach was a World War II vet that was involved in every major battle in the pacific theater. My 8th grade year was 2000-2001, but He started coaching in the 1950's and was a hall of fame coach winning over 300 high school games and middle school ball was just his retirement.
His style of coaching was legendary for being hard as hell. We'd start with 60 kids coming out and end with about 20. We had a bunch that would quit during our calisthenics period before any hitting.
He wasn't for everyone. However if you could make it, you forever loved him and would do anything for him.
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Post by 53 on Apr 14, 2017 21:14:19 GMT -6
Dream big. Small dreams don't motivate the soul.
Enforce winning at practice and make winning a part of your program. The score board will take care of itself.
We can fool a lot of people about our coaching, but the kids will know if we're making them better or not.
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Post by 53 on Apr 10, 2017 8:30:43 GMT -6
I treat them like they're my kids and bring my actual family around them.
A lot of our kids don't have that home environment, and I think it's important to model to them.
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Post by 53 on Apr 10, 2017 8:21:38 GMT -6
Last seasons job we met only as a staff- no kids- from 9-12 on Saturday mornings. Watch our game, watch the opponent's two films. Discuss game plan, do a little scouting, usually BS a lot. Nothing on Sunday outside of maybe a couple texts back and forth. My new job I think I'm going to change it up a little. Just because they have brought kids in on Saturday mornings and have found it beneficial, I think we'll do that as well. I think it may look like this- 700- Stretch 710- Run- to loosen up, get rid of soreness, etc. 725- Varsity players go watch film- captains run film- no coaches present JV players have walk through for Monday game Players with injuries see trainer 830- Players stretch again, coaches talk 9-Noon- Coaches meet- watch our film, watch opponents film, begin game planning. Wouldn't it be better on their bodies and minds to let them sleep and recover after the game and week of school and practice.
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Post by 53 on Feb 11, 2017 17:43:27 GMT -6
Does your town not have a parks and rec or a county job to put a coach in till a teaching job opens.
There's a lot of ways to be creative to get a coach in if you're willing to do what it takes to win
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Post by 53 on Feb 10, 2017 20:40:04 GMT -6
There's a good coach in Ohio that might be interested. if you or the people In your town won't dig through his post here and put them on Twitter.
If they're having town meetings and seriously wanting to commit to the team, you all will be fine. Hire the right guy and get creative If you all have to if there's not a full time teaching position.
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Post by 53 on Feb 10, 2017 7:50:55 GMT -6
Anyone that builds and inspires their players to be better people is a good coach.
Winning just gives you a better platform.
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Post by 53 on Feb 7, 2017 19:36:27 GMT -6
Since you don't have a lot of experience coaching, I'd be looking for a simple offense and defense from a box.
Your biggest struggle is going to be finding quality assistants. Find three guys that you trust and then teach them what you want football wise.
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Post by 53 on Jan 29, 2017 13:57:20 GMT -6
I love coaching at small schools. We generally have between 15 and 18 on our team. There's nothing better than beating the hell out of a team that has 40 or 50 on their team and was laughing at your boys getting off the bus and warm ups.
The team that I took over had went a couple of years without winning a game If the team scored during a game, they treated it like winning a game. Build the culture of taking pride in playing ironman football, and coach the hell out of fundamentals. Don't turn the ball over and being good at tackling and blocking will keep you in almost every game.
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Post by 53 on Jan 26, 2017 21:08:47 GMT -6
Way more interested in time management, practice structure, and drills.
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Post by 53 on Jan 18, 2017 2:07:21 GMT -6
Physically, there are no benefits whatsoever. I think that the idea is to send a message that being "soft" isn't going to cut it. I wonder how well that message is resonating now... A few years ago I coached against a team whose new HC had been canned 2 weeks into the season over something like this. He took his entire team into the non-AC equipped locker room after a loss, shut the door in the August heat, and made them do pushups and burpees for an hour and a half. Several players went to the hospital afterwards. He was fired the next day for abuse. They got the volleyball coach, a 24 year old woman who knew nothing about football, to step in as HC for the rest of the season. If it's the school that I'm thinking, she actually won a few games which was actually pretty impressive considering it might be one of the worse schools to be at in the state.
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