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Post by StraightFlexin on Mar 2, 2017 7:40:30 GMT -6
What time do your morning sessions start and what time do the afternoon sessions end? Our morning sessions run 6:30-7:05. We have a day based on competitive drills. A lot of other physical drills have team building aspects.
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Post by StraightFlexin on Mar 2, 2017 7:23:56 GMT -6
I think thats too much. Pick either before or after. Both is pretty tough. In my experience, what you lose are guys who have football as a second sport but still want to play. Its not their first love but when it gets down to it they can contribute. Case in point, my QB the last two years. In 14.5 games at QB his numbers were comparable to Deshawn Watson in high school. But his first love was basketball. He turned down big time D1 football offers to play basketball and football at a D2 school. If we wanted to be hard, we could have put him in a position to choose and he wouldn't have chose us. How important is winning or competing? I would love to do less, but this is what is needed for us to even compete. It sounds like you have the luxury of having multisport D1 athletes in your school. We have had 1 D1 player come out of this school in the last 15 years from all sports combine. Last year we beat a team that had 7 D1 players. We are a closed district of "small kids" that play teams full of D1 kids.
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Post by StraightFlexin on Mar 2, 2017 7:19:02 GMT -6
Would you rather have 50 turds or 25 hard working kids Also we have been successful over the past several seasons My first thought was are those 25 kids that quit ALL turds or are some of them good kids that think football is fun and you sucked that right out of it? We didn't do that much when I played college ball and we were pretty dang good. I would like to know how much better you are truly making these kids? The 50 to 25 was a HUGE exaggeration just for a philosophical question. More like 4 or 6 kids that want to smoke weed after school.
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Post by StraightFlexin on Mar 2, 2017 7:05:05 GMT -6
Currently in our program we currently in the middle of a "downsizing" off season. We have had a good handful of JV players that have announced that they are not playing next season. They have not really gave a specific reason, but I believe it is linked to our off season workouts sessions. Currently we workout 4 days a week after school in a structured setting. We also hold morning sessions approx. 3 times a week to work on footwork/speed/agility. I express to all players that everything is optional, but highly encouraged and the aim of everything is to give them the best opportunity to play and be successful.
I know we do a lot and at times wonder if it is too much. With that said, I do not think the players mentioned above would attend a works if we only had them once a week. Also we have a good group of students that attend everything and really improve their abilities. I am stuck with the dilemma, do I lower expectations in attempts to raise numbers, or get the bar high and maximize the players that attend?
Would you rather have 50 turds or 25 hard working kids
Also we have been successful over the past several seasons
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Post by StraightFlexin on Mar 2, 2017 6:37:48 GMT -6
As I sit here as the HC/OC, I'm trying to think of how many times I've had a 200 yard rusher and finished with a loss like what happened yesterday. My fullback went for 205 on 25 carries and two slots combined for 130 on 10 carries. We punted once, when we were called for a 15 yard penalty on a perfectly executed scramble for a 15 yard penalty. Swish cheese defense kept our offense off the field and we lost 40-20. Mind boggled. Had a game this year where our QB ran for 176 yards in the first half and we lost. We had one kid drop a punt for a TD, and one kid misfield two kickoffs for turnovers. Was absolutely disgusting. Game still give me nightmares
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Post by StraightFlexin on Feb 23, 2017 6:56:57 GMT -6
Just got back from the Glazier Flexbome clinic in North Jersey. The head coach, Tom Bolden, was great. He did 6 straight sessions on his flexbone offense and 2 more on his 50 front defense. I have never seen a guy be so open at a clinic. He's a great speaker, and was very detail oriented. I would definitely see him again. Tom Bolden was amazing! Had a very small group in his sessions last year and shared so much. Great guy.
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Post by StraightFlexin on Feb 17, 2017 8:23:22 GMT -6
I was curious about your football program's relationship with track. At my HS, we hold so many off season speed and agility sessions to make up for the lack of track participation. I could strongly encourage/force our kids to run track, but with the current situation of the track program I am not sure.
Our track program is awful. The coach is very old and stuck in his ways. He does not understand simple concepts of building speed and explosiveness through training fast twitch. He does not believe in lifting weights. He thinks in order to build football speed that kids should run the 1/2 mile consistently. He believes that gatorade causes your kidneys to shut down (dead serious). A mother had to coach her daughter for an event because the coach/athlete relationship got so bad.
Realize......... I am not complaining, we do have speed within our program and we have been successful. I am just asking others about their relationship among their school and if any other coaches have similar situations.
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Post by StraightFlexin on Feb 16, 2017 7:36:06 GMT -6
I am not excusing the official for pushing the parent, but why was the parent even on the court? That is an administration problem. I know both of these schools very well. Hazel Park has recently opened up the district to increase enrollment, their population has changed
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Post by StraightFlexin on Feb 10, 2017 13:02:36 GMT -6
Skills for dollar coaches
We have some programs that will teach kids "next level skills", but only instill bad habits. We then spend the next two months re-teaching a kid how to run a route without patterning feet for 5 seconds like they are doing some type of ladder drill. News flash to parents, you shouldn't have to pay anyone to tell you if your kid is good. Hell for the right price I will tell any woman she is beautiful lol
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Post by StraightFlexin on Feb 10, 2017 12:10:32 GMT -6
Sound like a cancer job! Run this offense to be like the last guy that was successful which was over a decade ago. Total nightmare
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Post by StraightFlexin on Feb 8, 2017 13:22:23 GMT -6
Might be a stupid question but these kids aren't already playing a sport after school right? If you have numbers tell the lazy ones to phuk off. No they are not playing any winter sports thats the frustrating part. I wish we had the numbers just to do that. We may end up making an example, playing a ton of Sophomores and call it a "rebuilding year".
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Post by StraightFlexin on Feb 8, 2017 12:18:54 GMT -6
1. They don't care what you know until they know how much you care. You have to build relationships and you have to go out of your way to do that. They do not have to play. In other words what are you doing intentionally to build relationships? They will follow the leader first. Then they will follow the vision. 2. Make everything earned. Equipment, helmet stickers, numbers, locker, gear, first in line to eat team dinner. Build a system of rewards. You are not punishing kids who don't show up. You are just rewarding kids who are doing the things that you expect. (Do not make it impossible for kids in other sports to earn these things.-You do not want to be the coach that makes athletes choose. That coach will eventually lose to the other coaches in the building. The coach that makes athletes choose will eventually be viewed as self interested and that is not good for building teams.) This also builds in small successes all of the time that you can celebrate and count "wins." 3. Figure out a way to reward the values and characteristics and values you are trying to establish in the weight room. T shirts for 1000 pound club. Take pictures and hang them or put out on twitter of kids making 1000 pound club. 4. Make part of the weight room fun. Build competition. Our last 25 minutes each day starts with a game. Losers have to do the last part of the workout (which they hate), but there is a way out of it if you win the competition. You can build the competition however you like. You can do things real physical or real cerebral. You find out who fights, who can think, who can outlast. You are also teaching them to compete. You are teaching them that things are earned. 5. I don't know if this is you but I find that when teachers/coaches feel this way they are generally exaggerating the amount of kids that are being a pain. They start saying "all" of the kids are acting up or entitled. It is usually just a couple. Often those couple cause us a lot of energy from disruptions in the classroom or to the best athlete not buying in. It feels bigger than it actually is. Take stock of who is there. Love the heck out of those kids. Work on them helping you get buy in from others. Urban Meyer calls it the 10-80-10 percent principle. You are always going to have 10 percent you dont have to worry about. They always do what you want and then there is the middle and then there is the bottom 10 percent who are going the wrong direction. Focus on the top 90 and pull them in. That doesn't mean you have to forget about the bottom 10. Have the top 10 help you recruit all the middle kids. Get them separated from the bottom 10. Eventually the bottom 10 takes care of themselves. They will get lonely and buy in. They will want the gear and buy in. They will want the relationships and buy in. If they don't they'll generally go away on their own. Lions23 I totally agree with you. We do a 1000 pound club with t-shirts and giant display board I had created. We also reward players with off-season gear for weight room attendance (not lift marks). Our program equipment is also selected off attendance. We have had two pretty bad athletes wear #1 the past 2 years because they showed up the most. We had a heavyweight belt made that kid and hold competitive drills. I provide daily lunch study support for any players that need assistance in classes. We just graduated 26 of the most hardest working seniors I have ever coaches. Our young kids (9th graders and incoming 9th graders) are going crazy, the work ethic is incredible. For some reason, this current upper level group is not on board (much smaller class in numbers).
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Post by StraightFlexin on Feb 8, 2017 9:19:53 GMT -6
Any advice in this situation. I am just about to the point of breaking some eggs and only playing the most dedicated. Now that you've vented, you can probably get more specific answers if you give us more specific information. What are they doing that makes you call them entitled? What actions are they doing that makes you think that they're not buying in? The AM/PM lifting sessions, who do you expect to be there, who isn't there, and why aren't they there? The entitled are players that feel like they should not have to workout, attend any bit of athletic sessions, attend out of season meetings. They are not buying in because they are not doing anything above. I know this is not an uncommon problem, I am curious about how other coaches handle similar situations.
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Post by StraightFlexin on Feb 8, 2017 7:44:39 GMT -6
Looking for any thoughts or idea. Im a HC in a program that has been a playoff team over the past 3 years even though we have not had the best athletes in the school. Our graduating seniors were a good number of try-hard kids which allowed us to be successful. The next group of kids )upcoming Srs & Jrs) are some of the most entitled kids I have ever met. We are really in trouble for next season if they continue on this track. We run after school lifting Mon-Thurs and morning sessions at least 3 days a week. We are really struggling with buy in from some of the "better athletes" in the group (Not saying much at all/very average). They think they are 5'8 D1 baseball players with no offers that daddy coaches. Any advice in this situation. I am just about to the point of breaking some eggs and only playing the most dedicated.
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Post by StraightFlexin on Feb 3, 2017 10:52:38 GMT -6
Gameday media solutions we get 2500 a year and all i have to do is send them a few emails they get the sponsors (they keep the profit over 2500) but i dont have to do anything but give them away for free. I like it because it is EASY. Photo guy comes out and does head shots he sends them to the company i give them rosters with the numbers to match up submit a new Letter from the HC send in any new coach headshots and thats it $2500 check in the mail in November Easy Yes you can earn more if you get the sponsors yourself, i just dont have the time and energy to do all that, build them, have them printed, etc. Wow that does sound simple. So they find all of the advertisements and everything? Thanks for the info coach, really appreciate it
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Post by StraightFlexin on Feb 2, 2017 13:49:22 GMT -6
Made me shake my head more than anything. Was a 22 year old varsity position coach sitting in film session listening to an older coach that had two sayings "Grow up and be a man" and "Play the way you're coached". Another guy and I used to take bets on the over/under #
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Post by StraightFlexin on Feb 2, 2017 10:04:05 GMT -6
I was wondering if anyone could give me advise with creating a program ad book. Do you use any particular company at all? Pros/Cons.
Also does anyone sell advertisements at their field for a length of time or even games? We have a nice facility, but our district does nothing whatsoever to create funds through advertisement. If we can not sell permanent space (length of time), we might try to game only advertisements.
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Post by StraightFlexin on Jan 31, 2017 12:42:04 GMT -6
We actually purchased two large speakers for our practices this year. We were using them for an early camp and all of a sudden out track coach (hates football) ran right into one knocking it over. He then took off!!!! When I confronted him about it he said "the wind blew it over". Approx. 60 kids saw him do it. He is still working here. Can't make this stuff up.
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Post by StraightFlexin on Jan 31, 2017 10:10:35 GMT -6
The thing I hate the most at clinics is the guy that talks about his coaching philosophy and background for 30 minutes. To me that is just BS used to kill time, used by a guy that didn't prepare to speak. If you want to say "I've been here, and there. We like to ____." I'm fine with that. Anything more is wasting time. Once had a coach talk for an entire session giving the height, weight, and stats of his top 6 offensive lineman. A guy behind me fell asleep and was snoring loud as hell.
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Post by StraightFlexin on Jan 31, 2017 10:06:31 GMT -6
I hate with clinic coaches want to give a presentation, but is something that could be taken out of an idiots guide to football.
"This is the flexbone" "This is a football" "Football has laces" "See Joe run"
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Post by StraightFlexin on Jan 31, 2017 6:48:15 GMT -6
Had a good one a few years ago. Started the season 5-0 (first time in school history) and got a phone call from a parent saying he thought I did a great job, but we need to balance the offense more.
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Post by StraightFlexin on Jan 18, 2017 9:04:10 GMT -6
In my experience the criers are always the half-assers. Kids that do very little or half of whats expected. Its never the dedicated kid that gives all that they can. Again, just from my experience.
Never really understood the crying thing, but then my father said only girls cry
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Post by StraightFlexin on Jan 6, 2017 10:09:32 GMT -6
Had a game this season. Tied with 80 seconds left in the game at the opp. 20. Ran ISV 5 plays in a row and scored with 4 seconds left in the game. I'm sure the fans had to think I was a complete idiot
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Post by StraightFlexin on Dec 19, 2016 9:15:57 GMT -6
All week AND go back on the 4th!
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Post by StraightFlexin on Dec 8, 2016 9:31:34 GMT -6
I have been doing this for awhile now and players know what to expect. I did have a parent contact me two years about their Sr. son not getting the number that was on his varsity jacket and it would have cost $100 or so to fix. Well workouts were free so there you go I think that as long as the parents and the kids know in advance that they could lose a number if they don't meet a minimum number of weight room sessions, there is nothing wrong with what you are doing here. The tough thing for a lot of coaches would be sticking to their guns. For example, you have a senior who is a good kid and a player you are counting on to contribute but kind of slacked off in the weight room. A lot of coaches would find an excuse to give a kid like that a mulligan and let him keep his jersey number. Just curious, but what was this player's excuse for not getting in the weight room? When you explained to his parents why he had lost his number, what did they say? The hard part is staying consistent, but its that way with many things. I tell the parents our stance on numbers and equipment in our pre & post season meetings. If they are involved in another season sport, they get credit for weight room sessions. That player didn't have an excuse for why he missed our summer sessions, the parents were upset about the situation, might have contacted the AD....... but thats been my policy so it ended there.
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Post by StraightFlexin on Dec 6, 2016 11:50:37 GMT -6
I have been doing this for awhile now and players know what to expect. I did have a parent contact me two years about their Sr. son not getting the number that was on his varsity jacket and it would have cost $100 or so to fix. Well workouts were free so there you go
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Post by StraightFlexin on Oct 6, 2016 9:02:55 GMT -6
I think you get what you emphasis. One drill we have installed is our 4 in 10 drill. We have an offense 3 lineman (any position) and 1 back against 3 lineman (any position) and a backer/db. The offense has 4 downs to get 10 yards. We run this inside the lines (5 yards wide). Teaches backs to run hard and stay in bounds. The players love it. Not only can you preach being physical, but you don't have to worry about huge impacts. Make sure you have a coach ready with a whistle to avoid rolling in piles (knees and ankles).
Just a drill we run, might not work for everyone
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Post by StraightFlexin on Sept 30, 2016 5:37:36 GMT -6
Also have to remember that winning more games isn't just going to pay off the following year. Taking over a struggling program, we made the playoffs 2 years ago, won districts last year (best finish in school history), and do not see any number changes in the High School. The middle school numbers are rising big time.
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Post by StraightFlexin on Sept 29, 2016 8:45:08 GMT -6
We just had an official kick off our long snapper on a punt because he said his knees were showing. We had to burn a timeout to get him back on the field. Amazing the he could see players knees but missed our D-end getting hit in the back by a cracking receiver. Arguments like this are similar to a guy getting a speeding ticket telling the cop that he should be out catching real criminals. Your kid was breaking a rule and the official, that's all. BTW, if the kid got hurt while not wearing a piece of required safety equipment guess who'd be liable. His knee wasn't showing.
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Post by StraightFlexin on Sept 29, 2016 6:25:35 GMT -6
We just had an official kick off our long snapper on a punt because he said his knees were showing. We had to burn a timeout to get him back on the field. Amazing the he could see players knees but missed our D-end getting hit in the back by a cracking receiver.
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