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Post by wiscohscoach on Dec 24, 2019 12:12:35 GMT -6
Most don't grayshirt year one, although I can't speak for all. Your more successful ones a roster spot is a roster spot, they'll bring in 120-130 for camp and assemble the roster from there. So maybe you can explain this to me. We had 5 guys from our 2018 state semifinal team go to Platteville. At least some of these guys had a "roster spot" and posted pictures of themselves on campus with a UW-Platteville Pioneers backdrop, holding the axe, with the #SwingTheAxe hashtag. However, NONE of these guys are on the current UW-Platteville roster. So what is the deal with the guys? Are they on the team? Did they get cut? What is their status, exactly? They may grayshirt year one there, which means technically they aren't on the roster but they are lifting, running, classes, etc. They would be allowed to come back at the start of the winter semester. Again though, I can't speak for all programs.
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Post by wiscohscoach on Dec 20, 2019 12:27:48 GMT -6
Believe it's 105 now but yes, they have limited rosters and an offer should be treated as such. But the offers there don't mean you don't get greyshirted. They're trying to appeal to the masses like everyone else. I have no problem with the offers or the signing day.. If it gets kids excited to play college ball and continue the game, I'm all in. A roster offer at a private school probably has more meaning because it at least means you'll get to practice with the team after the first 8 days. Most don't grayshirt year one, although I can't speak for all. Your more successful ones a roster spot is a roster spot, they'll bring in 120-130 for camp and assemble the roster from there.
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Post by wiscohscoach on Dec 20, 2019 9:08:17 GMT -6
Does anyone know if the big Wisconsin D3 conference still has a 100 person roster limit? The WIAC? A roster spot guarantee there would mean something then. They used to only be able to carry 100 people during the season. Title 9 thing i believe. Believe it's 105 now but yes, they have limited rosters and an offer should be treated as such.
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Post by wiscohscoach on Nov 8, 2019 8:07:15 GMT -6
Looking around at different places around the country wondering two things....
1) How many coaches do you have on staff? 2) What is your enrollment?
Asking around as we are restructuring how many allotted stipends we get.
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Post by wiscohscoach on Oct 16, 2019 14:06:39 GMT -6
Posing a question to all of you out there, how well do you get along with your wrestling program/coaches and how many kids in your program go out for the sport? Wondering if you've had success in pushing wrestling and how have your kids responded? I keep hearing the weight loss worries but our wrestling coach is super pro football and anti weight cut so I'd like to get as many of our guys out for him. How have others worked this and convinced kids it will benefit them? We have very close ties to our wrestling program. I also have coached our youth wrestling feeder program while serving as HC of our HS football team. My 10yr old son plays 4 sports- football, wrestling, basketball, and lacrosse. I have always been a big proponent of playing multiple sports in high school, and as a coach I definitely suggest wrestling for many of our football guys. Wrestling happens to be our community's most coveted sport, so we have 125+ kids wrestling grades K-8 in our youth program. Our wrestling coach is not a "weight-cut" advocate- he has his team lift 3 days a week, and as our resident strength coach I work directly with him to achieve the results he looking for (many coaches are often misguided and will essentially refer to circuit training or higher-volume training...not understanding what may be optimal for their ins-season kids). So we really don't worry about cutting weight. So, depending on what kind of foothold you and your program have in the school, you can definitely influence your kids' decisions and get them wrestling. EDIT: Of our varsity starters, we have 2 DL, 1 Safety, 1 RB, and 2 OL that also are varsity wrestlers. This is about the relationship we have at our school and it's been awesome. We were wondering how others have been successful with it and it sounds like we're on the right path. He asked the football staff to run his weight sessions as well as work in helping him recruit so it seems like a positive for all. He is totally against cutting weight as well unless a kid really wants but none of our football guys want to so that'll be taken care of.
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Post by wiscohscoach on Oct 16, 2019 9:51:25 GMT -6
Posing a question to all of you out there, how well do you get along with your wrestling program/coaches and how many kids in your program go out for the sport?
Wondering if you've had success in pushing wrestling and how have your kids responded? I keep hearing the weight loss worries but our wrestling coach is super pro football and anti weight cut so I'd like to get as many of our guys out for him. How have others worked this and convinced kids it will benefit them?
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Post by wiscohscoach on May 21, 2019 7:56:31 GMT -6
A multi-state championship coach once told me "A good goal is to have 12%-15% of your male student body to play football." Give me all the kids that can physically play, and then they will either remove themsevles or you will remove them. Numbers has to be the main priority. I currently coach at a 5A school in Tennessee, and last season we dressed out 52 players all season, which means we had 11% of the male student population. All of the teams we played against except 1 had 70+ players. Their talent pool was much larger, and the depth they had during the game played a large role. 12-15% Program wide or just varsity program?
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Post by wiscohscoach on May 21, 2019 7:55:35 GMT -6
I agree with a lot of things. You want good kids that want to be there and will put in the effort. But I will say this - In today's age you WILL need kids on your team that hadn't really thought of playing football before. It is not as popular in a lot of places as it once was and kids are playing other sports. But peer pressure can be a good thing. Use your kids to get their other sport friends out. Coach multiple sports. Maybe the kid quits after a week. Maybe he becomes a collegiate TE because he is better at it than he is as a power forward on the bball team. I don't know. But we are going to have to welcome and encourage kids that are initially lukewarm on the idea of football if we want to be successful. I've found this to be one of the biggest things with kids is that until they actually try it they don't know. Peer pressure goes a long way when it comes from friends.
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Post by wiscohscoach on May 17, 2019 11:45:03 GMT -6
Was talking to another coach about this and he had some interesting points so I figured I'd pitch the same discussion here.
When recruiting the halls and getting your numbers set for the season with how many kids are going to come out, do you worry more about the quality of the kids you have or the number of kids you're going to have?
Obviously we all want lots of players that are all quality guys, but is it better to have great numbers in your program or have more quality individuals?
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Post by wiscohscoach on Feb 19, 2019 9:32:04 GMT -6
We do it but don't stay over night. Start it with practice at 3, finish at 5, keep the kids until 11 or midnight and send them home. Practice the next day around noon or so.
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Post by wiscohscoach on Jan 29, 2019 10:25:34 GMT -6
I post All-22 videos pretty much on the regular from the college game, but it's mainly to show why teams had success or post clips that can be teaching tools. I enjoy it and it seems as if others do regardless if they can ever use it or not.
I can see where it might get annoying, but there's a large audience that seems to want to learn about that stuff. Plus I've been afforded the opportunity to meet and engage with some coaches that I would have never been able to through social media. You get out of it what you want really.
But you won't catch me in a debate about one scheme or the other or attempting to sell my "system" for profit. That stuff does wear on me.
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Post by wiscohscoach on Jan 28, 2019 16:27:25 GMT -6
Yeah that's not true. Maybe at the {censored} D3 schools, but not the good ones. No chance. D3 near us "signed" like 60 kids last year and they haven't been good for awhile. Looked at some of the power D3 teams rosters, looks like well over 100 guys throw in the JV team and it's prob 200. If you can afford it they got a spot for you somewhere. Depends on the league.
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Post by wiscohscoach on Jan 28, 2019 16:26:59 GMT -6
Yeah that's not true. Maybe at the {censored} D3 schools, but not the good ones. No chance. School I played at has made the D3 playoffs 2 of the last 3 years. If you have a pulse they'll allow you on the team and you get to wear a jersey. School I went to had a roster limit of 105... and may have won it a few times. Needless to say, no you couldn't make it if you had a pulse. Some schools its different.
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Post by wiscohscoach on Jan 25, 2019 14:40:09 GMT -6
We do that and I say why not..They are committing to a place just like any other athlete...They will put in basically the same work but for fewer accolades....Also most of the kids "signing" at D2 schools and lower FCS schools are basically getting $5000 off the ridiculous sticker price of admission and it would actually be cheaper to walk on to a state school but yet....they "sign" ...The ones that make me sick are the kids that "sign" and you know they will never make it past year 1. Because it's the literal manifestation of our society's need to over glorify every day, non consequential events? You can never have played a sport in your life and make a D3 team. Yeah that's not true. Maybe at the {censored} D3 schools, but not the good ones. No chance.
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Post by wiscohscoach on Jan 10, 2019 11:24:05 GMT -6
It's a ton of fun. Decent X's and O's but the networking cannot have a value put on it.
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Post by wiscohscoach on Nov 12, 2018 17:14:39 GMT -6
Ask them twice, then move on... Ask once to show interest... Ask again to remind them where you train and how to be a part of it... Then MOVE ON!!! Last man on the boat is the first guy to bail when sh!t hits the fan... They NEED to WANT to be a part of your program - not kinda in... I agree. It’s kind of like dating. If you have to ask her out more than twice, it ain’t happening. This is exactly true. I'd almost rather have 40 All In guys then 60 where 20 have their toes dipped half in and half out. As much as it sucks, put your time and energy into the all in guys and start winning for sure.
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Post by wiscohscoach on Jun 26, 2018 20:01:54 GMT -6
To each his own but I don’t want a kid who is out there for the fun of it. I want the kids who are going to have fun at it. We coaches need to make it fun. We don’t necessarily grind but we do get our kids on Tue, Wed and Thur from 8-12 in the morning. We get the kids in the weight room then speed and agility work and then football specific. We coach them hard but don’t kill them. This in your first sentence lies the problem. Football is a freaking game. Games are meant to be fun. If a kid is not out there to have fun and for the fun of it, then what the heck are we all doing?
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Post by wiscohscoach on May 11, 2018 10:18:13 GMT -6
We have spring futbol, but no spring football.
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Post by wiscohscoach on May 4, 2018 6:59:44 GMT -6
Just a crappy situation
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Post by wiscohscoach on Mar 1, 2018 11:30:36 GMT -6
Clear your cache and cookies, might help.
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Post by wiscohscoach on Feb 12, 2018 20:30:34 GMT -6
Had my father as our head coach, best experience and wouldn't have trade it. Who gives a rip what other people think, it won't matter 5, 10, 20 years from now what Jimmy or Joe in the community thought of you. Was he your position coach? He was our head coach of a team that had 21 kids haha. Mind you we were playoffs every year and a regular T10 small school program in the state
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Post by wiscohscoach on Feb 12, 2018 11:40:08 GMT -6
Had my father as our head coach, best experience and wouldn't have trade it. Who gives a rip what other people think, it won't matter 5, 10, 20 years from now what Jimmy or Joe in the community thought of you.
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Post by wiscohscoach on Jan 25, 2018 10:37:10 GMT -6
Put syrup all over your body, that'll make a great first impression.
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Post by wiscohscoach on Jan 12, 2018 13:03:11 GMT -6
Have a company that washes, sews, and repairs all of our game jerseys & pants. It's pretty nice.
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Post by wiscohscoach on Jan 3, 2018 11:27:01 GMT -6
Just watch it, I'll get the All-22 version fast enough if it's a team I want to study.
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Post by wiscohscoach on Dec 11, 2017 15:07:23 GMT -6
IMO plans like this are pointless.
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Post by wiscohscoach on Nov 14, 2017 11:39:47 GMT -6
I see no problem throwing the ball if it is 2s on 2s or 3s on 3s. Your QB and WR deserve the chance. If they can't stop it, oh well.
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Post by wiscohscoach on Nov 9, 2017 9:25:50 GMT -6
1. Weight Room 2. Seven Man Sled 3. Full Pads. Every. Single. Day. 3. That has nothing to do with making you tough. Beating the brains out of each other I would argue has the reverse effect.
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Post by wiscohscoach on Nov 2, 2017 11:55:02 GMT -6
I for sure thought this was a spam thread or fake news, but clearly this is neither.
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Post by wiscohscoach on Oct 19, 2017 10:24:22 GMT -6
Twitter
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