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Post by QBCoachDurham on Feb 8, 2018 8:47:06 GMT -6
Do any of you do a big raffle fundraiser? We have been doing one for the last three years, and we've made at least $2200 each year. Our big prize is four tickets to Disney World. I am looking for companies that will donate prizes. Other than the Disney tickets, most of our prizes are donated by local businesses. If anyone knows of companies that will donate, would you mind sharing?
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Post by QBCoachDurham on Feb 1, 2018 11:10:51 GMT -6
To me, nothing is more important than toughness. It's what we hang our hats on. You can be tough without grinding kids down. We never practice for more than two hours, and rarely go that long during the season, but we are known as the toughest, most physical team in our area and our kids take pride in that. A bunch of enthusiastic, soft kids will get you beat
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Post by QBCoachDurham on Jan 24, 2018 13:25:38 GMT -6
Not redundant and a good question. Now to clarify what you mean when you say community, because I think you need to attack this in 4 directions. 4 classifications of community: 1) Parents. Get them involved in raising money, helping with team dinners, making awards, cleaning equipment, chain gain, bus snacks. Have as many of them on the boosters as possible. 2) Teachers and Administration and other School personnel. Recognize the teachers who help the kids. Give other teachers as many opportunities to help as possible. Share you teams mission statement with them. Ask the administration for ideas. Say thank you to every janitor possible and give them all a hat and t-shirt. 3) People in the community who don't have kids in the program. This is hard, but an idea I'm tying this year is to have a coaches corner TV show on the local public broadcast station. You have to try and create fans of the high school team, just like a pro team. 4) Local businesses. Find ways for them to help out with out directly giving money. Use them all the time. Frame old jerseys and give them to them to display. Thanks for the response. I guess I should have clarified in the original post that we have won. We're 41-19 with 5 winning seasons in the 5 years I've been here (they had 3 winning seasons in the previous 15 years). We have pretty good community involvement, but I am always looking for more. There are several things in your post that we already do, but a few that we don't that I may try. Thanks for an insightful response.
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Post by QBCoachDurham on Jan 24, 2018 10:14:06 GMT -6
Sorry if this thread is redundant, but what are some ways that you get the community involved in the program?
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Post by QBCoachDurham on Jan 17, 2018 7:02:30 GMT -6
We have each player choose one teacher who has made a positive impact on them. This can be any teacher they have ever had. We notify the teachers on Monday and invite them to the game. We provide food for them before the game and recognize them at halftime. We limit any one teacher to two players. We usually have 35-45 on our roster, so we end up recognizing 30 or so teachers each year. We ask them to let us know if they can't be there. We have had two that didn't show up and didn't tell us they wouldn't be there, so we have made them ineligible to be recognized going forward. Most of our teachers are very appreciative of the recognition and are very excited to be there. Of course most of the ones we recognize come to the games anyway.
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Post by QBCoachDurham on Dec 13, 2017 11:57:51 GMT -6
Pregame is nothing more than getting the kids into a routine and getting them comfortable. We're on the field 6:40-7:10 (7:30 kickoff)
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Post by QBCoachDurham on Dec 5, 2017 10:28:55 GMT -6
For those that use Nike footballs, how do they compare to others? I have always used the Wilson 1003, but feel the quality has dropped recently (we've had several that won't hold air). We are also negotiating a new Nike contract and may be able to get some free balls as part of the deal. We got a couple to use late in the year in practice and our QBs liked them, but do they hold up as well as the others?
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Post by QBCoachDurham on Feb 8, 2017 12:55:17 GMT -6
Anyone have a preferred method or product for cleaning and disinfecting shoulder pads after the season?
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Post by QBCoachDurham on Feb 6, 2017 10:48:03 GMT -6
I listened to an SEC WR coach talk about cut blocking for 45 minutes once. He started the talk by saying "I know you guys can't do this, but here is how we do it". I didn't get up and leave because Chad Morris once told me that no matter who is talking and what they're talking about, you can usually pick up something that you can use. That wasn't the case here, but it is usually true. Was this at a high school clinic? Why would he talk about something he knew high school coaches LITERALLY can't do. (except Tx and Mass). Yes, it was at a high school clinic. Made zero sense
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Post by QBCoachDurham on Feb 3, 2017 9:09:42 GMT -6
13 years ago I joined the staff of a former college head coach in his 2nd year, taking over the worst program in the state. He had two basic philosophies about practice: 1 - never practice more than 2 hours, 2 - the tempo should be so fast that the players are exhausted afterwards. In the 9 years I was there we won 91 games, 4 conference championships, and 1 state championship (should have been 2 but we were DQ'd from the playoffs one year because of a paperwork error). I left 4 years ago to become a head coach and I have adopted these 2 philosophies. I took over a program that had 3 winning seasons in 15 year. We've had 4 straight, and won 9 games each of the last 2 year. In the last 13 years, the teams I have been on have conditioned after practice only a handful of times, and these were days where our tempo in practice was bad. Our kids know that if they bust their humps for 2 hours, they are done. Not sure if this is the type of thing you're looking for, but its something I believe in.
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Post by QBCoachDurham on Feb 2, 2017 11:46:04 GMT -6
I listened to an SEC WR coach talk about cut blocking for 45 minutes once. He started the talk by saying "I know you guys can't do this, but here is how we do it". I didn't get up and leave because Chad Morris once told me that no matter who is talking and what they're talking about, you can usually pick up something that you can use. That wasn't the case here, but it is usually true.
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Post by QBCoachDurham on Jan 26, 2017 10:49:15 GMT -6
We us both (as well as Xenith) I don't see a whole lot of difference in the two other than the Schutt helmets tend to pop of more frequently. I like to have a variety of brands because they all fit differently. I will say that the players all want the Riddell helmets, but the ones that have worn both say the Xenith fits the best.
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Post by QBCoachDurham on Jan 10, 2017 13:13:03 GMT -6
I really like Xenith. We bought 12 last year and the kids loved them. For the price, they are hard to beat and are among the highest rated helmets.
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Post by QBCoachDurham on Jan 4, 2017 12:15:15 GMT -6
I think Riddell Power are the best, but we don't have that kind of $ (we got 5 pair free a couple of years ago in a reconditioning deal). For the us, Schutt is the best value. They hold up longer and the kids seem to like them. They are definitely better than the Gear Pro Tec that BSN sells or the Rawlings Spartan.
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