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Post by tippecanoe41 on Sept 9, 2017 0:51:58 GMT -6
my suggestion, 8 oz. of bourbon, and 3 ice cubes. Sip it slowly about 30 minutes before bed then lay down. BOOOOM!!! haha. You've got something very close to my recipe! Hasn't failed me as far as sleep goes!! haha.
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Post by tippecanoe41 on Sept 9, 2017 0:49:23 GMT -6
Thank you for starting this thread. If we aren't going to talk football, at least we can get off the subject of "pants and shoes." There have been several good suggestions. I wouldn't leave anything to chance. You clearly need some rest, rather than trying them one at a time, do all of them on the same night. HAHA. Great!
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Post by tippecanoe41 on Sept 9, 2017 0:48:17 GMT -6
"My advice is to start drinking heavily."
-- John Blutarsky
Took the words right out of my mouth. Beam and Coke works wonders for my ability to sleep. It's worth a shot.
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Post by tippecanoe41 on Sept 9, 2017 0:47:18 GMT -6
I'm not a doctor, but it sounds like you need a slump buster HAHA! That's so awesome! Truly wonderful!
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Post by tippecanoe41 on Sept 6, 2017 21:12:28 GMT -6
I read the article. If it is true, it is 100% unacceptable and should be punishable by more than the loss of a job. I will say, however, that I hesitate before believing things that I hear like this because I've seen a couple scenarios lately in a situation where I know, NOT JUST BELIEVE, 100%, that the kid, WITH HIS PARENTS' HELP, was fabricating absolute lies. The father in this circumstancewas a guy i thought I knew and had some respect for, but after seeing how he and his wife worked to help their son create absolute falsities, that I know are 100% false, and have actual proof that they are false (not just going on gut), then act as if they are victims, throughout a community, because people don't believe this stuff, I just know that I hesitate in this circumstance.
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Post by tippecanoe41 on Sept 4, 2017 21:39:20 GMT -6
I have zero clue why this guy resigned. It could be a good reason or a bad reason. I don't know. I just know a few years ago I saw a guy resign on Tuesday morning and I thought that was ridiculous. Hours before game is really wild.
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Post by tippecanoe41 on Sept 4, 2017 21:20:44 GMT -6
I'll say that it's very rare that we're out there for the national anthem. In our conference and for the teams we play out of conference, it just works out that the anthem happens several minutes before we have to bring our guys back out of the locker room and get to the field. They do the coin toss before we go back in to the locker room, and just everything works so that once we come back out, we walk captains out to shake hands, and we play football. Just how it's done. Honestly, I think it's done this way because every team is different in the speed that they come back to the field after hitting the locker room for the last minute instructions. Some teams hit the field with 3 minutes left, some with 30 seconds left on the clock. I think what nobody wants is to see any team caught in the middle and looks bad for it, if that makes sense.
We have been out there at times, but these are special occasions that we know about in advance and prepare our guys to stand on this line and have their helmets under this arm, etc.
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Post by tippecanoe41 on Aug 30, 2017 19:35:04 GMT -6
Plain potato chips have more sodium and potassium than Gatorade or Powerade. Trade the sugar for some fat. The best thing is to hydrate like crazy before practice. Was watching film of an opponent about 10 years ago and saw a kid eating chips on the sideline in the middle of a tough game. Spent the week telling my kids that we needed to put a beating on this kid for being so cocky and stuff about how we have to be tougher than a team whose coaches allow that bullchit, etc. Haha. Found out he had some sort of condition, can't remember if it was just very extreme cramping or something else, but it was basically doctor's orders to be eating these chips during the game.
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Post by tippecanoe41 on Aug 29, 2017 22:31:53 GMT -6
I had this discussion with a friend recently, and I'm curious everyone views these kids. How do you handle the kids who clearly need football more than you'll ever need them? I'm all for giving them more chances to redeem themselves if they're in that situation. How do you guys deal with the kids who will most likely never be of value to your program, but need the structure and guidance and positives from football? This is a very tough situation. On our staff, we talk about the idea that people never realize how much football coaches also work as social workers, as well. We talk about guys like this, saying that "Football is way better for him than he is for football." Most times, the kid benefits and we never notice any negatives on the rest of the team. There have been a couple times, however, that we see that this kid in question brings down the rest of the team in some way or another -- because of attitude, mostly. The tough part is to decide when the other 49, 59, 69 players are more important this one kid. It's a pain in the ass. Fact is, it's a tough decision that needs to be made if we get in a situation where he is causing problems because we want to do what is best for every single kid!!!
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Post by tippecanoe41 on Aug 29, 2017 22:24:11 GMT -6
We currently use the helmet beanies for scout team but they're kind of a pain in the ass to get to stay on the helmet. It also seems much more difficult to differentiate from the "regular" team with just the beanies. Do you guys use pinnies or beanies? And if you use pinnies, do you have any good recommendations? Can't decide which ones on Amazon to get. I've always liked what I call "bonnets". I'm assuming this is what you call "beanies". Right now, for some reason, all we've been able to find is black practice jerseys that take a year and a half to exchange between players. I'd much rather have a guy just put a black-bonnet-on-it and get back to playing football ASAP. Beyond that, I'd like to have the practice jerseys be as quick to put on as possible; definitely not full jersey types. I like bonnets. After that, I'd be okay with jerseys that just require a quick velcro to put on.
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Post by tippecanoe41 on Aug 29, 2017 22:12:43 GMT -6
We have an artificial turf field. We play our games and practice on it. We always have several players that get burns and the sores seem to last forever. Looking for suggestions to prevent the turf burns, protect the sores, and speed up the healing process. I hope you still aren't on the old ASTROTURF? ? I had one experience with it. Played in our state's professional field in high school and it was the old astroturf. About 2003-ish. -- DEFINITELY NOT THE GRASSY TURF STUFF! haha. They gave us those tape strips you used to see on the elbows of NFL players who played on that stuff. They worked for about a play, but quickly became useless. I still have scars from playing on that old ass astroturf, carpet, whatever type stuff, haha. For one game. 14 years ago. haha. Who was it that ever thought that stuff was a good idea? haha. To me, it felt like concrete with a little sandpaper over it, haha. So, if you're playing on it, sorry about your luck and I feel terrible for you. If you're playing on grassy turf, I'm not sure what advice to give you. Just wanted to tell a story haha.
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Post by tippecanoe41 on Aug 7, 2017 19:31:40 GMT -6
you can from my experience small batches like that are usually -expensive -take forever This is my experience, as well.
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Post by tippecanoe41 on Aug 3, 2017 23:53:43 GMT -6
You've been coaching long enough to know that some guys you can scream at and some guys have to be nurtured, sounds like you were doing the right thing here. I had a kid that I quickly learned needed to be nurtured and would turtle up when I said anything that wasn't high praise. One day after practice I took him aside and told him, "I think you're going to be a helluva football player. I know you don't take criticism very well but you need to understand I'm not doing it to pick on you, I'm doing it because I want you to be the best you can be. I don't want you to think I'm a prick but I'm willing to sacrifice that if it will make you the best tackle in the division. Football is a lot like life - you're going to have mean or bad coaches, teachers, bosses, friends. You show what your made of when things don't go your way. Anybody can do a job when the boss washes his balls and never criticizes him but that's not life. So if I get on your case you need to know it's because I'm the coach and it's my job to make you better, not to make you feel warm & fuzzy. If you think I'm too hard on you, come to me after practice and we'll talk about it." I saw a noticeable change for the better in that kid. Your mileage may vary. I like what you're saying. I'm gonna keep working at it with these guys. I can't understand this type of attitude, but the best I can do is to keep working at it and giving examples for them to understand that I'm there for them to get better and ready for many different examples.
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Post by tippecanoe41 on Aug 3, 2017 21:07:50 GMT -6
I've been at coaching for about 12 years at high school. I've seen all sorts of different guys over those years. Right now I'm dealing with a couple that are particularly difficult and I haven't figured out how to handle them, so I wanted to see if someone had a bit of advice.
Being honest, I'm a guy who will scream and rant at times; I know some guys aren't. Just different styles. I really can't remember a time that I went off on a tirade that was for anything other than a terrible attitude or a total lack of effort. Not going to yell at a kid who doesn't get the job done on something as long as he's working his @$$ off to get better at it every time he tries it, you know.
I've got a couple guys right now that I'm trying to figure out. Today, we were working a drill where the main focus for OL was to make sure that we were picking up the proper guys in a pass pro situation, while obviously still trying to work good pass pro technique where we could. So, quarterback is setting up to the right, this is our protection, pick up the stunt, get in position between your guy and the QB. This kid I've had trouble with actually did a really good job of not getting sucked into chasing a guy the wrong direction and stayed home to pick up the second part of a twisting stunt that's usually tough for a guy to pick up. Only thing was once he picked the guy up, he got a bull rushed a bit.
He's new to the O-line, so I went to him and said something similar to this--"Hey, nice job, man. That's good you didn't get fooled there. That's the guy we want you to end up on." Then I just said, "Only thing I would say is one little tip because I know you haven't worked this a lot," and started to explain what to do when you start getting bull rushed. And he's got these eyes like I've just crawled in his helmet calling him every name in the book for the last 15 plays. And I'm thinking, holy cow, I made it a point to start with a compliment, what's so bad about being given a little tip when it really is something you haven't worked a lot.
My first instinct was to go on a tirade about the overly sensitive and totally defeatist attitude, but I just told him that I'm trying to make him better so don't get defensive, etc. and left it at that. I guess I'm just wondering who in this kid's life has beat him down to the point that what I started to tell him about great job, but just one tip, would be something to put eyes on him like he was a dog that had been beat too much. This has happened a couple times with the kid.
Anyway, anyone have a kid/kids like this that they can give some tips? I like to give the kid the benefit of the doubt because he is working and getting better at stuff, but he needs to know that if I talk to him calmly nit-picking things, it's not that I'm trying to be a prick, but just trying to make him better, and I don't know how to make that clear to him.
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Post by tippecanoe41 on Aug 1, 2017 22:21:18 GMT -6
This will be my fifth year coaching. Fourth as a head coach. I got to a program that never won any games ever...as in the history of the school. Each year we have got better. Last year was a peak year for us. We went 8-2 and we had 38 players (1a in Louisiana) I'm thinking once we start winning the program will take off. Well we are going into the school year with 22 players. Graduated 9 but other kids decided not to play. One kid wanted to finish Boy Scouts, 2 other wanted to focus on soccer!!! We don't have football kids here but I recruit my butt off in the hallways and get kids to come out and play. I built expectations of what I expect from myself and program. Just nervous about the upcoming year with the lack of numbers. I thought winning would help grow it. I'm Loyal and enjoy the program. I love building up guys but I also want to win. I thought I could really build a program here. It's hard to not take it personal. Any help from you guys that have been through this or offer any advice would be great. It's a tough situation. For instance, very long story, but last year we started off terrible and then had a coaching change (HC resigned on a Monday morning, haha--again long story) but then we got a few guys to come into the program and everyone went to work. We won half of our remaining games in the season. Guys were having success like they didn't have under the previous HC and his CRAZY systems (like I say long story, just trust me). We had guys who were excited that there was finally a group of coaches there that would demand their best and would expect their best effort and wanted them to be great rather than just telling them they were awesome regardless of the scoreboard. We had plenty of guys show up early in the morning before school, VOLUNTARILY, to run sprints, etc. because the HC hadn't made conditioning a big deal and when the change happened, they realized it was. VOLUNTARILY showed up for sprints by themselves, with no coaches there. It was amazing seeing how the attitudes had changed for these guys. We didn't have great numbers, but we expected almost every varsity guy to be back this year and to have 2 deep at every varsity position. Well, even though the attitude was amazing leading into the offseason, we still have had guys decide to quit so that now we are scrambling to fill positions. They want to work, or spend time with GF's, or, most often, they just aren't feeling it. I really just don't understand it. We had one guy who was doing amazing through summer workouts decide to quit and run cross country. If I'm gonna run my @$$ off, you better believe I'm going to do it in a sport that at least allows me to beat the hell out of someone, haha. It just seems that there's really never a good reason for a guy to quit in most cases. At least I'm saying that most cases it isn't about a coach or a coaching style, so don't beat yourself up trying to figure it out. I can't figure out kids. I just try to get after the ones who are out there putting out effort to do something that is so difficult. Let's face it, Tennis AIN'T Football. I don't know great advice for you. The biggest thing I can say that we are trying to do is to give the guys who come out a great sense of pride in being the type of guy that comes out for the hard work and pain and self-sacrifice and teamwork involved in football. Hopefully, we'll win 80% of games or better and have great turnout from here. I'd say the biggest thing I believe is that I won't ever try to beg anyone to come out who doesn't want to be there. And I won't let any guy on our team believe that anything has changed because Bobby or Joe isn't there. Screw it. He doesn't want to be a part of the team. Who cares. We're gonna beat the piss out of people regardless. Let's get after it.
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Post by tippecanoe41 on Aug 1, 2017 0:10:19 GMT -6
We've always tried to get meaningful reps by employing "perfect plays" where every coach watches their position to make sure that it's perfect, because since there's no live action we can really nit pick the end product. Even though we are going against guys who are holding bags, etc., we realize that we, at very least, have to end up in the proper place to make the block in question.
This becomes much more about angles and the part of assignments that says to trap the 5/9 tech or out, etc. etc.
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Post by tippecanoe41 on Jul 28, 2017 1:09:17 GMT -6
I have recent examples from a coach that I "worked with" that are so crazy that you would say I'm lying in an attempt to bring him down! They're all true, and if you want to hear the many variations, you can message me, but I saw this guy get hired as HC with less football knowledge than my 14 year old niece has!!!! That's a sad, sad fact, haha.
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Post by tippecanoe41 on Jul 28, 2017 0:58:19 GMT -6
I worked a summer after high school for a guy who played on a state championship team, back in the 70's, at the school I had attended in early 2000's. Had a legendary HC who didn't coach a ton of years, but whose winning percentage is still within the top 5 all time for guys who coached at least however many years. Can't remember the metric, exactly. His coaching years came at a school that won like 10-20 percent of games for a decade, he came and they won 80-90 percent for five years. Then he went to my school and STARTED THE PROGRAM. I'm talking no school one year, and a school shows up the next year. In the newspapers, this dude says that the plans for the program are to give the community something to be proud of and hopefully they'll be state champs within five years. 2nd full year of varsity football they go 12-1 -- state runner-up. 4th full year, Undefeated. Closest game was 20 points if I remember right. Won state by 30 (at a time when nobody won state by 30 and he played second string the last quarter and a half while accruing penalty yards that still might be the most ever accrued in a state championship game (most say it was because they wanted to keep the game "decent".) haha. Guy was flat out great at coaching.
Anyway, I was talking to my boss, and he said he was playing DE one practice when his coach put on full football gear so that he could run the scout team option QB because he knew how to run it and it was easier to run it himself than try to teach a guy on his team to do it and give the varsity a good look at what they'd be seeing on Friday. (since hearing this story, I've often daydreamed about putting on pads against my players, haha. But remember, this was many decades ago, when nobody really got too bent out of shape about such things). He dropped back for a rare pass to see how his guys would react when it was pass rather than run since the opposing team ran the ball almost every single play the preceding weeks. My boss said he broke through the line and just tagged the HC who was playing QB. Apparently, this HC went on a tirade with numerous curse words, talking about how if he wanted the team to win, he better not pull that CHIT of playing weak @$$ tag BullChit on Friday night. There were F-bombs I'm quite certain, and probably even worse personal name-calling situations in the tirade. The HC had made it clear that he was free game. A little later in the scrimmage, either my boss or someone else (can't remember the story) flat out floored the HC when he got the chance. At this point, from stories I hear, an even longer rant comes, but this time it is profanity that is all about how great it was that this guy was such a damn bas@$$ that he would plant the damn HC and how everyone should be so tough, etc. haha.
I had heard stories about this guy ripping facemasks around so that he was screaming in a guy's face while also screaming through the earhole of a helmet -- imagine how that happens. Funny enough, my Mom had heard these stories before I went to the school and she told me that if the same thing was still going on (in the early 2000's she said this hahahaha) and it happened to me, that I better make it a point to not do whatever it was that caused the coach to rip my head around in a circle. haha. She's from the South and at least a few times in my life made me go outside and pick my own switch, haha. She had heard a lot of stories. Nothing wrong with acting right, I guess.
I remember asking the guy (and a couple others who played for him) about guys hating him. They all told me that nobody really hated him. Sure, he cussed and screamed and ranted and raved, but he didn't ask anything of anyone that they weren't capable of accomplishing. They all said he didn't care so much about winning, but he just cared about everyone doing THEIR ABSOLUTE BEST!!! His theory was that if everyone, in every game, put out a performance that they were totally proud of, they would win every one of those games. Don't be mistaken, he didn't play no bullchit, but he was very good at being able to look at a play and know whether the player in question was going 100% and he just flat out demanded that 100%. All the guys I've talked to told me of scenarios where guys who maybe weren't that great at football, but put out a great effort at practice one day, were sent to the showers early before conditioning because they had already earned that day of practice.
This sort of "style" would never fly these days, but he impacted people in a way that can't be matched by most coaches. Sure, he could have cursed less, but that doesn't take away from what he imparted on kids. Anyway, it's just a story.
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Post by tippecanoe41 on Jul 26, 2017 20:19:06 GMT -6
I really don't like it. Every year I took our team we did well enough that the groupie/helicopter dads who watched thought we should be throwing more. They'd come up and say after watching our best WR torch the other teams JV kid (starter had summer baseball) I was dumb for not using his son (the QB) and the the WR more. Now I DO like it for D. We can see who can cover and just as importantly who can't. Yah, once had a school board member who had a friend who's son was QB if I remember the relationship correctly. Anyway, we had actually done the math on how bad it was for us when we dropped back to pass. He was the best we had, but not good. Many issues I could get into. We had a good run game, so we didn't feel the need to force the pass. Having a pretty good season, but this kid kept complaining that we didn't pass on 3rd and 5 because it was mathematically better for us to try a base run play every time. Anyway, the guy showed up at one of our practices. First time I remember seeing a school board member show up for any reason other than just to say, "hey coach, doing a good job, keep it up, etc." Anyway, within a couple days he found a way to meet up with our HC to have a conversation. Tried to be nonchalant about it. But, eventually, it came down to him saying it was weird that we passed so much during the summer 7 on 7 league but we don't pass much in regular season. Our coach had to inform him that we aren't allowed to run the ball in 7 on 7, along with the math we had worked out on our pass game. I think there are benefits, but everyone, including fans on the outside and even us as coaches needs to understand that it is not at all like a normal pass play in a game, at least to me. Even the 3 step quick game, where pass rush wouldn't be involved anyway, you still have to realize that the reactions of the secondary players are different than if there's 11 guys on the field. So in some aspects your pass game is better than you think it is after a 7 on 7 loss, but in other ways your pass game isn't near as good as you think it is after a 7 on 7 win.
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Post by tippecanoe41 on Jul 26, 2017 20:00:23 GMT -6
We use some sort of Reminder program-- not sure if it's called Remind 101, for sure. I think it works well. We have a lot of parents who aren't highly involved, exactly. But if you send out a message on Tuesday that says, "We have weightlifting and open field practice tomorrow that will be important for guys to learn what they need to work on between now and fall camp if they want to compete for a position." etc. The parents will then at least tell their kids that they better get to the practice rather than hanging around at the house and telling their parents that the practice is just totally voluntary and not important. Just a for instance.
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Post by tippecanoe41 on Jul 25, 2017 22:59:16 GMT -6
Not sure how this fits into the discussion, but I remember at some point probably 10 years ago or so hearing someone say that MMA was safer than boxing in the long run because since they have very thin gloves in MMA, so any big punch where a fighter "catches" the other fighter will end up with the lights being turned out on that guy and the fight being over, immediately. It might look a lot more violent or scary, but it's technically safer than boxing because so many boxers get tagged pretty repetitively during a fight, but since they have thick gloves, they get a whole bunch of "almost-concussions" rather than just one big hit that puts them out and ends the fight.
I played recently enough that we had pretty much the same helmets as these "new-age" helmets of today; I also played with a coaches who told me, specifically, to put my facemask in the QB's ear hole if he was looking at an OLB to decide whether to pitch or keep. I remember hitting RB's helmet to helmet and seeing them helped off the field only to return the next quarter. Today, there's ZERO chance they'd be allowed to return after that. Also, NONE OF US would have a job if we relayed this type of coaching to our players.
I remember hearing a story of a game that took place about 15-17 years ago that, today, if the story was true, would have coaches for the team in question in handcuffs. This coach tells me that at half time they had beat an opposing RB, according to him, to the point that the go-to RB was LITERALLY bleeding out of his ears, the way he tells it--won't swear to it because I wasn't there to see it actually happen and I'm sure by the time he heard the "bleeding out of the ears" part, it was at least second hand because he wasn't in the trainer's office to examine the kid during halftime, obviously. They were worried about the kid as far as health, but at the same time found a little bit of happiness about the fact that they wouldn't have to deal with the only RB the opposing team had for the 2nd half. To his disbelief, that kid came out after half time and played every offensive down and gained a ton of yards to help the opposing team win.
I remember times of taking on a lead back on blast at waist height at the same time that he decided to take me (LB) on at waist height. You can imagine this ended up being helmet to helmet, dead on contact at dangerous speeds. I remember a couple times this caused me to need to be shook in the huddle to snap me back to the reality that I was playing football and in a huddle.
These scenarios make me realize that, Yah, it's likely that that sort of impact on your brain is probably a bad deal in the long run, and I coach all players to keep their head out of things on both sides of the ball, but I think that the best way to put out intelligent information is always to have studies that are done in the correct manner. When you have studies that aren't done in the correct manner (I haven't read this article, but some have stated that its cross-section is not adequate to do a truly great study), you only serve to allow people to keep their sense of skepticism if they have any.
Anyway, just telling stories. I definitely agree that we need to keep heads out of football, but I want to make sure that we don't create unnecessary fear if it isn't due, etc.
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Post by tippecanoe41 on Jul 24, 2017 19:45:14 GMT -6
I might renege on this if it actually happened, but I've always said that rather than having a team full of 8-9 / 10 athletes with little football knowledge and that "get it" thing you're talking about, I'd rather have 6-7 /10 athletes with great football minds, BY FAR.
I have watched so many films of us getting beat in games, and the instance where I look at a play that went bad for us and just say "yah, he was way better than us, nothing we could do on that play" is very, very rare. At least 9 out of 10 times, I see it as our kid being too far upfield, or at the wrong angle, or too high, or hitting with the wrong shoulder, or even beyond those procedural fixes, think about kids with great minds who realize the difference in slight adjustments by the offense and the down and distance and so on, to know what to expect. Flat out, I've always been someone who said that about 90 percent of the things that make you a good player in high school football require very little pure physical talent.
If you can mix a football brain with athleticism, then you've got it made for sure.
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Post by tippecanoe41 on Jul 20, 2017 20:45:54 GMT -6
If I assume correctly that you must have quite a few freshmen out playing football each year (since you are combining 6 middle schools) I'd have a freshmen team. Flat out. We've done it with as few as 16-18 kids in the past. They had a coach or two and they were the freshmen team. They might do some individual drills that didn't involve huge collisions but they did as much as possible with just their class. We've found it helps to not get a kid killed and start thinking football sucks, and also it keeps them together and having that feeling of solidarity and they say "WE" a lot more.
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Post by tippecanoe41 on Jul 20, 2017 20:36:19 GMT -6
Never been in a situation that was this short on coaches. Best I can suggest is to get with your seniors and other leader type kids and work through as many drills as you think they can handle for them to run their own drills. It's a tough dynamic, but it could work if you teach them how to handle the drills correctly with the correct type of attitude toward each other.
I'd think you would really have to lay out very specific drills so that a kid won't have to be accountable for seeing small nuances. Meaning-- if you have a play where your guard kicks out, don't just tell the kids to do it and tell guys to make sure the guy is working upfield. Instead, actually go out on the field and paint a line for the guard to put his feet and a line he should run down and make contact on his kickout so that it's cut and dry as to whether he took the correct path, etc.
I'd also try to make drills take place in as close proximity to each other as possible so that I could jump between drills and try to see as much of each drill as possible, or at least if there is a question you can tell all other groups to go and you go to that group to sort it out.
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Post by tippecanoe41 on Jul 15, 2017 23:56:08 GMT -6
I'd love to start making decisions on starters based on who studies the most. But, when I start thinking like this, I have to remind myself that these players aren't like me. I was a guy who studied A LOT!!! Things made sense to me drawn out on paper and I made a lot of tackles on defense based on my study of game film of the opponent. However, I have to realize that not every kid watches game film the same way that I did. With this, I have to come to the realization that if they don't watch it the same way that I do/did, then they might as well not be watching it if it is going to give them bad ideas because they aren't watching it the way that I want them to--so if they don't understand football the way that I do, then they won't be watching film the way that I want them to, so why worry about trying to make it happen, etc. Also, I have to realize that I'm not at a school within a community where parents are going to stress it to their kids. Because of this, we'll end up with kids who have no chance of seeing the field watching a ton of film and kids who are on the edge of starters vs. subs watching very little. I can't change how athletic a kid is, no matter how much I want to.
Over the years, perhaps I've just decided (very much subconsciously, not to be so tough), but I know how often kids watch film, and I realize that if I don't specifically teach it to that kid (not just that position), then I can't possibly say that I've made sure that every kid has learned it. Like it or not, it's the fact. Because of this, I've just decided that I want to do as few things on offense and defense as possible, since I have to walk our team through every single aspect of it. Very few coverages, very few stunts, very few checks (both sides of the ball).
I can continue complaining about the fact that they haven't learned some obscure coverage based on their independent film study, or I can make them really good at 3 basic coverages that I teach them personally, no big deal. In high school, at least in the conference and sectional that I play in, it doesn't matter as long as I'm ready to say we do this one already, etc.
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Post by tippecanoe41 on Jul 14, 2017 20:39:45 GMT -6
We're definitely not close to two platoon. We go through O and D and put the best at every position. If a guy is a 2-way starter, we look at #2's in his poisitons. Let's say on Offense he's an A and replacement is B and on Defense he's A and his replacement is A-, we're more likley to say he'll play offense because the tradeoff is minimal the other way. But, we try to be in pretty great condition, and hope that we can start both ways and then get some reps off here and there based on down and distance if there's a guy who we really want to have on the field every play.
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Post by tippecanoe41 on Jul 12, 2017 21:58:52 GMT -6
You'd be surprised how many local business, etc. will donate if you just go ask them. Tell them what you're intending to do with the money. Give them a thank you package. Put their name in the program at games with a thank you note. Etc. I have always been surprised how much they've given. Just my community, so can't promise anything, but it's worth a shot.
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Post by tippecanoe41 on Jul 10, 2017 21:31:16 GMT -6
Real old school idea but worked for me for about 35 years: fold your game plan paper and put it in your back pocket. I laugh because I see so many people worry about holding up posterboards to call plays because it must be necessary since such and such college does it, but, to be fair, I was at practice today, and it rained so bad that my practice schedule in my backpocket became a watered down, paper mush blob. haha
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Post by tippecanoe41 on Jul 9, 2017 1:19:58 GMT -6
It's kind of a funny situation, but I'll tell it anyway. We've had a guy at our school who has done "the book" from the press box for years. Each play gets put down as a gain of 7, loss of 2, interception, who intercepted it, for how many yards return, etc. etc. He's a good guy who likes doing his part for the program, but he's just not very good at keeping book. haha. luckily, we've got a guy who can quickly watch film as we're loading it on Hudl (which we do right after games, just to get it out of the way and get the trade going) and figure it all out to quickly fix the mistakes (not saying every play is wrong, but there's always more than one, haha) to at least be much closer to actual numbers than the book we get. Then we fax that report to the newspapers.
As I type this, I'll also say that we have a scoreboard operator that DOES NOT give us the home field advantage on the clock, haha. He is stopping it at exactly the instant an incomplete happens, before the official signals, even if it's 30 seconds left and they're driving to try to beat us when we're up by 2. Not saying I want to cheat, but I wouldn't hate it if his reflexes weren't as great as they are. haha
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Post by tippecanoe41 on Jul 7, 2017 22:15:23 GMT -6
With summer stuff going full on now and even some states starting HS football at the end if July, im looking for some comfy shoes for coaching. Shoes or insoles, whatever....what have people found that their feet dont hurt after being on them for hours at a time and can hold up to the dirt, grass, dew, rain, etc that coaches experience. I'm not real huge in thinking about the different shoes that I use from one day to the next. Probably just not old enough yet HAHA ...... I do know, however, that I like a decent pair of shoes. Beyond that, I know that my old man (wasn't a coach, but an HVAC guy who worked ridiculous hours each day), was once told by a doctor (he started with his back being absolutely awful, then his legs, then his feet) that he should have 7 pairs of shoes-- 1 for each day. The doctor (not sure what type of doctor it was, but the thought process remains) told him to have a pair of shoes, even if they weren't the highest quality shoes, for each day of the week--he couldn't afford expensive shoes, regardless of what the doctor had told him. There was something about how shoes would remember his feet from day to day and cause problems but if he switched pairs from day to day he'd have much less pain (he had pain through his whole body, realistically). It has worked for him to change his shoes each day. Like I have said, I'm not exactly sure of the reasoning behind the move, or the doctor who said it, but I do believe in having a lot of different pairs. Could be totally wrong, but I've seen it work to an extent. >>>>>
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