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Post by famar on Nov 14, 2017 19:20:48 GMT -6
Related question, do your states have a maximum number of overtimes in a regular season game before a tie is declared? In New Jersey it's three and I was curious about other states.
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Post by famar on Nov 13, 2017 13:19:31 GMT -6
Being from Southern New Jersey, I am familiar with this guy, and to call him a loose cannon would be a bit of an understatement. He has a knack for wearing out his welcome and burning bridges. He's in year two at Winslow Twp., and after this incident he may be getting closer to that point. coachkeating33, where in South Jersey are you at?
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Post by famar on Oct 28, 2017 13:33:36 GMT -6
My team lost 58-0 last night. The team we lost to came in 6-0 and we were 1-5, they're very good and we're very bad, so the result really wasn't a surprise.
Second half started 35-0 with a running clock, they returned the kickoff for a 95 yd TD to make it 42-0. They scored two more TD's, again no surprise, but on the first one they faked the extra point and threw for a 2 pt conversion, and on the last TD they went TE pop pass for the 2 pt conversion.
Bottom line, we were pissed that they decided to rub it in our face, but we were also pissed that for a majority of the game, it looked like our kids didn't compete.
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Post by famar on Oct 23, 2017 12:21:48 GMT -6
My junior year in high school we added a school to our schedule, another local Catholic school that was playing a partial league schedule before joining the league fully the following season. There was bad blood between our school and theirs well before the game, as their head coach had been an assistant at our school as late as the year before (walked off the field one day because his son, the starting QB, had been benched), and every coach on their staff was a former player or coach or both at our school. One guy in particular was talking a lot in the week leading up to the game. So we play the game, we win 13-0, and as we are going through the hand shake line, one of our assistant coaches winds up and punches the coach from the other team that had been talking (ironically, they we were high school teammates). At that point all hell broke loose, with two football teams, coaching staffs,and the fans from two teams on a football field engaged in a full scale brawl. The local police had to come out to disperse the crowd and restore order, which took about 30 minutes. The end result was that the assistant coach from my school was given a 2 year coaching ban, and the following year the game had to be played at our place again because their local boro didn't want the headache of having to have enough cops on hand in case there was another brawl.
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Post by famar on Oct 6, 2017 23:38:10 GMT -6
18 years in and I'm back coaching Freshman football and hearing all kinds of great excuses:
Kd on our team goes to a performing arts school in our district and has to ride his bike to practice, he gets there about 15 minutes late every day but we know that he has no other way of getting there. Shows up Monday as practice is wrapping up, tells us a teacher "asked" him to stay after for extra help. The teacher emails and tells us he has a detention because he's playing on his cell phone during class.
Another kid, an absolute space cadet, misses Monday pratice, emails after practice starts that he is sick and won't be at practice. No big deal that he's sick, except that one of our coaches is his math teacher. Coach asks why he didn't tell him during the school day, kid says "I didn't think telling you during the school day was an appropriate time to be talking about football pratice."
We have a kid on our freshman team who has a kid. He has missed several practice because "he needs to spend time with his child."
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Post by famar on Oct 3, 2017 19:58:52 GMT -6
Refs are human, as are we, and they make mistakes, just like we do.
But what kills me are the blatantly obvious calls they miss. My main job is breaking down film, so I'm watching a lot of games every week, breaking down film of our current opponent and future opponents. The sh*t I've seen so far this year is baffling:
* Teams consistently lined up with 5 guys in the backfield and not getting flagged. * Receivers moving forward toward the line of scrimmage arena style and not getting flagged.
But this one that I saw about 15 minutes ago takes the cake. A team drops back to pass and attempts a Post/Wheel. There were actually 2 Wheel routes, one by the slot and the other by the LEFT TACKLE, a rather large kid wearing #77. Not only does he run a Wheel, but the QB actually attempts to throw the ball to him! It ended up in a Pick 6, but there was no flag for an ineligible receiver downfield, and this happened into the boundary in clear view of the side judge.
So officials in our league miss this sh*t, but usually early in the 1st quarter of every game, one team gets hit with a sideline infraction.
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Post by famar on Oct 3, 2017 12:19:52 GMT -6
Outside of a teammate in college, I don't think I've ever seen a kid wear #49.
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Post by famar on Sept 27, 2017 12:53:44 GMT -6
Our backup QB got concussed in our final scrimmage. Fast forward to game #1, he's in civilian clothes on the sideline, running back gets pushed out of bounds and collides with...the now newly reconcussed backup QB. Given that it's his third concussion in less than a year, his parents decided that it's best that he pack it in for 2017.
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Post by famar on Sept 27, 2017 12:40:13 GMT -6
Had a kid miss practice Monday because he was trying out for the surfing team.
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Post by famar on Sept 27, 2017 12:38:24 GMT -6
One of my favorite excuses all time is "Come on coach, its not a game, its only practice." Was it Allen Iverson?
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Post by famar on Sept 24, 2017 19:25:41 GMT -6
It's a no win situation. You try try do the right thing and not embarrass the other team, yet there's always some jackass coach who will accuse you of running up the score when you have 3rd string kids in running dive and they can't stop it.
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Post by famar on Sept 23, 2017 22:35:14 GMT -6
Not quite the deficits described above, but in 2015 we led a game 13-0 with 9:50 left in 1st quarter on two special teams touchdowns, stopped a fake punt inside their 20 with about 8 minutes left in the 1st quarter...and managed to lose 22-20. Later that year we led a 1st round playoff game 14-0 at halftime and 21-9 going into 4th quarter and ended up losing 23-21.
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Post by famar on Aug 31, 2017 21:37:25 GMT -6
Two new ones from this week:
* We had a freshmen scrimmage today, and 15 minutes into yesterday's practice one of our coaches gets an email with the freshmen physical list. Two of our players don't have physicals so we immediately pull them from practice. After practice we notify the head coach, and after he goes into his office, he informs us that those two kids actually do have physicals and that whomever sent the email was working from an old list.
* Found out Monday that our check for Hudl which was written July 1 had yet to be sent.
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Post by famar on Aug 15, 2017 7:04:09 GMT -6
An inside linebacker, which would allow us to move one of our current inside guys who is better suited to the outside.
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Post by famar on Aug 12, 2017 21:36:51 GMT -6
We have around 50 grades 10-12 with only 11 seniors, and around 25 freshmen. We had 2 defensive starters from last year that decided not to play this year, and a kid who showed promise last year hemmed and hawed all spring then waited until July to decide that he wanted to play, but had missed all of the summer stuff and was told don't bother.
There are two schools in this region (Southern NJ) that won't be fielding varsity teams this year. One is a very small school, Pitman, that has traditionally been a bottom feeder, finished last season with around 20 kids and was looking at around 20 again this year when they pulled the plug in May. The other school is a larger school, West Windsor-Plainsboro North, that's part of a two school town, they applied to the state to go co-op this year with the other school in town and got rejected so they shelved their varsity program. Wildwood, which I believe is the smallest public school in NJ that fields a varsity football team, always struggles with numbers (most years they are in the high teens to high twenties) and is always a threat to shelve their program.
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Post by famar on Jul 24, 2017 20:13:44 GMT -6
"I really like the extended homecoming halftime."
"There's not enough downtime before games."
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Post by famar on Jul 24, 2017 11:27:42 GMT -6
School has won two consecutive league titles, had the same HC for for four years now and by almost all accounts is an environment in which we have the best interest of the kids at heart. Two kids (both returning starters) are now enrolled at another school that's won 5 games in 3 years and has had 4 head coaches in 6 years. Come to find out their passing league coach is working on that campus and is good friends with the head coach. Idiotic parents and passing league clubs strike again. (Vent over) I don't know your kids or your situation, so I mean no offense, but if these kids could jump ship that easily, were they really worth having on your team?
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Post by famar on Jul 20, 2017 20:25:53 GMT -6
Probably already been said somewhere in this thread, and I apologize if I'm being redundant, but refs who ignore the rule book and come up with their own interpretations, or the ones who decide that you're up by enough points and see phantom penalties.
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Post by famar on Jul 19, 2017 22:17:33 GMT -6
Makes me think of something discussed in a micro econ class long ago about pricing. The prof had said that he firmly believed automakers could make cars that routinely could be driven for more than 1/2 million miles. Just not for $25,000. I wonder if they really are making some good engineering advances and the cost is reflected (research, materials, etc) or if companies are using the onslaught of head trauma new to make a buck In my opinion, it's probably a mixture of the two.
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Post by famar on Jul 13, 2017 20:47:36 GMT -6
The programs I've been a part of have done golf tournament with Chinese Auction, car washes, coin drops at the local Walmart, Dead-a-thon, barbecues, pasta dinners, team schedule poster. Chinese Auction? and coin drop? Chinese Auction was part of our Golf Tournament. We'd get community members/businesses to donate gift packages and a person buys x number of tickets and each prize (usually 70 to 75 different prizes) has its own pot. If you like an item, you put a ticket or as many tickets in the pot as you see fit. A winning ticket is drawn from each pot and the ticket holder gets the prize. Some examples of prizes we've had were movie tickets, tanning salon packages, weekends at a Bed and Breakfast, golf lessons, personal training sessions, Philadelphia Eagles' tickets, and autographed sports memorabilia. Coin drop is exactly what it sounds like. Our players would stand outside the local Walmart on certain Saturdays or Sundays in the spring with a bucket and people could make donations. We would usually do four weekends every spring.
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Post by famar on Jul 12, 2017 21:36:06 GMT -6
The programs I've been a part of have done golf tournament with Chinese Auction, car washes, coin drops at the local Walmart, Dead-a-thon, barbecues, pasta dinners, team schedule poster.
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Post by famar on Jun 21, 2017 21:20:55 GMT -6
The last couple of posts are one of the many reasons why 7on7 is not football... How about when coaches brag about winning 7 on 7 tournaments? Seriously, celebrate winning a league, district, sectional, or state championship.
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Post by famar on Jun 20, 2017 19:08:15 GMT -6
"While there's still daylight gentlemen."- for my scout team guys,who even though they know they're the scout team, look confused when I call for them.
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Post by famar on Jun 10, 2017 14:20:55 GMT -6
Wow where do I begin!! Wife (when my D.C. calls): "Hey your boyfriend's calling again! Wife (after making a huge pile of scrap papers with plays and old practice schedules): Do you really need all this {censored} or do you just think I need something to do around here? Wife (at the end of July): When do you get out of the house again? Wife (at the end of October) When is the last game again? Our kids are driving me phukin nuts! Wife (when an Amazon box arrives): Really, more coaching books? Me: I'm going to be home late, watching more film. Wife: That's ok, want me to bring you something to eat? Me (late on a Friday night): Staying out for a few beers Wife: Have fun! She truly is a saint and I'm extremely fortunate she puts up with me That's funny, when my best friend who I coach with calls my wife uses the boyfriend line, and when I call him his wife says the same thing.
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Post by famar on Jun 9, 2017 19:48:42 GMT -6
I'm in New Jersey. The league that my current school is in merged with a superconference this past season. The divisions within each league are based for the most part on enrollment/geography/tradition, but they are realigned every two years and your record the previous two seasons factors into which division you are placed in. However, for playoff purposes it is still based entirely on enrollment.
Before we merged with the superconference, we tried a 2 year experiment in 2012 and 2013. In an 18 team league, they ranked the teams 1 through 18 based on the number of wins from the previous two seasons. Teams 1-9 were placed into the "Big School" division, and teams 10 through 18 into the "Small School" division. It resulted in the biggest school in the league with about 2500 students in the small school division and the two smallest schools which had 400 and 600 students in the big school division. After that we went back to using enrollment.
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Post by famar on Jun 6, 2017 20:17:09 GMT -6
"See you in December."
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Post by famar on May 25, 2017 18:29:03 GMT -6
I work in an alternative school, so this issue is particular to my daily existence but it may apply to some of you as well:
When your supervisor, who has a background in social work and not education, tells you and the teacher you work with how to run your classroom, and when her ideas prove to be wrong she comes back and tells you to run it a different way, which happens to be how you were running it in the first place.
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Post by famar on May 24, 2017 18:47:53 GMT -6
Just wondering, how often does your staff meet as a whole? In the off-season and during the season? School I'm at now we rarely meet. I like it because I can plan on being home at a certain time, and I very much appreciate that the Head Coach values my time. However, I think we could meet more just in terms of everyone having one consistent understanding of what we are doing, gameplan, etc. The staff that I'm on meets once in January, then twice a month from February through May, and then once again in June. The two meetings a month are usually split one offense and one defense. We don't have spring football in New Jersey, so our offseason "workouts" begin in July. During the season, we meet twice a week, Saturday morning for our post-mortem and to begin to think about our upcoming opponent, then again Monday night after we've had a chance to review film on our opponent and to put together the game plan.
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Post by famar on May 19, 2017 18:00:39 GMT -6
I've coached receivers for a good part of my career, and about 4 years ago I had a kid who held all the time. In 3 preseason scrimmages he had 5 holding penalties. I racked my brain for a solution and I found a bunch of my wife's old oven mitts. No more holding penalties after that. After that we came up with the idea of "Winning the fist fight in a phone booth". Basically, two receiver, both with mitts on, pair up inside a square painted on the practice field, the whistle blows, and they stalk block each other until one is pushed out of the box, with the loser doing up downs.
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Post by famar on May 15, 2017 19:05:03 GMT -6
I'm an instructional aide in an alternative school. All of our kids are diagnosed with something and they all have IEP's. We have ADHD kids, kids with OCD, and kids with Asperger's, yet for the most part, these aren't the kids with these things. My rhetorical question, and it may have already been asked, is if a kid is supposed to spin this thing to help him or her concentrate, how can they actually concentrate on their school work if all they're doing is spinning this god*amned thing?
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