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Post by fkaboneyard on Jan 6, 2020 11:35:16 GMT -6
There's a school in my area that has a "Bible Bowl". Two Christian schools that hate each other lol.
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Post by fkaboneyard on Oct 21, 2019 8:33:38 GMT -6
I am not the HC so there are limits to what I can do. In indy time I go through what we need to go through as quickly as possible and then we split into 2 teams. We have some kind of competitive game where the winning team members get a candy bar. Monday thru Wednesday, I choose two kids who "won the day" at the end of practice. One is a lineman, one is a scout team player. My wife shows up at the end of practice with two number 1 combos from In-n-Out and they go to the two winners. You've never seen so many kids want to play line or scout team. I thought I would get pushback from parents - "I don't want my kid eating that crap before dinner..." but the kids absolutely go crazy for it. More than once I've had a kid tell me before practice, "Coach, my mom is making tuna casserole for dinner, I gotta win the day."
If I could shorten practice a day a week I would but that's not my call.
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Post by fkaboneyard on Oct 19, 2019 10:00:06 GMT -6
Last night the opposing team threw a pass and our cornerback picked it on our own 24 yard line. During his return (which he took to the house) a goofball lineman blocked a kid in the back, right in front of an official who threw a flag. They proceeded to hand the ball back to the offense and tacked on 10 yards. When the HC protested - "the block in the back happened after my guy picked it" - the white hat said, "It doesn't matter." When the HC further protested the white hat bounced the HC. The entire crew was bad and they were fighting with each other all night. Craziest thing I've ever seen.
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Post by fkaboneyard on Oct 14, 2019 12:02:09 GMT -6
This week we had a sideline warning on the first play where everyone, except the ball boy was a full yard behind the line. The HC asked wth is going on and he said, "I always set the tone early. This is MY sideline." You can imagine how the rest of the game went. Start following the rules and have everyone 2 yards back. There's always one. It was a full yard behind the the official's box.
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Post by fkaboneyard on Oct 13, 2019 11:15:21 GMT -6
This week we had a sideline warning on the first play where everyone, except the ball boy was a full yard behind the line. The HC asked wth is going on and he said, "I always set the tone early. This is MY sideline." You can imagine how the rest of the game went.
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Post by fkaboneyard on Oct 1, 2019 6:46:13 GMT -6
I was in a program where the HC wanted to move everybody up because he thought it made the program look bigger. I will admit that seeing 70 kids on the sideline when the other team only has 15-20 is impressive. But most, if not all, of the kids moved up didn't serve any real role on the team. During practice they were expected to do the conditioning and then stand and watch for two hours. Most of the kids weren't really able to do that and ended up screwing around. They ended up being a distraction to both players and coaches. I can't say I really blame the young kids, at 14 I don't think I could have held it together 5 days a week, 2 hours a day. It was worth it in the HC's mind but the opinion of AC's and regular varsity players was that it was not worth it. If I were in charge I would ask them to come up but I would also make it clear what was expected of them.
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Post by fkaboneyard on Sept 25, 2019 21:20:28 GMT -6
The dad, in a facebook post, said that the kid told him to shut up. The video doesn't really seem to support that but nonetheless, the dad is out of line. The dad's approach is the equivalent of a sucker punch. I have no problem with him spinning the kid around and getting nose to nose with him. That dad lost control. You could see him brooding and then he snapped.
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Post by fkaboneyard on Sept 25, 2019 13:12:04 GMT -6
If I did that to a kid on our team I would expect to be fired. If I did that to my own son who was on the team I'd expect to be fired and have my packed bags waiting for me when I got home.
I feel worst for his son that is center stage in this circus.
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Post by fkaboneyard on Sept 24, 2019 13:23:36 GMT -6
I realize I'm probably in the great minority here but I think the reaction is what is making this a big deal. Kids have been insulting each other since the dawn of time. You give power to a couple of jackasses when a few backwards things said by them causes you to cancel an entire event. Sit them or bounce them from the team, now they are yesterday's news. When every molehill is made to be a mountain the true mountains are insurmountable. I understand your point, but in the past if you couldn't prove someone was doing something horrible, that was the end of it. Now, you can easily show when someone is an {censored}.
It's not that we're more sensitive to the behavior now, it's that the idiots are documenting their stupidity so they can be more easily punished.
Again, probably in the great minority here but kids saying rude/nasty things doesn't rise to the level of horrible in my opinion. For the most part, high school boys are dipshits. I'm not going to be surprised when they do something dipshitty. I'm going to save the "horrible" label for things like sexual assault, theft, physical assault, or if a group of kids surrounds a single kid and verbally assaults him to the point the kid feels his safety is in jeopardy. A couple of jackass kids making some backwards racial comments is awful and regrettable but it really says more about the kid saying it than it does the object of it.
I remember when I played a high school game against a team a kid yelled, "We effed your moms last night" and they all started laughing. A lot of guys were mad, there was some shoving, etc. but that was it. Our coaches separated us and told us, "They're just words. Unless they actually effed your moms last night who cares?" After the game we were walking back to the bus and a bunch of their fans started throwing bottles, rocks and sticks at us. THAT was different and the cops got involved.
I'm not excusing the behavior of the kids that did the offensive racial stuff. I get it. My immediate family looks like a UN conference - there's a white, a brown, a yellow, a black and two beige. We hear racial stuff all the time. I would try to educate those kids and if they doubled down on their ignorance they would be off my team. I just don't get blowing up the entire deal based on the behavior of a few.
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Post by fkaboneyard on Sept 23, 2019 10:51:01 GMT -6
I realize I'm probably in the great minority here but I think the reaction is what is making this a big deal. Kids have been insulting each other since the dawn of time. You give power to a couple of jackasses when a few backwards things said by them causes you to cancel an entire event. Sit them or bounce them from the team, now they are yesterday's news. When every molehill is made to be a mountain the true mountains are insurmountable.
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Post by fkaboneyard on Sept 19, 2019 7:58:06 GMT -6
Because it didn't happen to me, that's hilarious.
A few years ago we had a JV kid film the varsity game. For some inexplicable reason he opted not to use the tripod and elected to hold the cam in his hands. It happened that the kid had allergies and we were playing on a grass field next to some ag fields on a breezy day. So about every 30 seconds the view would slowly tip back and then violently slam forward when he sneezed.
Then there's all the times that kids... and even a few coaches used the zoom to look at cheerleaders, MILFs, etc. Whatever we get paid sometimes it isn't enough.
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Post by fkaboneyard on Sept 16, 2019 12:36:12 GMT -6
If you have to get drunk after your game, why not Uber or Lyft? That's what I would do. Seems like a no-brainer. A lot of areas of the country don't have Uber or Lyft or taxi service.
Well if there's no Uber or Lyft, that's different.
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Post by fkaboneyard on Sept 13, 2019 10:15:25 GMT -6
Twice the legal limit? Yes, he should be fired.
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Post by fkaboneyard on Sept 12, 2019 15:24:14 GMT -6
If they went somewhere else wouldn’t the 5 week clock reset? Not if "somewhere else" lied about it.
This. If they go somewhere else and that school lies then they are immediately eligible. Which is what happened with some of our kids. It's frustrating but it's the world we live in, I guess.
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Post by fkaboneyard on Sept 12, 2019 10:36:14 GMT -6
I'm in a program that graduated a ton of players but has had a shipload of kids transfer in. Only a couple are eligible due to valid change of residence, the rest all have a 5 week sit out period. The dads of these kids are a huge pain in the balls. Nearly all of them wanted us to lie to make them immediately eligible. Also, most of them show up to practice and stand around on the sidelines running their fat traps. It is very strange, the HC never allowed it in the past. But these kids that transferred in are so good that he is afraid to lose them by ticking off their fathers. So I'd say that I'm most annoyed by parents.
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Post by fkaboneyard on Sept 9, 2019 12:48:57 GMT -6
We played a game last week where the band - and they were a darn good band - were playing music louder than you can imagine. Our HC complained to the official who went to the opposing team's HC and told him to quiet them down or he was going to throw a flag on him. The HC tried to quiet them down but the band wouldn't hear it - this was their opportunity to perform and by golly, they were going to perform. It was actually pretty funny. The ref eventually threw a flag on them and their HC went nuts. Didn't matter, they kept playing. Our HC actually told the ref, "You know, I thought he had told them to play loud to screw with us but he legit seems like he wants them to stop. Don't throw any more flags on him, we'll just live with it." After the game the other team's coaching staff and our staff were laughing about. The HC talking about their band leader said, "That f----g guy makes me nuts, he thinks every football game is his chance to make it big." This is in California.
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Post by fkaboneyard on Aug 27, 2019 13:16:25 GMT -6
17 - Anyone else have a line/number like that? I've had that conversation with the coaches since I got here, 'What is the number that we cancel?' They never liked that conversation, never reached a real consensus on it. We were never close to that. But it was always in the 15-16-17 range. Now that I'm here at that number that conversation has a lot more meaning.
I think the number would have to depend on the types of kids. If you had 16 kids and 13 of them were fatties with 3 skill kids you could do it. If you had 16 kids and 3 of them were fatties with 13 skill kids it wouldn't be long until your skill kids got killed.
I once was on staff of a team that had 19 kids. We lost two to injury and 1 to grades. It was very, very difficult for a lot of reasons, not the least of which was that it was near impossible to get any kind of look in practice. Of the total 19 kids we only had 7 that were decent football players, the rest were goofballs. We didn't win a game all season and I hated it but I grew immensely as a coach that year. Good luck coach and hang in there.
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Post by fkaboneyard on Aug 22, 2019 19:46:12 GMT -6
Do you have it on good authority that this school is handing out free tuition? Quite frankly, most private schools are not doing well enough right now to hand out multiple free tuitions that would normally cost $30,000.
I have 100% authority. I also have it on 100% authority that a coach on their staff straight up contacted some of our kids and told them "you should be playing for us".
I agree that most private schools don't have the dough to hand out free tuition, I'd even say that VERY few do. But some absolutely do. There is one that is just an area code away from me that will give a full ride to a kid. If he's good enough they will give the kid's best friend 50% off to entice him to come - "Hey, you can come and bring your friend too!". And I realize that sounds outrageous but a very good friend of mine is a coach there and part of his job responsibilities is to find specific kids and make these offers. So it's happening.
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Post by fkaboneyard on Aug 22, 2019 15:07:26 GMT -6
I don't know if this is the right forum, mods feel free to move, it's really just a vent.
I'm in California and the CIF has specific rules about transfers - sit out periods, valid change of residence, etc. We've had a BUNCH of our kids poached by a neighboring private school this year. This neighboring school is a former powerhouse that wants to return to the glory days so they are basically giving a blank check to kids - literally free tuition (normally $30k a year). Our school gives no athletic aid (tuition is about $18k). I don't blame the families for moving their kids to the new school, the academics are outstanding and the financial savings is huge. I hate seeing them go but I understand their reasoning and I wish them well.
What makes me crazy is that the school that their new school lies to CIF to get them immediately eligible. You go onto the transfer website and it says, "Received. School has certified the VCR per CIF-SS guidelines." It's an outright lie. One of the kids lives next door to one of our players. He told me yesterday, "No coach, he didn't move, I was at his house swimming on Saturday afternoon."
High school sports is truly the wild, wild west out here.
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Post by fkaboneyard on Jul 25, 2019 10:52:42 GMT -6
We're a school of 650 or so and have the same issue. I have kids getting dressed in the parking lot coming in from work. Clearing mountain lots in 100 degree weather, cutting wood, running cattle/sheep/pigs/ranching, working electrical/construction with dad/uncle. One of my players was the acknowledged expert in pig breeding for the county, had been running his own pigs by the time he was 11. These ain't clerking at the Rite Aid, these are hard jobs. Come to the field dirty as hell, in shorts, t-shirt, carrying cleats, and wearing boots. They will go lift in their boots. They work hard when they are there, but they are working hard jobs and football is a diversion, not a priority.
These kids make the world a better place.
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Post by fkaboneyard on Jul 23, 2019 8:34:27 GMT -6
Before Week 1 we'll be tied for first. After that I'm not sure.
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Post by fkaboneyard on Jul 9, 2019 13:57:19 GMT -6
California - changed a couple of years ago... If you and your whole family move - you are instantly eligible.... Otherwise, you sit out half your season - regardless of reason... Our state could not police it all and it was getting abused in SoCal - so they changed to this blanket policy
What if parents are divorced?
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Post by fkaboneyard on Jun 24, 2019 10:17:14 GMT -6
On Saturdays after games our guys come in and do a lite lift and then some lite agility/cardio, then film. The whole process takes 2 hours. I'm not a S&C guy but our guy insists on it. We are a small school that can't afford to lose any kids to injury. The Saturday work certainly seems to have helped our kids stay healthy. I have no hard evidence to back that up other than the fact that the team had many more injuries - and kids said they were more sore on Monday - than when we instituted Saturday workouts.
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Post by fkaboneyard on Jun 19, 2019 15:01:54 GMT -6
These are interesting times we're in. After being a dumpster fire for years our baseball program has finally had success the past two years. I'm the baseball HC and a football AC. I've got kids telling me, "I don't want to play football because it will ruin my chances for baseball." I tell them, "Son, football will make you a better all-around athlete. I can't stress enough how much I think you should play other sports besides baseball." If I were not a football coach and was the protective type none of the baseball kids would be football or basketball kids.
I talked to a football coach at a nearby private school the other day. After going undefeated this past year their players are flying out of there, getting picked up by bigger programs that give athletic scholarships. His school gives zero athletic or academic merit aid, only financial aid based on a strict equation. He said they went from 55 kids down to 3 (not including incoming freshmen). They are terminating their football program because of it.
This is a crazy time to be coaching.
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Post by fkaboneyard on May 3, 2019 10:08:48 GMT -6
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Post by fkaboneyard on Apr 24, 2019 10:46:47 GMT -6
We had a kid – SUPER put together, athletic, and looked like he would easily play in the NFL someday. But he was the dramatic type that every minor inconvenience in his life was the end of the world. The HC loved the kid and only saw the kid’s upside, the OC hated the kid because, as he said, “The kid has a lot of quit in him.” To make matters worse his dad was Lavar Ball before there was a Lavar Ball and was constantly trashing the staff for not using his son properly. Around midseason the kid got dumped by his cheerleader girlfriend and he went into the toilet and cut practice twice. The HC made excuses for him and played him on Friday night. He was playing awful and at halftime the kid’s dad was wearing out the HC. Just before we were to receive the kickoff the kid was on the sideline shrieking and crying, “I’m having a heart attack!” It was clearly designed to elicit some kind of sympathy from his ex-girlfriend just 10 feet away. The HC had finally had enough and said, “To have a heart attack you have to have a heart. You have NO heart. Get your ass in the game.” Which made everybody around either gasp or laugh. The kid jumped up and ran onto the field, then broke off an 80+ KOR for a score. This is the same kid that literally took himself out of our playoff game that year because an opposing player got his finger into the earhole of his helmet and scratched his ear. He said he might go deaf from it. He went to a JC and washed out after two weeks of practice.
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Post by fkaboneyard on Apr 10, 2019 8:26:01 GMT -6
When I was a GA we had a kid who was our filmer, definitely had something, maybe on the spectrum, but certainly functional enough to get into college and graduate. Had one of those weird memories that certain things never left his brain. Nice kid but definitely opinionated. -Filmed a whole half in between plays (which I feel like we've all probably gone through at some point) -During practice would coach the players from the pressbox on camera, telling our WR's they were running the wrong routes, or our QBs made a terrible read, and he would legit talk to the camera like he was in a meeting, even occasionally turning it on himself in between plays to make an emphasis on a coaching point.. it would have been impressive if he knew what he was talking about -During a game, he spent the whole first quarter talking to the visitors filmer about the Packers, and then marvel comics until the other guy finally said "Dude, stop talking to me, I can't concentrate and I'm going to get fired" to which his response was, "I don't care about your job, you're going to have to sit here and deal with me all day long" We always turned audio off on Hudl so our kids wouldn't hear it but as coaches we would sit there for hours just laughing at his antics.
This is GOLD.
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Post by fkaboneyard on Apr 9, 2019 12:55:31 GMT -6
They owe it to their shareholders to make as much money for them as they can. ...
You said it yourself - it will work for them in the short term but they are slitting their own throats in the long term.
I mean...aren't these two statements contradictory? What they're doing now is for a short term boost in earnings at a substantial long-term loss. That's the problem with moves like these. They're trying to make $100 today at the expense of $1000 in a decade.
I don't think it's contradictory because I said it's short sighted. They could assure a solid, long term revenue stream by "reasonable" increases in cost - that would essentially keep anybody else out of the market. But when they come in and take a big bite out of our wallets somebody else is going to jump into the pool and now they're on shakier ground. Shareholders with a long term focus shouldn't like it.
Hudl should remember that pigs get fed, hogs get slaughtered.
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Post by fkaboneyard on Apr 9, 2019 10:14:31 GMT -6
how do you know the reason they're doing it? I highly doubt it's just to F cash strapped programs over. Like any business, they are most likely analyzing their overhead costs and adjusting accordingly. If they were going to do it just to screw people, they'd have done it a long time ago. Sure, it is impossible to "know" why any company does anything. But it is pretty easy to infer what is going on. In the post above, I lay out what their costs are for storage. This is a known number - their CTO is all over the internet talking about how they use AWS and which services they use, and AWS's pricing is transparent. If anything, that estimate is on the low side, as they probably have a special deal given how big a client they are. If they were simply trying to cover overhead, they could have introduced ala cart pricing for storage. Even at double their costs, that is still only about $50 a year per 100GB of data. But no, they instead chose to put hard limits on storage and want you to "upgrade" to a higher tier that costs between $800 and $1,600 more per year but only costs them a few dollars more in storage. So, are they trying to "F cash strapped programs"? That is a value judgement. But it is absolutely the effect of their policies to grab as much cash as they think the (presently inelastic) market will bear. And the reason they are doing it now is because they think they can - they have run all the major competitors out of the market, and they believe they have a sticky enough product that most customers don't want to go through the hassle and risk of changing. And they are probably right, at least in the short term.
Hudl doesn't owe me anything except to provide the service that I paid for. They owe it to their shareholders to make as much money for them as they can. They are not putting a gun to my head, forcing me to buy their product. I am an unabashed capitalist, I say more power to them. If I don't like it I can shoot it with a digital camera and do my own film time from a thumb drive or a DVD. It's not impossible it's just a pain in the balls. We did it with a middle school program about 12 years ago. The product wasn't as good and it was more time consuming but it was free.
You said it yourself - it will work for them in the short term but they are slitting their own throats in the long term.
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Post by fkaboneyard on Apr 9, 2019 8:50:11 GMT -6
A few months ago an old coach of mine came across some VHS tapes of teams that he coached (and I played on) way back in the day. Most had degraded terribly and only a couple were viewable. As I watched them I was struck by a couple things - how much more violent it was, how much more athletic today's kids are and how terrible the video quality was.
The video was just awful - we didn't even use a tripod, the camera was held by a nerdy kid with allergies who kept sneezing because of the freshly cut grass. So multiple times each game during a play the camera would rise slowly and then sharply drop. And at the time we thought having that VHS tape to watch was absolutely gold. Today it would be useless, unwatchable. I'm with silkyice, I don't like the price but it is the gold standard compared to what was.
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