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Post by CatsCoach on Dec 30, 2005 6:11:51 GMT -6
Marcus Allen and Roger Craig. Jerry Rice too....
On Defense, Ronnie Lott was the Man. I have only seen high lights of Dick "Night Train" Lane also is a fav of mine
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Post by CatsCoach on Sept 20, 2005 10:50:43 GMT -6
New coach here,
I wanted to say that this is such a great site. Right now i'm coaching youth 8-9 & 10 year old, i'm the OC for the team. We don't run anything fancy, some I and Split back with a wing, wishbone and double wing.
In HS i played WR in an I offense and a little CB on D
Glad I found this site and I looking forward to learning a lot from all of you guys.
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Post by CatsCoach on Jul 13, 2007 6:09:14 GMT -6
Living: Mike Martz Buddy Ryan Bobby Bowden
Dead: Eddie Robinson Vince Lombardi Sid Gillman
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Post by CatsCoach on Jan 26, 2007 7:53:47 GMT -6
I remember when George Mason started there Club Team. A few of my Highschool team mates played for them. I keep forgetting Mason has a Club team. I know when they first started out they where a run-n-shoot team.
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Post by CatsCoach on Dec 30, 2006 7:10:18 GMT -6
Looks like i missed a good one, I fell asleep a the start of the 2nd half!
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Post by CatsCoach on Feb 25, 2008 12:25:40 GMT -6
"Flip Right Double X Jet 36 Counter Naked Waggle at 7 X Quarter" by Jon Gruden can anyone translate this one??? My guess: "Flip Right Double"----formation "X jet"------motion "36 Counter Naked Waggle at 7"------play fake, and to where the QB is going to set up "X Quarter"------tag for X that tells the rest of the rec.'s what they are running (kinda like Air Raid says "H-shallow" and the rest of the rec.'s know what to do) my guess That would be my guess also. Sound good to me dubber
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Post by CatsCoach on Nov 7, 2007 13:12:42 GMT -6
We have run a version of the 44 the last 2 years(5th-6th grade) and run cover 3 and this year we did more man to man even some match up man to man.
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Post by CatsCoach on Apr 5, 2007 10:23:13 GMT -6
Huey, I love this site, I have learned so much from everyone here. If i have questions I know where to come and get answers. I mean this site is my morning news paper.
Thanks Huey
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Post by CatsCoach on Nov 7, 2007 12:33:42 GMT -6
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Yeah, I mean...maybe it's just me being selfish, but I much prefer the questions that allow some of the experts we have here on the board to flex their muscle and answer with some of their knowledge and experience.
That promotes more LEARNING and not just an exchange of materials or ideas.[/quote]
I couldn't agree more with you. I have leard so much about the game and coaching from this site, from the guys that have been doing it a lot longer than I have.
This is a great thread. In my 4years of coach im so glad that i have not been that guy that has said "lets run what Texas and Vince Young runs". ect....What I have learned is run what you know best but be able to adjust in and when need be. The main thing is teach the fundamentals of the game blocking and tackling, it all start there.
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Post by CatsCoach on Jun 15, 2006 10:36:40 GMT -6
I think that the kids need to be taught the basics of football. Along with teaching them discipline, a love for the game and a never quit attitude in what ever system they are playing in. Now where I’m at we don’t have a middle school program. Our youth program is from ages of 7 all the way up to16. Now we also go by weight, so it the combo of weight and age. Some of our coaches have got help from the high school(s). The town that I live in the kids in our organization will go to one of 3 high schools, so there is no way for us to have any kind of feeder program.
It really comes down to the kids learning the fundamentals of the game, that’s most important. Just my lowly 2 cents
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Post by CatsCoach on Jan 5, 2006 10:26:15 GMT -6
I would have gone for it with the way white was running up the gut
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Post by CatsCoach on Apr 6, 2006 5:20:36 GMT -6
Bobby Bowden Sid Gillman Joe Gibbs Bubby Ryan Bill Parcels
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Post by CatsCoach on Jan 5, 2006 6:24:32 GMT -6
Yes, A great game.....I was pulling for USC, I could watch that game all over again. VY took over the game put UT on his sholder and showed his stuff. I was very impressed with VY. Where i'm at we don't get many UT games at all, so that was my first real look at VY. I
I do have the same questions that thekid has....... Why did reggie try to pitch the ball? and why didn't they call a time out after the Knee TD??
congrats UT
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Post by CatsCoach on Feb 21, 2007 6:48:34 GMT -6
congratulations dude
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Post by CatsCoach on Jan 22, 2008 23:24:37 GMT -6
Also...would like to thank all the coaches on this site because this site is a coaches clinic every day.
Mike
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Post by CatsCoach on Jan 22, 2008 23:20:48 GMT -6
Well then, id be willing to bet that which ever hs staff pours the most support into the youth program gets what they want. I played at a jr high that fed rival schools...guess what, we ran our own system...but years later after a state title was one by the other school (one of four) the jr high bought in and ran the state champs stuff (sort of) so , they got their feeder program by EARNING IT not by demanding it. We are in a unique situation, both coaching staffs put support into our youth program, even though only one of the school put on a clinic. And both school have been very successful, one of them won states this past season. I think as long as a HS wants to put on a clinic, they should just teach the fundamentals of blocking and tackling and also go over some of there schemes and philosophy and then any coach that wants to go over things in greater detail can and use it if they want. We are a large youth program, and we get some really good coaches most are just dad, but some are coaches from the local High schools who have kids in our program or use to have kids in the program and still enjoy coming out and teach the little kids. Just my MHO! And each situation is also different! Just me 2cents Mike
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Post by CatsCoach on Jan 18, 2008 10:36:24 GMT -6
Let me add to this thread. you dont even have to have a clinic if you make videos of techniques, chalk talk, drills and even provide coaching manuals. why coaches are too lazy to do this...well i dunno. being a dwer it is easy enough for me to send my practice and drills manual to my youth coaches. Totally agree coach! ;D
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Post by CatsCoach on Jan 18, 2008 7:39:14 GMT -6
It shouldnt be too much to ask that a coach at the lower level number his backs the same and use the same hole numbering and motion terms and even formation names. It shouldnt be too much to ask that they teach some of the basic oline schemes such as power, sweep, counter, trap and iso... Coachcalande, I do agree with on that. But in our case(our porgrams case), it would not work! Half the kids on the team that I coach would go to one HS and the other half would go to the other. The HS are about 7miles apart. I guess it just come down to are the kids taught the fundamentals of how to block and tackle.
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Post by CatsCoach on Jan 18, 2008 7:29:27 GMT -6
One of our local HS put on a clinic for your youth program. Our youth program is not a feeder program because our kids end up going to 1 of 2 near by high schools, so we run our own stuff on O and D. With that being said the HC coach of the High school spoke on how they run thing at practices and what makes them succesful, ect. Then his different asst(position) coaches spoke on different drill and techniques that we could use/teach at each position. One of our youth coaches ended using there zone blocking scheme. I would say the clinc was very good for us youth coaches. I hope they put on another clinc this off season. I'm a HS coach and we had a clinic for youth coaches (it wasn't well attended so we never did another) and that's what we did. The HC spoke about organization and such and we assistants talked about technique and drills. We have no middle school football and the youth program is not a feeder program so they run whatever they want. The clinc that was very well attended. It was most coaches from our youth program and then some coaches from very near by youth program and a few other coaches mixed in also from our area. Like you Phantom our middle school(s) don't have football either. Everything is youth until they get to HS.
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Post by CatsCoach on Jan 18, 2008 6:53:16 GMT -6
One of our local HS put on a clinic for your youth program. Our youth program is not a feeder program because our kids end up going to 1 of 2 near by high schools, so we run our own stuff on O and D. With that being said the HC coach of the High school spoke on how they run thing at practices and what makes them succesful, ect. Then his different asst(position) coaches spoke on different drill and techniques that we could use/teach at each position. One of our youth coaches ended using there zone blocking scheme. I would say the clinc was very good for us youth coaches. I hope they put on another clinc this off season.
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Post by CatsCoach on Nov 1, 2007 6:04:04 GMT -6
Yeah, league schedules can really kill you. It always helped us when we would scrimmage a team one weight class from up from us.
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Post by CatsCoach on Feb 13, 2008 11:17:55 GMT -6
Last season an all rookie age 7-9 team and a fairly veteran group of 10-11s. The games are always back to back. The vets were easy to coach, BUT holding them accountable to playing to full potential was a bit of a struggle. We use a very modular practice methodology and I have assistants that arent pushy. It helped that I coached most of the older kids 1 year and my system has been very stable for last 8 seasons. Side by side but seperate groups so we could build the same way for both teams, about 1/2 of practice this way. Other 1/2 is team where they are totally seperate. About 2/3 of the coaches with me for 2-3 years now. Either had one team by itself one day each week or started one team later (they leave later) than the other so I could get 30 minutes of uninterrupted team with each team every practice. Will do the same next season, system is fairly easy to put in and coach and we dont waste any time. By petition they said they wouldnt send their kids if I didnt coach the older team too . I will give it a try and see, who knows. Probably a one year deal, will have to say no for once Good luck this coming season coach
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Post by CatsCoach on Feb 13, 2008 9:01:15 GMT -6
YEs and no. Last year I was the HC of 2 teams. This year because of some petition, I will HC 3 teams. Wow, How did you manage coaching 2 teams? And now it will be 3 Wow
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Post by CatsCoach on Feb 11, 2008 11:54:06 GMT -6
Welcome coach.....I too can't wait until the 08 seasone starts, I stay excited about football!! I will be coaching mostly 7th graders here in Virginia. I'm on this site almost everyday!!
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Post by CatsCoach on Feb 15, 2008 12:42:27 GMT -6
Do you consider tackle over calls as being different formations? If not, our 7-9 yo's used about 3-4 formations and had about 15 plays. OL responsibilities were basically the same across the board which made it easier to move the skill players around. Good question coach! I don't think that I consider tackle over another formation. We didnt do tackle over, we would move the gaurd(same concept of course).
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Post by CatsCoach on Dec 31, 2007 14:47:07 GMT -6
new coach: What age and what system and formations? The kids where 10-12(most where 11 and we had one 9 year old). We ran out of an off-set I with a wing. We just called strong left or right and we use the wishbone. Those where are 3 formations. For the playoff we just split the wing out wide. And really we run off-tackle, sweep and a counter back away from the wing to the FB. That is about it, very simple!!
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Post by CatsCoach on Dec 29, 2007 10:30:59 GMT -6
We only had 3 formation and only ran about 5 different run plays and 2 pass plays. We were able to make slight adjustments base on the D we faced but nothing major and the blocking rules for the O-line stayed the same(ex. normally we would run 36 lead, might just have to adjust and run 34 lead base on the D). Also made a slight formation adjustment durning the playoffs.
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Post by CatsCoach on Mar 28, 2008 8:51:21 GMT -6
We play by HS rules, except for the following: 1. At our intermediate and developmental levels, all players must play full time on either offense or defense, for the full game, with no substitutions (except for injury). Monitoring is easy because the bench has to clear at each change of posession. Our maximum team size is 22. If you use kids to run plays, they must also play on the other side of the ball (2 way players). Our teams are usually between 16 and 20 players, so most teams have a few kids that play both ways and the rest play one way. Our advanced level has similar team size "recommendations" (not required) and player participation "recommendations" (not required). Note: If an advanced coach picks players and doesn't play them, the coach will not be coaching for long. 2. We have an age and weight matrix 3. Clock is 10 min qtrs. 4. 2 points for kicking extra point there are a few minor things, like we line up in overtime closer to the endzone, but nothing significant... Number 1 is one of the reasons our league is one of, if not the biggest independent league in the country. Kids play, so they have fun and get better... and come back the next year. go to www.fcyfl.org and click the top link for Teams and Schedules to get a feel for the number of teams. I think we're getting close to 350-400 teams... Same for us! We play in fcyfl also.
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