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Post by canesfan on Apr 5, 2024 22:50:56 GMT -6
We went to wristbands on defense. Basically the Tony Franklin style but defensively.
Loved it. It gave us a ton of versatility in our pressures. It also let us adjust our zone coverage as well in unconventional ways for our area of the state.
Ended up playing exclusively spot drop coverages. Kids liked it and played comfortable. I’ve been a pattern read guy for a while, but we were so young 2 years ago we felt we needed to be really simple this year and let guys be confident.
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Post by canesfan on Jan 18, 2024 14:45:16 GMT -6
It was a dumb idea. I know a lot of people want their kid to wait to play football, but it shouldn’t be mandatory. My 7 year old plays ball and loves it. He has good coaches (thankful I don’t have to after varsity practice), and I didn’t see any collisions that were even remotely hard at that age.
We love football. He has fun playing football. At recess the kids in his grade have a touch football league they created.
Having been around all kinds of youth sports, youth football it doesn’t seem any more dangerous than any of the rest of them.
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Post by canesfan on Dec 13, 2023 21:12:05 GMT -6
Guys keep their numbers if they want. New guys pick afterwards. I couldn’t care less what numbers kids want, we let them pick. Line take linemen numbers, skill take skill.
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Post by canesfan on Nov 29, 2023 7:55:42 GMT -6
Sky kick.
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Post by canesfan on Oct 17, 2023 9:43:50 GMT -6
We started 1-5 and lost those five games by a total of 23 points.
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Post by canesfan on Mar 15, 2023 11:04:14 GMT -6
Order the big one. It’s an extra cost but the tunnels aren’t cheap anyway. Might as well go big for the difference in price.
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Post by canesfan on Feb 22, 2023 6:05:01 GMT -6
Had a summer practice move late due to heat (8-10 PM). A kid told me he had missed it because he wasn’t allowed to come as practice went past his bedtime. He wasn’t lying.
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Post by canesfan on Oct 4, 2022 17:01:06 GMT -6
This our district rival. It’s on the Adults. Head Coach, AD and principal. If I gave you a list of things they had done in games against us, you wouldn’t believe it. And it’s not just us. Just a dirty program that it’s impossible to root for.
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Post by canesfan on Oct 1, 2022 11:43:13 GMT -6
Our field is possibly the muddiest in America. You can’t inconvenience us with a bad field, wet field or rain. Our practice field is the only field I’ve ever seen with less grass than our game field.
When teams play us and it’s raining or late in the season here is what I see teams do:
Mistakes -Do Not Complain about the circumstances. We’ve had teams come in and their coaches walk the field shaking their heads and complaining to each other. Psychologically I think that’s worth 14 points -drastically altering game plan. Short of a monsoon play your game. If it’s raining at our place and you decide you can’t pass the ball it’s gonna be a long night.
Advice -change socks at halftime (cleats too if kids have them). -keep balls dry and have someone dependable changing balls with the refs. -forget the cleat board. It’s overrated and by the time kids get back out their their cleats are muddy again. We don’t own one. If it was needed to slop, we’d have it because again our field is slop after the first rain game of the year or by about mid season whichever comes first
Overall slop is psychological as much as it is physical. The team that overcomes the conditions better is likely to win if talent is nearly equal.
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Post by canesfan on May 4, 2022 21:34:13 GMT -6
We do offense and defense every day in season. Vs a team that is fairly balanced we may go Run O/D heavy one day and pass heavy O/D the other. It’s worked for us.
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Post by canesfan on Apr 8, 2022 20:43:15 GMT -6
I started at our rival school. It was a good experience overall, very lucky to coach with the guys I did.
You’ll be fine.
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Post by canesfan on Mar 17, 2022 18:56:50 GMT -6
Before Covid we had some good stuff going on that we will bring back this year.
One thing we liked doing was kind of like UK does at their games. At the end of the first quarter we’d have one of our ADs with a field mic and they’d welcome some group that we’d bring on the field. Ended up with most of our fall sports at a game, even brought the basketball teams out during the playoffs as their season was getting ready to start.
During Covid we started tent seating. Essentially we sell tent spaces around our field for games. You buy a season pass for this. It is in addition to tickets, but it packs a lot of people close to the field and helps a ton with atmosphere. Obviously if you have a turf field this may not be optimal but we have a mud field with a blacktop track. It aint hurting anything.
Sell you best parking spots as tailgate parking. Have the parents or boosters have a big tailgate for the home opener. People will start tailgating because it’s fun if you help them! A couple of parents would probably organize it for you.
Generate interest during the week at school. Get the students involved.
Any sports/club that helps you out make sure they feel appreciated. We take our band to the playoffs with us (kind of rare in KY), we’ve gotten sponsors for shirts for them. Give props to the cheerleaders when you can. Our ROTC does parking detail for us and we always try to do right by them (they get drinks while working and get concession credits during the game when they come in.
Most importantly, win. If you were 0-10 it ain’t gonna take many wins for people to feel like good changes are happening.
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Post by canesfan on Mar 17, 2022 18:43:17 GMT -6
Yes. Way too much. We’ll probably do 8-9 days total (KY gets 10). We got for about 1 1/2, maybe less. We experiment a lot in spring. Honestly, if we didn’t have it in our state I wouldn’t be too upset.
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Post by canesfan on Dec 28, 2021 22:12:16 GMT -6
We do it. We have a wall of cutout footballs that we put the score of and the significance of each game on.
For instance
2020 WC 43 WV- 6 First Regional Championship
Simple but works for us.
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Post by canesfan on Nov 1, 2021 18:26:45 GMT -6
In 2015 we scored 41 points in the first quarter of the game with some one play drives, 2 pick sixes, etc. At the end of the first quarter we started heading to the locker room. The officials had to remind us that it was just the end of the 1st quarter. Thankful we were able to keep the score down the rest of the way. No sense in humiliating anyone any worse than you have to.
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Post by canesfan on Sept 20, 2021 8:18:33 GMT -6
I called a timeout Friday simply to go off about this. Huge 4th down play, we had a defender there to make the play and the blocker he defeated tackled him. On the perimeter. 10 feet or so from the official. Conscious decision not to call it. It’s ridiculous and unsafe. It has been consistent though. No perimeter holds have been called no matter what has happened. Just a guess...if it is a conscious decision, might it be because they've decided quarterbacks should not be subject to blind side tackles? Who said it was a QB. And why would they randomly decide that anyway. You want a first down in our area, run a screen or sweep to your sideline and do whatever you want to defenders. Been this way all season. It’s ridiculous and unsafe. Our overhang was in a headlock at one point on Friday. Football has become to protective of offenses to allow them to hold on the perimeter as well. It’s terrible.
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Post by canesfan on Sept 20, 2021 8:15:26 GMT -6
I called a timeout Friday simply to go off about this. Huge 4th down play, we had a defender there to make the play and the blocker he defeated tackled him. On the perimeter. 10 feet or so from the official. Conscious decision not to call it. It’s ridiculous and unsafe. It has been consistent though. No perimeter holds have been called no matter what has happened. Serious question. How do you know it was a conscious decision not to call it? I understand the frustration, but with the growing official shortage, isn't it possible that the quality of the person out there on the wing just wasn't very good? That he honestly did not see it, maybe his eyes were in the wrong place, his mechanics were wrong, etc. I mean college football fandom, and social media, James Franklin etc. went nuts over the mistake over downs from last nights game against Auburn. None of the 21 coaches/staff members listed on PSU's website (which isn't even counting any S&C guys) caught the mistake in time to rectify it? To be fair, you have no idea how our games have been called. Play was at the LOS, illegal block was at the point of attack. It was near the sideline, so he was probably 5-10 feet from it. Zero chance he didn’t see it. Zero chance they haven’t seen the majority of them. Consistently in our area you can get away with anything on the perimeter.
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Post by canesfan on Sept 19, 2021 10:04:55 GMT -6
I called a timeout Friday simply to go off about this. Huge 4th down play, we had a defender there to make the play and the blocker he defeated tackled him. On the perimeter. 10 feet or so from the official. Conscious decision not to call it. It’s ridiculous and unsafe.
It has been consistent though. No perimeter holds have been called no matter what has happened.
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Post by canesfan on Aug 23, 2021 17:16:10 GMT -6
I hate them but that was largely based on my experience where we only gave them out for games and with that gave them out after losses. To me, losses = zero stickers.
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Post by canesfan on Aug 3, 2021 20:47:15 GMT -6
It’s not easy but have a conversation.
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Post by canesfan on May 3, 2021 21:32:41 GMT -6
Do I have to bring in the team and staff on a Saturday after the Friday night game? Is it mandatory to be successful to bring everyone in after the game the next day? We lost by 1 in the state semifinals to the eventual state champion. We did not meet on Saturdays, even though our kids probably would have done whatever we asked. We lost because the other team had Mr Football, and he made a play on a 2 PT conversion that few kids in our classification could have dreamed of. Not because we didn’t meet on Saturdays. It isn’t mandatory for success. They’re kids. Let them be have 2 days where they can do other activities. Shockingly, your kids may even watch college and NFL ball those days if you’re really lucky. Heck in the playoffs we weren’t allowed by our district to practice on Mondays. We could only meet with kids who were definitely gonna play on Fridays. Amazingly that was enough to get our kids prepared. If you get your kids bought in to preparation, you won’t need Saturdays other than treating injuries. Our kids get a scouting report, and for the most part they do a good job of looking at it and preparing for our opponents. One thing about scouting reports is that you have to do them all season, and they have to be as good as possible every week. Slack off because an opponent is bad, and results may be bad. Try to put out a scouting report for only big games or playoffs has never worked for us. You do have to watch film with kids. And teach them to watch it themselves.
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Post by canesfan on Apr 14, 2021 20:57:21 GMT -6
In reality 1-2 may be able to improve their situations. Trying to gut the entire staff would be a poor move. Overall you should be upfront with the HC. Would never want to do anything I wouldn’t want done to me.
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Post by canesfan on Apr 11, 2021 20:33:51 GMT -6
Allow QBs to throw the ball away outside the pocket.
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Post by canesfan on Apr 4, 2021 20:51:21 GMT -6
Are kids too jacked up to start?
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Post by canesfan on Mar 4, 2021 12:52:46 GMT -6
Turnovers. Especially turnovers that lead to scores. Special teams scores & average starting field position.
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Post by canesfan on Feb 2, 2021 8:33:06 GMT -6
I’ve always felt that success should be a factor in classification. I also think roster size should be in the formula. I know many states use a multiplier for private schools. They are playing with a different set of rules but honestly you could say that about all situations. Inner city jobs in our state are not as good (usually) as suburban jobs, independent schools have an advantage on county schools, etc. Hard lines to draw so I feel School size, roster size, & success should all be factors in deciding where someone plays classification wise.
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Ethics
Jan 18, 2021 22:18:20 GMT -6
via mobile
Post by canesfan on Jan 18, 2021 22:18:20 GMT -6
Unethical and lame.
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Post by canesfan on Dec 22, 2020 23:08:11 GMT -6
The more people you have on your side, the easier it is to build your Program. If you make this an issue, you will likely receive less support in the future. We were fortunate enough to win a couple titles recently. I am constantly thanking everybody who supported us in any way. Whether you believe it or not, tell them: " We couldn't have done it without your support" This is the perfect answer. 100% agree.
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Post by canesfan on Dec 22, 2020 10:13:36 GMT -6
Do not fight this battle! Enjoy it. The more people that feel they are a part of it the better.
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Post by canesfan on Sept 23, 2020 17:21:14 GMT -6
I’m not believing this.
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