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Post by canesfan on Aug 18, 2020 12:55:11 GMT -6
Nothing beats leather coaching shoes. They look awful but they are a lifesaver in the cold/rain. You’re old enough now to pull off those shoes Pulled them off when I was your age too. Comfort beats style on the sideline.
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Post by canesfan on Aug 16, 2020 17:58:00 GMT -6
Nothing beats leather coaching shoes. They look awful but they are a lifesaver in the cold/rain.
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Post by canesfan on Aug 4, 2020 9:41:57 GMT -6
I just set timers on my phone. Takes a few minutes but I’ve got an alarm for each period change.
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Post by canesfan on Jul 18, 2020 7:44:05 GMT -6
Iowa has been one of the most aggressive for sports hasn’t it? What do the Covid numbers look like for sports this summer there?
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Post by canesfan on Jul 9, 2020 9:19:50 GMT -6
Do viruses get passed from team to team? I know we’ve had them passed in the locker room or at school, but haven’t really ever noticed them moving from team to team that’s playing.
Maybe that’s a crazy question and it happens all the time?
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Post by canesfan on May 21, 2020 22:46:53 GMT -6
Miss during the week for us unexcused you don’t play. That’s all we’ve ever needed.
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Post by canesfan on May 5, 2020 20:26:34 GMT -6
Parents will either let them play or not. One thing I’ve always discussed with parents 1 on 1 that were hesitant were the things we teach to keep them safe.
You can’t promise a kid won’t get hurt. Ultimately, football isn’t for some families. The only thing that I’ve ever really see change a parents mind is their own kid. If you’ve got a good thing going, they’ll recruit their parents for you. Works some. Doesn’t work some. Nature of the beast.
Zero any soccer coach could tell me that would make me want to let my kid play it. Ultimately, when he’s old enough he may really want to and will choose to play it, but I’m not doing it because a coach wants him to.
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Post by canesfan on Apr 4, 2020 15:18:02 GMT -6
Ever been 0-10? How bad are the teams you’ve coached? I’ve coached teams that got stops with not much talent. The worst teams I’ve coached on we were lucky to get scores. Not saying we played lights out defense but we were much more likely to lose 28-3 than 60-24. I have run the gambit .. 1-10 teams, 10-1 teams and in between. I maintain that if your team is not talented, it is significantly easier to be less horrible on offense than defense. On offense, I can control : 1) the tempo 2) the matchups (either where they occur or what they are) 3) the ball carrier 4) the point of attack/ player in conflict and key players involved. Now, granted your scores may be 28-3, but I believe (at least for MY teams) that would be because we would gear the offensive gameplan to low scoring run the clock and hope to keep it close. Strange to me. But maybe you’ve coached longer. Previous school as an assistant we just could get the offense going. Small, weak OL, slow skill kids. Grant it our staff was decidedly better defensively than we were offensively so maybe that played a part. For the record, we coached both sides so I’m now throwing off on anyone. At my current school we have had speed. Not always good OL play but always have 3-4 kids that can score. At this school offense is easier but our school is far from the bottom of the barrel in our area/class talent wise.
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Post by canesfan on Apr 4, 2020 12:13:27 GMT -6
I’ll say this, on the worst teams I’ve coached, we were much better defensively than offensively. Hard to be a good offensive coach without talent. Defensively we played decent with the same talent. Wow.. I disagree 100% with this, and I wouldn't be surprised if most posters on this board also disagree. I feel it is much easier to "manufacture" some offensive success. If you are slow, weak, bad leverage etc on defense there is no place to hide. Ever been 0-10? How bad are the teams you’ve coached? I’ve coached teams that got stops with not much talent. The worst teams I’ve coached on we were lucky to get scores. Not saying we played lights out defense but we were much more likely to lose 28-3 than 60-24.
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Post by canesfan on Apr 4, 2020 9:43:38 GMT -6
I’ll say this, on the worst teams I’ve coached, we were much better defensively than offensively. Hard to be a good offensive coach without talent. Defensively we played decent with the same talent.
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Post by canesfan on Apr 3, 2020 8:48:15 GMT -6
I'm not doing this to be a contrarian, just being real. Special teams is a PAIN to coach at the HS level. -There is little consistency and carry over: some things are in wide open spaces (KO) others are bunched up (FG/PAT). -Its the complex reactionary stuff that all complained about with defense, but with even more wackiness and it often flip-flops. The team that had the ball initially in Punt and got to control where everyone lined up, they have to soon be the one reacting to the other team with the ball. -You get the biggest talent mismatches: the other team is still keeping their stud D1 athlete back there to return the punt, but you are asked to stop him with a group made up of primarily backups. -More random rules to deal with that don't fit within the other parts of the game -Less coaching time throughout the week/season. Generally disregarded by a lot of people I'm sure there are others, but coaching STs isnt that easy Truth. Being a STC is a hard job. Easiest way to lose a close game is special teams. Very hard to coach.
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Post by canesfan on Apr 2, 2020 20:30:00 GMT -6
Before we went super simple defensively I would have said defense. Now, definitely offense.
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Post by canesfan on Mar 30, 2020 14:27:57 GMT -6
Just read that Great Britain was implementing 6-months worth of precautions... I know that their climate is different, etc...but that would put us through the end of September. I'm retired now, but just can't help thinking about the local team here in town. They're likely going to be the best team ever fielded by the high school - with a real shot at a state title - and may not even get to play a game. It's a shame... but what can you do? That’s kind of like us. Don’t know that we’re a state champion team but this should be our best team. The thought of them not getting to play us hard to think about.
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Post by canesfan on Mar 23, 2020 22:36:55 GMT -6
Mixture. Our opening drill could be anything. Could be something we need, extra walk through, or something fun. Kids request stuff. I try to have one day per week be fun at a minimum.
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Post by canesfan on Mar 23, 2020 7:01:41 GMT -6
It’s hard. You essentially have to keep recruiting your kids. Something new. Exciting. Fun. We don’t fight our kids over basketball. June we share them. They have a summer BBall game going on the same time as weights? Go to the game! By July they’re so done with BBall they’re excited to play football.
It helps that we let our kids have fun. Probably let them have too much fun this year, but we had a great year.
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Post by canesfan on Feb 29, 2020 22:03:34 GMT -6
We focus on what it takes to win. Obviously goes against what those guys say but we do talk about winning. It is the overall goal of the game. But there are steps to winning that we focus on.
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Post by canesfan on Feb 19, 2020 21:19:29 GMT -6
Seems more like the varsity staff’s needs changed. Not really a demotion because the guy that was calling the plays was moved back down. That’s what he did to earn the call up, it makes sense he continues to do it when he’s back with the Frosh team.
Learn from it. Be the best OL coach/run game coordinator possible. Maybe you earn your stripes with this frosh coach and more importantly the varsity staff.
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Post by canesfan on Feb 12, 2020 14:25:10 GMT -6
Interesting that TFS is the one that I felt was most holistic in its approach to coaching. It can be. I think our option background allowed for us to take it and make it our own a little easier. It’s an offense in a can though. Wouldn’t have to change anything.
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Post by canesfan on Feb 11, 2020 21:43:00 GMT -6
Not sure. Other than being immature as a young coach, I honestly believe this past season my ego got in the way and I didn’t enjoy wins. Most successful season in school history and it was good enough for me until about week 10. Our kids deserved better than that. By the end of the season I really regretted (and still do) not enjoying the moment more.
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Post by canesfan on Feb 11, 2020 21:33:12 GMT -6
We went TFS. Wanted something concrete that we could learn, drill, and ask questions about/trouble shoot. It was very good for us. We could have kept/learned a run and pass game, but drills were invaluable. Cut ups were invaluable. And the screen game....we could never have figured that out to the extent it was taught to us.
It allowed us to make it our own. We probably have the most complex screen game in our area. Mixed with SPO (not a TFS thing) it’s become the #1 thing people ask about for us, even though we don’t do it a lot.
My recommendation would be to take a system, learn it and run it. If you add, do it small. We added an empty QB run game the 1st year because our QB was a dude and was a great short yardage runner (pretty talented at everything to be honest). Last year we tweaked and made it more of our own. This year it’s morphing into more of what we really want.
We probably won’t look real TFS to most, but it allowed for us to take our ideas formation and personnel wise and teach it to our kids, drill it, and have answers.
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Post by canesfan on Feb 5, 2020 22:22:47 GMT -6
I’m the HC and DC. Can’t imagine not having a heavy hand in the defense. If someone ever took it over I’d probably still be like Saban and have a heavy hand in it.
Not interested in calling offense. But I will agree it takes a strong OC to not be the HC. Our OC does a great job, we win a lot of games but he took some flak because we weren’t great offensively. He handled it well. But he’s got thick skin and is confident in what we do.
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Post by canesfan on Jan 30, 2020 20:07:10 GMT -6
It seems (without research) that sports participation in all sports is down in our area. I’m in KY (basketball state) and our rival had like 15 BBall kids 9-12 last year at a program that consistently wins. One of the bigger schools in the area to boot (still not a huge school).
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Post by canesfan on Jan 23, 2020 5:51:09 GMT -6
We’ve gone with the brand Champro the last two years. We get them for about $3 a band. Last the whole year but we order so many if one ruined it wouldn’t be a big deal. Some of our kids may have 3 different bands so we have to go cheap.
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Post by canesfan on Jan 18, 2020 21:36:24 GMT -6
Have your own boosters. Run your own concession stand. If all else fails pay people to work the JV games.
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Post by canesfan on Jan 15, 2020 17:48:56 GMT -6
After playing our regional final opponent, I think we may increase the noise level at practice.
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Post by canesfan on Jan 15, 2020 12:25:19 GMT -6
As crazy as it sounds we’ve gotten so used to it we practice like crap without it.
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Post by canesfan on Dec 28, 2019 10:52:13 GMT -6
Man I’d love to be able to split up our JV from our varsity, let alone be able to practice our freshmen separate.
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Post by canesfan on Dec 21, 2019 10:57:10 GMT -6
Our local media isn’t bad. I don’t care to help them if it gets our kids some good publicity.
Hammer our program, or make one of our kids look bad (blame them for the loss, etc.) and that’s it though.
We’re pretty fortunate. Our guys locally are young and really try to do a lot to support the kids. They’ve got a lot of teams to cover but generally are pretty good about being fair to all.
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Post by canesfan on Nov 16, 2019 13:05:14 GMT -6
I love coaches at powerhouse schools talking about their problems. We live in two different worlds. Doesn’t make them worse/better but it’s an entirely different type of coaching job.
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Post by canesfan on Nov 6, 2019 10:12:47 GMT -6
That's a typical away game distance for us. We do a few things to keep the kids loose and fresh: 1. Stop half way, eat something, use the bathrooms, and just get off of the bus. 2. We get there a solid two hours before kick off and give the kids a half-hour to throw the ball around and just loosen up a bit without structure. Some kids choose to hang around in the locker room and listen to music which is fine as well. 3. After that half hour is up, it's all business; get dressed, taped and go through our pregame routine. Sounds about like us. We did have a district rival arrive about 4 hours early. I wouldn’t recommend that. Get there a little early. Let kids get their bearings back. Stopping and eating is a must.
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