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Post by dubber on Sept 11, 2010 15:28:29 GMT -6
I see nothing wrong with playing them........kids who were there before these guys showed up will come around........
It sounds like your holding back is due to these kids feelings...............not some higher team calling.
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Post by dubber on Sept 9, 2010 10:18:08 GMT -6
he trows the sprintouts fairly well....if we throw a fade, he may throw it 35 yards on a good day. he's somewhat accurate... That's all the further you want it anyway. If he can throw screens, you are in business, because then they cannot stack the box.
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Post by dubber on Sept 6, 2010 21:30:02 GMT -6
You can tell Huey's been a HC for awhile.....he thinks about the little stuff
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Post by dubber on Sept 5, 2010 21:11:20 GMT -6
I ran across this saying somewhere years ago and I keep it posted in our hallway and refer to it when I need to: "The more successfull you are, the more humble you must become, and the harder you must work. This is a law. The punishment for violating this law is Failure." I believe that everything evens out in the end. If we take our opponent this week too lightly and don't work as hard as we can, it may not bite us on the @ss this week, but three weeks down the road there may be a good opponent who outworked us and got ahead of us during that week when we let up a little. I preach that way all the time. Great posts and quote
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Post by dubber on Sept 5, 2010 12:48:55 GMT -6
What happens outside the gates doesn't mean a thing. You have no control of how the community feels. Hell, enjoy it. Keep doing what you did to get there. Coach like you've coached. Keep them playing like they've played. Keep having fun. I really like this advice. Right now, we do just want to keep rolling.......kind of like Wile E. Coyote running off the edge of a cliff.......you are fine until you look around and see what you've done. I guess I want to know what to do if we look down and see we are standing on the clouds.
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Post by dubber on Sept 4, 2010 21:03:03 GMT -6
How many of you taking losing personal? My assistants tell me this quite often, and it bothers me, but must be true. I'm in a bad situation, coaching my alma mater, and we are 2-20 since taking over 2 years ago. We have only had 7 winning seasons since 1975 here, and I was a part of 2 of those as a player, and 4 of those as an assistant coach. I was on winning teams in college and the worst I've ever been a part of is 5-5 in high school and in college. We don't have a lot of talent, excellent kids, please don't get me wrong, I'd let darn near all them date my daughter, just not talented. I enjoy working with them a lot. But 2-20??? I need help dealing with it I guess. I feel it's always my fault, and there are things I could have done to better prepare us, and now I'm always second guessing. I'm no longer trusting players, and I'm in fear that I'm getting "used" to losing. Don't get me wrong, the administration loves me (for some reason) and I have a great relationship with most of the players. I just can't shake the way I feel after we lose, I can't seperate it from the fact it's just a game, and I did not play in it. Anyone else ever deal with is, or is it time to go see the shrink? I guess I don't know how to handle the losses, especially when our kids fight so hard, but Friday after Friday we are outmanned. I just feel somehow, it's my fault, and I know this cannot be healthy. Is it time for me to go? This is my first HC gig, and my only 1, I doubt I'd coach anywhere after this. I just hate letting the school and the town down like I have. I know it's an odd situation, but any ideas now would be very helpful. This is a little out of left field, and no disrespect intended......... I'm going to assume that as a player, YOU were NOT the kind of kid you would let date your daughter. I mean if you are outmatched, you are outmatched (and the weight room and the hallways are your ONLY salvations) But if it is deal where YOU are the only one wanting to win........then you have to infect others.......or stay 2-20 Competition is ugly.......it can (and should) be done with honor, but it does demand LEADERSHIP, and you need a PLAYER to hate to lose as much as you..........and the odds are, that kid ain't gonna be the kind you want around your daughter. Find the as shole, empower him, and turn him loose.
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Post by dubber on Sept 4, 2010 20:54:20 GMT -6
Coaches,
We have shot out of the gate our first 3 games.
The kids seem very focused on the one game at a time mantra......so far.
As a staff, we have not experienced this kid of success, and I would like some insight from guys who have struggled through back to back .500 seasons to all of the sudden being on top.........how do you keep them focused?
ESPECIALLY that first season when you "got good".
The community is starting to clamor, which is good, but when 40, 50 and 60 year old men start comparing you to our state-runner up team from 93'........it's hard for a 17 year old kid to not buy into his own press clippings.
Just to clarify, right now, I ain't saying a thing, because our upper classmen are handling it very well, but I want to be prepared.
Thanks....
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Post by dubber on Sept 4, 2010 20:45:33 GMT -6
prime example of how most players are asset rich and cash poor. being a business man if i had 100 g on my ears I would have some insurance on them for being lost or stolen. may instead of investing in pair of 100 g ear rings he should put it into a cd or ira for his future. you know when he walks like an old man at 40 and is punch drunk like ali. An even quicker way to get this thread locked (rather than talking about what happens when poor black kids suddenly get loads of money) is to ask what this story has to do with proving the existence of GOD?!
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Post by dubber on Sept 4, 2010 20:41:52 GMT -6
If my fraternity brother's ex-wife's second cousin is the next door neighbor to the mother-in-law of the defenisve line coach whose team played against our upcoming opponent..........
...........then I'm going to try to get that film
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Post by dubber on Sept 4, 2010 20:35:35 GMT -6
a friend of mine who was a drug addict once told me everyone should hit rock bottom at least once in their life because it is so painful forces you to get back up and start walking. Or stay down and die (which most people in that situation do)
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Post by dubber on Sept 3, 2010 9:36:35 GMT -6
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Post by dubber on Sept 2, 2010 7:36:59 GMT -6
Field goal / extra point Block! Put him in the middle and have him get his hands up!! Agreed. I like the GL idea too........in theory. In reality, this kid may not like what most DB's answer will be to covering him....jam the crap outta him.
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Post by dubber on Sept 1, 2010 11:44:24 GMT -6
Starts with the staff's energy......how are you guys doing in that department (honestly)?
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Post by dubber on Sept 1, 2010 11:41:36 GMT -6
He probably doesn't want a talent evaluation (chances are, he already knows).
He wants the "things to improve on" checklist, and effort is something even bad players can get good at.........
I'm going to guess there was a MASSIVE amount of false stepping going on too (especially OL-wise)......I'd focus on those 2 things the most.
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Post by dubber on Sept 1, 2010 11:29:31 GMT -6
Favorite Carlin bit
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Post by dubber on Aug 30, 2010 9:43:32 GMT -6
Very cool program.
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Post by dubber on Aug 29, 2010 15:32:46 GMT -6
I was watching the first part of the video (where the kid is running backwards), and I thought "how can this get any worse?"...........
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Post by dubber on Aug 27, 2010 10:30:36 GMT -6
So what does it say that 85% of this discussion has been about offense? Is there no such thing as an 'oddball', contrarian, or unique defensive system? Just a few thoughts that occurred to me while reading & eating breakfast. You make a good point. I hadn't thought about that. I assume that the reason that the majority of the discussion has been about offense is because on offense you can do about anything you want to and the defense has to adjust to you. The offense pretty much dictates how the game is going to go. The defense may want to play an 8 man front out of a 6-2 defense, but if the offense lines up with 4 wide, that's just not gonna happen. However, I do believe that it is possible for defenses to be contrarian. For a while, the NFL was mostly 4-3 defenses with just a few 3-4 but now there are an awful lot more 3-4 defenses. On the college level 4-2-5 and 3-3-5 defenses used to be pretty uncommon. I think that another example of contrarian defensive philosophy that has led to a lot of success is the way some defenses play pattern matching like Pelini at Nebraska, Saban at Alabama, and Patterson at TCU. Basically, defense is reactionary, and offense is exploitive. I realize we could argue ad nausum about 'dictating defenses' (cover 0 blitz-esta) and 'reactionary offenses' (run and shoot), but we should all get the point. One controls where the ball is going, the other tries to stop it from going there.
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Post by dubber on Aug 26, 2010 17:12:22 GMT -6
if you are late to practice you and your team do conditioning. this usually takes care of trady's This is right on.
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Post by dubber on Aug 26, 2010 11:02:55 GMT -6
But there is a glass ceiling to any scheme, no matter how good/smart/cutting edge your are with your scheme. If everyone else is doing the same thing or at least something very similiar, then the differenes then shift to the athletic matchups, the program mathups, and the $ matchups. And it doesn't stop there. We were doing some stuff offensively that nobody was doing, adding tweaks along the way. But after several years of seeing it, teams got better at defending it. Same with the dynamic warmup, SAQ trainging, weight lifting, weight facilities, PE classes, middle school programs. Obviously, all things being equal, athletes will make the difference. But what is the signal that screams TIME FOR CHANGE!!!There is a hierarchy of what makes a scheme successful........ to avoid controversy, these are in no particular order: *Good fundamental coaching *Good game planning *Athletes -recruitment -development -DNA *Kids believe in it *Familiarity -staff -players *Execution *Good play calling -F.T.S. -constraint theory *Able to adjust to defensive trends *Able to adjust in game to the unexpected *Able to adjust (minimize or maximize) to different personnel And all of that comes before "unique scheme"......... Having a unique scheme has to be paired with knowledge (which probably comes from experience) of how to make it work. Probably the way it works best (IE, the best example) is when a guy has "his scheme" that knows it back and forth, and brings that scheme to a new school where everyone is unfamilar with it.
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Post by dubber on Aug 26, 2010 9:26:30 GMT -6
So, after you take over a team in a heavy Wing T league with your Air Raid scheme, do you up and leave when your league opponents start switcing to spread style offenses? Not until they're running the Air Raid better than you are. Bingo. Who knows, they may get tired of the growing pains and quit. I mean, when a team puts 7 in the box versus us, unless they are THAT GOOD, we will be scoring shortly. When we face another team that uses some spread (no one is like us in our conference), we put 7 in the box and man it up. We feel like we can out scheme some guys (defenses are still catching up), but it is the execution level that makes a difference in taking advantage of the misalignments and personnel mismatches that make it work. And other teams (who base in something else) do not have the level of execution.
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Post by dubber on Aug 26, 2010 8:59:37 GMT -6
Someone mentioned about being in a "sea of 21 personnel"......
Really, it is a sea of anything.....if you are in a sea spread teams, Power-T would stand out, and have an advantage.
I also liked the term "contrarian" scheme.
We hear all the time about "so-and-so high school sucked forever, and then they got a new coach who uses scheme X, and won 85% of their games since then"............
Above all else, you need a good teacher........
But a unique scheme can move you along after that.
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Post by dubber on Aug 26, 2010 8:41:38 GMT -6
But Dubbs.. isnt that picture 22 personnel? lol Little do you know that coach is making his X play TE.
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Post by dubber on Aug 25, 2010 12:22:18 GMT -6
I cannot wait for power football to come back. It will benefit me as a guy who likes to throw the ball. 10-15 years ago running a spread passing attack was like steeling. lbers who were built to defend the run where easy to exploit. then came fritz schumer with the green bay packers who created the 3-3-5 defense on nickle/dime downs in the nfl which could play the run and pass. I do think power football with make a return at the college level which will then trickle down to the high school level. So, it's like holding on to your bell bottoms.......eventually it's cool again. For those who can't tell, this ultimately came from Chris Brown's article www.smartfootball.comAnother aspect is the proliferation of information on the internet. When I was in high school (not that long ago), EVERYBODY ran Pro-I, Full House something, or Wing-T....... This season, we'll have our first three opponents change schemes on us, and the variations are wild.........I'm assuming that has to do with easier access to the information. The double edge sword is the internet can help a coach catch up...........if we faced a SW opponent in week 8, I could come on here and at least get some IDEAS.........in 1997, if you faced an opponent who broke the SW out on you, you had to go to a nursing home to find someone who knew how to defend it.
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Post by dubber on Aug 25, 2010 8:14:30 GMT -6
........21 personnel, Power O. I believe the pendulum is swinging back to the 2-back flava of offense. DE's got lighter to rush the passer, the Strong Safety became prized for speed over tackling ability, etc. This idea has been well worn on this site over the years, and I wanted to make an application to a real life situation, and then try to discuss how important simply "being different" scheme wise is an advantage. The situation I want to look at is the resurgence (whether real or perceived) of the Big Ten. I can remember (in the early 2000's) the eight man front defenses that dominated the landscape (VT and Miami come to mind)....... Then, the spread got a running game and learned how to handle fire zones, and that closed out the last decade. Now, it appears the run heavy PA teams of the Big Ten (Iowa, Wisconsin.....even Penn State and Ohio State......) are swinging back in favor. Now, I don't think the Iowa Hawkeyes woke up one day and figured out a better, unbeatable way to run OZ and Power O.......they just have the advantage now of being unique. Now, a list of do not's, if you please...... Let's not discuss spread versus pro style. Let's not discuss the Big Ten's superiority or inferiority. Let's not discuss how you need to execute and anything will work (we all know that). Please, do discuss the SPECIFIC advantage running a scheme unique to your conference (or in the Big Ten's case, the 2009 bowls) gives you. In a sea of spread teams, run the DW........in a sea of Wishbone teams, run the Air Raid........... Get into the specifics of WHY that is an advantage. Thanks......
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Post by dubber on Aug 24, 2010 20:08:47 GMT -6
What does intensity mean to you...........getting hype or giving 100% effort?
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Post by dubber on Aug 23, 2010 18:48:44 GMT -6
No one wears them on our team...........we hate em'
Anyone like them?
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Post by dubber on Aug 23, 2010 11:09:09 GMT -6
It's a case by case thing.
Overall, you want to be positive........I mean, there is a goal WE ALL are working toward, and my correcting of you MUST be understood as necessary for achieving that goal.
Now, here is a generalized approach I take:
The young guys/non-varsity guys get a TON of positive comments from me.........I'll even overlook some mistakes to accent the positive. This is really why I like JV games........the win/loss doesn't matter as much as the kids "getting it", which makes more pure (like practice).
Varsity players are CONSTANTLY corrected, but reassured.
CORE guys need to be perfect.......and until then, they get nothing.
Our two senior OL guys (4 year players, all conference, team captains)............they are expected to take the pressure we as a staff apply.
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Post by dubber on Aug 19, 2010 20:18:50 GMT -6
I imagine right now you are around/know of some successful coaches who are complete D!CKS.
Winning is a superficial representation of the job you are doing.
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Post by dubber on Aug 16, 2010 12:25:57 GMT -6
Who knew X was a performance-enhancing drug?
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