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Post by dubber on Aug 16, 2010 12:21:42 GMT -6
Logistics and cost are a biotch, and sometimes we have a freshman land 1/2 mile away, but the opponent never sees it coming.
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Post by dubber on Aug 16, 2010 12:18:03 GMT -6
This season we went to the pre-practice, player led indy's....
Good Warm-up and the seniors take ownership.
Love it........and no pulls.
Now, I would like to see a player led static stretch at the END of practice, after the muscles are warm it is a great time to work on flexibility.
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Post by dubber on Aug 16, 2010 8:53:29 GMT -6
Coach,
Do you think he would listen?
I'm gonna guess you are young or new to coaching, right?
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Post by dubber on Aug 15, 2010 20:53:32 GMT -6
Be honest with the guy......but not about his "not connecting" with the youth, or the kids not having faith in him.
What is wrong? Why is stuff not working?
Have you even established that what you are doing is not working......how and why?
Have the ducks in a row, leave community feelings out of it, and lay out the case, then jump in line behind this guy.
Defend him........trust me, people will stop bashing the guy in front of you if they know you have his back.
Has a kid ever said something to you about the offense/playcalling?
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Post by dubber on Aug 7, 2010 11:55:08 GMT -6
Except in rare circumstances, they never had the need to develop a mean streak.
Shrimps either become wallflowers (camoflague) or throat slashers (fighters).
Big guys don't need aggression to assert themselves......a lot of their peers just give it to them.
Now, my youngest brother was always the BIG KID. 6'5'' 300 lbs...........my other younger brother and I beat the piss out of him......he developed a mean streak.
I will also echo that they don't need a mean streak.......just get them confident and sound fundamentally.
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Post by dubber on Aug 7, 2010 11:49:38 GMT -6
It's got what plants crave......
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HOT!
Aug 7, 2010 7:52:38 GMT -6
Post by dubber on Aug 7, 2010 7:52:38 GMT -6
Weigh the kids before and after practice.....8 oz. of water per pound lost......
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Post by dubber on Jul 28, 2010 8:30:59 GMT -6
I have no problem with the way Dez handled this, or his reaction to the firestorm.........
.....he seems pretty mature and focused.
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Post by dubber on Jul 27, 2010 20:23:56 GMT -6
No horseplay, but we let them go in pregame.
Really, ever since we started scripting, we have no problem starting well.......
Then, it's all just playing from there........
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Post by dubber on Jul 27, 2010 20:20:10 GMT -6
We use pursuit drill and Team O to condition.........
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Post by dubber on Jul 21, 2010 8:52:44 GMT -6
I like the flex time of study hall/lifting/watching film.....
Just make sure the kids are suited up, on the field and warmed up at 3:30........
Also, talk to the bus driver for the activity bus about pushing that time back a little bit........unoffically.......we've found some swag usually buys you some loyalty
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Post by dubber on Jul 19, 2010 10:28:05 GMT -6
Played a black and red team who had checkered collars on their polos............they looked like they worked a shift at Rally's before the game.
Not really ugly, but funny. Our OC is a dark haired, dark tanned type fo guy (looks Italian). Well, we had these bright red jump suits bought for us. They were nice under armour gears, but they were RED.
It was also hot as heck that season, so we wore polos the first few games. Our OC was the first one of us to break the jump suit out.
We were on the road, so we (player and coaches) are in white.
It looked like we had the Kool-Aid man walking our sidelines and calling plays...........that, or a mobster
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Post by dubber on Jul 19, 2010 10:13:52 GMT -6
We play a school that has a regulation size track (and what one would assume would be a regulation sized place to put a field).
However, they set the FG posts incorrectly, so the field is offset.
The back corner of the endzone intersects ON their track.
A square foot of that back endzone is on blacktop.
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Post by dubber on Jul 15, 2010 20:31:17 GMT -6
Valdosta State
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Post by dubber on Jul 15, 2010 20:27:13 GMT -6
I want to be the Curtis Lowe of football.
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Post by dubber on Jun 22, 2010 15:42:03 GMT -6
We spend 4 hours on Saturday as a staff, and the OC and I spend a couple hours Sunday night together making the script.
However, we show our kids the top 5 plays we need to stop, GL and 3rd down tendencies (for O and D), and then defensive alignment to 2x2 and 3x1.
That's all the kids can handle, and at this level, that is all we as a staff can handle.
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Post by dubber on Jun 21, 2010 12:23:17 GMT -6
Our rule is we only ask kids to switch positions if it helps the team.
If we have a kid who is #5 on the depth chart at one position, we will only move him if he has a chance to be #1 at another.
So, when we have that conversation, we always talk about it being better for the team and for them ("Hey chief, you wanna play, change position")
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Post by dubber on Jun 16, 2010 20:20:03 GMT -6
Bryan Schroeder, current starting running back at Central Michigan.......
His team ran the DW.............208 yards on 8 carries
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Post by dubber on Jun 15, 2010 13:21:11 GMT -6
You were picked for a reason.....explore that.
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Post by dubber on Jun 10, 2010 10:33:56 GMT -6
Can you find someone to help you?
Even this guy:
Special Teams, run laps!
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Post by dubber on Jun 10, 2010 7:21:14 GMT -6
More than likely, the lambasting of our own team (slow, dumb, and weak) results from our fear of failure.
Setting the bar low is a good way to feel "accomplished" in your mediocrity.
The other, less negative side of this is: "Hey, I gotta sell this scheme to my kids, and if they can feel it levels the playing field, then we have a shot to make it work".
Really, the only PURE advantage scheme gives you is if you are running a unique scheme to your area/conference.
In the land of Wing-t, flexbone, and pro-style offenses, our spread is unique.
For Loch, his 21/22 personnel stuff is unique to his region.
Reality versus perception is all it boils down to........
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Post by dubber on Jun 5, 2010 4:35:35 GMT -6
"Goodness gracious sakes alive!"
From his player's accounts, this was as close as the man ever came to cursing.
HBO had a great special on him a few back....
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Post by dubber on Jun 4, 2010 11:12:42 GMT -6
Here's the article...........
HeraldTimesOnline.com MCCSC-teacher deal restores librarians, won’t pay coaches, band leaders, sponsors By Andy Graham 331-4215 | agraham@heraldt.com June 2, 2010
The contract approved today by the MCCSC board and the MCEA teachers union will restore all 15 media specialist positions to district libraries for at least the 2010-11 school year.
A by-product of that move will restore some teachers to classrooms. The jobs or job descriptions of 26 people could be immediately affected, overall, in terms of moving back into positions they previously held.
That restoration effort is funded in part through the Monroe County Education Association’s agreement to a teacher salary freeze for the length of the two-year contract, except for scheduled incremental raises for teachers in their first 15 years of service. But those increments will now be capped at 2 percent, less than had been scheduled in many cases.
The contract also cuts all stipends for extra-curricular activities for one year — music, sports, theater, Science Olympiad and other programming outside the classroom. Those programs can continue, but either with some sort of alternate funding or on a volunteer basis, and athletic directors are now left scrambling for coaches and even means to conduct programs with the start of the fall semester’s competitive season only about two months away.
Monroe County Community School Corp. controller Tim Thrasher said elimination of the stipends would save the district about $750,000 next year, and that he and union officials didn’t have a firm number yet on the increment cap but he estimated the savings there to be at least $350,000. He said if teachers had received an overall raise at, say, 2 percent, that would have amounted to another $1.6 million or so in expenditures from the general fund over the two years of the contract.
DOWNLOAD: MCCSC original workforce reduction list (PDF)
SEARCH: MCCSC employee salary database
Classroom over non-classroom Before the MCCSC board voted 6-0 to approve the new contract, with Jim Muehling on a business trip and not voting, members said they value extra-curricular activities but felt their bottom-line choice was to put more teachers in front of children in classrooms.
Sandy Steele, Indiana State Teachers Association UniServe regional director, agreed, saying, “We had to ask many of our teachers to sacrifice quite a bit, and the elimination of ECA stipends is very difficult for some. We had a positive vote (this morning) on the contract, but it wasn’t 100 percent.
“But restoration of positions has been what we’ve been about since the beginning.”
After the 15 media specialist positions were eliminated during this spring’s round of $5.8 million in MCCSC budget cuts, made in the wake of state funding shortfalls, 11 of the media specialists with seniority and the required licenses were placed in classrooms and other positions in the district. The other four were not scheduled to return to the MCCSC. Now, all 15 media specialist positions are restored, and the 11 classroom teachers and other staff scheduled to be displaced by media specialists could also return.
A price to pay But the ECA news was still a hard new reality for many, especially the over 400 coaches and sponsors for those activities, many of whom are teachers. They will now have to volunteer any extra hours of work if they wish to preserve those programs unless something changes.
Janis Stockhouse, who has spent the better part of four decades building Bloomington High School North’s award-winning music program, was contacted this morning during North’s teacher appreciation festivities and clearly didn’t feel especially appreciated or festive. “It’s inconceivable that on June 2 that they would just announce . . . ‘No festivals, no musicals, no theater, no coaches of any kind, no Science Olympiad, nothing after 2:30 p.m.,’” Stockhouse said. “It’s my understanding this was the school board’s recommendation ... with the notion of getting people in the community riled up and prepared to support a referendum.
“Sports, music, theater, so many things that keep so many students in school, engaged with school, could go by the wayside. It’s so unfair to do something like this on June 2 when plans have already been made for the fall and everybody is leaving town with school out. It’s a knee-jerk reaction and so ill-timed. It’s not fair to our seniors, especially, but to any of our kids. I cannot believe this is happening in the Monroe County Community School Corporation.”
Choosing between bad choices Chuck Rubright — chair of the Education Law Group for Bose McKinney & Evans attorneys and in his 35th year of negotiating contracts for school corporations — began his presentation this morning by saying that he is, indeed, seeing things he’s never seen happening before in public education.
“I’ve never seen anything like the last nine months in education,” said Rubright, who led the MCCSC negotiating team. “Before, school boards made choices between best options for their students. Now, with the state having reneged regarding the funding levels upon which school district budgets were based, boards are making choices between bad options and are just trying to get through the next six months.
“I bring before you today a contract I would not have been proud to present in the past 34 years, and it’s a contract not everybody will agree with, but I firmly believe it is the best contract under the circumstances that could get ratified by both sides.”
Rubright complimented the union negotiating team for its willingness help to work things out, and Steele reciprocated. “Last Wednesday, I wouldn’t have given 10 cents for the chances that we’d be here today,” she said. “But we all pulled together.”
The terms of the contract also will delay notifications of positions to be eliminated and notifications of reduction-in-force layoffs by a month. “We hope that will help the timing, so that in future we won’t have to ‘over-RIF,’ ” MCCSC assistant superintendent for human resources Peggy Chambers said. The MCCSC is still working to recall employees from the 79 laid off earlier this spring.
What now? Board members and others at the board meeting indicated they would work to help restore funding for extra-curricular stipends through booster clubs, though those can’t pay coaching salaries directly, and fund-raising through entities such as the Foundation of Monroe County Community Schools.
Foundation director Tina Peterson said today she is investigating what her organization, which is already in the midst of a $3 million campaign to benefit MCCSC programs, can bring to bear regarding ECA expenses.
“This has happened so quickly, we still have to do some homework on the legalities,” Peterson said. “There are federal equity and Title IX issues regarding funding for sports. Do all the programs have to be restored at one time, for equity reasons? Do the girls’ and boys’ programs have to come on-line simultaneously? That sort of thing. I do think, in the athletic area, direct payment for the coach has to come through the school system.
“But the foundation is more than willing, like we were with the Elementary Strings and Bradford Woods restoration efforts, to be a pass-through for funding ... . We’re going to get together with principals, Tim Thrasher, a board representative and others to hash it out and then tell people what they can or cannot do to help address this.”
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New MCCSC contract summary The Monroe County Community School Corp. and Monroe County Education Association teachers union both ratified a new two-year contract Wednesday which will:
• Restore all media specialist positions in all MCCSC schools for one year, also allowing for 11 laid-off teachers to return to positions that media specialists with seniority and licenses to teach had moved into.
• Maintain the percentage of MCCSC contributions to employee health benefit packages, amounting to an increase in funding.
• Provide no salary increase for teachers for either the 2009-10 school year, during which they worked under the details of the old contract, or the 2010-11 school year except for incremental increases for teachers in the first 15 years of service to be capped at 2 percent.
• Not fund stipends for any of the over 400 ECA (extra-curriculars) coaches or sponsors for one year. This applies to all athletics and all co-curriculars such as music, theater, student government, honor societies, Science Olympiad, and more.
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Post by dubber on Jun 4, 2010 11:00:23 GMT -6
I live an hour south of Bloomington. I hadn't heard about this.
After reading every post, I am more and more thankful for the situation I am in...........
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Post by dubber on Jun 2, 2010 16:03:52 GMT -6
It doesn't make sense to me (if this is their philosophy) to even keep score in the first place. I'm with Dave Cisar, there has to be a better way. I mean, I think losing (and losing BIG TIME) teaches kids lessons, but even if you have a different point of view from that, how is this the best answer? If you want to do sport for sports sake (IE, not mimicing real life), then rid it of all the "real life" process like score keeping. You have capitalist, communist, and this new group that instead of a meritocracy (CAP) or a vision of equality and imposed parity (COM), you want to kick the rich people out of their houses and replace them with the poor people..............instead of making everyone's income the same, you want to make the rich people live on $20,000/year, and give the poor people $100,000. What does trading out the dominant group prove/accomplish? If it were me, I would score every goal I could..........F the rules......... I'd "lose" every game to prove how ridiculous this idea is........... That's me, the idealist youth soccer coach................
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Post by dubber on May 28, 2010 20:25:29 GMT -6
Defense is reaction, offense is action......... [/size][/quote] Maybe that's how your defense is....we're all action.[/quote] I line up in trips......defense adjusts I call a run, defense reacts to that.............they react differently if we pass
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Post by dubber on May 28, 2010 12:26:38 GMT -6
Offensive coordinator appeals to my meticulous nature....... The macro and micro planning involved is just right up my alley. Defense is reaction, offense is action.........in almost everything I do, I prefer to provide the stimulus. Just ask my wife..........
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Post by dubber on May 28, 2010 12:19:10 GMT -6
This was a good answer Brophy gave on his site about how we as coaches can make this useful/helpful to us and our kids: it would appear that the surrounding stimuli (Gestalt 'big picture' concept) would affect the LI kids and the HI kids would be more fixated on the process (step by step).
Meaning, your LI may not have the patience or trust to slowly digest small pieces and may do better to be given an 'organic' learning milieu where they can see the entire thing put together.
Your HI kids may not respond well to that method and would appreciate the step-by-step skill set = performance (putting them in 'big picture' worlds might drown them)
They'll play the game how they play the game, but what we can control is how we deliver the information. Unfortunately, none of this is cut and dry (teach one kid one way, teach another another way), but a mixture of varying environments. So, we have step-by-step kids and big picture kids (to vastly over simplify). As a side note, I could see how standardized testing is discriminatory toward the big picture kids....... I'm going to attempt an analogy, so bear with me. I've heard more than one coach say they do not want a smart kid playing running back..........what they mean is they would rather have a doer than a thinker. Perhaps the 'big picture' learning style is what's really behind it. What we would normally consider a "dumb" kid who just "knows how to run like hell" is actually a different type of intelligence that process big picture without the minutia getting in the way. Compare this to the straight A kid, who, despite his equal physical stature and ability as the "dumb kid" is too robotic to start. Does that make sense? BTW, I think some of this is getting into "ID vs. IQ"........... Dumb linebacker sees the big picture of the blocking scheme.......smart one lacks that intuition. Again, this is very generalized, but the generalities can help us coaches understand not only how to teach the "dumb" kids, but also the smart ones. Some guys need specific stimulus clues, while others need general stimulus clues.........and of course, the muscle memory of INDY drills to take over once a launch decision has been made. Interesting.............and by "interesting" I mean "I barely get it".........
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Post by dubber on May 28, 2010 9:01:43 GMT -6
This is one of those smart threads where I try to contribute and put my foot in my mouth......
To me, I think our conversation would do better if we focus on the utility of the study.
To be honest, I don't care WHY the kids are different, I care HOW I can overcome that difference and get them the information they need.
If I need to teach pass pro scheme two different ways so both demographics can get it, I will.
Problem is, I don't know how to teach different things to different kids.
If I have a kid who, when watching film, can not block out what the WR's and QB is doing and just focus on his job, how can I re-teach it?
That way, I'm not discriminating against a kid who "just didn't get it"............when in fact, I WAS THE ONE FAILING THIS KID!!!
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Post by dubber on May 27, 2010 11:42:38 GMT -6
#1----COMPETE
That is the best thing about 7-on-7......kids learn to battle
From there, we have really one point of emphasis for each side of the ball:
DEFENSE----communication.......talk, make checks, get lined up, call our crossers, etc.
OFFENSE----conceptualizing defensive weaknesses......make sure the defense covers everyone up...MOFC looking at 2 man game on flat defender and hitting the seams......MOFO looking at post and 2 man game on CB........how does this change in trips and empty?
The latter can be a little more difficult versus those blessed 2-man crews.........there we like to work on beating your man stuff.
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