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Post by dubber on Mar 22, 2019 20:42:23 GMT -6
I use a kid like that to make the others better.....he will play scout D for our 1/2 line stuff, etc.
Some dudes don’t need challenged in practice.....find a way to challenge them in the offseason, you’ll get more bang for your buck.
Also, he is the guy who gets MF’ed 3:1 over any other player.
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Post by dubber on Mar 22, 2019 20:37:29 GMT -6
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Post by dubber on Feb 24, 2019 21:52:44 GMT -6
I get it....sometimes you do things like that when you are trying to change a culture.
But it ain’t my style.
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Post by dubber on Feb 20, 2019 13:49:16 GMT -6
We've done it about 15 years in row.....awesome time.
Our fieldhouse is separate from our school building, so we aren't worried about them wandering the halls.
Usually we play games until midnight and then let everyone plug in after that for Fortnite.
It is NOT a "get better at football thing".
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Post by dubber on Feb 8, 2019 17:39:33 GMT -6
I have never heard of this, but it sounds awesome
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Post by dubber on Feb 5, 2019 5:23:44 GMT -6
Something happens on the brain that helps you remember stuff better when you write it versus a keystroke.
It always amazes me all the open laptops at a presentation at a conference......sure you are collecting the information the same, but you are not internalizing it the same.
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Post by dubber on Jan 23, 2019 15:09:00 GMT -6
Learn how to fight productively
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Post by dubber on Jan 13, 2019 17:07:07 GMT -6
Additionally and excuse my ignorance .... what exactly is the function of the handle y’all are talking about ? Do you tie a string to it and simulate line action such as a down block or pull??? To move them
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Post by dubber on Dec 19, 2018 15:50:06 GMT -6
Not trying to be morbid or anything here, but how long do I need to keep a player memorial front and center in the football office? The year before I got here a dad went crazy and killed his son, daughter, and then himself. He was a football player. In the office is his framed jersey, signed by the team at that time. I did coach a couple of these players in my 1st year here. In the quad outside is a memorial bench to he and his sister, along with a big mural. I'm not trying to move anything out of here, but it's been 6+ years now. None of players here today have even heard of the event much less could have known the player.
How long is long enough before I can move this framed jersey from front and center in the office. It's the 1st thing you see as you walk in the door, right next to the white boards.
If you want to move it, move it. I personally would never move it. Be prepared for backlash, just in case.
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Post by dubber on Dec 19, 2018 14:17:16 GMT -6
A lot of it is low center of gravity and balance.
Balance is so underrated.
Basically, can you move from an athletic position forward, backwards, side to side, etc.
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Post by dubber on Nov 7, 2018 18:27:33 GMT -6
I coached an entire practice with our mascot head on......
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Post by dubber on Nov 4, 2018 23:37:16 GMT -6
.......and, the best response is both, because they usually go hand in hand
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Post by dubber on Nov 4, 2018 23:36:30 GMT -6
I doubt there will be any dissenting on this.....
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Post by dubber on Nov 2, 2018 11:08:31 GMT -6
I've always thought the only thing better than being the head coach of a power 5/NFL would be becoming a FIRED HC of a power 5/NFL.
"Yeah, sorry to hear about the 16 hour days......anyway I gotta get back to the tiki bar...…"
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Post by dubber on Nov 1, 2018 10:56:12 GMT -6
Sometimes just breaking the monotony can be good.
You'll find kids don't need that long of a break from the routine before they are good again.
Sometimes one day is all it takes.....
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Post by dubber on Nov 1, 2018 10:52:57 GMT -6
I think the "run and play and talk about it" stuff comes from not doing enough group stuff.
We got so much better once we started breaking things down into groups:
BPU (blitz pick up) 7-on-7 1/2 line run drill (favorite!) Inside Run Various Skelly's
All the teaching ("if they do this, we do that") takes place in these periods.....that is where you can stop the drill and teach.
Come Team time, you can only REMIND them of what you've already worked on.......RB missed on slide protection and let the DE come underneath him......I didn't stop team for 40 seconds, I just said "Where's your hat suppose to be?" He knew the answer from the 1,000 times we went over it in BPU. Next time, he did it right.
Indy should be about how to do things. Group should be about when to do things. Team should be about creating the atmosphere in which you have to do things.
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Post by dubber on Nov 1, 2018 10:44:17 GMT -6
On defense, I think full go team is a waste of time.
It is a cluster......scout OL steps the wrong way, fumbled snaps, etc.
We get all of our work in indy and group......team is either a rec period (what's the check versus unbalanced?), or we do a drill called "Easy Street" where the scout O runs plays to score from the 25, 20, 15, 10, 5.....gets the defense thinking situationally.
On offense, there is a little more utility, but it needs to be game like in tempo.
So we do Indies to work on our movements.....we do group to isolate skills and reads (2-on-2 pods for OL, RPO drill for R/Q/WR, etc.)......and then we do team at game tempo to test what we need to work on.
AND, if you are going to do it, you MUST script it.
Example: We faced a really good defense last week that had an all state LB that was a game wrecker when he blitzed strong B/C gaps. So, we repped the time out of picking him up that week.
In team when we ran our base play strong, we made sure we were sending the scout LB.
(Worked out okay.....that kid made a ton of plays, but our RB went for 200 and we got the W)
One of the best things we ever did was create wristbands for our scout D.....tells them alignment and assignment on every play. Once the OC sets the script, it is simply a matter of matching the defensive looks to the script.
Otherwise, you are lining them up and spending 80% of the time talking...
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Post by dubber on Oct 31, 2018 15:47:59 GMT -6
Cutting practice is number one....... Guess what, if little Jimmy is your starting 3 technique and the last of the season is still spinning out of down blocks (even though you've been working on a different technique for 3 months), guess what? He is going to spin out of down blocks come Friday night. Try again next season. Practices need to become more mental......know your assignment and get it done. The best executing teams (in close matchups) get to move on. We spend very little time "game planning" the first half of the season. We are more inwardly focused on technique, steps, execution. By the second half of the season we either got it or we don't, and we start focusing more on what we can do well and how to protect that. Ha, thats why I like this site; two people do the opposite thing for roughly the same reason. I don't cut practice much, but when we do we cut out the game planning stuff but keep the working on fundamentals. I'd like to think that little Jimmy isn't spinning out of down blocks because we have focused on and repped the small stuff in indy time for the past 3 months. And if we stop working on it now then maybe his technique begins to slip and he starts doing it wrong. I like to think that Steph Curry still works on his free throws, and Dustin Johnson still works on 3 foot putts; so yeah direct focus on fundamental movements is something we still should rep. Conversely, we spend little to no time on install this late in the year. We aren't putting anything new in, we just do what we do; and I doubt they are showing us anything new. Although to be fair practice time stays roughly the same. Maybe clear some things up here: By this point in the season, we aren’t adding plays......we’ve probably cut half the playbook. We are going deeper into each play.....especially in light of what the opponent likes to do. Also, we work initial movements (Steps, get offs, etc( every day, but the “what to do after contact/fight leverage” stuff is already in grained, or its not. In our opinion at least...... I just think there are diminishing returns on trying to correct the same flaw in week 9 that you were in week 1.......either you found someone better by now, or you live with it....... By accepting what you are, you can game plan to get your strength against their weakness, while hiding your weaknesses from their strengths
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Post by dubber on Oct 31, 2018 12:47:54 GMT -6
Cutting practice is number one.......
Guess what, if little Jimmy is your starting 3 technique and the last of the season is still spinning out of down blocks (even though you've been working on a different technique for 3 months), guess what? He is going to spin out of down blocks come Friday night.
Try again next season.
Practices need to become more mental......know your assignment and get it done. The best executing teams (in close matchups) get to move on.
We spend very little time "game planning" the first half of the season. We are more inwardly focused on technique, steps, execution.
By the second half of the season we either got it or we don't, and we start focusing more on what we can do well and how to protect that.
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Post by dubber on Oct 31, 2018 12:21:20 GMT -6
Ohio- Coldwater Indiana- Pioneer Pioneer is a great program. They also have a kid who is a 3 star going to Notre Dame, which just doesn't happen from that classification level. Morris is a little further south (KY, right?). I would suggest Reed May at Brownstown High School........he runs a great program A to Z (weight lifting, grades, practice, scheme, etc.).
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Post by dubber on Oct 29, 2018 3:15:52 GMT -6
I mean, talent disparity is the greatest at the high school level, and there are always certain teams at either the top or the bottom, but I couldn’t imagine going through a nine game season knowing our record before game one.
There is always 2-3 games every season that could be either way (this year, there have been 8)......those games are the kind that help build your program
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Post by dubber on Oct 26, 2018 15:00:04 GMT -6
It seems like just about every game in our area is decided well before kick off happens. Only handful of games across 6 classifications are competitive each week (defined as within 3 TDs) and many have a running clock to start the second half, simply due to massive talent disparities. I'd say that about half the games here are blowouts with a 30+ point differentials. The same teams are at the top of the conferences each year and the same ones make up the bottom, too, with maybe 10% moving from one group into the other from year to year. Is it like that everywhere? This year, we have had 4 games that literally were decided in the last 30 seconds. That chit’ll kill you
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Post by dubber on Oct 26, 2018 14:59:29 GMT -6
No.
We had a couple undefeated seasons in 2015-2016.
In the 2015 year, only one team was within a score.
In 2016, we had 2-3 games like that.
In 2017, we went 5-5.
This season we are 8-2 with 5 of those wins not being decided until the 4th quarter......we are a talented young team that will return 20 starters next season, so 2019 we expect less close games.
There are some teams that seem destined for the cellar, but the top half of our conference is scratching and clawing every year
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Post by dubber on Oct 25, 2018 5:49:55 GMT -6
There could be a whole thread about this sort of thing.....I’m going to start one
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Post by dubber on Oct 17, 2018 10:58:39 GMT -6
I've gotten really good at the power whisper
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Post by dubber on Oct 11, 2018 20:33:22 GMT -6
TAKE THE PERSONAL STUFF TO PM'S!!!!!
Our HC is the STC, and I think with all the big decisions the HC has to make around the kicking game (punt, fake punt, fg, fake fg, onside, kick deep, etc.) AND the overall management of field position being the HC's responsibility IMO, it is PERFECT.
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Post by dubber on Oct 11, 2018 18:00:36 GMT -6
We have a non-conference game this week with a team that is in a similar position.
We are both guaranteed a play-off spot and both of us can lose out and it won't change our seed for the play-offs.
Neither team is deep and there are a couple of positions that neither of us can afford to have an injury.
We are going through the game plan with the kids this morning and one kid says about their QB- he isn't going to travel so he can be rested for their last conference game. That kid is their QB and leading rusher. Does that change our game plan? NOPE
We switch over to defense and a different kid says that their F/S is not playing either. He is leading their team in both interceptions and tackles- (kid looks like a beast on film, makes plays at LOS and is always in good position in coverage). Does that change our game plan? Nope
Our coaches start asking if we are going to rest anyone...Nope. The game is scheduled, it is a varsity competition, it is our last home game, it is senior night, and we play to win.
Kids aren’t robots......they can’t turn it off and on If you all are rolling right now, I would keep it rolling. Plus, if they are resting their studs, then I would think heading into playoffs with a big win would be positive.
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Post by dubber on Oct 4, 2018 18:25:30 GMT -6
Is this thread useful?
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Post by dubber on Oct 2, 2018 12:17:29 GMT -6
It’s an interesting question. I am dc and lb Coach. My second and third lbs are close. My second one is 5-10 185 and looks like a freak. My third one is 5-7 150 and looks like Greg Heffley (main character in diary of a wimpy kid). They are on a 2-1 series rotation because they both also play offense. Whenever a big play occurs when the two is in no one says anything. Whenever a big play occurs when the three is in and it doesn’t matter if it was his fault everyone asks why the two wasn’t in. It’s kind of goofy. But I stick with the three because of the evaluation. What I am looking for is working to the right run fit, block destruction, leverage in pursuit and actual production. Our three is better at the first two but is worse at the second two so he remains a three. But it’s really close so I play them both. If he is worse at actual production than your other kid, I would agree with your staff...... Sometimes we just fall in love with a kid's work ethic, leadership, etc., and put blinders on......
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Post by dubber on Sept 14, 2018 15:33:13 GMT -6
By the way, this is the most fatalistic thread title I've seen......I expected a veteran coach with stage 4 cancer and a gofundme page.......
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