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Post by CoachDaniel on Aug 16, 2016 10:11:01 GMT -6
Do you all grade film? Cause then I agree. But using hudl to annotate a play has really helped our players understand what we want. Grading film is the worst. If I ever work for a head coach that asks me to grade film again, I'll just show myself out. I can watch it one time and give each guy a number from 1-100 if you really want. It'll be accurate. The hudl annotation is awesome. I go overboard sometimes.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Aug 16, 2016 10:06:20 GMT -6
I wish I could give up my non-teaching job to do something like that Make it happen. While I respect Joe's take on a lot of things, he really isn't any different than most of us here. He seems to love the game, but more importantly he is just a man with a vision. I remember picking up his coaching the 4-2-5 defense book back when that was largely all he really had out there. To watch his content and his business grow has been awesome. 100% Correct. There's plenty of coaches that could have a spike driven through their brain and still coach circles around me. There aren't many who have been producing blog posts, podcasts and videos about coaching football consistently for the past 7 years. That's the difference. Get up early, stay up late, and produce content. Even if no one is paying attention to you. Then you have to learn marketing. Learn business. Learn a little technical stuff like wordpress. It's work. It took 6 months before I had 50 people a day reading my blog. It took 2 years before I made $500 in one month. It was another 18 months before I could leave teaching. Most guys give up too soon. I'm always happy to help coaches get started, too.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Aug 16, 2016 9:47:29 GMT -6
He has come a long way from what when I first visited his site almost 5 years ago, it has been amazing especially because some guys have fallen by the way side for one reason or another. Speaking of anyone know what happened to Coach Shane Sams & the coachxo.com site? you know, i went there alot when it first came out. the problem was he could never get more people. eventually it was just the same dudes talking every day, and when he couldnt make money on it, he shut it down. Just to clarify... that's not correct. Maybe the part about the same dudes talking, I couldn't say. It wasn't a money issue at all. Shane is a good friend of mine. We talk every day. He was doing very well with CoachXO. He and his wife started having more success with their other businesses. And that's an understatement. Shane left coaching and teaching after the 2013 season. He and his wife run a website and podcast that help other people get started in online business called Flipped Lifestyle. They were featured in an interview on Forbes back in June. If you want to catch up with where Shane Sams is now, the interview is here. Don't mean to sound like a jerk. Just wanted to clear up where CoachXO and Shane actually went. Other than watching my team's games on Hudl, he doesn't do much with football today.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Aug 7, 2016 22:52:06 GMT -6
I do like the podcast. Insiders: how active is he during the season? It doesn't really matter because it isn't like i am going to research defensive systems and such during the season because I am an offensive guy. Just curious though. I'm an offensive coordinator now. I don't trust the dark siders anymore. Anyway, JDFB is my job. I don't teach anymore. So as far as the Insiders and answering questions goes, I'm active all year. Might miss a podcast or two during the season, and not put out many free articles and videos. But I try to answer questions on the website within 48 hours.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Jul 31, 2016 20:27:42 GMT -6
Started listening because of this thread. Great stuff. I probably won't join the toed shoes crew but very informative stuff have passed many podcasts along to our staff. That's fair, I judge myself for wearing toe shoes at practice
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Post by CoachDaniel on Jul 31, 2016 14:33:25 GMT -6
Legitimately one of the highlights of my life was seeing my name in a CoachHuey thread title.
Thank you for the kind words, too.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Apr 23, 2016 14:44:29 GMT -6
Lets face it, there are always those guys in coaching who can simply take it or leave it and be just fine. Theres the group that cant imagine life without it. I have guys on my staff who fit both scenarios and probably everything in between. Theyd like to coach forever but if they lost this job, that would be it, they aren't going to go to another school for example. Absolutely. I used to follow the idea that if you think you can live without it, it's time to get out. I want to coach. I don't have to. I think Bill Walsh said that if he could have just taken a couple weeks off, he would have continued coaching the 49ers. No one needs to be obsessed with football 24/7, and it's not sustainable for most people. There was an article on football scoop that caught my attention about the new Georgia Tech basketball coach saying he wouldn't hire assistants who play golf. I ended up recording a podcast about it. Don't know why it touched a nerve but it did. Needless to say, I disagree with the idea, though I don't know the coach or if it was taken out of context.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Apr 23, 2016 14:32:28 GMT -6
Anybody ever notice how all of Dale Baskett's stuff was the same. Paragraph upon paragraph about what you need to do in very general (no detail) terms, and little to no direct usable information. A lot of "here is how I coach speed training", without ever telling us what he does to teach speed. Oh yeah, you can go sign up and pay for his wisdom..... I never paid attention to them, but he hooked my head coach. We signed up for his wisdom. It was absolutely worth it. Dude's an incredible teacher in person. He said the articles by themselves aren't worth much. I think at the time he had written 77 columns, and that just about everything was in there if you could ever figure out the order to put them in. He just didn't start writing the columns thinking he'd do a 77 part course. (I don't know if that's true, I bet I haven't read 5 of them total) But if someone tells you that you can advertise your stuff for free, don't pass it up. Just may not be in AFM's best interest.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Apr 20, 2016 21:40:03 GMT -6
It's always bothered me. But I'm trying to come to terms with the fact that there are guys who are passionate coaches, guys who are adequate coaches (can run the drills you give them, aren't going to contribute much in a staff meeting), and guys who are babysitters. You prefer a staff full of passionate guys. It's not always the reality. Sometimes you just need a couple of babysitters that can pass a background check when you have 150 kids in the program. There's a fourth group of coaches that are detrimental to the program. They've got to go. "Hey man, chill out, its just for fun. What time will we be done you think?" That guy would be detrimental to my health. I am part of the program.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Apr 19, 2016 9:20:07 GMT -6
Print is dead. I can do everything under the son on a blog, give you diagrams, show you film, chalk-talk, drills etc. It's hard to only read about a play... drills are impossible for me to just read and look at squiggly lines. I don't know if that's true, but how you do it matters. As brophy mentioned, a lot of the people producing content for the magazine had something to sell (like me). Vendors aside, anything in print has more sway than a blog. At least to someone who doesn't know the author. I didn't get a response last time I tried to contact them about writing an article, which is unusual.
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Apr 28, 2013 17:42:38 GMT -6
Post by CoachDaniel on Apr 28, 2013 17:42:38 GMT -6
Do you tell your kids that we "upset" a better team or that we expected to beat them? I would guess that I would see it as we should beat every team and thats the message I would relay to my kids. Because when I was playing, my coach always said "we" were the underdogs and "we" had to overcome. Didnt really help the morale that our own coach thought we couldnt win from the get go. Maybe I am wrong, but I would want to look at it that way so my kids bought into the fact that we could line up and play against any team and beat them. Don't lie to them. You may have been able to set the stage however you wanted it 20 years ago, but today your kids are on message boards, facebook and twitter. They know who's good and who's picked to win. During the week we acknowledge how good the team we'll be playing is, and present the best game plan we could develop to beat them. If we manage to pull off the upset, tell them - the "No one believed in us, but us" speech is required at that point. It may be in some coaching contracts...
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Post by CoachDaniel on Apr 25, 2013 19:22:38 GMT -6
When you're the single guy on staff for over a decade, plus you're the DC and the computer dork who does all the video stuff, used to be a math teacher, now a football blog guy, you get to wear lots of hats. If I was on a staff with just a rich local guy and a builder we'd be set. But also...
The Cleaner: Dude just can't handle all those old practice plans sitting on the table, file cabinets with stacks of the '96 Offense playbook, or crumbs in the office microwave. Sometimes he just loses it, cleans up, organizes, and judges you other sloppy sunufas. But he won't tell you his organization system, so he also just made himself the guy in charge of the locker list when the freshmen forget their combination.
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Apr 25, 2013 19:10:45 GMT -6
Post by CoachDaniel on Apr 25, 2013 19:10:45 GMT -6
So, do you plan your offense to defeat the best team or try to maximize your win total
As always it depends on the situation. I want to prepare to beat the best team in the league. But if you're trying to rebuild a perennial doormat, you work on getting to be competitive first. Of course, if you do a good enough job to beat the best team, you'll probably be pretty competitive. Upsets are rare in the moment. Maybe its the ego of a coach, but we look at every game as a winnable game. If we beat an apparently superior team, we can usually look at how well we executed the game plan, and/or how poorly the other team played. It never feels like an upset, even if outsiders view it that way. Like fantom said, a lot of early season upsets turn out to not be upsets at all, too. I don't know about you guys, but the people who make predictions in the paper and on the message boards don't attend practices much.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Jan 16, 2013 21:26:46 GMT -6
I think it has to be a year by year thing. If you don't have four, don't have four. If you have more than four, you can have more than 4 captains.
cqmiller makes a great point, and the fact is you can pick all the captains you want. Leaders are leaders, with or without the title. And slapping a "Captain" label on a kid won't make everyone else follow him either.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Jan 8, 2013 9:28:00 GMT -6
Politics/Rumors/Deleted Threads: If you've ever tried to run a forum (I'm on my 3rd attempt), you know that it sucks. Hard to get people posting, and once it gets going you have to moderate. Even once most forums get started, they tend to degenerate over time to garbage. Whatever Huey has done to keep this one the way it is for so long, I'm in support of. When young coaches ask me where to go, I send them here before I'd even send them to my own stuff.
Names: By nature of what I do, my name and school are out there. But my name on here is the screen name I started using when I was about 12 years old on bulletin boards. If I used something else i wouldn't be able to remember my login. For that same reason, when I started a board it automatically makes your real name the screen name, but coaches have the option to change it because for numerous reasons, they're just more comfortable.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Jan 4, 2013 16:42:29 GMT -6
In our state we can't make the offseason mandatory. Even if we could I don't know that I'd cut off my nose to spite my face. If a guy's a lot better than the other guy he plays. Kids know who's committed, who they can trust and who they can't. They also know who the best players are (their parents may not), and they want to win. If kids aren't showing up, sit them down and talk to them. If they still don't show up, they don't care that much. Tell college coaches that, if they ask. Don't make it public, and don't hurt the other kids. Plus, what about your athletes that are in other sports?
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Post by CoachDaniel on Jan 4, 2013 0:02:09 GMT -6
Glazier labels their clinics as basic/intermediate/advanced (B/I/A). If you've spent one season coaching, I'd avoid the advanced.
You might find value in sticking with one guy who's doing multiple sessions, building an entire offense or defense from the ground up for several hours. That way you'll get a concept of the whole deal, not just a few cool plays or one skill. I prefer that, if they're doing something I want to hear.
One clinic isn't enough to become an expert in everything. Consider picking a position or two. Offensive Line guys are notoriously detailed. Defensive Line guys are notoriously passionate.
Don't waste your time with the hottest coach in the clinic. Like if Nick Saban is speaking for an hour, that may be a big thrill for you, but that hour won't make you a significantly better coach. Although those guys are usually pretty motivating, so if you start hating football for some reason, stop in.
Don't feel bad about walking out. If you walk in, and find out the guy is A) completely over your head or B) completely un-preprared, walk out. You paid your money.
And you'll learn a whole lot more sitting down with your buddy at the local college. Go to practice, ask if you can sit in on meetings, watch them break down film. That's the real stuff. Glazier clinics are awesome, I'll go to several this year. But you have to learn to separate "Clinic Talk" from real football coaching.
PS I just glanced over the Nashville schedule... you can't go wrong with Pat Fox. That's my opinion, but I trust me.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Nov 15, 2012 16:02:28 GMT -6
Thought I would share the link to Football Coaching Podcast. I was honored to speak with Coach Joe Daniel about our site here and about the coaching fraternity. Coach Daniel does a great job providing resources for the coaching brotherhood. It was a lot of fun doing the interview and I appreciate him taking the time to visit with me. Again, it was an honor that he felt our site warranted some air time ... Episode 35 – Interview with Coach HueyThanks for your generosity in doing the interview, Coach. It's a tribute to the coaching community that guys like yourself, Brophy, and Coach Gordon are willing to give back. It's an understatement to say we don't pay our guests. 3 interviews down, 32,997 members to go. Roughly.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Sept 8, 2012 7:43:52 GMT -6
Most successful coaches are intense, high strung, obsess over every detail guys. Doesn't mean you have to be that way. Plenty of coaches have been successful doing it differently.
And college is no different than high school, so that doesn't make any sense. Nothing magical happens between your 18th and 19th birthday, you just work with the bigger and faster of the skirt chasing fools.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Oct 29, 2011 1:35:34 GMT -6
Anything athletic that the kids can do, that they enjoy, is great. if a kid hates wrestling, he shouldn't do it.
I'd prefer them be in our weight room unless they really want to wrestle (and I used to be a wrestling coach). Same goes for basketball, soccer, etc. If you really love it, do it. Otherwise, get in the weight room.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Oct 28, 2011 22:33:46 GMT -6
Glad this team has so few issues that they can even fight this battle. God bless 'em, if this was the biggest problem we had I'd wake up well rested every morning.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Dec 27, 2010 16:38:45 GMT -6
This thread makes me want to change back from bingo to oskie. At least I have a story for Oskie, for bingo its just... well just yell it out dangit!
Does anyone ever remember hearing someone yell either one while you were playing, and that being the first indication to you that the ball was intercepted? Or do we just teach it because we are supposed to?
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Post by CoachDaniel on Apr 6, 2010 17:33:45 GMT -6
Great suggestions. I wish I had team pictures to this point, but I've only put 8 years in so the next 45 will build up a nice collection!
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Post by CoachDaniel on May 1, 2009 10:44:12 GMT -6
The kids that quit and then continue to wear the gear have always gotten to me. I'd be embarrassed to wear that stuff to school and then have someone ask me why they couldn't find me on the field friday night.... or the sidelines, or anywhere but the stands (maybe).
My personal favorite are the kids who wear their own jersey on Fridays when we wear our game jersey. It never fails when we're wearing white to see some kid in a white Jets jersey or something (colors are green & white). Again, I personally would feel ridiculous... but who am I to judge, they're free to wear what they want. Basketball wears ties on game days, and you always find a kid or two who just "decided" to wear a tie that day.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Apr 28, 2009 8:21:02 GMT -6
What....no Golf, Airraider?.......d@mn......that sucks ......Football and Golf are the perfect combination......like salt and pepper.....peas and carrots......I'm really not kidding either ....no better sport to learn = focus.....aiming points.....perfecting technique......personal accountability(can't blame anyone else for your screwups)......like coachD said in another thread - learning to play with intensity,while keeping your emotions under control = very important in golf and football.....plus its a nice physical workout, when you have to carry your own bag thru 18 holes, a few times a week. A great sport for developing "mental" discipline. If we could change a few words in here, add some letters behind your name, and forward this to our administration, that would be great. I'm thinking, ""No better sport to learn to be a good teacher, than golf..."
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Post by CoachDaniel on Apr 27, 2009 8:13:59 GMT -6
coachd puts it really well, when that snowball starts rolling and kids panic they have lost focus. And it is really hard to get that back. Sometimes, we can make it even worse when we panic during a half-time, or a time out. And notice that the lower the level, the more likely that is to happen - teams in the NFL don't lose focus as much as teams in NCAA, as High School Varsity, and so on. Experience will help you to control your emotions and your focus. Putting the team in those situations in practice will definitely help, in that case.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Apr 27, 2009 8:07:39 GMT -6
Lots of what-if's here. Ever have to send a kid on his way because he's morbidly obese and you're afraid you might kill him in summer practice? Or what if he fails his physical? And then you've got all these kids just hanging around to be around. Your practice turns into a PE Class. "Nah Coach, I'm not dressing out today."
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Post by CoachDaniel on Apr 27, 2009 8:02:55 GMT -6
I coached fastpitch softball for 4 years - in fact I did student teaching in the spring and coached softball before I ever coached a football player. Coaching girls is great. They're more relaxed, they want to do well but their life doesn't depend on it. They'll listen to you, most of the time. Their dads suck because they were all the next Mickey Mantle back in high school, and now they've got a daughter.
Now, on occasion, they'll cry. Or just have a flat out mutiny one day out of no where.
And I kept my hands to myself at all times. There is NOWHERE safe to touch a 17 year old girl with the exception of maybe a high five, not when you're a 20-something male teacher. Of course this story is ridiculous, but I doubt we know all of it.
And zbessac, if you think you might potentially "butt tap" your the ladies after a pep talk without thinking about it, yeah you gotta stay away from the girls athletics. No question. Its good to know your limitations and play to your strengths though.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Apr 9, 2009 11:01:46 GMT -6
Its real easy to do keep tackling to a minimum with good tacklers, but weaker tacklers need more time. It would be nice to have some guys thud and some guys tackle!
Individual periods - we never go to the ground, maybe once every 2-3 weeks, and every time we do, I think "What a stupid idea this was" pretty soon after it starts.
Group periods - I like going full speed on an inside drill or half-line stuff, there are fewer bodies flying around but it simulates a game situation pretty well.
7 on 7 is always thud, and Team goes full speed twice during the week.
If you have good tacklers, and you can go less, do it. I'd find out the fewest amount of live tackles I can have during the week to still be successful in the game, and never do more. I'm not smart enough to do it less with what we had last season, but its a priority to me.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Apr 8, 2009 20:10:27 GMT -6
I agree with fbdoc, encourage him. But tell him what he CAN DO to get there, don't dwell on things he can't do anything about (like height, for example). Tell him he needs grades to get to play in college, hard work in the weight room, etc. You may only get a scout team hero out of it, or he may end up playing at a D-III school... or he may end up playing in the Arena leagues. I'd much rather have a kid with a goal that is going to be extremely difficult for him to attain, than someone who's only worried about how drunk they're going to get after the game on Friday. He will be more successful in life aiming for the stars, than listening to people who tell him he can't do something.
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