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Post by CoachDaniel on Apr 4, 2009 20:35:55 GMT -6
Football assistant, until this year I was an assistant wrestling coach, also did softball for a few years. I've dropped everything else over time to spend more time in the weight room, strength coach now
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Post by CoachDaniel on Apr 4, 2009 13:14:25 GMT -6
Coach, you put a kid who's 105 pounds on a varsity field... you're going to jail for child abuse. Keep a low profile...
But I agree that the "average" football player is pretty meaningless, I don't think anyone would argue that. 5'10" 180lbs sounds about right. We may have been a little taller by average, our LT and TE were both 6'4"... the 5'6" QB averaged it out somewhat though
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Post by CoachDaniel on Apr 3, 2009 22:24:59 GMT -6
Best meeting I've been in on (including any one that I've led) - University of Richmond linebackers meeting last spring, after a full team meeting.
1. Rips one kid for falling asleep during the team meeting (which was lengthy, but I was not in) 2. Notebooks out, film on. 8 plays, zone blitzes only, from yesterday's practice. Coach has notes in front of him, exactly what he is showing and why. 3. One to two corrections per play, and at least one positive for every play too. None shown more than twice. 4. Meeting over, its been 10 minutes total from ripping to "go get 'em" and they were off to practice.
No one had time to lose focus. 9 months later you've got a National Championship, its a simple formula.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Apr 3, 2009 22:04:16 GMT -6
dcohio... wow, that was intense. That guy coached for me too, maybe he doesn't have enough time to do anything because he's leading a double life.
Coach, you're really fortunate that you are cooperating with the head coach. I was an assisant JV softball coach (seriously) when I student taught. My cooperating teacher was the cheerleading coach, she saw things differently. By the way, the guy I worked under has won a state title since, so it was worth it to learn how to do things the right way... and have your professor show up in the hallway at 8:45 to berate you in earshot of the students because you forgot the teaching is what you get graded for.
"We're 9 and 1 right now, how can you be mad at me?" did not fly.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Apr 2, 2009 21:07:12 GMT -6
Be on time, and don't be in a hurry to leave. Since you're doing student teaching and football at the same time, make sure you've got good time management skills.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Apr 2, 2009 8:50:27 GMT -6
Kids dedicated to football know what they need to do to get themselves to perform at their peak. This is not the rocket science you'd have everyone believe. If the kid sucks on game day he needs to adjust his approach and will do so willingly. If he is great on game day the team will carry him off the field in a unified fashion. Who are your kids? My kids don't know anything about football OR weightlifting! As an experiment, remove the weightlifting program. Just have an open gym - free membership for anyone who wants to play football, or you can train with dad, mom, a personal trainer, pay through the nose to someone else, anything. Just be sure you perform on game day. Let them figure it out. See what you get. Sorry, but there is a little rocket science involved in this stuff.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Apr 2, 2009 8:41:32 GMT -6
And I think you mentioned Coach, he was not being punished - he had been outworked, and outperformed by other players! Don't see where there's anything else you could, or should do. Nice job Coach.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Mar 28, 2009 15:05:06 GMT -6
Make a highlight film or show them some football highlights, get 'em excited, pump them up, make them think anyone can do this stuff. I think most guys want to at least try football, but they're either afraid of failing or - in the case of those baseball and basketball kids - have someone in their ear. Get in the other ear.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Mar 23, 2009 8:44:22 GMT -6
Spread, definitely - both running it and defending it.
Anyone else notice defensively, more talk about Man coverage, bump & run? All the receivers coaches just talked about getting off press coverage, DB coaches talked about how to do it.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Mar 23, 2009 8:41:48 GMT -6
Charlotte, Atlanta, Cleveland and Harrisburg Glazier Clinics (I really like those things)... McNally was great, finally saw Coverdale and he's fantastic. Greg Gregory was a nice surprise (South Alabama), Blankenship from Tulsa... stumbled in to Chuck Apap on Saturday morning in Harrisburg and was amazed, I was ready to apply for head jobs at tiny schools so I could install the Wing-T. G.A. Mangus, QB Coach from South Carolina was good, as was Steve Spurrier Jr (never thought I'd say anything good about that family).
It was worth the massive debt I rolled up, school only paid for a car and hotel in Charlotte.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Mar 23, 2009 8:31:35 GMT -6
If your kids can't get through a game in the heat, you didn't prepare them. I'm going to have to disagree with you on that one. I don't know the science of it, but some kids are just prone to cramping. The only way we've been able to get one of them through the season is to hunt him during the day Thursday AND Friday and feed him Gatorades, waters, etc. and he still cramped at halftime occasionally. I'd prefer our way to an IV, but as mentioned, they do it in College. Everything trickles down. I played HS ball in Georgia (could have been at that school?), we didn't get IVs but those first few games are incredibly hot. Lots of cramping, I feel like it may be reasonable for some. Also, it probably is expensive - but it is football in Georgia. Here in VA we'd never get that money, but the further south you go, its a different world.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Mar 19, 2009 18:46:00 GMT -6
NFL players have nothing to do with what your high school kids do, in my opinion. NFL receivers don't wear knee pads, that's not going to fly with us either.
If you run a good program, and some personal trainer sells a kid that he can do it better - that guy is seeing dollar signs, not the good of the kid. That should concern you. If the dad wants to train him, that dad doesn't believe in your program, and he's telling his kid that. That should concern you. And if he's just working out on his own, I'm willing to bet a LOT that he's not working as hard as you would push him. Again, that's a concern. We can't kick you off the team because you didn't come to the weight room, and I'm not going to screw you and me out of a good football career because your dad is a trouser snake. But it is to everyone's benefit except the dad and the personal trainer, if you are in our weight room. So you better believe I'm going to do all within my power to keep you in our weight room.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Mar 19, 2009 3:58:34 GMT -6
We've already seen an increase in the number of kids working. If it becomes a major concern, you can always offer more than one time for workouts, to work around their job schedules.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Mar 19, 2009 3:54:41 GMT -6
Keep the home made chutes. Buy some trash cans (for defense). Get a fire hose and paint an offensive line on it. Cones (personally, I need lots of cones). Boards for the offensive line. Get some arm shields and dummies. Can't really think of much else you NEED, other than make sure you have plenty of footballs!
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Post by CoachDaniel on Mar 10, 2009 15:12:55 GMT -6
Get him a car and a girlfriend, that seems to turn most of them into idiots. Seriously, we all see plenty of quiet freshmen turn into vocal seniors. Help him develop between now and the time he leaves you, when it counts. You wouldn't depend on a sophomore for leadership on the varsity, would you?
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Post by CoachDaniel on Mar 10, 2009 15:05:18 GMT -6
You already know there's a section on talking kids out of playing football in there
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Post by CoachDaniel on Mar 10, 2009 10:49:58 GMT -6
Anyone attending Harrisburg Glazier this weekend who has seen some of the speakers? I'm not looking for anything in particular, just someone who's going to be entertaining and informative about any aspect of football. Already saw McNally, and I don't know much about anyone else. Thanks!
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Post by CoachDaniel on Mar 4, 2009 17:46:16 GMT -6
Linebacker, nose guard in high school. DE, LB in college. I've spent most of my time coaching DL or LBs. Its a wonder I even know what a football looks like.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Mar 4, 2009 17:39:41 GMT -6
Coach this is our playbook from a couple years ago done in Power Point: www.gridironchat.com/resources/Multiple Front 3-5-3 Defense.ppt Looking at it now, I honestly think I could do better, I was just learning then. I turned this into a DVD and narrated it for the players as well. I've used Excel too, you can make a nice playbook out of that (I think Brophy had some nice Excel playbooks?) This season it we used PlaymakerPro. For a printed out playbook, you can't beat the speed and the look... but it is almost $200. It ain't cheap, but its worth it. If you want to see that one let me know.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Mar 4, 2009 17:25:24 GMT -6
I like that the first guys to jump in on this one were defensive guys. DC's are the only ones that know, because the only place the I-Formation is used anymore is in every defensive playbook in the country. But by god if we ever see it, we'll be ready!!
(I know, I know... "I run the I!" well you're a dinosaur ;D )
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Post by CoachDaniel on Mar 2, 2009 11:46:43 GMT -6
I'm dying to know what this piece of equipment is. Maybe I could use it. From what I can tell, they received a horse. An old one. And should just be happy that soldiers didn't come pouring out of it in the middle of the night and conquer their school. But I may be confused
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Post by CoachDaniel on Mar 2, 2009 11:38:35 GMT -6
Shower board, cheap and easy
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Post by CoachDaniel on Mar 2, 2009 11:37:04 GMT -6
I always appreciate it when someone is asking a question in a clinic and attempts to use the same terms as the speaker, rather than saying "Well we'd call it this..." It shows some respect for the guy standing up there, that you're really trying to learn from him.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Feb 28, 2009 19:06:43 GMT -6
The more time you spend at it, the more all of these different words mean something. You can be the guy who goes to the clinic because its a chance to get away from the wife and pound beers, or you can sit your butt down in every session and learn, then talk football afterwards (and have a few, of course). After a few clinics, all those fancy words mean something.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Feb 24, 2009 11:55:56 GMT -6
You're right, you can't sell them that its going to make them winners if they've been in the weight room before. YOU may know that they didn't work that hard, but to THEM it was. They don't know any better. How do you sell them? Like you'd sell anything else. What do THEY want? They want big arms, they want a big bench press, they want girls, etc. Sell them on that. Is that what you're giving them? Not really your intention, but it is a bonus of a good program (we bench once a week, it still goes up). BE A SALESMAN, don't try to cram it down their throat as being "expected". Some of them will just quit. There are a lot of other things kids can be doing, and in most areas you don't have to be a football player to be "cool", so you better sell them on something they want.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Feb 16, 2009 17:08:15 GMT -6
Spend more time looking at the previous season and making a list of things we think need to be changed, and then keep that list around all season.
Hopefully it isn't the same thing next year.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Feb 14, 2009 13:07:35 GMT -6
I love single digits. I've been trying to get all of our LBs in single digits for two years, but the numbers are always taken by receivers. No problem with any numbers. If a kid can wear #69 and have his mom come to the games, well... whatever. #13, don't care... #1, I want it on someone. This year it was on a WR, I swear that the number tucked up under his armpits. He was good though!
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Post by CoachDaniel on Feb 14, 2009 8:29:40 GMT -6
That parent who came out of the stands screaming that his kid wasn't catching enough balls, after we ran for 300+ yards? Then got kicked out of one of his kid's basketball games? Our county put him on the committee to select the new head coach.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Feb 14, 2009 8:18:48 GMT -6
If you're not going to get behind him 100%, move on. It's his show, his time in the sun. He wants to bring someone else in and change the direction of the program, he should do it. If he gets fired because he makes terrible decisions, you can come back and apply for his job later.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Feb 14, 2009 8:15:40 GMT -6
If you have the opportunity to be a GA at a BCS school, you need to do it. No question. They're nearly impossible to come by for most of us. You've got a foot in the door at the college level, and can always come back to H.S. with something very impressive on your resume that not many others have. And yes, GA at a BCS school should lead to a college job. Maybe not a BCS school job (though it could, its all about who you know), but something. You won't make any money doing it, but it will be a great experience and I think you'd regret it later.
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