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Post by CoachDaniel on Feb 14, 2009 8:10:57 GMT -6
It's the principle of it. It took advantage of a loophole in the rules which it wasn't intended for. PERIOD. I think they did a noble thing by closing the loophole. What would be assinine would be to ban an offense cause they're too good....Not the case here. They banned it because the SKF was not intended for that. Exactly, that rule was made so we don't have to have the fat linemen cover on punts, or swap jerseys all over the place or whatever they used to do. I do not have any problem with Bryan finding the loophole, I just don't think anyone should be upset or surprised when it gets closed up.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Feb 14, 2009 8:05:52 GMT -6
I'm 28 for a few more weeks
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Post by CoachDaniel on Feb 3, 2009 21:46:11 GMT -6
Nothing wrong with the last man with the chalk game. Its fun when its done correctly, and I love to have someone tear apart my defense on the board. I think you can learn to think more quickly about what to do. And I'd rather it get torn up on the board than on the field!
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Post by CoachDaniel on Feb 1, 2009 9:38:47 GMT -6
Let me know if you get Coach Fox, I tried last year and it was a failure. At the webinar, they gave no contact information - other than you could contact Glazier Clinics about a consulting session with him.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Feb 1, 2009 9:07:22 GMT -6
I'm a Georgia fan, but I guess I might have to say "Roll Tide" a few times over the next few years. I understand... but say it quietly. And in your own home. Go Dawgs! Congratulations Coach!
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Post by CoachDaniel on Feb 1, 2009 9:04:26 GMT -6
Good stuff, especially if you can get your whole staff there. Makes all the difference to do it early. I would think about narrowing the purpose - if its technique that you want, you can avoid the whole "What if they... and then we... " discussion and chalk flying by just saying, "We are talking technique today." Seems to happen at our meetings a lot.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Feb 1, 2009 8:59:02 GMT -6
Great news... FINALLY found my college's head coach's email address and shot him an email about my intentions and asking if he had any space for me on the sidelines. Hopefully he'll send me an email back at least. Keep us updated on what you hear. I'm jealous of your situation, I wish I was still in college trying to get a coaching job that pays nothing and requires long hours, rather than 28, accustomed to making money, and looking for a coaching job that pays nothing and requires long hours. But yeah, don't expect Coach Hatcher to get back to you immediately. Those cats are crazy busy right now. Also, since college/pro is what you really want - if nothing with the football program itself pans out (and be willing to do anything for them if you really want it), you might check with the strength coaches, see if they need any help. They work closely with the football program. You want any opportunity to show your work ethic for them. At the very least, they'll help you when the time comes to look for intern and GA jobs.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Jan 26, 2009 11:01:59 GMT -6
I didn't quite understand your original question - you are getting your teaching certification and you want to coach on the professional level? Did you mean NFL? If so, do not get your start in high school. Its not like the minor leagues, you don't get the big call-up.
If you want high school, check with the local schools. Check with Statesboro, that's a nice way to start out at a school with a winning tradition. If you want to do college though, and you're at GaSou, I think Chris Hatcher is the coach there now. He's won national titles at Valdosta State. I met him once at a clinic and he seemed like a great job. Let him know what you want to do, let him know that you'll do anything to get there and maybe he'll let you hang around. If not, it never hurts to ask and he'll probably have some good advice anyway. But don't be surprised if you try to get in touch with him and don't hear back for a while, they're probably pretty busy right now.
I don't know how you get in the NFL, but Atlanta and Jacksonville are probably not reasonable commutes right now.
Hope this helps, I've been a high school coach for 7 years, climbed the ladder, and realized I"m on the wrong ladder. Its tough to get into college coaching from here. Wherever you decide to go, be confident and work your junk off and you will be successful.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Jan 26, 2009 10:40:03 GMT -6
In my experience, being more hands on makes a big difference in them actually following the work out. Lets face it, if you're supposed to do 70% and its 125, you want to put the big boy plates on there. So we check them, hammer that stuff, motivate them, constantly encourage and correct. We have 2 active coaches for 15 kids right now. In the past its been me alone, with about 30+ in a room (only 6 racks) and - while they get a good workout - they don't get it done right all the time.
As far as squats, we don't count squats that aren't deep enough. If you've just started hammering depth, there are a few who learned to do it wrong that you'll struggle to fix. When we do max tests we actually do a rep max, and sit there and count, and say "up" when they get low enough on each one. Don't count a bad one. But everyone that I started working with as an 8th grader, at least hits parallel on the back squat. Sometimes the front squat is a different story, probably because of their rack position. Overhead squats are fantastic for flexibility and balance. The kids hate them, but they can see the value after a couple of weeks when they start being able to do them correctly.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Jan 25, 2009 10:38:33 GMT -6
We have about 15 tough kids that are lifting 2 days a week. Only two of us coaches that are running things, so we kept numbers small on purpose - only returning players are in it. We will open it up after the Winter season ends.
Most of the kids who aren't in wrestling, football, track or basketball are in that 15. We've had to talk a couple of basketball players out of quitting so they could come to weightlifting - they wouldn't be allowed come to after quitting another sport anyway! A few of those guys come after their other practices, for a shorter workout.
We've kicked up the intensity and they have responded, they seem to prefer it. Good signs for the future! Not a talented bunch by any means, but a solid core of workers.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Nov 8, 2008 18:23:50 GMT -6
Finished 4-6 and graduated 22 seniors - not a good sign. I'm the DC
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Post by CoachDaniel on Jul 23, 2008 12:43:07 GMT -6
We are using them for the first time, mainly to work alignment and run fits for the front. They never talk to the other players. I also put stickers on them showing techniques (so the Tackle trash can has a 4i/4/5 sticker on him) so that when I'm screaming at Johnny to get in a 5, he can look at the can. HOPEFULLY, those visual learners will learn what that mean faster. If not, it was fun drinking and decorating the trash cans in my front yard.
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Post by CoachDaniel on May 22, 2008 22:21:59 GMT -6
Agree with Phantom, try to use him closer to the LOS (OL/DL). Sometimes you've got a good kid who is thinking himself out of being successful. Take away the chance to think by reducing the space between him and the opponent.
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Post by CoachDaniel on May 17, 2008 0:04:04 GMT -6
Why haven't the Bears cut ties with Rex Grossman? Seriously...has this been addressed?
Is there a rule on HS coaches videotaping signals/practices/etc.? Alright, so lets get some 0-10 team to videotape their opponents every move. If they win the State the next year, then I'm convinced. Otherwise, the Patriots are good, and found an opportunity to get an edge. Illegal, but not earth shattering. But they are fun to watch, and the NFL is a business (I'm a Falcons fan.. I despise the NFL right now)
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Post by CoachDaniel on May 14, 2008 21:06:14 GMT -6
I love football, and I'm intelligent, but I always felt the coaches put me in the easiest positions on the field. I was a DE, then a Nose. Turns out we ran a 3-4, it took me like 5 years of coaching to realize that. I knew nothing about the defense, just run on the snap. Graduated HS in '98. A few nights ago I uncovered my playbook from sophomore year of college, a 4-3 that is much simpler than the 4-3 I'm running with our kids. And I don't remember running a vast majority of the stuff in that play book (granted, I didn't actually run any of it in a game situation).
We are asking our kids to do a lot. The old head coach came by today, and when I told one of the other coaches the fronts/coverages I want to have in by such and such a date, he said basically I was wasting my time, just line them up and tell them "Get ball!" A very successful coach who ran a radar 8 until retiring in 2001. I've got a Tony Franklin guy in my district. That won't fly.
I'm adopting the strategy of not withholding any information from them, knowing that some of them will soak it up - and most will be bored, confused, etc. I've been having meeting for players that want to learn. There's about 5 LBs that are there every Friday, they're learning to recognize formations and why those formations are there, they're learning everyone's role in the defense and why they do it... they are genuinely interested, or motivated because they think learning it will solidify their position. A 4.3 fourty would solidfy their position, but this is nice too.
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Post by CoachDaniel on May 11, 2008 15:15:39 GMT -6
I used to drive the 14 passenger bus on wrestling trips. Thursday night, 9:30pm making an hour trip home from JV wrestling... not safe. Can't even imagine doing it after football on a Friday.
Of course, at one wrestling tournament the bus driver's son cussed an official and I pulled him from the tournament. She threw a fit, threatening not to take us home. Only time I've ever wished that I was driving the bus (I refuse to get on a bus with that one now).
They did bring up the issue of coaches driving buses a couple of years ago, but it has not been brought up lately. There are only a few coaches that can drive them and they try to keep it hush hush.
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Post by CoachDaniel on May 10, 2008 22:46:01 GMT -6
Went to Glazier Clinics in Atlanta, Charlotte, and Lancaster, PA and I coach in Virginia... originally from Georgia. I understood everything at Charlotte, felt comfortable in Atlanta hearing the words my coaches used to say, and in Lancaster... eh... to far up. There's a huge difference.
"War Daddy" is the best thing I got from the southern coaches.
That dog'll hunt = great golf shot here, does not apply to football
And the old Virginia folks have a language all their own.
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Post by CoachDaniel on May 5, 2008 9:54:42 GMT -6
(Although, defensive guys, you're not much better, with your tendancy to dress things up and claim them as new and revolutionary when it's the same basic crap people have been running for 30 years...but now you call your DE a "Minotaur" and your Strong Safety a "Slayer"...YIPPEE!) Where can I get more information on this "Minotaur" defense? Sounds exciting! ;D Seriously, there is innovation everywhere in the areas you guys speak of. They're just minor details though, not massive overhauls. Every time one of us coaches who have no money finds ourselves tying crap from the track shed together to create a drill, we're innovating. It may not be GOOD innovation, but for every 10,000 of us that have it fall apart, someone "invents" a new piece of equipment. Weight room innovations are constant, we have to be creative with what we've got to hit muscles from every angle. In coaching, you're running the 5-3 and you realize you've only got 3 defensive linemen so you innovate the 3-5. Then you give those two cats nicknames from an old mythology book and present it at a clinic. Sweet, sweet innovation...
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Post by CoachDaniel on Apr 11, 2008 19:42:25 GMT -6
The Program is the best movie ever. I used to test out my girlfriends by having them sit and watch that with me, see if they could handle it. I'm not married, by the way.
Friday Night Lights was incredibly disappointing as I had just finished the book (incredibly good) when I heard about the movie... got so excited, it was a huge let-down.
Varsity Blues and Necessary Roughness are also good. Rudy is obvious. Junction Boys is great, can you buy that on DVD? I never thought to look... As for every other movie about football I can think of, I'd rather watch film of my JV team from 2002. Seriously. 1-9, I'd prefer it.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Apr 10, 2008 21:52:50 GMT -6
This seems simple, unless there's something I'm not seeing. He's interested in playing. Tell him when to be there, if he shows up treat him like everyone else. If he's good, play him, and have a back-up ready. Don't change your scheme to fit his abilities (of which you don't really know if he has any), and you have no worries if he bails on you because you should have another guy ready to roll. Track is not football - that goes both ways. None of us would quit football... but track sucks, all they do is run around. I might think about quitting that. Not to mention, a junior is not a senior. A year can make a difference.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Jun 23, 2007 18:29:44 GMT -6
That game sounds like dungeons and dragons meets football...but oddly fascinating.
Still, I'm glad I was born in the 80s
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Post by CoachDaniel on Jun 22, 2007 20:39:18 GMT -6
Tecmo Bowl...amazing game, honestly Super Tecmo Bowl never got me excited like the original. I think it was Ronnie Lott that you could cover the entire field with and pick off any pass.
But he still got trucked by Bo.
The stuff today - I remember I used to lose in the old PS1 games because I thought like a coach and everyone else used the tricks. NCAA '07...thinking like a coach actually works.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Nov 17, 2007 19:36:45 GMT -6
You also have to consider your defense and their offense. Can they drive 80 yards on your defense? Are they going to score anyway regardless of where they're at? I do agree that the fake punt can often be more wide open than any offensive play.
I don't see how someone can have a set rule they use every game regardless of the opponent, flow of the game, etc. Punting is a part of the game that has its place. Why give up a play that can average 30-40 yards?
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Post by CoachDaniel on Nov 21, 2007 22:21:26 GMT -6
I've been coaching for 6 years now. One things I've noticed is that when I talk to young coaches from other schools, we sort of hide a lot like we're worried they'll find something out. Then I hear the old dogs, the head coaches of our district, just spilling the secrets of the world.
I keep my name off (well, last name) the website because I can't imagine anyone cares. I was a JV defensive coordinator for two years, we racked up an impressive 3-15 record. Somehow that equated to a promotion to varsity DC. We went 5-5 this year, best we've done since I arrived. Seriously, I'm available for clinics. For $3000, I'll come install my defense at your school. Thats more than my stipend.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Jun 28, 2007 21:40:17 GMT -6
Get as well-armed as possible with information and talk to the parents. But if mom just doesn't get it and isn't willing to budge, you can't punish the kid. And don't argue that eveyone else does it, she obviously thinks she knows better than everyone else. You have to focus on her son and his options.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Feb 1, 2008 21:54:04 GMT -6
Chris Hatcher - couple of years ago, loved listening to him. Also, the first time I ever heard someone say if he had it his way, he'd never run the football.
DL Coach from NC State (Coach Willis? I think) was memorable. Not for the content, though it was good, but watching him fight to keep his language remotely clean because there was a female in the room.
Hopefully this thread will help me, because I can think of a lot more bad than good
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Post by CoachDaniel on Aug 24, 2007 9:34:33 GMT -6
Our trainer came up with a great miracle cure for things like groin pulls, etc. They push the gator around the practice field the whole day. I don't remember the last time someone did it for two days in a row...
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Post by CoachDaniel on Mar 1, 2008 12:58:54 GMT -6
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Post by CoachDaniel on Oct 14, 2007 21:20:58 GMT -6
I'm pretty confidant in my teaching and coachng abilities. I think I can do as much or more for a kid than any private school. Its not in his best interest to go somewhere else, its in his best interest to be with me. If I didn't believe that, I'd quit. This has never been an issue for us, but I can tell you that if I found out a kid went somewhere else for education/football/anything reason, the thought would never cross my mind that its best for him. We run a great program. If thats not the case for your program, work harder.
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Post by CoachDaniel on Nov 22, 2007 23:39:11 GMT -6
DC does 8 turnovers qualify as "little things"?
Hez I'd like to suggest Defense Monday, Defense Tuesday, Defense Wednesday and Defense Thursday.
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