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Post by Yash on Apr 3, 2015 16:54:08 GMT -6
Previous coach did it and I was assigned to give them out but wasn't given strict criteria. I put it on the kids and asked them how many they think they earned. I really didn't care how many I gave out. They were dumb.
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Post by Yash on Mar 22, 2015 18:14:36 GMT -6
What were specs?
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Post by Yash on Mar 15, 2015 13:32:45 GMT -6
I also think that scheme plays into 2 platooning. On offense if you run a system that relies heavily on talent, you will struggle. But if you run a system that you can get away with some lesser talent in the line (DW, Option) you can platoon at least the line, possibly the QB and maybe a few other kids.
I think your goal has to be get as many kids to play 1 way as possible. Along the way you will play a few both ways but limit it as much as you can, and to the games that you need to do it in.
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Post by Yash on Mar 12, 2015 12:58:33 GMT -6
For those teams that say "Offense gets QB, Defense gets next 11 picks" Is that really how you do it? We are what I consider 1.5 platoon. WR's and Corners play both ways (or at least know both ways.) Once we determine a kid isn't good at one or the other they just practice the position they are better at. OL only plays OL (other than one stud who played on defense in spot duty) RB's only play one way other than one kid who played LB and RB a little towards end of season and playoffs. So we had 5-6 kids who were able to play both ways. Only 1 started both ways the entire year. 2 others started both ways late in season but were subbed out to keep fresh.
The reason I ask, does defense really get the next 11 picks is that our RB had 1600 yards last year and would have been a study linebacker, but we wouldn't have scored crap for points if he wasn't playing running back. I think you just have to be smart about selecting players. We are split back veer, so our offensive line needs 2 solid guards and a smart, quick but not big center. The tackles can be awful. You just have to be smart about where you need your studs because you do need to score. Our conference is not a passing conference. We led the conference as a split back veer team with around 900 yards passing in 9 games. Because of this, we get away with playing some not great athletes at corner. We put them in a shuffle, shuffle, bail technique and don't let them ever get beat deep. We have been very successful defending the pass doing this.
Bottom line is, what works for you vs the opponents that you play and fits the scheme that you run. You know where you need studs (on both sides of the ball) and where you can get away with not having the best of players. There will be some staff battles for guys but thats ok. Coach up whoever you have.
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CYA
Mar 12, 2015 12:23:37 GMT -6
Post by Yash on Mar 12, 2015 12:23:37 GMT -6
As an european coach, I'm really surprised to see a post like this. Is this really something you have to think about and be proactive, to avoid being in such a situation? Do players/parents sue the coach if the player gets injured? Or is in other situations? I understand in situations like Jerry Sandusky, but beside criminal activity, what could as a coach bring you in a court room? If something goes wrong, sue the person in charge! It's the American way. Sadly, this is something we find ourselves having to look for often. We film the first day of tackling as well. We read the helmet sticker warning label to the kids and make them read it with us. Seems silly and petty but anything to be proactive. 5 minutes of protection now is probably worth $25,000 in lawyer defense fees later.
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Post by Yash on Mar 5, 2015 7:53:51 GMT -6
What is the best Do It Yourself money saver that you either have seen or have done? If you have a picture post it! Trying to find some ways to save money off things we spend so much on. Right now I need an easy way to store helmets (rolling preferably) and plan on making some do it yourself prowler sleds for summer training.
Thanks!
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Post by Yash on Feb 23, 2015 19:27:35 GMT -6
Give the kids cigarettes and blind folds as you are getting off the bus.
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Post by Yash on Feb 15, 2015 11:01:57 GMT -6
Oh I saw the second guy but at the time he was wearing an Under Armour shirt, by which I mean spandex. Not sure why he was wearing the hat... It was hot as heck in that place and the adrenaline guys were giving away some stylish beanies.
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Post by Yash on Feb 15, 2015 8:42:01 GMT -6
How did I miss that? Is it possibly a team shirt meant to look like a Ninja Turtles shirt? Nope.... one guy was close to 400lbs, Cartoon ninja turtle shirt, no team affiliation with athletic shorts on. Other guy was a jacked african american guy who looked like marshawn lynch with a russian ear flap winter hat on. I didn't realize it was the look for clinic season this year. Needless to say I'll be prepared for the next clinic I go to.
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Post by Yash on Feb 14, 2015 20:05:20 GMT -6
At the minneapolis Glazier this weekend I saw 2 different coaches wearing Ninja turtles T shirts to sessions... That was a first.
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Post by Yash on Feb 9, 2015 19:15:25 GMT -6
We stole this from Wisconsin Whitewater but ... Pound the Rock... Our kids have really bought it. Here is my description of what it means to us. coachyash.com/pound-the-rock/
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Post by Yash on Feb 5, 2015 6:43:13 GMT -6
Amen, Mariner... no wonder coaches get a bad rap. What do you accomplish in hours 9-12 of meeting on Sunday that you didn't in the first 8 hours? We have a league pool on Hudl so we get every game our opponents, but we don't break down every game. We dont watch them beat the crap out of the bad teams in our league. Also I have one coach who "Live tags" the games of the teams we are playing the following week, during the current week so we have the down, distance, ODK, run pass in hudl prior to that week. saves time during that week. Takes the guy about an hour to do both games.
I make $3,500 for the year long process of coaching football.... thats not worth losing my family over by abandoning them for 4 months.
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Post by Yash on Jan 30, 2015 21:48:24 GMT -6
I'm showing this thread to my wife... I'm a saint compared to some guys in here. Monday home by 5:30-6. Tuesday/Wednesday home by 6:30. Thursday home by 5:30. Friday around 11. Saturday film with guys 8-10am. Sunday staff meeting 5-7pm.
Either we are too stupid to put a complex gameplan together or you guys see more complex stuff than we do. Also some of you guys need to delegate if you are spending 12 hours in the office on Saturday and Sunday. We run option so our offensive gameplan is pretty simple. No idea how you guys spend 12 hours in office with huddle. I would be divorced.
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Post by Yash on Jan 5, 2015 21:55:52 GMT -6
When I found the board I was a 19 year old in Alaska coaching on an air force base. 10 years later I just finished my 3rd year as a head coach in Wisconsin. I have been on staff at the school for 7 years now. We have made the playoffs (which is easy to do comparable to other states) in 4 consecutive seasons but i'm still looking for my first winning season as head coach. We have come a long way as a program, but we have light years to go still. For the state, talent is average, my coaching staff works hard but has a lot of room to grow. Enjoying the journey but not settling for where we are at.
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Post by Yash on Dec 30, 2014 22:43:56 GMT -6
I haven't been around a pracitce in over 10 years where anyone wore practice pants. How many of you do this? We just where the girdle and shorts. The kids buy their own girdle. Last year and the start of this year I let kids wear shorts with girdles underneath. We looked sloppy, kids were all wearing different color shorts, some kids would still wear football pants. I had them all go back to pants after we had a few weeks of undisciplined football. I wish I could get them to wear the same color shorts but requiring families to buy extra stuff irks me. Too much money is already put into playing with fees and fundraising and all of that. I'm probably just knitpicking but I prefer them to look unified.
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Post by Yash on Oct 27, 2014 7:00:09 GMT -6
We finished up our season on Friday and we are looking at doing exit interviews with all of our players. What questions do you ask? For our seniors we will have different questions than our returners. Our returners we will focus on what they plan on committing to over the next 9 months to make next year a success.
Seniors we will focus on what they liked and what we can do better as a staff that they noticed over previous 4 years.
Thanks for the help.
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Post by Yash on Sept 29, 2014 7:31:16 GMT -6
Does anyone have a design they do for a shirt for offensive lineman glorifying being a hog? We want a "Hog of the Week" shirt or something like that and need some ideas. I was thinking about creating a shirt for all of the offensive linemen and then giving out our Hog of the Week and putting the week on the back if they win hog of the week (take it in for them and get whatever week screen printed on it if they were hog of the week.
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Post by Yash on Jul 13, 2014 22:03:58 GMT -6
I would like to see how everyone handles helmet stickers. What does a kid have to do to accrue one? What is your particular program to hand out helmet stickers? Everyone gets 2 stickers to start the year. One goes on the right side, the other on the left side. I prefer they both face the correct way but that is asking a lot. Any more stickers than that and it gets to be a huge pain in the butt and pi$$ing Match about who gets what and why.
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Post by Yash on Jul 6, 2014 21:06:25 GMT -6
The ones on BSN sports have a 12 foot diameter. That means you need just over 37 feet to make a hoop. I'm looking into building my own as well.
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Post by Yash on Jul 2, 2014 14:20:37 GMT -6
Wear whatever you want except the new Spider-Man, batman, captain America cleats. Team colors or black. I don't get involved past that.
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Post by Yash on Apr 16, 2014 7:45:53 GMT -6
Two for every game and normally a couple extra for playoffs. We end up ordering 24-28 each year. Normally have 3-4 left over but depends greatly on the weather. Rainy type of season and we will use three or more new ones in a game. Sent from my XT907 using Tapatalk You guys use new ones in the game? Our QB's want the beat up ones for games... the well broken in ones. If the GST is still orange they don't even want to touch it.
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Post by Yash on Apr 14, 2014 20:57:56 GMT -6
Unless the school makes me I won't pay to be certified to teach a way we already teach. Also, I agree that they don't explain many tackling situations. 220lb RB on 140lb DB, that technique they teach is not safe... From what I have seen they don't address tackles from the side. I get that this is a way to try and prevent lawsuits but its not 100% practical yet.
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Post by Yash on Apr 13, 2014 19:33:30 GMT -6
It cost me $35-40 per helmet through riddell to get them reconditioned... are you guys right by a plant that you don't have to pay shipping? How do you get it so cheap?
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Post by Yash on Apr 13, 2014 8:55:32 GMT -6
I get 12 new ones a year.
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Post by Yash on Apr 4, 2014 6:41:14 GMT -6
If you get along with your staff, and enjoy the school you are at don't leave for the head coach job. It's not worth the head aches and parent emails/ phone calls. I'd love to be an assistant again for a competent head coach on a great staff.
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Post by Yash on Feb 23, 2014 20:09:02 GMT -6
A lot smaller than normal. I should not have driven. Took double the normal time to drive.
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Post by Yash on Feb 22, 2014 19:44:59 GMT -6
Came home today from the MN Glazier, got some good stuff and DVD's from Gunter Brewer. He was really funny. Quality stuff as well on WR's.
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Post by Yash on Feb 2, 2014 16:40:51 GMT -6
If you do not enjoy practice...you are really in the wrong business!! It's how well you do the small parts of your job that you do not enjoy that separates the good ones from the bad ones. This is the absolute truth. The PITA details and how well you teach them is what makes you a great team/coach. It's not how much you enjoy teaching them, its how well you teach them. This is something our staff is trying to improve on.
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Post by Yash on Jan 30, 2014 16:27:09 GMT -6
Oh no...those are the words of a true Oline coach right there. Oline guys always coddle their guys when it comes to running anywhere other than the all you can eat buffet. Actually I'm a qb coach. I just know that linemen suck on most specials. Instead of having them stand around go play under the chutes and be useful. I'm not against lineman running, I'm gassing lineman running down field and flopping around trying to tackle fast kids
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Post by Yash on Jan 29, 2014 21:43:56 GMT -6
Being the line coach I despise special teams period I usually try to go do some work on the side but enuff of the line kids are on various special teams we need to be in the vicinity. But my all time least favorite part of practice is any sort of align and assign period where a dc talks for ever and the oline has to take a knee might be a coaching issue but any drill that requires players taking a knee is a waste of time use bags or cans or some thing. 90 plus kids standing around for 11 don't make much sense to me. Granted it's usually a Thursday practice thing. If you have 90 kids, why are your lineman on special teams? We have made a commitment (and we only have 50 kids on varsity) that no lineman will play special teams outside of PAT/FG teams. Not on punt, KOR, KO, Punt return. Get fast guys on there. And if the other team is playing their lineman on special teams we expect our fast kids to run past them. Fat kids suck in space and a lot of special teams are played in space. Plus it gives the lineman 15 more minutes of indy time.
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