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Post by buckeye7525 on Jul 22, 2010 9:58:42 GMT -6
fbcoach33, do you do scouting report meeting with the kids on Monday? This is something I have wondered about the value of doing with high school kids.
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Post by buckeye7525 on Jul 20, 2010 17:47:22 GMT -6
Heard that the other day on the radio. Good song.
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Post by buckeye7525 on Jul 20, 2010 10:03:34 GMT -6
I thought I have heard about some coaches making a "beep" CD where the CD will play a beep every five minutes, just like you would get with an airhorn. Then taking the CD (or I guess you could probably make it an a MP3 file too, if you had an Ipod or something) and then playing it in a CD player that operates on battery power.
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Post by buckeye7525 on Jul 19, 2010 10:13:14 GMT -6
I really don't think Two-A-Days are necessarily in the collegiate setting, especially if you have spring ball and kids stay on campus during the summer (like 95% of DI schools do now a days). You can probably use that time to meet and study film and keep your S&C levels up to par.
For HS kids I think you might be able to get away without having them if two platooned your team and made good use of your 10 contact days (thats what we get in Ohio). Now, if you don't have the luxury of two platooning kids (for example we have 30ish 9-12) then you almost have to do get in your offense and defense because kids have to learn double.
I do think it would be feasible for HS to use a 2-1-2 setup that the NCAA mandated a few years ago.
To the original question. As other have said it is an age old tradition, so I am sure that is where alot of it comes from. But also, football may have as many unique skills to it that must be trained that you can't just do in an open gym, which takes alot of time. Sure, kids go out and play touch football but I really doubt my lineman are getting their buddies together to work reach blocks. So I have to spend alot of time on the skill and really teach it. A basketball team gets the advantage of having a full team session at any open gym they go to.
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Post by buckeye7525 on Jul 15, 2010 20:31:12 GMT -6
Coachwilley, would you share what all he did with your lineman at the camp?
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Post by buckeye7525 on Jun 29, 2010 20:19:25 GMT -6
wow
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Post by buckeye7525 on Jun 25, 2010 16:11:42 GMT -6
I like the NCAA tournament. Going into my senior year of college we one of these a month. One was an NCAA tournament, another was a euchre tournament. Pretty good stuff.
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Post by buckeye7525 on Jun 25, 2010 12:08:41 GMT -6
Coach, if it were me I would let the film go and just coach up the things you want in practice. If things are going well for you right now I wouldn't drudge up the problems from last years team.
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Post by buckeye7525 on Jun 15, 2010 18:17:36 GMT -6
Only been at this for three years but have coached against a couple kids that have gone to MAC schools (which is pretty decent for a D5/D6 league in Ohio).
Briggs Orsbon - Ball State He was a QB in high school on a very bad team (starting WR at Ball State as a freshman) that put him in the gun and let him run around. He completed more passes to us than his own team (threw 4 picks, 3 completions) but still beat us single handily. Run for well over 250 yards on the night and 4 scores running nothing more than QB Iso out of the gun. Absolutely unreal.
Heath Jackson - Bowling Green Kid moved from WR to QB half way through the season after their All-Ohio QB blew out his knee and made every play like a punt return. He threw for well over 300 yards in the game and may have run for 100 more.
Those kids on a high school field are absolutely unreal to watch. At times it is almost like they are just playing with you.
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Post by buckeye7525 on May 31, 2010 7:22:41 GMT -6
Heard Turner Gill speak at the Ohio HS Coaches Clinic two years ago and he talked about all of this. Had some really good stuff.
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Post by buckeye7525 on May 5, 2010 8:23:01 GMT -6
Leighty, I agree. I have been burned a couple of times, but I have been on alot more good deals than bad ones and I have learned a ton of information and gotten some great resources in the process.
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Post by buckeye7525 on Apr 28, 2010 20:01:28 GMT -6
Coach, thanks for posting that. Great stuff!
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Post by buckeye7525 on Apr 8, 2010 18:32:29 GMT -6
I remember drawing plays all the time in my Sophomore English class when I was in high school.
Orginally I wanted to get into communications and be a sports broadcaster. Teaching was always something that I had thought about (mom was a teacher for 37 years) and in my senior year I decided that I would much rather teach and coach.
Been doing it now for three (four if you count my student coaching/student teaching year in college) and can't see myself doing anything else.
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Post by buckeye7525 on Apr 1, 2010 10:27:36 GMT -6
I believe "pro pads" is just "shell" or helmet/shoulder pads. At least that is what I have always understood it to be.
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Post by buckeye7525 on Mar 4, 2010 9:38:17 GMT -6
Coach, I did it over Christmas break and I 100% agree with you. It was a complete waste of time and a waste of my money. What is really starting to annoy me is how much money the state is requiring us to fork out to continue to coach.
By the way, a little thing that I figured out that saved me some time: Skip through all of the teachable moment videos that they try and show you. That saved me a ton time, I finished it in 3 hours or so.
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Post by buckeye7525 on Feb 21, 2010 21:15:12 GMT -6
I was hitting up toward the front on the right, like the second row or so. I coach at a D5 school in Ohio. I was asking a ton of the questions about leading with the shoulders and then bringing the hands. We are going to more of a shoulder blocking technique next year so I am trying to get anything I can on that. Chibears, is the leading with the shoulder pads idea something that was brought up in your chalktalks with him? Or was that more focuse on X's and O's?
One of the guys I coach with for a season in college is now at Wabash and had said something last year about going down and meeting with their HC to talk OL play. After hearing him speak I think I might be taking at little trip during the summer, even though we are not a zone team by any stretch of the imagaination.
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Post by buckeye7525 on Feb 21, 2010 19:27:07 GMT -6
By the way, I just posted my notes for this in the clinic notes section if you were interested.
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Post by buckeye7525 on Feb 21, 2010 19:26:04 GMT -6
Coach, I was there this weekend as well.
I saw the following speakers
Todd Miller - Pine Creek HS: Went to five of his presentations. Though it did a prettye decent job. Really like how he showed alot of film throughout his presentations. The last session on Friday morning he sat in probably 15m over what he was supposed to showing film and I would imagine he stayed even later.
Eric Raeburn Wabash College: Maybe my favorite speaker of the clinic. Went to two of his sessions on the Inside Zone. Had some really interesting ideas on OL techniques in the zone offense. Showed a ton of film throughout his presentation. In his break he spent almost his whole time answering questions and showing various techniques that his guys use.
Ron Ayedelott - Riverdale: Had some pretty good stuff about adapting various aspects to the Wing T. The thing I liked most about him (and his OL coach, who came with him) was taking time to talk outside of the sessions, where I felt like I learned a lot of good stuff. On Friday he and his OL coach stayed to talk until they organizers had to lock up.
Coach, who did you see?
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Post by buckeye7525 on Feb 16, 2010 16:49:51 GMT -6
I'll be there. Looking forward to listening to Todd Miller and Ron Aydelott.
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Post by buckeye7525 on Feb 11, 2010 20:28:39 GMT -6
Kyle, are you going to go to Tim Murphy's talk on his blocking progression? I had wanted to go check him out but our staff is going to Indianapolis next weekend.
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Post by buckeye7525 on Feb 9, 2010 19:26:49 GMT -6
Coach, how long do you practices run?
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Post by buckeye7525 on Jan 15, 2010 20:46:19 GMT -6
Coach, I had the chance to be a student assistant coach for a season at the college I had played at the year after I was done playing.
Here is a little bit about what I did (I helped out with the OL): 1) Sit in on meetings (game plan/practice plan). I really didn't say much in meetings unless someone got directly asked me a questions. I saw what coaches went through to plan out a practice and what aspects needed to be covered. I was amazed about how much coaches actually meet preseason and in season. During camp we met twice a day as a staff, not counting the standard player meetings (way less time to yourself as a coach than a player). It gave me a good idea of what to expect in meetings. Learned some good things from those guys, as well as some not so good things and what to avoid if I ever get a head job. 2) Help out with practice. I had the chance to actually coach in practice, all be it in a small capacit, mainly with younger guys. All of the starters were guys that I had just got done playing with the previous year, so most of my work came with the younger guys at the start of the year. Still was able to help out the older guys as well, especially in the real world of line play when they would ask a question when it was just me and them. 3) In Pressbox on gameday. This was the first time I had ever watched the game from that vantage point and it gave me a whole new prespective on what happens. I was on the head set with our OL/OC and talking with him on every play about what I was seeing. 4) Called recuits. Every Thursday myself and the other student assisant called recuits to confirm visits for that upcoming Saturday. I would also meet recuits and parents for about an hour before we had to start getting ready for games. 5) Grunt work. This is a reality that you will have to deal with, and its not a ton of fun. I held the scout book for the defense during inside and team. Also did some work with getting the buses loaded up and unloaded when we went to games and such.
I felt like the experience I had coaching in college was a really good one. I had a coach that was great about keeping me involved in the ongoings of practice/games and not turning me into a glorified manager
It sounds like the school you are trying to be a student assistant at is just about the same size as what I did, it was a small D3 school in Ohio. I got mine by talking directly to the head coach, around Feburary I believe.
Let me know if you want anything else.
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Post by buckeye7525 on Jan 10, 2010 21:51:55 GMT -6
Champ, I agree that there is something refreshing about doing work outside of school as a coach. To me this is particuraly true if you are a teacher as well. Already spending alot of time at school just with the job itself that if you can get something done at home it makes things a little nice. Just like gradding papers, sometimes its nicer to breakdown tape in the comfort of your own couch.
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Post by buckeye7525 on Jan 10, 2010 18:42:26 GMT -6
Kyle, who devleops your offensive gameplan? Does the OC just go ahead and do this on his own or do you assist him in the process?
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Post by buckeye7525 on Jan 10, 2010 13:36:14 GMT -6
As to the orignal question, here is what I did this past year over the weekend.
Saturdays: 1 - Grade the film of my offensive line from the previous night. This is something I would do on Fridays if I had the chance to get the film that night. 2 - Breakdown opponent's film (typically we would have 4-5 tapes to look at, depending on where we were in the season). As the line coach I broke down the front/blitzes/personnel - All of this was done at home. We left the school about 1pm after the JV game was done and we got our tapes from the previous game. I liked watching tape on my couch as opposed to my uncomfortable desk chair. Our DC (HC) would normally stay at the school till 4-5 breaking down tape.
Sundays: 1 - Finish breaking down film at home if I didn't get it all done on Saturday 2 - Meet with the OC about 11am and start talking about how we wanted to attack these guys. We would start to make up the ready list for the week. I would put together the scouting report for the offense (personnel, fronts, blitzes, etc.). Once the ready list was done I drew up all of our runs against their defense. 3 - By 5 we met with the defensive guys/head coach to explain the mode of attack and talk about anything that needed to be discussed. Normally out by 6pm.
Would love to figure out if there are ways to make the weekend work more efficent, and give everyone more family time. Im a football junkie, so to me its no big deal, but the lady friend dreads football season because how much time I put in to it.
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Post by buckeye7525 on Jan 10, 2010 13:26:04 GMT -6
Those of you guys who do not come in and meet on Sundays how do you formulate your gameplan? Do you just trust the OC/DC to put it together?
I think it would be great as a coach to have Sunday's off. This year I would be at the school from 11 to 6 on Sundays. And, as others have said by the end of the year it starts to be a real grind.
I would love to hear more information about how you guys work smarter to maximize everyone's times.
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Post by buckeye7525 on Jan 3, 2010 20:04:17 GMT -6
Kyle, I like that idea about breaking up the position groups for scouting report meetings. The OL really don't need to be sitting in a meeting listing to the routes that the opposing team will be running. Would you just have two 15m meetings for offensive and defensive players?
Another thing I have been wondering is how beneficial scouting report meetings really are to kids. I know we as coaches think that they are, but do you think kids would get just as much out of on the field stuff, in their position groups?
As far as the different practice plan: Yea I would probably change it from what I have there. I would keep the pre-practice session for sure, because I think that is a good time to work on the "little things" (OL - steps, start, etc). I would probably take away from the team take off period, and add that time to individual. I would also probably cut off 5m from special teams and add it that to the individual.
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Post by buckeye7525 on Jan 3, 2010 19:37:56 GMT -6
touchdowng, 1. Anywhere between 40-55 (on a given year) 2. 5 (we coach both sides of the ball) 3. We practice everyone together everyday (that is included in the total number)
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Post by buckeye7525 on Jan 3, 2010 18:51:27 GMT -6
One thing that I have tried to learn more about in the last year is the structuring of practice for a single platoon football program. My goal has been to have a practice that lasts no longer than two and a half hours while still trying to make sure that each side of the ball is practiced each day, and gets appropriate attention. I don't want to have kids out on the field any longer than two and a half hours, simply because I don't know how much you get out of them after that point.
Here are the ideas that I have come up with so far. They are all general plans, with no regard to the offense/defense that you would run, which would obviously make an impact on how your would practice. I am not a head coach, but hopefully someday I will get a chance to run my own show.
I would love to get any input that you guys have on this as ways it could be tweaked, or made better.
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Post by buckeye7525 on Dec 22, 2009 15:28:54 GMT -6
Nice!
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