|
Post by buckeye7525 on Feb 5, 2011 15:37:50 GMT -6
I'm in favor of that. I'd really like to see a gameplan development one as well. Taking us through the process of breaking down film and then how you put the entire plan together.
|
|
|
Post by buckeye7525 on Feb 2, 2011 18:45:56 GMT -6
Two years ago I was at the Cincinnati Glazier for a Jim McNally presentation and I was his dummy up on stage. It was an awesome experience!
Personally I love clinic season. I just got back from the National Wing T Clinic this past weekend and I'll probably hit up the Detroit Glazier this next weekend.
|
|
|
Post by buckeye7525 on Jan 18, 2011 17:09:25 GMT -6
Yes, that would be great if you don't mind.
|
|
|
Post by buckeye7525 on Jan 15, 2011 9:49:46 GMT -6
Could you breakdown how long you give each period with your schedule? In past schools I've been at we've been close to three hours following that format of practice.
|
|
|
Post by buckeye7525 on Jan 15, 2011 7:52:56 GMT -6
runtoball, how long are your practices normally?
|
|
|
Post by buckeye7525 on Dec 10, 2010 8:23:18 GMT -6
Mike Vicars would be someone good to maybe visit. He has run the Wing T about as good as anyone around. He coaches at Genoa HS.
|
|
|
Post by buckeye7525 on Dec 9, 2010 20:59:02 GMT -6
Good call on this. My mom actually sent me a text to let me know about this because she is planning on getting me a few of tapes for Christmas. Now I'll have to get at least two Thought I was getting a good deal when I picked up some tapes after thanksgiving for 10% and free shipping.
|
|
|
Post by buckeye7525 on Nov 24, 2010 22:29:21 GMT -6
Coach, how did you juggle the practice when kids had to get reps on both sides of the football?
|
|
|
Post by buckeye7525 on Nov 18, 2010 9:09:26 GMT -6
Thanks for the advice
|
|
|
Post by buckeye7525 on Nov 17, 2010 18:42:53 GMT -6
Yea I kind of noticed that as I went through some of the statistics I started to notice that. Our AD also brought that up when we were having a conversation the other day. I did some discussion with a local HS AD who uses field turf and he estimates that it has saved them at least 100,000 a year.
|
|
|
Post by buckeye7525 on Nov 16, 2010 9:18:53 GMT -6
Steelhawk, can you explain how Field Turf is actually "green friendly"
Would any of you gentlemen mind PMing me with your name and the school that you coach at, if you didn't mind being mentioned in this proposal? I've never written a grant before so I don't know if it would be useful to include thoughts of individuals with experience on it, along with statistics but it might be handy information to have available.
Again, thanks for the help if my grad class.
|
|
|
Post by buckeye7525 on Nov 16, 2010 7:27:34 GMT -6
Guys, I am currently taking a class for my masters and the final project is a grant writing proposal. Now, the professor is being good about this and letting myself and my partner (who is also a football coach) put a grant proposal together for getting field turf.
My question to some of you guys that utilize field turf, what are the major benefits of having field turf that you have personally experienced?
I've looked at the Field Turf website and also some other articles comparing the cost and benefits of utilizing Field Turf v. Grass.
|
|
|
Post by buckeye7525 on Nov 12, 2010 21:25:15 GMT -6
I mentioned this thread to my starting center during a conversation we were having today and when I told him about someone not worrying about offensive linemen's footwork he looked at me like I was crazy. "How in the world can you play offensive line and not worry about good footwork?" is what he said to me. My guys get sick of it but they also know that proper footwork is important and something that I will harp on them every day during the season, first to last. In week 10 this year we still spent 5m working on 1st step/2nd step drills in pre-practice.
As others have said it is nice to see them tie everything together to. When they are in a drill/team situation and they screw up alot of them immediately know that it was something that went wrong with their feet and can tell me what was wrong with it.
Don't think I could possibly work in a situation like that at all.
|
|
|
Post by buckeye7525 on Oct 14, 2010 13:32:19 GMT -6
To those of you who cut practice time to be more mental what does your practice schedule look like? My OL have been doing the same things pretty much day in day out but I was wondering what practice would look like if I started cutting out some of their contact to be me more mental and freshen them up. We run a small amount of plays (Belly, Down, Rocket, Trap, Ctr, not much else) and execution has not really been a problem (knock on wood) so I was wondering what i would do with my time since its not like they need a ton of time on this stuff.
|
|
|
Post by buckeye7525 on Oct 13, 2010 17:12:18 GMT -6
Kyle, you guys do two team pictures? I might cry if I had to go through two picture days.
|
|
|
Post by buckeye7525 on Oct 13, 2010 5:38:06 GMT -6
Whenever we have played a Saturday game we have brought the kids in for a real quick walkthrough just to get them out of bed. Its basically a repeat of what we do for a Thursday practice, checking off specials and defensive checks and then running some offense v. air.
You could also just bring them in for a team breakfast. We used to do that when I was in high school.
|
|
|
Post by buckeye7525 on Sept 28, 2010 18:29:15 GMT -6
Never been in this situation but I did hear about this earlier today so maybe some food for thought.
I was listening to this discussion on the Mike and Mike Show on ESPN Radio this morning and I thought that Golic brought up a really good point about why this doesn't happen more. He said that football coaches are so engrained in the thought that they can't let the other team get into the endzone that its almost impossible to turn it off in a situation where it might actually help you.
As I was listening to this this is probably where I would fall. I don't know that I could consciously just tell my defense "let them score", because it goes against everything I have ever known about football. Now, Im not saying that it is ever wrong that to allow that to happen (probably a good idea in last nights game, and obviously works for you on occasion) I just don't think I could flip my brain to think like that. In reality though it makes alot of sense in many situations.
|
|
|
Post by buckeye7525 on Sept 18, 2010 20:34:45 GMT -6
I haven't watched them a ton but from what I have seen it is the same stuff that Rich Rod was running when he was at West Virginia, so its been around awhile.
Like coacharnold said the scheme isn't anything "futuristic" its the fact the they are running what Rodriguez knows and he finally has the QB to make it go.
|
|
|
Post by buckeye7525 on Sept 18, 2010 16:59:27 GMT -6
Rocket, I really like that idea.
Do you do that all outside or inside because of lighting issues?
|
|
|
Post by buckeye7525 on Sept 7, 2010 18:35:41 GMT -6
Coach, what all do you put in that monster?
|
|
|
Post by buckeye7525 on Aug 30, 2010 19:49:32 GMT -6
At those trying to get it off their DVR: I hook my DVD Player/Recorder up to the DVR box with the A/V cables and then just hit record.
|
|
|
Post by buckeye7525 on Aug 29, 2010 5:48:34 GMT -6
Agreed, thats why I no longer grade. I just take notes on what my guys need to improve on.
|
|
|
Post by buckeye7525 on Aug 28, 2010 21:30:32 GMT -6
Coach, I know what you mean and I think we are on the same page, but let me explain where I am coming from.
Obviously we only get so much time for individual so I have to prioritize how much I am emphasizing things. For example, if I have 25m for individual, I might spend 5m on Base Blocks, 5m on Reach Blocks, 10m on Double Teams and 5m on some pass pro drill (just an average hypothetical situation). Now, If I see on film that we really struggled on our reach blocks I might steal 5m from the double teams (since in my hypothetical situation we were good at those in the past Friday) and add it to working reach blocks. This allows me to get players extra reps and maybe explain/focus in on something that we have not been doing well.
Im always going to work certain base skills but if we are going really good in one area but are lacking in another Im going to steal time to focus on things that we really need to work on. Just my way of doing things.
|
|
|
Post by buckeye7525 on Aug 28, 2010 17:29:57 GMT -6
I graded all of our film last year through the first three games and I don't see myself doing it again, unless the quality of film we get would upgrade significantly. Like others have said I just didn't feel that the time I put in to grading it was worth it, especially since the film I am looking at is not endzone quality and our pressbox is quite low. What I do now is just watch and take notes over what we did well and what we need to improve on.
Anyway to the poster's question. I think you need to find a balance between both. Ill typically watch our tape between 2-3 times (just offensive plays, so it doesn't take long) and then watch our opponent's tapes right up until I meet the OC at 10am on Saturday to start to put together the gameplan.
But if I would have to pick one as being more important it would be knowing what you need to improve on and what you do well on as a team. Seeing that your OL needs to work on reach blocks will help your sweep more than spending hours trying to formation them. Im of the philosophy that if we take care of ourselves and do our business than everything will normally work out ok.
|
|
|
Post by buckeye7525 on Aug 18, 2010 19:45:52 GMT -6
When I was in college we were stretching as a group and our OL coach walks over and says "What in the heck good is stretching anyway? You think the bank robber takes ten minutes to stretch out before he goes in to rob the place?" All I could do was look at him and say: "Coach, but those guys don't have good success rates either do they?"
Reminiscing over. Anyway on this stretching thing. We stretch as a unit (OL stretch on their own, LBs, etc.) We do a 5m dynamic warmup with 5m more of low level movement drills (mirror drill, etc.) I give them time to stretch out statically if they need it when standing in line. Our LB/RB coach gives his guys 1m to static stretch if they want and then has them do all of their movement drills. Through camp we have only had 2 muscle pull injuries, so I guess it is working ok. Its certainly not any more than normal for this time of year.
One thing I have done is that if a kid has a muscle that is a little tight and needs some more attention is give them a little more time to statically stretch it out.
Honestly as a player I always hated static stretching. It made me feel tired and bored me to tears.
|
|
|
Post by buckeye7525 on Aug 17, 2010 18:32:41 GMT -6
Yea I'm not a huge fan of them either. Our TE can't get his head up at all in his stance, my right guard got his butt ripped so much for missing blitzes that he finally decided to take it off.
|
|
|
Post by buckeye7525 on Aug 2, 2010 18:11:27 GMT -6
We make our morning practice our defensive practice and our evening practice is our offensive practice.
|
|
|
Post by buckeye7525 on Aug 2, 2010 13:36:24 GMT -6
Just saw it on the 2 o'clock SportsCenter. Absolutely amazing!
|
|
|
Post by buckeye7525 on Aug 1, 2010 17:25:44 GMT -6
Coach, we were thinking of doing that same setup this year with our team. We have three weeks of preseason camp this year. What we decided on doing was that we would go Doubles Monday/Tuesday, Single Wednesday, Doubles Thursday/Friday, Single Saturday.
|
|
|
Post by buckeye7525 on Jul 25, 2010 12:06:26 GMT -6
I'll second Coach Big B's Red Zone show. Pretty good stuff on there. Actually had a Wing T roundtable earlier this year that was about two hours long and had the likes of guys like Tom Herman on it.
|
|