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Post by cwaltsmith on Mar 22, 2024 9:23:30 GMT -6
The number of plays that you defend will be determined greatly by what offense your team runs. And how good they are at it. If your running a no huddle hurry up then the game is gonna have more plays ... if you are a grind it out running team then you will face less. I worked for a coach that was DC for the team and he didn't want us throwing the ball bc he would have to defend more plays lol. A good avg is 55. I like to look at how many series they get instead of plays.
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Post by cwaltsmith on Mar 12, 2024 7:56:48 GMT -6
We have a weight lifting class. I actually teach two a day. Right now each class has about 15-18 kids. But had 35 at one time. I like to keep it at 24. To few they fly through the workout, more they don't get it done or can hid. We have block scheduling that changes every 18 weeks. So the students I have 1 semester won't be the same the next semester expect for a couple. Some of the problems I face are I don't get all my players in the class. I also get seniors that have been working out since 8th grade and students who didn't even know we had a weight room. Taking a day off is also a problem I ran into. We have a severe shortage on substitutes, so I tried to get a person that knows their way around the weight room, but they are few and far between. Has anyone used the Rack Coach software? We use Rack Coach... I like it alot ... some work on the front end but really good... the app isn't great but we have a TV set up in weight room and have computer ran to it to display the workout and the clock
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Post by cwaltsmith on Feb 28, 2024 9:20:36 GMT -6
HUDL has been able to run every breakdown I have ever wanted... If you put the data you're looking for in and then do a custom report you can break it down however you want. For instance I can break down formations with and without motion and the best play in both or most call play in both. or I can combine them. HUDL definitely isn't perfect, & I am a fan of OLD HUDL over NEW HUDL, but hudl is way better than doing it by hand.
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Post by cwaltsmith on Feb 28, 2024 9:16:26 GMT -6
Got into it BC i loved the game. I loved the contact. I loved the Xs & Os. I also loved the thought of being off every time my kids were off. The competition was a draw as well. I always have said, when I quit getting butterflies on Friday night, I will hang it up.
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Post by cwaltsmith on Feb 26, 2024 9:37:06 GMT -6
My 1st HC job did not have an athletic period/ weight room class. When I went to talk to principal & guidance counselor, they told me it was impossible to get all of the kids schedules done on block scheduling and get all of their required classes in a small school. Soooo, I waited until the counselor came out with her master schedule for the next year, and then I went in and scheduled every single football player in a class that I had. I gave up my plan period to do this. When I showed her and principal it was possible, she didn't like me very much but I got my class.
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Post by cwaltsmith on Feb 9, 2024 11:25:58 GMT -6
BOTH everyday... I have been a part of it twice as asst. Did not like it at all. kids have hard enough time remembering crap lol if you try to make them remember something while skipping a day you talk about it or rep it... good luck. It also helps break up practice into sections
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Post by cwaltsmith on Feb 8, 2024 10:21:41 GMT -6
just finished year 25 of football. 12 as HC, 7 as OC or DC, have also coached baseball, middle school basketball, & golf. I think the number of guys staying in over 20 years will be fewer & fewer in the coming years.
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Post by cwaltsmith on Feb 7, 2024 9:55:08 GMT -6
1 more ... Its doesnt matter what you know... it's what your players know
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Post by cwaltsmith on Feb 7, 2024 9:01:03 GMT -6
Think of players not plays... It doesn't have to be good against everything to be the right call in that moment!... If you make them pick between playing your sport or another sport... you are probably gonna lose Don't forget to have fun!!!
I know thats 4 lol but those have in a way become my coaching philosophy!
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Post by cwaltsmith on Feb 2, 2024 9:40:12 GMT -6
Curious as to what you mean by "chart"... We have hudl assist and we all have areas that we double check to make sure assist got it right and we have to change some things at times... bu doesnt HUDL do the "charting" for you... you can pull up any report you want by clicking We have a coach use a football field template and he charts every area they throw to and marks them down as complete or incomplete. For example, vs Team South he will use triangles to mark where on the field they target in their passing game, against team North he will use squares. Ok I thought HUDL could do that also but maybe I am not understanding correctly... again to each his own... some guys like doing it on paper.
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Post by cwaltsmith on Feb 1, 2024 13:30:08 GMT -6
Offensively and Defensively, who is reponsible for what when it comes to opponent scout film? I am trying to streamline our process in hudl (we use assist too). Do you have DB coach chart passing/completion chart, O-line coach insert pressures into hudl, etc....? Curious as to what you mean by "chart"... We have hudl assist and we all have areas that we double check to make sure assist got it right and we have to change some things at times... bu doesnt HUDL do the "charting" for you... you can pull up any report you want by clicking
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Post by cwaltsmith on Feb 1, 2024 11:04:49 GMT -6
I think a great indicator of coaching is... do the young players get better as you play them year to year or do they stay the same. Obviously, kids will get better as the grow bc they become bigger, faster, stronger usually simply by maturing. But I have coached on staffs and against staffs where they have a stud frosh OL or something start as frosh, and then as a senior they are the same kid except for normal physical maturity. I left a staff bc I felt this was one of the main problems with the program. We did not develop talent.
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Post by cwaltsmith on Jan 29, 2024 10:22:02 GMT -6
I have been very involved in the youth league of baseball basketball and football over the last 20 years... I have seen this in my area as well... Our youth football is made up of mainly lower income or broken homes... Not 100% but high %... Richer families tend to navigate toward baseball and basketball. I personally believe it coincides with the softening of America lol but I digress... I agree with others you have a whole set of problems. Scheme may be their excuse but I feel its deeper or more than that. I would venture that it is the travel ball component of those sports that lead to the upper income families being the majority of those sport's players. But what is funny, the amount of money that parents pay for travel baseball from 8 YO up to HS, if saved and invested would more than cover any 1/12 - 1/8 scholly their kid MIGHT earn. Heck put that money into tutoring and SAT prep would probably get you more money. But hey, it's their money. yes travel baseball and basketball are the causes of this IMHO as well
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Post by cwaltsmith on Jan 26, 2024 14:07:23 GMT -6
The situation that senatorblutarsky is facing isn't just happening to him and his program...it is happening in some shape or form in nearly every section of our country. I have been studying this problem for the last 2 years. Trying to figure out why this happens in some schools, and not in others. I may be wrong, but in many instances there seems to be one or more missing links in Maslow's Hierarchy of Human Needs...two of the big ones are: a genuine sense of "Connection"...and "Self-Confidence/Self-Efficacy" Good point. I won't disagree with that at all. But... The unusual thing (perhaps NOT unusual) is almost half of our tiny roster is made up of kids from very broken homes. Kids living with Grandma, living with an uncle, living at a friend's house... They are the ones flourishing the most in our program. Maybe we provide the family they don't have while the others "don't need" that family and would just rather play another sport (or video games), or have jobs so they can buy anything oversized and loud for their pickups... I have been very involved in the youth league of baseball basketball and football over the last 20 years... I have seen this in my area as well... Our youth football is made up of mainly lower income or broken homes... Not 100% but high %... Richer families tend to navigate toward baseball and basketball. I personally believe it coincides with the softening of America lol but I digress... I agree with others you have a whole set of problems. Scheme may be their excuse but I feel its deeper or more than that.
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Post by cwaltsmith on Jan 25, 2024 13:35:47 GMT -6
This is 100% a real thing that a ton of coaches deal with. I was at a school that was a perennial avg to below avg team and was wing t... they had a year or 2 that was successful but mostly not. I had kids that I tried to recruit out of the halls tell me... "I am not gonna play on a team that just runs it up the middle every play... that's boring". I agree with other posts... WINNING solves all problems... but if you are a veer guy or a wing t guy trying to turn a program around, you better do it quickly and you will probably have to do it before those fringe kids come out and play for you. High school kids want to be recruited to play and like it or not a ton of them are playing simply to try to get scholarship and think they have to run a "college" or "pro" offense to have a chance to be seen. Is it the offense or is it the way that those coaches have traditionally practiced there scheme that boring? Not the offense at all. While I am not a lover of the wing t ... i have seen it ben super dynamic at some schools. but usually those dynamic teams were bc of the jimmies & joes... although some places have ran it at a high level and been fun to watch that I have seen. This place was seen as boring bc they were not very successful and continued beating head against the wall. The current coach has a 35% winning percentage and has been there almost 20 years. They practice the same way they always have and call the same plays over and over. We had several basketball & baseball guys tell me that they didn't wanna play and just block all night... they wanted at least a chance to catch the ball. So I guess a combo of practice and games to answer your question.
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Post by cwaltsmith on Jan 25, 2024 10:27:41 GMT -6
We did something for our defense with our scout O that I liked this year... it helped simulate no huddle and helped us get lined up... we had 1 scout team run a play, and a skeleton scout team with no OLINE simply line up in a formation like 10 seconds after the 1st scout team finished running the play. and it could be anyone just going to line up in a spot so made it easier to have enough.
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Post by cwaltsmith on Jan 25, 2024 10:17:08 GMT -6
This is 100% a real thing that a ton of coaches deal with. I was at a school that was a perennial avg to below avg team and was wing t... they had a year or 2 that was successful but mostly not. I had kids that I tried to recruit out of the halls tell me... "I am not gonna play on a team that just runs it up the middle every play... that's boring". I agree with other posts... WINNING solves all problems... but if you are a veer guy or a wing t guy trying to turn a program around, you better do it quickly and you will probably have to do it before those fringe kids come out and play for you. High school kids want to be recruited to play and like it or not a ton of them are playing simply to try to get scholarship and think they have to run a "college" or "pro" offense to have a chance to be seen.
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Post by cwaltsmith on Jan 9, 2024 9:03:09 GMT -6
You better get someone to talk for you! I cant remember the last time I heard of a coach getting hired bc he had a good resume or interviewed well. It is all about who you know and what you have done and who you have done it with. NETWORK NETWORK NETWORK!!!!! just my 2 cents!
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Post by cwaltsmith on Dec 13, 2023 9:01:42 GMT -6
Seems like if the topic went off track so I'm going to ask this question..... As a 100% gun guy who takes a knee from the gun, I have a question. What do you do when you're in a situation to be in victory formation but your inside the 5 yardline? Do you just call a run play or do you take a knee from under center? We would stay in the gun and run a play or take a safety
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Post by cwaltsmith on Dec 12, 2023 13:36:52 GMT -6
This is followed closely by taking a knee in gun for me. But yes, snapping the ball 5yds backwards to gain 6inches has always been a mystifying choice to me. I'll defend taking a knee from the Gun. If a (frustrated) defense wants to blow up the Center, they're not going to disrupt the exchange. The Q can take a knee without the threat of fumbling from people falling all over him (or just gettting hit for no reason). Ill defend it a step further... if I fumble a gun snap I and 2 other players are 4 or 5 yards from the defense so I am probably gonna be able to fall on it... if under center and fumble snap good chance I lose it.
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Post by cwaltsmith on Dec 11, 2023 9:23:52 GMT -6
So if they have correct alignment and assignment but bad technique... what does he get??? not criticizing genuinely curious He gets a 0. AAT is exactly that, they have to align, do their assignment with good technique. The PG is completely independent of the other 3 (AAT). It is simply did you have a positive or negative impact on the play. So if a guy does all 3 (AAT) good, and gets a one, but then late hits out of bounds, he gets a PG of 0. Another scenario is if he aligns wrong, but makes a TFL, he gets a 0 AAT, and 1 PG. If he aligns wrong, then misses a tackle, it would 0's in both columns. At the end, add up all his reps, then add up all the ones for the AAT (there is an AAT grade every play). Take the sum of the ones divide by the total reps, and multiply by 100. That's the AAT grade. Take the number of plays where the player either had a positive or negative impact on the play and add those up. Take the sum of the number of 1's he had and divide it by the total performance grades (there should be significantly less PG's than AAT's) and multiply by 100. That is his performance grade. Take the AAT grade and add it to the PG and divide by 2 and that is the total grade. Holy smokes... is that calculus lol jkjk... again everyone has to do what works for them. I definitely think players need input on film so they can use it to get better. Just think the number system is just as subjective as me saying this kid plays bc he does more things correctly.
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Post by cwaltsmith on Dec 7, 2023 13:23:32 GMT -6
My problem with the plus minus system is if a kid lines up correctly and steps correctly but gets whipped... Why am I giving him 2 plusses on that play. Or what if he does everything but misses tackle ... or what if it's other way were he steps wrong but makes a great play anyways... also think that other types of grades can be subjective. Anyway... I am all for feedback for the kid to get better... Idc if hes best I got... my job is to try to make him better. And as far as ammunition... If I am at a place where I have to have that I'm ready to be somewhere else anyway. You do it as I stated. 2 grades. Alignment, Assignment, and Technique (AAT) and Performance (PG). You're example, Johnny does his steps and tech correct but has a negative impact on the play he gets a 1 for his AAT and a 0 for the PG. He got a 50 on that rep. Simple. The last part is tough. That's great you can move and go where you want, but not all of us can, and having that extra data point if you're in a meeting with the "higher ups" at least shows them you're not just "winging it" when it comes to doling out playing time. So if they have correct alignment and assignment but bad technique... what does he get??? not criticizing genuinely curious
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Post by cwaltsmith on Dec 7, 2023 10:02:15 GMT -6
My problem with the plus minus system is if a kid lines up correctly and steps correctly but gets whipped... Why am I giving him 2 plusses on that play. Or what if he does everything but misses tackle ... or what if it's other way were he steps wrong but makes a great play anyways... also think that other types of grades can be subjective. Anyway... I am all for feedback for the kid to get better... Idc if hes best I got... my job is to try to make him better. And as far as ammunition... If I am at a place where I have to have that I'm ready to be somewhere else anyway.
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Post by cwaltsmith on Dec 6, 2023 11:07:52 GMT -6
Hours vary. As far as input. I welcome all input and we have open discussions. HOWEVER, and that's a BIG however lol, input depends on dedication level and it has to be able to be tied to what we do. Had an asst once, he'd come in every Sunday with something he saw on tv that worked and said we should put it in. Or if team we were playing had trouble with something on films we got he'd say let's just do what they did regardless of what it was or how good they were. Drove me crazy. I am not against adding stuff but IMHO it has to be "worth the squeeze" and able to be tied into what we have done all year.
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Post by cwaltsmith on Dec 5, 2023 9:11:17 GMT -6
I have had 1 15 game season, 2 14 game seasons, and 6 13 game seasons. Winning helps it not be a grind as much but it still gets that way. We cut practice times way back as the season went to help with this.
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Post by cwaltsmith on Dec 5, 2023 9:09:09 GMT -6
It is illegal in some places for sure but there are ways around it. At my last stop, we could not officially bring 8th graders in to our high school and work them out. However, several schools started offering a free strength camp a couple 3 days a week for any 7th or 8th grader that wanted to come. It was hosted at the high school & the strength camp was basically an intro to the high schools off-season program. In the perfect world, we would all be at unit schools where the middle school is in same building & we would get them during the school day. This is the case at my present school.
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Post by cwaltsmith on Dec 1, 2023 9:16:06 GMT -6
I understand that some situations come up that aren't foreseen, but if the AC and coordinator or HC is serious and approaches pre season and pre practice meetings the correct way, most of this should not happen. I agree never in front of the kids. Also like what someone said about about approaching it like lets try it this way and then handle after practice.
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Post by cwaltsmith on Dec 1, 2023 9:12:14 GMT -6
As many problems HUDL has, and there are definitely problems... It still beats the old way lol some of these young guys don't know what it's like to input all the data by hand lol HUDL assist gets some things wrong but it's still pretty handy, I like old HUDL better as well. All that to say this... I agree there are problems and wish it could be better, but I don't wanna go back for sure lol.
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Post by cwaltsmith on Nov 30, 2023 9:19:25 GMT -6
We are looking at not mirroring RPOs in 2x2 sets. As an example the right side runs fast screen to 1 but the left side is running hitches. We are trying to figure out the best way to name them that is easy for the kids. We have discussed calling them after fast food restaurants (Mcdonalds, Chick-fil-a, etc) because you order combos at fast food restaurants, but don't know the best way without getting wordy to tell them what is run on what side if we are in a balanced 2x2 set. Any suggestions on how others have done this would be greatly appreciated. What run plays are you attaching them to???
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Post by cwaltsmith on Nov 30, 2023 9:16:39 GMT -6
Football 101. I think most coaches skip it because they assume the kids know it already - by watching the NFL or college. Neither of my boys liked watching football - but liked to play - so it's safe to say there could be a fair amount that join a football team with a lack of basic knowledge. Exactly, I think we assume that kids know stuff and they don't. We had a kid at a previous school I was at who ended up being our best lineman. But at the beginning of the year we told him "on this play you block down...on this play your turn out". He had no idea and we had to take like 10 minutes of practicing time explaining down meant toward the ball and out meant away from the ball. Kids don't know what lining up on the numbers or splitting the difference. Just little things that we have thought if we could teach these things before practice we could be better off. My 1st week as a head coach, Guard kept missing a down block so we walked up to the line & I was screaming lol and I pointed to the guy and said why can't you block down on this guy.... Kid looked me dead in the face and said coach you didnt tell me which guy you just said block down so I dove on the ground to get down as low as I could. Swear I am not making it up. I decided right then, NEVER ASS..U..ME anything ever again lol
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