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Post by joelee on Nov 8, 2017 11:08:43 GMT -6
Mental toughness is more important. These guys are hitting the nail on the head. Mental toughness allows you to do physically tough things. "hit a MFer in the face" doesn't win football games against good teams.
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Post by joelee on Nov 8, 2017 10:51:43 GMT -6
We cut the running a little. We cut the hitting a little. We pull up some freshmen and send the rest off to basketball or whatever.
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Post by joelee on Oct 31, 2017 10:04:39 GMT -6
My wife had to listen to fans in the stands b**** about my play-calling in a state championship game where we scored 56 points!
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Post by joelee on Oct 11, 2017 13:27:20 GMT -6
Our old AD came to practice once in the last 4 years.
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Post by joelee on Sept 26, 2017 17:33:03 GMT -6
dsqa
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Post by joelee on Sept 12, 2017 6:28:56 GMT -6
We got a request a couple weeks ago. Team we don't play but he plays our week 2 and 3 opponent. I don't know the guy. I went to the HC and he said I don't know the guy. He said don't send the guy film. #1 he just wanted film, no trade. #2 he didn't call us first to ask, just sent a cold request on hudl. At least call us dude.
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Post by joelee on Aug 1, 2017 9:07:30 GMT -6
He made a great comment in season 2. "If one of the programs wants to turn things around hire one of my coaches away and pay them well and they will change your program".
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Post by joelee on Aug 1, 2017 9:05:09 GMT -6
#2 He has an eye for talent. He obviously has an eye for coaching talent and hires what appears to me to be good coaches. He has an eye for player talent, not only is he a recruiter but an evaluator. As I recall, JUCO recruiting is a mass media effort. Coaches don't have a big budget for bringing in talent, they aren't like DIII schools that rely on enticing kids to play for them to cover tuition income requirements for the school. Coach Stephens doesn't have to sell anything, because it sells itself. I'm sure most of these DI programs are referring players to him, parking athletes for academic remediation (see Dennis / Brad Franchione). Buddy might stop by Mississippi high schools in the fall, but imagine his cupboard stays full because of the reputation he has built. The players that go there are looking at playing 1 season, 2 if they have to because they all plan to move onto big things. BUT, whatever systemic recruiting landscape exists in a Juco also exists for his competition and they aren't getting his players. EMCC is doing something better. So he has a reputation that steers some kids there, OK, that reputation didn't exist when he got there they were losers when he got there. I'm just recognizing that most of what you're saying about EMCC also exists for the competition.
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Post by joelee on Aug 1, 2017 8:46:17 GMT -6
Owning a nine-year overall coaching record of 87-12 (.879) at East Mississippi. Stephens enters the 2017 campaign set to challenge the NJCAA’s all-time standard for highest career winning percentage among football coaches with a minimum of 100 career games coached that is currently held by former Butler coach Troy Morrell (154-22 for .875 win% from 2000-14). With EMCC’s three national titles coming during a four-year span (2011, 2013 & 2014) Stephens arrived on the Scooba campus in December 2007 after spending the previous seven seasons as an assistant coach at Pearl River Community College in Poplarville, Miss. During Stephens’ stint at PRCC, the Wildcats posted a composite record of 60‐12 (.833), including an NJCAA championship in 2004 and four consecutive MACJC state titles (2003-06). East miss record before he arrived 2007 4-5 2006. 3-6 2005. 2-5 Over last 17 years as a coach he is 147-24. With 4 national championships. Right or wrong, what he does works at that level. #1 He works at the most transactional level of football, a 2 year Juco. Everyones motivation there is a little different than any 4 year situation and it is the PERFECT level for him. #2 He has an eye for talent. He obviously has an eye for coaching talent and hires what appears to me to be good coaches. He has an eye for player talent, not only is he a recruiter but an evaluator. #3 He is a smooth talker when he wants to be. This allows him to be a politician with admin and boosters as well as parents and recruits. #4 he is organized. That is a large organization he runs and and they appear to have every base covered and function like clockwork outside all the human drama. Those are his strengths and that is how they win. Bottom line, the current buzz is relationships and positive leadership and his lack of those makes him a douche, bad person really, but as we see can see not necessarily a bad head coach for a Juco. I wouldn't want him coaching HS kids, I wouldn't work there, and I wouldn't hire him at any other level. Unfair as it is to good people he IS a good football coach.
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Post by joelee on Jul 30, 2017 18:05:09 GMT -6
They are obviously well funded which may have been instigated by Stephens I don't know. It looks like he is a good recruiter. He is not much of a leader, he is hypocritical, and pretty much the definition of a transnational coach. Its not the editing. No amount of editing can flip that for me. That kid on the DL going to Pitt. Not my kind of guy. My least favorite player in 2 seasons. I don't like his selfishness and effort. He made 3-4 awesome plays in the bowl game and pulled the wool over Pitts eyes.
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Post by joelee on Mar 31, 2017 8:05:49 GMT -6
I was at a small school as an assistant(1a smallest in the state). We had a 45 man roster 9-12. The first and main thing is to try to strictly platoon your linemen. They are bigger and get tired faster. Linemen strictly played 1 way. Its HS so its really a game of maximizing 2-3 studs if you have them and everyone else is a soldier. We played a lot of kids at all the other positions. Early in the season when it is hot we played some kids we really didn't want to play. (In KY the district games are later in the season) By the time the games that count rolled around we had developed some soldiers who could be a cog and allow the studs to do their thing. We were never able to FULLY platoon practice or FULLY platoon the skill kids but we did play about 23 kids in varsity games every week. #1 I admit we had 3 skill studs. #2 we went runner-up, semifinal, champions in the 3 years we had those studs. #3 Then a funny thing happened the year after they graduated. After years of playing a bunch of kids a bunch of snaps they went semi finals again the year after the studs left.
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Post by joelee on Mar 5, 2017 20:59:26 GMT -6
Just got home from Chicago Glazier. Harry Hiestand was good for me. Heavy on drills and technique with just enough scheme thrown in at the end. Solid job. I picked up 2 things i'm using next year.
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Post by joelee on Mar 2, 2017 11:05:11 GMT -6
In short, Yes. At least when it comes to mandating physical workouts (ie running or weight training). If you have kids that need a mentor/coach then obviously be there for them and let them watch film or chalk talk (or talk about life). If you have a bunch of football junkies then be there and let them chalk up all your stuff and talk about adjustments. But I feel that is different than mandating a massive amount of hours, or overloading physical workouts to the detriment of your athletes. Nothing is mandated. Earlier I stressed about how everything is optional. It provides an opportunity for players to compete with each other and better themselves. We do not cut. I wish we had that issue, but we do not. Our morning session today consisted of 20 minutes of various line drills and 10 minutes of dodgeball. Jesus its not like I am having them push a wheel they are chained to like the entry seen of Conan Again, I ask. Why are we having this thread? Apparently you only lost 4-6 pothead losers. You have an excuse for every piece of advice we have given. What do you want out of this thread?
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Post by joelee on Mar 2, 2017 10:14:21 GMT -6
I can tell you one thing I have noticed. Football is hard and our program is hard, but as I look around at some kids in our program I don't think they are here for the football. I think they are here to be a part of something. A. Some of them have a majority of their friends on the team and they get extra time with them. B. Some of them like us coaches genuinely and C. Some of them like being around the 11 (positive, high achieving) men on our staff because they don't have a male at home or in their life. I bet 2/5 of our roster is here for those reasons and not the football and some of them are not even aware of it. As I look back on my playing days I realize that all of that was a part of why I played this tough game. I'd sell that.
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Post by joelee on Mar 2, 2017 9:57:16 GMT -6
I think you are doing too much. I think we are doing too much and we do half what you are doing. We have won a LOT of games the last 6 years. We go 4 days a week in the afternoon for usually 2 hours in the off season. Its a grind on me and sometimes I hate being there. We are not allowed to have an in school weight class and never will be. We lose some kids. I just had my starting RT quit before his senior year, saying he just doesn't enjoy it anymore. That being said we have 113 on the roster right now. Our workouts can sometimes be grueling. And no it doesn't have anything to do with having 7 d-1 kids. We had 1 this year. He didn't lift weights very often. All of our best athletes rarely show up to off season stuff because they either play basketball, baseball, track or all of the above. Our off season is designed to make reliable, mentally tough, football players out of the linemen and kids not good enough to play any other sport; by the time they are juniors or seniors..
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Post by joelee on Mar 2, 2017 8:47:53 GMT -6
My first thought was are those 25 kids that quit ALL turds or are some of them good kids that think football is fun and you sucked that right out of it? We didn't do that much when I played college ball and we were pretty dang good. I would like to know how much better you are truly making these kids? The 50 to 25 was a HUGE exaggeration just for a philosophical question. More like 4 or 6 kids that want to smoke weed after school. If that is true, why are we having this thread?
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Post by joelee on Feb 16, 2017 13:53:14 GMT -6
I feel like playing devil's advocate for a second (not saying I agree with the position, just throwing it out there for thought). The video is of Mike Leach pretty much lambasting his players in a presser this past season. I know it is college. However, his team's success did get a lot better after the presser... And I am sure he caught a lot of heat for it, too. Leach is a weird guy psychologically. I keep an eye on what he does and says because of my air-raid background, but some of his stuff backfires. This years bowl game was awful, they either pressed way too much or laid down on him, but no adjustments were made during the game to try to stem the tide.
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Post by joelee on Feb 16, 2017 9:53:10 GMT -6
I think it may have been moved down to the clinic notes area at the bottom of the home page.
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Post by joelee on Feb 9, 2017 14:02:24 GMT -6
Can I take Elway?
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Post by joelee on Feb 7, 2017 20:49:29 GMT -6
Nah, I saw 2 different visors one in a game with him wearing a suit and one at practice.
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Post by joelee on Feb 7, 2017 17:48:32 GMT -6
I watched the football life on Vince Lombardi today. There is a lot of video of him wearing a visor and running a lot of practices with players in helmets and sweats. Not my vision of manly man football in the 60's.
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Post by joelee on Feb 6, 2017 12:35:28 GMT -6
I see some venom in the thread i'm confused about. When a coach has great players and turns them loose using their abilities why is that upsetting? If a guy does something that fits his kids but doesn't fit yours do you want him to lie to you?
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Post by joelee on Feb 3, 2017 13:05:21 GMT -6
The only time we go 1v1 in team with both running our own stuff is spring and summer. In season the only 1v1 we do is in a drill period.
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Post by joelee on Jan 31, 2017 10:10:43 GMT -6
I'm bored and thought this would be interesting. What trends in our game make you rage and why? Mine is coaches that win titles all talking about winning with lesser talent. We all have lesser talent. I have never once heard a coach say "man, we are loaded this year." If they do, you probably better look the phuc out. A coach here in MO that set the record for most state titles consecutively won (6) admitted at a clinic yesterday the reason he has won so many titles is that he has been lucky/blessed to have great players the last 6 years. Some guys in there were pissed because they thought he was holding back some secret he wouldn't tell everybody. He wasn't lying, he's been blessed to have a few D1/D2 kids that were just flat out better than his competition. They literally only run a 4-3 over cover 0 on defense, and DTDW and Power I on offense. One of the few times I've heard a coach admit they won because of players/talent and not scheme. I try to say it as much as possible. Our HC says nobody ever won the Kentucky Derby on a mule. We have 3 former HC's on our staff, a Superintendent who used to be the DC here and lots of great HS players (notice I didn't say D-1). We have won 5 out of the last 6 titles in our class.
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Post by joelee on Jan 27, 2017 13:45:33 GMT -6
As I get older i'm not any less interested in x and o's. I want to improve mine by weighing and measuring the best and I want to understand yours. What has changed is i'm more interested in every other aspect of coaching now than i was 24 years ago.
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Post by joelee on Jan 20, 2017 9:59:54 GMT -6
I sometimes (more like all the time) get into these philosophical thinking about life in general. I am curious why do you share your knowledge of football, life, (insert whatever here) on a forum or any place. I am 99.99% sure everything I know I have learned from someone else. The only reason I don't put 100% is because maybe, just maybe there is a 0.01% chance that I picked up something on my own lol. So, 3-part question: - Why do you share your knowledge of football?
- Do you not fear that the sharing of your knowledge whether it be scheme, technique, film, etc. will be used against you and potentially defeat you?
- When do you determine that you have enough knowledge to; Write a book, speak at a clinic, present on a webinar (like coach smith is currently doing)?
1. I like talking ball, anytime, anywhere. 2. No, half the time people don't believe stuff I say anyway and players win games. 3. I started speaking at clinics after 23 years, don't know if I was ready, but I was asked.
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Post by joelee on Jan 16, 2017 8:29:57 GMT -6
When taking over a new program that's been a doormat and has a lot of cultural problems to straighten out, how important do you feel it is to win early in order to get buy in? Basically, is the first year at a major rebuilding project a "grace period" year where winning isn't as important as laying the foundation, or is it important for a new HC to be flexible in what he wants in order to win more games that first year so he can get that buy-in to lay the foundation? Coach the team you have, not the team you wish you had. I'm not saying not to try to raise accountability or get excited about young kids or anything like that, BUT. A. Coach the seniors you have. Put effort into learning about them and earning their trust. You may be wasting your time with some or most but they are on the team and deserve your best. B. Maybe you want to sit in base defense, play technique and destroy blocks, but you have a weak team right now with poor fundamentals. Maybe try to make up for some of that by being more aggressive than you want to get them moving to get them going downhill to get the occasional big play. I don't think you are some kind of traitor. Keep teaching fundamentals, keep lifting weights. C. Maybe you want to be downhill and smash mouth on offense but you are small and weak. Use more misdirection and lateral movement and conflict concepts. I don't think you are some kind of traitor. Keep preaching physicality and keep lifting weights. D. Maybe you know to be a regional or state competitor in the future you will have to platoon to do that. On this team you have low numbers and only 2 assistants you trust. This team deserves to be coached up now in a functional way while you keep what you want to evolve to in mind for later. BUT coach the team you have not the team you wish you had. They deserve your best.
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Post by joelee on Jan 10, 2017 14:24:10 GMT -6
The main thing I didn't like about the book was that the author or Mumme i'm not sure which, tried to take credit for some qb's who aren't air raid qb's. Aslo the hurry up no huddle deal, the book says he started at Wesleyan but I lived in Kentucky when he was at UK and I don't remember HUNH actually happening.
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Post by joelee on Dec 30, 2016 15:40:05 GMT -6
I'd like to thank coach for writing this book if he is on this site. I just went through this book for the 2nd time and took some notes. If I had this book in the spring of 2010 one of 2 things would have happened. A. I wouldn't have taken the HC job that I took. I would have asked different questions and taken another one or not at all. B. I would have taken it anyway and i'd still be there having done the reset year without getting fired and i'd now be the winning-est coach in school history 6 years later. (it hadn't had much success) The younger you are the more valuable this book can be obviously and the lessons can be learned in a slower way. I have been lucky to have hooked on with a great program and learned most of these lessons from it organically. This book is a short cut and helps you be intentional about things which we are sometimes not even if we have the knowledge.
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Post by joelee on Dec 15, 2016 14:43:19 GMT -6
1% improvement and the game is about my performance not the other team
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