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Post by joelee on Dec 12, 2014 9:59:59 GMT -6
Our staff jokes around with each other all the time, and we joke with the kids some too. Even the HC jokes on kids in film sometimes. Like a couple of people have said you have to be yourself. Our seniors just finished their career 56-2, so I don't think it hurts to have some fun.
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Post by joelee on Nov 20, 2014 12:40:07 GMT -6
Don't try to teach them a new tempo the day before the state championship.
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Post by joelee on Nov 14, 2014 9:25:06 GMT -6
"I just watched a great program (has won 7 out last 13 state titles in our states largest class) who is in a down year for them talent wise absolutely destroy the most talented team in our state (has 6 early offer div 1 kids, probably at least 10 more that will play college somewhere). When they lined up for the first time, I thought the champs were in serious danger of a child getting maimed. It got me thinking... "
I see this a couple times a year at least. There are 3 or 4 schools like this in my state. There are some common factors most times. #1 Usually in my state that championship team that is down talent wise is a straight platoon team who refuses to deviate from it no matter what the perceived talent level is while the coach with the 6 college kids is often quoted in the paper saying "I have to get my best 11 on the field, its just stupid if you don't have your best 11 out there"
#2 That undermanned championship team has created a culture where their kids don't really care that the other side has 6 college kids playing. The believe that effort and technique, good scheme and good gameplan, platooning and team focused play will win the day. Basically the culture is "we trust our coaches and we believe in ourselves"
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Post by joelee on Oct 30, 2014 12:54:39 GMT -6
At the end of the day I wish everyone would just abide by the "you coach your team and I'll coach mine" mentality.
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Post by joelee on Oct 30, 2014 12:33:15 GMT -6
All I can say is read up on John Gagliardi.
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Post by joelee on Oct 23, 2014 8:12:00 GMT -6
An answer to the op post is that you reward things you want. To me its about the result not the character trait that we assume leads to the result. Results are measurable. Example some would say an OL that drives people to the whistle, finishes every block and tries to put people on the ground is because they are mean and aggressive. Just teach your kids the end result and reward it. Have pancake supper for the kid with the most knockdowns. Give a steak to the kid who finishes blocks the best. Give helmet stickers to kids demonstrating results. Jump up and get loud and pat a kid on the back in practice for being aggressive. Call kids out on the spot by name in front of everybody for being aggressive. "I see you John, attaboy!"
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Post by joelee on Oct 23, 2014 8:02:22 GMT -6
I won a state championship at a private school with a bunch of funny, mostly affluent, but competitive kids. Now i'm at a public school and our OL coach likes to say "you can't win with milk drinkers, we want whiskey drinkers around here". I just roll my eyes.
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Post by joelee on Oct 20, 2014 10:15:56 GMT -6
Agree, we have 1 tight coach on staff, but thankfully the rest of us outnumber him and cancel it out I guess. Tight coaches lose some games for sure. Head coaches, play callers, and even assistants sometimes.
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Post by joelee on Oct 20, 2014 9:08:53 GMT -6
In 1995 we went 5-5, lost our last game of the season, and backed in to the playoffs by the slimmest margin. We went on the road in round 1 and beat the #1 team in the state by 2 points. In round 2 on the road we beat a team in OT that handled us by 3 td's a month before. In round 3 we went on the road and beat the #3 team in the state 6 to 0 in OT who had beat us 48-3 earlier in the year. In round 4 we went on the road and beat #4 team in the state 35-6. Finally it all came to an end in the championship game as #2 in the state ended our season at 9-6.
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Post by joelee on Oct 20, 2014 8:58:14 GMT -6
I once had a parent come onto the field after a game and put his hands on one of my coaches. The AD called me to his office with the parent so we could talk it out! I no longer work for that particular AD.
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Post by joelee on Oct 20, 2014 8:19:27 GMT -6
I can't give you any advice for this year. However going forward gear your program to not have "rivals". By that I mean focus more on yourselves and treat every week as close to the same as humanly possible. We talk to our kids about our gold helmets and how some teams we play lose to our gold helmets before we even get off the bus. So our kids understand that thinking exists and we can turn around and tell them "you are going to play this game straight up and not give anyone anything because of the helmet they wear.
Similar to DCohio we pick out the 2 best teams on our schedule every year and we gear ourselves for them and constantly harp on the effort and technique level it will take to beat them, but its always about beating them not being worried about them. For example "man that pad level won't work against St.X, get your pads down" "That lazy ball won't work against McCallie they have closing speed, you have to throw it on a line" "That kind of effort will get you beat vs St.X, play with a motor every play". So to make a long story short we try to play every opponent with the effort and execution needed to beat those teams so we don't have to "step it up" vs good teams and we explain the effort and technique all the time so there is no mystique about those guys.
Its not easy, don't think i'm saying its easy.
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Post by joelee on Oct 17, 2014 12:22:04 GMT -6
There is a coach about 40 miles from me who runs the power I and has been to the finals twice running about 4 plays. He has a cool saying. "Make them put all 11 of their guys in the box with you, I guarantee a couple of them don't want to be there".
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Post by joelee on Oct 17, 2014 10:14:21 GMT -6
Life's too short to deal with Cancer kids.
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Post by joelee on Oct 1, 2014 11:11:46 GMT -6
My 4 at a previous school was counter gap, smash, stick, Dash
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Post by joelee on Oct 1, 2014 11:10:02 GMT -6
We have a saying on our staff "hard to prepare for easy to block, easy to prepare for hard to block" Its referring to defense but is true of offense as well. Teams that do less seem to do it a lot better.
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Post by joelee on Oct 1, 2014 8:29:50 GMT -6
We have "trick play Wednesday" every Wednesday after goaline. We run about 10 highly imaginitive things and experiment every week.
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Post by joelee on Sept 30, 2014 8:14:32 GMT -6
I almost fell over. In KY I had never even imagined that people would have ball boys on the opposing teams sideline like college and pro. We have never allowed that here as far as I know and I've been coaching since 93.
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Post by joelee on Sept 26, 2014 9:44:04 GMT -6
Our state association only allows you to go on the field 45 minutes before kickoff in the state finals so we do 45 minutes all year.
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Post by joelee on Sept 24, 2014 10:47:58 GMT -6
1 is tenured and will continue to teach. 1 is not tenured and will be let go from teaching at the end of the year. The 3rd i'm not privy to.
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Post by joelee on Sept 24, 2014 9:40:36 GMT -6
Boys, the times are a changing. 3 Head coaches in KY have been let go already. We are in week 5.
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Post by joelee on Aug 29, 2014 10:24:25 GMT -6
I agree with you. I just wanted to point the finger a little at what I consider an underrated factor. I hate blaming kids all the time like some coaches in my area like to do. Not you Brophy. I'd just like to get some freshmen who weren't needing so much work on other things and we could just coach football, you know?
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Post by joelee on Aug 29, 2014 9:45:34 GMT -6
They come by it honestly really; from not being held accountable by youth coaches and middle school coaches.
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Post by joelee on Aug 20, 2014 11:50:13 GMT -6
I have a really good head coach right now. I will bring things to him once maybe twice if it wasn't flat rejected the first time. Then that's it. I think that gives me credibility with him. He takes some suggestions and not others, but he knows when I bring him something i'm not going to nag him later.
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Post by joelee on Aug 14, 2014 11:52:17 GMT -6
distracted myself
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Post by joelee on Aug 14, 2014 9:09:13 GMT -6
Since you are asking can you tell me any reason we need one besides during team flex on Friday night? I was just always used to a whistle till I got here and now I don't even notice it. Just because you've always done something doesn't mean you need it. Start or stop plays and drills. I mean, that's how they do it in games, why not do it in practice? What do you do? Yell stop? If that's the right way to do it, why don't they do that in games? Because a whistle is an easy, loud, definitive way to start and or stop something. I've never heard a coach say "Play till you hear someone say stop". You still didn't answer why you would ban them entirely. What exactly is the point of that? Dear lord I didn't mean to put a bee in your bonnet. I also never said anything about banning whistles. My head coach at my current school is the instigator of this. I will go tell him today that even though we have won 44 in a row and 3 straight championships we need to get everyone a whistle ASAP cause we are doing it wrong.
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Post by joelee on Aug 13, 2014 12:25:53 GMT -6
Since you are asking can you tell me any reason we need one besides during team flex on Friday night? I was just always used to a whistle till I got here and now I don't even notice it. Just because you've always done something doesn't mean you need it.
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Post by joelee on Aug 13, 2014 9:29:36 GMT -6
We don't have whistles. Never seen it before but it works great till Friday night and our guy who leads the team flex during pre-game is always looking around for a whistle.
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Post by joelee on Aug 13, 2014 9:14:51 GMT -6
When I walk out on the field to practice: Good socks Shorts with pockets Merrel waterproof shoes Hat Locker room key on lanyard Cell phone Practice plan in a clear plastic page protector loose t-shirt or dri-fit Optional: Whistle (my current program is a no-whistle place) Keene sandals no socks on days the field is already wet before we go out.
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Post by joelee on Aug 8, 2014 13:45:15 GMT -6
We post practice plan on locker room bulletin board every day and tell kids to look at it (as well as anything else up there - depth chart, etc.) before going out. ditto
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Post by joelee on Aug 7, 2014 13:23:16 GMT -6
Nowdays I am at a loss as to why kids play or don't play. Last year on picture day we had 106 kids. We won 14 games and the state title. This year on picture day we had 86 kids?
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