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Post by joelee on Aug 7, 2014 9:51:35 GMT -6
The sad truth is that most of the recorded summer football deaths are from an un-diagnosed heart ailment and not heat.
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Post by joelee on Jul 24, 2014 17:17:02 GMT -6
I start him at guard. No question about it.
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Post by joelee on Jul 22, 2014 17:22:13 GMT -6
Bob Beatty is a coach here in KY. He has won like 10 state titles in 13 years at Trinity. He is a giant jerk. To everyone. I have heard so many people insult him in so many colorful ways. Is he not great? I think he is a great coach.
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Post by joelee on May 22, 2014 8:13:22 GMT -6
Kind of off topic but for the last 5 years I have been wearing Merrell waterproof low top hiking shoes to practice. Best shoes I have ever had. Comfortable, waterproof, last me about 18 months per pair with constant use. A grizzled old vet once told me to take care of my feet and recommended them to me. Best advice he ever gave me.
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Post by joelee on May 16, 2014 11:53:11 GMT -6
Ted I appreciate the provoking of thought. One of the most valuable things I have ever read was sun-tzu "art of war. Some of the beauty of football to me is the comparison to chess, poker, and the asian game of "go". One of the cooler parts is the clash of startegies. If i'm playing poker with you and you think we are playing chess; who wins?
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Post by joelee on May 8, 2014 10:10:55 GMT -6
We usually talk a lot about the 2-3 teams that are best on our schedule and what we have to do against them. "that kind of effort is not going to beat ____". "you have to have great technique to beat _____". " you know if we beat___ we will be hosting 3 playoff games". "you know ____ and _____ will be there waiting for us in the region and semi-state". "every thing we do from plays to drills to practice plans is so we can beat _____". "invest now in the weight room and mat room so you will have something in the bank to draw from when we play ____ and its 4th and 1"
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Post by joelee on Apr 15, 2014 12:27:48 GMT -6
Back when I was a head coach it was lots of psychologist and accountant with a little football on the side. (shouldn't and doesn't have to be that way)
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Post by joelee on Feb 27, 2014 13:53:12 GMT -6
Transactional coaching vs Transformational coaching. I just learned of these 2 terms this year because of an article I read about Jim Mora JR.
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Post by joelee on Feb 24, 2014 13:51:32 GMT -6
8 in our building and 3 more at other places in our district.
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Post by joelee on Feb 20, 2014 13:45:18 GMT -6
Institute a points program. Kids don't want to lift at the school? Fine. Just make them perform some sort of task- for us it's running during two a days- if they don't get their points. Your attendance will jump considerably after you attach some sort of negative reinforcement to not showing up. When their parents complain to you about you wanting them there instead of their hand picked trainer mention your desire for teamwork and a sense of team and say that if you are going to be responsible for their well being and performance, you want to be responsible for training them. As for the hangers on that are clogging up your weight room, make it an unpleasant place for them to be. Whether that's by being rude to them yourself or getting your kids to shun or not encourage their stff or whatever, you have to get those people out of there. Until you can get control of the room, there isn't anything you can really do to fix this situation. I know this won't be popular of an opinion, but I can't say that I agree that this approach works to be honest. If a kid is training albeit in a different environment, how can you honestly punish them? We always attach this word MANDATORY to things of importance, but how often do you allow a miss here/there for other things...why is where they lift any different? IF you're not willing to make the superstar the example then don't make false threats and think they will work. You will get challenged on it at some point.
Also be careful about how you treat the weight room. They are not "football only" rooms...at least at any place I've ever been. I can't imagine parents or administration accepting their kids being run out of the room that they pay taxes on to have function. How do you expect to build a rapport with other coaches if you are running their kids out of the room? You can say that you're not there to babysit their kids...that's an issue the AD should address. In our district if you accept the weight room stipend then you oversee everyone and its accessible to all. Perhaps discuss a scheduling regiment about when you can designate it sport specific for training, but running out kids is another land mine IMO.
Do the admin at your school let random kids walk into calculus and history class whenever they feel like it? Its a taxpayer funded room?
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Post by joelee on Feb 19, 2014 9:12:16 GMT -6
I saw this exact same issue at a school in a town I used to coach in. Here is what the HC there did. He told them go do your thing. I'm not going to fight you. Get stronger and faster by any means necessary. However I expect each and every one of you to be here on Thursdays where we will do competition and team activities that are vital to the success of you and our program. Make your schedule accordingly. One of our coaches will be here Monday, Wednesday and Friday to design highly effective workouts for those of you who want to use our weight facility. In year 3 he went 12-2!
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Post by joelee on Feb 19, 2014 8:52:58 GMT -6
What needs to be in place for an average high school kid to be an above average high school football player? We all win games with average high school kids out there on the field. The more game changers you have obviously the easier it is, but not every kid on the field is a game changer. What are some things that have to be in place from say 6th grade onward to make little Johhny into a starter on a good team?
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Post by joelee on Feb 6, 2014 14:08:20 GMT -6
What am I going to do about it? I am going to come back next time and use it as a teachable moment. I am going to explain that when you're told to go to failure that racking it is unacceptable. I am going to tell them I watch everything they do and I believe that a guy who does 25 reps at 60% is more dependable than a guy who does 15. I am going to make it a competition with tangible rewards and praise.
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Post by joelee on Feb 6, 2014 12:58:35 GMT -6
Put the kids in the squat rack after a workout, have them put 60% of their max on the bar and say "go to failure". Some kids will do a set of 10 or so and rack it. They are super soft. Some kids will go till it gets hard and they will dump the weight and fail. They are soft. Some kids will go long after it gets hard and dump the weight and fail exhausted. Not soft. Generally the higher number of reps he will do at 60% after a workout the tougher that kid is.
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Post by joelee on Jan 29, 2014 14:35:43 GMT -6
This isn't necessarily a pre-game thing. 2 of the top 3 programs in our state do some call back and chant type stuff in winter work but don't say chit during pregame. Bunch of machines on game day. One in particular doesn't have any music during pre-game at home games. The visitors are usually thrown off by it.
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Post by joelee on Jan 29, 2014 10:06:37 GMT -6
That Nebraska chant from a couple years ago was awesome though!
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Post by joelee on Jan 28, 2014 10:45:32 GMT -6
I think those stats can be a reminder for coaches to practice things that directly affect these stats. Those articles that were about the most important stats in football helped me at my last stop to convince the OC to practice 1st-down and 3rd-down situations. Another thing could be to reflect on how you practice ballsecurity/strips with your team. You could also think about your philosophy on playcalling: do you go for the 4 yards at a time or do you look for the bigplay almost any snap (like baylor does)? Field position is important - how can we work on our specialteams? I think these stats can be an impetus to reflect on what you're doing and how you can get better. But of course, if you're perfect by now, these stats don't really help. I respect a lot of the posters in this thread, but I agree with this guy on the statistical analysis. Some stats are important to me. Some stats make me examine my practice and my playcalling. It puzzles me the aversion to statistics from some guys that I agree with often. The speech James Franklin gave last year at Glazier alluded to the big play idea and so does Brian Billicks game planning book.
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Post by joelee on Jan 22, 2014 14:43:47 GMT -6
The ideal for me would be 12 coaches for a roster of a little over a hundred players. Too many players and they would be wasting their time. Too many coaches and they would be wasting their time. If you have a smaller school with a smaller roster then less coaches would be needed.
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Post by joelee on Jan 21, 2014 8:27:40 GMT -6
Yesterday Trent Dilfer was talking on the radio and he said the great coach, "gets the most from the least AND the best from the best".
I have seen coaches who could do one or the other but rarely do you see both in one guy.
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Post by joelee on Jan 17, 2014 8:58:55 GMT -6
I'm not talking about the actual weightlifting, which is why I didn't put this in the off season folder. I'm talking about the verbal programming that goes on. DCOHIO got it. I could give a rip if my guys are any good at doing push ups for example, but I have them doing 100 every day on a cadence exactly when and how I say. I want to have them learn to do what I say when and how I say it. I want them to do some painful things and keep their mouth shut instead of complaining. I want them to learn to turn their mind down and become part of the machine. All the while we are telling them that this shows us who we can count on. If you don't break down in here, you won't break on the field. We tell them that the things they do now are what separates us from everyone else on our schedule. We tell them how our rival has the same or better talent than us but they never get over the hump because when things get tough they do their own thing and we do what the heck we are told and how we are told to do it. There is no team or player you can ever fear because you know they haven't been through what you have been through. Expectations never change we are going after the gold rings and it doesn't matter who graduated, we are a machine. When you look your opponent in the eye you will see he isn't the rock you are, I don't care how big or fast he is. We talk about the 4 or 5 teams we beat last year with more talent than us. We talk about the 2 last minute comebacks we had. We talk about winning on the road. All because of what we do. We talk about the 2 best teams on our schedule and what we are doing better than them. We talk about our #1 playoff rival and how they are hunting us but they can't win because of what we do. We talk about winning the championship every day and winning it because of what we are doing from January to July. Propaganda, every day, all day, all off season. Our coaches are running their mouth all day about these talking points.
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Post by joelee on Jan 16, 2014 12:44:54 GMT -6
The older I get and the more great programs I visit the more I am starting to believe that what you SAY to your kids in the off season program is more important that what you actually are doing in the off season program. I'm not saying lifting and running and agilities aren't important, they are. I'm saying the elite programs I have encountered are all doing different versions of those things but the thing they have in common is that they are psychologically programming their kids while they do it. Agree or disagree?
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Post by joelee on Jan 15, 2014 9:00:28 GMT -6
These particular rules may have been in place at Louisville but they particularly address some of the culture at Texas that has been cranking out less than expected results.
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Post by joelee on Jan 13, 2014 14:38:04 GMT -6
We had the basics but felt VERY limited. Had to pay for so many things out of that and had to be savvy about which account I had to use for certain things. My coaches got a game night shirt and their stipend. Couldn't afford anything else. Paying for any clinic or even coaches association meetings was out of the question.
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Post by joelee on Jan 13, 2014 14:34:18 GMT -6
I'm no longer at this particular school but in my last HC job the school provided us with $12,000 per year and my booster organization spent $11,000 that year. This is not including coaching stipends, facility use and electricity for lights, and transportation (game buses) provided by the school free.
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Post by joelee on Jan 10, 2014 10:42:25 GMT -6
The way you have explained it I wouldn't choose the guy who said "my staff" to be the DC. Like others said you might need to have a meeting to get some of this out in the open and you may need one or 2 fewer coaches.
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Post by joelee on Jan 8, 2014 10:23:39 GMT -6
Cut him. But be aware that the parent will then try even more to undermine you with the others.
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Post by joelee on Jan 8, 2014 7:24:25 GMT -6
I dabble in watching a lot of football, but I haven't seen a full game all year. #1 I have a bit of ADD and just can't do it. #2 I analyze things i'm seeing and end up pulling out a sheet of paper and missing the rest of the game.
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Post by joelee on Jan 7, 2014 11:22:44 GMT -6
Remove Matt Millen and show the play full screen when on live action and it would have been awesome. Really impressed with Sumlin and how fast he took over the room. WOW
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Post by joelee on Dec 20, 2013 10:21:45 GMT -6
That's pretty much what we did this year on our own. We went 14-0. Didn't seem to bother us.
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Post by joelee on Dec 17, 2013 10:18:34 GMT -6
I would love to see that. curtis.cotton@bgreen.kyschools.us
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