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Post by Coach Bennett on Jun 13, 2023 9:10:39 GMT -6
Good ol'fashioned egg toss is a great one. Pair up kids, throw, catch. If successful, take one step back.
One pitch whiffle ball tourney (chair for strike/out, ball/walk).
Flip barrels so the open end faces lines of players - "bowl" a football into the barrel
Jugs machine - sky balls (as high as it will go) and assign an exercise for misses
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Post by Coach Bennett on May 1, 2023 11:32:55 GMT -6
Have any of you tried integrated game pants? Are they functionally appropriate? I was thinking this would be a great way to prevent all of the cool kids cutting their knee pads.
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Post by Coach Bennett on Apr 18, 2023 13:16:06 GMT -6
I make our gameplan on google slides and I upload it to Hudl. When I’m in Charge one day, we will have a staff google docs Do you have a template you'd be willing to share?
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Post by Coach Bennett on Oct 27, 2022 12:24:53 GMT -6
Offer to have the kid write their signature under the design, gives them credit whenever the shirts are worn.
Great portfolio piece as mentioned before.
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Post by Coach Bennett on Jun 10, 2022 10:28:49 GMT -6
Do you also lift in-season?
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Post by Coach Bennett on Apr 26, 2022 13:12:36 GMT -6
Have you considered staggering practice times?
Group A starts, Group B joins Group A, finish with Group B.
More time on the job for you but more quality coaching for the kids.
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Post by Coach Bennett on Feb 16, 2022 10:33:50 GMT -6
Anyone out there teach a class about all things football? History, strategy, conditioning, programming, etc.? Does the class also lift/condition?
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Post by Coach Bennett on Dec 14, 2021 12:22:11 GMT -6
Coaches,
Any upcoming camps to check out for spring/summer?
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Post by Coach Bennett on Dec 9, 2021 10:59:59 GMT -6
We are a title 1 school with 1600 kids. Our demographic is typical of the area, give or take, 38% Hispanic, 32% white, 22% black. All of our sports sans wrestling are trash. Even wrestling which has been a juggernaut for over 30 years has been down for lack of participation. While our kids are not very talented it is obvious to me that we would be better together. We literally need each other just to compete. My idea is to present my athletic director with a "sit down" among all the coaches to see if we can somehow "incentivise" playing multiple sports. The tricky part is to come up with a way to present it as not optional. While I realize that we technically cannot force a kid to do something, we can strongly encourage it. Anyone have any experience with this type of thing? What are some ideas you might take into the meeting? Why not organize your own meeting with those coaches and sell your plan? Maybe you can combine fundraising efforts and create an "Ironman" group of multi-sport athletes? Just spitballin' here...
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Post by Coach Bennett on Dec 3, 2021 6:23:58 GMT -6
Randy Jackson's books "Culture Defeats Strategy (1 and 2)" go into detail about how he uses battalions to foster competitiveness and team building.
We used battalions in the regular season for everything from mini-competitions at the end of practice, to assigning which group was responsible for field/locker room/water etc. on a weekly basis, to conditioning competitions and beyond.
It's a lot of work but the kids loved it.
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Post by Coach Bennett on Apr 13, 2021 6:03:36 GMT -6
If you align your defensive front to field/boundary, do you do the same for your offense? Why or why not? E.g. "Field offensive tackle" and "Boundary offensive tackle" What would be the advantage? Defenses do it to put their personnel where they want them, not where the offense wants them. In HS wide side is important. The offense can put their players wherever they want to, though. One advantage to F/B on defense is that every player has a specific job on a particular call that doesn't change based on what side of the field you're on; they don't have to learn two jobs. For instance, let's say a weakside stunt is called and that always has my boundary side 4 tech slanting one gap to field. It doesn't matter which hash, that position always knows they slant strong (or better yet for teaching purposes - inside). It works well for one word calls on defense. My thought was that you could do the same for offense and have your kids avoid the "if you think you stink" mantra. E.g. B/F offensive linemen and veer. "Bama" could mean veer to field so that OL would know, regardless of hash, that their boundary gap is their responsibility. "Florida" could mean veer to boundary. Just thinking outloud about its merits on defense and if it's simpler (or ends up being more complex) for offensive players.
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Post by Coach Bennett on Mar 14, 2021 20:14:45 GMT -6
If you align your defensive front to field/boundary, do you do the same for your offense? Why or why not? E.g. "Field offensive tackle" and "Boundary offensive tackle"
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Post by Coach Bennett on Mar 2, 2021 8:15:37 GMT -6
"Burn it"
Around the fire start with some easy questions as the athletes get to really know one another. As you progress, give each kid paper and pencil and start asking some deeper self-reflection questions. Let them know that this is for their eyes only.
Frame additional questions by any means that will fit your philosophy and agenda. At the close of the initiative, athletes will burn their responses.
You can have them simply toss them in or have everyone repeat a mantra or point of emphasis for your weekend.
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Post by Coach Bennett on Dec 6, 2020 10:14:16 GMT -6
Get some clothing measuring tapes and measure all of your kids. Determine what percentages you need for every kid in the program and then purchase the extras according to those percentages.
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Post by Coach Bennett on Nov 19, 2020 12:49:22 GMT -6
Ask him to meet with you about some pertinent football scheme and organizational work.
Have your copy and "his" and then simply ask him what's going on. The look on his face will say it all.
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Post by Coach Bennett on Nov 2, 2020 15:38:48 GMT -6
How to run out the clock - this was sad... Holy #$^#
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Post by Coach Bennett on Oct 26, 2020 13:47:17 GMT -6
When there's just too much snow, we've used parking lots and sneakers to make sure we are sound in our assignments.
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Post by Coach Bennett on Oct 26, 2020 13:43:21 GMT -6
"Rambo" defense...go zero and blitz everyone.
Take your top 2 base plays and install a trick off of them.
If you have a reverse, fake reverse is an easy one after you've run it.
Offense - after the ready for play whistle, run one player on and run 2 off with the second lining up on the sideline. Make sure the one you've run on is inside the numbers.
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Post by Coach Bennett on Oct 26, 2020 5:29:25 GMT -6
I don’t know about a Huey site but the Ron Polk playbook is a must read. Holy smokes, coach! Just got the book...it's the most comprehensive sports book I've ever seen. Thanks for the heads up.
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Post by Coach Bennett on Oct 16, 2020 10:22:04 GMT -6
Wicked cool. Nice work, coach. What an innovative opportunity.
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Post by Coach Bennett on Oct 8, 2020 9:53:48 GMT -6
Coaches,
I'm excited to get back into the baseball world this spring. Is there a site like Huey for baseball?
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Post by Coach Bennett on Sept 28, 2020 17:44:43 GMT -6
run a small enough playbook that kids can understand it. This may be heretical, but 9-man. Shrink the field and make it so that their little brains can grasp what’s going on with fewer players, and reduce the track meet aspect of so many toss and sweep leagues. We are going 7 v 7, 4 plays from one formation for our first game.
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Post by Coach Bennett on Sept 28, 2020 17:42:39 GMT -6
Update: our new USA youth football league (padded flag) has 30 kids grades 3-4 (last year's tackle group had 12) and 20 kids grades 5-6 (last year's PAL team had 11). We started grades 7-12 Tuesday and had 40 kids show up for our first night. NYS interscholastic football is not happening this fall so we were really excited to have that many. Hoping for more sign ups before Saturday. ... you are located in NY? Yes, Saranac Lake.
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Post by Coach Bennett on Sept 24, 2020 9:56:03 GMT -6
Update: our new USA youth football league (padded flag) has 30 kids grades 3-4 (last year's tackle group had 12) and 20 kids grades 5-6 (last year's PAL team had 11).
We started grades 7-12 Tuesday and had 40 kids show up for our first night. NYS interscholastic football is not happening this fall so we were really excited to have that many. Hoping for more sign ups before Saturday.
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Post by Coach Bennett on Sept 3, 2020 11:58:57 GMT -6
That's exciting to hear coach! not a youth coach but we ran an annual youth football clinic All of Gen Z/Gen Alpha LIVE off of Fortnite and TIKTOK Some ideas: - LIVE DJ, music between plays... have someone actively playing music between plays and if you can afford a microphone have an anouncer... -Custom entrance and TD songs, free and easy to do.. I use one through google chrome. (or just use NHL goal horns... i made a custom one for my last team) - film every game, get an ipad and pay someone $20, and get it up on hudl or something - each team gets a social media account and puts up highlights and stats... make it a TRUE social media presence not just BS post once and forget it - a "main account" with player interviews and game recap which is linked to a youtube account where you post it all. - if I was running it I would shoot a weekly ESPN style show on YOUTUBE... doesn't have to be high budget all can be done very cheap... key is to cover every game and get parents and kids excited that their team and kid is getting recognition - finally this is VERY RADICAL but ALLOW/ENCOURAGE for TD celebrations, full on fortnite dances, leap frog, Ocho Cinco Signing the ball... I think its an archaic rule to prevent field fights when in reality field fights only really occur from cheap shots and never after a TD. Awesome stuff, coach! Keep'm coming.
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Post by Coach Bennett on Sept 3, 2020 11:58:18 GMT -6
I'm glad I quit coaching. I'm glad I'm still coaching.
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Post by Coach Bennett on Sept 2, 2020 13:06:25 GMT -6
(Moderators - I put this thread in the youth section but no replies) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Coaches,
We are starting a new league this fall based on USA Football's Development Model.
There are a lot of great pieces to the overall concept but I really like developing the total athlete, meeting the athlete where they by delivering appropriate skill work, and, most importantly having the athlete and parent WANT to come back.
Along those lines, what are some goofy/fun/positive culture stuff you've infused into your youth football practices?
Thanks in advance.
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Post by Coach Bennett on Sept 2, 2020 8:57:34 GMT -6
Coaches,
We are starting a new league this fall based on USA Football's Development Model.
There are a lot of great pieces to the overall concept but I really like developing the total athlete, meeting the athlete where they are and delivering appropriate skill, and, most importantly having the athlete and parent WANT to come back.
Along those lines, what are some goofy/fun/positive culture stuff you've infused into your youth football practices?
Thanks in advance.
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Post by Coach Bennett on Aug 25, 2020 8:31:14 GMT -6
Find an old school overhead projector and buy a durable tarp.
Hang tarp on the wall, back the projector up until you get your desired size. Trace with a magic marker and then cut it out.
When you get to the field, pull it tight and stake it using the grommets.
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Post by Coach Bennett on Aug 25, 2020 8:08:49 GMT -6
Coaches,
Have you ever removed a captain from their duties but they remained on the team?
Interested to hear how you went about this, particularly anything you do proactively prior to getting into the heart of the season.
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