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Post by jhanawa on Feb 17, 2009 19:14:05 GMT -6
40 yrs old, have coached 19 different teams, albeit some years I've coached two teams per year.... BTW, Outlawjoseywells is going to be hurt that you didn't include the 1800's in your pole....LMAO ;D ;D ;D
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Post by jhanawa on Feb 12, 2009 20:29:07 GMT -6
We go by blocking schemes, usually 5-6 schemes up front run game, 3 pass protections, 2 screens.....as far as run plays or patterns, we do alot, but with the same schemes up front. As an example, we use the counter trey (GT) scheme with 6 different backfield actions: GT option QB GT slot counter off veer QB GT off jet fake FB GT off jet fake QB counter off veer same thing with sweep (OZ reach) blocking: jet sweep qb sweep bubble sweep now pass to WR swing pass to FB
looks like a lot but its simple, we've run this with 8th grade kids and HS kids for years. IMO, it boils down to terminology and ease in teaching it. When kids buy into it and get interested in it, they can learn as much as you can throw at them. Today's kids are very smart when they want to be...lol
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Post by jhanawa on Feb 12, 2009 20:13:45 GMT -6
Nothing wrong with a constructive arguement, we still have them often. What will send me absolutely ape sheet is something being taught wrong on the field. When I see this I'll break the team for water and get the coaches together and fix it now, before something is taught wrong and has to be retaught. This rarely happens now as we've had the same staff together for several years (btw its a great, great advantage to have a quality staff, we are very lucky), but occasionally, in our old age, we'll have a flashback and have to get put back on track....lol
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Post by jhanawa on Feb 9, 2009 19:54:26 GMT -6
Knighter,
Burma Road's, by these do you mean the big tackling bags spread out zig zag style over a few hundred yards, running full speed and diving through them? Yep, love'em, we still have our kids do them....
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Post by jhanawa on Feb 8, 2009 20:25:06 GMT -6
A few memories from my HS experience, which I enjoyed btw, guess I was just nuckingfuts back then....lol All day "2aday's August in Arizona, 3hours practice, meetings, lunch, meetings, home for a few hours, 3 hour practice and back at it the following day..... 2 waterbreaks per practice, we were never allowed to take the helmets off, just caught a stream of water shot from a pvc pipe with holes in it hooked to the fence. This actually got changed to water bottles my senior year but still kept the hats on.... Skate drills with DE's vs FB's and blood, back then you wiped it on your pants and never thought anything of it, nowdays kids want the helicopter to come for scratches. Meatgrinder flipper drills.....if you've done them, you know what they are...... We got a real trainer my senior year in HS, which meant he professionally taped the air cast on over the torn ligaments in my ankle so I could play...lol lining up and running.....forever.....made Forest Gump look like a lazy fat ass. Honestly, college was a cake walk compared to HS...
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Post by jhanawa on Feb 2, 2009 22:52:41 GMT -6
All defenses give up something..
and nearly all offensive plays are "designed" to score every play..
but.. the things that always screw it all up.. the kids..
That chalk dont miss too much practice.. get sick.. get a girlfriend.. forget his plays.. drop passes.. fall down.. miss a tackle.. miss a block.. fumble the football.. throw an interception.. hold.. whatever..
And we probably all are guilty of doing it at some point or another..
Air, great points.....IMO getting the kids to understand what the chalk means and to execute it is what makes the chalk right.....or wrong...
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Post by jhanawa on Feb 2, 2009 15:37:00 GMT -6
Dave,
We had an all star team go to Florida this year, kid kicking it was a very good athlete, I don't know what he did but when he kicked it, the ball went about 3 yards forward and then spun, bounced backwards and stopped at the 37yd line, net kickoff -3 yards.....TOP THAT....lol
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Post by jhanawa on Feb 1, 2009 10:32:03 GMT -6
If the entire country would just go to NCAA rules and play real football this wouldn't be an issue.
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Post by jhanawa on Jan 31, 2009 16:49:52 GMT -6
Actually, this year we didn't intentionally onside kick, but it ended up looking that way a lot due to the fact that our kicker just wasn't very good....hard and on the ground is what we try for, a squibber as deep and bouncy as possible. Just a lot of times it wasn't kicked solid or a front line guy touches it rather than letting it go by. We had the ability to cover deep kicks but didn't have the foot to get it there, wish we did......
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Post by jhanawa on Jan 17, 2009 21:39:22 GMT -6
His throwing mechanics need work, since he's in FL get him to see Slack, he'll fix his mechanics and footwork for sure.
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Post by jhanawa on Jan 14, 2009 13:51:40 GMT -6
The 7 on 7 with the youth and frosh is a good deal, we started one last year and it went smoothly and everybody enjoyed it. Not sure what you can do about their picking the teams in August other than they need to find the kids in their boundaries and get them out there. It really is a huge leap forward for the younger kids to learn the passing game, particuliarly against slightly older kids.....
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Post by jhanawa on Jan 10, 2009 22:48:53 GMT -6
Coach Mahonz,
Starting here in August isn't an issue because of heat, we practice in the evenings and the weathers fine. Usually here, the weather stays hot until the end of Sept. anyway, so moving the start back a month wouldn't change anything weather wise. AZ sent several teams to Nationals this year, I think it would be an big issue not competing in Nationals. Having an unlimited division here for older boys, or anywhere for that matter, isn't a fix IMO because the problem starts at the lower levels and those bigger kids get turned away. Change needs to happen at the lower levels in order to retain the kids. I think there is too much of a spread in age and not enough spread in weight, the key factor with youth is age/maturity/experience, not size. For example, in most cases a 10yr old that has played 3 years of football is going to blow an newbie 8 year old up, even if the 8 year old is much bigger. This is going to discourage that 8yr old from continuing. These weight limits have been encourage by over protective mommies, IMO the danger is with the large gaps in age. I think a max. of 1 year age difference and a staggered weight scale makes more sense. For example:
8-9 max 120 grades 2-3 9-10 max 140 grades 3-4 10-11 max 160 grades 4-5 11-12 max 180 grades 5-6 12-13 max 200 grades 6-7 13-14 max 250 grades 7-8
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Post by jhanawa on Jan 7, 2009 21:34:08 GMT -6
I'd agree with Khalfie that DW offenses in general should have tough run defenses against goaline offenses as matter of environment.....defending other types of offenses that are balanced might be another matter as blocking and tackling in the open field is different than blocking and tackling inside a phone booth...
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Post by jhanawa on Jan 7, 2009 10:31:08 GMT -6
We went from PW to AYF a few years back for much of the same reasons that Doug mentioned, plus the AZ PW politics were unreal. AYF has a All American division for the older kids that has unlimited weights, the problem, as you mentioned is the younger, big kids being turned away from the younger teams. This creates numbers issues for when those kids are old enough to play in the unlimited division. The only alternative in AZ for completely unlimited is the competative league, but its unorganized, lacks numbers and for the most part, is poorly coached. I think the scenario your describing sounds great, IMO, young, big kids aren't physically developed to a point that they are going to pose a risk to other kids, I think age is the best way to sort kids, and if a weight limit is a must, then it needs to have a wider range....
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Post by jhanawa on Jan 4, 2009 16:58:50 GMT -6
That is where you (and the vast majority of fans..so its ok) go wrong. The NCAA does NOT RECOGNIZE A BCS division team as a national champion. Never have. Perhaps so, obviously the NCAA doesn't care who the champion is as long as the money continues to flow in from the Bowls and the BCS Bowls....
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Post by jhanawa on Jan 4, 2009 15:11:30 GMT -6
Utah has a legitimate claim but so do USC, Florida, Oklahoma and Texas. They have to to eliminate the power and influence of the conference commisioners and have a playoff or a mini playoff after the bowls...It's amazing to me that the BCS exists at all, how in the world can the NCAA exclude its own members from its championship process?
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Post by jhanawa on Dec 30, 2008 20:43:01 GMT -6
Los, the demo's would be done by the HS kids, the clinic coaches would explain it to the youth coaches, then the youth coaches would "explain and coach it" to the HS kids as a practice period in teaching. Then the youth coaches, with the assistance of the HS kids and oversight of the clinic coaches, would explain it to the youth kids during the youth clinic.
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Post by jhanawa on Dec 30, 2008 19:03:21 GMT -6
Coachorr, That would make it even better IMO. Give them a "dry run" to get there delivery down.
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Post by jhanawa on Dec 30, 2008 19:00:49 GMT -6
Thanks guys, appreciate it. I found a place, they are for my 8yr old son, so contacts are out at his age...
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Post by jhanawa on Dec 30, 2008 13:47:01 GMT -6
Doug, thats good stuff, I'm going to print it for future reference. The HS that I currently coach at is in a different area than the youth teams area that I have coached at for the last 10yrs, so I'm going to try to create some ties to the youth program near the HS. I'd really like to develop a "feeder" program in this area into the HS. Some of the things we are looking at are junior clinics for kids and staffs and then inviting those teams to our passing league. We started hosting our own passing league last summer for jr. midget, midgets and incoming frosh teams, we did it over a 3 week span and it turned out great. I think this is something that the clinics can build towards and create a bond between the programs over a period of time. Coachorr,
One idea I might share is if you are going to do a clinic for coaches and kids, is to have the clinic for the coaches before the kids and then have the coaches help coach what they've just learned to the kids with the help of your Varsity/JV kids. for example (length of time and subjects would vary) 4-6pm coaches only clinic, subject= teaching form tackling, format= 4 stations. On the field with coaches and varsity kids, teach the coaches how to teach the drills. 6-8pm, youth kids in the same stations, with the youth coaches and varsity kids teaching the 4 stations.... this could be split offense/defense, etc, etc.... IMO, this reinforces the learning process for the coaches by gaining hands on experience rather than just taking notes and allows them interaction with their kids. It's important to teach the coaches how to teach in a positive manner and get them involved in the process.
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Post by jhanawa on Dec 29, 2008 21:16:52 GMT -6
I am needing information on where to get sports goggles at a reasonable price. Anybody got any leads on reasonably priced goggles.
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Post by jhanawa on Dec 22, 2008 16:33:25 GMT -6
OJW, I think you handled it perfectly.
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Post by jhanawa on Dec 22, 2008 12:52:09 GMT -6
How embarrassing is it to be an NFL running back and get dropped by a dude without pads who has white hair, all with a little forearm flipper. I bet if that was Earl Campbell coming the ref would have moved....LOL
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Post by jhanawa on Dec 22, 2008 12:39:24 GMT -6
Just my opinion, and I don't coach the real little bobbleheads (8-10), but If my kid was taught to bearcrawl instead of taught how to play football correctly then I'd have concerns as a parent. As a coach, I view it as any easy way out of dealing with unathletic kids. Again, just my opinion, but its the coaches job to develop these kids. I know this can be done because we do it every year. We get unathletic, out of shape kids that have never played before and teach them how to play football on their feet. I just don't see the value of bear crawling other than in a goalline situation, but again, we play at an older level (12-14) where bearcrawling would be a liability IMO.
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Post by jhanawa on Dec 16, 2008 21:54:26 GMT -6
Heck, I remember in college when the RB and LB coaches had to be seperated....LOL Seriously though, whenever we have a few kids get chippy, we usually will line the two up in a 1-1 drill and drive block each other several times while the entire team goes nuts. This is our way of telling them, talks cheap, settle it with the pads...gets everybody jacked up too.... its a good, practical way to "fight" and get some productive work out of it at the same time. After they're done and can't walk or breath, we'll rip their butts about being selfish and hurting the team, threaten them with a couple thousand yards of updowns and have them kiss and make up....works for us....
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Post by jhanawa on Dec 3, 2008 8:53:49 GMT -6
This is a subject with a lot of variables to it and there really isn't a "right" answer. IMO the way to get the kids & parents is to just keep coaching kids the right way and develop a reputation as a solid, well coached program.
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Post by jhanawa on Nov 25, 2008 16:56:48 GMT -6
I see myself pulling 14 hour days, everyday, during football
DB, 14hr days are for sissies....LOL You've got two great boys and they are only going to be young once.....just my opinion, but maybe you can revive the Delaware Salute with the youngin's....If my son wants to play next year I'm doing it, I might end up coaching 3 teams but what the hell, I'll sleep when I'm dead.
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Post by jhanawa on Nov 21, 2008 11:28:40 GMT -6
I'd just like to have them quit calling a fly/jet sweep a "reverse", now that would progress.
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Post by jhanawa on Nov 19, 2008 21:56:20 GMT -6
I thought his greatest line was to a ref when he was miked on the sideline, "this is the NFL, which stands for; NOT FOR LONG when you make calls like that", or something to that effect....
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Post by jhanawa on Nov 19, 2008 21:52:23 GMT -6
Thats my powerball dream purchase...LOL...
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