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Post by morris on Oct 6, 2022 7:31:20 GMT -6
How do people handle the crap like ankle twisting, pinching, and so on? Most of that stuff is happening in the pile and things like that. We don’t find out about that stuff until later. Do you just tell the officials to watch for it?
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Post by morris on Aug 22, 2022 18:20:58 GMT -6
First game of the year we had the typical “Those footballs are illegal”. We use Team Issue during the season which is not the balls you use in the playoffs. Had an official one time not allow us or our opponent use them in a regular season game because the laces were not white. We were told it was the first rule in the rulebook.
We also have an official in the area that refers to himself in the third person and uses a nickname.
I’m pretty easy to get along with as a coach when it comes to officials. Some I feel like must of been abused on the sideline or something for how defensive they get.
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Post by morris on Aug 9, 2022 12:03:52 GMT -6
I had to use it one time last year. It was/had been raining. Special teams (especially kickoff) film sucked because of the tracking system. Between the lights (we don’t have LEDs), water and the fact I’m pretty sure the camera is not white balanced the film was blown out. Meaning the white jerseys blended into each other and it was tough to see things. The other part is you have to download it as one big file then manual clip it up in Hudl.
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Post by morris on Jul 29, 2022 6:43:29 GMT -6
Don't have data, just speaking from experience, observation-anecdotally. Especially in this era of "Basketball on Grass" more games are won or lost on big plays - making them or not allowing them. It seems with more teams in the NFL playing Zone (or Zone-Match) pass defense - even the pros are realizing that. This is kind of what all the Briles guys are based on. Using IZ like tog is talking about. Find a few ways to steal yards and take as many shots as they can. Those guys use pretty high percentage/safe plays everywhere except the shot plays.
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Post by morris on Jul 28, 2022 13:43:27 GMT -6
You might be able to sort though Kevin Kelly stuff. The guy that never punted. I think he used to use negative plays, explosives and maybe turnovers as the measurable. He had some type of percentages that went with it.
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Post by morris on Jul 18, 2022 5:02:00 GMT -6
For your defense to reps it’s typically worth it.
The first thing I thought of is I’m not sure how many teams (unless you’re well known for it in your state) would even realize you are wing-t. All the kids would wonder why you are under center. We’ve got a few good ones here in the state but I’d say a large majority of coaches in the state are pretty clueless about the wing-t.
It’s a chance to work a little quick game.
Some of the crap you see in 7 on 7 is a little harder against wing-t sets. The defense that everyone is going to press/bully/maul the offense. With the motion and crossing of WR from what they see as bunch and stack alignment.
We are a little contrarian. Our QB pulled so genuine 7 on 7 stuff on his own this weekend. Kids lose sight of the purpose at times. Especially once teams get a little chippy.
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Post by morris on Jul 17, 2022 7:47:13 GMT -6
10 week season, but we are allowed to request to play week 'zero'. If you play week zero you just have a bye at some point in the season. A fair number of school do this. This is how we do it in KY.
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Post by morris on Jul 8, 2022 7:16:32 GMT -6
What I’ve noticed from watching some defensive guys talk scheme a few things appear to be a little more common. Now once they start talking it’s clear it’s game planned and adjusted but in the beginning their rules appear to work like this.
Front is set based on the RB position. In most cases this is done to make it harder to run zone. I’m mainly talking about how teams set their 4i and 5 and the techniques they use.
The secondary sets according to number of eligible receivers. This fills in the “extra gaps” for a lack of a better description.
The answer to that on offense tends to be either go in line TE which typically gets the defense to adjust the front some or get creative with the H.
As far as calling plays into your own sideline goes. Sometimes that’s not by design but just happens subconsciously. Drinkell who is at Army now talked about that. One reason people do it is it’s harder for the defense to communicate and sub all the way across the field. Tennessee for example pretty much only runs exotic formations to their sideline.
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Post by morris on Jul 2, 2022 7:43:45 GMT -6
Not from us but from another coach.
They would find out the other teams girlfriends’ names and use them as dummy calls on offense.
I don’t remember if it was an opposing player or coach but they had been talking trash through text or social media. They took screenshots and blew them up to use as picture boards during the game.
Another team uses the WWE “suck it” gesture for taking a knee.
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Post by morris on Apr 10, 2022 8:42:28 GMT -6
MEANINGFUL STATISTICS to win any football game are: 1) TAKE CARE OF THE BALL & GET THE BALL - +2 turnover margin. 2) SCORE A NON-OFFENSIVE TOUCHDOWN - preferably on Defense. 3) HOLD THE OPPONENT TO LESS THAN 16 POINTS. 4) SCORE MORE THAN 25 POINTS I believe those are Tony DeMeo’s 4 Aces he talks about.
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Post by morris on Apr 7, 2022 18:20:13 GMT -6
We’ve sent some kids this year to the new spring football programs that are starting. I’m looking forward to seeing some games.
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Post by morris on Apr 7, 2022 11:11:20 GMT -6
Does anyone have a list of meaningful stats - stats that correspond with winning ? Something along the lines of, "turnover ratio: the team that has the fewest turnovers wins ?? % of the time". Also, explosive plays comes to mind. I don't think it's possible to come up with any such meaningful stats (other than comparing the teams' total scores), because you can't tell which way cause and effect run. When one side dominates, you don't need stats. When the game is close, it's never the same thing that determines it. Football just ain't that simple. Even soccer and wrestling aren't. Baseball, even less so. Yet baseball gave us Money Ball. I know that will probably be apples to oranges but baseball is the sport that at least to appears to have really gotten the analytics ball rolling.
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Post by morris on Apr 7, 2022 8:19:18 GMT -6
I’ve heard Kevin Kelly and Noel Mazzone give different stats. I might have some of this wrong. Kevin Kelly Explosive plays Turnovers Negative plays Mazzone had some type of 12% rule Sacks Presnap penalties Dropped passes If that was 12% or less of your total snaps it was something like 80% win percentage. For HS I think Kelly’s is pretty accurate. Now the why those things happened could be related to a number of the things others have mentioned. You can win a lot of games being stronger and not screwing it up in the game. The same thing can be said for feeding the stud. Get strong. Do simple things really well. Don’t shoot yourself in the foot. Mack Brown said in one of the Nike Clinic books at Texas they were something like 50-1 or 50-2 when they won Takeaways and Time of Possession in the same game. I believe that’s pretty powerful. But if you dig deeper I bet most of those games were against the 1-AAs and Kansases of the world. Take aways I think you can use but time of possession might be one of the most skewed stats. A team can get rolled and win TOP. It used to be a big stat people looked to but I think over time people have realized it’s not the best indicator. In the same category to a degree is the Guz Malzahn stat of having some crazy high winning percentage when they hit a certain amount of plays in a game. I believe both number of plays and TOP are more the results of other indicators that have a larger impact on the outcome of a game.
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Post by morris on Apr 7, 2022 6:52:19 GMT -6
I’ve heard Kevin Kelly and Noel Mazzone give different stats. I might have some of this wrong.
Kevin Kelly Explosive plays Turnovers Negative plays
Mazzone had some type of 12% rule Sacks Presnap penalties Dropped passes
If that was 12% or less of your total snaps it was something like 80% win percentage.
For HS I think Kelly’s is pretty accurate. Now the why those things happened could be related to a number of the things others have mentioned. You can win a lot of games being stronger and not screwing it up in the game. The same thing can be said for feeding the stud.
Get strong. Do simple things really well. Don’t shoot yourself in the foot.
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Post by morris on Mar 25, 2022 14:07:00 GMT -6
I’d say sometime in MS. I knew I wasn’t going to probably play past HS and I loved the game. I still remember the SI article about Building a Better Mouse Trap with all the route conversions when the Lions hired Mouse. Georgetown College started running Red Faught’s version of the Shoot. In late elementary and MS I would read this Old Spice book about the history of the NFL. Reading about the 50s Rams and guys like Sammy Baugh.
When I got to college I started coaching women’s flag football. I started reading anything I could find. Magazines, books, playbooks, and anything on the internet. I stumbled across Coverdale’s Bunch Attack book and that was such a huge influence. I use to look through all the Bill Williams tapes and think about what I wanted to watch years before I ever joined.
I just love the game and love teaching and learning it. I think my dream job is to do something like what Bill Williams does.
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Post by morris on Mar 10, 2022 16:45:55 GMT -6
Not a political rant or statement here.
We haven’t had this issue exactly and this all goes back to way before Covid. There have been a large amount of issues when helmets are sent out of the US for recon.
We’ve run into companies not giving us the correct face masks back. Bad paint jobs. Stuff not put back in the helmets correctly/well. Billing issues. Pick up and drop off issues. Riddell has been the best one so far for us but there have still been issues.
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Post by morris on Jan 28, 2022 13:17:54 GMT -6
In one of the new spring leagues they had something along the lines of you either choose to take the ball or choose what yard line to start on.
So if I picked the yard line the other team could decide to take the ball or give it up. If you picked to take the ball the other team could pick what yard line you started. It was an interesting idea.
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Post by morris on Jan 18, 2022 15:22:27 GMT -6
Apparently Jones has mentioned he would be open to coming back.
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Post by morris on Dec 21, 2021 8:09:23 GMT -6
I’m curious to know what each state’s out of season restrictions are.
When can you do 7 on 7?
When can you work with your players and what you can/can’t do?
When are you allowed to make things mandatory?
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Post by morris on Dec 6, 2021 15:58:05 GMT -6
It currently is not but it was on the survey of possibly rule changes.
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Post by morris on Nov 28, 2021 20:07:37 GMT -6
plan b means you have to practice plan b...which means you arent as good at plan A.....so no plan b!!!! just do plan A....if you lose you lose I once had someone tell me safety blankets were bad. After buying in I agreed. You can’t have one foot in and one foot out. With that said you need plans for different conditions. 4 min offense Behind with 2 minutes or so in a game Backed up late in a game with various score factors Down by 1 point late and the opponent driving and unable to stop them And the list goes on. I get believe in what you do and live with it. You just need to make sure what you believe in and install has answers/procedures. I don’t think any of us want our players to lose a game because we failed to prepare and/or check all the boxes.
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Post by morris on Nov 28, 2021 8:43:43 GMT -6
silkyice that’s great! I thought I remember reading on here you were having a rough season. Either way sounds like one heck of a job by you and your team. You need a plan B for sure and in some cases plan C. Sometimes that’s a scheme/package. Like others have said having a way to pick up the tempo is pretty easy and I would think standard for teams. It’s not really an if those doesn’t work. It’s just normal situational football. It’s like teaching the kids the opposite of bleeding the clock in 4 minute offense. The Auburn Bama game when the kid goes out of bounds instead of just falling down. I know that is a tough one and I don’t blame the kid. One a slightly different note I think when power run teams or teams like the wing-t start to go at a fast pace it can get really tough on a defense. It just feels different and even the pace is different than a HUNH passing team. It feels like you can get set faster and snap it faster.
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Post by morris on Nov 22, 2021 10:02:33 GMT -6
Because there's a specific exception for one player in position to be able to take a hand-to-hand snap between the snapper's legs. Is the right guard in a position to take a hand to hand snap? There is a specific rule that I’m sure Bob can track down quote. No the RG is not in position to take the snap. There is also a rule about you about how far certain players have to be off the LOS. It very rarely comes up. When it does it’s typically a sniffer type back who’s head is breaking the plane of the hip of a player other than the center. You end up in kind of a no man’s line where you are neither on the LOS nor off.
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Post by morris on Oct 8, 2021 6:45:24 GMT -6
HS wise what appears to of happened here is kids started working during Covid. They started pretty much getting full time hours with full time money. So we lost some kids we were developing or maybe kids we were trying to recruit to the work force. Kids also got used to just staying at home and having free time. For a while we couldn’t have kids work with two sports so multi sport guys had to pick. It wasn’t as big of a factor but it was a little.
Now youth sports numbers appear to be up a little. Parents got tired of having the little ones around the house all the time. They wanted them out and to get a break. Until HS a lot of parents around here (especially no cut sports) are used as a babysitter.
Our numbers are lower right now. We pretty much don’t have a sophomore or junior class. I think we have around 8 total names. Freshman numbers are pretty good for us. If we get two more freshman classes like we did this year we’ll be ok. Football here is made up of cast offs in a lot of ways.
The other sports supplement their numbers by using MS kids. Our JV soccer teams are mainly MS kids with a few others sprinkled in. Basketball will pull up kids in the 7th grade.
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Sept 11, 2021 8:06:37 GMT -6
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Post by morris on Sept 11, 2021 8:06:37 GMT -6
I believe there is a video somewhere of this. I’ll try to find it.
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Post by morris on Aug 9, 2021 15:12:25 GMT -6
We will hit about 40 players 9-12. Enrollment is a little over 1k with roughly 516 males. Percentage of quality players is really good but one injury and you get a domino affect.
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Post by morris on Aug 5, 2021 10:38:48 GMT -6
In KY up downs, grass drills, and I’ve heard Green Bays also. Most of time it was just “get’em choppin followed by a whistle/hit it” and no title was given. If it was in a drill like pursuit then it was do an up down then whatever.
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Post by morris on Jul 27, 2021 19:26:13 GMT -6
How many of you guys have classifications based on male enrollment?
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Post by morris on Jul 20, 2021 4:30:30 GMT -6
I’ve had a lot of season where we put the opponent by the stands. It’s less distracting for our players and they can see the fans reactions. Let the opponents hear all the cheerleaders and fans.
I played in an older stadium once that had the concrete bleachers but the way it was constructed it made it look like they were cut into the side of a mountain. The field was surrounded by a fence which is common but this was the 10 ft tall security fences you see at a business. Including the angle overhangs to prevent you from climbing over the top. It may or may not of had the razor/barbed wire at the top. The fence also had a red mesh material so people couldn’t stand outside and watch. Once you walked in they shut the gates behind you. It was like playing in some kind of cage/pit death match.
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Post by morris on Jul 1, 2021 6:48:00 GMT -6
The tax part could be interesting. I don’t think it will be that big of a deal but someone is going to use it at a selling point. TX, TN and FL I believe all have no state income tax. So in theory schools could sell the idea a player could keep more of the money they make. Then you get into if you go one place to sign autographs or make an appearance that money I believe is taxable in the state in which you did business. Then you get into the whole thing where your residence and where you go to school could be different. Players will see just the fact they can make money but there could potentially be a lot of headaches that go along with it.
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