CoachJ
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Post by CoachJ on Nov 16, 2007 12:22:41 GMT -6
What youth group age do you coach and can you post some video for us to see? I like seeing great execution no matter what type of offense guys chose to run. There is a great youth coach in Utah (sniblet) that runs Teds Wild Bunch Offense that goes 5 wide some and they do real well with it. golly I think they lost one game this year and the guy thought he had a bad season after winning them all the previous year if memory serves. We coach 8th graders. I have just purchased Nero, I hope it allows me to convert DVD to MPG format. I am not the greatest with video editing. Do you think it will make a recorded DVD into MPG? We run the ball more than we pass. Probably 70-30 run/pass. We use 5 wide probably 2 drives a game. I like to pass, but I am not crazy with it. I try to incorporate some stuff from Coach Mahonz whom I think is a legit youth football genius.
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Post by brophy on Nov 16, 2007 12:28:53 GMT -6
What youth group age do you coach and can you post some video for us to see? I like seeing great execution no matter what type of offense guys chose to run. There is a great youth coach in Utah (sniblet) that runs Teds Wild Bunch Offense that goes 5 wide some and they do real well with it. golly I think they lost one game this year and the guy thought he had a bad season after winning them all the previous year if memory serves. We coach 8th graders. I have just purchased Nero, I hope it allows me to convert DVD to MPG format. I am not the greatest with video editing. Do you think it will make a recorded DVD into MPG? We run the ball more than we pass. Probably 70-30 run/pass. We use 5 wide probably 2 drives a game. I like to pass, but I am not crazy with it. I try to incorporate some stuff from Coach Mahonz whom I think is a legit youth football genius. Nero is what I use. Import disc files Export video Googlevideo (free) upload to your account that is the exact process used for our stuff
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coachbigelow
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Coach at Southern Virginia University
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Post by coachbigelow on Nov 28, 2007 10:52:41 GMT -6
Worked with 13-14 year old youth team. We were primarily a passing team. We were lucky to get 3 kids who could play QB and had a lot of speedy kids who could catch the football. This league didn't have weight restrictions so it was almost like playing high school ball for these kids. I ran the offense and had made the passing game easy for the kids. We were a shotgun team primarily. We could utilize 4 different formations but for the kids the routes ran were the same in each formation just gave the defense a different look. Primarily used 4 passing plays in our offense. Starting QB threw for about 1300 yards (don't have the stats on me) for the season, 15 Td's and 7 int. Half of those were ones that bounced off his receivers hands and up in the air. We actually only used one running play, but again this could be run out of all 4 formations. We were basically a pick your poison type of team though. Some games we ran the ball more, others we threw the ball more. Our running game worked because of the threat of our passing though. We won the league championship with the last score being a hook and lateral (ladder) play. We rep'd the offense so much when the weather turned bad I was able to put in an I formation offense and new plays and we didn't miss a beat.
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Post by mahonz on Nov 29, 2007 0:45:02 GMT -6
J ...a youth football genius?Wow…that blows me away. Thank you for the compliment. Everything I do has been done previously by coaches WAY smarter than me. My only accomplishment is having the guts to run high-level offensive stuff with smurfs after I dumb things down to their level. Obviously it is a progression but kids can do whatever you teach them to do. I am fortunate that I can start out with a team and then stay with the same team for 7 years prior to HS ball. That is truly a luxury. Coach Mike
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Post by davecisar on Nov 29, 2007 6:16:31 GMT -6
As many of you may know the University of Nebraska has fired their head coach, Bill Callahan and are now in the process of looking for a new head coach. That process is in the news here in a big way here to put it mildly.
This weekend one of my own children suggested to me that I should be the next head coach for the Huskers. In all sincerity, they told me I should apply and that I would do a great job. After laughing so hard I nearly coughed a lung up, I thought it was great that one of my kids thought so highly of my coaching skills that they felt I would be qualified to coach a College team that has the third most wins in NCAA College Football history. I went on to explain to them the qualifications of a college football coach and why I was not qualified to coach the team. I also explained the huge time commitments required, as most of the coaches around here work from 6:00 am to 10:00 pm and that working those type of hours would mean missing out on a lot of the special things we do together. After mulling it over, my child said “Dad I think you should just stick to coaching the Eagles”.
It seems my own child is not the only one with the same opinion. Here is an e-mail received this Monday from one of my youth football parents:
Dave,
After hearing the news on Saturday, XXX is of the opinion that you should be the next Nebraska Head Coach. I asked him how that would work, since you also were coaching the Screaming Eagles. He said that would be no problem, you already coach two teams, so one more should not be a problem.
Should I let Coach Osborne know you are interested?
XXX
You can’t buy these kind of moments, youth football kids you got to love them. One of the benefits of coaching kids are the laughs and memories you get from impressionable young people. But on a more serious note, if your youth football players think as highly of you as your own children, you have a huge responsibility to be a great role model. Your players eyes are on you every moment you are on the field and don’t think they aren’t paying attention to you off the field as well. I still remember the names of my youth football coaches and carry around memories of those days in mind to this day. I can't seem to remember my computer passwords or the entry code to the garage lock, but I can remember my youth football playing days. Don't think your players won't be in the same shoes 35 years from now.
BTW I would love to coach the same team for 7 years in a row like Mike, but for a lot of reasons I usually try to take a new team every year. It's real hard to let some of those kids and teams go, LOL. I get to work with a whole bunch of different kids doing it that way and it keeps me humble ;D
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