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Post by airraider on Jun 19, 2008 11:29:32 GMT -6
When another coach asks how your spring went.. or how the summer is going.. or how you will look next year..
do you tell em.. "we're not very good" even when you feel like you are going to be ok??
Or do you flat out tell em, "we should kick yall's butt this year"?? haha
I know some of each.. not really the "kick your butt", but more of.. the.. "we should be pretty good"..
I personally am more of the "well, I think we will be ok.. have a lot of work to do.. but we didnt look too bad"..
How about you?
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Post by CVBears on Jun 19, 2008 11:38:08 GMT -6
I'm more of a, "we're getting there, but we still need a lot of hard work" I've never met the coach that says "we are going to be kick your a$$ good this year"
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Post by towtheline on Jun 19, 2008 11:51:19 GMT -6
Say something confident and ALMOST cocky. Never cross the cocky line, just flirt with it.
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Post by dubber on Jun 19, 2008 12:07:36 GMT -6
"Depends"
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Post by airraider on Jun 19, 2008 12:21:08 GMT -6
Seems like everytime I ask a coach of a team that I KNOW will be really good.. they always say.. "we aint gonna be worth a Sh#$.." |
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Post by fbdoc on Jun 20, 2008 9:08:58 GMT -6
I think dcohio covered all the bases, but my standard reply to that question is "Right now, we look pretty good versus air."  |
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Post by airraider on Jun 20, 2008 12:46:56 GMT -6
I think dcohio covered all the bases, but my standard reply to that question is "Right now, we look pretty good versus air." My response to everyone lately.. "man.. we just dont have any athletes.." |
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Post by coachgreen05 on Jun 20, 2008 21:26:51 GMT -6
Tell them the truth:
"I think we should be real good for the next couple of years, we are so much faster and stronger than when we first got here."
" Do you realize ,last year was the first year we had a weight program and two-a-day practices"....
My HS is the historically black school in the county. SO you know how we get treated,but we love it....
REAL TALK
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Post by Coach Huey on Jun 20, 2008 21:50:51 GMT -6
some coaches like to say "we're not gonna be real good" ... and usually say it because they either:
1) really mean it
2) are not sure so want a cop out should they actually not turn out to be any good
3) want you to think they aren't and they know the opposite, so - in their minds - when they succeed it is because they just did such a great job of coaching and, without their schemes, then the team would have been bad...
heck, i just tell the truth. won't take much time on film for the other coach to figure it out anyway. if i think we got a chance to be ok, i'll say that ... ex: "we can be good if the qb can continue to develop" ... or, "as long as injuries don't affect us, then we should compete for playoffs" , etc.
why beat around the bush ... to me, saying anything than they truth - or at least your opinion as close as you can predict at the moment - causes me to lose faith/trust in that coaches statements.
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Post by superpower on Jun 21, 2008 7:00:28 GMT -6
Like Huey, I like to say, "We could be pretty good if..." However, if we don't have a chance of being good, I'd probably be honest about it. Being an eternal optimist though, I am usually dumb enough to think that we have a chance to be pretty good.
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Post by touchdowng on Jun 21, 2008 15:57:19 GMT -6
Early on I'll say, "we still have to learn how to get out of our own way."
Later on I might say, "we're slowly figuring it out."
When the season is about to start, "It depends on if my kids truly buy into the team concept. If they do, it could be exciting. If they don't, it will be an adventure."
Anything I tell another coach I expect to get back to my kids/parents somehow, someway.
And I would have to say that after coaching for over 25 years, all of the above statements ring true.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2008 18:04:23 GMT -6
"I think we'll be okay" is my standard response if talking to a future opponent. I'm normally very truthful if talking to someone I know we won't play in the regular season.
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Post by coachcb on Jun 24, 2008 19:34:17 GMT -6
"Well, we're good enough to beat you guys, again."
"We'll see, but it's not fair to make comparisons when everyone else is worse than us."
"Ask your wife that question, we talk ALOT."
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Post by burn on Jun 28, 2008 22:28:18 GMT -6
We always say "we'll compete" this way we are honest in that our kids always play hard regardless of brains and talent. One I like to say to other coaches after they ask is we can't coach stupid.
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Post by coachrdg on Jun 29, 2008 0:31:34 GMT -6
I had another coach in our league just last week ask me how we are going to look this upcoming season and I simply told him that if us coaches do our jobs correctly then we should look good.
If I didn't feel that I could put a good product on the field every season I'd stop coaching. Now if another coach asked me what I think our record should be I'd have to tell him that I have no idea and won't until we start playing some ball.
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Post by jgordon1 on Jun 29, 2008 19:03:07 GMT -6
I like to say we're undefeated so far. and then smile
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Post by wingman on Jun 30, 2008 15:09:31 GMT -6
In our situation I usually say we'll be pretty good but so is almost everybody else we play.
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