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Post by tothehouse on Aug 26, 2008 21:29:38 GMT -6
2 positive characteristics from any of your players and 2 you can't stand....
Positives.
1. I love football players with great MOTORS. A desire beyond their size.
2. Coachability - taking what you have told them to do and applying it THE FIRST TIME.
Negatives.
1. I could say the opposites of the above, but I'll say a lack of desire to be out for football. Why put in the time and not give the best you have? Go find something else.
2. "Answer guys"......"I know coach" or "but I". Those guys....my response is...."OUT....gimme another guy". Then I pull them aside and discuss the correct way to address the situation.
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Post by coachbdud on Aug 26, 2008 21:42:22 GMT -6
Positives: Yes coach guys. you tell them someting, and no matter what it is they say yes coach and do it
desire to get better at football each day
Negatives, kind of the opposite of my positive list
guys who talk back and make excuses instead of saying yes coach or i cant
guys who show up and dont work, if you are there at practice then you might aswell try to get better, no point of staying there just to half as$ it
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Post by cmow5 on Aug 26, 2008 22:43:15 GMT -6
Positive- Puts team first and actually CARES. Never ending motor. I have a guy that I cannot forget to blow the whistle because he will stay on his block FOREVER! Seriously unless he hears a whistle he will not stop.
Negatives- kinda like what the other two have said. The kid(Notice I did not say player) that wants to Tell everyone he is on the team, but dont want to put in the work. It is even worse when that kid is one of the best athletes on the team. I have TWO of those right now riding the bench.
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Post by CVBears on Aug 26, 2008 23:17:48 GMT -6
Positive: seeing a DL occupy the guard and allowing the LB to make a big play, DL jumps up, excited and totally fired up, high five-ing the LB and yells, "nice freakin' tackle graham."
Working with a center in earlies today, has a bad snap, he says, "coach, having it go there... what does that mean so I know how to correct it for next time?"
negative: coach calling out "We need a DE" for scout Def and seeing a DE standing on the sideline looking at the coach. Why the heck are you out there if you don't want to play?
kids that are natural born leaders essentially being "me players"
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2008 6:21:07 GMT -6
1) Desire, doesn't care where he plays, just can't stand being on the sideline, will play OL DE wherever, and plays his {censored} off at it
2) Initiative, if somethings wrong and doesn't get fixed, he'll fix it himself, had a kid ,, who just couldn't make his blocks, one of my backs pulls him out of his spot at the goalline, and jumps in at guard, to make the block. I love that
Hate:
1) Selfish, the "I play like sh!t because I don't like where I am", type, The kid just doesn't show up at practices, or games, when he is in a starting spot, because he's not the star.
2) The kid with the toxic parents..I know it's not his fault, but they're often inseperable
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Post by tothehouse on Aug 27, 2008 8:03:57 GMT -6
Gosh - I'm glad I started this one because we have a few of each of the guys you're all talking about....both positive and negative. What is good is we have more of the positive guys.....and the negative guys are finding out that what they are doing isn't working.
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Post by liberalhater on Aug 27, 2008 8:11:26 GMT -6
Positives
1. A desire to be coached. football junkies.
2 competitors. I want the guy who want to chop down the giant,want to get 2nd, 3rd, and 4th reps.
Negatives
1. guys who have other things that have more important things to do. Girl friends, TV, smoking pot.....ect. If football isnt important to them I dont want them out.
2."I cant" guys.
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Post by justryn2 on Aug 27, 2008 11:37:51 GMT -6
Positives: guys that go above and beyond - like getting down field to throw a block when the play went to the other side of the formation; and guys that go all out all the time.
Negatives: excuse guys - "but he was holding me coach," (I HATE that); and guys that give 100% about 20% of the time.
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Post by tothehouse on Aug 27, 2008 12:24:47 GMT -6
On the note of the positives.....what I have noticed??? You can see the "positive" guys on film.
I watch more film than Steven Speilberg sometimes and you can just see the dudes that get after it. You can also see some the slugs and the guys coaches aren't happy with. Body language....effort, etc.
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Post by dubber on Aug 27, 2008 14:37:48 GMT -6
POSITIVES
1. Kids who "get" what we are trying to accomplish as coaches. Gotta have a kid like this at QB, imo. When you have a kid who is one mind with his coordinator, it is AWESOME.
2. "We need a big play kids".........a lot of football games are decided by a few plays. A fumble here, and what would have turned into classic overtime thriller in a parallel universe is now a blow-out (think Ohio State versus Florida two years ago). You gotta get those plays, and to get them, you gotta have kids who rise to the occasion. I guess you could call these "third down kids", or "GL kids", or "4th quarter kids".
NEGATIVES
1. I'm trying to think of something other than lazy, selfish, etc........but yeah, those kids fire us coaches up!
2. The kids (usually freshmen), who come into the coaches office 10 minutes before kick-off and ask if we can fix their helmet, find a shoulder pad strap, mouthpiece, etc.
%&$#!
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Post by bulldogoption on Aug 27, 2008 20:35:29 GMT -6
Positives
Kids who like to HIT
Kids who do what I tell them
Negatives
Kids who expect something for nothing (or less than another kid gives)
Kids who miss practice
Joe Paterno said something like "don't bitch about your kids, their the only ones you have" But then again he gets to go out a recruit the kind of kid he wants in his system..........
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Post by coachcb on Aug 27, 2008 21:31:30 GMT -6
Positives:
-Aggressive kids; kids that play hard down after down because they love contact
-Pleasant, nice kids; lets face it, most of us have kids on the team who just aren't fun to be around.
Negatives:
-Athletic kids who are arrogant. I don't like coaching the super athletes with an ego; they don't tend to be very coach-able.
-Kids that play games with their parents and coaches. Had one of these kids last year; told a lot of stories about the coaching staff to his parents, to teachers and to other coaches.
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Post by cltblkhscoach on Aug 27, 2008 22:07:44 GMT -6
Positives
- A QB who is totally on board with the offensive coordinator. This is my first year as an OC and I couldn't have a better kid right now as the QB.
- Seniors who are leaders and can coach the intangibles. This relieves a lot of stupid issues you may have to deal with like negative attitudes and lack of effort from a few kids.
Negatives
- A kid who is just playing just because. If you don't love it, you will allow someone who does love it to get hurt.
- Kids who feel like practice is optional and playing time is mandatory. You would think on a team of 25 kids with no JV this wouldn't be a problem, lol.
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Post by saintrad on Aug 27, 2008 22:22:31 GMT -6
Positives:
1) Players that just love to play the game! AS tth said...you can tell them on film and enjoy watching them.
2) Players that go out of their way to learn and to teach others. We have a soph that asked what it took to make varsity at his position. I said,"out work, out practice, and out lead everyone else" and he has done just that.
Negatives:
1) Athletes with egos that cloudy up their perceptions of actually how good they are versus how great the team can be with them in the proper frame of mind.
2) Anyone that doesn't want to pay the price to be the best.
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Post by burn on Aug 27, 2008 22:35:13 GMT -6
1) Smart ambitious athletes
2) Over achievers with common sense
1) Dumb lazy kids
2) Under achievers with no clue
I think I described the same thing.
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Post by dubber on Aug 28, 2008 6:08:07 GMT -6
POSITIVE: fast kids NEGATIVE: slow kids character be damned!  |
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Post by champ93 on Aug 28, 2008 9:49:37 GMT -6
Positives;
1. Kids I never worry about their character
2. Good kids in school who have a nasty disposition when they put on their helmet.
Negatives:
1. Scout team heroes who can't play a lick in a game.
2. Kids who are content as long as they play.
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Post by kcbazooka on Sept 1, 2008 11:46:48 GMT -6
+ hard workers, and kids you can count on (duh!)
- We have one now that is very intense - our best football player - cries after we lose - but didn't bother didn't do to summer workouts. In my mind, he doesn't deserve to feel that bad when he didn't put in the time to make US better in the off-season.
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