robd
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Post by robd on Apr 20, 2009 19:55:57 GMT -6
I saw a thread I think last year about incentives for kids to make it to summer lifting, and also incentives or a reward for good, hard hits during the season. I am looking for ideas to help out with my sons team. I would work with the head coach and provide something like t-shirts for the hardest hits of each game and maybe like a trophy at the end of the season. I guess I am looking for what you guys all do for this sort of thing.
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Post by kylem56 on Apr 20, 2009 21:36:22 GMT -6
Theres some old threads on here somewhere with a bunch of ideas but off the top of my head for example 100% attendance= first dibs on equipment , t-shirts, first in line for team meals, etc.
Also if you can, read Urban Meyer's book Urban's Way where he talks about his Champions Club and the requirements/rewards . You could do something like that were if your a member of the Champions Club, you get a shirt, a special pin for varsity jacket or something like that, first choice of lockers. etc.
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Post by oline644 on Apr 21, 2009 18:12:42 GMT -6
We have an "Iron Award" based on attendance T-shirt, a seperate award given at the banquet and a leader board.
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Post by fbdoc on Apr 21, 2009 19:16:44 GMT -6
We do many of those things - shirts, gear, etc and we feel they have a positve effect upon team morale. I've also heard Urban Meyer give the "Champions Table" speech more than once at AFCA clinics and elsewhere. I don't want to sound like Capt. Obvious here, but I think there is a big difference how to motivate a national caliber college player and your average high school player. We're walking a delicate line between challenging our kids to get better (and stay with us) vs making them feel like crap because they're in the bottom half of our team.
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Post by coachwilley on Apr 22, 2009 2:15:27 GMT -6
We do a draft with four captains. First Round they pick seniors, Second juniors. At the end of the draft we pick lifting times-two teams per slot. At that point some of the teams make trades to get car pooling down, get rid of dead weight etc. Sometimes it's an eye opener to the lazy upperclassman to hear their teammates talking about not wanting to draft them because they won't show up. (I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing but it happens). The seniors are responsible for making sure everyone has a ride and for calling anybody that's not showing up. Winners get and UA lifting shirt and wings at my house in the spring. The kids love it but I still have more kids missing the whole summer than I would care to admit.
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Post by lochness on Apr 22, 2009 6:42:23 GMT -6
We do a draft with four captains. First Round they pick seniors, Second juniors. At the end of the draft we pick lifting times-two teams per slot. At that point some of the teams make trades to get car pooling down, get rid of dead weight etc. Sometimes it's an eye opener to the lazy upperclassman to hear their teammates talking about not wanting to draft them because they won't show up. (I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing but it happens). The seniors are responsible for making sure everyone has a ride and for calling anybody that's not showing up. Winners get and UA lifting shirt and wings at my house in the spring. The kids love it but I still have more kids missing the whole summer than I would care to admit. We do something very similar. We have 5-7 "lifting team captains"...which are usually kids who we want to groom as leaders. We explain their roles to them (motivating, teaching, leading carpools, positive peer pressure, encouraging, phone calls, etc.). We then draft "lifting teams" from our roster. Each team then tests in January and we establish a baseline. We then compete the teams based on attendance, most lifted, and most improved over time. We test again in August and tally things up. Winning team gets out of our "morning run" at camp and gets to sleep in. Second prize gets the standard t-shirts or whatever. The kids LOVE IT. They will do ANYTHING to get out of that morning run at our sleep-away camp. We literally have 80-90% of our team in the weightroom every day it is open, and they are genuinely lifting. They have fun, they work hard, and they record their progress in their books because they know they need to get better to win. It also comes down to coach involvement. A lot of our coaches get in the weightroom and really coach kids up, ask them how they're doing in school, talk to them about general stuff, etc. etc. We went from having 4-5 kids total in the weight room 3 years ago to having 80-90% participation on a regular basis. Even kids on our team who have track meets and baseball games are coming in at night (we open 6-8pm) and getting a quick lift in...! During hoop season, basketball players from our team would come in and bang out a quick couple of reps during their water breaks (not something we encouraged, by the way...but it clearly shows how much it matters to these guys). That's how well it's worked for us.
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Post by PIGSKIN11 on Apr 24, 2009 13:43:13 GMT -6
Love some of those ideas and have done some similar...
We have linemen catch punts or kick pats/fg's for their side of the ball and if they do it = no running.
Make your kicker or punter do his job with conditioning for the whole team on the line.... make fg or coffin corner = no running
anything that involves competition is great, be creative. Impromptu relay race at end of practice. Carry someone (a coach) for time, distance, etc
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