coachy
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Post by coachy on Jan 6, 2006 9:34:48 GMT -6
We are a small school. So I need some feedback from other small school coaches. We have an enrollment of about 300 students (2a in Oklahoma). How many coaches (same size) have to paint their own fields the night before the game? Do you have air conditioning in the field house?
(this post isn't going to give us air conditioning.....I'm just venting)
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Post by tribepride on Jan 6, 2006 9:51:48 GMT -6
I coach at a school with about 180 kids 10-12 and we paint our own field because we want it done correctly. The janitors will do it but they don't put the effort into it as we do. Besides, I have grown to like it......we added TRIBE in the endzone and a large M at the 50. We get it looking nice for game night. I am in NW Minnesota so after the first couple of games we have natural air conditioning:)
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Post by oddfront on Jan 6, 2006 10:09:16 GMT -6
Texas High School of 200 students, we paint our own game field and practice field on wednesday after practice, no a/c in the field house.
we also do most of the mowing on both fields, clean the field house, laundry, repair sprinklers, etc. If you don't like to work, you want stay here long. Doesn't leave enough time for coaching sometimes.
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dgs
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Post by dgs on Jan 6, 2006 10:09:58 GMT -6
I coach at a similar size school in Kansas. We do not mark our own game field. The AD has someone do that. We have the managers paint the practice field. Wish we had air conditioning in the fieldhouse. Like Oklahoma, brutally hot at the beginning of the season.
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Post by groundchuck on Jan 6, 2006 10:26:43 GMT -6
Practice Field: I have to do that. I mow and stripe it myself.
Game Field: My first year we had to do it as a staff b/c the school refused to do it. I then hired a guy who did the next 3 years and he did an awesome job. Midfield logo, big numbers, school name in the endzone. Then the school decided he costs too much and hired another guy who does an adequate job.
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Post by thurman on Jan 6, 2006 10:35:44 GMT -6
Goodness man.. I coach at a 4A school with over 800 students and we have to cut and mark both fields.. We are in a building built in 1938. The school is being renovated with new buildings, but the field house and stadium will probably get a new coat of paint.. We do not even have managers so we must wash our own cloth.. We have around 10 or so coaches with varsity and freshmen.. 3 of which are volunteer.. I would expect a 2A school to have to even reff their own games.. lol.. We have done that during several JV games.. I think its just because our head coach is cheap.. lol
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Post by williamcrehan on Jan 6, 2006 11:38:11 GMT -6
What's a fieldhouse?
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Post by airman on Jan 6, 2006 13:00:02 GMT -6
it must be nice to have field houses. I have 6 football fields myself.
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Post by thurman on Jan 6, 2006 13:27:50 GMT -6
I dont know why I said field house.. We are located in the bottom floor of our gym.. no actual field house.. just coaches offices and locker and weight rooms..
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Post by tom12 on Jan 6, 2006 14:11:11 GMT -6
I am from a small school (140 in to three grades) in Washington. We have no "fieldhouse," but we do have a guy who mows and paints our field. Numbers are painted on the field as well. He does a great job keeping the field in good shape, considering the weather we get around here. He is in charge of the grounds for the whole school, and the game field is part of his job. He also mows and chalks the practice field.
I do all the laundry and such as we have no "managers;" they are really just ball boys.
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Post by saintrad on Jan 6, 2006 17:14:49 GMT -6
yeah, what's a field house or air conditioning?
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Post by outlawzheadcoach on Jan 6, 2006 17:21:35 GMT -6
Most of the time in Oklahoma a field house is one of those little portable toilets, and air conditioning is what happens when you roll down the windows to your truck or car and drive at least 70mph. As my cousin likes to call it he has 270 a/c, 2 windows down and going 70mph down the road.
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dial51
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Post by dial51 on Jan 7, 2006 10:48:45 GMT -6
Coach at HS with 450 students (9-12), Coaching staff lines game field on Wed/Thur before games, we have a grounds keeper for the entire school district who cuts the grass.
FieldHouse consists of 3 seprate buildings, 1-High and Middle school locker rooms 2-Concession Stand and Coaches office (very small but w/ AC now) 3-Visitor LR and Storage.
Just added new addition to our locker room for weight room
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Post by airman on Jan 7, 2006 12:18:18 GMT -6
i have seen some great field houses. football truf on the inside of a track. weight room on the end.
i believe these were in oklahoma and the coach was complaining because he did not have the facilities to compete.
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Post by ralphieparker on Jan 7, 2006 14:09:26 GMT -6
500+
The staff did all mowing, irrigation (used 2" pipe straight out of the peanut fields), weedeating (lookout for the wasps under the bleachers), fertilizing, painting, laundry, . . .
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Post by aznando on Jan 7, 2006 17:25:13 GMT -6
The year after i left my HS, they put in that new Field Turf stuff. Very nice. Anybody else have that? At the school i coached at we had somebody to paint the stadium field, but our practice field we had to do and come to think of it, we usually didn't have lines, we kinda had real faded ones, which pissed me off because i was the WR coach and we tought most of our routes by yards not steps.
Yea and I second the question about the field house. I guess out west we dont' have those or something. Is it actually on the field or is it just connected to the school?
Aznando
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Post by DLine06 on Jan 7, 2006 18:13:51 GMT -6
Generally a field house is a building where you have your trainers, coaches and players report to for practice/ workouts. This is where the equiptment is issued out, pads, pants and etc.
Our fieldhouse is across the street from the metalshop area. It's used by boys and girls in various sports or treatment. It has a series of portable buildings for the group meetings whether it's DB's, O-line and other members of the team.
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Post by texasokie on Jan 10, 2006 13:46:19 GMT -6
500+ The staff did all mowing, irrigation (used 2" pipe straight out of the peanut fields), weedeating (lookout for the wasps under the bleachers), fertilizing, painting, laundry, . . . He is serious about the pipes in the peanut fields...and the wasps, too. 3 yellowjackets to the lip cause quite a lisp...lmao...now anyway...wasn't too funny at the time. But at least you never had to water the "field" at night...10:00, Midnight, and 2:00 a.m. ...because the water well to water the field was put in right next to an old oil well that was filled with saltwater...lol. It would literally burn the grass if you watered it during the day. |
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Post by mncoach72 on Jan 11, 2006 0:11:02 GMT -6
Tribepride
Where exactly in MN do you coach??
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Post by tribepride on Jan 11, 2006 8:06:08 GMT -6
Mahnomen
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Post by spreadjet31 on Jan 11, 2006 8:27:55 GMT -6
The school I coach at has an enrollment of about 300 (class c in Maine) We don't paint our own field, but should based on the poor effort put forth by the janitors. We don't have a/c, but don't need it by mid september. Our coaches "office" is a small room off the locker room that doubles as our equipment room and the coaches locker room.
I'm not complaining though. None of that is why I coach, nor will it deter me from continuing. As long as the players keep showing up and working hard, I'll be there too.
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Post by knighter on Jan 11, 2006 15:09:14 GMT -6
less than 140 in grades 10-12, iowa
no field house
janitors cut and line game field and are AWESOME at it
i cut lines in practice field once a week (do not paint as district will not buy paint for me anymore, too spendy)
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Post by coachnorm on Jan 12, 2006 13:08:24 GMT -6
150 enrollment in Kansas. The maintenance crew does an excellent job of painting the game field and we deisel in the lines on the practice field. It saves a lot of time and money since you only have to redo it once in most seasons.
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Post by los on Jan 12, 2006 20:13:28 GMT -6
150 enrollment in Kansas. The maintenance crew does an excellent job of painting the game field and we deisel in the lines on the practice field. It saves a lot of time and money since you only have to redo it once in most seasons. Norm, We play on several fields around here that have diesel fuel lines. Back when I coached little guys, I had a few who literally tripped over a line!! |
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Post by mitch on Jan 12, 2006 21:36:14 GMT -6
Class A, Oklahoma. Coaches maintain fields except during season. Have a/c.
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champyun
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Post by champyun on Jan 13, 2006 9:09:48 GMT -6
Class 1A (102 enrollment) in Texas. Our staff paints our game field on Wed./Thurs. before all home games. We do not have a fieldhouse at our game field. We have a nice locker room at our school with A/C (stadium is not at the school). Practice field is about 50 yds. long is all and we cut the lines before two-a-days.
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Post by tog on Jan 13, 2006 9:12:25 GMT -6
hey champ
good to see ya
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champyun
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Post by champyun on Jan 13, 2006 9:20:18 GMT -6
Hey tog. Yeah, it's been a while. I'd forgotten how much I like this website. Need to visit more often.
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Post by tog on Jan 13, 2006 9:22:03 GMT -6
check out the run game section
i would like to hear some of your ideas in there
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