coachh
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Post by coachh on Sept 19, 2006 19:29:13 GMT -6
We are playing our toughest opponent next week. I would like to add more motivation to the already big game itself. I am looking to do the following:
I am looking for: famous football speeches / game clips / movie clips / great plays. To put on a DVD for a pregame fire up.
Please any site that I can DOWNLOAD and burn would be appreciated.
Thanks as always you guys are awesome
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Post by brophy on Sept 19, 2006 19:37:51 GMT -6
We are playing our toughest opponent next week. I would like to add more motivation to the already big game itself. I am looking to do the following: I am looking for: famous football speeches / game clips / movie clips / great plays. To put on a DVD for a pregame fire up. Please any site that I can DOWNLOAD and burn would be appreciated. Thanks as always you guys are awesome I know this doesn't help you....but it's a good story (lol). a few years ago, our biggest innercity rival was playing at our field (actually our community field) and I was up in the box for the Sophomore game (prior to Varsity)....at half time our opponent's Varsity group, at the direction of their HC paced the entire length of the field for a BFS psychological ploy to "own the field"....well, I started taping it and zoomed in on the HC talking to his huddled players declaring that "this is OUR stadium"...blah blah blah... So, 2 hours later as it winds down to our kickoff....we're in the locker room right before we hit the field for kickoff...... Needless to say we put that 5 min tape in the big screen.....and the players went APE S***......In my 5 years with that program, I've never seen them so bananas before a game. They tore the hell out of our rival that year.....lol ;D but.....from where I sit.....and what I've used before for motivation was the last great monologue from the movie Any Given Sunday (movie clip)
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coachh
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Post by coachh on Sept 19, 2006 19:41:33 GMT -6
Great story, maybe I will sneak into there practice act like a scout from Ohio and tape the coach talking about how they are going to whip our butts. (Refering to the father who taped a practice in PA and his son ended up breaking records)
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Post by phantom on Sept 19, 2006 19:48:58 GMT -6
For what it's worth you probably don't need any extra motivation for really big games. Save it for the game with a .500 or losing opponent who's dangerous.
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Post by airman on Sept 19, 2006 20:04:09 GMT -6
IMO, you are grasping at straws here. if it is your big rival and they need motivation to get up for the game. you have already lost.
just my 2 cents.
friday night games are won on m,t,w, not pregame
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Post by davecisar on Sept 20, 2006 5:50:34 GMT -6
Amen to that. The great coaches I have studied rarely do much rah rah stuff. As a player I lasted just a play of two. When I did my study of HS and youth coaches, the very poor teams for the most part did lots of rah rah speech etc stuff, for the most part the very good teams did not.
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Post by Rooster on Sept 20, 2006 9:04:35 GMT -6
Our problem is during our pregame warm up it is very quiet this year. What can we do to liven it up. we are a very good team but have no rah rah leaders and the other kids do not get mentally ready. so as they are strecthing and catching passes it is so quiet it is disgusting..... It's like we are scared.
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Post by coachdbs on Sept 20, 2006 9:05:26 GMT -6
I agree. Motivational speeches don't last long but good practices and preparation will carry on throughout the game. However, if you enjoy the speeches, are good at them, and the kids get really fired up....why not? It is part of the experience and the kids will remember some of them for a lifetime. We still have kids come back and talk about some of our HC's speeches!
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Post by superpower on Sept 20, 2006 9:20:01 GMT -6
Our problem is during our pregame warm up it is very quiet this year. What can we do to liven it up. we are a very good team but have no rah rah leaders and the other kids do not get mentally ready. so as they are strecthing and catching passes it is so quiet it is disgusting..... It's like we are scared. Remember, the objective is not to win the pre-game warm-ups. The objective is to win the game. Put in a great week of preparation so your kids feel confident, and let the other team win the spirit award in pre-game. Then go out and do what you prepared to do.
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Post by fbdoc on Sept 20, 2006 9:21:53 GMT -6
I hardly ever do pre-game rah-rah speeches (and here's why!).
We're playing our District opener against a team that crushed us last year. We are much better this year and they lost several kids to graduation so it should be a much better game. I decide to use Al Pacino's little speech from Any Given Sunday (Brophy, you know what I'm talking about...). We finish warmups, The refs are about 3 minutes away from calling for the captians - I bring the team over, and start - the kids are hanging on every word, and when I finish, I ask them "Are you going to fight for that inch?" They go nuts, and as I make my way out of the huddle, I see the refs waving everyone off the field - game is suspended due to lightning! We wait for an hour - game is moved to the following Tuesday! So much for my pre-game speech!
As others have said, for a rivalry game (ours is next week), no speech is needed. Save it for that one game you really need, but, beware of things outside your control. I tend to use brief quotes (Bartletts quotations and many others are good sources) to use an inspiratonal nugget. Something short and sweet, that you can easily memorize and make into your own.
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Post by brophy on Sept 20, 2006 10:59:03 GMT -6
Al Pacino's little speech from Any Given Sunday (Brophy, you know what I'm talking about...). We finish warmups, I was referring to his final monologue what I do though, is find the biggest and baddest kid on the team......then trash his car with the rival's graffitti on it (ala Charles Jefferson) I do it EVERY YEAR....I'm surprised the kids haven't caught on by now.
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Post by brophy on Sept 20, 2006 12:33:45 GMT -6
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Post by wingt74 on Sept 20, 2006 18:53:04 GMT -6
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Post by coachpoe on Sept 20, 2006 19:14:39 GMT -6
There are good coaches who do rah-rah and good coaches who don't. I agree that the rah-rah speeches aren't what wins you the game, its the week of preperation you have put in and the work they did in the offseason and summer camp. If you are a rah-rah guy then by him, but that's not why you are going to win IMO. If you aren't a rah-rah guy then don't try to be one. Just be yourself would be my advice, but what do I know I am only a rookie coach.
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easternkycoach
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Post by easternkycoach on Sept 20, 2006 21:51:37 GMT -6
Stick to the theme of the year if you have one, reach for the next rung of the ladder, take the next step to reaching our goals for the season, district playoffs, county/city pride is on the line, doesn't have to be a world beater of a story or anything.
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Post by lovetocoach on Sept 26, 2006 16:30:30 GMT -6
Show the Plano East vs. John Tyler game from 10 years ago. Shows what can happen when you never give up.
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