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Post by throwahitch on Oct 10, 2017 9:26:07 GMT -6
Okay, so no joke here.
We have been watching a ton of film lately. Like giving up valuable coaching and practice time to watch film.
Our HC has been dying to get in the film room. I dont think theres much of a point in watching it as much as we have. He sends me up to the classroom we watch it in while he gets the "stragglers". I start to go over it AGAIN and its 35 minutes and still no HC. Found out hes tired of practice and ready for the season to be over. This guy became a HC before me, and I WORK FOR HIM?!
*sigh* I want to quit but if I do all the kids will quit.
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Post by RuningOutOfOptions on Oct 10, 2017 9:34:33 GMT -6
Communication is the most important thing. sure he might not be doing what he needs to but you can't go on the assumption that he is tired of the season from hearing from someone else. Gossip like that will break a coaching staff apart real quick if you let it. I would address this with the HC and give him the benefit of a doubt until he tells you something that gives you reason not to.
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Post by fshamrock on Oct 10, 2017 10:31:43 GMT -6
I'd say brush up the old resume, seems he's had some hints dropped his way that he will not be returning next season. Or maybe he's getting out altogether.
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Post by groundchuck on Oct 10, 2017 12:06:27 GMT -6
Watching film in season is a good thing. But what is going on as your describe is not.
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Post by olcoach53 on Oct 11, 2017 7:50:31 GMT -6
"Watching film" does nothing unless you are actually getting something from the film. I worked with a former coach who would constantly watch film...but that was all he did was watch it.
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Post by cqmiller on Oct 11, 2017 8:06:46 GMT -6
We have a ton of injuries and only dressed 30 kids for varsity last week... we have been doing longer film sessions and way shorter practices to try and reduce injuries during the week so we can field a team on Friday night... but we watch film with a purpose and we teach what we would try and teach at practice with the film.
I cutup full college games I find online and we tag them with what we call the plays in our offense. If we need work on Power, we pull up some college teams running power and show them good examples and bad examples, and WHY. It isn't a waste of time if it is done right. The program we are at, kids literally know nothing about football. We had to sit them all down the night before our first varsity game this week and explain what a safety was because we practiced taking one during our Thursday walkthru and the kids all started yelling at us that you don't kick from the 20... FML
If the coach just wants out, that isn't right, but watching film shouldn't be a "waste of time" either.
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Post by throwahitch on Oct 11, 2017 8:28:32 GMT -6
We have a ton of injuries and only dressed 30 kids for varsity last week... we have been doing longer film sessions and way shorter practices to try and reduce injuries during the week so we can field a team on Friday night... but we watch film with a purpose and we teach what we would try and teach at practice with the film. I cutup full college games I find online and we tag them with what we call the plays in our offense. If we need work on Power, we pull up some college teams running power and show them good examples and bad examples, and WHY. It isn't a waste of time if it is done right. The program we are at, kids literally know nothing about football. We had to sit them all down the night before our first varsity game this week and explain what a safety was because we practiced taking one during our Thursday walkthru and the kids all started yelling at us that you don't kick from the 20... FML If the coach just wants out, that isn't right, but watching film shouldn't be a "waste of time" either. It is when he and half our kids are asleep. |
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Post by coachcb on Oct 11, 2017 9:28:36 GMT -6
Generally speaking, film is watched on Mondays for about forty-five minutes. We go through some key plays within the previous game; positive and negative and then move onto the opponent's film. A team should spend the majority of the time watching the opponent's film; seeing what they run, discussing how you're going to attack/defend them, who their studs are, etc..etc..
After watching film, we like to go out and have a light practice where we walk through the game plan for the week. As a DC, we watch the film on Monday and, run through some non-contact INDY drills and then go through formation recognition, checks, and adjustments for the week. We toss a scout team out there and rapid fire through their formations and just make sure we're aligned properly. We throw red jerseys on kids to simulate the opponent's studs so we know where those guys are at in each formation.
It was very important that we follow the protocol above this week as we're seeing a team that runs a TON of formations that we've never seen before. And, they run a scheme that is forcing us to make some adjustments that we haven't done much of this year.
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Post by newhope on Oct 13, 2017 7:54:14 GMT -6
A couple of questions: 1. If he's either not there or asleep, who's showing the film? 2. Why are they allowing kids to sleep? 3. Why are all the kids going to quit if you quit? That sounds a little odd right there
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2017 23:03:49 GMT -6
You said in another thread that your kids haven't won a game in years. Stuff like this is why.
One of the suckiest things about our profession is that so many guys work their tail off to be a head coach and really dedicate themselves to it, but the people hiring coaches don't usually know much about the game and often they just don't really care.
The single best thing you can have on your resume is to be buddies with or a relative of the person doing the hiring, unfortunately. A lot of guys get HC jobs because they're in the right place at the right time and admin doesn't want to look too hard for a new guy.
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