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Post by bigmoot on Oct 5, 2018 11:36:04 GMT -6
Does anybody else get that "Dead Man Walking" feeling on Fridays...just waiting on the appointed time.
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Post by wingtol on Oct 6, 2018 6:45:44 GMT -6
Still alive 1-3 in last 3 Win got called at halftime after 45 minute lighting delay, but we'll take it Played #2 in state last night did not go well had 24 kids at practice Before half find out our next opponent, most winnable game left, forfeited their game in the 2nd qtr due to injuries Next week is homecoming
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Post by CoachMikeJudy on Oct 10, 2018 6:04:55 GMT -6
Game 1- We're down 14-0 and hadn't made a single defensive statistic yet. 2 plays, 2 TDs. Game 2- Win toss, 3 and out, punt blocked for a TD. Offense gets ball back, drives, throws pick 6. 14-0 and defense hadn't been on the field yet. We lose the game 28-14, and they scored on TWO blocked punts for TDs and a pick six... Have mercy on my poor kids' souls... 0-2 start, 2-2 currently. Beat the last 2 opponents combined 103-14 (53-0, 50-14). Trying to keep a conference win-streak alive...currently sitting at 20 straight dating back to 2015.
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Post by planck on Oct 11, 2018 19:51:00 GMT -6
Well, update: we were 6-0 at half. They had less than 50 yards rushing. We lost 14-6. I'm just sick to my stomach because we had them out schemed and dead to rights, but we had some kids who just let their teammates down. I feel {censored} because I didn't have those kids ready to go and it showed up.
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Post by rsmith627 on Oct 12, 2018 4:52:16 GMT -6
We are sitting at 4-4 with a JV group that went 1-8 as Freshman. That isn't too bad. Took a huge W over our rivals last night who came in sitting at 6-1. They were a damn good team. Our kids came out, played a clean game, did what they were coached to do, and didn't fold when adversity hit like they've sometimes been known to do.
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Post by planck on Oct 12, 2018 10:20:54 GMT -6
Well, update: we were 6-0 at half. They had less than 50 yards rushing. We lost 14-6. I'm just sick to my stomach because we had them out schemed and dead to rights, but we had some kids who just let their teammates down. I feel {censored} because I didn't have those kids ready to go and it showed up. Just to follow up, stats: we lost the field position battle by 250 yards over 10 possessions. We held them to under 3 YPC and 10 yards passing. We lost the turnover battle 5-2, but outgained them by almost 100 yards. Still lost. Puts us at 3-4 on the year, and I just feel sick.
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Post by Chris Clement on Oct 13, 2018 20:53:57 GMT -6
Our OC had a helmet fire and called freeze four times in our two-minute drill.
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Post by coachklee on Oct 15, 2018 4:52:38 GMT -6
Our OC had a helmet fire and called freeze four times in our two-minute drill. New way of saying full tard!
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Post by fkaboneyard on Oct 15, 2018 9:51:45 GMT -6
This past Friday night the 1st play of the drive in the 3rd quarter our left guard got tossed for fighting. His replacement, a JV pull up, went into the game and immediately crapped his pants - literally (he had been battling the stomach flu all week). The kid finished out the game and, despite being on the small side, played very well. Everything went better than expected.
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Post by OleCoach on Oct 16, 2018 5:34:26 GMT -6
This past Friday night the 1st play of the drive in the 3rd quarter our left guard got tossed for fighting. His replacement, a JV pull up, went into the game and immediately crapped his pants - literally (he had been battling the stomach flu all week). The kid finished out the game and, despite being on the small side, played very well. Everything went better than expected. Man! Did ya'll throw away the pants or give him a "man-pon" ?
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Post by Defcord on Oct 16, 2018 7:22:32 GMT -6
This past Friday night the 1st play of the drive in the 3rd quarter our left guard got tossed for fighting. His replacement, a JV pull up, went into the game and immediately crapped his pants - literally (he had been battling the stomach flu all week). The kid finished out the game and, despite being on the small side, played very well. Everything went better than expected. I would say if a kid can shitt his pants and keep playing, he's going to be okay!
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Post by fkaboneyard on Oct 16, 2018 13:19:56 GMT -6
Mid 4th quarter, during a timeout the team came to our sideline for water and I almost threw up. I went "Good gawd, what is that smell?" and the line all started laughing - "Chris blew mud in his pants!" I said to the kid, "You okay, buddy?" and he said, "This is awesome, coach, I love playing varsity! Don't make me come out!" I said, "I don't want to smell you on the sidelines, you're staying in" and the kids all went crazy. We put the kid, uniform and all, into the shower after the game and he got undressed while the water was on. Then he bagged up all his gear in a hefty bag, I don't know what happened to it though. Kid is a gamer for sure.
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Post by bartimus58 on Oct 17, 2018 22:45:58 GMT -6
Went into the locker room to escort the linemen out before our game and my sophomore lineman who is on EVERY special teams lets me know he isn’t playing today. We had 25 kids dressed before he dropped out. At least he gave me an hour notice to replace him. The other sophomore got DQ’d 5 minutes before the game with a concussion.
It’s been a wild year. Thank goodness it’s over.
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Post by doitforthekids on Oct 18, 2018 9:44:21 GMT -6
Took over a program filled with bullying incidents and a team divided, stud QB transferred, fastest kid in county transferred, biggest and best OL/DL transferred, best overall football player decided not to play. All before I got my hands on them. Then to the season, our AD scheduled the best 2 teams in the area, perennial powerhouses, as our first 2 games. Get some footing, wind up 4-4-1 going into the final game, and our best football player, absolute animal, gets into a fight with a teammate in school and is suspended. So we booted him for obvious reasons. Just another fun year as a coach!
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Post by blb on Oct 18, 2018 10:04:39 GMT -6
Took over a program filled with bullying incidents and a team divided, stud QB transferred, fastest kid in county transferred, biggest and best OL/DL transferred, best overall football player decided not to play. All before I got my hands on them. Then to the season, our AD scheduled the best 2 teams in the area, perennial powerhouses, as our first 2 games. Get some footing, wind up 4-4-1 going into the final game, and our best football player, absolute animal, gets into a fight with a teammate in school and is suspended. So we booted him for obvious reasons. Just another fun year as a coach!
What are the "obvious reasons," i.e. why did you kick him off the football team for something he did during school and not on the field?
I assume he could not practice-play during his suspension. To dismiss him seems like Double Jeopardy and going overboard.
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Post by doitforthekids on Oct 18, 2018 10:12:20 GMT -6
Took over a program filled with bullying incidents and a team divided, stud QB transferred, fastest kid in county transferred, biggest and best OL/DL transferred, best overall football player decided not to play. All before I got my hands on them. Then to the season, our AD scheduled the best 2 teams in the area, perennial powerhouses, as our first 2 games. Get some footing, wind up 4-4-1 going into the final game, and our best football player, absolute animal, gets into a fight with a teammate in school and is suspended. So we booted him for obvious reasons. Just another fun year as a coach!
What are the "obvious reasons," i.e. why did you kick him off the football team for something he did during school and not on the field?
I assume he could not practice-play during his suspension. To dismiss him seems like Double Jeopardy and going overboard.
"We don't go after one of our own". Completely unprovoked, just did it to do it. Kid is now in counselling and will try out again next year, starting with off-season workouts. School and AD policy is any suspension will be mirrored in athletics. He's not kicked off, booted was poor wording on my part, he's suspended, which ends his season.
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Post by OleCoach on Oct 18, 2018 10:40:45 GMT -6
What are the "obvious reasons," i.e. why did you kick him off the football team for something he did during school and not on the field?
I assume he could not practice-play during his suspension. To dismiss him seems like Double Jeopardy and going overboard.
"We don't go after one of our own". Completely unprovoked, just did it to do it. Kid is now in counselling and will try out again next year, starting with off-season workouts. School and AD policy is any suspension will be mirrored in athletics. He's not kicked off, booted was poor wording on my part, he's suspended, which ends his season. I really like the "don't go after one of our own." What are some ya'lls "none negotiable items" that will get the players dismissed?
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Post by doitforthekids on Oct 18, 2018 10:59:44 GMT -6
"We don't go after one of our own". Completely unprovoked, just did it to do it. Kid is now in counselling and will try out again next year, starting with off-season workouts. School and AD policy is any suspension will be mirrored in athletics. He's not kicked off, booted was poor wording on my part, he's suspended, which ends his season. I really like the "don't go after one of our own." What are some ya'lls "none negotiable items" that will get the players dismissed? We follow the school manual and athletic department policies. Want to be as closely aligned with the school as possible; also want our program to be an environment kids grow in. So we don't have many "non-negatiables" to boot kids, we will come down hard then build them back up if they complete the punishment and meet expectations. Kids screw up, our job to mold and guide them. Now, our school policy makes drugs and alcohol automatic dismissals.
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Post by johnson2133 on Oct 18, 2018 11:11:14 GMT -6
Finished our season last night...we got outscored 419-145 this year.
In 6 games.
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Post by blb on Oct 18, 2018 12:15:41 GMT -6
What are the "obvious reasons," i.e. why did you kick him off the football team for something he did during school and not on the field?
I assume he could not practice-play during his suspension. To dismiss him seems like Double Jeopardy and going overboard.
"We don't go after one of our own". Completely unprovoked, just did it to do it. Kid is now in counselling and will try out again next year, starting with off-season workouts. School and AD policy is any suspension will be mirrored in athletics. He's not kicked off, booted was poor wording on my part, he's suspended, which ends his season.
Got it, fair enough.
However your quote "We don't go after our own" seems to imply it's okay to "go after" non-football players?
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Post by doitforthekids on Oct 18, 2018 12:17:59 GMT -6
"We don't go after one of our own". Completely unprovoked, just did it to do it. Kid is now in counselling and will try out again next year, starting with off-season workouts. School and AD policy is any suspension will be mirrored in athletics. He's not kicked off, booted was poor wording on my part, he's suspended, which ends his season.
Got it, fair enough.
However your quote "We don't go after our own" seems to imply it's okay to "go after" non-football players?
You're right, but we don't tolerate fighting in any fashion to "represent the program", but I see your point.
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Post by craines10 on Oct 19, 2018 11:55:18 GMT -6
In a state where EVERYONE makes playoffs...
We are 0-9
We play 7-2 team that beat us 35-8 in regular season
We have had a revolving door on the OL (mainly center) and not because of injury
We started off in the flexbone, scrapped it after 2 weeks, went back to spread, to transition to primarily 11 personnel
We are averaging 14.7 yards rushing per game...
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Post by Chris Clement on Oct 19, 2018 15:00:41 GMT -6
Our OC had a helmet fire and called freeze four times in our two-minute drill. To expand on this, OC acknowledged it was not his finest moment. His thinking was that he was worried that our offense, with three completed passes all game, and with 2:30 left and 75 yards to go while down three, would score too quickly and leave the opponent too much time to score. Oh and our best receiver is no longer with us after getting into it with a coach postgame. Kid was a turd but it was nice having a bit of a deep threat.
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Post by hsrose on Oct 20, 2018 0:28:26 GMT -6
Supposed to be a promising season. 3 year starting QB, returning RB, good receivers, some size at OL. Last year my OT was also a CB on defense. 5-5 is possible. We're now 2-7 and have #2 in the league next week.
2 days before game 1 my DC informs me that since he is 1 of 2 admins he will have to coach from the stands. He has to do the admin duties but will be on walkie-talkie/cell phone with his assistant. That is wonderful news. That works until half-time when the coaches determine that something is wrong with the assistant coach. Turns out he's having a heart attack. Mild, but they ambulance him out and he's having a stint put in by midnight. Losing 24-21 at half, lost the game 50-28.
Next Monday at practice the DC informs me that the admin-coaching thing did not go well and his bosses now say that he can't coach on home games. Away games, sure, home games, no. So now my DC is a half-time DC. And it turns out that he also has admin duties during the week, supervising other sporting events, parent meetings, etc. So he ends up missing about 1 of every 4/5 practices to some water polo game or volleyball match. Heart attack coach is back so he makes the calls and I'm not sure who is better at it.
We're getting handled pretty easily a couple of weeks back and in the 3rd quarter I hear voices rising. Next thing I know I've got players and coaches trying to separate 2 of my coaches. 1 is the OL coach, the other is the RB coach and father of the QB. That had 6 sacks in the game. OL coach popped off about the backs, RB coach pops back about the OL, back and forth, and then they start squaring off.
Same game, waiting for the anthem to be played. Cheer coach comes over and says I need to talk to a PO'd mom on the sideline. My JV HC, the one with the 'cardiac episode' goes and talks and immediately comes back saying I need to talk with mom. We go talk with mom. She's angry because one of my players just slapped her daughter full in the face and she wants to press charges. Now. My AD and Superintendent hear her, the crowd hears her, the opposing crowd hears her. I had seen the player booking down the entry aisle heading for the bathroom, she's claiming that he is the one that hit the daughter, I talk to the player, and sit him until the AD and Super clear it. They clear it in about 15 minutes, kid misses half the 1st quarter. They come back, say it was a tap on the back of the head at lunch time when those two, and several others, were sitting in the quad having lunch. The daughter is a cheerleader so mom had heard the cheerleaders talking about something, heard that her daughter had been hit by my player, saw my player running back from the bath room, and went full scale nuclear. Apparently she had the whole cheer squad, including the cheer coach, lined up yelling at them about this. Mom and daughter came to me after the game and apologized.
We limp along, play some games, lose to who we are supposed to lose to, lose to a comparable team by 5 points.
Week 6 get a call from the JV head coach. He's had a 'cardiac episode' so he is off for a short time. Off work for 3+ weeks. Goes in next week for an angiogram so he will be gone 3-4 days and may miss the game.
This week the mother of the girlfriend of the starting senior linebacker passes away suddenly so he's not here for 3 days.
Tonight the father of one of our 2-way starting Juniors passes away before the game. School admins know but family requests them not to tell the player, family wants to do it. So after the game I've got a player that finds out his father died. He's sitting on the side of the field, still in gear, crying. As I'm walking up the GF sits down with him, he tells me it's not football, the family tells me it's not football and that basically I need to go away. That's when I go see the principal and he tells me what is going on.
Two weeks ago I had a senior player knock himself out on a 2-man sled. Emergency crews did the whole backboard ambulance thing with him. Had a sophomore get a concussion when he opened his hips on a DB drill, trips, and hits his head falling down. In full gear.
Returning RB has 600+ yards in 3 games. Hurts his ankle pretty well and has 50 yards in the next 4 games. Same for the QB. He's going gang busters until he turns his ankle and gets a bone bruise. Can't plant to throw and can't run the option. His production dies. With them we were averaging 24 PPG, with them hurt we are averaging 4 PPG. He's the best QB in the league but we're managing to give up 6 sacks a game and he can't move so he has no numbers. Receivers have no numbers because the QB is either hobbling out of bounds or on his back.
So, its been a different kind of year. But the good thing is, unlike most years, I don't hate the seniors this year.
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Post by CoachMikeJudy on Oct 22, 2018 12:20:58 GMT -6
I got ejected in 2nd quarter and escorted to the locker room to the applause of our home stands Friday night. I'll never have to buy beer in my town again lol.
The refs and I had a slight disagreement.
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Post by Chris Clement on Oct 23, 2018 7:57:51 GMT -6
Friday was interesting.
Freezing cold, pouring rain. All night.
Way short guys, and a starting guard pulls himself just before kickoff because of his ongoing ankle injury, but also because their DT absolutely worked him a few weeks ago.
We run out of long snappers, so I’m on the sidelines holding impromptu tryouts during the third quarter. The winners are a backup DE who’s just awful at football, and our backup QB.
We send out the DE to snap on punt while we intend to concede a safety. I warn the punter that the snap is going to be iffy. If it’s short or low beware not to take a knee picking it up. If it’s wide or high that’s fine. Just boot it out the back of the end zone. Snap is perfect, punter runs back halfway into the end zone and just kicks the ever-loving crap out of the ball. Out the end zone, over the scoreboard, out of the stadium, over a rock formation, into the woods, gone forever. I think he misunderstood me.
We run out of backs so we take a starting DB off the field to crosstrain him.
We run out of OL but the injured OL doesn’t say anything so a DT comes flying in from 65 yards out to jump in at RT, doesn’t know the play, blocks the wrong guy but at least a logical guy and springs a TD. In the bright side when they saw no RG the RT decides to close down to guard figuring we were better off the no tackle than no guard.
Our HC started in early with the refs and picked up at least four flags. Then he got tossed. Then he REALLY started laying into them and charged the field like Tommy Lasorda. I threw my clipboard at a trainer and tore after him, heading him off around the near hash with the officials at the far hash. He hurled obscenities at them with both sets of players right there, then when he made a move toward the refs I did some half-decent pass pro to guide him away from them and then I had to literally drive block him off the field and out of the stadium as he continued screaming insults. The ensuing kickoff was from the +20.
We had our 7th strong returner on KOR, and more players on KOR were NOT on the KOR depth chart than were.
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Post by coachdavis11 on Oct 23, 2018 10:37:34 GMT -6
Well let me add another.... Nobody would take our officials contract so we have to contact the Head of officials for the state.... He assigns 3 different associations to cover us... I have a bad feeling Friday and start trying to message the officials to make sure we are good to go... Never hear from them until one hour before kickoff when I am informed that they thought they were coming next week... we don't even play at home next week... It's homecoming... biggest crowd of the year... we are able to get in touch with the neighboring school about 20 minutes away... they are at home... they ask their officials if they will come call ours when finished... we kickoff at 10:30 have a 45 minute injury delay and finish at 1:30 A.M..... i would ask what else could happen but i"m afraid of what would happen... oh we lost 42-0
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Post by craines10 on Oct 23, 2018 13:04:01 GMT -6
In a state where EVERYONE makes playoffs... We are 0-9 We play 7-2 team that beat us 35-8 in regular season We have had a revolving door on the OL (mainly center) and not because of injury We started off in the flexbone, scrapped it after 2 weeks, went back to spread, to transition to primarily 11 personnel We are averaging 14.7 yards rushing per game...Update....They beat us 50-12...we had 6 turnovers, and completed 3-17 passes Update...they beat us 50-12..6 turnovers, 3-17 passing
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Post by hammer66 on Oct 24, 2018 10:52:23 GMT -6
We've given up 120 points. In two games. Im the DC. Have a good evening. I have not been on HUEY since the season started....Been miserable. Laughed my butt off with your thread of posts.....just what I needed.
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Post by rosey65 on Dec 17, 2018 8:55:49 GMT -6
Meh. We seem to miss about that many any day there isn't school right before practice. We made up an excuse (blamed the school district) and didnt hold practice on Labor Day to avoid that problem. We knew of 6 kids that had made plans (including the son of our booster prez) and knew there qould be at least that many who no-showed. No show = no play It was better to lose a day of practice than half of our team for the game. We coached our 2-8-talented team to a respectable 6-4
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