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Post by CanyonCoach on Aug 16, 2022 7:48:50 GMT -6
Not that it matters...This past weekend my son and I had a two drive together to a family function. He talked about football the entire time, I sat back and listened (he drove). All positive energy and excitement. As we were just about to our destination he essentially said thanks for making him play. And the kick to the junk...it wouldn't have been an issue if you weren't the coach.
He will be the starting JV MLB and punter and the #2 FB.
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Post by cwaltsmith on Aug 24, 2022 10:23:17 GMT -6
I'm doing this now. My son is a Sophomore and started the last 6 games last season at LB ... He calls our defense this year and plays a little RB. I am the DC and LB coach. 1st off let me say I have looked forward to coaching him my whole career, and it has been better than I imagined. We get to spend so much time together. I was worried like others about all the extra stuff that comes. I am also the Head Baseball coach and he plays. There have been some grumblings of him being coaches kid but that disappeared after he got on the field in games. There is truth to what has been said about him being best or worst makes it easier. I get on him probably way more than I should and way more than others just bc I expect more I guess. I have made a conscious effort to leave it at field. We ride home together a lot and I try to be positive on the ride. correction comes in meetings and field. He will ask me stuff which leads to correction some but that is always initiated by him. I get teary eyed typing this bc I know we only have at most 40 games or so together left. I love that I get to do it and wouldn't trade it for any job in America unless he could come with me.
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Post by CanyonCoach on Sept 12, 2022 10:24:38 GMT -6
Due to a medical issue my kid punted 1 time in the varsity game last week. dropped it inside the 5 and allowed us to flip the field. 1st string punter was ready by the next punt and bombed a 65 yard punt pinning them inside the five as well. Wish punts weren't our highlights.
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Post by 44dlcoach on Sept 12, 2022 11:32:20 GMT -6
Mine is a backup LB that was pressed into action due to an injury the day before the game last week. A little sketchy early but he hung in there and played solid for a backup guy. Not sure who was more nervous Thursday night between the two of us.
Luckily the Defensive playcaller is keenly aware of his athletic limitations amd tried to protect him.
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Post by Defcord on Sept 12, 2022 12:16:01 GMT -6
I am at a new school this year. Mine is a linebacker on our subvarsity team. It's funny because he's so quiet and we just aren't around each other much that a lot of people don't even realize he's mine.
I was helping out Thursday at their game and I asked a kid what is name was and he told me his name and also introduced me to my own son. I just went along with it and had a good little chuckle.
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Post by bulldogsdc on Sept 14, 2022 9:57:24 GMT -6
So far so good. He is starting at Center and another sophomore is also starting on the OL. Low point has been when I yelled into the locker room "Hey, numbnuts, are you ready to go?" After a practice.
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Post by CanyonCoach on Oct 19, 2022 8:35:57 GMT -6
My sons JV season ended on Monday night. He made the travel list for Varsity final game and play-offs. He made a playlist of the JV game he wanted to talk about last night. We talked about each play, what he did and what he should have done in some cases.
After he got up and went to his room my wife comes up to me all angry..."He used to talk to me and have conversations with me and now all he wants to do is talk football."
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Post by 44dlcoach on Oct 19, 2022 10:54:27 GMT -6
My son came up to me in the middle of our 7th game laughing and said "Billy just learned that you're my dad." I take it that means I must be coaching him fairly, also that Billy is pretty oblivious, or doesn't know my name.
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Post by blb on Oct 19, 2022 11:16:12 GMT -6
I had two daughters so I never coached them in football.
They played softball, basketball, soccer when young.
When I tried to tell them something after a game they would say "Dad, you're not my coach."
And then at some point "How come you don't coach my (youth) team?"
Well the answer to that last was I spent a lot of time coaching other people's kids so when mine were playing I just wanted to be able to watch-be Daddy.
Don't know how that dynamic would've changed if I had a football-playing son.
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Post by carookie on Oct 19, 2022 17:13:56 GMT -6
I coached my son's JH team for a couple years, the HS shut down so I stayed on to coach JH with him there. He was one of our best players, and I already had a solid reputation with the parents so there was no issues really. Plus, I was not his position coach and he is a tireless worker (so no clashing between he and I).
His frosh year of HS we went to a newly built HS but I did not coach him. The school itself was not very good and he wanted out. He transferred to a new school right next to our JH for his Soph season. Good school, new coaching staff of great guys. HC knows who I am throw coaching circles and asks me to come coach; I decline to come on full time this year for two reasons. One, I am swamped as full time teacher and JH Athletic Director (which is a pain), but also I want my son to establish himself first so he can fully become Coach So-and-so's son.
As is now, I do a lot of the opponent scouting and work the booth on Friday nights. Its allowing him to become his own man before dad gets fully involved- I'd rather be his dad to his teammates than to have him by coach's son.
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Post by brandongregory74 on Oct 21, 2022 8:37:49 GMT -6
I coached both my sons but I was not the position coach. Best advice is once we got in the truck I was Dad not Coach. We will talk about practice or games but there's never harsh criticism. I feel like I do a good job flipping that switch off when I step through the gate off the field. |
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Post by breakerdog on Oct 25, 2022 7:57:43 GMT -6
After coaching my son for many years in football, I made a commitment last year to start coaching my daughter as well in whatever capacity I could find. I somehow ended up coaching a middle school girls basketball team. I told my wife I wouldn't do it unless she was my assistant, so we took it on as a family. Honestly one of the best experiences of my life.
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Post by CanyonCoach on Sept 27, 2023 8:02:31 GMT -6
My situation in this thread seem like an episode of the Twilight Zone.
My kid has been has started at ILB this season, is third on the team in tackles and has recruited at least 4 other kids to play. He hangs out at the field with his friends for an hour after practices, the coaches are all gone. He organized film sessions for LB's.
There have been more nights than not that he will seek me out at home to ask questions about our opponent and the offensive game plan (he is a fullback and we don't use the FB very often and if we do it is a senior that is a DI caliber kid).
Best year yet. we are ranked 5 in the state.
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Post by olcoach53 on Sept 27, 2023 9:02:25 GMT -6
My situation in this thread seem like an episode of the Twilight Zone. My kid has been has started at ILB this season, is third on the team in tackles and has recruited at least 4 other kids to play. He hangs out at the field with his friends for an hour after practices, the coaches are all gone. He organized film sessions for LB's. There have been more nights than not that he will seek me out at home to ask questions about our opponent and the offensive game plan (he is a fullback and we don't use the FB very often and if we do it is a senior that is a DI caliber kid). Best year yet. we are ranked 5 in the state.
Plus you are a hell of a cook, so that helps too
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Post by 44special on Sept 27, 2023 16:25:10 GMT -6
the hardest thing and the best thing you'll ever do.
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Post by Defcord on Sept 28, 2023 1:54:27 GMT -6
I took a head coaching job this off season in a program that hasn’t traditionally been very successful.
He plays linebacker and I couldn’t find a linebacker coach so I am his position coach. I thought it was going to suck but it’s actually been very fun.
He’s such a coachable kid and that makes it easy. I’ve had to start him the last two games because of injury and last game he had 10 tackles, 2 for loss and a sack. I was pretty dang proud as a dad.
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Post by bulldogsdc on Sept 28, 2023 6:51:47 GMT -6
Mine is leading the team in penalties.
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Post by lws55 on Sept 28, 2023 8:47:57 GMT -6
Good and bad. My older son played football for one year in PeeWee and did not like it. He had always been a soccer kid. He went to a small college on a Soccer scholarship. The hardest day was when I was trying to teach him something he said "I want to be coached by people that play the sport" I left him alone after that, I did take him to as many camps and clinics as I could but I did not coach him.
My younger son doesn't seem to be a rough and tumble type of kid not sure if he is going to play football or not. He did play one year of flag football but never got the ball because he can't catch (neither can I and I can't throw a football worth a crap and I coach football), my wife thinks that he shouldn't play football for that reason. I have had to explain to her that there are really only 5 positions that HAVE to be able to catch the ball in football so that leaves 17 other positions on the field that don't!
He has been playing soccer in youth leagues but he is slow, I have a feeling that he is going to be a pretty good sized kid (his older brother is 6'3" but skinny as a rail, all his mother) my younger son is built like me so hopefully his mom's side will bring the height!
Lately he has been wanting to work more on his running and getting better at sports which I am excited about. If he doesn't want to play sports I am okay with that, he also is a good piano player and enjoys music. What ever he does I will be proud and support him.
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Post by spartan on Sept 28, 2023 8:50:19 GMT -6
If he ain't the best or the worst you will have issues.
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Post by 3rdandlong on Sept 28, 2023 11:56:48 GMT -6
Try coaching against your son. Not fun.
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Post by larrymoe on Sept 29, 2023 5:26:16 GMT -6
I've tried to stay out of coaching my own kid as much as possible because I know my personality would make me be extra hard on him and I didn't want that dynamic in our relationship. The problem is the line play at his school is atrocious as you can see on that video I posted. He still goes through the same stance set up routine I taught him in our youth camps 8 years ago because he hasn't been taught any differently. This has me really questioning how much to teach him vs how much to stay out of it. The real issue I have is that anything I teach him will have to be at home because I don't want to go back into coaching full time, nor do I want to join the staff at his school. I also have to put into factor that at this point in my life, my only interest in the school/team/whatever is my son. If he were not playing, I could not care less what happened to them on Friday night. I just want him to maximize his potential and have the best experience he can have.
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Post by bulldogsdc on Sept 29, 2023 8:53:24 GMT -6
Mine is leading the team in pancakes and general bad assery.
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Post by coachtua on Oct 4, 2023 11:31:39 GMT -6
I have coached all 4 of my younger brothers in HS and actually coached against the youngest when I switched schools. Fortunately they were all skill guys and I coached OL.
Our current HC has 2 sons on the team. He doesn't coach either of their position groups. And we have a great relationship to where I step in as Uncle Tua when the boys need that person.
The best advice I can give is coach them the same as any other member of your program. But take the whistle off when you walk out of the office for the day.
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Post by paydirt18 on Oct 10, 2023 10:43:54 GMT -6
Have any of you coached your on kid on the varsity level? I am looking for advice from folks that have been through it. I am his position coach. My oldest son just graduated this past year. My youngest son is currently in his junior seasons. Both boys would be considered "middle of the pack" in terms of talent level, older one is now long snapping in college. I have had my sons on the sidelines from essentially they could walk and would not have it anyway. With the older one leaving it has been hard. I miss him. To me, having the opportunity to share these times with my sons - win or lose - has been the best part of coaching. |
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