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Post by Coach Huey on Mar 3, 2014 11:30:15 GMT -6
stuff like this bothers me. seems like the majority of your posts are just links to external articles - relevant or otherwise. in all honesty, that doesn't add to the conversation because people probably aren't going to click the link to read the article - especially if they are viewing on a mobile device. now, if you posted a summary or the key points THEN added the link for further reading, that might be something worth having. thread now locked.
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Post by Coach Huey on Feb 26, 2014 19:41:54 GMT -6
I will be there.
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Post by Coach Huey on Feb 10, 2014 18:05:51 GMT -6
Don't forget about the Glazier Clinic in Dallas this weekend. Speakers from Texas A&M, TCU, UCLA, Westlake HS, San Diego, Arizona Cardinals and many, many more. Hope to see a bunch of you guys there.
Also don't forget that your Season Pass includes entrance to all of the Texas clinics including Dallas-Fort Worth this weekend, Houston Feb 20-22 and Dallas-Fort Worth 150 on Feb 28-Mar 2. Visit glazierclinics.com to register.
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Post by Coach Huey on Feb 1, 2014 20:48:50 GMT -6
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Post by Coach Huey on Feb 1, 2014 20:41:26 GMT -6
wasn't this from 2 years ago? it isn't something recent and i know there is a thread somewhere on here discussing it.
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Post by Coach Huey on Jan 24, 2014 12:12:26 GMT -6
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Post by Coach Huey on Jan 24, 2014 11:41:40 GMT -6
I'm 3-1 in Championship games. I think that's pretty successful with the level of talent out there today. I'm sure there are guys with more, I'm saying that the only thing a big slow guy will help you win is a "Tug of War" and I don't coach "Tug of War" I coach football. relax, there are no ultimatums & absolutes in football. Also, speed is relative. You need some size & strength on the OL... AND those guys are much better if they can move. However, you're not going to be very successful if you take the 11 fastest players on your team and played them all at the same time. Somehow, 11 WR's vs a defense just doesn't seem like a great matchup for the offense. similarly, playing 11 DB's vs an offense doesn't seem like it would be very successful over the course of a game or season. so, it would appear that you're BOTH right. you need size & strengh. you need those guys to be able to move - the faster/quicker the better. however, simply stating that "the fast guy" always wins isn't very true - again, that's an absolute and we know that doesn't exist in this game.
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Post by Coach Huey on Jan 24, 2014 11:08:15 GMT -6
1st, I definitely appreciate the thoughtfulness and the support. It is very humbling, to say the least.
But, I'll be honest, I actually feel better if people support us by buying a shirt. Yes, I would actually be getting less $ more than likely but I just feel bad not offering something in return for people providing monetary support to this site. Maybe that's corny, I don't know, but simply asking for money just feels "dirty" and when people donate money I have nothing to give them other than saying "thank you".
We all have some form of "ownership" in this forum. Therefore, my thoughts behind the t-shirts were to 1) get some donations to help but 2) create something we can all have that signifies we do have ownership and that we all belong to a great profession and, by a lesser degree, this website. again, #2 is probably corny, i'm sure.
Anyway, short story long ... I am humbled every day by the wonderful things this forum and the people here have provided me these past years. I would like to continue it in the future, and hopefully find avenues that can make it even better. "Apparel" - while a method to generate some funds - is probably more about us all being involved in a common cause. It does provide some level of advertising, which only strengthens our membership numbers and makes our site even better. So, while I will never tell anyone no on if or how they wish to show their support to us, please understand that I also want to give something back in return for this support. At this time, a shirt is all I can come up at this time.
I want to thank John for his donation and for publicly showing his support on this thread.
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Post by Coach Huey on Jan 20, 2014 21:48:15 GMT -6
Im not sure D. W. (THSCA) has anything to do with those youth organizations. Maybe he's listed in the credits simply because someone from the production company spoke with him about something related to football in Texas. Knowing him, he isn't one to endorse coaching methods like those.
In fact, I will be at THSCA headquarters Wednesday and, if I can remember, I will ask him about it.
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Post by Coach Huey on Jan 19, 2014 18:29:43 GMT -6
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Post by Coach Huey on Jan 19, 2014 11:11:39 GMT -6
the "workouts" for injured players should be about: 1) rehabbing the injury so they can return to full action 2) keeping them in the best possible physical condition while they rehab the injury without further damaging the injured area
for us, it's about getting healed up and then being able to play in a game with out missing further time due to being out of shape ... i.e. if a player severely sprained his ankle early on, we can't have him play the second he's cleared if he has lost any type of "cardio" capacity. So, our trainer devises treatment/rehab plans that would involve treating the ankle but also providing some type of exercise (bike, swim, whatever) that would provide some level of "cardio" training for the player so he isn't a full month behind when he returns.
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Post by Coach Huey on Jan 19, 2014 11:07:41 GMT -6
thanks. not only for this post but for sharing your thoughts & ideas in all the other threads. this forum thrives on the contributions of the members.
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Post by Coach Huey on Jan 13, 2014 13:07:42 GMT -6
Coach Huey So does this mean that you have to find a new school to TEACH at too? Meaning you aren't just losing your stipend but your livelyhood? There could be 3 things here .... 1) they do not renew my contract which means i will no longer have a teaching job either. 2) they give me a new contract only as a teacher. I would have no coaching duties and lose that stipend. 3) they renew my current contract as a teacher/coach but give me a new teaching assignment and/or a new coaching assignment (i.e. varsity OC to JH coach or freshmen coach) (teaching 4 classes to teaching 6 classes) most understand that if you aren't wanted as a coach, then you're best bet is to move on regardless of what happens because your situation probably won't be all that fun.
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Post by Coach Huey on Jan 13, 2014 5:27:15 GMT -6
Coach, if your HC is dismissed, or leaves to take another job and doesn't take you with him do you expect to still teach/coach there or is it more common that you will be dismissed as well? Honestly, as long as you take care of the classroom, you will still have a job. Most of the situations I've seen have been you can teach at the HS but not coach and take about a 10k pay cut or you may have the reassignment to a middle school option with about a 4-5k pay cut. In about half the cases, and in most cases where you are good at what you do, you will be retained in some role, whether in another position other than what you coach before if someone else is brought in to coach that position; or as a freshman coach where the stipends are the same. Depends on: When the new hire happens What your current role is How the principal views the HC role in staffing Your relationship with the admin If the new guy is brought in before Spring Break, you have less chance of being retained. The school has plenty of time to replace you. If you are a coordinator you can bet with almost 100% certainty that you will be let go - you have held a position of authority so the new guy may few this as detrimental to him establishing himself as a leader. But, realistically, he will want to do things a different way so may very likely bring in people that have already worked with him to be his coordinators. You will be reassigned at best. If the principal feels one coach is pretty much as good a teacher as the next coach, then the principal is much more lenient in allowing the HC to simply tell the assistants "you're not needed anymore" and you're contract will not be renewed. However, if you are a seen as a top-notch teacher or have a great relationship with the admin, community, or boosters, you may be retained and, at the very worst, reassigned in your coaching duties. Now, if the new HC doesn't get to straight out fire you, he could very well make things very difficult for you in efforts to get people to resign. 6 am coaches meetings, reassignment or addition of coaching duties, other duties such as janitorial duties within the field house, painting the field house, inventory, etc. Basically make it be known that if you stay, you will not like it. Most people get the hint and move on. When this happened on a staff I was on I knew I was gone. I was a coordinator and was "in charge" during the time our HC was let go until the new HC began work. I knew I wasn't going to be the coordinator. All I was hoping for was to be a position coach. Most coaches were told they weren't going to be retained as varsity coaches. Well, we didn't want to take that hit on our resumes so we all quickly 'resigned'. Each situation is different... it isn't quite like the college situation where you can almost assure that you're let go, but it is much more likely than most other high school settings, I would assume.
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Post by Coach Huey on Jan 5, 2014 17:15:38 GMT -6
I don't understand the whole "that wont work in texas" kind of comment. PLEASE LETS NOT DISRESPECT THE ENTIRE REST OF THE COUNTRY WHEN IT COMES TO COACHING FOOTBALL_ THE BEST FOOTBALL TEAM IN TEXAS WAS BAYLOR so, you follow btex's asinine statement with one of your own? A college team (with players from across the country - oh, and lots of college teams have kids from across the country, including TX) losing a bowl game factors in how? look, there are a ton of ways to do things. some people can't properly express themselves. i know the kids i coach absolutely love watching film. they are thankful that we have a full time athletic trainer (almost all do) to take care of any injuries or treatment they may need the day after a game. they understand that light exercise, stretching, treatment such as heat, ice, etc. are beneficial the day after the game so they want to get that stuff done. they care about watching film of themselves to not only feel good about the game they play but about trying to get better at it. he had a poor choice of words. was probably best if he just stayed shut. i mean, when i hear how people wear sleeveless shirts & gym shorts to varsity football games i find that... well, i digress.... so, i don't say anything in those threads. why? because the culture and expectations are different across the country. when in rome, i guess. this isn't about who's way is better. it's about finding a way to make your players better which makes your team better. gameplanning an opponent is relative to what that guy is doing, perhaps. i mean, it isn't just about "do what we do" type of play calling. there needs to be a way that you get your best guy against their worst and hiding your worst one from their best one.
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Post by Coach Huey on Jan 2, 2014 21:33:22 GMT -6
please take a good look at the board. we have a section specific to recruiting AND this exact question is discussed in that section.
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Post by Coach Huey on Dec 31, 2013 13:54:15 GMT -6
yes. to be a coach at a public school here you must be a full-time employee of the school district. 99% are teaching classes. there are some that teach a reduced load or those few that have administrative duties rather than classroom duties. for example... at the school where I wasn't in the classroom my duty was to get a report of which students in ISS were in need of assignments for that day and go to those teachers and get work to bring back to the ISS room so students could do work. I also had "lunch duty" as a supervisor while students at lunch on campus. our dc was the academic adviser - he kept track of all athletes grades and notified the particular coaches so they would then schedule tutorial time or whatever for those students in need. Coach, Is there anyway around the full-time employee of the school district thing? I'm considering going back to school to get my Teaching Cert. in Texas. If you are student teaching can you coach or is there anyway you can volunteer doing anything within the program while you are going through a teaching certification program? Aznando If it is, it's rare. State Board of Education or Texas Education Agency makes those calls. Go through them or a regional educational learning center. "Student teaching" is a class you take. It goes through the university. It is for a semester - typically the last. Student teaching doesn't mean you teach/coach while you are taking college classes.
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Post by Coach Huey on Dec 27, 2013 23:29:55 GMT -6
yes. to be a coach at a public school here you must be a full-time employee of the school district. 99% are teaching classes. there are some that teach a reduced load or those few that have administrative duties rather than classroom duties.
for example... at the school where I wasn't in the classroom my duty was to get a report of which students in ISS were in need of assignments for that day and go to those teachers and get work to bring back to the ISS room so students could do work. I also had "lunch duty" as a supervisor while students at lunch on campus. our dc was the academic adviser - he kept track of all athletes grades and notified the particular coaches so they would then schedule tutorial time or whatever for those students in need.
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Post by Coach Huey on Dec 27, 2013 20:56:11 GMT -6
our head coach doesn't teach. there aren't too many head coaches here that do. like i mentioned, there are several places where even coordinators don't have to teach in the classroom.
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Post by Coach Huey on Dec 27, 2013 20:42:54 GMT -6
my schedule has been varied in my years. I'm typically a biology teacher and have taught that most years. Class load has ranged from 2 classes a day to 4 classes a day. There have been a couple of years where I wasn't in the classroom (was at a large school). For 2 years at school I've been at for past 6 years I would teach 2 classes in the am then spend the afternoon down at the JH with their p.e. and athletics classes. We have the same number of "off periods" as any other teacher.
currently we are on a 7 period day. here is my schedule: 1st - freshmen athletics 2nd - biology 3rd - anatomy 4th - biology 5th - varsity/JV athletics lunch 6th - biology 7th - conference
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Post by Coach Huey on Dec 27, 2013 18:10:08 GMT -6
54,000 at a state championship game schools with 500 students will play a regular season game in front of 2,000+ athletic period for football in the school day all coaches are on campus, assistants make $40-65 thousand for teaching & coaching. over 1,400 public schools that play football. another several hundred private schools with football state professional organization over 25,000 active members dozens & dozens of coaching clinics available january through june. play with ncaa rules and very closely mirror ncaa guidelines in year-round approach
could go on, but you probably get the point... it may or may not be "the best" but it will be in every conversation about "the best".
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Post by Coach Huey on Dec 26, 2013 9:18:16 GMT -6
we watch film by position groups - we have hudl so we use classroom computers with projectors. since we are in small groups ad position specific, it goes much faster. there are many clips that we simply watch & move on. if nothing happened of significance to that group, no reason to harp on it.
saturday - watch the game. takes about an hour, hour & 15. again, we really aren't watching the whole game monday - 15 minutes of film prior to practice. we have it so that players have 5 minutes after school is dismissed to be in their "meeting room" (classroom where their position will watch film). this film session is usually a 'highlight' of the opponent. but really it is more of an install of the game plan/scouting report. tuesday - 15 minutes of film prior to practice. watch monday's practice film wednesday - 15 minutes of film prior to practice. watch tuesday's practice
we send everything via hudl as well. our kids understand that they can make great improvement by learning from film. we use tape as our #1 teaching tool. our kids believe in watching themselves as a way to improve and we constantly brag on improvement.... we try to find a way to tie it back to how they learned from watching themselves on film.
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Post by Coach Huey on Dec 25, 2013 15:02:42 GMT -6
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Post by Coach Huey on Dec 25, 2013 15:02:42 GMT -6
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Post by Coach Huey on Dec 25, 2013 15:02:42 GMT -6
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Post by Coach Huey on Nov 29, 2013 11:23:35 GMT -6
In general, an entire athletic budget makes up about 2% of the overall operating budget of a school district. Not to mention, athletics is one of the few departments that does return some of that money to the operating budget through revenue. Depending on travel involved to games, the percentage may be even lower since equipment costs, staffing, and maintenance are relatively fixed expenses. Let's not fail to mention that statistically, graduation rates of athletes are 5-7% higher than those of non-athletes. Typically, standardized test scores are higher for athletes vs non-athletes. Oh, and how do many schools - at least in Texas - get funding? Yep, attendance. Athletes high a higher attendance rate than non-athletes, meaning they are more likely to be in school, meaning the ADA is higher, meaning more funding from the state.
Our new Superintendent used to coach Football. But it isn't athletics that butters his bread in this climate. It's standardized test scores, graduation-drop out rates, and balanced budgets.
So you know which gets cut first and most.
Sounds like most administrators & community members ... ill-informed. Cutting a minuscule factor on the big picture & potentially doing the exact opposite of what they want - reducing athletics could, in fact, reduce attendance, graduation rates, and test scores. I always love the "let's cut the athletic budget" to make up our deficit. It's akin to saying "I need to buy a new house at the end of the year, I shall stop our monthly dinner & a movie... that $75 each month will definitely make up the difference I need." Many schools are in a constant 'battle' with their administration. They see the "ooh, we can save $1,200 if we eliminate this team" but don't realize that $1,200 in 'savings' isn't making a huge dent AND they are actually cutting things from the students, not the budget. In most places, nearly half of a school's finances are tied up in salaries... many of which are going to the "director of this" and the "deputy supt. of that". Similarly, several of these districts could, by combining just 2 administrative positions, save a school $100,000.... which, is likely your entire budget anyway. But.... you know why that ain't happening.
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Post by Coach Huey on Nov 29, 2013 9:53:05 GMT -6
But our new Superintendent just cut our athletic budget to $0. So we'll see what is going to happen. Gotta pay for testing somehow . I am surprised that the cost of testing has never come up as a viable argument against it. In general, an entire athletic budget makes up about 2% of the overall operating budget of a school district. Not to mention, athletics is one of the few departments that does return some of that money to the operating budget through revenue. Depending on travel involved to games, the percentage may be even lower since equipment costs, staffing, and maintenance are relatively fixed expenses. Let's not fail to mention that statistically, graduation rates of athletes are 5-7% higher than those of non-athletes. Typically, standardized test scores are higher for athletes vs non-athletes. Oh, and how do many schools - at least in Texas - get funding? Yep, attendance. Athletes high a higher attendance rate than non-athletes, meaning they are more likely to be in school, meaning the ADA is higher, meaning more funding from the state.
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Post by Coach Huey on Nov 25, 2013 22:20:08 GMT -6
really, you just need the bark to be worse than the bite when it comes to swinging gate. it's the "threat" of that extra point.
all we look for is if the defense doesn't line up properly - i mean they really give us a good matchup in one of the 3 areas - then we'll try to expose them for it.
i would say don't be afraid to use it - just go for it. Risk is minimal - you only need 3 yards. It's only one point if you don't get it - but mentally, it can do wonders for you if you get it. 8-0 is a great way to start the game. 6-0 doesn't seem that bad. so, risk-reward not that big an emotional deal if you score first.
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Post by Coach Huey on Nov 25, 2013 20:04:12 GMT -6
Someone mentioned going for 2, specifically out of the swinging gate. We have been fortunate to convert 66% of our 2pt conversion attempts the past 4 years - most out of the swinging gate. This year alone we were 23 of 33 on 2 pt conversions. (not all from gate, of course)
We line up with 1 wide out near the #'s (off the LOS). We have a "3 lineman" set up in front of the QB - center & 2 guys on each side of him. The center is actually a TE, and the guy on the right is typically a RB or an H-back and that player is aligned off the LOS so that both he and the Center are eligible. Then, the rest of the line are split left with a RB aligned behind them in the middle of their "wedge" alignment.
We do several things but the most important is if you give us 4 or less over the center we will usually just snap it, block 3, and have the QB either run over or around the 4th.
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Post by Coach Huey on Nov 23, 2013 12:02:57 GMT -6
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