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Post by brophy on Aug 4, 2016 15:04:02 GMT -6
looks good, coach
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Post by brophy on Aug 3, 2016 10:02:58 GMT -6
'rebuild' (i.e. taking over a losing program) starts everywhere but football wins.
Include as many kids as possible. Kids largely play because they want to be on the team with their friends More kids = more families More families = more community support More community support = better attendance better attendance = more likelihood of sponsorships
Once you have the kids, engage them and keep them actively doing things. Your program is built November through May. Get them active in the weight room and invest the time to 1) teach them how to lift and the tempo to lift as well as regular venues to compete (show off their gains in the weight room)
Headers and Assistants need to be active in youth leagues and feeder middle schools. Active, as in show up...go to the games, volunteer as refs for youth league, visit PE classes of your feeder schools to get them excited about coming out for freshman ball for you (host those interested kids one night for your school's basketball game).
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Post by brophy on Aug 1, 2016 16:20:29 GMT -6
Well, if you're going to JUCO with the intent of going DI, I'm betting you want to go somewhere we can get as many snaps on film as possible. You can't do that if you're taking your foot off the accelerator once you go up by a touchdown.
If you can score 100, you may as well. Its up to the other team to show up and stop you. Also, given the nature of JUCOs, you will have an entirely new roster every year so its not like you need to concern yourself with bulletin board fodder
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Post by brophy on Aug 1, 2016 12:04:47 GMT -6
I think if there is one thing we all should learn, its that when you call timeout with 40 seconds left in the half while you're up 48-0, run the quick screen to YOUR OWN SIDELINE. That was the only thing I had an issue with....don't run anything to your opponent's bench when you're creaming them
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Post by brophy on Aug 1, 2016 7:12:20 GMT -6
what I liked the best about the series was how relevant to HS ball it is. You have these gifted athletes (though nowhere near as remarkable as their own ideas of their ability) who are emotionally and academically immature. The coaching staff is all about winning because that is what determines their worth, so they do what they must to win.
Imagine if Coach Stephens started dropping a point system or leadership mentoring or sits out the stud RB for skipping class... These kids are going to take their act somewhere else because they don't have to put up with this because some coach, somewhere would be happy to put up with their mess for 8 months out of the year.
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Post by brophy on Jul 30, 2016 16:06:48 GMT -6
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Post by brophy on Jul 30, 2016 13:21:03 GMT -6
I liked it and hated it. For me, it was the best chronicle of a football team I've ever seen (All or Nothing, Hard Knocks, ESPNU-thing, etc). I cringed at the entitlement of the athletes and coaches and they should have used more subtitles in the episodes. It did illustrate what many programs are dealing with in terms of academics(not just for your athletes). That college is extremely fortunate to have an academic adviser that naive (?) or engaged. I was conflicted on cringing or laughing out loud at the bible studies one minute and Mot***F**kerCo****erPiec*ofs***Sunova***** swinging at referees.....I've coached with a few guys like that JUCO is a tough bag, particularly in the South where they are used as DI gateways. It didn't help that EMCC had such a wild ride last year. Lot of the games are available on HUDL if you want more The Olineman that got "pushed"....lol.... "Coach, you ain't gotta touch me like that". That a seat, Nancy. The Dlineman that kept getting the call wrong......
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Post by brophy on Jul 28, 2016 11:33:58 GMT -6
I believe the first requisite is to check your family tree and see who is related to someone working in the NFL. The NFL (and becoming NCAA) is so isolated with their own kind that folks not directly related or lucked with pure happenstance have no way of breaking into.
Good luck coach, but you're looking for an extremely thankless and overtaxing situation that is near impossible to get into.
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Post by brophy on Jul 6, 2016 14:16:55 GMT -6
4 to a room and be sure to take a dump in the other coaches room once you check in.
If you're doing the break-out sessions right, you won't be doing much sleeping anyway
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Post by brophy on Jul 1, 2016 11:05:47 GMT -6
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Post by brophy on Jun 27, 2016 10:09:12 GMT -6
Leadership at its core is service. How you empower others to execute. Good leadership can be quantified as 1) people - surround and develop the right people to do what it is you're after/goal 2) process - a clear system for indoctrinating those people with how to perform at a high level to eliminate uncertainty. 3) accountability - #2 doesn't mean anything if you aren't reinforcing it and auditing #2 against its performance. We can teach kids tenets of mature leadership (what to do, how to do....) but we have to provide them avenues for them to demonstrate/participate in it. Off-season community volunteer work and having them be responsible for underclassmen is where you would do this, because being a leader isn't being a robot, but someone who takes action. GREAT leadership is the ability to stay ahead of the curve, anticipate your people's pain points and build something no one else has.
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Post by brophy on Jun 19, 2016 7:58:38 GMT -6
It is interesting that despite the explosion of the passing game in CFB the last twenty or so years that so many QBs struggle to make it in NFL. Even some who were "big-time" recruits that played in powerhouse programs.
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Post by brophy on Jun 10, 2016 9:08:06 GMT -6
has he ever been to any major college camp?
That becomes the reality check most kids like this need. When the family pumps them up and they validate this by getting form letters from Universities after they've submitted an online inquiry, its all they need to think they are scholarship bound
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Post by brophy on May 31, 2016 14:23:59 GMT -6
why could you not survive with just freshmen and varsity teams, then arrange practice/scrimmage/exhibitions with 3-4 other local programs to have your sub Varsity players play against? It doesn't have to be an official team, just sophs and juniors repping with varsity, then by week 3 you have a Wednesday / Thursday night scrimmage with refs for these guys? Practice one day prior with the group to set the lineups and run your core systems.
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Post by brophy on May 31, 2016 13:10:37 GMT -6
great points, Coach Vint.
So much of what we want on Friday night is left to happenstance. Many times we can't even define what success looks like (for a position, for a group) to outline the steps needed to get there. Rolling the ball out each afternoon hoping "someone makes a play" is all the effort we're capable of because there are too many unknowns (when success isn't clearly defined).
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Post by brophy on May 16, 2016 7:49:56 GMT -6
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Post by brophy on Apr 13, 2016 12:19:39 GMT -6
Did they run out of vendors to supply their content for them?
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Post by brophy on Mar 24, 2016 20:43:31 GMT -6
16 year olds aren't making any decisions here.....they can't. They can't sign up for Armed Services without parental consent, then ....maybe. The Armed Forces since 2002 have pretty selective process. Not just anyone can sign up to be a bullet catcher.
Also, the "college" angle...they aren't going to have access to the GI Bill until they complete 3 years of service, so its not like they are going to basic, AIT, then enrolling as freshmen at their local college thanks to the military. When you sign up for split, it isn't a "go out for the military thing to see if you like it for a summer", its an adult contract that you aren't getting out without significant pain.
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Post by brophy on Mar 22, 2016 20:03:30 GMT -6
Split enlistment has been going on for at least 10 years. Its primarily geared for getting kids into Reserve or National Guard assignments
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Post by brophy on Mar 10, 2016 6:45:54 GMT -6
The more appropriate response may be to do the search for the OP and provide the links as your response.
I fully agree its important to let new blood do their thing and interact with new blood. I agree that sometimes its best for board regulars to not post/respond to let that happen.
I've also seen countless times when there are fully detailed responses given by all sorts of coaches articulating ZONE READ in all its minutiae .....only for some slappy to completely ignore that and start a thread, "ANYONE EVER HEARD OF THE ZONE READ?"
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Post by brophy on Mar 9, 2016 22:25:54 GMT -6
lol....oh, jesus
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Post by brophy on Mar 9, 2016 12:33:50 GMT -6
This really depends on his moral barometer.....er....I mean, HOW MANY GAMES WAS THE GUY WINNING?
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Post by brophy on Mar 8, 2016 14:26:58 GMT -6
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Post by brophy on Mar 8, 2016 10:44:43 GMT -6
what should you do? what CAN you do? If the guy wants to go, why would you try to stop him?
The real question is does this guy want to invest the endless hours required to be a part of a Varsity program? If he was a HC and then became a middle school coach, I would think he wouldn't.
Why can't you just get another assistant?
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Post by brophy on Mar 8, 2016 10:10:43 GMT -6
Assistants that show up for all events without excuses (assistant coaches that are not at team events for whatever reason makes a big statement)
Assisants showing up for non football school events
Setting up small competitions or small achievements so kids get in a habit of expecting reward for effort
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Post by brophy on Mar 8, 2016 9:17:00 GMT -6
coachhuey.com/thread/62826/friday-night-tykes-esquire-channelIts a guilty pleasure. It is interesting to watch how it has evolved or maybe how their forced narrative has backfired on them (producers or the league officials). Of course, I'm sure about 20% of what we're seeing is reality, but the length they go to manufacture conflict and drama only exposes what attention whores the parent are This season, in particular, or maybe it's cumulative effect of watching the other seasons, it becomes painfully apparent why the good programs are good and the bad programs a nightmare
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Post by brophy on Mar 3, 2016 14:29:49 GMT -6
I've found when you place a serious emphasis on tackling this generally happens even when you don't sink a shitload of program money purchasing mechanical bulls
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Post by brophy on Mar 2, 2016 20:01:42 GMT -6
Not gonna win with quiters anayway
Focus on the kids who want to be there and compete
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Post by brophy on Feb 25, 2016 9:16:07 GMT -6
I've found spring ball to be a great time to give plenty of attention and coaching to guys who will all be academically ineligble in the fall
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Post by brophy on Feb 25, 2016 9:07:17 GMT -6
.....So many assistant coach applicants approach an assistant coaching opportunity as if they are going to fix and save a program.
what's wrong with that? An assistant can't be a vital piece to turning a program around? An assistant coach has to be more than just "1 labor unit" Do you mean to say that many assistants expect to work independently of the rest of the staff and bitch about what scheme you're not running?
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