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Post by realdawg on Aug 7, 2017 18:57:52 GMT -6
We had 2 poor years by our programs standards. Won 7 in 2 years combined. Low numbers, and all. New HC gets hired last year. We start doing things right. Over 100 come out last year with all the new excitement. We turn it around and win 10. This year due to graduation loses and a few early injuries and a small 9 grade class we barely have enough jv to practice. We do have about 9 soph up right now for 1 reason or another that we are expecting to play
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Post by realdawg on Jul 26, 2017 5:44:19 GMT -6
Helps to have a geometry teacher as a football coach.
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Post by realdawg on Jul 14, 2017 10:32:16 GMT -6
Can't hurt to try. We used to send a letter in the mail on letterhead to every boy in the 9 and 10 grade. But we did it right when school got out to try and get them there for summer.
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Post by realdawg on Jul 14, 2017 3:52:42 GMT -6
Generally speaking, the offense gets the QB, RB, and any special skill kids they gotta have, and then D gets what they want, kinda like coacharnold said. Another way to think about it is offense gets first pick of skill kids, defense gets first pick of linemen. But we dont set down and hold a draft or anything, it just kinda works itself out once we get started. With that being said we dont have enough kids to strictly play one side of the ball. We try to 2 platoon as much as we can, but players still have to learn both sides and generally speaking, offensive starters are the 2s on D and vice versa.
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Post by realdawg on Jun 26, 2017 12:27:23 GMT -6
1050 kids. Got a new field house 10 years ago. There are two coaches offices. One for the HC. It's about 12 by 12. Kids have to knock to go in there. The other I (the D.C) have a desk and a computer. But it's really a staff office. A little bigger than the HC office. Maybe 15x15. Kids don't have to knock. It's an open door policy. But we can tell them to leave at any time we need to.
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Post by realdawg on Jun 26, 2017 3:22:04 GMT -6
3rd maybe. Don't forget about best offense/defense to run with no athletes or size.
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Post by realdawg on Jun 21, 2017 17:54:08 GMT -6
I stole and used the wall of ass comment today when talking to our OL about being elephants on parade on jet sweep today.
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Post by realdawg on Jun 20, 2017 18:25:29 GMT -6
I ain't gonna put you in on defense if you don't come over there and practice defense.
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Post by realdawg on Jun 3, 2017 4:34:51 GMT -6
NC on the 31st, for as long as I can remember its been the Monday the week of August 1 here. We have to do 2 days in helmets, 3 days in shells, then we can hit. Scrimmage on day 9. Play after 3 weeks.
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Post by realdawg on May 30, 2017 3:09:47 GMT -6
Why are they not hiring teachers that coach? Is that an actual policy or just sort of de facto?
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Post by realdawg on May 25, 2017 7:27:40 GMT -6
In season on Sundays only. Off season about once a week for a month leading up to spring ball. Lots of informal meetings where me and HC or me and one of my defensive assistants are just hanging out sitting around talking ball.
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Post by realdawg on May 22, 2017 5:49:37 GMT -6
Can't just blame AAU basketball. Travel, showcase, and legion baseball are just as bad if not worse around here. Telling kids they need to just play baseball year round to get a scholarship when last time I checked college baseball programs just had 12 scholarships to give out.
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Post by realdawg on May 21, 2017 18:24:47 GMT -6
I would fully support this if it meant also giving the death penalty to passing league clubs. Absolutely. It would be ok with me if we got rid of summer 7 on 7 leagues all together!
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Post by realdawg on May 21, 2017 13:32:16 GMT -6
Ours could start at corner for us. Not a gimme but he's got a shot.
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Post by realdawg on May 21, 2017 12:41:41 GMT -6
No. It's not wrong to like bball more than football. To each his own. What's wrong is to lie or give false hope to kids that there are college coaches looking for 5'7 basketball players who didn't start in either sport for their high school the year before. Also in my opinion, it's wrong to miss something related to a school sport to attend something for a sport that is not related to your school. But that may just be the old school in me
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Post by realdawg on May 21, 2017 12:07:46 GMT -6
Same here. Gotta kid that about 5'7. Has a chance to start at corner for us. Misses spring practice Bc AAU practices are mandatory Bc there are scouts coming that night. Lol. That being said. We got more kids playing AAU than I can ever remember. I despise it.
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Post by realdawg on May 21, 2017 4:59:03 GMT -6
Around here everyone wears them. I think wearing them is a good idea. Two kids go up for a ball and in hit heads in the process-wouldnt you want them to have a helmet on?
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Post by realdawg on May 16, 2017 7:12:51 GMT -6
LOL. Coach I been doing this 16 years and I love solving problems. I look at a meeting and breakdown of film as a problem solving experience. I really do enjoy it.
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Post by realdawg on May 16, 2017 6:03:22 GMT -6
I love going to practice. I love meetings on the weekends. I hate that we can't hit during the spring in NC
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Post by realdawg on May 12, 2017 12:42:02 GMT -6
Our kids have them. Heck my own kid has one. But no way in hades they'd get to have it on the practice field. Where are they storing it while they are working? In their jock?
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Post by realdawg on May 11, 2017 9:59:02 GMT -6
I'd call whichever coach at the school you were most familiar with first. He can then get you in touch with the manager or DFO. In some cases they may be able to work this out as a work study so he can receive some money for being a manager.
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Post by realdawg on May 1, 2017 15:51:12 GMT -6
Ten minutes first O vs First D. Then switch teams. 10 min second O vs second D. Then switch. Do that for about an hour. Then two 12 minute quarter game situation with a running clock.
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Post by realdawg on May 1, 2017 10:04:43 GMT -6
I have one coach who is a younger coach (3rd year). First year I just talked and worked with him on learning and perfecting his technique and breaking down film. Second year we started talking more about schematics and run fits. This off season we met when he asked to start talking about secondary play. Bc he knew nothing of this.
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Post by realdawg on Apr 28, 2017 12:55:18 GMT -6
Seems like kid 1 is better than kid two except he doesnt work as hard. To me as long as he does enough of what is asked of him to be on the team, than the best one plays.
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Post by realdawg on Apr 24, 2017 3:13:25 GMT -6
Coachbdud-do you go for two everytime because you believe that the average is in your favor and your will make over 1/2 of them or do you just not have a kicker in your program. Also, how much time do you spend practicing two point plays during the week?
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Post by realdawg on Apr 9, 2017 20:23:45 GMT -6
I'm an inefficient old school grinder. Myself and our HC and both pretty OCD about covering all our bases. I get up Saturday morning and break down Friday nights film. I put comments on hudl for the other coaches and kids to view and grade my position group (LB) Then I break down our opponents film. Usually 2-3 films.
Staff meeting is Sunday at 2. Staff comes in turns in their position grades and we go through film as I point out things they need to see and discuss anything that I was unsure about as I broke it down. We then put together gameplan. We go through formation by formation what our plan is. After we get done. The guys leave. I stay and discuss special teams with HC and draw up scout cards and scouting report.
Usually 4-6 hours on my own on Saturday. Staff is there from about 2 till 8 Sunday and then I am there another couple hours. I do the practice schedules and scripts for the day each day. I don't do them Ahead of time. I start putting them together in the morning before school and finalize them during planning period.
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Post by realdawg on Apr 7, 2017 11:56:41 GMT -6
Bachelor parties are not obligations. Go to practice. Weddings in my opinion are ok to miss for IF you are in the wedding. However i use football as an excuse to skip any fall weddings my wife and I are invited to.
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Post by realdawg on Mar 26, 2017 5:15:34 GMT -6
DC at a 3a school (1050 students) in NC, I figure I put about 40 hours a week in outside of school. Its a little tough to tell bc my school job is teaching FB Wt. Training classes. So in season we spend 20-30 min a day watching film. I get to school at 6 am, and lift and workout. Take a shower and begin to work. I plan practice and sort scout cards first thing in the morning. This takes about an hour. Mon-Wed Practice till about 6. Usually get gone by about 7. Thursday practice is over by 430 or 5. However, we have JV game, and usually after its over I hang out with the boys while the uniforms wash. Leave around 11 I'd say. Friday night there till between 12 and 2 by the time we can leave the wash. Saturday spend 4-6 hours breaking down film depending on how many films we get. Sunday afternoon staff meeting, and I am usually there 6-8 hours.
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Post by realdawg on Mar 20, 2017 5:45:46 GMT -6
In NC this year we were given the option of unlimited days with limited numbers of players (21) beginning April 1st or 10 days with unlimited numbers after spring sports regular season is over. Neither can be made "mandatory." We choose the 10 days for several reasons. Number 1 it encourages our players to play baseball or run track (they are in the Wt room during the school day). And we have several key players doing that. Number 2 all of our coaches in the building are coaching a spring sport except our HC. Number 3. We like the feeling of it being like a real practice and the continuity of getting 10 consecutive days. In neither option is body to body contact allowed.
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Post by realdawg on Mar 5, 2017 6:18:45 GMT -6
Yeah-50% is awesome, that fundraiser goes on all the time around here but usually its only 10%. Our school is right next to a literal one stop light town. There is a Subway restaurant in that town, and they set it up where last year we had one of those nights every month from Feb-May. It was a pretty good little fundraiser, the first one they did was the most business the store had ever done in one day.
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