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Post by realdawg on Oct 6, 2014 9:20:06 GMT -6
When I was a history teacher I always had a test or book work on Friday. Mainly because we coach both JV and varsity and I was dragging after a late jv game. Now I teach football Wt lifting so it differs based on home or away. I get up and come to school and get in a quick bi and tri workout. Then if it's a home game I start painting the field while our HC watches after the kids in class. After we paint the field me and a couple guys that help me go to a local burger joint for lunch. Then it's back to school for a shower. I make sure my call sheet and everything is ready to go for the night. Maybe watch a little film maybe shut my eyes for a few. Then it's pregame meal at 315. I eat a lot. Then hand out uniforms. Defensive meetings are at 5. Then I just hangout and wait till 630. Not a lot to do. If it's an away game it's really about the same except instead of painting field I watch film with our kids in wt lifting class and do lunch duty in the school during 3rd pd
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Post by realdawg on Oct 2, 2014 3:12:26 GMT -6
Yesterday I put the ball on the 30 going in. Told our D that they had 15 plays of team, If the scout team didnt score, I would run two gassers when we got done. Kids loved it and impersonated the coaches while I was running.
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Post by realdawg on Sept 28, 2014 16:57:20 GMT -6
nope. Defense is way more of a challenge and I love it. That being said if I were to ever get a HC job I'd probably do the O.
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Post by realdawg on Sept 2, 2014 17:50:32 GMT -6
We will wash any kids stuff any night that they put it inside the washing machine after practice. We require them all to turn it in at the end of the week. Takes 30 min to wash and an hour to dry. Start it washing before we leave, throw it in the dryer as we walk out the door. Its ready to roll the next morning.
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Post by realdawg on Sept 1, 2014 4:12:10 GMT -6
Every 3 tackles, 1 for a TFL or sack. 1 for a turnover. 1 for a blocked kick. 1 for every tackle on special teams. 1 for every 3 PBUs. I for a grade out of over 80%. Those are some of the ones we have used for D. For O some ideas, 1 for a pancake block. 1 for everyone on the field when we score. 1 per 100 yds rushing. 1 per 150 yds passing. Cant remember everything else our O gives them out for.
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Post by realdawg on Aug 25, 2014 17:04:26 GMT -6
On paper we are equal. But in reality our HC is an O guy. So O goes over every day. And at best D gets alloted time.
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Post by realdawg on Aug 19, 2014 3:47:58 GMT -6
About 110. This year we are struggling to break 70.
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Post by realdawg on Aug 9, 2014 4:26:31 GMT -6
I would scrap the bag drills. Use it for more fundamental work. Make sure their feet are not dead. Our OL looked great all summer on shields but as soon as we could hit they werent near as good against men, so do alot of your drills against a live defender.
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Post by realdawg on Aug 9, 2014 4:20:32 GMT -6
Read the book every year, I will be watching the movie.
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Post by realdawg on Aug 7, 2014 4:26:15 GMT -6
Thats all I keep hearing is how those boys are loaded. And we lost 9 starters on D, and 8 on O. Ugh....
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Post by realdawg on Aug 6, 2014 4:40:27 GMT -6
sneed-alot of the same concerns-you must be on our staff-really we may not be in the best conference in the state, but its pretty top heavy with 2 teams that played in the state championship last year and both bring alot of studs back.
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Post by realdawg on Aug 4, 2014 4:17:30 GMT -6
I wear UA kahkis-shorts and pants. After I put the first pair on, I will never go back to any other brand-unless the weather is cold.
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Post by realdawg on Aug 3, 2014 18:14:45 GMT -6
We had to go 2 days in helmets and 3 in uppers. Can hit Thursday. We dont touch our game field except for walkthrough day before the game.
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Post by realdawg on Aug 3, 2014 17:49:02 GMT -6
We started practice on the 1st. Everyone was all excited ready to hit the field-and it was a friggin monsoon. 1st time in 14 years of coaching we had to practice inside on the 1st day! Not only did we have to go inside we couldnt even get in our own gym bc volleyball was practicing! We had to put the kids on a bus and go to a local church gym. On a brighter note, when we went out yesterday morning, it was like Day 1 all over again!
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Post by realdawg on Jul 28, 2014 18:26:45 GMT -6
1) New scheme-switching to the 3-4. 2) Lack of coaches. 3) Whole new defensive staff-one of whom just got here today. 4) Lost 9 starters off of D last year. 5) Ability to stop the run.
What am I not worried about is a better question.
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Post by realdawg on Jul 28, 2014 3:11:22 GMT -6
If its this only scrimmage you have, then do it and dont worry about it. We have a scrimmage and then a jamboree (around here that means game situation for a half). So we dont use them in the scrimmage-we are on the field coaching-but do during the jamboree.
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Post by realdawg on Jul 14, 2014 17:30:06 GMT -6
School of about 1050-1100. Avg about 3000 per game unless we are playing another county team. Then draw 6-8000 depending on how good we are.
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Post by realdawg on Jul 14, 2014 3:17:16 GMT -6
Graduated in 97. Our offseason was "hey you guys better come up here and lift and run!" So when we felt like it, we would go up to the school and lift and run on our own with no supervision. We did have 2 and sometimes 3 a-days. We ran the wishbone including option, double dive, power, iso, and toss. And finally, we were still taught to block by throwing flippers. School never had a losing record until 2 years after I graduated.
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Post by realdawg on Jul 8, 2014 3:48:37 GMT -6
Yes. We pretty much fund the entire athletic program. This does not include the $$ our boosters raise. We do get our concession $$ and our boosters work them. The only other programs in the school who are self sufficient are baseball and basketball. Everyone else relies on football money. Imagine it is like this at most places.
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Post by realdawg on Jul 7, 2014 3:43:53 GMT -6
I just paint my hoop on the ground so we dont have to buy one.
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Post by realdawg on Jun 29, 2014 6:24:01 GMT -6
Monday-1 hour of offense, then lift and run. Tuesday-1 hour of defense then lift and run. Wed-2 hours offense and defense no lifting. Thurs-1 hour, 30 min offense skills and 30 min defense skills then lift and run. So 5 hours total.
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Post by realdawg on Jun 29, 2014 6:22:52 GMT -6
Monday-1 hour of offense, then lift and run. Tuesday-1 hour of defense then lift and run. Wed-2 hours offense and defense no lifting. Thurs-1 hour, 30 min offense skills and 30 min defense skills then lift and run. So 5 hours total.
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Post by realdawg on Jun 27, 2014 3:44:02 GMT -6
Never take a kid to the ground after the first couple of days we can hit. We will do some full speed stuff in Indy where everything is nice and controlled, and we tell the fronts they are live during group like inside and team.
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Post by realdawg on Jun 21, 2014 4:40:07 GMT -6
Dont over do it. Dont over stress the situation, and dont change too much. We had an assistant who signaled in our O go to our arch rival school. We knew he knew our signals. So we went over the freakin top, and came up with like 3 others ways to signal in the play. Well problem with that is, it slowed the kids down and affected the way we played. At halftime we said screw it, just get the signals from coach so and so instead, and we started rolling.
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Post by realdawg on Jun 16, 2014 3:12:13 GMT -6
Assist the HC, just like every other assistant. Was on a staff with an AHC and it was just a title. He didnt have any more power or jobs or whatever than anyone else. I guess he would have called the O if something happened to the HC but that never came about.
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Post by realdawg on Jun 7, 2014 17:35:44 GMT -6
Did this a few years ago as well. School we did it with, HC was good friends with our HC, and his staff was very small and limited. So they came over and we basically coached both teams and coached there coaches as well. We did Indy together, inside run (they ran the same D as us, so when we were on O our D coaches and there D coaches both coached there kids). 7 on 7 and team. Went really well. Both sides left happy. They felt like there kids and coaches had gotten better and we got the chance to practice against some live bullets.
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Post by realdawg on Jun 5, 2014 17:54:28 GMT -6
Blb- we mix things up. Sometimes some jump ropes or some ladder drills. Some change of direction drills. Some straight out sprints or gassers. Parachute runs, hills, med ball relays. Tire tosses. Sand pit drills. We just mix them up. Some days are agility focus some are linear speed and conditioning. Give them a couple water breaks.
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Post by realdawg on Jun 5, 2014 16:05:47 GMT -6
About 3 hours a day. 4 days a week. Lift an hour, run an agility an hour, practice an hour. About one 7 on 7 a week. One big 7 on 7 tournament a year.
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Post by realdawg on May 28, 2014 6:05:12 GMT -6
As many have said, I hate to lose more than I like to win. I really think I only enjoyed 2-3 of our wins this year. We expect to win, so often it is more of a sense of relief or ok, we expected that, lets move on, what can we fix, what can we do better? The best way to get over a lose is to get to work on the next one. The only time this is really hard is when you lose in the playoffs and you wake up the next morning without anything to get ready for.
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Post by realdawg on May 27, 2014 5:36:45 GMT -6
Hate doing more than 15 minutes of team ever. Kids start to lose focus and you get to the point of negative returns. If you do indy, have a good 10-15 min of inside run and another good 10-15 min of 7 on 7, how much team time do you really need? The only things you havent covered are outside runs and trick play type stuff. Maybe a few formation adjustments defensively. The key is to be efficient at what you do. This requires a good scout team coordinator for all of practice-inside, 7 on 7, and team. If you are in a situation where you have to coach and run the scout team-well that can be a big headache.
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