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Post by realdawg on Jan 12, 2014 7:16:39 GMT -6
Your staff is not small. We do it like coachbw suggested. I think that is the way to go
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Post by realdawg on Jan 11, 2014 6:57:18 GMT -6
Doesnt happen at our place, but it did at the school we played in the 2nd rd this season. Alot of the tailgating wasnt actually on campus, it was just across the street off of school property, and it was pretty big.
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Post by realdawg on Jan 6, 2014 6:30:30 GMT -6
Somebody mentioned upgrade travel-how about use money to charter buses to all away games instead of taking activity buses?
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Post by realdawg on Jan 5, 2014 7:30:35 GMT -6
Anytime I get some extra money coming in I wasnt counting on, my philosophy is to save half and splurge with half. So I'd take half of it and buy the kids matching shorts and shirts to wear in the wt. room that they'd really like, or I'd buy some new weights and equipment for our wt. room
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Post by realdawg on Jan 1, 2014 7:44:28 GMT -6
Our kids do not come in on Saturday. Never have, and as far as I know, there is no one around here who brings their kids in on Saturday. Our staff meetings are Saturday morning at 9. Works fine for us, but then I've never known it any other way.
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Post by realdawg on Jan 1, 2014 7:30:04 GMT -6
Get back to work. Best way to get over a loss is to get to work on the next one. Our staff meetings are at 9 on Saturday morning. So we come in, watch the film from Friday night to see what needs fixing, and then we are over that game and moving along to the next. Love the McDonalds comment, I love to eat copious amounts when we lose as well. Also, my wife doesnt expect me to get over it, she is depressed as well because she knows how hard we work and wants us to be rewarded for it.
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Post by realdawg on Dec 28, 2013 6:00:57 GMT -6
One state that is not mentioned is SC. Now not all of SC, but pockets, especially in the upstate and Columbia are pretty big time. HC salaries near $100,000, assistant supplements 5-7,000. Huge stadiums, jumbotrons, coaches dont teach, most schools have S&C coaches. This is the area where Byrnes HS is located, along with Gaffney, Dorman, Spartanburg, etc... great community support great place to coach (I think)
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Post by realdawg on Dec 26, 2013 5:48:28 GMT -6
We watch the previous game with our kids before practice on Monday. Watch for about an hour. Its all they can stand. Watch opponents film on Tuesday and Thursday during wt. lifting class.
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Post by realdawg on Dec 21, 2013 10:33:35 GMT -6
A quote I actually got off of here when my kid was a baby. "quality not quantity" Your time demands are your time demands when it comes to coaching. My wife understands it, hopefully yours did too when she agreed to become a "football wife" The key is to make the time you spend with them quality time. I never bring football home anymore. Before a child I would work on stuff after I got home while my wife watched soap operas. Now the only thing I do at home is watch film and I get up before everyone else to do that. Also, my wife saves my little girls reading homework for me to do with her every night. This gives us some special time together. I look forward to it and so does my little girl. Also, make them apart of your program. My wife and little girl both love Friday nights so much that my daughter cried herself to sleep after we got put out of the playoffs. They also love my players like their own child/brothers. As someone else said you have to give somethings up. For me during season their is no golf or hanging out with the boys. Its football and family. Those other things have to be saved for the off season. Also, IDK about your faith but church on Sunday morning and lunch with them afterwards really helps me feel closer to them and recharges my batteries.
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Post by realdawg on Dec 20, 2013 12:04:15 GMT -6
Coach-you can have 1 full contact practice every day during preseason right? So during 2 a days (which we dont have). Make sure you get in all the stuff you need to be live for in that one practice. Do all your full contact drills, do all your team scrimmages, and all your live kicking situations you think are necessary. In the other non contact practice focus on installing new plays, walk through, and indy drills that do not require contact. The in season limitations would not be a big deal for us either. He is how we do it. Monday is a big install/game plan/walk through day. We do alot of indy time, and do all our non contact drills. We want the kids to move around, but not bang on each other. So this is the one day we hit sleds, hit dummies, etc... Then we spend alot of time in group putting in our game plan for and against the run, and for and against the pass. Then we run about 10 plays of team on each side of the ball. Then we go inside and watch film of the previous game. This I guess you could not do unless it is against dummies or on air. I know this can get tough, especially for your defense. Tuesdays and Wednesday are heavy full, contact days so those are full go. Thursday is a walk through we only wear helmets to practice, and Fridays we play. I see where this could be a problem though, especially if you play Saturday games. (we do not). Anyway hope you get something that can help and best of luck .
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Post by realdawg on Dec 17, 2013 17:56:09 GMT -6
Entitlement coach. The kids on those really good teams expected to be treated the way you treated them. Probably thought they deserved your love and respect and you needed them. Those terrible kids appreciated your love and respect bc they knew they sucked and loved them for being people. Not players
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Post by realdawg on Dec 12, 2013 21:05:35 GMT -6
This is true. I may put in a compartment but losing still sucks. I'm a competitor by nature. And I mean about everything. Knowing how hard I, our other coaches, and our kids work just makes me more competitive. Earlier this year we were playing like crap in a game we were supposed to win comfortspably. We were down with under 2 min to go facing 4&10 from our own 35. Somehow we won. When we scored I look in the back of the end zone and see my wife, our HC wife, and our DC wife all hugging and jumping up and down. After the game I asked her why they were overly excited. She responded by telling me bc they had been talking about how grumpy the 3 of us were going to be that weekend and now we would be in a good mood. They understand. Losing sucks period.
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Post by realdawg on Dec 11, 2013 18:23:46 GMT -6
Been 1-10 before. Been to playoffs every other year. Never won the big one. Playoff loses suck worse in terms of short term. 1-10 makes you miserable for a long time. Also sucks seeing your best friend be the DC at your arch rival play for a ring after you turned down a job working for him cause you thought you had a better chance winning one where you were at.
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Post by realdawg on Dec 10, 2013 5:11:49 GMT -6
Our kids have wt training in school. We can't have spring practice but can do "skill development". We do this by position groups. Usually twice a week for about 6 weeks during April and May. We then have a week off after school gets out. Then we go 4 days a week for about 3 hrs a day (lift, run, practice). We don't fuss at a kid who goes on vacation. We are dead the week of July 4 and the state coaches clinic.
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Post by realdawg on Dec 9, 2013 20:42:30 GMT -6
Coaching+players=program?
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Post by realdawg on Dec 9, 2013 20:40:27 GMT -6
Idk about Ca but in NC charter schools are paid for by state funds but don't have to follow same guidelines as public schools for testing and requirements. Also can admit, deny, or expel anyone they chose. Basically as said a free private school. Which makes me think if these are the next great thing why not just let all publics act like a charter? They haven't really caught on in my part of the state yet.
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Post by realdawg on Dec 9, 2013 5:13:07 GMT -6
All teams together. JV get names called out to get certificate. Then underclass man varsity get called out to get certificate and a few words. Then seniors get called out get certificate and mini helmet we give them. Then we do awards.
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Post by realdawg on Dec 8, 2013 13:36:33 GMT -6
Wasn't cold but we played in a monsoon about 5 years ago. Standing water over my shoes on the field. Qb mishandled a snap and couldn't find it and ball was spinning like a top on his helmet
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Post by realdawg on Dec 8, 2013 13:33:50 GMT -6
In NC most privates play in their own leagues. However, a few, like Charlotte Catholic, play in the public leagues. To do so they must pay to join the nchsaa and agree to follow all it's rules and guidelines.
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Post by realdawg on Dec 3, 2013 10:43:45 GMT -6
You MUST develop a relationship with your players. You can't do that by just walking your @$$ out there at the start of 2 a days and expect them to run through a wall for you. The weight room is about more than getting stronger. THAT is the place where the TEAM is built. It's a place of comradery, perseverance, struggle, togetherness, fun, laughter, work, mentality, anger, pride, family. I can be as hard on my kids as I want to be, I can say pretty much anything I want to any of them at any time and no one takes it personally. Why is that? Because RESPECT is earned. In that weight room is where they learn to respect themselves, each other and their coaches. That's just the way it is.
Believe this whole heartedly
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Post by realdawg on Dec 3, 2013 9:40:29 GMT -6
LOL That is funny, and that is pretty universal. I have heard of some places yelling poison, but nothing like a good ol' peter call.
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Post by realdawg on Dec 3, 2013 7:49:04 GMT -6
Our kids are in wt training class 1 and 2nd period. We have two coaches that teach those classes. I usually go down if I have planning during those classes. After school we have 2-4 coaches and during the summer we usually have all our coaches there. 3 in the wt room and 2 or 3 outside with the running.
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Post by realdawg on Dec 3, 2013 7:46:00 GMT -6
Oh and set the edge is another one. I had a JV player who this year could not ever understand what that meant. Maybe we did a crappy job coaching it, but he never understood it at all.
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Post by realdawg on Dec 3, 2013 7:44:53 GMT -6
Just to show how un-universal, universal vocabulary is, banjo to us means the LB has the back out of the backfield man to man.
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Post by realdawg on Dec 3, 2013 5:09:19 GMT -6
Reach, down, pinch, squeeze just a few that come to mind.
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Post by realdawg on Nov 25, 2013 20:46:42 GMT -6
We ended up with almost a whole series of offense out of the swinging gate. Worked the vast majority of the time but I don't have any specific numbers
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Post by realdawg on Nov 20, 2013 11:59:05 GMT -6
The wing t team you are talking about is very good. The D1 RB they have had the past few years has made it even better. True about not much 3-3, but alot of 3-4 teams popping up. Some run it very well, some dont seem to know what they are doing. Most of the east of Raleigh down east teams are in the Rocky Mount, Duplin county area if I remember right.
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Post by realdawg on Nov 19, 2013 20:51:41 GMT -6
As mentioned lots of spread to run in the Charlotte NC area. I know down east of Raleigh there are a ton of Wing T teams. Defenses vary. But the 3-4 is coming on strong.
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Post by realdawg on Nov 8, 2013 5:12:02 GMT -6
In NC it's very confusing. We have 1a-4a but then each one of those is subdivided for the playoffs. So 64 teams make the playoffs in each subdivision.
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Post by realdawg on Nov 1, 2013 8:30:25 GMT -6
We wash game uni's. We separate them-pants, jerseys, and belts. Then bad dirty and not bad dirty. We spray and wash the bad ones while the good ones wash. Then put the bad ones in and let them soak all night. As far as practice stuff, we tell kids whenever they want their stuff washed to stick it in the machine, and one of us will walk by and start it.
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