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Post by realdawg on Jun 7, 2013 6:49:02 GMT -6
We used an old rope and two golf carts to do the same thing when I worked at a country club. However, swamp foot as we are calling it doesnt seem to bother anyone here except me, so noone wants to help me do that, and since the field has to be cut anyway, I usually get here early enough to run over it with the reel mower.
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Post by realdawg on Jun 5, 2013 7:50:57 GMT -6
We are a 3a school with about 1100 kids, about 80-100 football players JV and Varsity, and we only have 4 coaches on staff at the school. Now we get a couple of coaches from the community that help out, and the head MS coach helps out when he doesnt have MS stuff going on, but on any given day in the summer and even sometimes in practice, we can only count on having 4 coaches at practice. Also makes it very tough to get all the off the field stuff done during the season.
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Post by realdawg on Jun 4, 2013 12:04:06 GMT -6
I agree that it is important for kids to watch film of themselves in the previous game. I cant tell you how many times a kid is making a mistake in practice and I cant convince him he is doing it wrong, but when I show it to him on film he gets it. I DO believe in showing your kids your opponents films however. I think that really helps us prepare especially defensively. It helps us teach them any major formational or D&D tendencies that are part of the game plan. We are very lucky however, to have all our kids in wt training during the school day. So on Mondays we lift during class, then watch the film before we go to practice. Mondays are a pretty short and light practice where we mostly install the game plan. Tuesdays the kids watch opponents film during the wt training class, and then we lift on Wed., and watch film again on Thursday during class.
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Post by realdawg on Jun 4, 2013 9:02:08 GMT -6
Ironically, we find just the opposite-most of our kids dont work, and those that do work at McDonalds or something like that on the evening shift.
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Post by realdawg on Jun 4, 2013 7:00:33 GMT -6
We lift/run/practice early during the summer bc we found that we get more kids there if we go at 8 am than if we wait till later. I think the later you wait to have an "optional" workout the more time it gives the kids to find other things to do (go swimming, play nintendo, fall asleep, whatever) But nothing else is going on at 8 in the morning, so the kids get up and come in and we get done and send them home for the rest of the day. Now when practice officially starts on Aug 1, we start practicing at 6 in the evening to help acclimate their body to the heat and humidity they will feel during the few games.
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Post by realdawg on Jun 3, 2013 19:14:04 GMT -6
I run the reel mower over it.
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Post by realdawg on Jun 3, 2013 8:57:22 GMT -6
Up until this year, we always met on Sunday afternoons. Before then, each coach would (on his own) review the film from Friday nights game grading his position, then start looking at the upcoming opponent on video (usually took until about lunch time Saturday, then all afternoon Sunday for the meeting). Last year we started meeting early Saturday morning. We'd come if, and eat together and discuss the night before. Then watch the game quickly as a staff looking for major problems. Then we would split up O/D and begin to watch opponent for the next week and break everything down. We would usually be totally done by 4 or so in the afternoon, except that I would go back and watch the last film more closely and grade my position. I liked this much better bc I felt like I still go Saturday nigh off and all day Sunday. The old way I felt like I never got a whole day off to spend with my family.
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Post by realdawg on May 24, 2013 8:47:41 GMT -6
We have a smooth finished concrete floor in our locker room, tile in the coaches locker room, and offices, rubber floor in the wt room.
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Post by realdawg on May 23, 2013 5:16:54 GMT -6
Coach Senator-I assume you are a HC. As a HC what area do you feel most knowledgeable about? What is your area of expertise? OL play? DL play? Qbs? Pick that topic and talk about the fundamentals of that position. Thats what I like to hear. For example, our HC is really strong in QB play and throwing mechanics so he spoke about that at a clinic this past winter.
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Post by realdawg on May 22, 2013 7:52:08 GMT -6
We punish loafs and lack of effort during games the following week after our first practice.
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Post by realdawg on May 22, 2013 7:50:52 GMT -6
NO.
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Post by realdawg on May 20, 2013 4:06:11 GMT -6
Monday-kind of a light day for us. Stance/steps/start for DL, 6 pt explosion, pole drill, 1 man sled. Tuesday-stance/start, block defeat-reach, base, down Wednesday-stance/start, double teams, pinch, pass rush, anything different.
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Post by realdawg on May 6, 2013 12:44:57 GMT -6
At one school nearby here all the golf and tennis coaches do is drive the bus, literally. All their players are tutored by the pros at the local country club and their parents who are paying for these lessons dont want some HS coach messing up their swing or backhand, so the coach just has to show up on game day.
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Post by realdawg on May 6, 2013 12:42:01 GMT -6
I avoid it by getting out of town and traveling and spending time with my family during the off season. We are lucky enough to live close to the Atlantic Coast, and we try to make a point to take at least one trip a month from Dec-July where we spend time together (sometimes just me and the wife, sometimes with the kid) For example, in Dec we went to Myrtle Beach for 4 days, I golfed the wife shopped. MLK weekend we made it down to Hilton Head, in Feb. we went to Charleston SC, in March we went and visited my wifes sister, in April back to Myrtle Beach during spring break, etc.... anyway you get the point. Just getting away from the kids at school for a few days and relaxing really makes me eager to get back to work, especially the closer to the season we get. When we go on vacation for a week the week of July 4, I cant wait to get back and get to work after about 3 or 4 days.
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Post by realdawg on May 1, 2013 13:10:51 GMT -6
Our DL motto is "Fast and Physical"
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Post by realdawg on Apr 30, 2013 18:12:12 GMT -6
For the summer divide them into JV/varsity. One of the two coaches on staff stays in the wt room. The other goes outside. You travel with the varsity. Varsity lifts, JV runs. Then they switch. After this go outside and practice. You have 3 coaches. Hopefully, one can do linemen, one heavy skill, one skill. Practice 30 min O and 30 D. Or have an O day and then a D day. As far as real practice, idk. I'd have to think on that.
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Post by realdawg on Apr 30, 2013 6:34:43 GMT -6
I dont think that one is necessarily smarter than others, I have met and worked for both some really smart OC and DC and some not so bright OC and DC. However, I would say that coaching defense and preparing a team to play defense is much harder than preparing a game plan for offense. Usually on offense you have to prepare for 2 or 3 fronts and 2 or 3 coverages. As a defensive staff you must prepare for a multitude of formations and be sound to each of these formations and prepare your players to stop their favorite plays out of these formations. I think this is much harder and more time consuming than offense. I know our offensive staff meetings are usually about 2 hrs shorter than our defensive staff meetings.
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Post by realdawg on Apr 23, 2013 13:02:34 GMT -6
Our best players play. We try to avoid having too many 2 way starters, but we have an all state OT who is also our best DL, he is gonna play both ways. I would especially try to limit the number of big boys playing both ways, but we are gonna win or lose with our best on the field. I also try to spell these guys at least one series per half. Especially early in the year when its hot, but its our job as coaches to get them in the best possible shape we can. The only player off limits is the QB. He doesnt play D. If as the poster mentioned his offense changes radically when he loses he QB, I wouldnt play him on D. Seems like from what he says you have a chance to win with the QB just playing O. Sounds like you dont have much of a chance if he goes down.
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Post by realdawg on Apr 21, 2013 18:31:28 GMT -6
I believe that Oregon under Chip Kelly believed in this idea
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Post by realdawg on Apr 17, 2013 18:24:22 GMT -6
Funny during spring break one of my best friends, who is the DC at our arch rival, and I went to a Coastal Carolina spring practice. The played music during every period EXCEPT special teams. Idk why they didn't do it then but they did the rest of the time. We both agreed if we tried to do that at our places we wouldn't get any practice done for the dance party going on.
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Post by realdawg on Apr 17, 2013 18:20:51 GMT -6
Depends on what type of place you are. I try not to cuss especially in front of the kids. I am the fca guy at our school for cryin out loud. I feel like I need to set a good example. However, I know many a good coach who had ran into problems for cussing. It's not like that at our place. We are in the rural south. We are taught "don't cuss, but hell, damn, and chit ain't cussin". But you better avoid the f word and gd.
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Post by realdawg on Mar 30, 2013 5:26:23 GMT -6
We have 2. 1st and 2nd period. It used to be 3rd and 4th but we switched it to give our kids recovery time before practices in the afternoon. We have 2 coaches who teach our wt. lifting classes. Also have baseball wt training, and girls athletic wt training. All during the school day
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Post by realdawg on Mar 27, 2013 12:43:06 GMT -6
Like some has said, depends on many factors. One of our arch rivals is gonna continue to run the same basic O and D, so we will study that one closely. Another team on our schedule just got a new HC, so you can just about throw that one out the window.
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Post by realdawg on Mar 20, 2013 18:00:09 GMT -6
At our school not 1 kid showers. If they do they wear their swimming trunks in the shower. Afraid of being called "gay". When I was in school they called you names if you didn't shower.
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Post by realdawg on Mar 17, 2013 6:21:28 GMT -6
Heard coach from Apopka , Fl at a clinic this winter. His big things was "the legs feed the wolf". So he never wanted his kids to see running as punishment. That made a lot of sense to me. So they do bear crawls, crabs, log rolls, etc for punishment but never run.
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Post by realdawg on Mar 12, 2013 5:25:03 GMT -6
I dont think you go out and look for 3 higher level quality teams. I would try to find games with schools similar to yours. Teams that are from successful, smaller schools. I think this would present the challenge you are looking for.
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Post by realdawg on Mar 6, 2013 5:13:02 GMT -6
We meet on Saturday mornings as a staff (no kids). We watch our film and breakdown 2 opponent films. Kids watch video of our game immediately after school Monday. They watch our opponents video on Tuesday and Thursday during wt. training class. Friday kids get out, we go to pre game meal, usually at a local church. We come back, stretch, hand out unis and relax till first group goes out at 6:10
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Post by realdawg on Mar 6, 2013 5:08:11 GMT -6
We would break down the last 2 or maybe 3. We would probably also watch some of the other films looking for different stuff, trick plays, etc...
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Post by realdawg on Mar 5, 2013 9:42:55 GMT -6
The undershirts and stuff like that are great. The shoes seem to wear out pretty quickly. The pants have held up very well The first run of jerseys we got from them tore up and looked bad quickly. We complained and they replaced the entire set and the 2nd set have held up pretty well. Biggest complaint is the shoes and cleats.
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Post by realdawg on Mar 5, 2013 9:40:55 GMT -6
NC doesnt have official spring ball. But you have unlimited "skill development" days provided you have less that 22 players out at one time, and there is no body to body contact.
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