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Post by realdawg on Aug 10, 2021 4:54:58 GMT -6
Yep....if thats the key....I want it.....what and how do we need to teach it different?
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Post by realdawg on Aug 9, 2021 5:23:47 GMT -6
To piggy back of the last thread what we are missing is quality backups. Those are the types of kids we are seeing not play. We got starters. And we got bench warmers. But that kid who couldn’t start but is a quality backup isn’t playing for us. Too much work and sweat to sit on the bench when he could have a job and make his truck payment. Just what we are seeing
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Post by realdawg on Aug 8, 2021 19:23:11 GMT -6
Ours are better than they were in the spring. We are a school Of about 650 and had 70 on the first day. I can’t keep up With it exactly Bc we have had 1 or 2 hang it up pretty early and another freshmen or 2 show up. But anyway. Somewhere between 65-70 with 30 Or low 30s on JV. We played JV this spring with 18.
But I’m hearing that most teams around the area are down. And I am constantly working to fill in games for JV for teams that won’t be able To field one. A near by league of smaller schools voted to play JV grades 7-9 and varsity 10-12 so schools would be able to field JV.
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Post by realdawg on Jul 25, 2021 6:11:15 GMT -6
I was told by our Riddell guy that you may not get a SpeedFlex until January, but he seemed pretty sure you would get your order of regular speed helmets before the season started.
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Post by realdawg on Jul 18, 2021 19:53:14 GMT -6
I agree a lot with what blacknight said. And I follow his plan pretty closely. I get up at 5 to workout. That is my time. Saturday I get up and work from home. I am around my family if they need anything. I shut it down and Saturday afternoon and night is family time. We usually go out to eat somewhere. Sunday morning I get up early and work a little. Go to church. Eat lunch with family. Then go to staff meetings.
I will add this. I try to have all my practice plan and script done before the school day starts. With so much coming up during the day I feel pressured to get it all done if I wait. So after I workout I shower and do the practice template and share it with our staff and get as much of our O script done as I can before my daughter and I leave for school. I have a pretty good routine down on what we are going to do each day. So that helps save time when doing the template and O script.
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Post by realdawg on Jun 27, 2021 5:25:55 GMT -6
If your asking when do you play the percentages, for me its 70%.......if the number comes out to 70% to me thats a pretty strong tendency and we are gonna roll the dice and play it....
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Post by realdawg on Jun 1, 2021 17:57:34 GMT -6
I’m in NC. Don’t see much more in terms of HC turnover. But it’s becoming REALLY hard to find teacher/coaches. People just aren’t going into the field.
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Post by realdawg on May 21, 2021 4:00:57 GMT -6
I do think there is a time and place to do some 100s or 110s, not as much for conditioning as it is for mental toughness......I know some will say there are some other ways to build mental toughness, and I agree there are. BUT....I do think you have to put your kids in adverse situations and encourage them to fight through them.
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Post by realdawg on May 20, 2021 3:59:41 GMT -6
Feed The Cats-its a relatively new strength and conditioning philosophy.....
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Post by realdawg on May 19, 2021 14:58:24 GMT -6
Lord....how long does it take to do 10 110s after practice? I just can’t see getting much effort out of the kids doing that. But I’ve been wrong before. I like to do most of my conditioning prior to the start of our games and practice high enough tempo to where they get conditioned. Then run just a little in the middle of practice.
I also firmly believe you can run them all you want to. But they have to play their way into game shape. There is no way to simulate what the body goes through during a game.
Also, if you’re two way guys and they are 1 way guys. They are naturally gonna be fresher than you late in the game. We battle the scenario sometimes as a smaller school in our league.
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Post by realdawg on May 19, 2021 3:19:10 GMT -6
Let them come out for the position they want to play. It will become evident pretty quickly that most of them wont be the TE/FB.....so move the ones who arent in the 2 deep at TE to OL if you think they can do it. Really talk up the OL and make it seem as fun and cool as possible.
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Post by realdawg on May 18, 2021 9:31:46 GMT -6
We do a 3 day install for the most part....but we dont just install that way, we practice that way. Day 1 Buck and Iso, and quick game protection. Day 2 Power/Counter and Drop back protection. Day 3 Belly, Jet, Trap, and sprint protection. For the most part anyway. Day 4 back to day 1 either in new formations or new front.... During the season on Monday we run Buck and iso and anything new or that we havent ran in a while. On Tuesday we run Power/Counter for the first 10 plays on the script, if we get through with those, then we go back and review buck and iso. Etc...
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Post by realdawg on May 13, 2021 3:25:17 GMT -6
Also a reason why you need simple, very broad rules like 1)Do Right-be where you are supposed to be, doing what you are supposed to be doing, when you are supposed to be doing it. 2) Never do anything to embarrass yourself, your family, your team, your school or your community. That gives you plenty of lee-way in handling each situation fairly.
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Post by realdawg on May 12, 2021 10:23:17 GMT -6
If a player misses practice-unexcused-no reason-you probably bench him and run him. If a player misses practice bc of a death in the family-you probably dont, and if you do bench him you certainly dont run him, the only reason you bench him would be if he couldnt learn the gameplan bc of missing. Thats the difference in equal and fair in my opinion.
Its a tough line for coaches. And even tougher is that players and parents arent likely to see the difference or know the situation the way you do. So then they or their parents feel slighted.
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Post by realdawg on May 7, 2021 15:29:09 GMT -6
What’s a Union?
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Post by realdawg on May 6, 2021 3:58:38 GMT -6
Looking at perhaps purchasing some new bumper plates for our weight room. I know these cost a good deal as I have shopped around some on the internet. Any suggestions on what offers the most bang for the buck?
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Post by realdawg on Apr 26, 2021 3:44:10 GMT -6
What do they have to do to get "cleared" for spring ball?
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Post by realdawg on Mar 26, 2021 14:14:33 GMT -6
It’s the culture we live in right now. It has really shown itself during COVID and the current political climate. You can’t disagree with someone and still get along. It’s total BS. You have to hate anyone you disagree with. Me I try to get along with everyone. I think what I think and you probably aren’t gonna do a lot to change it without some pretty compelling evidence. But whatever you think is ok with me too. We just agree to disagree. We can still hang out and talk BS about whatever. Only way I’m not gonna like you is if you are a total douche or a liar. But not everyone is like that
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Post by realdawg on Feb 7, 2021 6:11:59 GMT -6
Its simple IF YOU FORCE ALL PRIVATES to play in their own league. Then you use size and geography.....charters may be an issue for some, but here, in most sports they are not. In NC we are very similar to SC. Most privates play on their own....however, some play public schools. Charlotte Catholic at times has dominated 2a and 3a playoffs. We are in the process of realignment which we do every 4 years. The state has come up with some kind of formula that uses enrollment (which is the only factor used in the past), Wells Fargo Cup Points (How well your athletic department has done as a whole), and % of free and reduced lunch students. We have 4 classes. The state wanted to go to 5 but needed the school approval, when they sent out the vote, most schools voted for 5 classes, HOWEVER, not enough schools voted for the vote to count!. So we are stuck with 4. With this new formula in 4a school size ranges from 1600-3600. Thats crazy in my opinion. We also subdivide the playoffs and would have 8 state champions, which is too many probably in NC. This is part of the reason the state wanted to go to 5 classes. However, since not enough schools voted, it didnt happen, so now the state has decided that starting in the fall we will not subdivide the playoffs anymore. 4 state champs and half as many teams making the playoffs. In my opinion.....its the states way of punishing schools for not voting.
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Post by realdawg on Feb 1, 2021 4:55:47 GMT -6
Crazy to add to this....our game field was redone this summer, and we didnt have a season yet. Soccer plays its first home game later today....The company who fixed our field did a great job, and promised they would come back and reset the corners. Our AD called and texted them continually over the last couple of months. Bottom line, they have not came back and set our corners on our new game field. Like I said, there hasnt been a game of any kind on it yet, soccer has first go at it today, we dont play until later this month. So I take my father in law and wife out there yesterday afternoon. My father in law has an engineers mind, is great at Math and figuring things out.....me not so much. Anyway, we find the middle of the field from goal post to goal post. We measure out to corners, we are trying to find the corners on the football field, so the soccer coach can use that to set the soccer field....he is using the the whole 3/4/5 rule and the pythagoreum therum, and it looks good.....we get what we thing is the 4 corners set, measure the width of the field.....perfect 160 feet..... measure the length of the first sideline and we are 10 inches too short. I just dont see how we could have gotten it any better. We were very careful... I am at a loss on what to do.
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Post by realdawg on Dec 22, 2020 4:31:24 GMT -6
I agree, dont sweat it....most places I've heard of get pennants for the cheer team too. I've never heard of the band getting anything, but sure.....it can only help school spirit and morale.
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Post by realdawg on Dec 7, 2020 12:25:18 GMT -6
We have 50 jerseys. We have about 30-35 kids on the varsity. I think BSNs brand is a good deal. They charge $55 a jersey. And it’s fully sublimated. No extra cost for screen printing or tackle twill or whatever. If I were just going to buy one set I’d buy the home set first. But I understand the rationale about buying the white set. Your gonna end up replacing them more often.
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Post by realdawg on Dec 5, 2020 6:20:18 GMT -6
Idk about the percentages. But the vast majority of kids wear a large. A few more kids probably wear a medium than an extra large. I'd say at least half your helmets should be larges. Then maybe 25% M and XL if I had to make a guess at it.
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Post by realdawg on Nov 23, 2020 11:36:46 GMT -6
In NC the state sets the conferences-anywhere between 5-10 teams in a conference. The conference then meets to set the conference schedule for each sport. Then it is up to the schools to arrange non conference games. Usually the HC finds the non conference games and the AD puts the rubber stamp on them.
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Post by realdawg on Oct 30, 2020 5:58:25 GMT -6
Blitz like hell, play zone behind it, if you just line up and play you say you'll get your teeth kicked in. So do something different. Try to create chaos. We had a similar situation a few years ago. We snuck in the playoffs at 4-7 due to strength of schedule. Last team in, had to play the number 1 seed which had beat us 42-0 earlier in the year. Now we were fortunate in that we had an off week prior to the playoffs to let teams affected by a hurricane finish their season. But we blitzes, stunted, and generally just tried to cause chaos. It worked. We were up 10-6 halfway through the second quarter and down 12-10 at half I believe. Then the turnover bug hit and we turned in over 3 times in a row in our own end and it got away from us. However, the game plan to do something different worked and allowed us to hang around for a while.
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Post by realdawg on Oct 30, 2020 5:52:35 GMT -6
I would say defense. I have experienced more problems getting personnel to fit certain defensive structures. For example, we switched from a 4-2-5 quarters concept to 3-3 cov 3 a couple years ago bc we didnt have enough depth on DL without having to play OL both ways, we didnt have enough safeties to play 2 high and have any depth, and we liked having 3 Lbs based on some problems we were having.
What we were doing on O we still have the kids to fit. So we didnt need to change.
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Post by realdawg on Oct 29, 2020 3:27:35 GMT -6
Maybe its just me. But I'd play. You say you have enough to play unless someone gets hurt.....you cant set around and expect bad things to happen. I think its a bad look to your kids and community not to play, to me that looks like you are quiting on them when you can have another week of practice to make your young kids better for next year, and give everyone a chance to play 1 more football game.
Again, I may be wrong, I have been before, but I'd play.
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Post by realdawg on Oct 20, 2020 5:59:07 GMT -6
SC did something similar I believe. However, in NC where I am, we are playing in Feb a 7 game season. No built in date for makeups, half the number of teams in the playoffs, and no plus 1 for teams that dont make the playoffs.
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Post by realdawg on Oct 20, 2020 3:31:04 GMT -6
I actually like the idea of letting almost everyone in the playoffs during this crazy season. Helps with teams that have had to forfeit that are still good teams, also gives kids a chance to play 1 more games during a shortened season. Instead generally we are cutting the number of teams in playoffs.
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Post by realdawg on Oct 10, 2020 4:39:08 GMT -6
While they may not force you to keep this staff member or that staff member etc... if they are teachers in the school it is often hard to replace them if they continue to keep their teaching position. Now, if you arent hiring teachers than thats a different story. However, I personally dont know enough non teachers who coach that would be willing to move.
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