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Post by realdawg on Sept 29, 2020 6:19:05 GMT -6
If you've coached D for a while then you have seen and know something about almost every style of offense. Pick the one you think fits you best and dig into it and learn the nuts and bolts. I always thought, to defend the wing T, flexbone, spread, whatever, you had to know what they were trying to do and once you know that you can really begin to start to understand that type of offense.
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Post by realdawg on Sept 17, 2020 9:44:28 GMT -6
Not a coaching position on the field. But I’m finding out a wt room guy is pretty hard to find. And everyone things they are one.
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Post by realdawg on Sept 15, 2020 4:20:32 GMT -6
O Line bc it is most important position coach. I would also add that really good DB and DL coaches are hard to find as well.
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Post by realdawg on Sept 8, 2020 19:56:28 GMT -6
As mentioned it depends on many factors. Help is a big one. Also are your kids playing one way or two ways? As mentioned up too you are removed from the emotion of the game. Which sucks in a way. But helps you think level headed. You also can see everything that’s happening much easier. But do you have people on the field that can make the adjustments? Do you have kids on the sideline to coach or are they playing on the other side of the ball?
Story....two years ago I was DC. I was hell bent on being on field. Had a young guy up top. He knew football. But got caught up in the game. And missed some stuff. Like personnel subs that the game plan was built around. HC chewed out tails for it. And deservedly so. Also, I didn’t have a ton of kids on the sideline to coach. Many of them were involved in our O.
So this past year I decided to go up top. If we were gonna get chewed by the HC it was gonna be my fault. I could see everything. I made better calls Bc of it. I made better adjustments Bc of it. And our coaches on the field were good enough to relay our adjustments to the kids.
Not saying it’s for everyone. But it worked for me.
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Post by realdawg on Sept 4, 2020 20:15:19 GMT -6
Any off week we would generally go something like this Monday-off Tuesday-regular practice but lots of indy time and less team time than normal Wed-tough hard physical practice. Thur-Still full pads, not quiet as physical as Wed, but still some live bullets situations like goalline, 3 and long etc, go through special teams.
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Post by realdawg on Aug 29, 2020 4:28:31 GMT -6
Look up Bingham in Utah. Watched them last night. They got beat but were in I formation. No clue if its on youtube. Please dont yell at me for not knowing. LOL
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Post by realdawg on Aug 27, 2020 17:20:29 GMT -6
Compete with the Stack. Got to listening to Coach Carter from Grayson HS on zoom during the quarantine and found this podcast he does.
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Post by realdawg on Aug 17, 2020 3:12:49 GMT -6
In NC we moved the season to Feb. As well as changing the start dates for every other sport. First practice is Feb 8, first game is Feb 26. 7 games and playoffs. Though we havent been given any details about playoffs yet. I do agree its a quick turnaround from one season to the next. I think the month of May or June basically needs to be a dead period. You have eliminated the need for spring practice.
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Post by realdawg on Jul 30, 2020 3:27:47 GMT -6
We have not had anyone test positive, but we've had a couple on watch and have to quarantine b/c someone in their family had it. Thankfully, they all came back negative. Kids just wanna be kids. They want to be social and joke around and tell stupid stories. We give them the chance to do that. If one of ours tests positive then anyone in his group or that he has had close contact with is out for 14 days or until they bring a proof of negative test. The player that tests positive is out 10 day from last symptoms I believe. As I mentioned we havent had one, but I think another school in our county did (heresay but from a really good source) and they didnt shut the whole thing down. So the admin backed the plan.
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Post by realdawg on Jul 9, 2020 16:15:38 GMT -6
As long as there is a demand to watch football there will be a demand to play football. Idk who will run it or be in charge or whether it will be schools or travel or what. Idk. But the NFL is big money. I don’t see the demand for watching NFL games going away. Matter of fact I say if we miss it for a season the demand to watch it will be more. And as long as there is NFL they will need programs to develop players until they are ready to be drafted.
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Post by realdawg on Jul 1, 2020 4:43:42 GMT -6
Its only a matter of time before this becomes more widespread. A better list will end up being, what states are going to play football on time?
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Post by realdawg on Jun 30, 2020 6:44:51 GMT -6
It looked sunny in the video I saw. But it has been cooler than normal in NC too. We are able to condition only in limited numbers. I’ve got a group at 8 and a group at 10 every day. And there has only been 1 day I thought was hot. Now we are dead this week for July 4 holiday. And it’s been well into the 90s.
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Post by realdawg on Jun 29, 2020 4:55:55 GMT -6
I saw a video clip from Hoover’s workouts last week. Everything looked the same except the kids wore a pull up face covering over this face. That’s gotta he tough in that Alabama heat!
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Post by realdawg on Jun 21, 2020 5:37:55 GMT -6
I agree w/ rsmith for the most part. We have been able to start bringing our kids in this past week. Groups of 25. Social distancing, disinfect anything they touch. We basically did conditioning. They did body weight exercises/workout for a while, then did speed/agility/conditioning etc... I showed up, coached the heck out of the kids that were there. But I dont see us being able to play. No way. Not on time for sure. You think in a month an a half from now they are gonna say its ok for sweaty boys to lean on and hit each other? Maybe its different in other places, but I dont see it.
Some places will try.... Texas is hell bent for leather...they will try some other states may as well. I saw some clips from Alabama the other day, kids were practicing as normal, but wear a face covering under their helmet. So some are gonna try. But as mentioned I dont see it taking long before someone tests positive.
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Post by realdawg on Jun 17, 2020 13:27:51 GMT -6
We have been at it for 3 days. It’s went pretty well. Have to remind kids to social distance as they are leaving the field. But they do it. We can have 25 people there at a time. So we bring 20 kids in on M/W/F at 8 and 20 more at 10. This is our varsity group. We bring in our freshmen on T/Th, 15 at 8. 15 at 10. The kids are then divided into groups of 5. Outside our wt room we have circles painted 10 feet apart. With a 10 yard gap between sub groups. This week we are doing a body wt workout with our strength coach. On the practice field we have cones About 10 feet apart. With a 10 yard gap between sub group. And cones set up where they run to.
I agree that I don’t see us playing. At least not in the fall. Your telling me we are supposed to start practice in a month and a half and we are gonna go from this to actual practice. I just don’t see it.
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Post by realdawg on Jun 15, 2020 17:19:47 GMT -6
53 feet 4 inches if you prefer. Sideline to hash. Hash to hash. 27 feet to top of number.
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Post by realdawg on Jun 12, 2020 15:28:12 GMT -6
Good thread. We start Monday as well. We can have 25 outside including coaches. I’m bringing a max of 20 players at a time. Those 20 are then divided into groups of 5. I painted circles 10 feet apart for them to “workout” in. I painted Xs 10 feet apart where they start during running. I painted Xs 8 feet apart where they wait in line to be checked in. I painted lines for them to stand on 8 feet apart to wait for ride. Everything flows in a circular pattern so that groups and subgroups don’t interact. We are gonna take it safe, slow, and easy. It’s a good plan on paper. We will see how it goes Monday when we add adolescence into the mix.
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Post by realdawg on May 11, 2020 10:52:20 GMT -6
In NC, 1a-4a are subdivided. So there are 8 playoff brackets. 1a, 1aa, 2a, 2 aa, 3a, 3aa, 4a, and 4aa. You may not know exactly which subdivision you are until the brackets are finished. Anyway, each conference gets so many automatic bids. Its based on the number of teams in your league. After the auto qualifiers are determined, the rest of the spots are filled in based on adjusted maxpreps rankings. After all the teams in a classification are determined they are then subdivided into A and AA (little and big). Each of those subdivisions are then divided into East and West and then seeded. Conference Champions seeded first by adjustments maxpreps ranking, then 2nd place finishers, then 3rd place autobid finishers, then wild cards.
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Post by realdawg on Apr 22, 2020 11:35:09 GMT -6
Ok tech guys-the last few times I have tried to share my screen during zoom meetings, it has shown the screen as sharing on my end, but all the people on the other end can see is a black screen and my mouse cursor. Any ideas?
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Post by realdawg on Apr 8, 2020 6:05:57 GMT -6
We have used google hangout and zoom. Had technology issues with both. They are about the same. Google hangout seems a little more user friendly to me.
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Post by realdawg on Apr 2, 2020 13:05:46 GMT -6
Alot of truth in there.
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Post by realdawg on Apr 2, 2020 12:56:13 GMT -6
Defense for sure. As mentioned, you have to adjust to every formation you see. It doesnt matter what you signal in, they have to adjust it on the field to the formation. The more formations you see the harder it gets and the less calls you can have. One team we played we charted 46 formations in either 2 or 3 films. No way you could practice all those. On offense you probably prepare for 2 or maybe 3 fronts and 2 maybe 3 coverages in comparison.
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Post by realdawg on Mar 28, 2020 15:27:54 GMT -6
At some point if social distancing and stay at home orders don’t work within the next 30 days then we have to get on with our lives and learn how to deal with this disease. We can’t shelter in place forever. I understand the need for it currently. Especially in places like NY but feel like by the end of April or sometime in May we have to start getting back to normal. I also don’t understand how if we can put a man on the friggin moon we can’t come up with a treatment for this disease in a month and make enough of it so that there isn’t a supply problem. But maybe that’s all why I’m a football coach and not a politician or researcher.
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Post by realdawg on Mar 28, 2020 6:02:22 GMT -6
Football coaches should be running the country! I am sure spring is done. Summer is 50/50. I still think we will play bc August is 4 months away. If we have not gotten over this thing in 4 month then we better learn how to live with it. Bc we cant live like this forever. NC just announced a 30 day stay at home order. I told me wife, if these 30 days dont cure it then we might as well go back to normal and deal with it bc it wasnt gonna get cured.
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Post by realdawg on Mar 12, 2020 19:31:22 GMT -6
For most of us it’s no longer a matter of if but when. That being said how long do most of you expect these suspensions of school to last. NC High School Athletic Association suspended all sports till at least April 6. I am looking for schools to hand something down tomorrow.
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Post by realdawg on Mar 10, 2020 8:33:51 GMT -6
I do not snore at all. I wake up and have to pee in the middle of the night. Once I’m awake my brain gets to working and I can’t shut it off.
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Post by realdawg on Mar 10, 2020 7:07:55 GMT -6
I have a similar problem. I don’t have trouble falling asleep. But I have trouble waking up in the middle of the night and not being able to go back to sleep. Some general tips are avoid caffeine especially late at night.
One thing that helped me was to get up and write whatever I was thinking about down on paper. It helps get it off your mind.
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Post by realdawg on Feb 24, 2020 4:42:46 GMT -6
Off Season Character Ed program.
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Post by realdawg on Jan 15, 2020 13:36:56 GMT -6
We do it and it gets to the point where you dont notice it, but when its not on the kids kinda drag. We turn it on during warmups and let it run. Creates some tempo, also creates some chaos at times, and forces kids to have to communicate like a game. Only time we turn it off is during install period on Monday.
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Post by realdawg on Dec 17, 2019 4:43:19 GMT -6
Lenoir-Rhyne coach just left to take the Mercer job.
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