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Post by silkyice on Sept 8, 2022 7:00:39 GMT -6
Especially since they had a FG blocked from the same side in 1st Half. I will say, it couldn't have happened to a more deserving coach than Brian Kelly. Fammmmm-a-leeeeeee
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Post by silkyice on Sept 7, 2022 13:00:32 GMT -6
Glad someone restarted this thread.
You want to know where some bad fundamentals were played last week? Right on the field I was coaching. Ha. We won 34-0 and were up 31-0 at half. But on offense, we really were awful fundamentally. I was truly embarrassed watching the film. Splits were bad, bad first steps, awful pad level, terrible fakes, we were leaning (called once and should/could have been called seven times). Those are all things that we control. So you can win, and win big with bad fundamentals when you play a bad team.
Pointed all this out in film on Saturday and got it all corrected on Monday. After this Friday, we play #1, #5, and #2 in three straight weeks. We play like we did last Friday and we will literally get shut out in all three games. Still might, but dang it, we hopefully won't ever look like we did Friday again.
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Post by silkyice on Aug 29, 2022 12:59:55 GMT -6
Is the kid Tom Brady's son? Is this where he's been for the past week? Hahahahahahahahahaha
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Post by silkyice on Aug 29, 2022 12:59:09 GMT -6
Dude, this is actually great. You got rid of a psycho family. That is a win.
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Post by silkyice on Aug 26, 2022 8:37:13 GMT -6
Great post. Be prepared to get blown up with questions!! You are an awesome resource! You scared rocky34 off Did he leave? Noooooo
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Post by silkyice on Aug 25, 2022 9:11:22 GMT -6
I played for coach Markham in Bandon in the late 90s… we walked everywhere, ran all team O and D during practice …I can remember running 36 pitch at least 30 times until it was perfect ! no pregame … would go out on the field before game throw the ball around and get loose , run some plays then go back into the locker room and have a little pep talk …then take the field and play football! Always had team dinners cooked by Linda (his wife ) at his ranch along with a study hall if you needed it and film session . Markham was huge on weightlifting! We lifted all summer and ran sprints .. as far as The peanut butter sandwich laced with creatine …not exactly true … they were peanut butter and honey on wheat bread, his wife would hand us two sandwiches as we walked in and there was a shaker with creatine we were asked if we wanted creatine on our sandwiches. Of course none of us said no….lol. Great post. Be prepared to get blown up with questions!! You are an awesome resource!
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Post by silkyice on Aug 24, 2022 18:11:33 GMT -6
Anyone using these things? Besides not having to print the scout cards, I think they are basically worthless. The scout team is still a cluster fruck and noe they aren’t huddling up so they can’t ask a coach if they are unsure of something. Does it just take time to get acquainted? Has anyone had success with them? Are there tips you can offer? They have testimonials on their website but the Tom Allen one looks more produced and scripted than a Ginsu knife commercial on Nick at night after dark. We are using. The main downside is just getting them on. Getting the belts, making sure powered on, etc. we have actually added minutes 3 minutes to our break between special team and defense to get them on and ready. Once on, they have been effective. Are they a game changer, no, but close. But only because we were pretty dang efficient anyways. We were using hudl scripts and had 4 coaches with phones. One for line, one for backs, one for right side receivers, am done for left, that the players would just glance at then line up. GoRout is a little faster than that, but not a ton and we didn't have to worry about getting them ready. One more issue, our weather has been unseasonably cool (88 and under the last week). When it was 95 plus, half the goRouts had issues cutting on or loading up.
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Post by silkyice on Aug 23, 2022 11:45:17 GMT -6
This may be true. However, if he didn't have at least a spark of self-confidence to begin with, I doubt that he would even be attempting to succeed in the task at hand. I will concur that as one's competence grows...so does his confidence. I am sure that this debate of which comes first has been an ongoing one for quite some time. I've seen some psychological research on this. The consensus seems to be that in order to get either, you need experience (aka practice) to build those qualities. The old aphorism is that the bad thing about experience is that you don't get it until after you need it. Once that starts to happen, confidence seems to increase faster than competence at first (Dunning-Krueger Effect), where someone with minimal competence becomes overconfident because they think they know what to do, but don't know enough to know what they're doing wrong. You will see that stage referred to as "Mount Stupid" when it's graphed as this huge spike of high confidence above low actual competence. Once the overconfident, but incompetent, person is confronted with irrefutable proof of their incompetence (like obvious failure), their confidence falls dramatically once the person realizes this... but *if* they continue to practice they build competence, which brings the confidence back up over time... until eventually when someone is highly competent their own confidence actually lags a bit behind their skills because they are acutely aware of imperfections and mistakes. Some people, of course, manage to somehow be incompetent but avoid the consequences of this for a time. These people tend to rise in rank despite their skills having holes or problems in it, where the Peter Principle comes into play. Wow that was a lot and actually super surprised I followed all of it. Probably just overconfident.
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Post by silkyice on Aug 22, 2022 18:55:32 GMT -6
You bought a Lev Sled without knowing exactly how it works (or doesn't)? Why? I'm not sure where that was ever implied. I know how the sled works. If the video above was clear enough here's another example of colleges making the Lev sled stationary. I don't have a wall to use it against, I understand how it works, it's fine to use as a sled, and there are benefits to it being stationary for drills as well. My advice is to what we have done. Use it like it is stationary. It wil move. So the guys just move up to be ready for the next hit.
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Post by silkyice on Aug 21, 2022 18:56:27 GMT -6
Probably doing hips and hands drills or something similar
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Post by silkyice on Aug 20, 2022 9:28:32 GMT -6
I have a VHS Tape of the "one-man clinic" that Coach Markham did in a classroom full of coaches (I am guessing it was at Bloomington H.S.(CA)). IMO...it was outstanding. No BS, just honest/straight forward football talk. Unfortunately, I no longer have access to equipment to convert this tape to DVD...otherwise, I would be willing to share this with others. I think I have/had the same VHS. No idea where it is. One thing that stuck out to me if I recall correctly, is that everything was blocked front specific and not rules. Meaning they block a 4-4 one way, a 5-2 this way, etc.
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Post by silkyice on Aug 19, 2022 23:19:48 GMT -6
Is Don Markham the guy who had the "It takes a set" shirts and videos and stuff in the mid-late 90s? No. That is Hugh Wyatt.
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Post by silkyice on Aug 3, 2022 6:05:47 GMT -6
I had a conversation with a youth coach today, he didn't know I had coaching experience. He started telling me about how bad fundamentals were at the high school level, why they are bad, how they don't teach them to play right, etc. This guy was basically just being a blowhard and figured he could hold court by talking about how much better he could do things than those perceived to be better. It got me thinking, if a bunch of college coaches were to read all this, would they feel the same way? Of course they would. It is called cherry picking data. A high school coach only needs to see bad fundamentals on one play a week to make this claim. The dudes playing are still human. Of course they aren't going to do it right every time. Side note: watch NBA shooters. Many have great technique. Some don't, but still can knock it down. Same with Major league baseball swings or pitchers. What is the fundamental and most effective way for most, is not necessarily what is best for all. I think this goes for everything. When it comes down to it, do you get the job done or not? If you do, you play.
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Post by silkyice on Jul 24, 2022 10:24:25 GMT -6
We don't do 7on7's at all. I didn't even like them when I was spread. I have found them to be counter productive and not worth the time.
1) injuries. Even with my limited 7 on 7 tournaments, I had a kid tear his ACL and one mess up his shoulder. Our biggest rival lost two impact players to 7on7's last year.
2) You don't face real defenses.
3) You don't face real situations.
4) You don't face real techniques. You get jammed/held at the LOS all time in 7on7. You know how many times my receivers have ever had a hard time releasing in real games? Zero. In 7 on 7, they damn near get tackled at the line.
5) Why would I want to show my opponents my pass game or pass defense? I know, I know, they will see it on tape anyways, but it doesn't quite work like that with us and our complicated coverages/blitzes, etc.
6) The dang tournaments are too long. 4 pool play games and then a tournament? While it is 95 degrees? Jeez.
7) Competition. I do agree that getting kids to compete is a good thing. Which is EXACTLY why I don't want to do 7 on 7. I am not going to give them the best chance to compete to win. We aren't going to practice for it or have the right defenses or right offense. So that is counter productive.
8) I once got wrapped up in it at the moment and did the bs running back completion for a first down right over the center for a 1 yard game.
9) We already ask enough of these kids all summer.
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Post by silkyice on Jul 15, 2022 5:07:07 GMT -6
Not trying to be argumentative, but how do you know this? It is July.
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Post by silkyice on Jul 11, 2022 16:32:36 GMT -6
Aug 18 or 19 is first game most all schools in Alabama. Interesting. 15 week season (game 1- championship game)? It is week 0. You then have weeks 1-10. Then playoffs. 5 games. Just 4 for 7A (less teams). You have 10 games to play in 11 weeks. Most everyone plays week 0 and takes another week off.
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Post by silkyice on Jul 11, 2022 16:26:02 GMT -6
Our first scrimmage was first week of august. First real game 3rd week of august. Starting on July 11 doesn't seem like 7-8 weeks? Fair enough... I could be wrong, but I think most of the posters here's first REAL game (not scrimmage, not jamboree) is likely the Friday before Labor Day. When does school open for your school? Aug 18 or 19 is first game most all schools in Alabama.
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Post by silkyice on Jul 7, 2022 13:32:23 GMT -6
Hypothetically speaking, if your AD and admin let you do as much or as little time as you wanted, if there were no state regulations on summer work. If there were no nearby powerhouse schools hyping up how much they work, and potentially poaching your players. And assuming your goal was to win a state title with whatever talent you may have. What would your typical summer week look like, and why? How many hours would you have the players there working? Why not an hour more or an hour less? Would you do 2-a-days at any time? Why? Just looking for thoughts as to what is that optimal amount of work, all things considered. I would do what we currently do or LESS. Tue 9am-noon weights/plyos/agilities/acceleration work/specialty/offense Wed 9am-11:30 on the track - speed work specialty/offense/defense Thu 9am-noon weights/plyos/agilities/top end speed work/specialty/defense That is the outline anyways. No 7 on 7's and no OTA's. I could live with no Wednesdays. In fact, I have not done Weds for all but the last three years. Took over a program during Covid and didn't get to meet the kids until June 10, so Wednesday was necessary that year. Have just kept it. We will add in conditioning starting next week. That adds in 10-20 minutes extra. I always start that after July 4 week.
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Post by silkyice on Jul 5, 2022 18:14:49 GMT -6
I would be interested in learning what was discovered during this "investigation" given that the AD seemed to give this his blessing 3 months ago. My guess is that they couldn't get enough to field a team and it is July 5th, so ...
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Post by silkyice on Jul 5, 2022 10:12:00 GMT -6
Only holiday we ever did anything Football-related on was Labor Day because that was a game week. Very fortunate to be practicing on Thanksgiving the last two years. But that is more of an honor and what every team strives for in Alabama.
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Post by silkyice on Jul 2, 2022 10:47:44 GMT -6
&am Monday on July 4th? That is hard core
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Post by silkyice on Jul 2, 2022 9:55:32 GMT -6
I found this out after the season was over. First game of the season. We go on to win state this year and ironically, play the same team in the state finals. Anyways, some of the guys on the other team were praying together as we were walking out to the field to warmup. The best player I will ever coach and a legitimate alpha badass, tells those guys huddled up and praying, "God can't even save you from this ass-whooping." He backed up. 28-0 at half and we called the dogs off at 35-0.
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Post by silkyice on Jul 1, 2022 8:29:03 GMT -6
1. The 20-hour/week rule 2. CFB has become an extremely complex game X and O-wise. Requires a lot of practice-prep time which takes away from Individual (fundamentals). This. Beat me to it.
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Post by silkyice on Jun 30, 2022 13:25:01 GMT -6
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Post by silkyice on Jun 29, 2022 7:38:02 GMT -6
This is absolutely going to start a back and forth here, but why does the player’s ability factor in? You either have a standard of conduct for your team or you don’t. That is an either/or logical fallacy. 100% or 0% presented as the only options, when in fact there are good reasons to have 95% consistency and 5% you handle case by case. Level of talent comes into play because for average football players, I’ve found trash talking distracts them from their assignment…….had the occasional case where for our best dudes, it actually increased focus due to their competitive nature. Here’s the bottom line for me: it is not encouraged, but as long as it is not noticeable nor distracting, it is not a hill I’m going to die on. Agree here. I will also say that, rightly or wrongly, some players are worth a 15 yard penalty. Now don't get me wrong, we rarely get personal foul flags thrown on us. We punish the kids if they do. They know they have bear crawls coming Monday. Doesn't matter who it is. But, if some pissant looks like he might get one, he is coming out and might not go back in. The only way that kid truly affects the game is by getting a 15 yarder. But if my d1 stud looks like he might get one, we certainly will chew him, maybe even sit him a play, but ass is going back in. If he gets one, he is coming out, but probably going right back in. Either way, both will get the same "punishment" or "discipline" with the bear crawls the next week.
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Post by silkyice on Jun 28, 2022 12:39:48 GMT -6
My favorite one was 7 or 8 years ago. Our rival school hadn't come close to beating us in over 5 years but they beat us at a summer 7 on 7 tournament. A bunch of their kids were bragging about it and telling our guys all summer/fall that we had no chance in the fall because one of our corners was "suspect". So in the fall we are up something like 42-0 going into half and as we walk to the locker room one of our kids tells one of theirs "don't feel bad, 7 on 7 season is only a few months away." Can't really love this anymore than I do.
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Post by silkyice on Jun 27, 2022 9:43:12 GMT -6
Depends on how good the player is, and how blatant the trash talking is Player ability level can vary to allow for explanation. Trash talk is not blatant, refs are not looking to penalize, but you know it is taking place. 1) We tell him to shut up and play ball. 2) If that doesn't work, chew him out on the sideline. 3)If that doesn't work, sit him out a play or whatever you deem necessary. BUT, if refs aren't looking to penalize, that means it probably isn't really noticeable. So that probably means I am not noticing either. There is too much other stuff going on that I need and want to worry about. So if it is an actual distraction, we can go through steps 1-3. But the way you describe it, it sounds like we would just go with step 1 and play ball.
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Post by silkyice on Jun 23, 2022 12:53:33 GMT -6
Advertise for them. Have their logo on a sign on the football field or wall. Give them a page of advertising in your sport annual. Have the announcer announce them during pre-game, halftime, etc.
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Post by silkyice on Jun 20, 2022 11:32:03 GMT -6
We have a lower school (K-4) PE job opening. Great school and football. Montgomery Academy in Alabama. Please contact robert_johnson@montgomeryacademy.org .
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Post by silkyice on Jun 15, 2022 17:15:17 GMT -6
Two whistles? Head set with no one on top. That is amazing. I once coached against a guy in the playoffs that would wear a pair of Raybans over his normal pair of glasses. Was odd as hell. Was it during the day? If so, at least he is practical. Ha. Practical, but odd. If not, ...
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