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Post by 19delta on Mar 15, 2020 14:58:25 GMT -6
I'm betting that most of you young dudes who are teachers will be dads by Christmas... š
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Post by 19delta on Feb 19, 2020 18:10:47 GMT -6
US Census Bureau is hiring temporary workers. Pay rates of $17-$30/hour depending on location.
I worked the 2000 census. Easy peasy. Worked as little or as much as I wanted to
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Post by 19delta on Feb 10, 2020 20:10:25 GMT -6
We had a game seven hours from home and we were driving half the way the day before and spending the night in a hotel. We were driving four hours that night so I called in a big dinner order at a burger place; we planned on just picking it up there and getting back on the road. There's only TWO of those friggin' burger places in the whole state and I placed the order with the wrong one; on the other side of the damn state. That's tough. Did you have to pay for the food you ordered?
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Post by 19delta on Feb 9, 2020 17:56:33 GMT -6
Just in general the first few years of my career I wasn't coaching for kids I was coaching for myself.Ā Yep. Me too. And was a complete jackass while doing it. I wince when I think back about what an a$$hole I was. Like Michael Scott-level cringe.
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Post by 19delta on Jan 19, 2020 20:18:22 GMT -6
My last school a person got a stipend to run concession stand but that was just ordering and keeping track of stock. The junior class sponsors and class ran concession stands for both semesters to get money for prom and then their senior class trip. Junior class sponsors worked their butts off. My wife and I (both teachers) were the sophomore class sponsors this year. We were responsible for both football and volleyball concessions. It was a nightmare. We really struggled to get people to work, mostly because the girls on the volleyball team often had a weekend tournament that started on Friday evening so none of them were available. And having a senior son on the football team, we were not really interested in missing his game. We got through football, but by the skin of our teeth. We were lucky to only have two home games this year (we are a co-op program so the other home games were played at the other school). Had we a 3rd or 4th game to cover, I don't think we would have had any workers. For volleyball concessions, we just gave up trying to get parents and kids to work. My wife and I just sucked it up and did all 10 dates ourselves. We tried to impress upon the kids that working concessions would benefit them by helping offset costs for prom. But, for most of these kids, prom is 2 years away and their parents will just cut a check anyway. I think that the next time we come around for class sponsorship, we are going to to just pay kids and parents per hour or shift worked. Hopefully, that will provide a more immediate incentive and we will get more kids and parents who are willing to work.
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Post by 19delta on Jan 19, 2020 17:10:03 GMT -6
I'm a video and picture taker at concerts. But.... Just to chronicle the experience. I don't film the whole time. I take about 5 pictures. Then I soak it in. I'll admit, not seeing cameras out at Tool was refreshing AND you could see people getting more into because they had to be engaged with the band instead of their phone. Yeah...sure. That's ok. I took a couple pictures, too. I'm talking about those people who are literally watching the concert through their cellphone. WTF?
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Post by 19delta on Jan 19, 2020 17:08:29 GMT -6
I like Metallica, particularly the pre Black album stuff, but my God are they trying to out Kiss Kiss. I lost touch with them after the Black Album. But I reconnected with "Death Magnetic". "All Nightmare Long" is a great song and the new album is really good, except for the fact that I can't listen to it at school when I'm lifting because of all the F-bombs. But a really good album. But anything from that period 1991-2008, I really am in the dark. I don't think I know any of their stuff from that time period.
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Post by 19delta on Jan 19, 2020 9:30:56 GMT -6
In my day it was a Letterman's sweater. Stripes on the sleeve...source of pride and school spirit. We had a basement in the old gym which was the Letterman's club...ping pong table...Coke machine...refrigerator, etc. If you Lettered you could hang out...bring your girlfriend. If you weren't a Letterman and were caught near the clubhouse...you were shoved into a gym locker. I guess this was before jackets were invented. What was pinky tuscadero like in real life? Those short shorts and the tied-up blouse...
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Post by 19delta on Jan 19, 2020 7:15:58 GMT -6
When I coached in Phoenix I rarely saw them. Who needs a jacket in Phoenix. Now that I am in Northern Arizona our guys all get them and are jacked when they can put playoff patches on the jacket. Can you describe the playoff patch? What I find interesting is that the standards for getting a patch differ from school to school. For example, when I was in high school, you got a playoff patch if the team advanced to the quarterfinals. At my current school, you don't get a playoff patch unless the team advances to the semifinals. We do give out a patch for winning a conference championship. Some schools give out a patch for just making the playoffs. I have seen other schools award patches for individual awards like all-conference or all-state, or sectional qualifier in wrestling but our school does not do that. The only "individual" awards our kids get are a patch for a 3.0 GPA and 3.75 GPA and maybe fine arts individual distinctions. The other thing that a lot of our kids do is "customize" their jackets. When I was in high school, there was pretty much just one standard jacket type. Our kids have a lot more options. For example, most of our kids get a jacket with a royal blue shell and orange sleeve. My kid didn't like the orange sleeves so he got white sleeves. We also have several co-op teams at our school (football, track, and wrestling). So, my kid has 3 different varsity letters on his jacket. He has an orange "E" for playing on the school baseball team, a green "W" for wrestling on the co-op wrestling team, and a red "P" for playing on the co-op football team. He started a mini-trend with that. There is another boy who is getting his letter jacket done in the football team's co-op colors (black and blue) instead of the school colors (orange and blue). One thing we do that I find odd is the kids get a sport pin for each year they play a sport. So, for example, they get a JV letter their freshman year and a pin. When they finally get a varsity letter, they have a pin for each year they played. So, when you see our senior football players, for example, they all have a varsity letter and 4 football pins. It appears that they are all 4-year varsity letterman but they aren't. I have never seen it done that way before. Usually, the number of pins on the letter shows how many varsity letters in that sport they have won, not how many years they have played the sport.
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Post by 19delta on Jan 19, 2020 6:54:23 GMT -6
Not me. My letterman's jacket was like a body tattoo. It would be 80 degrees out and I would be wearing it! š I am like Delta. I wore my jacket like a tatoo. I still have it (and would wear it but it would be weird to now). I coach at school with a huge tradition in football and girls swimming. I see kids wearing letterman jackets but not in huge numbers. I think it went a way for a while but like another post said they are making a comeback. In hindsight, the saddest day of my life was probably in early April of 1992 when I wore my letterman's jacket for the last time. It's been all downhill since then!
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Post by 19delta on Jan 19, 2020 6:46:16 GMT -6
Agreed. They don't move around that much. Which is fine. They don't let you record anything. Which is fine. They just kick ass. Sort of a Pink Floydian experience. Took my sons with me. They shared my sentiment of Tool's basassery. I don't understand the recording thing at concerts. I saw Metallica at Soldier Field in 2018. They played about a 2.5 hour set and there were people who had their phones out recording for the entire concert. Who's going to watch that? What are they going to do with the video? I mean, it's fvcking Metallica! Arguably the greatest heavy metal band ever! Put down your damned phone and behold greatness!
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Post by 19delta on Jan 18, 2020 19:25:32 GMT -6
What if you were to offer to take over concessions for the varsity game if parents from other sports did concessions for the JV game?
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Post by 19delta on Jan 18, 2020 19:22:58 GMT -6
The biggest thorn in my side this year was dealing with the Sports Boosters. At our school, the boosters give a percentage of the concessions to our program if we have at least 2 parents (per level - JV & Varsity) sign up for each home game.Ā Like many schools the varsity parents sign up for the JV games and vice versa. We ran into problems as the JV games started as early as 4pm and many parents weren't off of work by then. We didn't have too many issues for the varsity games, but the boosters were relentless in making sure we had coverage. I have two team moms. They're tough gals. Even they said they felt unnecessary pressure from the boosters. There were also threatening emails (e.g. we're going to let soccer parents take the spots and get the money if you can't consistently keep parents signed up). My AD said we could break off and have our own Football Boosters and take the concessions for ourselves. This sounds good, in theory, but it can also create a lot of bad blood that may not be worth it in the long run. In addition, I went 0-9 and I have many other things to fix. I don't have the time to develop a well-run football booster program (so please share other ideas). My wife recruits her students to also work. So there is plenty of help. Just not a strong parental presence.Ā Curious on how you might approach parents to sign up, or how you have your people sign up. Open to any ideas... If you create your own football boosters and take over concessions, how will you get parent coverage for the 4pm JV games? You said that was an issue this year. How would creating your own football boosters address that problem?
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Post by 19delta on Jan 17, 2020 6:35:55 GMT -6
Everybody wore one when I was in high school, but I never did. I figured I never needed to wear a jacket to prove that I was an athlete. I would prove that on the field/mat. Not me. My letterman's jacket was like a body tattoo. It would be 80 degrees out and I would be wearing it! š
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Post by 19delta on Jan 17, 2020 6:34:18 GMT -6
Idk that I've seen a kid wear a letter jacket in 10 years. Good school or bad. They seem to be making a comeback. I was having a conversation with a woman who runs an embroidery shop and she said there were years in which she wouldn't sell a single jacket. In fact, she stopped carrying them in inventory. They were a special order item. But, over the last couple years, they have become much more popular and she is back to carrying them in the store I'm glad to see kids wearing them again.
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Post by 19delta on Jan 4, 2020 8:41:33 GMT -6
Never played or coached in one in HS. Played 4 years in the Bronze Turkey game between Monmouth College and Knox. That was a cool game. Local school that bordered a former school proposed a trophy game when they entered our conference. Mostly because they thought they'd win it every year. Wanted to call it something War. Even though they bordered us, we hardly played them in anything, nor had a rivalry with them. I said no because I thought it sounded stupid and I hate manufactured history. After beating them like 120-40 the first 2 years we played, the idea was dropped. Ha! Sounds like this: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Conflict?wprov=sfla1
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Post by 19delta on Jan 1, 2020 17:14:37 GMT -6
The thing is I donāt think they are really selling anything. I guess you could say they are selling RPR (which was something before it was renamed/branded) or going to the clinics they hold a couple of times a year (but those are for track and football). Itās not like any of these guys are really selling a service or anything. I agree that a lot of what they are talking about isnāt new and is much more common practice. I agree that a number of things about it people look at as say āWell yeah thatās just good practice habits/methodsā We also have to accept that we (members here) arenāt necessarily the norm. We all know, coach against and coach with guys that donāt spend as much time researching, learning and debating football as we do. There are still programs that do or would if they could beat the crap out of each other every day. They would run their kids into the ground. Some of those programs might even achieve a pretty high level even with those methods. I kind of look at it like weightlifting programs. When you start looking at all the different ones. While they are all different there are a lot of similarities. Guys choose different programs for different reasons. I donāt think anyone is trying to convince anyone āThis is the wayā. I donāt anyone thinks this is a magic bullet. Itās just trying to figure out/see if there is a better way than what way than what one is currently doing it. Bingo! For those who have PM'd me, I am not trying to sell a damn thing, and my intention isnt promoting this coach or RPR. I posted on here for the sake of discussion and interested in hearing if others have used this practice planning, do something similar, etc. Personally I am looking for different ways of doing things practice wise and don't mind stepping outside the box to do it. Not looking for any magic bullets, maybe just a few ideas on how I can restructure our practices to be more efficient and get more our of our student-athletes. Thank you to those who have provided input and information I follow both Coach Dixon and Coach Holler on Twitter. If you can get past all the "we are such rebels!" drama and incessant straw man arguments, there is a lot of good content and common sense in what they post. I haven't coached high school football in several years. One of the biggest reasons I got out of it was the grind...I just didnt want to do the 2.5-3 hour practices every night, the morning film and lifting on Saturday, and even Sunday nights (at a couple places). Just wore me down. One of the biggest gripes I have had at almost all the places I have coached is that we wasted so much time...did so much stuff that just wasn't necessary and had very little to do with helping kids be better football players. But it made coaches feel better because we could say "Look how much time we are putting in!" I remember one place I was at...we were still having 3-hour practices with full-speed tackling drills Week 9 of a season in which we were 3-5. We played an 0-8 team Week 9 and they kicked our a$$ 28-0. Our kids (and most of the coaches) were DONE. Could not get that season wrapped up fast enough. Brutal. I think that anything that shortens practice and keeps kids fresh and interested is worthwhile. The team I posted about above was actually pretty talented. Big, strong OL, a couple really good backs, speed on defense. I wonder often if we had been a little smarter with that group of boys and didn't grind them into dust if things would have went differently that season. I have never seen a group of boys that happy to be finished with a football season. It should never end that way.
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Post by 19delta on Dec 21, 2019 20:42:20 GMT -6
They could have been greyshirted. I had 2 players greyshirted at Platteville. Definitely not college football material but they loved the game. I think the fact that these colleges recruit so many players makes football such an important piece to these small colleges (D2 & D3). The football programs justify their costs by generating revenue for the school through increased enrollments. If college coaches didn't recruit so heavily, we would see more colleges dropping their programs (much like St Cloud State and MN-Crookston last week) How are you defining "greyshirting"? But the definition I am most familiar with, it would not seem to apply here since greyshirting means that the student doesn't enroll in the school until the 2nd semester. Delta seems to be under the impression that the students in question all enrolled and attended classes in the fall of 2019 Yes. That is correct. All are students at UW-Platteville.
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Post by 19delta on Dec 21, 2019 20:37:00 GMT -6
So maybe you can explain this to me. We had 5 guys from our 2018 state semifinal team go to Platteville. At least some of these guys had a "roster spot" and posted pictures of themselves on campus with a UW-Platteville Pioneers backdrop, holding the axe, with the #SwingTheAxe hashtag. However, NONE of these guys are on the current UW-Platteville roster.Ā So what is the deal with the guys? Are they on the team? Did they get cut? What is their status, exactly? They could have been greyshirted. I had 2 players greyshirted at Platteville. Definitely not college football material but they loved the game. I think the fact that these colleges recruit so many players makes football such an important piece to these small colleges (D2 & D3). The football programs justify their costs by generating revenue for the school through increased enrollments. If college coaches didn't recruit so heavily, we would see more colleges dropping their programs (much like St Cloud State and MN-Crookston last week) What advantage does greyshirting have for the kids? If a school like UW-Platteville offers a "roster spot", is that binding? Or can it be rescinded?
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Post by 19delta on Dec 21, 2019 20:21:05 GMT -6
So maybe you can explain this to me. We had 5 guys from our 2018 state semifinal team go to Platteville. At least some of these guys had a "roster spot" and posted pictures of themselves on campus with a UW-Platteville Pioneers backdrop, holding the axe, with the #SwingTheAxe hashtag. However, NONE of these guys are on the current UW-Platteville roster.Ā So what is the deal with the guys? Are they on the team? Did they get cut? What is their status, exactly? They quit?Ā It is a common tale.Ā HS football is generally "fun".Ā College football in many if not most cases is generally "work".Ā It is quite common for 18-19-20 year olds who are not being compensated or who need football for some reason (school related) to realize that the other students seem to be having a great deal more fun than they are.Ā I don't blame them.Ā Ā My understanding is at least some of them are still there and have some kind of connection to the football program. But obviously not on the roster. Perhaps they are still working out with the team? But not officially on the roster?
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Post by 19delta on Dec 21, 2019 18:19:46 GMT -6
But the offers there don't mean you don't get greyshirted. They're trying to appeal to the masses like everyone else. I have no problem with the offers or the signing day.. If it gets kids excited to play college ball and continue the game, I'm all in. A roster offer at a private school probably has more meaning because it at least means you'll get to practice with the team after the first 8 days. Most don't grayshirt year one, although I can't speak for all. Your more successful ones a roster spot is a roster spot, they'll bring in 120-130 for camp and assemble the roster from there. So maybe you can explain this to me. We had 5 guys from our 2018 state semifinal team go to Platteville. At least some of these guys had a "roster spot" and posted pictures of themselves on campus with a UW-Platteville Pioneers backdrop, holding the axe, with the #SwingTheAxe hashtag. However, NONE of these guys are on the current UW-Platteville roster. So what is the deal with the guys? Are they on the team? Did they get cut? What is their status, exactly?
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Post by 19delta on Dec 19, 2019 20:12:34 GMT -6
I think when they post 5th offer they mean 5 total from different schools. Also I have seen D3 now sending kids an official offer to āhave a roster spotā or something like that. Guess itās what kids want to hear now so they have jumped on the wagon. Yes the "roster spot" is apparently a big deal. Seeing a lot of this from the D3 public universities in Wisconsin. My understanding is that a "roster spot" means they won't outright cut players. But also no guarantee to dress for home games or travel to away games.
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Post by 19delta on Dec 19, 2019 17:15:54 GMT -6
Ok...so obviously it is ridiculous when kids have a signing ceremony to play D3 ball. But what is the deal with kids posting on Twitter, "Blessed to receive my 5th offer from (insert really expensive private school).
Why so many offers? Did the kid tell them "no thanks" the first 5 times?
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Post by 19delta on Dec 19, 2019 17:03:51 GMT -6
Thanks gccwolverine He came to us a few weeks ago and stated his want to play college ball. So, we're in the process of getting his highlight tape together. He's good enough to pick up a full ride at an NAIA or D2 school but he has some specific schools in mind. I wish he and his folks had a little more forethought last year (this is my first year in the program) as he would've landed some good offers at those schools last year. I'm not so sure about this year; both programs had solid seasons and already scooped up some good in-state recruits. What's his SAT/ACT?
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Post by 19delta on Dec 17, 2019 15:05:47 GMT -6
Sorry, I don't understand the argument at all. Long story boring, the main arguments against districts are: 1) The initial vote passed largely because many schools that don't even play football voted for districts. 2) Buyer remorse. Even though the state association voted in favor of districts last year, once people got a look at how the districts were going to operate and be organized, it led to a lot of cold feet. 3) The plan was heavily dependent on districts being 9 or more teams. With declining enrollments in Illinois and greater numbers of school opting for 8-man football, that is going to be virtually impossible. At least that is my analysis of the results
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Post by 19delta on Dec 17, 2019 11:51:44 GMT -6
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Post by 19delta on Dec 12, 2019 17:44:00 GMT -6
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RPR
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Post by 19delta on Dec 10, 2019 18:03:51 GMT -6
#CatFeeders
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Post by 19delta on Dec 9, 2019 20:23:23 GMT -6
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Post by 19delta on Dec 6, 2019 20:44:04 GMT -6
Small-school football in Illinois...Forreston. they will have 3,000 yards rushing at the end of the year spread out over 6-7 guys. And none of those guys will be a 1,000 yard back.
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