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Post by 19delta on Aug 12, 2021 21:28:48 GMT -6
I had a athlete that had some intestinal problems. His farts could drop a horse. I had him sit in the hall when he felt a episode come on. In sports he was able to move so he could go off and take care of business. The thing here is he doesn't care. If it interrupts practice that bad and he won't change then he needs to be away from the squad. Make him a filmer. I would put him in the press box with the opposite team. Always talk with administration and ask for help or counselor. I can't believe parents are not going to try and help. That stinks. Used to work with a PE teacher/basketball coach who had irritable bowel syndrome. When he was having a rough day, he would let us know first thing in the morning and we would all steer clear of the coaches office.
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Post by 19delta on Aug 12, 2021 21:25:39 GMT -6
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Post by 19delta on Aug 12, 2021 10:01:55 GMT -6
New York: Up Downs but I have heard Grass Drills... We had an old school coach who would say... "Coach, time to get them up and down!" "Get'em chopping!!" I worked for a guy years ago who would simply yell out, "Choppity-Chop!"
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Post by 19delta on Aug 12, 2021 10:00:27 GMT -6
It's easy to take shots at a program with a dead kid when all you read is a two paragraph news article. Certainly, there are programs with dumb coaches that make dumb decisions and it's a miracle they don't lose more kids. There are also programs with conscientious coaches that happen to have a player with an unknown medical issue.
I was in a program where the HC was so worried about the effect that heat would have on kids that he made wholesale changes to practice structure when heat hit 90+ (which was nearly all the time in southern California) - moved practices to mornings, watered kids literally every 10 minutes, checked in with the kids all the time "you guys okay? do we need a rest?". It was frustrating to the staff but we understood and dealt with it. Then one practice a kid with a congenital heart defect collapsed and we lost him. It was a morning practice that had only been underway for about 40 minutes. Fortunately for me, I was not at the practice because I was in a business meeting. In spite of being surrounded by a bunch of ambulance chasers the family did not attempt to hold the coaches or school responsible. Still, the HC and several AC's quit and never coached again. If I had seen that child laying there going out of the picture I don't know that I could have stepped back on the field. Heck, I saw a kid compound fracture his leg and it still haunts me.
One thing to add - there were comments from ignorant fools that blamed the coaches for this kid's death. Said we worked them too hard, it was too hot to be practicing in the heat of the day, etc.
It seems to me that the vast majority of these incidents fall into two categories. Either the player who died had an undiagnosed heart condition or the coaches exercised poor judgement. Deaths that fall in the first category are a tragedy and can't be prevented but the deaths that occur as a result of ignorant adults are inexcuseable and need to be prosecuted fully. That shouldn't be a controversial opinion.
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Post by 19delta on Aug 11, 2021 20:40:15 GMT -6
Some pretty good ones in NCAA D3:
Amherst Mammoths Austin Kangaroos Bowdoin Polar Bears (couple other Polar Bears) Franklin and Marshall Diplomats Heidelberg Student Princes Knox Prairie Fire McDaniel Green Terror Both NC and Onion Weselyan are Battling Bishops Tufts Jumbos Wabash Little Giants
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Post by 19delta on Aug 11, 2021 17:05:45 GMT -6
wow,some of you guys are really jerks. How about "don't the play the kid" until there is contrition or the detrimental behavior stops? Ideally, that is the best solution. But, just to play devil's advocate, what if it is a kid who is really far down on the depth chart and doesn't play much anyway?
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Post by 19delta on Aug 11, 2021 10:49:47 GMT -6
That's terrible. How does this happen?
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Post by 19delta on Aug 11, 2021 9:48:29 GMT -6
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Post by 19delta on Aug 11, 2021 8:41:56 GMT -6
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Post by 19delta on Aug 7, 2021 14:41:36 GMT -6
Lots of people just want a magic bullet. My kid had a really great high school career. 10 varsity letters, 4-year 2-way varsity football starter, 1st Team All-Stater, etc, etc. He was also a competitive powerlifter who broke several world records for his age and division. I would get emails often from parents who were really impressed with Eli and wanted to know what program he was using, nutrition, supplements, etc, etc to get where he was at. So, I would tell them the following: 1. He lifts 2-4 days a week and typically does 8 sets of 3 reps on the big lifts (squat, bench press, and deadlift) and tries to get about 50 reps on 2-3 accessory movements. 2. He gets at least 8 hours of sleep every night. 3. He drinks a gallon of whole milk every day and eats big and relatively clean. 4. He never skips training sessions. That means if he doesn't get home from wrestling practice until 7pm, he's getting a quick meal and will be in the weight room by 7:30pm. When I would share that with the people who asked me, they were never impressed. They simply could not believe that a high school kid could make such incredible progress by following such a simple plan. They wanted me to give them some super-secret cutting-edge program with bands, chains, wobble boards, Bosu balls...that kind of stuff. I would even offer to allow other kids the option to come in and train with my son. None of those kids lasted more than a couple weeks. The hardest thing for those kids was committing to the consistency. And consistency, not some combination of sets, reps, and crazy exercises, was what led to my kid being an elite high school athlete. But people really didn't want to hear that. Nothing is easy. People cannot accept that. The disconnect that most people have is that they think easy and simple are the same thing.
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Post by 19delta on Aug 7, 2021 12:57:22 GMT -6
Social media has made it really easy and cheap for people to market themselves as some kind of guru. Check out Twitter strength & conditioning. It's a cesspool of dogma, ad hominem attacks, faulty conclusions, and ridiculous exercises. The problem is that there is a market for this garbage. There are way too many people who don't want to do the hard work themselves. It's just easier to buy something online. Dude, I can’t even go on social media sometimes because of it. I’m not going to out any coaches that I see doing this, but it’s such a sense of fraud and false advertising. You’re stuff has yet to work!!!! Stop selling it on social media claiming: “This is what you should be running at the high school level.” Take a walk buddy. Lots of people just want a magic bullet. My kid had a really great high school career. 10 varsity letters, 4-year 2-way varsity football starter, 1st Team All-Stater, etc, etc. He was also a competitive powerlifter who broke several world records for his age and division. I would get emails often from parents who were really impressed with Eli and wanted to know what program he was using, nutrition, supplements, etc, etc to get where he was at. So, I would tell them the following: 1. He lifts 2-4 days a week and typically does 8 sets of 3 reps on the big lifts (squat, bench press, and deadlift) and tries to get about 50 reps on 2-3 accessory movements. 2. He gets at least 8 hours of sleep every night. 3. He drinks a gallon of whole milk every day and eats big and relatively clean. 4. He never skips training sessions. That means if he doesn't get home from wrestling practice until 7pm, he's getting a quick meal and will be in the weight room by 7:30pm. When I would share that with the people who asked me, they were never impressed. They simply could not believe that a high school kid could make such incredible progress by following such a simple plan. They wanted me to give them some super-secret cutting-edge program with bands, chains, wobble boards, Bosu balls...that kind of stuff. I would even offer to allow other kids the option to come in and train with my son. None of those kids lasted more than a couple weeks. The hardest thing for those kids was committing to the consistency. And consistency, not some combination of sets, reps, and crazy exercises, was what led to my kid being an elite high school athlete. But people really didn't want to hear that.
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Post by 19delta on Aug 7, 2021 7:34:14 GMT -6
Social media has made it really easy and cheap for people to market themselves as some kind of guru. Check out Twitter strength & conditioning. It's a cesspool of dogma, ad hominem attacks, faulty conclusions, and ridiculous exercises.
The problem is that there is a market for this garbage. There are way too many people who don't want to do the hard work themselves. It's just easier to buy something online.
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Post by 19delta on Aug 5, 2021 12:25:24 GMT -6
If anything I’d bring it up to the HC. It’s his job to coach up the coaches. Yeah...I would NOT do this, especially as a first-year teacher in the district. I mean, how exactly would that conversation go? 🤣
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Post by 19delta on Aug 5, 2021 8:42:28 GMT -6
The best piece of life advice I ever heard came from the US Army rifle range at Fort Knox, Kentucky:
Stay in your lane.
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Post by 19delta on Aug 4, 2021 21:59:34 GMT -6
Have never heard "Down Ups", always "Up Downs" although "Down Ups" certainly makes more sense. But sounds weird. Doesn't roll off the tongue like "Up Downs".
How about burpees? I never heard burpees referred to as "squat thrusts" until I went into the Army.
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Post by 19delta on Aug 4, 2021 21:54:25 GMT -6
That is a great question. We're already terribly understaffed.
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Post by 19delta on Aug 4, 2021 11:17:43 GMT -6
Tennessee has the Chattanooga Central “Purple Pounders.” It makes lists of goofy/worst nicknames in sports a lot. Then there are the Karns “Beavers” in Knox County, which isn’t so bad… until they play the Cocke County “Fighting Cocks.” The announcers wouldn’t even call them “Cocks” when I’ve coached against them. They call them “Big Red” instead because their colors are black and red. I guess they feel like it helps avoid cheers of “Beat those Cocks!” from the student section, but they still get those at each game. 🤣
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Post by 19delta on Aug 3, 2021 19:48:24 GMT -6
Illinois has 8 classes. The 2 smallest classes, 1a and 2a, are usually considered small-school ball. These schools typically have under 400 students. Decent 1a and 2a teams usually have around 15-20 juniors and seniors and most starters playing both ways.
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Post by 19delta on Aug 3, 2021 17:16:09 GMT -6
Illinois:
Freeport Pretzels New Berlin Pretzels (yes...there are TWO Illinois schools with the Pretzel as a mascot) Cobden Appleknockers Teutopolis Wooden Shoes Fisher Bunnies Milledgeville Missiles Hoopeston Cornjerkers Centralia Orphans Freeburg Midgets Polo Marcos Southwestern Piasa Birds
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Post by 19delta on Aug 1, 2021 16:55:51 GMT -6
Question for those with experience. Our school is once again scheduling team photos from 3:30 - 4:10 on a Tuesday during game week. School lets out at 2:50 and off campus sports get precedent on earlier time slot. We meet and practice from 3:30 - 6:00 PM. Does this or something similar happen to you? Why doesn't the HC schedule pictures? It was explained to me, many years ago, that it was simply much more convenient for the picture company, the boosters, and the yearbook club to do all fall sports/activities the same day.
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Post by 19delta on Aug 1, 2021 16:50:04 GMT -6
Every year, we have a fall sports picture day. Every year, the coaches bitch and complain about it. 24 hours later, no one remembers it. 12 months later, the exact same thing happens. Lather, rinse, repeat.
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Post by 19delta on Jul 30, 2021 7:44:06 GMT -6
Our superintendent released our back-to-school plan a week ago. Masks are going to be recommended but not required. That was based on the guidance from the CDC issued a few weeks ago. But then the CDC came out 2 days ago and dropped a turd in the pool by contradicting themselves and saying that all K-12 kids need to be masked. Our state (deep blue) public health department adopted that approach so I'm thinking now that we will have to change the return to school plan and require everyone to wear a mask.
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Post by 19delta on Jul 29, 2021 1:28:33 GMT -6
Uh....what in the world?!? Northern Indiana mid 90s. I completely misinterpreted the original thread post though. I don’t think this was the kind of strange asked about. I should’ve went with the graveyard like everyone else. 🤣
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Post by 19delta on Jul 25, 2021 8:03:40 GMT -6
I’ve told this story on hear but I will go again but the quick version. Basically we had this middle school coach who had a hook prosthetic for one arm. When kids wouldn’t do what they were supposed too he would try to pinch their testicles with it. He coached the line so when they were doing stuff he would be behind them and if they weren’t low enough he would reach up under their but with that thing and get em. As a kid I just thought it was odd and just wanted to completely avoid it. As an adult I am disturbed by it. I have a son and no way I would allow that to happen. It was never anything sexual or anything like that but still really weird. Uh....what in the world?!?
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Post by 19delta on Jul 24, 2021 12:06:32 GMT -6
School about 10 miles from here has a pig farm right next to the football field. Like, literally right next to it. On hot Friday nights when the wind is blowing right...man that is a thing! There's a couple schools in the conference that don't have the football field on campus. I always thought that was odd, especially when there aren't any locker rooms at the field.
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Post by 19delta on Jul 21, 2021 19:26:38 GMT -6
I'm excited about weight room tech. I have 2 iPads and 2 PUSH bands now. I would like to get enough units for our remaining 3 racks. Partial to PUSH but interested in learning more about VMaxpro. I would also like to get a subscription-based service like Portal so we can go 100% digital.
We also have a Freelap system with 8 chips. I would buy enough extra chips so we wouldn't have to share. Ideally, 1 chip per student/athlete.
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Post by 19delta on Jul 16, 2021 21:31:25 GMT -6
coachscdubIt sounds to me that, while you would like to make a little money off this, it's not something you are considering doing full-time or committing to starting as a business. Given that, how much are the services you are offering worth to you? In other words, how much do you think your time is worth? Is this something you would consider doing for free for a local school with the possibility of establishing a relationship with the coaches that may lead to a future spot on the staff? I do think that there would be coaches who would be interested in what you are offering but probably don't have it in the budget to pay for it. So, what do you think would be reasonable payment for the services you would be rendering?
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Just Wow
Jul 11, 2021 19:30:12 GMT -6
via mobile
Post by 19delta on Jul 11, 2021 19:30:12 GMT -6
coachscdubCan you provide some specifics regarding "managed to annoy"? What actions or words from these two coaches caused the kids to change schools? In your opinion, given what you know about the situation, what could those coaches have done better that would have resulted in those kids staying? Never a good look when talented kids leave the program, no doubt!
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Post by 19delta on Jul 7, 2021 14:02:43 GMT -6
Illinois just put a school on "probation" for saying masks would be optional before the start of next year. If they don't change their policy the state is going to shut the school down. From the Champaign newspaper- He pointed to the Red Hill school district in southeastern Illinois that was put on probation by the state for relaxing its mask guidance. If the district doesn’t alter its policy, the state could close the school. The district had made masks optional going into the fall. In response, the Illinois State Board of Education, in a letter dated June 23, said it would lower its recognition status to “on probation.”
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Post by 19delta on Jul 2, 2021 14:53:28 GMT -6
Probably have to free up jobs for the new coaches. That video played out exactly as I pictured it. The coach absolutely was trying to create a "private pyle" from "Full Metal Jacket" situation. Yes. That was my initial impression of this whole situation. That the coach saw this in a movie or read about it in a book and thought he would recreate it with high school kids. How many of you guys have ever coached with someone who tried to mimic some big motivational moment or speech that clearly came from a movie? That is maximum cringe. It NEVER elicits the desired response!
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