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Post by fshamrock on May 2, 2019 10:37:26 GMT -6
Is it "worse" to have a signing day for a D.3 or for a juco? I don't think either is necessarily bad, but i'd say d3 is worse....Juco's you don't pay though the nose to go there at least
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Post by fshamrock on May 1, 2019 8:02:10 GMT -6
we have a few kids today signing on to play a club sport
water polo at a big university, not NCAA.....club
I played a year of inter mural rugby......never had a signing day...I feel cheated
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Post by fshamrock on Apr 30, 2019 13:39:11 GMT -6
And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me. 1 Samuel 16:17 probably hanging in Saban's office
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Post by fshamrock on Apr 26, 2019 12:44:33 GMT -6
I'm with you I think there's a place for some of that stuff......take a pie in the face for the fundraiser or something...not a big deal but this thing was part of an actual competition...I think that's the part that wrankles me...it wasn't a pep rally or something like that...a freaking game....ugh So I'm curious where you (or others) stand on this then... In high school our head freshmen football coach was also probably the most universally well-liked teacher in the school. Athletes, non-athletes, stoners, the whole school loved him. He also led pep rallies when we had them. And it became a tradition at the school that at halftime of the varsity football game he would get up in front of the student section and lead a cheer or some sort before the second half started (he had no varsity gameday duties). Acceptable or no? I'm genuinely curious, as it had been going on long enough by the time I was in school that I didn't second guess it. snap judgment I don't see anything wrong with that at all...and I'm not even really sure it's all that different from my example truth me told it's entirely possible that my example is different because maybe I just don't like this dude all that much growth
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Post by fshamrock on Apr 26, 2019 12:26:10 GMT -6
Firmly option 1. If the kids enjoy it and nobody is being humiliated, it's appropriate, and no one is being forced into anything then go for it. During homecoming we have some teacher lip sync battles and stuff like that and the kids eat it up. The only thing I've ever really done was the teacher vs. student tug-o-war and reffing the powder puff game, but that's the sort of stuff that I think can lead to a great school culture. Then again I'm not super concerned with being serious, and one of my most common sayings in season is "it's only high school football" so maybe I'm an outlier. I'm with you I think there's a place for some of that stuff......take a pie in the face for the fundraiser or something...not a big deal but this thing was part of an actual competition...I think that's the part that wrankles me...it wasn't a pep rally or something like that...a freaking game....ugh
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Post by fshamrock on Apr 26, 2019 12:23:52 GMT -6
I just want to make sure I'm correct on this: this guy is on your football staff AND is an asst girls' soccer coach, correct? And, this dance was at intermission, meaning not after the game, correct? Those that know me know that I'm very patient and have a long leash in certain cases...and I would consider that an almost fireable offense. I mean, shouldn't there be coaching going on during this intermission as opposed to twerking for the crowd? And, in this day and age, I'm a little surprised he's not hearing about this from administration considering the nature of the movements that comprise twerking... I'm not the head football coach I can see from my post that might be implied...my bad when I said I need him to be a good coach I mean that in the sense of our team will be successful when his players play well i'm just a slappy assistant like him, i'm a good bit older but he doesn't report to me in any way
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Post by fshamrock on Apr 26, 2019 11:57:06 GMT -6
scenario: few weeks back, we had a big girls soccer home game against a rival team, one of the guys on our football staff is an assistant coach. Really good guy who is from this town and well thought of by most. He's young, is pretty familiar with the kids, and is a bit of an attention {censored}....I think if pressed even he would likely admit this
anyway...I don't know the circumstances, but apparently there was some bet, and as a result of losing this bet the coach did a dance routine in front of the crowd during the intermission, some thing akin to twerking I guess (i hate that I know what that is)
anyway another young coach we have was apparently jealous of the attention being received by this guy so he jumped out there too on his own accord and got in on the action
I think there are two schools of thought here:
1 - who cares? life is short right? if the kids think it's fun and the crowd likes it what's the harm right?
2 - It makes us all look bad, not just us as a staff here, but the profession in general. We ain't running pee wee teams over here, this is serious business that should be treated with a modicum of respect. When we dance around like idiots to be funny and get attention we are drawing it onto ourselves instead of the athletes competing. Athletes have worked hard to get where they are. Particularly the ones on the opposing team (we won) who not only had to grapple with losing but losing to a team that apparently sees the whole thing as a big joke
not to mention the fact that this dude is on our football staff and I need him to be able to push young men past their limits.....is any kid that plays for him really going to dig in that extra mile for a guy who runs around like a jackalope for laughs?
As you may have gathered I'm an option 2 guy, but I am willing to hear opposing arguments. I doubt seriously I'll be persuaded because i'm pretty dug in on this one. I've always been a go along to get along guy when it comes to the district, I'll do what they ask me to do: lunch duty, take on discipline problems, whatever...only time I ever drew the line with an administrator is when I was informed that the drill team had asked me to be a part of some teachers dance routine for some fall festival, I sad no was told it wasn't optional and said no again, probably lost a little good will but that's not what I got hired to do and I'm not somebody's pet monkey to do tricks and entertain....just my thoughts on the matter
It's a Friday and I've got nothing going on.....discuss
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Post by fshamrock on Apr 26, 2019 8:27:51 GMT -6
it was basketball but I was the JV coach and the fresman coach was a young guy with a girlfriend that was a complete stunner. So we have these two student managers filming the game (male) and coach's girlfriend shows up to the game.
These two idiots are smart enough not to point the camera at her the whole game, but they aren't smart enough to know that cameras pick up sound
they proceed to spend the entire game talking about the things they would do to her in all the details that a sophomore boy could muster. At one point one kid gave an entire elaborate fantasy about how if he could freeze time he could go over there to her .....you can probably guess the rest
it was freaking hilarious, the coach wasn't mad or anything we just laughed our butts off and scared the kids by threatening to play it for their moms
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Post by fshamrock on Apr 23, 2019 8:29:12 GMT -6
All you need is a question mark t-shirt, a book by Tim Kight and a few posters and it will take care of itself. question mark T-shirt! Guaranteed success! I wonder if Tim Kight sells the question mark t-shirts himself or is there just some random T-shirt making company wonder who the F all these people are getting these shirts made. "hey linda we got another order for 200 question mark t-shirts!....must be some kind of socrates cult around here"
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Post by fshamrock on Apr 23, 2019 7:22:59 GMT -6
Here's a decent measurement - when your lower levels, freshman JV and sophs, are consistently winning, you probably have a good culture in place
I'll tell ya this, winning on varsity dang sure isn't a great barometer. I think culture is the process of becoming a program that will consistently play over their talent level year after year, so you are playing the long game thinking long term. A lot of programs will talk culture culture culture when they are bad then they'll get a few talented a-holes and cater to their every whim, win for a year then the whole culture process resets to zero, or even worse than it was when you started. It's an easy trap to fall into, losing sucks, the prospect of winning is tempting, so you fudge a little on your "core values" maybe you look the other way on the ol' "mission statement" so you can get a few wins behind a talented guy or two that doesn't give a crap about anybody's values but his own. A lot of this is created by the "get in and get out" mentality of so many jobs. In Texas, it's kind of like a light version of college football, everybody wants to get a their first head football job at some low level program (all that's available) then win just enough to be seen as a "turnaround" guy and get one of the top 15% type jobs that are out there
left in the wake of this are bad programs staying bad because a guy comes in and ransacks the place trying to tie enough wins together to get out of there. I see it all the time, then they become bottom feeders again for a while and somebody else comes in and restarts the whole process. Now mind you nobody comes out and SAYS any of this, your boy's twitter feed will be all about how he is in it for the Jayhawks for life! but behind the scenes every decision that gets made will be short sighted and short term. The lower levels in programs like this will almost always be consistently terrible because nobody is going to invest in them,talented kids that are nowhere near ready get moved up and ride the bench, they never get coached outside of scout team, and when they play their games they look unorganized and apathetic.
It may be too grand of a generalization, but assuming a coaching staff has been at a school for over a year or two, I feel like I can watch their lower levels play and make a fair assessment of whether or not they are doing things the right way.
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Post by fshamrock on Apr 10, 2019 10:53:41 GMT -6
Texas guys should come to KY where $2,000 per year is an assistant coaching salary and you’re expected to work all off season outside of Dead period. Weights in winter, spring ball, summer workouts/weights/conditioning, then the season. Best of all if you coach you’ll probably have a harder time getting a job as a teacher! ya but you guys have way nicer weather and you get to live in a "holler" and drink bourbon ..everything I know about Kentucky comes from the TV show Justified (which is a good show)
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Post by fshamrock on Apr 9, 2019 12:35:44 GMT -6
I just want to bump this to the top now that some time has passed and you guys have probably had a chance to meet and go over how you are going to handle it. Somebody out there has a system planned that looks good, I wanna see it.
I'm still a big fan of just substituting football for the speed/agility stuff we do twice a week, problem with that is we have too many kids (good problem I know) for them to all be in the weight room at the same time, so we have to split them up some kind of way
anyway..whatcha got?
and I'll go ahead and apologize for my comments in this thread back when I posted it if they came across as callous or greedy, I certainly didn't mean it that way not sure why I got grumpy about it I can only surmise that I must not have been having much luck with the wife in the early part of the year I got little kids man it happens to the best of us.
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Post by fshamrock on Apr 4, 2019 11:10:48 GMT -6
Very few arguments here were about coaches. Coaches don't like the rule because it creates two cesspools. One with unscrupulous guys doing underhanded crap to get kids to transfer, and other where kids flee accountability. It is all about kids. What is best for kids. Is it best to transfer, or stick it out. Is it best for kids to be able to go wherever they want any time they want, or is it best for them to overcome things that don't please them? You are right about one thing. Parents. Kids haven't changed much in the last 50 years, but parents sure have. Especially with social media and the ego. Let me show pictures of little Johnny doing his thing. Look at my son. Look at my daughter. And then the My 5-8 120 pound guard should be starting. The coach doesn't like him. He should have D-1 offers already. And when the parent doesn't get what they want, they might leave. That's why we have mentally weak kids. We have mentally weak parents. There are two kinds of parents, those who prepare their child for the path, and those who prepare the path for the child. Too many parents try to prepare the path. The kid never faces adversity so they never learn to deal with it. One of my buddies has spent at least $50k on travel baseball, hitting lessons, camps, etc for his son in the last 5 years. HIs son is now 13 and he said he is trying to help him get a D1 scholarship. If he invested that $50k and the other $50k he will spend in the next 5 years, he would be able to pay for 5 college educations. It is all about saying, "my son is D-1." It's all about having something to brag about on the golf course. None of us our immune to the desire for status among our peers, it's in the DNA. Whether it's titles, job's, attractiveness of our wives, cars, trucks, trucks with really big tires for no apparent reason, outdoor kitchens....whatever, it's all part of the presentation. Unfortunately kids get lumped into this thing inadvertently and become status symbols for parents ego's. That how you end up with a 7 year old kid getting chewed out by an otherwise well adjusted adult for failing to hit a ball with a stick, or for getting a B on the 4th grade spelling test. I have a neighbor lady across the street about burn down the entire district because her daughter didn't pass the GT test in kindergarten. I explained to her that plenty of elementary GT kids become dopeheads and dropouts, and while plenty of kids that never got picked for it end up happy, well adjusted adults...she knows this is true, and doesn't care, it's got nothing to do with the kid's future and everything to do with having something to humble brag about during jazzercize
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Post by fshamrock on Apr 2, 2019 10:56:23 GMT -6
had an old coach in high school we are playing a team who has some military theme going on so their coaching staff is all wearing camo t shirts instead of polo shirts or whatever so the old coach gathers us up before the game and says something along these lines: "these bastards wearing that cammo, pretending this is war, they don't know war, they don't know about seeing your own brother shot through the f________ eyes!!!!, but we're gonna show em war (instert more cussing and war referenced)"
seems lame written out but at the time well assumed that the crazy old coach was definitely a Vietnam veteran and we got all jacked up (can't remember if we won or not)
anyway....I ended up coaching with him and found out that not only had he never been in the military and didn't have a brother...he also got a low lottery number in the draft so was sent to in processing to take the physical in order to be drafted into Vietnam, the rumor then was that if you drank enough orange crush soda then held it in when you went to take the physical you peed orange and they would fail you....so he drank a 12 pack of the stuff that morning and dang sure did pee orange....never got called up
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Post by fshamrock on Apr 1, 2019 8:49:04 GMT -6
ordering it as soon as I get a chance, really excited, love the under front book
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Post by fshamrock on Feb 25, 2019 9:42:14 GMT -6
Please let me know - am I being an {censored}, or being insensitive? EX1 Player: "Coach, I am not feeling well, I am going to come home sick." (Now please understand that I have a lot of sick excuses.) Me: "Player, if we had a game today, would you play or go home sick?" EX2 Player: "Coach, I cant lift today because I have to make up my missing classwork." (work that he could have done on numerous occasions.) Me: "What if everyone did their homework between 3 and 5pm? And can you not do your work between 6-8 pm?" It's just difficult for me to say "ok" when these things happen. Just venting. Was browsing this board and was just approached by one of my kids lol. I really like the first one, depending on how it's presented. I really like guiding kids into realizing that they are lazy slobs. Big lesson I've learned is that most kids would describe themselves as hard workers and genuinely believe it. "If you had this injury could you play in the game?" "yes" "then why can't you workout today?" "well because bluh bluh bluh" "so would it be fair to say that you just arent as motivated to workout today?" "well...yeah I guess so" "and this isn't the first time is it? so would it be fair to say that you consistently have a hard time getting the motivation to workout and you tend to find excuses not to?" "yeah..I mean I guess" "okay so what can we do about that?" I always try to make kids take responsibility and confront their own B.S. why just last week a kid told me he had an orthodontist appointment at 530 pm on a Friday......ain't no ortho in America making appointments for that time....I weedled that dude into the ground until he admitted he was lying, went as far and dialing the number to the doctor's office maybe that makes me an a$hole but I feel it's worthwhile
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Post by fshamrock on Feb 12, 2019 12:10:39 GMT -6
I think the key thing to remember about your mission statement is that it is something you intend to hold everybody accountable to, especially yourself
I know it's kind of become en vogue to rag on the culture vultures, they are easy targets after all, but I have come around to thinking that there must be some that aren't completely full of crap, at least I hope so.
Make it stuff you think it important and plan to hold yourself to it, and be honest about your failures as much as your successes.
If the thing is based on principles and the principles won't be compromised, then I think it will be effective. The trap most guys seem to fall into is that the principles only matter so far as they are good for me
Like the guy who engineers a situation to get his boss fired so he can take the job, and to then turn around and expect loyalty from his assistants. Or the guy who pounds the desk about accountability, but will definitely suit up the star runningback even though he didn't show to practice all week and runs his mouth to his position coach, because we aren't about to sacrifice taking a loss. If honor is core value, then don't actively recruit players from nearby schools even though you know it's against the rules.
If "yeah but that's what everybody else does and we have to do it to keep up" takes you off of your principles than you never had any in the first place. So just be honest and say it's all about winning, honesty people can respect.
Principles either matter or they don't, we don't get to pick and choose based on the circumstances. Base your core values on that and you'll be okay and help more kids. Worry more about living by these values than how many people know you have them. If more guys would do that then people wouldn't be so jaded about the whole twitter culture movement
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Post by fshamrock on Feb 12, 2019 9:35:14 GMT -6
Thanks for the responses fellas, seems that we're all kind of on the same page with how we are going to work it. I'll be interested to see how it evolves over time, best of luck to all of you guys and your teams.
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Post by fshamrock on Feb 7, 2019 11:33:35 GMT -6
Would somebody give us non-Texas dudes a quick summary of the new rules? low income schools felt that the ability of wealthier schools kids to hire private position trainers created an unfair advantage since the rules stipulate we as coaches couldn't do football drills with kids over the summer. so the rule has changed to allow for 1 hour each week of football related activity outside of the normal strength and conditioning workout. The problem is nobody knows exactly what a football related activity really is, some teams will just do some individual type stuff and drive on, others will have a full blown practice once a week with the extra time
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Post by fshamrock on Feb 7, 2019 10:29:06 GMT -6
First, for each individual, you have to make choices based on you and your situation. By no means, am I advocating for one thing or admonishing for another, etc. Just want to point out another viewpoint on such an issue of "are you paid?" For Texas teachers/coaches you are paid to be at school for 187 days. Some districts may pay additional days to an employee. These "days" are designed to compensate you during such times as fall break, winter break, and spring break. These "days" could also be referred to as payment for 2-a-days, but with school starting so early we often run into in-service days, which, are contract days and fall under the 187. So, you might not be paid "days" for staying late or coming early to do 2-a-day practices the entire length of "fall camp." Of course, coaches (as are other sponsors of extracurricular events) are paid a stipend for coaching a sport. The stipend is broad as simply encompasses "coaching" the sport. Meaning, you aren't paid more or less for working on Saturday or Sunday. You aren't paid more or less if you practice until 5:30 pm or practice until 6:30 pm. You are paid to coach the team - you (the staff) sets the parameters of what that will look like and encompass. In fact, every staff that makes the playoffs is coaching those games for free. Think about that. Let's say you get a $5,000 stipend to coach football. The school is giving you that money no matter how many games you win. It's part of your contract. They have to pay you that. However, if you coach 3 more weeks in the playoffs guess what your stipend is? Yep, it's still $5,000. Last spring we joked at how, "We coached 6 more weeks for free." Of course, the punch line was, "And all we got was this sweet ring." Again, our stipend didn't increase because we coached a month and a half more than our neighbors down the road. Both staffs got the same stipend. I didn't hear one person on our staff ask, "Are we getting paid for all this?" Of course, the answer is, "Yes.". Why? Because we're paid to coach the team and - as I mentioned earlier - the staff sets what those parameters are. Take that into the classroom as a teacher. We have to be put in 187 contract days for our school. Typically, the school day might be laid out by our principal as 7:30 to 4:00 or whatever. That means, whenever a teacher stays later to grade papers, finish setting up or cleaning up their room, etc. they are doing that for free. They aren't paid any more money for that. Yes, the sad part is that the person that puts in the bare minimum gets paid the exact same as the person that puts in 12 hours and/or goes above and beyond. That is true in a great many professions. What does complaining about it do? We all know the answer to that. Back to the point at hand, though.... We are paid to coach our teams. All of us make decisions that affect the performance of our team. We choose how we orchestrate our in-season practices, our schemes, our placement of personnel based on how it will better our players/team and enhance our chances of winning. For years, many "pushed the envelope" of what rules would allow to enhance their chance of winning or improving performance. The big decision comes when we must decide at what point the time and effort no longer become worth the results we are getting in return. This could be in player/team improvement or in the monetary compensation our time is worth. Typical questions I've asked myself periodically throughout the years were, "If I worked down at the Acme Plant, would I be off right now anyway?" or "If I had a 9-5 job, would I be able to do this?" It was a way to keep things in perspective in that, maybe, those other jobs wouldn't necessarily afford me either more time or more compensation for my time. Worse still, would those other things bring me the enjoyment that I currently have within my job? As I mentioned, everyone must choose the value of their own time vs what it might look like to "coach the team." Demand is always met. It has driven economies, innovation, and startups since the dawn of time. Our coaching association and the UIL recognized a demand for sport training. Both organizations saw that demand was starting to be met by those outside of the high school coaching world. So, another question to ask is, "What time am I willing to give up in the summer so that my kids aren't being coached by Super-Duper Private Instructor Guy?" I hear you I really do, and I know slippery slope arguments are generally lazy, but I worry about where we go from here. The association has a tough job and I respect what they do, but it seems to me that in trying to preserve the profession of coaching as we know it they aren't worrying to much about the coaches. Every time we add more to coaches plates, we end up losing more good people to other jobs.It isn't the goons that get out (they aren't qualified to do anything else anyway) it's the good smart guys who do a real quick cost/benefit analysis and decide that their talents could be put to use in a profession where they are seen as valuable. This is a net loss for the profession, the schools and the players. We aren't very far removed from a world were a regular position coach in the summer would have 3 separate activities to work and manage, Strength and conditioning camp (2hrs) , then "football specific" time (1hr for now) , then 7 on 7 practice (who knows). That's going to end up being some pretty full weeks for a lot of guys, and a huge number of them will get nothing for it other than an attaboy and a firm handshake. There are no easy answers, I know there are a good number of bean counters in school administration who would love to see us lose our athletic periods and bring in volunteers like they do in northern communist states (no offense). The association and the UIL are fighting hard to preserve what we have, but I fear that in so doing they are going to chase off a bunch of great coaches. All that will be left for to coach my kids will be the guys who say my field instead of the the field......can't be having that. *please don't take me to mean that guys who stay in are automatically "goons", I'm just a jo blow position coach and I show up to everything paid or not, surely don't consider myself a goon. Also I have a wife that makes decent money so it isn't a huge deal for me. I'm only saying that everybody has a breaking point, where the demands of the job will outweigh the benefits they perceive, I think that they breaking point is closer for guys who know they could be doing other things
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Post by fshamrock on Feb 6, 2019 14:42:43 GMT -6
hey I think I know this one I read somewhere that the patriots really messed with Goff by moving around in coverage after the microphone turned off inside the QB helmet, the idea being that they would force Goff to read the defense instead of having mcvay tell him where to go with the ball
I betcha BB was waiting to see if mcvay was done talking to the QB before they signaled the shift in Defense
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Post by fshamrock on Feb 6, 2019 12:56:11 GMT -6
We found a tendency from a coach a few seasons a go in a really big playoff game. The QB coach would always be yelling or signaling to the QB on Pass plays. He was a young guy and did a lot of extra on the sideline. On run plays he would just stand there with his hands on his hips. We shut them out by the way. hahahahaha...that's fantastic I can picture the dude, pass plays he's waving around and yelling, frosted tips in his hair bouncing all over, yin yang tattoo on full display run plays he puts his hands in his pockets and walks around all sad kicking rocks, doesn't even watch the play, looking at him mom in the stands and her telling him it's gonna be okay I always laughed at those passing game guru stereotypes as all in good fun and not really true until I got here and the first home game our passing game guru/signaler ducked into the weight room before kickoff and did some bi's and tri's, pumping up them arms before we went out to signal
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Post by fshamrock on Feb 6, 2019 9:57:55 GMT -6
I'll make the obligatory comment about how he has probably studied hours of videotape on how Mcvay acts before he calls certain plays
i mean.....it's not like it's outside the realm of possibility
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Post by fshamrock on Feb 6, 2019 8:32:22 GMT -6
We will be using the time in addition to our normal strength and conditioning. We will assign 1 day a week that we will essentially have a short practice with indy, and team. we are an up-tempo offense, our average practice in the season is 1.5 hours, so we are thrilled about the chance to get in a solid hours practice during the summer weeks. Full staff will be required to attend the weekly practice. I love coaching, I want as many reps as I can because I am trying to constantly improve and move up, but I understand not everyone feels the exact same way. you guys getting paid for this extra practice a week or is it "other duties as assigned"
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Post by fshamrock on Feb 1, 2019 12:09:07 GMT -6
this would be a great question for something like theoldcoach.com but since that whole thing became a dumpster fire I can't think of anywhere else
how are you guys managing the extra time for "football related activities" that we get now in the summer?
as of now, I think our plan is to substitute football drills twice a week (mostly individual type stuff and some hull) for the normal speed/agility part of our summer workout schedule. That way we aren't demanding any extra time
the problem is available coaches, it's going to be tough to schedule an inside run period if the Dline coach is on vacation. And we don't want to require all coaches to have to show up all summer, there's enough going on to drive guys out of the profession. So I'm thinking we post the schedules of when position coaches are signed up to work and make sure the kids know they will be doing football that day, on the weeks that your position coach isn't working, you are doing normal speed/agility drills
I figure that way everybody gets some but we aren't adding much to everybody's plate
anybody else have some good thoughts on it?
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Post by fshamrock on Jan 30, 2019 9:09:18 GMT -6
Couple of guys PM'd me for a copy of the doc we used for staff game breakdowns I found a few paper copies the questions were like this: What were our successful runs/passes? What were our unsuccessful runs/passes? How did they play 3rd down? Goal line? What were our explosive plays? (15 pass, 10 run) What was their base defense? What pressured did they use? were they effective? What were their coverage's? How did they Line up to a TE?
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Post by fshamrock on Jan 30, 2019 8:53:47 GMT -6
I think if you're a spread team it should look like this: QB Runningback Best WR
defense
everybody else goes to offense and gets coached up
The problem you run into when you 2 platoon is issues of depth. I know technically you're backups are getting way more coaching than they would be in an ironman system, but sometimes your backups just aren't good enough athletes to be on the field. They could have Lombardi coaching them for 67 segments a day and they'd still have two left feet.
I think you can get around this by having a few personnel packages that you practice a little every week. Maybe you call it "dime" and bring that best WR over to play CB, or call it "lightning" and the two safeties come over to offense and run a few concepts. Gives you a little flexibility and at least your good athletes on the other side of the ball have been exposed to a little bit of how the other half lives in case you need them. Again this would only be select kids. A team that beat us this year and went on the state semi's brought in 3 starting WR's to play DB on every third and long. I don't know if I'd be that drastic but it worked for them.
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Post by fshamrock on Jan 29, 2019 14:25:49 GMT -6
I happened to be at the signing day for this school last spring (my first year here) and we had a basketball kid signing. Had to google the school and it's an NAIA in new jersey. Our basketball team wasn't very good, saw them play a few times and couldn't remember any standouts, so i lean over to the hoops coach and ask about it. Turns out this kid came off the bench for a very bad high school basketball team, coach had no idea he was signing until that morning. Coach was convinced that the parents put the thing together just to spite him for not starting their son, so it looks like he had a college basketball player on the team and didn't start him..........I wouldn't believe that was true years ago but now I know better
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Post by fshamrock on Jan 29, 2019 11:17:39 GMT -6
I’ve posted stuff on twitter about Alabama defensive stuff. And yes my team runs some of it. I’ve made a lot of connections through it which is why I will continue to do it when I have time. I also know some people posting in this thread and others that are similar to this one that reach out to learn some of this stuff but then bash it here. I have no problem with the reaching out part as I think we all should if we want to learn something. I’ve been able to help people and have people help me through this site and twitter. That’s what it is about to me but now it seems like this site bashes people for doing so. And some coaches bash college and NFL coaches wanting them fired but it’s not okay to post something scheme related? I think it’s good to learn. I keep seeing on here you don’t need to do this or that bc we don’t see RPOs or teams good enough at RPOs. What happens when you do? I don’t think they are going anywhere. I think they will become more prevalent in HS. Anyway, I enjoy learning and talking about football and making connections that otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to make. If that’s wrong, oh well. I don't think anybody's saying that at all if you use twitter to learn stuff, even stuff you woudn't use yourself but just to learn it because it's interesting, awesome man great for you if you use twitter to draw attention to yourself that's cool too I guess but kind of sad if you use twitter to build a tribal cult around certain ways of doing things and snicker at the unenlightened masses then that's also cool but you are a twitter tool, you probably are a tool in daily life too but on twitter more people see it so it's worse
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Post by fshamrock on Jan 29, 2019 10:21:47 GMT -6
I’ve stated this before on a separate thread, but these tweets give me polio just reading them who sits down and makes this crap? It's just weird, like Ted Bundy kinda weird, but hey none of my business and who cares what I think I really did a half way job of putting up Christmas lights this year and according to coach twitter "how you do anything is how you do everything" so I guess I'm worthless
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