coachood
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Post by coachood on Nov 14, 2018 18:48:41 GMT -6
Kids just now understanding how to block veer.... our rule is first thing to the left or right (there’s a more advanced rule, but we don’t play any stacked teams). We randomly block the wrong way and get people killed in the backfield. Finished 3-6 with a low seed playoff bid, but now that we understand our rules idkkk what could happen. Glad it took 12 weeks for someone to understand the first thing to their left or right. Been there, still don't understand why. Son, are you seriously telling me that you're 16 years old and don't know your left from your right?
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Post by coachood on Nov 1, 2018 18:11:23 GMT -6
Did it for three years. Had a small private school team that had a few kids from an even smaller school and homeschool kids. First year was a little rough. Wasn't very organized. Played 6 of 8 games on the road(really long drives for several of them). The kids from the 2 schools never quite meshed etc. After that, we got our crap together, started building a TEAM culture as opposed to the school culture and had a blast.
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coachood
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Post by coachood on Oct 5, 2018 22:12:43 GMT -6
Kid comes up to the staff and says coaches im honna have to quit, we ask why and his response was, “My ex girl friend had her baby and it was white...” Kid was white, gf left him for another guy who was black. Kid quit because he had to go be a dad- which is commendable- although he came back in a couple weeks. I wouldn't quit anything until I saw a blood test. Just sayin.
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coachood
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Post by coachood on Dec 30, 2017 23:58:50 GMT -6
I asked because I was just asked back for the 3rd time in the last 2 years. If you've left twice in as many years already, I assume there's a good reason for it. In which case I would stay away.
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Post by coachood on Dec 30, 2017 23:51:47 GMT -6
Wow! This to me smacks of the "peanut gallery" running things. Jordan Lynch what....27 years old or so. Former Heisman finalist, former pro baller, coach at NIU.....Lenti an old veer option guy. Let's bring in the new blood & bring MC into the 21st century. Yep, somebody's been listening to pops in the stands. IMO this will be a disaster. Lynch has 1 year as a coach under his belt. I feel this move disrespects the coaching profession. It takes more of a "anybody can do it approach". Lynch has never even coordinated before. As for anything nefarious with Lenti? School has a pretty clean record as far as I can tell. This seems wrong to me. When somebody has been as successful as this guy has w/ no major issues (as far as I can tell) he deserves to go out on his own merits. Plain & simple. JMO. Not to hijack the thread, but I've been out of coaching for a few years and am planning on getting back in(finally finishing my degree) and what you describe seems to be a very broad trend from what I've seen lately. Has it really gotten to the point where "old school" coaches can't even keep a job with legendary histories and deep playoff runs on a consistent basis?
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coachood
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Post by coachood on Apr 7, 2017 7:30:03 GMT -6
"they had good intentions but messed up in putting it together right."
California in a nutshell.😁
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coachood
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Post by coachood on Mar 31, 2017 5:30:50 GMT -6
How come every story about your school involves a committee? Lmao Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings. George Will
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Post by coachood on Mar 30, 2017 21:17:37 GMT -6
I'd say:
10 hours practice
2 hours to break down our film(I'm more concerned with how well we execute than what the other team's doing)
2 hours to break down opponents film(delegate as much as humanly possible, one guy charts formation, another charts play, one does field position, down and distance etc.)
1 hour to come up with a game plan and make cards for practice (again, delegate responsibility)
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Post by coachood on Nov 14, 2015 17:06:20 GMT -6
Not to hijack the thread, but for me the big difference in analytics is specific vs general. For instance, knowing which plays an opponent uses on 3rd and short(and generally how often) is useful knowing that the average team converts 4th and 5 x% of the time is, in my opinion useless. I'm not coaching the average team, I'm coaching MY team.
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Post by coachood on Oct 18, 2015 7:37:20 GMT -6
My freshman year of high school, our kicker missed a game winning FG that was well within his range as time expired. There was no social media at the time(no internet to speak of)but the natives were starting to get restless in the stands. Our HC calmly walked out to the middle of the field, picked up the kicker, and walked off the field with his arm around the kicker's shoulder. That by itself did a lot to diffuse the situation.
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coachood
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Post by coachood on Sept 24, 2012 18:53:07 GMT -6
It's bad luck to be superstitious. The only thing I'm kind of anal about doing on game day is listening to some kind f music to calm and focus me. Even if it's just a few minutes.
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Post by coachood on Sept 22, 2012 19:23:53 GMT -6
Towns that shut down on Friday nights in the fall
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Post by coachood on Apr 16, 2012 21:15:53 GMT -6
Get as much sleep as I can. The only ritual I have is to find some time to listen to some relaxing music on game day.
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Post by coachood on Apr 7, 2012 19:18:01 GMT -6
Trying to injure a player is wrong, trying to hurt a player is reasonable What is the difference?! Try explaining THAT to your parents when talking to them about the values of playing HS football. You seriously have to be kidding. When your son is playing you are going to be OK with opposing coaches talking to their kids about hurting him? IMO "hurt" is a mental condition, while injured is a physical condition that makes it impossible to play, and can lead to long term repercussions.
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Post by coachood on Jan 28, 2012 9:26:37 GMT -6
I helped start a program at a school down here 5 years ago what do you need to know?
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coachood
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Post by coachood on Jan 11, 2012 20:20:39 GMT -6
The best resource I've ever read is "Football scouting methods " by Steve Bellicheck. Great Book.
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Post by coachood on Jan 11, 2012 19:29:06 GMT -6
I'll echo what tigeroption said, and add some 4-4 with hybrid corner/ olb/ safety. also see some single wing on offense.
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Post by coachood on May 13, 2011 20:52:08 GMT -6
Just wondering what type of veer. Split backs, or one with a diving FB behind the QB? I formation.
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Post by coachood on May 13, 2011 0:16:15 GMT -6
After 2 years as an OC for a small private school I have decided to coach a youth team (11-12 yo) this season. I have several questions regarding the changes I should expect, and appreciate any advice on any of them.
1. In general what are the major differences that might not be obvious in terms of attitude, attention span and retention? Many of my hs players had never played football before so I'm used to teaching from the "ground up".
2. Can I still run my offense? My run game has always been built around the veer. Can I realistically expect a kid that young to read the dive? Also, my passing game contains many "choice " routes, can younger receivers make those choices. I should point out that I try to make the choices as simple as possible. The Qb is always trained to give on the dive unless the HOK turns his shoulders and goes straight for the mesh, and receivers on choice routes have a primary route and a secondary route that they only run if the primary is "capped".
3. How much offense. I've never had more than 15 plays in my play book, but should I trim some more? Also, how many blocking schemes, The ideal number for me has always been about 6-8.
4. What defenses should I expect to see the most.
5. Anything that I didn't ask but you think is important for me to know.
Thank you for your replies and your patience to get through such a long post.
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Post by coachood on Apr 28, 2011 14:21:10 GMT -6
I worry about this every time we go out. Coaching in south Florida means trying to monitor every way possible. We break at least every 15 minutes plus, I have water girls standing at each station throughout practice. The kids get water whenever they need it. Some people may say that's soft, but that's the only way to lessen the possibility of heat stroke. We also stress that the players' diets need to be right. You never want that to happen to one of your kids, and then second guess yourself that you didn't do everything you could to stop it from happening. I don't think thats soft at all, even during hell week, marine recruits get plenty of water. Dehydration is one of the few things that your body simply can not adjust to
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Post by coachood on Apr 24, 2011 20:46:30 GMT -6
gotta pay more attention to this compelling stuff!..Demeo (although retired) was just getting to this stuff in his "most meaningful stats" rants on his website and had some amazing stats on turnovers in D2 ball as well. As an HC, two ways to win the turnover battle..stop your own on O or create more on D...with this info, has anybody changed their practice routines to specifically address this?any favourite drills?we've always paid lip service to ball security but only if it was a problem..i'm thinking i have to get more serious about this. i have tended to ignore them and hope they will go away..not a great attitude..kind of like masturbating and three putting..you feel guilty about it when you do it , but you know its going to happen again! As far as limiting our turnovers on offense, we have a few drills to reduce fumbles. Hammer drill= back carries the ball in one arm and runs the width of the field while a defender trails and tries to knock the ball out. Double hammer drill= same as hammer but back has a ball in each arm. To add some competition to the drill who ever doesn't have a ball when they reach the other side of the field does 10 push ups. Blaster drill= Back runs through a hall way of defenders, half of the defenders have pads and are trying to stand him up while the other half try to strip the ball. we have a qb stand right beside and one step before the blaster and make a hand off to the back, or will move the qb out a few yards and pitch to the back. Either way he's getting hit just after he gets the ball.
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Post by coachood on Apr 7, 2011 10:38:28 GMT -6
I got a scenario for you guys to spin on. I got a kid who gives, in my opinion, 75% on the field and in the weightroom. He lifts hard some days and some he doesn't do anything productive. He will be a senior next year on the football team. I have talked to him told him that there is no telling how good he would be if he gave 100% and even the others in his weightroom class told him there is not teling how good you will be if you wroked hard every day. The thing is his 75%-80% effort still puts him being one of the best lifters I got and and he is one of the fastest players on the team. So my question is how do you handle a player like that? His performance on the field, even though it is not maximum effort for him, is going to be good enough to start on either side of the ball. Do you play him and allow the other kids to see that maximum effort is not needed for some players to see the field or do you not play him and put someone in his spot that is not got the abilities and will not perform as well? What reason do you have for not playing him? Your opinion that he's not working hard? If he's the best player he plays. If he's slacking, then he's not the best player. He simply has the potential to be the best.
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Post by coachood on Mar 9, 2011 11:54:59 GMT -6
Let both of them know that their positions are on the line if their attitude doesn't change and stay changed throughout the season, tell them at the same time since they're both QBs and tell them who will be starting if they don't turn things around, it may help them to know that their is competition. Ultimately though you can't make chicken salad out of chicken sh!t.
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Post by coachood on Mar 4, 2011 11:27:55 GMT -6
There was a coach in a neighboring county who took his team to the state semi's in his first year running the double wing and got fired the next spring because" they didn't throw enough" at least according to the papers.
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coachood
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Post by coachood on Feb 15, 2011 19:13:16 GMT -6
one thing that we do is an offensive pursuit drill...We practice getting down field, we practice scoring where every one has to get into the endzone..we also practice celebrating Scores Do you really have to practice handing the ball to an official?
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Post by coachood on Feb 13, 2011 12:42:35 GMT -6
I saw him at the Atlanta Glazier clinic last weekend and really enjoyed all of his presentations. Everything he said made a lot of sense and was put together and explained very logically. Even for an OC like me who doesn't call that many passes I think it was very informative and should help our team a bunch next year.
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Post by coachood on Feb 12, 2011 20:37:42 GMT -6
We have a drill that we call OTIS, which stands for opportunity to improve self. It's a basic 1 on 1 Oklahoma drill but each kid gets to pick his opponent, and you have to pick some one who is better than you.
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Post by coachood on Feb 11, 2011 5:29:37 GMT -6
There's a book out called wishbone wisdom, mostly biographical, but with some X's and O's in it as well. It is direct source
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Post by coachood on Jan 26, 2011 21:17:06 GMT -6
John McKay when a reporter asked what he thought about his teams execution. " I'm in favor of it."
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coachood
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Post by coachood on Jan 26, 2011 11:17:42 GMT -6
Too many today are out for themselves. That's it. Has anyone read that article that I posted earlier? That, to me, summarizes a lot of this issue. That summarizes a lot of issues, and not just in football, great article.
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