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Post by larrymoe on Mar 13, 2024 7:26:39 GMT -6
No doubt that upstate SC pays really well. As Asst. in the upstate probably makes as much or more than I do as a HC in NC. And I dont have one of the worst paying HC jobs in NC. The thing that makes the difference is that we get days. I get 15 now. What do you mean days?
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Post by larrymoe on Mar 12, 2024 12:53:59 GMT -6
I don't think anyone is arguing about in season time but are you putting in 4 hours this Friday 3/15? Are you putting in 4 hours this Sunday? The 4 hours is the average per day for 365 days a year. Exactly. No one is spending 4.1 hours a day all 365 days of the year coaching football. Football coaches are fantastic at telling everyone how much they work and how underpaid they are and carrying that cross everywhere for everyone to see, but most suck at math and realistically keeping track of that work. They're also real good about counting those 2 hours telling stories on Saturday as "work".
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Post by larrymoe on Mar 12, 2024 8:58:39 GMT -6
Why not? Illinois passes education bills like this all the time. union state vs imitation union state. teachers in union state will just strike to prove the point, they wont in florida, school districts already struggling to get to 48.5 k a year for teacher min pay, telling school systems to find another 6 to 11 million to pay coaches and not raise teacher pay (veterans got screwed in the 48.5 min pay deal, we got zero raise, but the 1st year guy is within 2k of a 10yr guy). will never pass No one in Illinois strikes over the non funded mandates.
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Post by larrymoe on Mar 12, 2024 8:35:18 GMT -6
theres a follow up article by the same guy talking about the representiative said something along the lines of-schools would have to figure it out. that will never, ever fly. Why not? Illinois passes education bills like this all the time.
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Post by larrymoe on Mar 12, 2024 3:43:57 GMT -6
Well if you have 2 hour practice, hour scripting, setting up and grading practice, thirty minutes laundry/supervision. That’s a modest three and half hours Monday to Thursday. Game day for us even if we let kids leave (we have them stay) would be 5-11. That’s six hours and that brings up Monday to Thursday average. Four hours on Saturday and Sunday each is pretty tame estimate. 4 hours a day in season seems like a tame estimate. That's 280 hours over the course of a 10 week season.
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Post by larrymoe on Mar 12, 2024 3:37:21 GMT -6
So you spent 3-4 hours a day, all 7 days of the week, 52 weeks a year doing football coaching related activities? Well...M thru Th during the season I spent 3 hours per day doing football-related activities. On Fridays it was 3 hours. On Saturdays it was at least 2 hours. On Sunday it was at least 2 hours. During the off-season it was 3 hours per day M-F excluding Christmas break but working on football related paperwork (including spring ball). If you count attending clinics, speaking at clinics, on weekends in the off-season add that time to the total. During the summer it was 2 hours per day M-T-W-Th with the weight room, staff meetings, and working football camps. The last week of July was a dead week so I got to see the world. I'm not including the years I spent as a college coach. Just HS. So...yeah, maybe it wasn't completely an hour-to-hour, day-to-day, week-to-week, month-to-month time frame but damn close! Also, not including the time spent on my other duties as an AP, a Dean, or an AD. If that qualifies as stupidly inefficient then I guess there's a lot of us who are guilty. At most, that's 800 hours a year on football only activities. 19 hours a week in season for say 10 weeks is 190 hours. 15 hours a week off season for say 40 weeks (you said you took Christmas break off) is 600 hours. Idk how many clinics you went to, but if you were on the average staff I was on over my career, I'd be shocked if 10 hours of actual football related work was done at them. 800 is just over half of the 1500 hours this bill is proposing. It's a stupid bill with an hour total no one is approaching coaching football. And if they "are" they aren't doing it coaching football.
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Post by larrymoe on Mar 12, 2024 3:32:53 GMT -6
Your full time job as a teacher is about 150 hours short of 1500 a year. None of you are approaching 1500 coaching. Stop acting like you do.
If you take out weekends, (which I realize most coaches work weekends during the season, but you also don't usually work most holidays, so it equals out) you'd have to work 5 hours and 45 minutes EVERY SINGLE DAY of the rest of the 261 days of the year to equal 1500 hours. No one is doing that. And yes, if you are, you are doing it wrong.
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Post by larrymoe on Mar 11, 2024 15:53:12 GMT -6
For a comparison- if you work 7.5 hours a day, for a full 185 day school year, you only work 1387.5 hours. AS A FULL TIME TEACHER.
No football coach in HS, in America is working 1500 hours a year on football. If they, they're stupidly inefficient.
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Post by larrymoe on Mar 11, 2024 15:46:35 GMT -6
Over the course of a year I KNOW I spent at LEAST 24 hours per week on "coaching" at private schools around the country. The last being in Texas! I KNOW those public school guys are putting in WAY more time than I did, and are making a LOT more coin than I did. Why? 1. When I was coaching I absolutely loved what I did. I enjoyed every minute of it. Never ever looked at it like a job because I was having way too much fun doing it! 2. Being fairly compensated for it mattered, yes, but it hardly ever was on the forefront of my mind because I knew going in I wouldn't make nearly as much as my public school counterparts. Especially here in Texas! Public school football stipends here average $8,000.00 for varsity coordinators, and around $6,500.00 for assistants. Varies district to district. The top 5 HC's in Texas make well over $150,000.00 but they are also the school's athletic director. As a private school HC I made $5,000.00, but my actual salary was paid for being the school's AP, or Dean, or AD. So you spent 3-4 hours a day, all 7 days of the week, 52 weeks a year doing football coaching related activities?
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Post by larrymoe on Mar 11, 2024 13:53:46 GMT -6
I mean, that's an average of 29 hours "coaching" a week over the course of a year. No one actually does that. That's 4 hours a day 365 days a year. Besides game days, and 7on7 tournaments, idk that I'd spend 4 hours a day during the season.
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Post by larrymoe on Mar 11, 2024 8:26:02 GMT -6
We were forced to wear forearm pads my freshman year of HS in 1990. Stupidest piece of equipment ever. Never wore one after, never saw another player wear one unless they had an injury. Never played with or coached a player who wore a cowboy collar. Never saw one in the equipment room. Wore a cup for a couple games as a freshman, but never did after that season. Didn't wear a jock either.
I did wear Reggie White shoulder pads in college too. Definitely would have worn those itsy bitsy knee, thigh and hip pads too. As a 1 or 3 tech, any padding was pretty much unnecessary. I wasn't getting too many high speed collisions. It was more wrestling in that world.
I did shower after every practice, but that was more my wrestler skin disease paranoia than anything else.
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Post by larrymoe on Mar 9, 2024 11:04:25 GMT -6
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Post by larrymoe on Mar 7, 2024 17:02:43 GMT -6
fox just announced they will show a prime time national college game every friday night for the season, from big 12, big 10 or MWC games people wanna watch college football No one can argue the numbers right now, but the future is the issue.
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Post by larrymoe on Mar 7, 2024 13:23:49 GMT -6
Be careful if you are going to fight over a broom stick that it doesn't break and stab a kid. Or bear crawl down the bleachers and have a kids hand slip.......................... Also, make sure no syrup is present.
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Post by larrymoe on Mar 7, 2024 8:41:23 GMT -6
Yes, tell kids to join wrestling..... This times 1000.
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Post by larrymoe on Mar 6, 2024 16:42:35 GMT -6
Apparently Dartmouth's basketball team is trying to form a union.
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Post by larrymoe on Mar 6, 2024 12:48:41 GMT -6
Football is dying from the ground up. Boxing died out and baseball has been dying because societal values change among generations. Increasingly, more and more kids could give two craps about football. It may not die in my lifetime, but eventually football will not be the #1 sport in America. The country is changing, and our tastes in sports will change with it. The television numbers don't support that but... I guess only time will tell. Meaning what? Overall viewers, or by age group?
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Post by larrymoe on Mar 6, 2024 10:47:15 GMT -6
Football is dying from the ground up. Boxing died out and baseball has been dying because societal values change among generations. Increasingly, more and more kids could give two craps about football. It may not die in my lifetime, but eventually football will not be the #1 sport in America.
The country is changing, and our tastes in sports will change with it.
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Post by larrymoe on Mar 6, 2024 7:24:25 GMT -6
there's no way college football ever dies, all that will happen is instead of 3 divisions there will eventually be 4 or 5, just like how english soccer eventually had the premier league break off for the best teams, there will be division 3, 2 and 1 and premier more people will still watch premier league college football, some will watch D1 and D1AA (just like how people watching FCS today but not as much) and then fewer will watch D2 and D3 which are basically regionalized / local people initially won't like it because its different but eventually those people will tune in / buy tickets because people always do... Just like boxing is still the most popular sport in the country right?
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Post by larrymoe on Mar 1, 2024 9:14:56 GMT -6
I was purely a Mod Sled guy. Coached a few places that had Lev sleds, but didn't like them as much. Felt like they led to guys being too high and not blocking as long. Mods are also cheaper.
Either way, congratulations.
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Post by larrymoe on Feb 21, 2024 12:27:30 GMT -6
To be honest we probably taught too many when I coached at the high school, most kids weren't capable enough. We'd work on a "series" for a few days and then move on to something else...the best schools in our area are masters of a few things and that was definitely not our approach. I think we had a technique coach who knew too much for his own good. With the young guys we might introduce 1-2 new wrinkles a week, but we haven't taught a new takedown since week 1. We would teach "the system" for the first monthish and then once we got into the season I'd show stuff based off situations we found ourselves in in matches. Wrestling is a sport that it's really good to have a bunch of coaches in room as everyone has different things their body and style will allow them to do. I understood leg rides, but I never did them because they weren't in my repertoire. I struggled reaching the tall lanky kids who could do it.
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Post by larrymoe on Feb 21, 2024 5:13:31 GMT -6
Man, wrestling's changed if any tilts are considered "simple". I should've just said one tilt...we teach an easton roll and that's it. Double leg Stand Up Sit Out Tight waist - far ankle Tight waist - chop Half Nelson (and a few ways to get to it) Easton I think that might be all we've taught this year. I quit wrestling in 1996 and was never shown a single tilt from Jr High to college. Coached from 98 to 06. Never taught a tilt, nor coached in a program that taught them to the general masses. Wrestling just a different sport to a degree now.
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Post by larrymoe on Feb 21, 2024 5:06:53 GMT -6
They're set. You can get a pretty much complete one one thousand count in before the ball's snapped.
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Post by larrymoe on Feb 16, 2024 15:11:25 GMT -6
We got boys district this weekend. Boys and girls state next week. I think this is my last year of coaching wrestling. I'm tired of giving up my weekends. I coach middle school then go right into high school. I got out of high school and started helping with our middle school program a couple years back. The season is way shorter, we only do one Saturday, and it's very low stress. It's awesome. We keep it super simple (as others have mentioned) - one takedown series, 1-2 ways to get out from bottom, 1-2 tilts, and then drill the crap out of it. No running, make it fun, get everyone matches. Man, wrestling's changed if any tilts are considered "simple".
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Post by larrymoe on Feb 15, 2024 20:32:16 GMT -6
Wrestling was my first sport I had any success in. I wasn't going to play football in HS because my JFL experience was so God awful. I was just going to wrestle.
Wrestling is by far a much harder sport than pretty much everything. Wrestled for 10 years (including 2 in college) and coached for another 7.
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Post by larrymoe on Feb 12, 2024 18:01:55 GMT -6
Absolute nothing burger. It was only noticed because Kelce somehow lost track of his space. This is the NFL. It is a professional organization. The dynamics are nothing compared to schoolboy football. Don’t agree it was a nothing burger. It was at least a small order of fries. Agreed. That's the kind of stuff that gets you out of the league the second your talent's dried up.
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Post by larrymoe on Feb 12, 2024 6:39:18 GMT -6
Out of curiosity I was looking at realtor.com yesterday and a 1/8th timeshare of an 1100sq ft condo is ONLY $180k in Jackson.
There is no way this real estate bubble doesn't burst soon.
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Post by larrymoe on Feb 11, 2024 13:49:45 GMT -6
I hear that the "new" term being thrown around now is "the...Room." Well...when I was a young guy coaching high school ball I didn't have ANY rooms, but did have THREE positions I had to coach, O Line, LB's, and Special Teams! Then, as a HC I was in charge of ALL the "rooms". When I moved up to D2/D3 ball as an assistant I was a "position" coach and used a bunch of different "rooms." My advice...Coach the position(s) you've been assigned and coach your ass off! I feel like this "room" stuff is a byproduct of people watching too much of that HBO drivel.
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Post by larrymoe on Feb 9, 2024 16:37:07 GMT -6
Do not refer to your position group (or if coordinator side of the ball) as "MY guys.' They are "ours." Football is a TEAM sport. I will 100% refer to any lineman as my "guy" for all eternity. Those guys are ignored by everyone and blamed for everything. Those are my people and they are a hill I will die on.
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Post by larrymoe on Feb 8, 2024 19:59:17 GMT -6
I don't think it gets that cold in Jackson Hole.
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