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Post by 90rocket on May 26, 2023 5:18:05 GMT -6
Has anyone ever made a banner of some type specifically for linemen? Was thinking about putting a banner in the weight room only for offensive linemen names that blocked for a 1,000 yard rusher. I think that would get the kids excited.
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Post by 90rocket on Jul 3, 2020 21:35:39 GMT -6
Again, football = LOOSING MONEY for many if not most schools. Revenue does NOT equal profit. Bringing in "big money" but having bigger expenses does not equal big money. And really? "If the world would survive without football..." You do realize American Football is not that big a deal for the vast majority of humans on the planet right? I haven't hear of any associations saying "we aren't doing cross country in the fall". No high school has a Stock Car racing team that i know of, yet NASCAR is still running. Anyway, this thread has really taken some twists and turns. My point was just to comment and question on the idea that if school buildings were open for in seat learning, but state associations or districts didn't allow for extra curriculars, that community schools would shutter their doors... nobody care about cross country. If they did, you would hear it. Understand that most amateur athletic only exist by law. Because they cannot pull their own financial weight. Football makes money, The drain is not football. It is all the other non revenue producing sports that are killing athletic programs. So when 4 star says some schools would shut down without football, i can absoulutely see it. Baseball, swimming, track, soccer, cross country make nothing. So you shut down football but you have those Other non revenue producing sports, you have to take money from elsewhere. Donors that want winning football aren’t paying for soccer. That money has to come from somewhere. Football without crowds is not doable. Its one of the reasons we wont have football this fall. they have to have those people. At least in NY I don’t think there are ANY HS football programs that bring in a profit for their schools. Yes, they make the most money in concessions and ticket sales that often gets distributed to other teams but coaching salaries and equipment costs far outweighs any revenue.
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Post by 90rocket on Feb 20, 2017 7:01:09 GMT -6
I went through some old posts about tax season. I assume many of you are in the same boat as me in that you don't have the time to keep receipts for all of your potential deductions. Are there any tricks to the trade or suggestions so that I do not owe money again this year? I know previous posters have said to go to an accountant but I'm a single, non home owner and make south of 60,000 so I don't see that as completely necessary.
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Post by 90rocket on Dec 21, 2016 13:17:09 GMT -6
If they told the refs they were taking a knee then this is absolute crap. If not, well there's 48 seconds left in the first half and the opposing team should have been ready for anything. IMO this is much different than taking a knee at the end of the game.
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Post by 90rocket on Oct 30, 2016 21:34:27 GMT -6
What about getting into a punt formation...where you "can't touch the snapper"? Just throwing that out there. That's interesting. Can you get into a punt formation on 3rd down to make sure there is no nose guard?
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Post by 90rocket on Sept 3, 2016 10:54:29 GMT -6
Thanks coach. We've got some quality kids. Feels good to vent and be understood sometimes. Best of luck this year.
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Post by 90rocket on Sept 3, 2016 8:00:13 GMT -6
Sounds like you guys had some turnover or red zone issues. Stopped inside the 20 twice. Once when we were called for an illegal chop block then called for an illegal shift when on our had his hands under center and looked to me for the play call. Each team went on very long time eating drives.
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Post by 90rocket on Sept 3, 2016 7:41:36 GMT -6
As I sit here as the HC/OC, I'm trying to think of how many times I've had a 200 yard rusher and finished with a loss like what happened yesterday. My fullback went for 205 on 25 carries and two slots combined for 130 on 10 carries. We punted once, when we were called for a 15 yard penalty on a perfectly executed scramble for a 15 yard penalty. Swish cheese defense kept our offense off the field and we lost 40-20. Mind boggled.
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Post by 90rocket on Aug 5, 2015 21:00:56 GMT -6
In past years I would be up at 4:30 am M-Thursday, get to school around 5:30 and workouts in the AM would start around 6. This year I moved across the country and haven't done anything football related until last week. This is the first summer I have enjoyed since becoming a teacher 6 years ago. I did that morning stuff for a year as well. The thought process was that I'd be getting the winter/spring athletes in there. I was just too tired and fatigued to do it another year. Ended up going after school this year and while the attendance was a little less than mornings, I felt the kids had better workouts.
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Post by 90rocket on Aug 4, 2015 21:12:15 GMT -6
Nope, my time is spent opening the weight room 3-5 times a week to lift and work O and D install as well as making practice plans for both O and D. Now I'm a young single HC and I love it 99% of the time but I was very jealous when I spoke to one of the winningest coaches in our area a few week ago. He said that his school pays 2 people to open the weight room morning and evening 5 times a week in the summer. He vacations with his family and just stops in time to time in the weight room.
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Post by 90rocket on Jul 29, 2015 20:55:32 GMT -6
In my HC tenures, the kids got a contract stating that they understood they needed to make 75% of workouts during the year and 75% during the summer if they wanted to be captains, letter or be up for post-season honors. So, none of these guys would be eligible to be a captain, no letter and no all-conference or all-state accolades. As other coaches have stated, these kids would be planted on the bottom of the depth chart and have to earn their way to the top. I've always liked blb's conditioning clause too; they get to do the conditioning during two a days because they didn't do it during the summer. I get the captain eligibility. I do not understand nor do I see how you have a leg to stand on with the lettering or post season honors such all conference or all state. Those awards are about in season performance, how can you justify holding the best player in the conference off of the team because he only made 70% of workouts and even moreso, how are you going to get an administration to side with you when their contribution to the team was clearly above others (as it typically is with all state and all conference opponents)? With that you are sending the message that, you are valuable enough for me to feed the rock to but not valuable enough to get credit for your contribution. Here's what I do in regards to that...In our league the coaches choose who gets in the All Star team. Unless that kid is an absolute stud, I am not going to put him on an all star team if he doesn't make many off season workouts. I'll try to get as many kids on the all star team who do attend and I make sure to remind the other kids that it is the kids who ARE making the workouts that are all stars. It helps that the kids think the other coaches pick our All Stars.
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Post by 90rocket on Jun 6, 2015 10:28:21 GMT -6
Show them how to be leaders. At a practice last year during a conditioning segment I told all linemen they had 5 sprints, skill players had 8. Prior to practice, I told our senior lineman after the 5th sprint, I wanted him to tell myself and the team that the linemen were going to run all 8 with the skill players. Not only did that put him in a position to be a leader, but it showed the younger kids an example of what a leader does.
This is just one example, but there's plenty of other ways you can use this approach.
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Post by 90rocket on May 22, 2015 8:02:38 GMT -6
Completely understand how that would tick off the townies. We as coaches have praised our OL and preached that whatever the RB gets is 99% a result of the OL. Our RBs do a great job praising them. It just seems like this contradicts what we are saying. Perhaps I could put the initials of the starting OL underneath the RBs that get 1000.
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Post by 90rocket on May 21, 2015 21:35:59 GMT -6
Our school had been putting the names up of athletes that rush or pass for 1000 yards for the past 10-15 years. I heard a kid a few days ago bragging about his name being up there in front of my QB, despite the fact that he never won a playoff game and my kid has already won 2 with his senior year to go. Honestly, I hate that individual stuff. This is only my 2nd year at the school as the HC, but would it be out of line to ask our administrators about taking those down?
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Post by 90rocket on Apr 27, 2015 14:22:25 GMT -6
I get that FB coaches don't want to be the ones to discipline students when it their their players disrupting the class. However, at our school there are plenty of kids that get 0 discipline at home. Write them up? Parents don't care. Tell them to stay after? They don't.
About all we have as leverage as teachers here are sports. I used to have the same school of though as many of you when I hated being contacted by other teachers about my athletes. Now I go right to the kids coach when I have a punk in my class if there is no parental support.
If the kid doesn't play sports and doesn't have any parental support...my hands are pretty much tied at my school.
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Post by 90rocket on Mar 10, 2015 21:20:28 GMT -6
We do a three day camp (middle school) and treat it as a lead into our pre-season stuff. One of the things that I like to do is have some sort of games at the end every day to get them really competing. This can be flag football games or something like that. We're an option team, so we do a game I call "Clash of the Titans" where they're split up into teams, call their own plays (from our playbook) and run them against a defense (with flags). Very fun because kids get to call their plays and they're still executing our playbook. I like it coach, what does your OL do if you are just using flags though? How do you limit contact between the O and D lines?
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Post by 90rocket on Feb 25, 2015 12:54:58 GMT -6
My belief is that the top 8 teams with the most quality points get seeded 1-8 regardless of where they finish. If a 2nd Place team beats 2 division winners and loses to the division champion in their own division, why should they automatically be seeded behind the 2 teams they beat?
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Post by 90rocket on Feb 25, 2015 11:16:01 GMT -6
The reason we did quality point last year was because we had an odd number of teams and some teams had to cross over with a higher classification. The teams that did this gained a few quality points if they lost and more if they won.
The top 8 make the playoffs with the 2nd place team with the most quality points getting the 4th seed. They get a home game, but they also get the top team in the 2nd round. I would rather be the 6th seed and play on the road and hope to play the 2nd overall seed in the semis.
One thing to note...the NBA uses 3 divisions and does not automatically give the division winners the top seeds. Does anyone know why this is the case?
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Post by 90rocket on Feb 24, 2015 15:49:12 GMT -6
Figured I would give this a bump and hope for the best. We are back to an 18 team league, so we decided to go with 3 six team divisions that are based on geography. Everyone will play 5 division games and 2 crossovers. Top 8 make the playoffs...division winners seeded 1-3, 2nd place in division seeded 4-6, 3rd place seeded 7-8. The problem is that the 2 best teams in the entire league are in the same division, along with arguably the 3rd best team. Last year we used a point method that was based on wins verse quality teams or losses verse quality teams.
The only problem will be that the top 2 teams will very likely play each other in the semi-finals after already competing in the regular season.
Is anyone else in a similar scenario? Should the division winners automatically be given the top 3 seeds?
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Post by 90rocket on Feb 9, 2015 12:01:29 GMT -6
Coaches,
I'm interested in creating a bank account for the cash and checks that are given to me for team camps, 7 on 7, etc. In the past 2 years that I have been the HC, we had the checks made out to the booster club who would then either give me the check or pay the bill. I didn't like the idea of having checks made out directly to me. I'm not looking to make money (trust me, I've lost more money than I have made in coaching) but this will give me a better way to know what money I have available for the program. In HS, I remember making checks out to "Spartan Football" as opposed to the HC. Does anyone else have a bank account set up or am I making this a bigger issue than what it really is?
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Post by 90rocket on Sept 30, 2014 20:25:32 GMT -6
Just to piggy back off this topic...We had a newspaper guy come in the other day to interview one of my captains. His question was what was your greatest athletic accomplishment? My kids answer.."probably finishing 2nd in the state in tackles my sophomore year." He's a senior now and is a very average player. The staff that was here his sophomore year obviously put stats on maxpreps. I got a pretty good chuckle out of that one.
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Post by 90rocket on Aug 4, 2014 7:08:14 GMT -6
When I coached basketball I always felt practices were for me, the games for the players. I never tried to over coach them during games. If I had used my time wisely at practice they should be all set. I also think basketball is a grind to coach. It is during the winter 2+ games per week, practice over vacation etc.
With that said there is no question in my mind that football takes far more time and attention to detail in order for the coach to lead a successful team.
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Post by 90rocket on Aug 3, 2014 21:36:19 GMT -6
Funny I was just thinking this the other night. My mother bought be a great pair of black Under Amour pants, but I didn't really like the black on black with our black coaching shirts. Need a nice tan color for this year.
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Post by 90rocket on Aug 3, 2014 7:10:39 GMT -6
Men,
We are a flexbone team that has to cut block a lot in the regular season. We are doing our own team camp Mon-Thurs and then on Friday a coach asked us to join them for a little scrimmage. Would it be bush league for my kids to cut block in a scrimmage as much as we do in games? I know the team we are scrimmaging plays a team in the regular season who does the exact same thing as we do. I could also do what we do in practice and have my kids give their kids a head ups when cut blocking. Any thought? I don't want to start any bad beef, but cut blocking is part of our execution.
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Post by 90rocket on Aug 2, 2014 8:38:57 GMT -6
We are the exact same way. Here's another good one for ya..
Last year I was hired at the HC late in the school year after the current HC switched schools. Two members of my coaching staff were not teachers in the district. I had to wait until the next board meeting so they could be officially board approved which was 2 days AFTER practice started until they could be around the kids. One of the coaches has been a teacher as coach for over ten years.
We are so by the book it is ridiculous. My HS principal stays out of my hair and rarely goes to any games which I'm fine with. But every time I ask him for something he immediately brings up the legality of the issue. Can't say I blame him in this day in age, but it is interesting.
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Post by 90rocket on Aug 1, 2014 21:28:32 GMT -6
There is a Catholic School in our league who has a few athletes but is VERY poorly coached. The HC always complains how he gets no talent and our section has now accepted a 3 way merger between the three Catholic Schools in our league without moving up in classification.
I always want to ask the guy, "What are you doing to make your athletes better?" I, along with many of you open the weight room several days a week before and after school, summer, extensive practice planning, hours of film prep, etc.
Now this guy is going to be loaded in talent, and I know he doesn't do half of what I or many of you do. It is what it is I guess.
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Post by 90rocket on Jul 31, 2014 17:32:58 GMT -6
For those of you that post depth charts, when do you first post them? We have been lifting all summer with about 80% participation, have team camp next week (just us Mon-Thurs, then traveling to scrimmage Fri), and then regular practice starts a week later. After 3 weeks we will have our first game. I never really officially posted a depth chart last year. We will be missing two-three starters from team camp. Should I post one before our scrimmage and then again on the first day of practice while emphasising that these are far from permanent? For the coaches that do post them, when do you typically first post them?
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Post by 90rocket on Jul 28, 2014 10:28:49 GMT -6
I agree with lack of coaches. I have a total of 4 coaches for JV and Varsity this year. Last year, I only had 3. I was the HC/Varsity OC, we had a Varsity DC, and one JV HC.
Modified, or middle school football is a different story. Our principal JUST posted those two coaching vacancies. Yea, their season starts in less than a month.
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Post by 90rocket on Jul 24, 2014 20:42:34 GMT -6
Do you guys typically line up in formations you use during the season? We are a pistol flexbone team. Our FB is usually only used as a blocker on passing plays with the exception of a throwback and middle screen. I was thinking of keeping everyone else in their typically spot and having our FB lineup offset to the QB so he can run some swing passes and outs.
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Post by 90rocket on Jul 14, 2014 20:39:45 GMT -6
I'm having the same problem right now. We're a smaller school, graduation class of around 60. Right now we're getting about 35 out of our 60 kids grades 9-12 who signed up to play a day in the weight room. Problem is 10-15 of them have no chance of ever helping us. I like their commitment, although I know they are just showing up for the incentive of getting a free t shirt by making it to 20 summer lifts. I try to help them out here or there when I can but they are just clogging up our limited weight room. I plan on sending as many as I can to work with the WR's. We only have 3 coaches so I don't want to be coaching 35 linemen out blocking schemes.
I really can't make cuts, although I do plan on increasing our conditioning the first few days with the hope that some of the dead weeds cut themselves.
With that said, if I get a kid willing to hop in every time we need a scout player, help with filling the water bottles, equipment etc. who is never going to get a snap, I will treat that kid like he is the starting quarterback. What I hate is when a kid who will never play, goofs off on the sidelines, and complains about not playing. Drives me nuts.
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