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Post by mnike23 on Sept 6, 2017 10:11:49 GMT -6
coaching looking over your shoulder! been there. if you cannot run the show like you want, if powers that be are always questioning whats going on, why this, why that, then regardless of anything, you cannot work like that. i was there and told myself to go out and work my butt off just like I always had. had a couple incidents to start the season, neither were anyone in the programs fault, and from that point on i could feel the seat getting hot. after the season I asked and was told to enjoy the offseason and be ready to go in spring. i was let go a month b4 spring football. everyone could see it, but me.
i commend the guy for standing up for his values. hindsight is 50/50(heard that along time ago, thought it made more sense than 20/20, lol). i should have walked away, but was blinded by ego and pride and not giving up on my kids....
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Post by mnike23 on May 24, 2017 6:31:04 GMT -6
you wont go wrong with the russell brand performance jersey. we got them about 4 years ago, white and black, pants and jerseys. over time, white tends to get dingy and lose its brightness, regardless of who and what you do to it. but not russell. you can get a cheap russell jersey that will last 2-5 years or the top of the line(like what ga tech wears) and it will last as long as you want it too.
have had nike pro combat, they look great, but have to be washed delicately. they tend to hold stains a bit(we had a tv game last year and someone got the bright idea to contact the local pro team and see what they did to their field to make it so green---good grass jack a$$). this guy got some grass paint from pioneer and painted the field with a green sheen to make it brighter for tv....ruined a set of pants and the other teams entire uniform.....
have had adidas, eh....not for my money. 2 seasons ago we got a custom sublimated jersey from seige sports. looks great. but i wouldnt wear it for 5 home games. 1 time a year for that special game.
under armor is hot right now. im not a big fan, although the material they use is pretty nice, so it seems. i dont care for riddell. stay in the helmet business.
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Post by mnike23 on May 15, 2017 11:57:44 GMT -6
Heck, school counselors have been doing that for over a decade now, it helps further justify their professional existence. And it allows the school an out on shoving that kid through to graduation because of their "label". That and mommy and daddy can draw a check for their kid's "disability". my kid has it, where is this mysterious check your talking about? have called it a joke ever since she was little, that quite possibly she was getting her newborn shots and was inoculated with it. a way for govt to make money. but..... she really is hyper as hell, its annoying. no meds and you cant have a conversation with her, as she wont even look at you for longer than 10 seconds. then picking at a piece of paper, the wall, petting the dog, watching the ceiling fan, on and on. but on meds. she can carry a conversation as best a 14 yr old can. she hates the meds, but its 100% necessary. she has a fidget spinner. not sure why but she does. other than, everyone has one. stupid/brilliant, e3ffing toy....
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Post by mnike23 on Apr 4, 2017 8:51:03 GMT -6
adrenaline fundraising. cards, tumblrs, several other things.
my buddy in alabama does this one with major success. they call it the "dimes" fundraiser. take a 20oz water bottle, empty, ask for dimes from any and all people. fill the bottle with dimes, its roughly 80$. people more likely to donate loose change than give you 5$ bill. they dont turn down any money, as long as its silver. says kids love it as its easy and they get 2 or 3 bottles each, around 5k each spring.
basically its just a donation, easiest fundrasier is free money.
i hate fundraising....
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Post by mnike23 on Apr 3, 2017 9:39:08 GMT -6
Players play. Coaches coach. Refs ref. Fans cheer. Admin screws everything up. Everyone has their role! quote of the year!!
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Post by mnike23 on Mar 28, 2017 9:26:22 GMT -6
april 24th first day of spring ball in florida. 20 official practices 5 days of adjustment to pads, just like fall practice. no contact. 20th day is normally a spring game. ive seen guys do mon/tues/thurs/friday(we have early day in many parts in florida-kids get out an hour earlier,for teacher meetings, etc). ive seen guys do mon-thursday, no fridays, the 4 days a week thing teams get an extra few days after spring game, or they play their spring game later. like after memorial day. ive also seen teams go 10 practices and play as early as possible. not sure why,
in terms of sports, track state finals are the first weekend in may, usually. baseball state finals are around week 2 in may.
track kids mostly play football, baseball not so much.
7 on 7 is now the way teams are getting away with coaching football in the offseason. it is semi sanctioned in the state. pay some money for kids and coaches and now the football comes out in january and they can work on "7 on 7" skills legally and under the guise of fhsaa. alot of guys do it anyways, but this is the right way to do it and not catch the fine from the state.
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Post by mnike23 on Mar 15, 2017 10:43:18 GMT -6
i just wrote my guys who will be coaching offense with me and explained to them the loyalty piece. you have 1 chance at this.... your my guys, if you have questions, issues, problems, lets cuss each other out in the office. but on the field, it is not acceptable. where we stand 1, we stand all. good job coach miller!
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Post by mnike23 on Mar 15, 2017 9:40:57 GMT -6
couple thoughts, didnt read the whole thing, but a good portion.
i love chalk wars. but, last guy with the grease pen wins. or whiteboard marker. lol. doesnt matter what facemelter defense is drawn up, i can draw a bodymelter offense to defeat it. whatever offense you draw up, i can draw a defense to beat that 1 too. its not the chalk wars, its the coaching talk thats going on. thats the real fun of the whole thing.
X and O, not jimmies n joes. until my jimmies n joes are so dam good, your X and O can eat a D.
up until last fall I truly thought that we could win a game or 2 by scheming, out coaching, busting our tails. it never came to frution. really didnt. we worked tirelessly with less talented kids and just knew that we could steal a game becuase we were that dam good. last fall, on a new staff, we had some talented kids that had won a total of 6 games in 3 years. we worked our butts off on the whiteboard, on the field, in the video room, etc.... and won 2 games we shouldnt have, because we out schemed and out worked our opponent. Xs and Os FINALLY MATTERED AGAIN!!!! our jimmes were not better than either of the Joes that we played and beat. so what was it? dumb luck? nope,
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Post by mnike23 on Feb 23, 2017 7:15:55 GMT -6
I liked being a HC 60% of the time. I'm under a good HC now and don't see myself being an AC for anyone else outside of 2-3 people at the HS level anyway. I have a lot of clout and can just focus on the stuff I like to do: speed/strength, college recruiting, O-Line, Hudl. No more media or parents for me Pros to being HC: You control the mission and vision of the program. It mirrors your personality. There's no disruption in the message so: If you want wild dudes that put their wieners on the glass at the Kiwanis club- that's your call. If you want guys to come out singing and dancing together- that's your call. If you want a ban on neon one-arm sleeves and coaches hip bumping- that's your call. If you want to hold up signs with legendary movie QB Johnny Walker on them- that's your call. thats exactly the truth. it takes awhile, but thats the truth. i was a head wrestling coach for close to 15 years before I got my first football head job. my goal was to do both. i feel like they go so well together. the discipline aspects, adversity of the difficulties of TEAM and ME in the ultimate team sport and the me sport. as a head wrestling coach, we were angry, fighters. when we lost, i kicked chairs and was mad as hell. when we won, we all jumped up and down. the more we won, the less jumping up and down for me---i expected it and nothing less---when we lost, it became worse. i was infused with a hatred of losing, more so than the joy of winning. as a head football coach, i worked my tail off to try and instill those same things to the kids. thinking I could do it in a small time frame(2-5 years) and have the same type of fighters, running thru the wall and wanting to beat the team to a pulp. so i got a rough group of kids and they loved my fire. loved it. but couldnt see my fire for losing was even more intense. thus the losses became more ugly and the wins become less and less. being the HC of a football program is a joy. and is the hardest job in sports. you will deal with more crap than you ever, EVER knew exsited as an assistant.
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Post by mnike23 on Feb 23, 2017 7:04:55 GMT -6
brother you said it there! when i was last head coach, i got fired for whatever reasons. but was raked over the coals for this: middle of a game, my qb gets picked off, hes going to make tackle and tries to ttake out kids legs, trailing kid blasts him and they get into word fight. starting d1 oline kid comes and was gonna kill this kid. so everyone got ejected and my qb gets 6 games? after his helmet was pulled off. i went to state and got it over turned. video showed nobody had line of sight to throw anyone out. that was week 1 week 2 after the game in lineup to shake hands, the kids holding the chains(kids? in opposing team jerseys??) told 1 of my guys he had agun in his bag and was gonna use it. so not being soft(inner city school, both of em). almost riot breaks out, the fake gun in backpack kid loses his mind and pushes/hits the cheer coach(my wife of course) and then my team went apechit.... both my fault right? so week 3 after the game i have to corrall my own kids from arguing with each other(oline kids that made the wrong call at los and caused a sack). they were arguing and it was heated, but not so over the top that it was a big deal. i have no control over my kids right..... so protecting your brother, your mother(so to speak) and 2 brothers fighting, doesnt happen in everyday life? that was my speech to 3rd principal in 3 years. guess it wasnt what he wanted to hear.... but you know what, of those 4 kids that were involved and 3 more in the soon to be riot, they are all in college right now playing ball and thank me all the time for teaching them LIFE LESSONS. DEAR LORD! You should consider writing a book or making a movie! that was year 3. how about year 1, we go to FCA camp. fellowship of CHRISTIAN athletes camp. a semi(not really) contact camp, alot of fellowship, food, football. a great thing for kids and coaches. right? well, 3 plays into our first scrimmage, the Left tackle gives up a sack. the qb(as he should) goes and tells kid to get his chit together and he has to protect his blind side. he cant see guys coming, etc, etc, I was STUNNED when i heard qb telling the kid exactly what I or the OL coach would be telling him in 5 min. heres where i really was STUNNED. the tackle, flips his mind and starts yelling back at qb, its not his fault, etc. and takes his helmet off and hits the qb in the side of the helmet and they are wreslting on the ground. AT FCA CAMP..... i was mortified. i begged the director of the program to let the inner city kids that are broke as a joke into the camp. he gave us money to help, etc.... and here we are at FCA camp dropping F bombs and fighting EACH OTHER!!!! we almost went home. but wasnt the last "incident" at fca camp for us. i could write a book. lol
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Post by mnike23 on Feb 22, 2017 11:34:17 GMT -6
For me....having been a coordinator and a HC......they are both very much one in the same IMO. I was also a coordinator who was allowed to have a boat load of other responsibilities (which I was compensated for), and there isn't much difference at least for me. I don't mind being a coordinator as I can just focus on football and not deal with all of the logistics and the politics. was a coordinator for the first time in 5 yr last fall. absolutely fell in love with football again. was so much fun. did alot of stuff for the head guy, becuase I knew it needed to be done. this spring i left to be a coordinator closer to home, better school environment for kids and such. already have enjoyed the time there. someone said on here awhile back best job on the planet is an OC/DC. you are the head coach of half the squad, run your stuff, but dont deal with nearly anything. kid gets in trouble in class, HC discpline is _ _ _ _ pregame meal-not me equipment handout-helper but not coordinate how laundry detail-not sure, i run offense paint the field-hc overseas someone doing it, i run offense grade checks-over pay grade, i work on stats not grades, lmao. etc... best job out there is coordinator
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Post by mnike23 on Feb 22, 2017 11:26:05 GMT -6
I don't talk to a lot of head coaches that seem like happy/contented guys, now that might be in part due to the fact that they are the type of "never satisfied" dudes from the beginning which is why they got as far as they did, but I think they are just stressed out. I once heard at a corporate management thing that employees become stressed and work satisfaction drops when they are held accountable for results that are beyond their control. As a HC you think you are gaining more control over the program and that makes you feel good, but the flip-side is that you are now held responsible for more outcomes over which you have very little control. couple of football players get caught smoking weed in the grocery store parking lot - No discipline in your football program player fails a class - why aren't you keeping up with these kids academically? other school in town wins a title- why aren't we more like them? three starters tear ACL's - what are we doing to prevent injury? ...it goes on forever brother you said it there! when i was last head coach, i got fired for whatever reasons. but was raked over the coals for this: middle of a game, my qb gets picked off, hes going to make tackle and tries to ttake out kids legs, trailing kid blasts him and they get into word fight. starting d1 oline kid comes and was gonna kill this kid. so everyone got ejected and my qb gets 6 games? after his helmet was pulled off. i went to state and got it over turned. video showed nobody had line of sight to throw anyone out. that was week 1 week 2 after the game in lineup to shake hands, the kids holding the chains(kids? in opposing team jerseys??) told 1 of my guys he had agun in his bag and was gonna use it. so not being soft(inner city school, both of em). almost riot breaks out, the fake gun in backpack kid loses his mind and pushes/hits the cheer coach(my wife of course) and then my team went apechit.... both my fault right? so week 3 after the game i have to corrall my own kids from arguing with each other(oline kids that made the wrong call at los and caused a sack). they were arguing and it was heated, but not so over the top that it was a big deal. i have no control over my kids right..... so protecting your brother, your mother(so to speak) and 2 brothers fighting, doesnt happen in everyday life? that was my speech to 3rd principal in 3 years. guess it wasnt what he wanted to hear.... but you know what, of those 4 kids that were involved and 3 more in the soon to be riot, they are all in college right now playing ball and thank me all the time for teaching them LIFE LESSONS.
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Post by mnike23 on Feb 22, 2017 9:34:51 GMT -6
i dont disagree.
you know what the why for me is....to make better husbands, fathers and members of society, out of these young men. with as cut throat as the HC profession is in high school, its next to impossible to get the right amount of time to do so. 3 years isnt enough. can you reach a couple hundred kids in 3. sure can. but with the inordinate amount of BS that has to be done besides teaching young men the game of life, its difficult.
I love the grind. i love the feeling of walking off the field friday night with a win. i love saturday meetings and wednesdays in the offseason. watching kids develop and get it. i love mowing grass, painting fields, going to booster meetings, meeting with AD and principal about wants and needs, talking to parents and loving on some kids.... i love game plans and highlight films and going to college recruting fairs to get the boys to the right place.
so i hear you. but its also not all its cracked up to be. and you can easily burn out fast. there is alot more to being the boss, than just football. the youngins dont know that, yet
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Post by mnike23 on Feb 22, 2017 8:40:04 GMT -6
I can't wait to be the man. I know "be careful what you wish for," but I want to see what its like for myself. Ditto. Every taste I've gotten has made me just that much more eager. why? to repeat everyone that has been there, brother its a title. and it goes with alot of hats. if it were just coaching monday thru saturday from 3-5 and games thrusdays and fridays, it would be awesome. but its much, much more than that. that title under your email signature, Head Football Coach, seems really cool and all that. until you realize its a daily chore for 52 weeks a year and the off time as an assistant you get is like gold when your the boss. becuase there isnt any off time. even on a weeks vacation, your phone is glued to your hip and answering texts, promoting program, calling coaches about players. etc....... there is so much more to it than just being the HFC.
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Post by mnike23 on Feb 16, 2017 10:01:34 GMT -6
as previously stated. when team wins, players and staff made great plays, adjustments to win the game. when a team loses, the coaches didnt prepare them enough. IT IS NEVER THE KIDS FAULT. even when it is their fault. its never their fault. you show the film and show their mistakes, point them out and correct them. but its never a 16 yr old kids fault for losing a game, even when it is. talk about wanting to make this generation of kids jump off the 3 story, good lord. blame them for losing a game.
i can see it, right out of all the right moves. coach blames the kid for a fumble, even when he did fumble, and drills his tail infront of the whole team. then the PI call and on and on. later that night, they dont trash coaches house, they jump off the top of the steel mill roof head first with a note saying coach said its my fault!
extreme, yes, but the reality of it is just that. kids are softer now than they were 10, 15,20, 30, 50 yrs ago.
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Post by mnike23 on Feb 13, 2017 9:17:09 GMT -6
Does your town not have a parks and rec or a county job to put a coach in till a teaching job opens. There's a lot of ways to be creative to get a coach in if you're willing to do what it takes to win en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morral,_Ohio nobody leaves because of this reason right here. 338 kids in the school what is your class size? 10/11? why in the heck would you want to leave? make as much $$ as a teacher that everyone else in 25-50 student classes(electives) and a full 1/3rd less problems. im sure all the kids are pretty respectfull. i say, you do kids. yes sir, no sir kids. I wouldnt leave either. and its not a community. wiki page designates it as a village, they wont create another section of PE or drivers ed, becuase how many kids would be in there? 5, 6? wtf is the point. to pay a football coach yes I get it. but no its not happening. the nation will know how many jobs will be available in about 6 weeks. FTE for next fall is going on right now. the budgets will be done in middle march, early april. ive said it, its been said, over and over and over and over. its not scheme, its not the boss. it is the clientel. its the kids running the offense, defense, specials. you cant make chicken salad out of chicken chit....its just not going to happen..... nick saban isnt making ridgeville a winner. although i bet he can recruit some kids to come play there. lmao. and with 22 kids on the team. you dont need a coaching staff. you need 1 guy. and thats it... hell, i coached 1 year with a former high school player and 1 other coach and we had 56 kids. and won 5 games..... jimmies n joes. thats all
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Post by mnike23 on Feb 10, 2017 12:27:43 GMT -6
28 teachers in a 6-12 school in the upper middle western ohio. a local is the only one that has any sense to apply for that job. nobody from florida, texas, alabama, california, georgia, is applying for that. maybe someone from dayton, fort wayne, muncie, lima, toledo would apply as a last resort, getting back in the game, stepping stone. but seriously, its cold as hell there and not much if anything to do. winters suck, summer is like 8 weeks, its grey from october to april. it snows in march sometimes.
your school is 96.7% white golf is your best sport its ok. not every school where i coach is good at football either. I was the HC at a school with 3800 kids but 88% hispanic and my last fall as HC I ended with 28 kids on varsity( less than 10% of the boys(1600 boys). we won 6 games in 3 years, made the school more money in 3 seasons than they had in 25 yrs, new uniforms, new wt room, new, new, new, new, but JIMMIES N JOES matter....my 2nd year we had 1 kid over 6ft tall at a skill position.... feeder program has over 500 kids in it. but they dont like high school football....why, its hard, you have to come to summer workouts, you have to come on saturday, you have to be committed. there is no guarantee to play rules, coach yells, coach doesnt like me, etc.etc.etc.etc... red, football is not your guys thing. and your not the AD. let themm pick the coach. its not your job. drive the bus.
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Post by mnike23 on Feb 10, 2017 12:13:04 GMT -6
"I don't want to get hurt for basketball" That's the one that I was looking for. Maybe no football coach will have a chance there until something gets straightened out with the basketball coach. Other than that, they all come straight from "The Big Book of Excuses", which kids don't even have to read anymore because it's all on YouTube. except the basketball team is 0-16 this year......
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Post by mnike23 on Feb 10, 2017 12:11:33 GMT -6
ohsaa website says 338 students. with a declining enrollment every year since 2010.
boys golf was the only team I saw that had wins in the fall.
is it by chance that your school isnt an athletic school? said it before, square peg round hole. regardless of what YOU want, maybe its not a priority for anyone else....
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Post by mnike23 on Feb 10, 2017 12:01:07 GMT -6
212 total kids how many boys? half? so 106 boys in school 20% would be around 20 kids which is what you have.
youth level winning does not constitute wins at high school. when you have an over developed 4th grader or a 9 yr old 2nd grader that is on weight, but is older lighter, what does 90% of those mite might coaches do....run some type of single wing/wildcat, my kid is faster than anyone on the field and he can chase down every person in the league.....
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Post by mnike23 on Feb 10, 2017 11:34:17 GMT -6
was on your website, the jobs not even posted? shows you have a football coach? red, im not sure this is the best way to find a football coach. you may be tired of this that and the 3rd, but no coach in their right mind is gonna walk into that situation and feel comfortable. you cant build chicken salad out of chicken chit...regardless.... again jimmies n joes. its not a football school. pretty evident. it is what it is.
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Post by mnike23 on Feb 10, 2017 11:21:33 GMT -6
ive read the threads. brother, you cant say that running the wing t is a prerequisite to coaching at your school. 1st-are you doing the hiring 2nd-maybe the AD/Principal would like a say so in it.
I have ran the wing t for 15+ years, spread for 8, been a DC, OC, HC, ran specials, and every position on the field. no parent is telling me what offense I will run.
I will run what I see fits to the kids. and thats that. any coach that has some sense will say the same dam thing. you cant force an offense that you like because billy jo bob said it was good and you saw some youtube videos on it and it looks neat.
it doesnt matter if tubby raymond himself is coming in there with bruce cobleigh and denny creehan running positions and chuck klausing and rich erydeli too.... said it in other thread----jimmies n joes. you may not be a wing t team. not much to pick from in 212 kids in school. maybe option is better maybe a spread guy that can teach it well comes in and lights teams up.
you want a good coach, dont make some absurd assumptions that wing t is the only offense that can be ran at your school....
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Post by mnike23 on Feb 9, 2017 10:23:37 GMT -6
brady came into a winning deal right away.
Not really. Pats were 5-11 in Belichick's first year, started 1-3 the second when Brady took over.
meaning that they had been in a winning culture. the players on those teams were parcells guys(carroll was a joke there) and had been to the superbowl just a couple years earlier.
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Post by mnike23 on Feb 9, 2017 10:12:38 GMT -6
brady came into a winning deal right away. bledsoe was a stud, they had been to the super bowl recently and was winning games, etc... defense was king, they ran the ball, brady didnt have to do much other than learn on the fly, manage, etc. i dont think 6th round tom had much pressure other than keeping bledsoe from getting the job back,
manning situation was different. harbaugh had been there, they went to afc title game, 1 play from super bowl. had marshall faulk and was winning. he came in to replace captain comeback and be the man. the first year he threw pick after pick. indy people wanted harbaugh back. when faulk left they went bonkers mad. blamed manning for it. not until they started winning again did indy people love him.
tough call. personally,montana is my guy. brady is so much like joe cool its scary. im not a manning fan. but respect what he has done for the game. would love to see those 83 draft qbs play in todays passer friendly league. montana, elway, kelly, marino. those dudes were great in a bump league, imagine what they could do in a cant touch wr/qb league. that was montana downfall, injuries. he would be great in todays nfl. drew brees type qb. accurate, great downfield passer but not a fantastic arm. gets most out of his skill set. great conversation here.
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Post by mnike23 on Feb 9, 2017 10:04:31 GMT -6
difficult debate for sure. i do believe brady is all that you want in a qb, leader, comsumate pro, etc... the system in NE is designed for him to be very very good. you can see that any backups that have played (when he tore ACL, this season for 4 weeks) they too have had a great amount of success running the system.
nfl qbs are system qbs. regardless of the things people will fight on this topic, but they are...you see guys leave new england and they do not play anywhere near the same. and that is everywhere. some nfl qbs play in an offense that is designed around them. they get free agent money and leave that system and go to a new 1 and do not have the same success(not always, but alot).
manning was an incredible passer of the ball. a seeier of things that happen before they happen. almost like a 6th sense. he could read a defense and decipher the play better than anyone that has ever played. not the most gifted, but worked at his craft as a passer to be the guy. an ultimate leader and a pros pro. work ethic never an issue.
could you flip those 2 and they still have the same success? would brady have thrived in the colts offense? would manning spin the ball in NE the same way he did in Indy?
when mvp is discussed, we have the round table beer talks about it in every sport. my answer is always, take this guy off the team and what happens to them? if you took another guy in the mvp race in their spot, then what happens? do they win the same?
in this case, both win in the others franchise. no doubt.
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Post by mnike23 on Feb 9, 2017 8:34:06 GMT -6
nice. 19 high schools, with #20 being built for next fall right now, where I live. 3 turf fields in county right now. the goal (from what I have heard) is that all 20 schools will get turf. 1 at a time, starting with the fields that are in worst shape and spend the most money on field maintenence up to the 17th that is pristine-being last. that field, is like agusta national. it doesnt need turf! wish I didnt have to spend 3-10 hrs a week doing that stuff. There isn't a parent group or booster club that could help take the burden off of you and your staff? I'm in Illinois and we are lucky to have someone who is excellent at getting our fields ready to go. He lines both practice and game fields. But, I have been in other programs where the parents did the lining of the fields. i coached in another state and had a group of parents that did the gamefield lining weekly. it was great. where I am at now. we have a coach from another sport that does the gamefield. which is great. hes a former fb coach, but took time off for his young boys. when they get to pop warner levels, he will start coaching again. the AD mows for us and we line practice field. where I was at as head coach the last 4 years, boosters were a joke. parents barely came to games(not all of them, some were super committed). i did it all. to be completely honest, was more afraid anyone else would screw it up and i would have to fix it, so why not do it right or my way the first time. lol
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Post by mnike23 on Feb 8, 2017 11:23:55 GMT -6
As for Offense it sounds like I might be on the right track with the Wing-T. The only other Offense that even stood out to be was the Double Wing. Is one or the other better for a small school like ours or not really? As of right now we haven't had a passing game in the past few years. That said you never know what the future holds. I have never seen a DW offense in person but I was watching some Youtube video's and they made it look unstoppable. Now I know anything can be stopped but I'm just saying it looked like it could be a really productive offense that could be hard to stop. That said the Wing-T didn't look quit as dominant in the video's, but it looked as if you could change it up more. For example, if you don't have a passing QB you could be mostly a running team. However if you got a good QB from time to time. Then you could change things up a bit and add more passing and even play out of the shotgun. Please correct me if I'm wrong about any of this. I just want to pick the right offense for use and start getting all the information I can about it. I really want to study it so that I know it in side and out before I start trying to teach it to others. Don't take this the wrong way but if the only thing that you know about an offense is what you see on YouTube my best advice would be: DO NOT TAKE THIS JOB. You're not remotely ready to be a HC and everything that see here has "disaster" written all over it. This could be the most miserable year of your life and everybody involved may very well end up mad at everyone else. If you do take the job, I'd recommend that you run Wing T. There are a lot or resources available for it and you're going to need as much info as you can get. Good luck. spot on. thats why I said what I did above. its not as easy as just putting an offenSe out there and a defense, that you learned off a video and go play.. there is so much more to being the guy in charge. with 27 or 127. its backbreaking, heart aching, lonely being the boss. but....can be the most rewarding thing you have ever done. i would think hard and long about this.
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Post by mnike23 on Feb 8, 2017 11:19:04 GMT -6
wing t ball control, lots of misdirection, lots of angle blocking(easier than base man blocks), simple to teach, hard to stop. can shorten the game to possessions. will make bad team avg, avg to good, good to great, and so on. its the most common offense in high school football. you can multiple formation it 100/900, red/blue, flip and flop wing and TE. trips them some and so on and so forth.
double wing isnt that much different. other than, its more of a power offense. its power, super power, toss sweep, counter and for the most part thats about it. some wedge . i believe you can do the same thing in the wing t. you can run double wing(red) and run power/super power and be very good at it.
another option for you is this; split back veer. its basically 3 plays. its easy to install. its boring, methodical and all those things. but it works. and when it doesnt work, it still works. you dont need horses to run it and hogs in the front. you need kids that are tough. a qb that can take a beating and get up and pitch the ball. when it doesnt work you install midline as defense will do some things to give blocking schemes fits.
just another thought.
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Post by mnike23 on Feb 8, 2017 9:06:18 GMT -6
where do you coach at, because I want to come there. Ive been a head coach or coordinator for the last 13 years. every place I have been someone on the football staff has taken care of both of those things. Ive mowed more practice fields and gamefields than I care to speak of. as far as lining the field, again, where do yo coach at. I want to go there. other than 2 seasons of coaching on turf, the football staff lines the field. whos going to do it? the athletic director? or some kids in a PE class? i took care of my fields for this reason. when a team walks into my stadium, what is the first thing they see? the field. the stands, the locker rooms. if its a pile of crap, that measn you dont give a dam about it and I can bet your on field play is similar. if its nice, taken care of, that means you do give a dam and the on the field is probably the same. now again, jimmies n joes play that part. but at least I could be respected for having the nicest turf in the area. Little ole Rhode Island. Game field including our practice field are cut and lined regulary by our school/town maintenance employees. The field is always set up and prepped for us on game day too. nice. 19 high schools, with #20 being built for next fall right now, where I live. 3 turf fields in county right now. the goal (from what I have heard) is that all 20 schools will get turf. 1 at a time, starting with the fields that are in worst shape and spend the most money on field maintenence up to the 17th that is pristine-being last. that field, is like agusta national. it doesnt need turf! wish I didnt have to spend 3-10 hrs a week doing that stuff.
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Post by mnike23 on Feb 8, 2017 7:34:21 GMT -6
Our school has a grounds keeper that keeps the grass cut and the lines painted. You have to remember our head coach only gets paid $5000 a year, he doesn't get a monthly income. From everything that I have read/researched I was leaning towards Wing-T - for Offence - I was thinking that we would need to control the clock as much as we could, so having a running offense would work for that. I also like the idea of cross or down blocking. Plus having 4 back share the ball might work out best for our small school with most kids playing both ways. I also like the idea that you could play in a shotgun and add a lot more passing in if at some point in time down the road that you got a nice passing QB. 425 - for Defense - I really like how this defense can be used against the spread, trips, and the run. I like the idea that you can have it so your players can just make simple reads, so they can focus on trying to play fast. These are just my thoughts agree with you man. the 4-2-5 defense is great. my only issue would be having the rotation of kids on the dline. need atleast 6 and with your numbers htat may be an issue.
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