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Post by Davs on Mar 4, 2019 22:08:12 GMT -6
Thanks for sharing. Have you considered breaking groups into smaller circuits? How often do you have a number 70 high pointing a ball in a game? Well 70 didn't get the high point but he sure as hell carried that ball high and tight.
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Post by Davs on Mar 3, 2019 20:11:11 GMT -6
Does anyone do anything unique ? I am certainly not a fan of the let’s line up and clap and count and try to out shout the other team style of warm up...No BS this was a 15-20min waste of time at my last stop.. I get that it has its place as maybe a mental motivator and all that rah -rah type stuff. I’m looking for something efficient and effective , maybe somewhat unconventional? If anyone would like to share what they do or point me in the right direction it would be most appreciated. Basically when your whole team is on the field together for the first time what do you do first... warm up by groups, as a whole team or something else... We break up into groups and do football drills at a low intensity working up to a high intensity over a 5-10 minute span. drive.google.com/file/d/1vpIZdc_SWAVbX0n7lm-TonSJdo5awLlK/view?usp=sharing
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Post by Davs on Dec 3, 2018 20:32:56 GMT -6
Indiana has a bad system. Everyone gets in, and that is not what makes it bad. The fact the tournament is not seeded is. It is all a blind draw. So many times in what we in Indiana call the sectional portion of the tournament the best teams end up playing round 1 instead of in the sectional championship game. To win the sectional you need to win 3 game. After you play regional game, semi state, and state. This year my team which would of been the number 1 seed ended up playing the next best team in round 1. Also in Indiana's biggest class 6A they should seed state wide. The best big schools are all in the Indy area. They end up being put in the south so the state game almost always ends in a blow out.
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Post by Davs on Dec 1, 2018 22:20:36 GMT -6
Not college but you should get Steve Jones from Kimberly High School in Wisconsin. He will give the best program building talk anyone will hear.
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Post by Davs on Nov 28, 2018 22:17:52 GMT -6
Varsity the best play. If it is a blow out we get everyone in. On JV everyone plays. Had a senior this year who was just a great kid. Didn't play his freshman year, but worked his rear off when he did come out. Just not good enough to get real time. If we would get up early he would get carries. Kind of a way to get the hard working kid in who probably won't score in one carry.
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Post by Davs on Nov 27, 2018 11:05:34 GMT -6
alright I'm intrigued you guys who are doing this, if you don't mind sharing, what does a typical monday practice like? I mean I get that it's supposed to be fast, but fast doing what? If I haven't installed my game plan yet because that's for the recovery day tuesday then what exactly am I doing on Monday and how am I doing it at full speed If I haven't taught it yet? is it all fundy's with very little Team/Hull periods I think it's cool to break out the quotation book and a thesaurus and write an article that goes against the norm a little bit, but what does the thing look like when it's actually executed? What we will probably do on Mondays will look something like this. We will start with some sprint drills, and then run either a 40 or flying 10M 2 to 3 times. We will finish with some weights. This will take about 45 minutes. After all that we will have the offense, defense, and special teams reports for the week. After reports we will go out to set up scout teams. That should take between 75 and 90 minutes. That's it time to go home.
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Post by Davs on Nov 22, 2018 13:08:58 GMT -6
So... my question for 60zgo and Davs , since you follow his advice, is a simple one: How do you figure "minimum effective dose with rest between reps" and put that into practice effectively enough to still adequately teach football-specific skills at a high level? For example, if a receiver is resting 4-5 plays in practice for every route he runs at full speed, and you only run 20 plays in team period, then he's only going to get 3-5 reps in a 10 minute period. When you've pared the playbook down as much as possible, but you're a passing team with 6 core concepts to rep, aren't those football specific skills and the nuances going to erode or never even develop? I'm all for taking as much of the grind out of practice as possible, including doing as little contact and unnecessary running as possible to keep guys fresh and healthy. My big concern is "what defines a 'minimum effective dose?'" and "how much of a tradeoff between skill development and explosiveness in games is there?" As of know I have only implemented it in the weight room. This next year we plan on going all in on it as a team. In the weight room it was great The gains we had were unbelievable. We would train 4 days a week, and were in and out in 45 minutes. We had many guys deadlifting high 300's into the 400's. Same with box squat. Also had 10 kids who could bench over 225. Team speed also improved. Not bad for a small school. We have started talking about what we want practice to look like this next year. I am going to get to hear Brad Dixon from Camp Point Central High School in Illinois talk about how he implements feed the cats in a few weeks. He is also at a small school so I am very interested in what he does. Just from discussions with my head coach and other assistants Tuesday or Wednesday will be the "hard" day with Thursday a very easy day.
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Post by Davs on Nov 21, 2018 23:39:00 GMT -6
I would encourage anyone to attend his Track Football Consortium. Go with an open mind. I have coached Football AND track for 18 years. Holler is a great guy. But if you know anything about track he associates with a ton of outlier type guys. People who are into neural theory and PhD types. If you go to one of his clinics you will be listening to a Westside Barbell guy and then an hour later listening to some PhD candidate telling you how dumb you are because you don't understand the krebs cyle as it relates to football workouts. And I have my ticket to TFC 8. I am also eager to get my RPR level 2 training. Soon I hope.
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Post by Davs on Nov 21, 2018 23:29:35 GMT -6
While some of what he says is worth thinking about, his whole approach turns me off. We don't practice for long periods of time, we don't condition at the end of practice, we do try to limit contact and rest their bodies, etc, etc, etc.....but his attack on coaches--much of unfounded, just some slant he has, turns me off. I wouldn't finish the article because of it. He starts by attacking the greats of the game, then goes into "always ends with conditioning", "90% are slow overachieving white guys"....and so on. I'm sure those attacks probably fuel the crowd he's really after--and it's not the "old school" coaches. Rather, it's those who aren't. Bet he wears a visor...and shades....and uses "bro" and "culture" a lot. Actually he doesn't wear a visor or shades, and is one of the nicest people I ever had the chance of talking to. He allowed me to chew his ear at his speed camp for 2 weeks this past summer and was incredibly helpful. Just so you know the first time I read his stuff I wanted to fight the man. It went against everything I was brought up on. I am a former powerlifter meathead. This meathead read his stuff again, and realized he was on to something.
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Post by Davs on Nov 21, 2018 23:20:10 GMT -6
I am a Murphy Shotgun wing guy. This past year I had a coupe of really good tight ends. This coming year we will struggle at the position so I am planning on looking at some shotgun/pistol wing t so we can spread it out some more. Currently looking at some Rick Stewart stuff. I think it will merge in nicely with what we already do.
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Post by Davs on Nov 21, 2018 23:05:46 GMT -6
Check out Brad Dixon on Twitter. He coaches at a small farming school outside of Quincy, IL and his practices (he posts them) are very different. From what I remember, he takes Monday’s off and treats Tuesday’s like what most do for Monday (film review, walk through). He puts a huge emphasis on building speed and keeping guys fresh in-season. It’s amazing That is called Feeding the Cats. Google it. If you are like me you will want to fight the author Coach Holler after. I read it a second time, and thought he has a few points. After the third read I knew he was on to something. So I went from wanting to fight the guy to spending 2 weeks at his speed camp this past summer picking his brain. By the way Coach Holler is an incredibly nice guy. Also he would probably kick my butt. LOL
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Post by Davs on Nov 18, 2018 18:11:12 GMT -6
You are always welcome to visit Whiting, Indiana. We are not great, but a pretty darn good 2A team in Indiana.
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Post by Davs on Nov 18, 2018 18:06:40 GMT -6
Ohio- Coldwater Indiana- Pioneer Pioneer is a great program. They also have a kid who is a 3 star going to Notre Dame, which just doesn't happen from that classification level. And Kiser is the real deal. I will get to see him win another state championship this Saturday.
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Post by Davs on Feb 16, 2018 23:40:22 GMT -6
Next year ill be the offensive coordinator for a JV youth team ages 11-12. This past season I was the O-Line coach for a stubborn head coach who would not use anything but Power I and pro-set, and he never threw the ball. Needless to say we rarely scored, and It seemed like the defenses new our plays better than we did. I suggested some spread concepts and motions, but it all went on deaf ears. A couple of times when the head coach was not at practice I introduced the kids to some spread formations with zone running and screens, and you should have seen their eyes light up. They were having fun! However, as soon as the head coach returned he scrapped the spread, and became angry at me for undermining his authority. Next season I want to implement the spread offense. I would appreciate any ideas on simple blocking schemes for the inside and outside zone reads, screen packages, and some short quick playaction passing. The kids picked up the zone blocking assignments relatively quickly when you pointed out who they were blocking. The recent head coach constantly demanded that these kids push the d-linemen 5 yds down field on drive blocks. That rarely can be accomplished cause these kids are basically the same size and stregnth. I would greatly appreciate any imput from any coach here who has used the spread at the youth level, and what worked for them. Thanks You ran stuff behind the head coaches back? Very much not cool. Maybe he sucks, or maybe he doesn't. The thing I have learned over the years is you can disagree with a header or coordinator, but you do it in private. If they don't respect your thoughts move on. Don't bring the kids into it.
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Post by Davs on Feb 16, 2018 22:45:29 GMT -6
That is real good. What video program do you use. Looking at that I need to upgrade my iMovie.
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Post by Davs on Dec 11, 2017 21:34:52 GMT -6
Not an acronym, but we use Do Work at my school. Just kind of sums up what we want to do. Classroom=Do work Weight room=Do Work Practice=Do Work Games=Do Work. A coach of ours who passed way to early made this the team cry. As long as I am associated with this program we will always Do Work.
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Post by Davs on Dec 11, 2017 21:30:16 GMT -6
Fleck did FAMILY and about 50 others... Forget About Me I Love You Just saw an incredible talk by Coach Jones of Kimberley High School and this was one of his big sayings. I am not exactly Mr. Fuzzy bit I loved this.
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Post by Davs on Nov 19, 2017 20:08:21 GMT -6
I've had more than a few kids over the years miss practice because their grandma or grandpa died for the 3rd or 4th time. I have a kid who killed grandma 3 times. He will be a senior this next year so we will see if she passes 4 times for his 4 years of high school. Same kid said he had to leave practice early for a church event. After practice I went into the coaches office and was amazed to see the middle school coach in there. You see the middle school coach is the preacher at this kids church. LOL
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Post by Davs on Nov 19, 2017 19:38:42 GMT -6
My buddy was on the 88 Mount Carmel team. I am surprised he hasn't shown me this article AKA shoved this article in my face.
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Post by Davs on Nov 11, 2017 9:05:44 GMT -6
I think sometimes you just get a bad class with no leaders. Last year we had a great group of seniors. Guys who loved each other, and wanted to win. We were a touchdown away from going to the state championship game. This past season we had a bad group of seniors. Guys just happy to be on the team. We lost first round of playoffs. This next year we will have another great group of seniors. Guys who have a real fire in their bellies. We will be real good next year.
You made the comment about other sport coaches not holding kids accountable. We have had that problem, and I understand your frustration. It is hard to watch an iffy kid who you got to walk the straight and narrow revert back to being a fool because a coach wants to be a buddy and not discipline.
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Post by Davs on Oct 23, 2017 20:46:17 GMT -6
Experience: Offensively Red Faught's Run & Shoot, My high school coach was heavily influenced by Coach Faught. We always ran guards east and guards west. Way way back in 1991 I went to a passing camp at Georgetown. My coach asked me to not tell Coach Faught we run guards west. He said the old man would get pissed that we run west.
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Post by Davs on Mar 10, 2017 22:30:50 GMT -6
I was at the Michigan St. lineman camp last year and besides their coaches they had a ton of small school coaches working the camp.
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Post by Davs on Mar 10, 2017 12:59:16 GMT -6
Speaking of Tim Murphy (CA DW coach) - if you've seen him in the past, anything major that's new? He didn't come to Boston... I have not seen Murphy in 2 maybe 3 years so here are a few things that were new to me. He showed some of the pistol stuff. On the backside he is pulling guard/tackle or guard/tight end depending on the tackle being covered or uncovered. When I last saw him he was only pulling tackle/tight end. He talked about on his fullback trap that it is a tackle trap. He also has a tackle trap that traps a 0. That is all I can think of off the to of my head.
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Post by Davs on Mar 10, 2017 8:18:19 GMT -6
Tim Murphy was awesome as always in LA Everyone else was.... Meh? Same for Murphy in Chicago. He did a great job. Always willing to answer questions.
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Post by Davs on Mar 4, 2017 22:38:23 GMT -6
I don't see how you guys function without weight training classes. Really easy we have the weight room open 4 days a week morning and afternoon. The morning is for in season athletes, but if you are not in a sport and want to come that is fine. In season we lift hard 2 times a week with Saturday being a third day that we go easy. So we are a small public school with just over 400 kids with no money thanks to the former governor and current VP. Everyone is strongly encouraged to make a session. If they don't we don't penalize because that usually takes care of itself in the fall. I can say we have very good attendance. Would I prefer having a class during the school day? Heck ya, but that will never happen.
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Post by Davs on Feb 21, 2017 21:15:15 GMT -6
This guy. No desire to ever be a HC. Now I'm also in a position where my best friend since we were 4 is the HC and we have been coaching together since 2005. I'm the OL and DC with free reign on defense and make our half time adjustments on O as well. Also call lots of plays on game day, HC is the main shot caller but will run whatever a couple other guys call during the game. Our staff for the most part has also been together this whole time as well so everyone knows their role. So basically I have a lot of juice in my current position without the added craziness of being a HC. So again no I have no desire to ever be a HC. Typing this I relaize I don't know if I could be an assistant for any other HC, just have to much power now and I don't know if I could be just a regular assistant anymore. I am in a similar position with my HC. He was an assistant when I played, and the rest of the guys on staff all played for him. It is just a great situation. I don't think I would ever want to be the header. He really trusts us, and lets us coach. If I was the header I would micro mange. I am at a small school so I get to do a ton, and I love it. Also being so tight not we can say what we think. Lots of F bombs, but nobody walks away with their feelings hurt. So to sum up I am very happy being a minion at the high school level.
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Post by Davs on Feb 19, 2017 11:00:13 GMT -6
Implementing no huddle. The best ways to get formations and plays in.
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Post by Davs on Feb 7, 2017 21:24:52 GMT -6
Coach I wish I was joking. I also wish I could argue with your points. These grown men want to strut around the Wide World of Disney saying that the champion for whatever division came from their region. I never got into Pop Warner to win championships. If it ever did happen great for the kids. I just hope to teach them some good football, and hopefully help them become fine young men.
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Post by Davs on Feb 7, 2017 18:13:44 GMT -6
If you are a good program with good coaches how are you not a feeder for high school. I pride myself on teaching every kid how to block, tackle, take a hand off, catch a ball, etc.... My kids now what the force man is, how to take a read step, what the flat is, etc... In my opening speech each year I tell the kids and parents that I do not care about wins. We will learn to do things the right way, and the scoreboard will take care of itself. It has worked for a bunch of years so far, and I am not changing. Also many of my youth players continue to play in high school. Of course I understand my way is not what most people do, and I think that is the problem. In fact I will probably get kicked out of Pop Warner this year since the regional board is so hot on putting all-star teams together so they can win little kid championships down at Disney. Not how I roll. I see the same junk with baseball and basketball. I really hate it.
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Post by Davs on Feb 5, 2017 15:22:33 GMT -6
I would not be disappointed to see youth football doe entirely, but my thoughts have little to do with safety. So what are the reasons?
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