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Post by utchuckd on Sept 27, 2012 6:03:23 GMT -6
I wouldn't cut him loose yet after one incident. Just coach the team the way you want to coach the team, and if he wants to leave, he'll leave. If after a couple more weeks, he's still threatening to leave but hasn't gone yet, call his bluff and give him the ultimatum, leave or shut up (more tactfully, of course).
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Post by utchuckd on Sept 26, 2012 7:04:01 GMT -6
The way I took it the player acted up, coach said player would owe him 25 leap frogs after practice. Then before the end of practice dad comes and gets player and starts to administer leap frogs and yell at the player. Since practice isn't over yet coach goes to get player and dad lays into coach, prompting coach to want to go Darth Vader on dad: GIFSoup
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Post by utchuckd on Aug 24, 2012 20:35:48 GMT -6
What else are you responsible for as OC? Do you make any of the practice plans? Scouting? IMO if he wants to take over the play calling he gets to do all the other stuff (if there is any) that comes with the job.
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Post by utchuckd on Aug 9, 2012 16:37:10 GMT -6
Got yelled at for helping a kid? What do they let you do?
This does need to be hashed out. Be as diplomatic as you can and reach whatever agreement you are comfortable with, but I'd have a problem sticking around with people that don't let me coach. JMO.
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Post by utchuckd on Aug 9, 2012 16:28:04 GMT -6
Knighter! Welcome back bro!
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Post by utchuckd on Aug 1, 2012 9:57:28 GMT -6
So you have to have coach/son involved to get the 6 options? That's a take I hadn't heard of yet. Interesting.
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Post by utchuckd on Jan 26, 2012 22:06:56 GMT -6
Where do you play your MMP guys in the 10-1? Seems like this could be problematic at the youth level.
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Post by utchuckd on Dec 19, 2011 7:34:07 GMT -6
All the Tennessee games are still available on ESPN3 if you get it.
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Post by utchuckd on Dec 5, 2011 8:27:57 GMT -6
A big one around here is Corch. Never heard Coacher or Coachie.
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Post by utchuckd on Nov 11, 2011 10:46:51 GMT -6
If he's breaking rules then he's the one hurting his kids, not you for turning him in. What good does it do to bring it up after the fact? Punishment for any infraction should be fairly immediate or it won't have as big an effect. Getting suspended or forfeiting a game will curb future infractions more than getting called on the carpet after winning the super bowl.
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Post by utchuckd on Nov 7, 2011 12:55:55 GMT -6
Well we won! This was my first championship in anything since we won it as players at this age (back then I was playing for my dad, this time I was coaching with him, extremely cool). Returned the opening kickoff for a TD, then got a fumble and scored so we were up early. They dug in and fought us hard, scored right before half and coming out of half and had us reeling a little. Called a timeout and gave 'em the old 'how are you gonna respond to adversity' bit and they responded well and marched downfield and scored. Broke a couple long ones after that to put it away, won 40-18.
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Post by utchuckd on Nov 5, 2011 7:22:28 GMT -6
8-0 thru regular season, won our first playoff game last week. Playing for all the marbles this afternoon. We've already beaten this team twice, running clocks both times, but we are talking 11-12 year olds so they can come out with their head somewhere else at times. We've got a little better athletes (and coaches, imo), our schemes are sound, but there's always a little uncertainty til they get out there and start hitting, right? Plus we've missed a few guys at practice this week cause school basketball has started (which I don't have a problem with, we told them to go), so we're not doing anything different than we did the first 2 times we played them, it's just keeping polished up on technique mostly. If we play full speed on defense and my D-ends don't {censored} the bed I feel pretty good. We're in their kids' heads I know, and they're gonna have some wrinkles for us, just gotta have our formation adjustments down. Sorry for the ramble, burning some nervous energy I guess.
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Post by utchuckd on Oct 3, 2011 18:11:16 GMT -6
If you use tweetdeck you can add a column that will automatically update everything in your given search. So if you use #coachftbl it will automatically post every tweet with that in it.
p.s.- This is for the desktop version, I don't know if it updates in real time on the smartphone apps.
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Post by utchuckd on Oct 1, 2011 12:29:10 GMT -6
I agree with everybody else. Could only be a matter of time until it turns from 'I would...' to 'I did...' then it's a whole new ballgame. Even if it is a lie.
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Post by utchuckd on Sept 27, 2011 20:02:29 GMT -6
Our final regular season game is Saturday. Then for the next two weeks the younger leagues are finishing up their seasons as they have more teams than our age group. The week after that the playoffs start and we have a first round bye and don't play until the next week. So we'll be 4 weeks between games, plus school basketball is starting up here. We're gonna give 'em at least one, maybe two weeks off, then regroup for the playoffs. Sheesh.
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Post by utchuckd on Sept 18, 2011 13:59:18 GMT -6
Who was running the ball for you, and how many times had he scored previously? Not saying you did anything wrong, but I can also see a frustrated and embarrassed coach feeling the score was run up if that last carry was the kids 4th score of the day. If it was a back up who did his job and the line blocked well... the coach can stfu. Yeah that's the only thing I could come up with. It was my starting TB, who had a couple of TDs on the day already. I prolly should've subbed but we only had 16 kids there and my regular backup was gone. Guess I figured since they're the #2 team in the league they could make a tackle if I just line up and run it off tackle, no jet motion/fake or anything.
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Post by utchuckd on Sept 18, 2011 10:53:13 GMT -6
I got accused of running up the score yesterday. We went up 36-6 and hit the mercy rule running clock roughly 6-7 minutes to go in the 4th quarter. They got the ensuing kickoff and hit a couple once in a lifetime catches, plus a couple penalties on us and scored to make it 36-12 with a couple minutes to go, no running clock now. They onside kick and we recover, run 3 straight plays off tackle, the last of which goes 30 yds for a TD. During the post game handshake one of their coaches is all 'thanks for running up the score, that'll come back to get you someday, that's real classy'.
Hmm, so you can chuck it down the field, try an onside kick, but I should've taken a knee?
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Post by utchuckd on Aug 18, 2011 12:56:51 GMT -6
There's a difference in a kid not wanting to play for you and him being recruited by another 'coach'. We had to fight this battle 3 different times this off-season cause they were told this and that by other coaches in the league. I'd take it to whoever the authority is and get it all settled.
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Post by utchuckd on Aug 18, 2011 12:49:04 GMT -6
I'm all for scrimmaging before the first game, but doing it during game week could be an issue, depending on how detailed you game prep for your opponents. It definitely helps to get out there against somebody else before you do it for real in a game that counts.
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Post by utchuckd on Aug 17, 2011 7:04:44 GMT -6
We practice Victory too, but we also talk about expecting some kind of cheap shot reaction from the other team. They're gonna lose the game, it's emotional, expect somebody to take a shot. We stress protecting ourselves, protecting the QB, and protecting the ball. The OL blocks like PAT, and we coach up the QB to take one step back, hit a knee, and get back up and out. If you sit there on a knee you are a target of opportunity, and if you stand there trying to get another second or two off the clock the play is still live and you invite somebody to light you up.
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Post by utchuckd on Aug 14, 2011 9:37:29 GMT -6
A good gauntlet is a very good tool. The springs are generally tight enough that you can't just stand up and run thru it. Very good for teaching running low behind your pads with forward lean. We loved ours.
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Post by utchuckd on Aug 13, 2011 19:05:43 GMT -6
We won 36-0. Got up a couple in the first half, had to reinforce some of the things we were doing on defense alignment/assignment wise, but eventually got after 'em and got the ball rolling downhill and hit the running clock in the 4th q.
We run jet/tb power/qb trap as a base. We complement with a couple play action passes, boot keep, boot pass. Not a big package yet, may not put much more in.
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Post by utchuckd on Aug 13, 2011 7:23:04 GMT -6
We kick off the season tonite at 6 pm. They schedule gods were kind and gave us our big rival for the first game (/sarcasm), so we get to start off with a bang. Thanks to some league re-alignment we actually get them twice this year. Feeling pretty good about our base offense (jet/power/trap from pistol), and we had the best week of practice yet this week on defense, so we should look pretty good, or we may get mercy ruled. Got a couple wrinkles for 'em on defense so as long as we get their little jitterbug TB stopped before he gets started we should be ok.
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Post by utchuckd on Aug 13, 2011 7:12:34 GMT -6
In this context I tend to think of plays as blocking schemes. We try to keep the OL learning as minimal as possible, but you can almost line the backs up any way you want and teach 'em any number of ways to attack the LOS. That's the one thing I am glad I was able to figure out early in my career when we had a pretty talented team. We went in to the last couple of games with 40-50 play calls on our wrist bands, but we were only blocking 4 things, plus pass pro. Kinda stupid on one hand considering we only got 35 or so snaps a game, but this particular bunch could handle it (7th-8th graders).
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Post by utchuckd on Aug 7, 2011 22:11:20 GMT -6
This intrigues me a lot. I can see pros and cons both ways. I double team at the POA, and for those a good 3 pt would be best, but my guards pull a lot so a 2 pt would serve them better, even with their down blocks I don't think a 2 pt would be too bad, as long as they kept good form. I would be scared of them getting lazy as raiderx said. Most of my kids can get in a good 3 pt so it's prolly a non-issue for me, but I've got a big 'un that's real tight thru his hips and can't get into or out of a 3 pt, I might experiment with him tomorrow at practice.
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Post by utchuckd on Aug 7, 2011 18:02:56 GMT -6
We won 20-0. Ran 8 offensive plays (not counting 2 pt plays), 3 tds. On one hand the team we played was not very (any) good, on the other hand we handled them pretty much like we should have. My first center's snaps were pretty good, so our jet motion and timing looked pretty good with that group. The other center got one play, snapped it low, our QB picked it up, spun out and housed it. Defensively we got beat outside a couple times which is not acceptable, but I think our DE's will learn from it (cause that's what I coach and we're gonna rep the hell out of it this week). LB's filled a lot better than they did in an earlier scrimmage so we're making progress.
Also, I'm so glad we're no huddle. Seems like all the teams spent forever in the huddle before they ran plays. We're not hurry up at all, we never even discuss tempo, but it's just naturally so much more efficient. I swear I could've pulled my Nook out and played some Angry Birds while we were on defense waiting for the other team to get to the line.
A side note, imo we looked sharper than everybody else offensively, but we weren't as aggressive on defense as some of the teams. I think a lot of that is that we have done so much teaching on where to be, who to read, how to get there, etc. that we haven't done a whole lot of contact and it showed somewhat.
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Post by utchuckd on Aug 6, 2011 8:01:49 GMT -6
Gonna be rough execution wise as we're having trouble getting the direct snap off. One center is high, the other is low, but I think we can get it ironed out. When we get it right everything's decent for this time of year. Defense is a whole nother story, we've been doing alignments and formation adjustments every day for 3 weeks and they're still very tentative about getting there. Ugh. So many new guys that have to get comfortable on a football field. And we open the season next week with our biggest rival. As Jerry Reed said, we've got a long way to go, and a short time to get there. But that's what makes it fun right! Right?
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Post by utchuckd on Jul 23, 2011 7:02:58 GMT -6
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Post by utchuckd on Jul 10, 2011 9:48:15 GMT -6
If I understand your question correctly, the play will tell them their rule, which can be different for each position for a given play, and will then be applied to whatever front they face. So if a player's rule is GDB, he will apply that vs. an even, odd, 8 man, or 9 man front. It doesn't matter, he looks inside gap, down, to backer.
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Post by utchuckd on Jul 9, 2011 18:49:17 GMT -6
My main critic was my QB's grandfather. Who also happened to be the coach here 30 years prior, so he coached most of the current players' dads, and he has the only undefeated season in school history. I actually had to get up and run him out of the press box at an away game cause he came in my booth and told me, quite assertively, to tell the sidelines we needed to back the DB's up. We just happened to be up 35 points in the last 3-4 minutes of the game when this occurred.
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