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Post by utchuckd on Aug 8, 2010 21:21:14 GMT -6
You're a better man than me. I probably wouldn't have done it in front of everybody but I'd have told that guy he lied about me and I didn't appreciate it.
You got class, man.
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Post by utchuckd on Aug 8, 2010 7:31:59 GMT -6
Just wow. I'm betting that 20-something first year (now head) coach puts up a goose egg, blames it all on the players, and goes at it with the parents all year. The thing that most people that snipe and complain behind your back with other people don't understand is that when they get their way and get bumped up to being "the man", all the people they have been sniping and complaining with start doing it to them.
Sorry bout your circumstances Doug, but you are waaaayyyyy better off not being involved with that operation.
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Post by utchuckd on Aug 6, 2010 7:24:41 GMT -6
...my Dad has been a football coach forever & if I wasted time in drills he would kick my butt. ;D You oughta put that as your signature!
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Post by utchuckd on Aug 3, 2010 6:51:48 GMT -6
You can use trash cans and cones as the defense and bird dog your plays.
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Post by utchuckd on Jul 28, 2010 18:07:04 GMT -6
My dog stretches all the time and he doesn't do dynamic warmups.
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Post by utchuckd on Jul 27, 2010 6:37:52 GMT -6
Just remember, everybody else is facing the same issues. That's what always got me was assuming everybody else had perfect attendance and were having great effort and great practices. Then I talked to the other coaches and we're pretty much all in the same boat.
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Post by utchuckd on Jul 25, 2010 7:57:57 GMT -6
In other news: all problems facing the Riverside School Board have now been solved.
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Post by utchuckd on Jul 22, 2010 6:46:36 GMT -6
So I'm guessing the 'Gold Nugget Gentlemen's Club: Panama City Beach' T-shirt one assistant showed up to practice in on Monday isn't quite appropriate? I didn't notice it til practice was over and I don't think anybody else noticed it at all, but I laughed my butt off when I realized what it was.
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Post by utchuckd on Jul 18, 2010 7:31:14 GMT -6
We had our draft last week. 25 kids, decent size, not a ton of speed, but we think they are all good kids. Should be able to work with them pretty well. We had our parents meeting last week and had the kids run 20's and a pro agility. Maybe not so much for the times but just to watch them move. They seem very stiff so I'll have to work on that. A lot.
First practice is tomorrow evening, no pads yet (probably be getting equipment sometime this week). I love doing all the intro stuff with the newbies.
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Post by utchuckd on Jul 16, 2010 8:05:10 GMT -6
We're a 10-12 yo league.
10-11's (17 kids)
U60 0% 61-80 6% 81-100 41% 101-120 12% 121-140 29% A141 12%
12 yo's (9 kids) U80 0% 81-100 22% 101-120 11% 121-140 11% 141-160 44% 161-180 11% A181 0%
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Post by utchuckd on Jun 24, 2010 6:28:03 GMT -6
Btw Doug, have you had a 3-5 team drop everybody into coverage? We used to run into that occasionally. With the 3 db's, 2 spurs, and 3 lb's they had 8 on the field, which I had no problem with if that's their defense. But it is 7 on 7, so they made the defense 'blitz' somebody every play to keep 7 guys in coverage. But you gotta watch those dc's, they don't always send somebody (more likely the kids just mix up the signals).
I just told the ref if they want to drop 8 that means they're only rushing 3 and I should be able to protect that pretty well so just give me 10 seconds to throw the ball instead of 5 and I'm good. ;D
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Post by utchuckd on Jun 24, 2010 6:20:05 GMT -6
First of all, pretty much everyone plays Cover 5 (Cover 2 with Man under) all the time - a coverage that we'll almost NEVER see in the regular season. This. A thousand times. Used to get so frustrated playing five teams playing 2-man in a 7 on 7 tourney. I could count the number of times we saw it in a game in season on no hands.
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Post by utchuckd on Jun 22, 2010 6:13:03 GMT -6
I had a few more things explained and there actually is some logic in there somewhere, just not what I'm used to. We are a 10-12 year old league, so they start with the 12 yo's and the teams with the least numbers of those pick until everybody has the same number. Then they go to the 11 yo's and do the same with them. I can understand why they do that so teams don't get overloaded with 1 age group.
The whole 5 options thing is still crazy to me tho. I see that as taking the first five rounds of the draft and saying to the teams you go decide that between yourselves before the draft.
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Post by utchuckd on Jun 20, 2010 13:22:40 GMT -6
I'd always heard our youth league was political and had a lot of infighting and stronghandedness from some people. I'd never paid a whole lot of attention til I joined up last year. What its evolved to has got to be some of the most jacked up eligibility/draft rules out there. First off, each team gets 5 options. So you go out and sign up the 5 best athletes you can before the draft. And that's 5 PER YEAR. Our options from last year are still on the team, and we're out trying to get 5 more for this year. Then, since all the teams don't have equal numbers of kids, the teams with the lower number amount on their roster pick first out of the draft until they have the same number as the rest! We have 18 players coming back, one team has 11, another has 13. So the team with 11 gets 2 draft picks off the top, then they alternate with the team with 13 til they both get to 18, then we get to join in.
If I wasn't running the UBSW and 46 gambler I'd be worried. ;D ;D
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Post by utchuckd on May 26, 2010 6:39:06 GMT -6
Not to hijack the thread, but I loved Robert Loggia in Necessary Roughness. Yeah it was a caricature of most coaches, but that halftime speech was priceless.
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Post by utchuckd on May 19, 2010 6:54:41 GMT -6
We do stance/footwork every day. We also have a blocking and tackling period every practice, regardless of whether we're focusing on offense or defense that day. These are more vs. air or dummies working individual technique than live or team type work.
We are in individual 60-70% of the time, more than that early in the year.
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Post by utchuckd on Mar 12, 2010 7:29:41 GMT -6
In Outliers, Malcom Gladwell talks about the '10,000 hour' rule. You have to do something for 10,000 hours to become an expert at it.
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Post by utchuckd on Mar 8, 2010 12:51:16 GMT -6
...rats the size of cats is about the only problem we had… Were they Rodents of Unusual Size?
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Post by utchuckd on Feb 11, 2010 18:08:21 GMT -6
Good interview with Will Smith, real good stuff is at about 4:00:
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Post by utchuckd on Feb 8, 2010 8:51:29 GMT -6
I'm in! That's sweet. I knew about the barcode but never did it before.
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Post by utchuckd on Feb 7, 2010 15:23:45 GMT -6
I heard Goodell said something to this effect today in an interview, that the NFL may outlaw 3 point stance some day.
Can you imagine the enforcement? If it's a safety issue I bet they will have to go farther than stance and say the back cannot be parallel to the ground, or can't be more than 45 degrees to the ground. What a cluster.
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Post by utchuckd on Feb 5, 2010 8:01:24 GMT -6
A reporter tweeted last night wondering if Steve Sarkisian would have to honor that commitment in 2015?
;D
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Post by utchuckd on Jan 27, 2010 16:28:04 GMT -6
The first rule of The System is... ...you don't talk about The System.
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Post by utchuckd on Jan 26, 2010 7:38:23 GMT -6
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Post by utchuckd on Jan 23, 2010 8:32:14 GMT -6
A Civil War Next Man Up (Feinstein, followed the Ravens for a season, great look into the NFL)
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Post by utchuckd on Jan 13, 2010 7:58:18 GMT -6
The violations thing is way overblown. Kiffin didn't have more violations than a lot of schools in a given year, they just have coaches that don't pop off and therefore get it plastered across the media every time it happens. Secondaries are usually reported once a year, all at the same time.
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Post by utchuckd on Jan 12, 2010 23:23:37 GMT -6
Or Richt to get fired.
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Post by utchuckd on Jan 12, 2010 21:52:31 GMT -6
Your friendly neighborhood interweb rumor update:
Will Muschamp to be named Tennessee coach as early as tomorrow.
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Post by utchuckd on Jan 12, 2010 21:18:18 GMT -6
tog why the hate for UT? Did you play for Majors? It was 17 years ago, should we get screwed forever more because one guy got a raw deal?
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Post by utchuckd on Jan 12, 2010 20:52:03 GMT -6
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