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Post by coachbdud on Feb 13, 2016 20:39:38 GMT -6
"paperwork b!tch"
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 11, 2016 23:48:11 GMT -6
We haven't done 2 a days in years There's no need We have spring ball We practice 4x a week plus some Saturday passing tourneys It's just not necessary anymore in HS football 2 a days were invented as a cram session Show up in August Rush to get ready for first game Football is pretty much year round now Here we have ten days including our 7 on 7s, no spring ball either. Did 2adays last year because we took a program over and had a lot to get in...trying to weigh if it's worth it this year. If you had the same set up we do, with far more limitations you guys have, would you still not have doubles? i guess i just look at doubles like how much more are you really gaining by having a second practice... if you really think it makes you better then i guess you do need it i guess not every state allows as much contact between kids and coaches as CA i know for us, having a second practice would not help us i think that is too much time total to focus in the day but that is just me, to each their own i do distinctly remember, 11 years ago, being a chunky little center and a senior in HS, going through double days, and back then thinking... this is stupid. I was more mature/insightful than my peers, they didnt like doubles because it was "hard" i didnt like it because i saw that practice A and practice B were usually either -just about the same or -A = Conditioning, B = practice the days where it was just about the same it was like... "why would we be doing these drills or plays any better a couple hours later?" the days where morning was conditioning, afternoon was practice it was like... "this is a crappy practice because everyone is so sore/tired from the morning" but i admit the level of coaching i experienced was just slightly greater than friday night tykes soooooo, to each their own if you feel it is right for you and you need it to win week 1, do it i know we do not need to do it week 1 to win in 2016 so i will not i just disagree with the idea that you should do 2 a days because "thats what football teams are SPOSED to do"
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 11, 2016 16:54:16 GMT -6
unless your section votes in a contact period to start a little sooner then it can begin as early as late July
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 11, 2016 15:36:02 GMT -6
Reading the "what have you gotten rid of" thread as well as in conversation with other coaches it seems as though there is a growing number of coaches doing away with traditional 2 a days. Last year we went 5 hours with an hour break in the middle (two 2.5hr practices). In typical off season eval I'm looking at everything and that is one of the areas I am wondering if we can cut back on but I had some questions about it. How long are you practicing if you aren't doing 2 a days? What are some of the things you found on the positive end to going away from 2 a days? Negatives/Roadblocks? Have any of you that went away from the 2 a days decided to go back to them and why? We haven't done 2 a days in years There's no need We have spring ball We practice 4x a week plus some Saturday passing tourneys It's just not necessary anymore in HS football 2 a days were invented as a cram session Show up in August Rush to get ready for first game Football is pretty much year round now
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 10, 2016 16:20:07 GMT -6
we havent been in that exact situation in 4 years this past season our best bet percentage wise wouldve been to throw up a jumpball in the end zone we do work the kicking game a little, just to have it but just a few minutes a week we have a QB coming up from JV who is a really good kicker with him the next 3 years we will have the option to kick FGs if we absolutely need it but i will still go for 2... i think i am stealing points that way At 85% success it's hard to argue with that last statement. Mind sharing your 2 pt package? OR is it simply as you described and you're diving into the scrum every time? funkfriss coachirishoh i forgot to add that we also have a wing aligned on our right side to block the edge down when we run our bucksweep 2 TEs 2 FBs in sniffer spots (one of them calls the cadence for us actually) my best available athlete taking the snap and my buffest RB plays the wing we run our base offensive schemes for the OL from a heavier personnel power counter wing counter bucksweep/pin n pull straight ahead wedge/dive i add a couple fun things during the year we have a little jump pass we are 2/3 on... one we didnt get was dropped a sweep pass 2/2 this year a reverse... ran a reverse pass for fun more than anything else, just to see if we could do it in a game we had a good lead in, and it failed miserably haha i add some fun stuff for the kids to have fun but usually i am pounding power, counter, and bucksweep
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 10, 2016 13:27:10 GMT -6
So do you ever work on kicking? What about when you need a FG to win? we havent been in that exact situation in 4 years this past season our best bet percentage wise wouldve been to throw up a jumpball in the end zone we do work the kicking game a little, just to have it but just a few minutes a week we have a QB coming up from JV who is a really good kicker with him the next 3 years we will have the option to kick FGs if we absolutely need it but i will still go for 2... i think i am stealing points that way
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 10, 2016 13:18:50 GMT -6
no we havent kicked a FG in a couple years
we go for it
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 10, 2016 13:02:05 GMT -6
We have scrapped: 1) JV guys on SPT- we put the best we have out there 2) Actual Playbook Distribution (everything is online) 3) Extra Conditioning inseason 4) Punishment running 5) PAT - we go for 2 at an 80% clip 6) 3 down football - we play with 4 downs most areas of the field 7) Being under center 8) Organized Team Stretching coachbdud or anybody else please chime in as well How do you feel like you get good enough to go for 2 all the time? I've wanted to dabble in this more, but honestly I'm kind of a wuss. We're fortunate to have good kickers year-in, year-out so I like my "guaranteed" point (86-90 96% the last 4 years). Would you do it even if you had an all-area type kicker? I understand the "only have to convert 50% 2PT to equal 100% XP," but that's a little bit flawed IMO. You could go 4/4 vs. Team A and the 0/4 vs. Team B and really be in a hole in that second game. Am I wrong? Not criticizing, just thinking out loud. it started off 2 years ago... we didnt really have a kicker and i kinda knew we had a RB who was amazing i'd go for every 4th and 3 from the GL... why not on 2 pointers we run a double tight, double FB, direct snap to our RB package HC told me if we can get more than half hed let me keep doing it we were 83% in 2014 this year we actually sucked at it our first 2 games but i knew i could fix it (and by sucked i mean only 60% roughly)... i made some personnel changes and we got better on the 2015 season we were 89% on 2 point conversions partly yes because our RB is amazing, but we blocked it pretty well once i made the some changes... most of the time he almost walks in, very little effort needed we were 90% success rate when he was tired and we put one of our WRs (second best skill kid) there in the QB spot ironically we lost in the semifinals by 1 point, we missed a 2 pointer with a minute left to take the lead... i could go for 2 again if i could, i never questioned it. The defense made one good play. We were only in the game still because of the points we stole by going for 2 earlier (we were 6/6 on 2 pointers that game prior to being stopped, and the one we got stopped on was literally by an inch) 6/7 on 2 pointers against an undefeated team is not bad you need to have confidence in it and the support of your HC my HC is very supportive also our kids have a ton of pride in our 2 point package. Kids want to be on it, being on it means you are 1 of our 10 most physical players
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 10, 2016 12:39:24 GMT -6
a local kid with some D1 offers just posted on IG he is going to IMG next year
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 10, 2016 12:26:51 GMT -6
i'll add some stuff we have done
no saturdays in season no fridays in summer no full contact in season no oklahoma drill
no long distance conditioning no oklahoma drill no "toughness" drills
we also removed right and left from our formations to cut down om verbiage all formations align to the right, and a word flips it
from a schematic standpoint i need to continue to trim some things
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 9, 2016 11:55:07 GMT -6
Make a rap song of it
Mixtape good byes are fire
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 9, 2016 0:13:45 GMT -6
It's bad in NorCal too
The best teams every year are the best at recruiting
We have gotten poached like crazy by a couple schools around us
The state does a poor job of governing it
I've seen them deny kids with legitimate transfers and moves and crush the good kids And I've seen some horrible human beings be allowed to manipulate things into moving themselves or their kids wherever they want
I wish CIF would start giving coaches year or two bans with no coaching for trying to recruit kids
Our rivals HC openly tried recruiting our RB as a freshman ... At a basketball game, kid told him no thanks
Stuff like that isn't ok
Then you get all these football pimps now
Our lives are quickly becoming AAU basketball
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 8, 2016 23:25:48 GMT -6
This just came to me... i am really curious
what things have you gotten rid of as a football coach... i do not mean the old blocking bag you tossed in the trash
i mean what things from the game, your playbook, coaching, drills have you just completely gotten rid of...
i am guilty of seeing things offensively and thinking man i wanna run that too... we see this cool play, and that cool tag, and this cool blah blah blah... and we want to add it
but i am more interested now in trimming the fat as much as possible. I think we waste a lot of time practice wise and during ST i want to start scrapping some things
just curious as to things any of you have gotten rid of
for example i know coach plaa got rid of practice pants in his program... they wear shorts and VB knee pads... awesome we scrapped
some scrapped PAT... screw it , we are going for 2 every time... we just need to get more than half... and all that extra practice time on 2 pointers makes us a better team in GL/Red zone situations
any ideas of how you have trimmed the fat would be awesome, id love to get a discussion going on it
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 8, 2016 11:45:05 GMT -6
Shut up and take my money
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 7, 2016 22:18:23 GMT -6
Watching this game was the more boring 17 hours of my life
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 7, 2016 21:05:13 GMT -6
Yeah I feel like Carolina isn't playing their game at all They're not doing the things they've done successfully all year Trying to change what they do for this game... I don't like it
Also, I'm a big conspiracy theorist... NFL wants Peyton to win To many him vs Cam represents old vs new Good vs bad
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 2, 2016 23:28:38 GMT -6
it is a very convenient 17 minute drive
the Hwy i go on is in the top 10 in the country for crappy commute... but i am always opposite of the traffic i live right off the freeway, my HS is right off the freeway i go 70 on cruise control the whole way and most days never touch the brake til the exit
my prior coaching gig (alma mater) was super close... i live less than 1/2 mile from my alma mater. I can hear the bell ring from my house
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 2, 2016 8:56:10 GMT -6
who gets to make the coaching decisions though i mean who gets to say who is the HC at each level?? after burning this bridge (assuming he isnt just a jack@ss but has a real take over plan) the next step could be finding a way to have all of you replaced somehow someway or he will get fired from his HS job in a year or two are there any good HS programs down there? genuinely curious, dont mind the thread jack... just never heard much about football inthat part of the state its a commitee, made up by most of the list i listed (yea, its alittle unfair ;-) ) umm in our area, Paso Robles is pretty good, Atascadero is pretty good. Arroyo Grande, and Lompoc are great. but yea, the schools around me...are all pretty bad, its a combination of demographics and poor decisions. What a Coincidence, paso Robles coach called me yesterday about a game but turning it down 1. We filled the spot 2. Even if we hadn't, i don't wanna be in a bus for 3 to 4 hours lol
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 1, 2016 23:51:11 GMT -6
You almost forget he was a really good coach
He used to get brought up a lot for every open job
He doesn't get brought up anymore
If he waits another year or two I don't think he will ever go back
Meanwhile we have to suffer through the fat gruden coaching instead of the good gruden
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 1, 2016 23:36:55 GMT -6
that is an awesome story, bad, but awesome nonetheless i could see if he tried sweet talking you guys, explaining he wanted to build a community wide program from the ground up... sweeten the pot by offering as much clinic time as you want with the whole youth staff help with fundraising letting use their facilities for practice and games maybe some equipment you scratch my back i scratch yours kind of gig i think that (there is no youth team connected to our HS) if i wanted to try a youth take over that would be how i went about it or go behind your back/over your head... get people who i control on the youth organization board... and have them vote to have one of my trusted allies take over the youth coaching (do you think he might do that?) He could try. But my staff is pretty much the executive board. HC is the President One of the ACs is a VP Another one is the AD. And I'm on the board as well (low level director) So he wouldn't get far, it's also in our charter that coaches have final say on all field decisions, board cannot overrule them. who gets to make the coaching decisions though i mean who gets to say who is the HC at each level?? after burning this bridge (assuming he isnt just a jack@ss but has a real take over plan) the next step could be finding a way to have all of you replaced somehow someway or he will get fired from his HS job in a year or two are there any good HS programs down there? genuinely curious, dont mind the thread jack... just never heard much about football inthat part of the state
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 1, 2016 23:19:59 GMT -6
so most of you know how i feel on the topic of vertical integration, but i have to share a story. if you are going to approach a non-affiliated MS team and ask them to run your stuff, this is how NOT to do it.... our January staff meeting was last weekend, ive got a few coaches who have never seriously coached before so im intending to go over the basics of our approach to offense (not even going to get into the actual system, just the approach, to warm these guys up). the local HS coach comes in Uninvited, stops the whole meeting to tell us why: 1) we HAVE to run his system 2) why the Wing T is not going to be effective for his program now, normally id go off the rails on the guy, but every interaction ive had up until now has been positive, so i challenged him just alittle bit to see what he was going to say - "coach im not a huge fan of running XYZ at the youth level." and this is the response i get "well frankly i don't care what you are or arn't a fan of, this is what is going to happen." ....pretty much killed the meeting... so my word of advice, if you plan on asking, ask instead of attack. that is an awesome story, bad, but awesome nonetheless i could see if he tried sweet talking you guys, explaining he wanted to build a community wide program from the ground up... sweeten the pot by offering as much clinic time as you want with the whole youth staff help with fundraising letting use their facilities for practice and games maybe some equipment you scratch my back i scratch yours kind of gig i think that (there is no youth team connected to our HS) if i wanted to try a youth take over that would be how i went about it or go behind your back/over your head... get people who i control on the youth organization board... and have them vote to have one of my trusted allies take over the youth coaching (do you think he might do that?)
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 1, 2016 13:13:25 GMT -6
1. Weight program... Especially with in class lifting for all of the kids with their coach
2. Players... Weight room helps but having some raw talent is obviously critical
3. Money... Whether it comes from admin or boosters or fundraising... All successful teams I've seen have money coming in from somewhere... Even the "ghetto" schools get it somehow some way
Notice I didn't mention coaching in the top 3. We think too highly of ourselves sometimes (myself included) Xs and Os, play calling... All overrated
We've all made great play calls that didn't gain a yard, and horrible play calls that got lucky and your stud popped it for a big play or something
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Post by coachbdud on Jan 30, 2016 16:51:08 GMT -6
coachbdud Call FieldTurf and see what they would recommend. Can the floor of the portable withstand players doing drills on it? Jumping, cutting, etc. good idea yes i think so, i have one as my office/classroom(i teach a health class) i have witnessed multiple times 2 300lb kids wrestling around on it, running, jumping, without any issues
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Post by coachbdud on Jan 29, 2016 14:13:24 GMT -6
One of my coaches is an assistant with the HS softball team. They just put field turf in their field house, roughly a 60x60 area in a big metal building. Not sure if that's what you're talking about, but last I talked to him about it they really like it. I can ask him anything if you have any questions. what im talking about is literally taking field turf that is spare, sitting in storage and installing it ourself putting it down in an empty classroom (current floor is crappy thin carpet) thinking some sort of adhesive or nail gun it down... i honestly dont know
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Post by coachbdud on Jan 27, 2016 22:28:41 GMT -6
Just seeing if anyone has ever laid down fieldturf indoors before?
We got our stadium done a year ago, there is a ton of left over fieldturf left on the campus in storage... it is just excess
we have a bunch of portables that are being emptied as classroom construction finishes (1 is my office, 1 is going to be an "exercise room" with some machines, 1 is going to be a PE classroom)
i have the idea of taking another empty one, and laying the left over turf in it to have an small indoor facility could do some indy work in there, would really use it for agility ladder, hurdles, plyo type stuff
measured the portables off, and they are 15 x20 yards... a decent space for a little turf room
i presented all of this to my principal and AD and they are 100% with me on the first ideas... for my turf room they said maybe they needed to be sure there wont be some liability of the turf coming up and causing injury
anyone ever take fieldturf and lay it down indoors? any suggestions if you have
any advice is greatly appreciated
thanks
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Post by coachbdud on Jan 27, 2016 12:11:53 GMT -6
i always say the standard "good game, good luck next week"
if it is a coach i know a little bit personally they get a "bro hug"
i actually don't care much for taking to the other coaches
i go talk to the players on the other team after the handshake line... if we went against a specific defender (or 2) who i felt were really good, i will go give them a handshake and tell them how impressive they were
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Post by coachbdud on Jan 25, 2016 19:45:19 GMT -6
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Post by coachbdud on Jan 24, 2016 12:51:16 GMT -6
i enjoy the site and streaming compared to DVDs. I personally feel like it is hard to find movies on the site. There are hundreds, maybe thousands, but it seems difficult to locate and filter to find something you really want. Not all of the "tags" work. You click on pistol, and no videos come up. I do not know the answer, but there has to be a better way to filter the videos and narrow the results. Like click offense... and just O videos come up... then you can continue filtering from there. or have a list by last name of all of the contributors... that way if there is someone specific you want to hear you can go directly to their name and see all of their content on the site Along these same lines, it would be cool if you could build a "favorites list" so its easier to find videos for multiple viewings. agreed when i go on and binge watch... i find myself not watching things i specifically want to see i end up just watching what appears to me... i feel like i am taking the fat girl to prom... it isnt my first or even second pick... but i gotta do something
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Post by coachbdud on Jan 24, 2016 12:38:23 GMT -6
Did efootballflix get rid of the coach's choice content and replace it??? Hey Coach!! I work closely with the eFootballFlix property and wanted to give just a little information on the site and new content. There was a chance to get some new content from American Football Monthly and we wanted to provide our users with the most up to date, fresh information. We want to make sure that we constantly do the best for our coaches and felt that adding this new content would give our coaches a chance for some newer, up to date information in the world of football. I am happy to hear any and all feedback on the new content, and if there is a specific topic that you are searching for that previously was there on eFootballFlix with the Coaches Choice content and doesn't seem to be addressed with the new American Football Monthly content, let us know. We want to make sure that all of our coaches have access to the most relevant and up to date content, and if a topic isn't there we will do whatever we need to make that happen. Thanks Coaches!! i enjoy the site and streaming compared to DVDs. I personally feel like it is hard to find movies on the site. There are hundreds, maybe thousands, but it seems difficult to locate and filter to find something you really want. Not all of the "tags" work. You click on pistol, and no videos come up. I do not know the answer, but there has to be a better way to filter the videos and narrow the results. Like click offense... and just O videos come up... then you can continue filtering from there. or have a list by last name of all of the contributors... that way if there is someone specific you want to hear you can go directly to their name and see all of their content on the site
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Post by coachbdud on Jan 23, 2016 11:08:45 GMT -6
"Squats make your d!ck bigger"
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