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Post by coachbdud on Aug 15, 2015 11:51:14 GMT -6
i have a gift, i am really good with names/faces
but it helps that i am a teacher
i see the kids on our team all day long... and have since they were freshman
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Post by coachbdud on Aug 12, 2015 22:46:33 GMT -6
great thread idea coachphillipthe hardest part for me is coming up with good topics to write about once i have something i want to write about, i can knock things out for my blog i do not think i am the greatest writer ever, nor do i run the best coaching blog out there... just trying to not be the worst
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Post by coachbdud on Aug 9, 2015 11:26:33 GMT -6
personal choice and anger
i coached at my alma mater for 4 years... had it turned around, had schools first ever playoff appearance but our HC was burnt out. He steppe down.
10 people applied for the job (including a 21 year old me) i would have been fine with anyone but ONE person getting the HC job... that one guy got it cuz he went to school with the AD. Nice guy and everything, just in over his head in terms of running a program
i was the only person from the previous year's varsity staff asked to stay on
i was angry so i began searching for jobs. I found the place i currently am and although it has been a rebuilding project, it has been very worthwhile. We have made the program relevant for the first time in 30 years.
things ended up lining up well for me and i was able to get a teaching job here and overall i am pretty happy.
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Post by coachbdud on Aug 9, 2015 11:21:10 GMT -6
we have a written policy (last 2 games)
with an unwritten agreement that if both HCs agree to do film trade slightly differently then that is fine as long as both are cool with it
sometimes both will want 3 games instead of 2 someitmes theyll want to exchange one of the games a little earlier (never understand why, who is prepping for next opponent before playing someone else)
we have a written policy for lower levels too... 1 game... the last one you have filmed (sometimes at the frosh levels teams dont get a guy to film or something happens)
it is also written in that if one team in league has an EZ copy, they have to give it to the team they just played
so say we go play at School A... they have EZ cam and we do not, their HC is supposed to send us his EZ angle of the game, for us to use for film review
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Post by coachbdud on Aug 9, 2015 10:54:50 GMT -6
you can film and/or live scout here if you want to
from my experience we all just hudl exchange scrimmage film
last year we went and watched them live too because we played on different nights
this year both us and our first opponent scrimmage on the same night at the same time, so we will just do a HUDL exchange
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Post by coachbdud on Aug 8, 2015 1:06:56 GMT -6
An interesting idea down the line that I've only seen done once
(Assuming you start with all freshman in year one )
Play down their junior year on JV... Wait til you have seniors to have a varsity
Newest school in our league did that. They of course dominated that all junior JV year, were decent their first year with seniors (finally had a senior class so had all 3 levels)
And had a run of a few years where they were really competitive, down year last year, but overall for a new school in one of the best leagues in all of NorCal they've been competitive
Most schools I've seen start playing varsity in year 3 when they get juniors. They get destroyed that year, and kids never dully recover, lose interest, etc.
Just a thought
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Post by coachbdud on Aug 5, 2015 11:35:36 GMT -6
You coach in California? Lol I coach in the Bay Area, CA and I wouldn't be able to get the kids to shower together in the lockers if I had them at gunpoint. It's just not something we do culturally here. Hell, I'm a grown man and get weirded out by dudes walking around naked in the locker rooms at the gym. Agreed Only old dudes go naked in locker rooms I go to several gyms and all locker rooms are the same Old dudes naked, everyone else uncomfortably walking by
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Post by coachbdud on Aug 4, 2015 22:13:46 GMT -6
we do not have any set off time from practice
coaches miss for vacation, but usually it is fairly staggered, and no one is going crazy missing a ton
HC and i missed a few days in june taking our RB and another kid down to USC for their camp and we got to "coach" the camp
I missed a day last week, GF and I went to disneyland
WR coach missed a week in Mexico with his wife
QB coach missed a couple days went down to the beach with his GF
HC missed a couple days at the beach with his family
Coaches should get to have vacations too
i do not get mad at a kid when he misses some time for family vacations
and if a kid does the right things before and after the vacation i am not one to take time away from him
take my LT... made every off season lift, team captain, works hard every day. Missed last week, went with mom on a cruise...that is awesome, wish i was on a cruise.. he is still my starting LT
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Post by coachbdud on Aug 3, 2015 14:22:29 GMT -6
@duece
my advice assuming you are scouting all alone
pretty similar to what others have stated
pre done sheets with the 5 OL on it
writing down and distance, yard line stuff is easy because you can do it before the snap
you'll have to scramble to draw the formations quickly pre snap... if they aren't too exotic it shouldn't be too hard though
then comes the snap, i suggest watching just the OL play...
my reasoning is if you watch them, to get the scheme, it is easy after the play to draw what the skill guys did
you will see who had the ball after he is tackled (#23, then look and see where he was lined up)
and can kind of fill in the blanks easier if you know what the OL did, than if you focus on the ball, and miss the OL
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Post by coachbdud on Aug 3, 2015 14:19:29 GMT -6
When watching a team live (also assuming we are filming / getting the film), I like to look at situational things. What is their go to on 3rd & short? 3rd & long? Goaline? After a momentum shift (positive or negative)? What are their scoring plays? etc...sometimes on the film, a play will be missed, cut out, not downloaded properly, etc...especially if it is a high tempo team. Nothing worse than watching one play, then the next play is a PAT and you have no idea how the hell they scored! back when everyone still did VHS (my first year coaching) there was a team that was notorious for trading less than complete games their coach would keep the only real copy of the game for himself all of the ones he traded would have plays cut out (which on VHS takes some time to do, means you stop the recording on one VHS, play the other, then resume recording) he would get out trick plays and new things he added in so the next opponent wouldnt see them lol
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Post by coachbdud on Aug 3, 2015 8:46:12 GMT -6
@duece
are you not allowed to film them or something?
i would think just filming it all, then breaking it down later at home would be easier
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Post by coachbdud on Jul 28, 2015 22:54:33 GMT -6
the old timers in the community like football (school does not have a good tradition but all the alumni think they used to be good for some reason, i have never understood it)
when i got here 6 years ago there was no respect for our program... from anyone
we have gradually built it up have a brand new stadium have the top ranked 2017 player... so the buzz around us really grew this past season... and i am expecting a packed house at all home games
because we are unveiling a new stadium (played all last season away) everyone wants to see our RB (Bama commit) and we won a playoff game last year (huge deal for this school... first playoff win in 30 years)
now we have to see if we can live up to the hype for the first time we will be the favorite in a good amount of games, hopefully our kids respond well to that and do not assume we can just walk over any one
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Post by coachbdud on Jul 28, 2015 12:40:19 GMT -6
Official calendar has been out since January and still 4-5 kids whose parents plan a vacation. We suffer from the first two weeks of football being last two weeks of summer. Do you guys deal with this? If so, what is your protocol? our official start date this season is august 10th our first day of school is august 12... so we do not have kids missing from that official week on the week prior to the 10th we meet with all players, they (and parent) sign football contract has team rules in, consequences that vary depending on infraction or misses (also if the misses are excused or unexcused) they go in order from not starting missing 1st half missing entire game removal from team if a kid missed that first official week, we are cutting them unless their is some special circumstance (one of my OL has court appointed dates he gets to see his father who lives in another state) Prior to august 10th, there isnt anything we can legally do, except take away playing time... we can't make anything "mandatory" until august 10th my LT is missing this current week on vacation... yes he is missing some stuff and i wish he was there, but I am not super mad about it he was our most dedicated kid in the weight room every single day (and extra on his own at the gym) from Thanksgiving on. we let our kids go on vacation, do whatever, but explain to them and parents from august 10th on there is no more vacation time we tell them during our spring ball parent meeting
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Post by coachbdud on Jul 27, 2015 11:03:36 GMT -6
I don't like it either. I worked with a guy who would always yell quit freelancing at the defense. This isn't inherently bad, but it would have been better to teach them why they weren't doing their job. Hell, my kids wouldn't know what freelancing meant. They would probably think it had to do who jousting. If I told my kids freelancing They'd ask who lancing is... And say free Gucci mane
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Post by coachbdud on Jul 26, 2015 22:28:04 GMT -6
i seem to have offended with a few with my block somebody comment
thought it was something everyone disliked
guess it is just a personal pet peeve
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Post by coachbdud on Jul 26, 2015 15:21:17 GMT -6
We condition to begin practice
My general preference is short sprints With a set interval of rest time (20-25 seconds rest)
I'll vary the distance from 20 yards at our shortest
To 40 at the longest (when HC steps in he prefers 100s, I do not )
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Post by coachbdud on Jul 26, 2015 14:01:55 GMT -6
could always buy "Stadium Jamz"
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Post by coachbdud on Jul 26, 2015 13:39:16 GMT -6
How about repeating a phrase? I do it all the time. "Quick feet, Quick feet" never realized how much I repeat phrases until a guy I coached with pointed it out. Pretty funny now that I'm aware of it. Very common Pay attention anytime you hear someone public speaking that hasn't taken a class in it They repeat the same words all the time Mhm Mkay Ok Right Stuff like that Kind of like Mr. Mackey Mmkay My word of this season has been "boom" Never said it before For whatever reason this year it has been something I say outloud as I watch a play and see the desired thing I've been looking for Might be counter and I see the kick out coming Boom Drop back pass and i see wr about to open up I say boom when I'd throw the ball Don't know why or how it started but I know it's brand new Boom
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Post by coachbdud on Jul 26, 2015 11:15:33 GMT -6
"block somebody"
yes i agree that blocking someone is better than standing around doing nothing
however telling a kid to block somebody, is not coaching. It is not helping that kid get better at football or understand his assignment in the play
something more specific will do much more to help that kid out
the jack@ss dad in the stands that has no idea what the scheme is can yell block somebody... anybody can
as his coach, a simple, more specific cue will likely help the kid more
for example "johnny step down" is short, much more specific, and IMO much more helpful to the kid
johnny at least knows where to take his first step now
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Post by coachbdud on Jul 25, 2015 21:48:23 GMT -6
i will add that reconditioning is paid for by our school district
it is the only money they contribute to football, but it is the norm, because 10k now for reconditioning, is a lot better than a lawsuit for the school district if a player used an unsafe helmet
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Post by coachbdud on Jul 25, 2015 10:07:03 GMT -6
Might be a state by state thing
But here I've always been told helmets have to be re certified every year
Shoulder pads every two
If they've been worn before and you just clean them up without them getting re certified it could be a huge liability for you
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Post by coachbdud on Jul 24, 2015 14:40:07 GMT -6
i would say our offseason (Summer) is pretty par for the course around here. in the winter/spring it is much less, all we can really do then is weight lifting until spring ball. However in our section (CA is divided into a bunch of sections) for the last 10 years or so, they got tired of trying to police the complaints about teams practicing illegally (all the best schools were already practicing everyday in full gear) so they instituted a period which is now defined as June 1- August 10(the august date can change but it is pretty much the 2nd monday in august. during that period, NCS (our section) has no rules regarding practice regulations now there is the new CA law about hitting but that is brand new. Up until this summer you could (not that you would) go full gear, full contact 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from 6/1-8/10ish this year we haven't been able to do full contact/thud stuff until this past WED (7/22) and that was just our section, most of CA chose not to adopt that policy and won't go live until early august. anyway, as far as summer schedule goes, i am sure there are team who do less than us but i would say most do 4 days a week i am sure there are some that do all 5 days we tried this 2-3 years ago... i hated it, the kids hated it, the other coaches hated it. We were all burnt out by the first game, they are 14-18 year old kids... "back in our day" we didn't practice non stop year round like it is today 3 day weekend gives everyone a little break, including us coaches. Makes nice weekend trips possible for everyone, and i am less frustrated because i am getting about 90% attendance on any given day (of our 4 day week). When we tried fridays too, we would end up with half the kids there, so what is the point i am sure there are many schools who just lift/run over summer maybe do a couple passing tourneys but i would say the majority of teams in our area are doing the lifting/conditioning... and getting some on field practice in Is this regarding youth, middle school, or high school? This sounds a lot like high school to me. yes HS my bad, i do most of my posting from my cell phone using the proboards app. I just look by unread threads, not by which section of the forum a post is included. So i didnt realize after my initial post that this was in the youth section
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Post by coachbdud on Jul 24, 2015 11:40:51 GMT -6
"block somebody"
in my opinion, nothing makes a coach sound more dumb than that phrase
it just tells the whole stadium that you have no idea what is going on schematically, or how to fix his technique. us coaches do not spend time working on schemes for a kid to just "block somebody" they have a specific assignment
and it doesn't help the kid in any way
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Post by coachbdud on Jul 24, 2015 11:33:30 GMT -6
poundit52 I think you misunderstand. At least MY (and I am betting Chris Clement 's ) "offseason" comments were in response to the cumbersome (in my opinion) schedule listed by coachbdud . A written double take if you will, as in "thats what you do in the "OFFSEASON" regarding 3 hours of practice 4 days a week in the summer. Also, are you talking about youth (under 7th grade) football ? If so, I can't say what others would do, but my answer would be nothing. If you are talking about a team associated with a school, then I can envision some summer work outs..maybe 2 days a week. i would say our offseason (Summer) is pretty par for the course around here. in the winter/spring it is much less, all we can really do then is weight lifting until spring ball. However in our section (CA is divided into a bunch of sections) for the last 10 years or so, they got tired of trying to police the complaints about teams practicing illegally (all the best schools were already practicing everyday in full gear) so they instituted a period which is now defined as June 1- August 10(the august date can change but it is pretty much the 2nd monday in august. during that period, NCS (our section) has no rules regarding practice regulations now there is the new CA law about hitting but that is brand new. Up until this summer you could (not that you would) go full gear, full contact 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from 6/1-8/10ish this year we haven't been able to do full contact/thud stuff until this past WED (7/22) and that was just our section, most of CA chose not to adopt that policy and won't go live until early august. anyway, as far as summer schedule goes, i am sure there are team who do less than us but i would say most do 4 days a week i am sure there are some that do all 5 days we tried this 2-3 years ago... i hated it, the kids hated it, the other coaches hated it. We were all burnt out by the first game, they are 14-18 year old kids... "back in our day" we didn't practice non stop year round like it is today 3 day weekend gives everyone a little break, including us coaches. Makes nice weekend trips possible for everyone, and i am less frustrated because i am getting about 90% attendance on any given day (of our 4 day week). When we tried fridays too, we would end up with half the kids there, so what is the point i am sure there are many schools who just lift/run over summer maybe do a couple passing tourneys but i would say the majority of teams in our area are doing the lifting/conditioning... and getting some on field practice in
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Post by coachbdud on Jul 24, 2015 10:00:53 GMT -6
Personally we practice 4-7 PM every monday-thursday... that includes any chalk/meetings/film/weights/conditioning and field stuff i usually leave my house shortly after 2:15/2:30 to beat the traffic I am the first coach there (only teacher, so i am off all summer, they all have day jobs) i get everything opened up (field, weight room, my classroom, locker rooms) i usually leave between 7:45-8:00 depending on how long it takes to put away equipment and how much BS-ing i do with the other coaches ( we have great varsity staff chemistry) so typically, 4 days x roughly 5-6 hours per day if you count my drive time add in a couple HUDL watching hours at home and practice planning time at home... Offseason? Oops my bad I didn't notice it was in youth section I was referring to my summer schedule
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Post by coachbdud on Jul 23, 2015 21:20:33 GMT -6
Personally
we practice 4-7 PM every monday-thursday... that includes any chalk/meetings/film/weights/conditioning and field stuff
i usually leave my house shortly after 2:15/2:30 to beat the traffic I am the first coach there (only teacher, so i am off all summer, they all have day jobs)
i get everything opened up (field, weight room, my classroom, locker rooms)
i usually leave between 7:45-8:00 depending on how long it takes to put away equipment and how much BS-ing i do with the other coaches ( we have great varsity staff chemistry)
so typically, 4 days x roughly 5-6 hours per day if you count my drive time
add in a couple HUDL watching hours at home and practice planning time at home...
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Post by coachbdud on Jul 15, 2015 14:22:22 GMT -6
Great moment yesterday at camp
I'm talking with kid A on the sideline about a block (Kid A has a 6 month old daughter)
Kid B jumps in "Coach are you talking to him about pulling ?"
Me: no
Kid B: ok good, cuz we know he can't do that
Get it, as in he can't pull out
Great moments in sideline history
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Post by coachbdud on Jul 14, 2015 11:46:19 GMT -6
Just make sure you don't tell the kids "the showers are for taping." Or personal reflection time
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Post by coachbdud on Jul 13, 2015 23:24:00 GMT -6
Only one way to deal with this, Mariners. Dance off! i do not know if you guys have rallys at your schools but we have a few a year... ours are uniquely terrible every single one has to do with dance battles the story lines make no sense as they do sketch comedy in the gym... where the audio sucks and you can't hear anything anyway but every single rally, has dance battles... multiple of them for example, during homecoming queen crap all 6 girls have their own "gang" or group of people different storyline/theme each year but they all become crappy dance battles very annoying, very boring when you see it every single time... and it makes me ponder what the heck they were doing in their rallys BEFORE stomp the yard came out or you got served came out
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Post by coachbdud on Jul 12, 2015 14:41:29 GMT -6
Good thing we did this year
Found a local school who is good Not in our league Different division (So we will never play them in a real game)
They come to our place every Thursday night (we have turf they don't so they're happy to come use real field with numbers and hashes)
We can control the exact look we wanna get Good competition
No keeping track of score No tourney to win
We just go run some plays and switch
I buy a bunch of hot dogs A Frosh coach BBqs while we play
And the boys grab a couple hot dogs after
Everyone wins
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