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Post by coachbdud on Jul 12, 2015 13:49:57 GMT -6
one other coach although he has a wife and kids and therefore a life, so he can't spend a disgusting amount of time on here like i do he is usually the only one who "gets it" when i talk about football
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Post by coachbdud on Jul 11, 2015 15:27:50 GMT -6
I have no idea what a "fishing shirt" is
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Post by coachbdud on Jul 9, 2015 23:35:17 GMT -6
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Post by coachbdud on Jul 9, 2015 22:14:07 GMT -6
Brad's Business Proposal
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Post by coachbdud on Jul 8, 2015 23:12:09 GMT -6
You can PM me for feedback if you want You know me a little bit
I'm not smart enough to steal someone else's idea anyway
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Post by coachbdud on Jul 7, 2015 10:51:14 GMT -6
side note
something i do that i hope might help me in the future
we have some THUGs at school, not really on the team right now, but just in the general population
i know which kids are selling weed, getting into fights, stealing crap... kind of easy to spot the BAAAAAAD ones
anyway, i am always super cool to these kids...
1. they are the most likely to respond aggressively if you come at them yelling/angry 2. I might be the only adult they interact with in a positive way for the whole day 3. these kids don't leave the area, they stay in the trap or they go to jail, those are there only life options. I am cool with them, push them to do well in my class, ask them about their day etc. I have never been put into a bad situation, but if I am about to get jumped or robbed or something while pumping gas or something in town (don't live where i coach) and one of these kids are around they would stop it
just the other day, i saw a former student of mine, drug dealer then, and now. i got a whats up coach, a firm handshake, talked about life for a few minutes
that kid (and others like him) would totally have my back if they were around and some bad $hit was about to pop off
this probably sounds really weird to some of you on this board but some places are bad
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Post by coachbdud on Jul 5, 2015 16:21:24 GMT -6
Street life ? Or legit in a GANG? Did they jump him in? He's gonna have to get jumped out by them
Keep him involved in football and his teammates as much as possible
He should live at the school where he can be safe
Spend as much time with coaches and other players as possible to stay away from the street
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Post by coachbdud on Jul 1, 2015 11:26:47 GMT -6
everyone plays both ways for us i do not think i will ever coach a 1 way team
De La Salle is pretty much the best team in the country every year, and recruit the best players in the bay area... they are loaded everywhere, and deeper than anyone else in the state... and their best guys play both ways still
anyway,
we have done it different ways
Offense only days Defense only days
1 day O 1 day D 1 day split
everything split 50/50 in terms of time
what we do now i like the best
We have a "focus" for the day, but the other side of the ball still gets time an offense day is typically an 50-60 minutes of O, 25-30 defense next day the times are reversed
when we split it evenly, it never felt like we got a ton done
i do not like going ONLY one side of the ball per day, because i do not like 2 days between a kid thinking about our plays, and Indy work
also, if a kid misses an O day for whatever reason, now it is 3-4 days between a kid's next offensive practice
even on our defense days, i can get 30 minutes in... 20 Indy, 10 team... and we can get better
just my personal preference,
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Post by coachbdud on Jul 1, 2015 11:21:09 GMT -6
I thought about uber, but I feel there's too high a risk of getting shot/robbed/stabbed I do remember the driver saying that his worst customers were younger people. They were pushy and disrespectful. He didn't mention any violence or idea of feeling unsafe. There is that possibility, however. But not for a football coach... i don't even know if Uber drivers get robbed often but i had a friend who was going to be a taxi driver (pretty much the same) first week on the job, another driver got shot and robbed, my buddy quit and never went in to work again lol
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Post by coachbdud on Jul 1, 2015 10:44:28 GMT -6
Don't you live in hippie-land? What's the worst that happens, they try to pay you in bitcoin? Maybe they get mad at you for taking them to the wrong artisanal froyo shop? No I'm in the hood Coach in the #3 crime rate city in the state of CA Watch out Stockton and Oakland, we are coming for that #1 spot !
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Post by coachbdud on Jul 1, 2015 9:48:30 GMT -6
I thought about uber, but I feel there's too high a risk of getting shot/robbed/stabbed
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Post by coachbdud on Jun 29, 2015 14:04:40 GMT -6
I don't work over summer I still get paid over summer Every year I tell myself to get a job at a gym I work out 1-2x a day at a gym anyway Spend my free time there since I have all day in the summer One of these days I'll do it But I also like being totally free I can go take off with the gf whenever I want Or take off and take kids to college camps whenever Seriously contemplating getting into the Instagram/YouTube fitness industry, put together meal plans and workouts for people Film myself doing lifts Sell people 12 week plans for $100 a pop (super cheap compared to most doing this ) And supplement my income that way B Dud fitness coming soon
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Post by coachbdud on Jun 28, 2015 14:38:33 GMT -6
The better teams in the greater bay area have the best recruiting coaching staffs
it is kind of sad, they do a better job than the bay area colleges do of recruiting... and i am not exaggerating that
I am not even including De La Salle in this post
speaking of just some public schools in the area the better ones have probably 10-12+ kids on their varsity team who based on where they live are not supposed to go there
one team in our has had multiple players move in with coaches, relatives of coaches, and other players, to try to play for them
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Post by coachbdud on Jun 22, 2015 10:39:20 GMT -6
I often have 2 phones in my pocket at practice
My iPhone 6
And I keep my old iPhone 4s on me
I use it to film team with hudl app
Load it when I get home on wifi Super easy Can get an angle right behind OL
And i don't have to plug anything to upload practice film
Download playlists on it and play on my projector for film
Music in weight room
Don't throw away old iPhones, they're still useful as chunky iPod touches and work with hudl app on wifi
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Post by coachbdud on Jun 20, 2015 19:14:43 GMT -6
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Post by coachbdud on Jun 20, 2015 8:43:06 GMT -6
Going off on a little tangent here. Since wallets have been brought up
Tossed the wallet last fall
Got a phone case with wallet built in to it Great investment
Most men have huge wallets with really nothing in it lol
Only thing in it I really need on a daily basis
ID, debit card, credit card, a little cash
All of that fits in my phone case easily and is still not a massive oversized case
I keep my old wallet with some other stuff in it on my glove box of my car Costco card Sam's card Kaiser card
I can grab them when needed but don't need them in my pocket 24/7
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Post by coachbdud on Jun 20, 2015 0:34:35 GMT -6
I only buy Nike basketball shorts I wear them every single day to work/coach/gym
If you see my not in Nike basketball shorts just trust that I am miserable on the inside
I've never had any problems with stuff falling out in these
In generic brand ones HC orders they're terrible and I no longer even take a pair when he orders coaches some
Nike makes different sizes and there are different pockets
If it's labeled Nike basketball It is usually a little longer and baggies Pockets seem to work perfect for me
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Post by coachbdud on Jun 17, 2015 21:40:21 GMT -6
The idea is that tracking this changes behavior? i don't know OPs goal and idea I put this system in here and it improved our off season for whatever reason "spring ball" is the highlight of every kid's life... we get a TON of kids out for spring ball... every kid who has ever played football in PE wants to come out in spring... we only have so many real football players i wanted to get rid of the ones who end up quitting or not making grades anyway... and i wanted the kids i know are actual players, be more consistent in the off season you can't make things "mandatory" i cant cut a kid for not coming in the off season so i simply said, ok you need to make it this many days in the off season if you do not, you will make up the conditioning work that was missed 1 point = 1 mile you can join the rest of the kids when you get enough points first year we had a ton of kids out there... some lazy, some freshly decided they wanted to play, some wanted to call my bluff they lived on the track hated it the losers stopped coming the real players decided this sucked, and were there in the off season the following year the next season... way less kids "running for points" and this year i did not even need to have kids run off points because about 99% either played other sports or were committed to the weight room it was more the fact that i held them accountable, than just tracking it but it was something that had not been done before i got here
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Post by coachbdud on Jun 17, 2015 12:05:31 GMT -6
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Post by coachbdud on Jun 16, 2015 23:00:00 GMT -6
For us in Cali
We have all 3 levels. Freshman JV Varsity
(Some areas play just 2 levels... Frosh/soph only and varsity )
Just about everyone who is at least decent has 3 levels, at least in our area. I can't think off the top of my head of a solid program year in and out that doesn't have 3 levels
Anyway JV for us is mostly sophomores... But it can be for anyone who is not a senior
So on an average year we have 1-2 stud freshman up (kids we KNOW will be on varsity as sophomores, we've had a run of little brothers of solid varsity players for us, and these kids have often played up )
And a few really bad juniors ... I don't put juniors down for playing time, I'd way rather a sophomore start on JV than a junior (more time to develop him) Usually we have 3-5 juniors down on JV who are in most cases there so they won't get hurt Or they are kids who came out late and have never played football before (a safety concern on varsity )
A lot of schools are like ha, predominantly a sophomore team with a few freshman and juniors sprinkled in
I know of a few schools who play a ton of juniors down on JV, I've never figured out why... I can think of a few schools who do really well on JV every year and then don't really do very well at the varsity level
Kids get 1 game a week Can slide them up or down, we pull kids up when necessary But they can't play 6 quarters, or multiple games a week or anything like that like I know you can in some states
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Post by coachbdud on Jun 15, 2015 23:25:15 GMT -6
hopefully you left to a school with better players
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Post by coachbdud on Jun 14, 2015 10:36:32 GMT -6
It's 6 wins to win state in CA too
Well at least coming from our section
It's a 16 team bracket - 4 wins to be section champ
Then the regional qualifier -1 win (there's a NorCal bowl and a SoCal bowl )
Then state
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Post by coachbdud on Jun 13, 2015 13:11:25 GMT -6
we do 1on1s both run blocking and pass blocking
we do relay races, any of the strong man competition stuff is fun, i don't do it enough
i have done fat man 7on7 in the past but probably never will again
last year 2 of our kids collided, banged heads right above the eye... both kids ended up with stitches across the eyebrow and had to miss some practice time to let it heal
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No JV
Jun 12, 2015 17:45:29 GMT -6
Post by coachbdud on Jun 12, 2015 17:45:29 GMT -6
it sucks but sometimes it happens
happened when i coached at my alma mater a year after i graduated... sophomore class was super talented but a TON of them had bad grades and just fizzled out (streets is life, instead of ball is life)
so we only had about 12-15 sophomore in the program... we decided to bring them all up to varsity and we just had a freshman team, and a varsity team
about half of them started on varsity of the leftover half, half of them played significantly
there were a few who rode the bench, but as far as i can remember they all became contributors by their senior year
overall worked well for us, and it paid off... by their senior year they all improved a lot and the extra year of varsity helped them
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Post by coachbdud on Jun 10, 2015 23:02:37 GMT -6
Ours is 6 teams
5 league games
5 "non league" games
Many of the leagues here are 6-8 teams
They're roughly divided geographically, with some effort to group schools by size
For example our league is all D1 (highest level, although we have much less students than the others in our league, long story)
There's another mostly D1 league in our section
There are a few leagues of mostly D2-3 (all fairly close)
A couple small school leagues (D4 and 5)
And there is 1 or 2 leagues that are kind of a huge range... But generally they're pretty bad overall leagues
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Post by coachbdud on Jun 10, 2015 10:58:59 GMT -6
Typically I schedule a couple every year We have 5 non league games Perfect world you have a 2 year deal And just have to deal with scheduling every 2 years But in the past we've had some schools happily play us at their place, then call me in the off season and say they refuse to play us That's how our schedule became a mix of expiring contracts and new contracts I use the term contract loosely, I've discovered it means nothing lol This year was difficult, had to replace 4/5 games The most I've ever had to schedule in one off season... Dame, our association would fine the heck out them we've put things into every contract I have ever done saying 1,000 dollar fine if a team tries to back out of it but there is no one to enforce it CA is split up into different sections none of them want anything to do with it and say theres no way any of them can enforce it, just move on
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Post by coachbdud on Jun 10, 2015 9:26:35 GMT -6
Does anyone have to schedule games EVERY year? Typically I schedule a couple every year We have 5 non league games Perfect world you have a 2 year deal And just have to deal with scheduling every 2 years But in the past we've had some schools happily play us at their place, then call me in the off season and say they refuse to play us That's how our schedule became a mix of expiring contracts and new contracts I use the term contract loosely, I've discovered it means nothing lol This year was difficult, had to replace 4/5 games The most I've ever had to schedule in one off season...
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Post by coachbdud on Jun 9, 2015 11:37:30 GMT -6
Our league is really good
We've been the bottom feeder, trying to turn things around
I do out scheduling I'd schedule wins because we needed them
We've improved enough and have some good returners where I can't find those easy games anymore
Our non league schedule next year will be significantly harder than past years
I'm hoping that being more "battle tested" will improve how we play in league
We had the opportunity to win every game in league but seemed to make a couple key mistakes at times to lose it
Hoping better early competition will make us better overall in league
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Post by coachbdud on Jun 8, 2015 21:53:00 GMT -6
Every team has clicks
Clicks by position By grade
Cool kids Nerds Weird kids
We had them when I played (about 10 years ago)
We have them on team
I observe it this way in the general student population
Are we one big happy family? No
But I'd say every kid on the team has at least 2 really good friends on the team
Even the socially awkward kids have gravitated towards one another
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Post by coachbdud on Jun 5, 2015 11:10:25 GMT -6
I hear there's a session on how to have half your team retire in the off season
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