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Post by coachbdud on Feb 17, 2014 18:41:30 GMT -6
pretty much everyone around here is 2.0
you can't lose a kid or gain a kid until the actual quarter or semester grades come out... no progress reports or wait a couple weeks or anything like that
most schools have a waiver (academic probation system)
up until 3 years ago, our school had no such waiver policy and 2 Fs meant you were automatically ineligible... I know school shouldn't be that hard, but when you're the only one in your league held to that standard it makes it tough
our new policy is if you have 1.6-1.99 you can go on a one time academic probation, the 2 F rule is gone
The change has helped, yeah a few turds might get to play, but I have seen being able to play with a 1.8 gpa (only 1 grade away) totally change a kid's life and help him turn it around
for some kids... sports are all they have and they don't have the support at home to be able to really succeed (food, lights, desk, supplies, computer) and the only reason they even attend school every day, is so they can play football after school
I've seen kids get a waiver, play, get their grades up, and their entire life gets turned around... I've seen kids not be eligible, never play again... and then the streets usually have them after that
I am all for giving kids chances
our 1.66 stipulation is unique, only us and the other school in our district (same city) have that... the other school's can use academic probation on any kid the principal will sign off on (theoretically a kid could have a 0.0 gpa and be allowed to play if principal will sign)
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 17, 2014 14:26:19 GMT -6
I get that it works for you, i think it is just so foreign to me and anything that I've seen/heard of in my area that I struggle to wrap my mind around it
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 17, 2014 12:41:04 GMT -6
I've always done a box with an x inside for the center
Every time I've ever drawn in my life Circles for other OL Letters for The skills
I've seen a couple coaches use a B Where the center goes I'm guessing for ball?
Idk but that kills me
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 17, 2014 9:39:28 GMT -6
You don't think the urbanites use trash bags? Everyone needs trash bags. Plain and simple. If they can buy good quality trash bags and help out their local football team, everyone wins. We struggle to have 100-120 kids in our program K-12, and we bring in 10K, half of which is ours. Tie in some apparel to it and get the boys competing, offer $100 for the top seller, runs like wildfire. PM me if you want the guys info and I will send it your way. I get that everyone uses trash bags It's just that they're so cheap and easily available at every store
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 16, 2014 19:32:04 GMT -6
i'm not getting the trashbag thing... is it some rural thing?
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 16, 2014 12:42:10 GMT -6
We have zero affiliation with our youth program But I'm pretty sure it's somewhere between 3 and 400
Some of the fees are fundraisers that as the kids/parents sell they get to keep in order to pay themselves back
Also there's usually some sort of $50 deposit that you get back when you've met the minimum number of volunteer times
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 16, 2014 12:26:56 GMT -6
I haven't looked in to hudl campaign but will now
We've used eteamsponsor in the past
I know the guys that created the company and we had some success... We are just in an area that struggles financially so I was actually surprised by the 3k we made
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 15, 2014 12:56:40 GMT -6
For playbooks... scheme being discussed always on the top. Then you can quick crescent huddle the players on the practice field with your back to the LOS and discuss the play while reading your own notes right side up and the play design is shown in a true position relationship for the players as they face the LOS. This also works for discussing play design with another coach which is always more comfortable sitting face to face. He is viewing in a real position relationship while you can read notes. White boarding for the room....scheme on the bottom so left is left and right is right for the viewers. I learned this from a College Coach. All of my playbooks are basically upside down from the norm but far more useful when I am teaching / reviewing plays to the players. I've never in my career taken a playbook into a huddle. wth is a huddle?
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 15, 2014 1:45:31 GMT -6
Whatever side I'm coaching is on the bottom
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 14, 2014 16:30:27 GMT -6
this won't ne much help but,
when i first began coaching there was some company i saw at a clinic
they had a whole line of products... imagine under armour with something like fiberglass sewn in to it... real light weight, but really hard/strong
they made gear to protect different parts of your body one of which was forearm sleeves that i swear felt bullet proof
i remember thinking, man i could get these for all of our WR, they could just bring their forearm down on a DBs arms and they'd never get pressed again
i thought it was a great product but i never saw that company again
maybe something like this exists out there still
another thing to consider, itll sound stupid but in a pinch, you could use a soccer shin guard
the radius ulna is the tib/fib of the upper body... they are pretty hard and would probably do the job if the above gronk brace was too expensive
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 13, 2014 23:43:32 GMT -6
To be fair it is kind of a school accomplishment
If some of those girls weren't taking care of some of those boys needs they might not have as relaxed and able to excel on the field
(Jk)
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 13, 2014 22:21:06 GMT -6
Coaches coaching their coaches, I'm the young guy on staff currently attempting to be coached up. The guy being coached up I like to think. This weekend's assignment is studying our past seasons run game and breaking it down. What worked well, why did it, what didn't work well, why didn't it? Being assigned things like this to do defensively really helped me a lot, and now I'm being asked to do similar things with the offense. Really get the sense that the point of this run game assignment is to coach me up. Which I take on with excitement. that's a great attitude to have come coach here you are hired
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 13, 2014 21:25:23 GMT -6
You mean you country folk rip the corn out of the ground with the big testing event the NFL does for all college players going in to the draft ?
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 13, 2014 20:01:07 GMT -6
well, I guess if you put yourself out there like this, you can't really say you're being blackballed or anything. If you want to be a HC, understand what that mantle of leadership entails Dang bro Why did you have to post that I tried watching it Very difficult I support him not getting the job now Surprised he calls himself coach in the videos You'd think he'd try to separate the two things
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 13, 2014 15:27:19 GMT -6
I'm a big subscriber in to the
"do whatever the eff you wanna do " (hodge twins reference)
way of life
back to the OP if he was/is saying anti gay stuff/bullying in his sermons, then i agree he shouldn't coach statistically speaking we have all coached at least one gay kid without knowing it... let football be a safe place for him not a place to get bullied by this guy (assuming the allegations are correct)
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 13, 2014 15:24:54 GMT -6
Living in the Bible Belt prayer before the game is pretty much accepted. Though just recently a coach in the area was told not to pray with his team anymore. I heard someone from Wisconsin had seen him lead a team prayer on a YouTube video and complained and threatened a lawsuit. Idk if that part is true but it was all over the news and people from his community didn't like the decision. Bdud-better be careful. You can't stop kids from praying on their own. That could get you in hot water just like making them pray. no i would never tell kids they weren't allowed to play im in the bay area and praying before games is totally accepted... id say most teams do it either in locker room or on field together we have had kids of every religion pray together... I was just saying I don't think i'd ever make it something like ok everyone come in we gotta pray if they do it, whatever they do it, if they wanna thizzle dance to promote team unity before kick off whatever
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 13, 2014 14:52:15 GMT -6
Without being from that area we wouldn't know what kids of things he is saying and preaching
If what he was saying was that bad then they made the right call
I'm all for having your religious beliefs ... But IMO that's a completely private matter
As soon as I hear anyone try to talk to me about religion, preach to me or anything like that I never want to speak to them again
I even feel uncomfortable with team prayer before a game Everywhere I've coached we've done it But honestly when I get a HC job I'll likely remove it
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 13, 2014 10:05:53 GMT -6
I totally agree with same scheme at all three levels. It takes hiring the right people that are loyal to the goals of the program. I've seen some football programs in our area that run totally different schemes at each level, and those are the programs that historically struggle every year. I was new to this program this year and the then-JV DC somehow thought that it wasn't a big deal to not run the varsity's defense because he didn't agree with it. I was dumbfounded. The first thing I did when he was demoted and I was put into his position was to call the varsity DC and ask him to sit down with me so I can do as much as I can to create vertical continuity within the program. I like a lot of the suggestions that are made here, but I'll just throw out something in the other direction from my own experience: Some guys won't change no matter what you want. Some guys need to be cut loose for one reason or another and you can't shy away from doing so. Hopefully you get the change you need/want, but if you don't and you've made yourself clear about what's expected and what's at stake, cut 'em loose and move on. No one is above the program. You can find a way to do without a coach, you can't find a way to live with cancer. Just offering another perspective, I think shocktroop34 did a great job responding. the biggest point you made was VERTICAL CONTINUITY seems the majority of our lower levels A. know more than us at the varsity level B. don't care about vertical continuity C. they are all chasing that elusive freshman/JV championship ring
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 12, 2014 18:06:33 GMT -6
This site is like a clinic break-out session everyday. If you are student of the game how can you not like that? I have love getting ideas from this site, the more outside the box the better. Because some coaches will not venture outside their comfort zone they are at a disadvantage. This site makes me think more about what I am doing maybe add a wrinkle to it and how I can do it better. The problem is there are probably more "Gurus of the game " Than students of the game
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 12, 2014 8:41:21 GMT -6
Yeah I noticed all my emails were from glazier partners
Didn't mind the others but didn't G gloves rip some coaches off last spring? I remember some guys on here saying they placed orders then never heard back from the company
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 11, 2014 23:38:17 GMT -6
We had 5 piece girdles 2 years ago and went to the 7 piece girdle last year. One of the best decisions we ever made. How did they fit your kids I really want to start buying these But I feel like kids come in so many different sizes in length and thickness of legs that they'd fit weird
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 11, 2014 15:22:07 GMT -6
I tried doing my own in house coaches clinic last spring
I was here all day... Made power points Showed drills Went through everything from how to teach it How to drill it Game planning and calling plays
But it was largely a waste Many guys think they know it all and don't want to change Or think this is how we used to do it so that's what is right
It's frustrating because we struggle to get coaches , but many of the ones we have I seriously question if we'd be better off without them
I'm almost ready to stagger offensive practice time so I am there for all our lower levels offensive practice time and I can run their drills and coach them
I think our biggest problem as a program is the lack of quality instruction in our lower levels... Typical too much team, not enough individuals ... Or If it's Indy time drills that are not aligned with what I teach
Overall I'm just highly frustrated Sorry Rant over
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 10, 2014 23:47:26 GMT -6
we could call it the "NorCal coaches who spend a ton of time online Clinic"
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 10, 2014 23:38:49 GMT -6
I was actually thinking about trying to do a CA-centric Huey meet-up/barebones clinic around like, mid June. I figure we could try to get some staffs (or individuals, whatever) together and just shoot the {censored} about whatever. I've been to Wing-T 'secret society' meetings that are pretty fun where they just get together and talk about stuff they are doing and then ask for thoughts/opinions/etc, really neat. Obviously their common talking point of the Wing-T helps, but I figure we could find a way. Love the idea even though I'm not really Bay Area folk... Mid June would be a no-go for me... We're coaching an All-Star game this summer and run two sessions of a contact camp at the end of June. I'm sure we could come up w/ some solid topics to discuss though. You're not much further east than I am Close enough we will let you Into our cult
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 10, 2014 23:28:40 GMT -6
us bay area folk need to meet up at some point in reno and BS I was actually thinking about trying to do a CA-centric Huey meet-up/barebones clinic around like, mid June. I figure we could try to get some staffs (or individuals, whatever) together and just shoot the {censored} about whatever. I've been to Wing-T 'secret society' meetings that are pretty fun where they just get together and talk about stuff they are doing and then ask for thoughts/opinions/etc, really neat. Obviously their common talking point of the Wing-T helps, but I figure we could find a way. I really like that idea let me know
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 10, 2014 23:27:36 GMT -6
All in all, I just want to meet Lochness face to face. I just want to know what they guy looks like. I picture him in my head him looking like Allen (w/ satchel) from "The Hangover". I've always envisioned him like a mischievous badger. I like to picture him with eagle's wings, singing lead vocals for lynyrd skynyrd, with an angel band
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 10, 2014 23:15:11 GMT -6
im still trying to digest all of the great talks. this year was a diamond in the rough in terms of speakers. I felt the exact opposite actually. I felt last year's line up was much better and I gained more overall insight/info I was disappointed with this clinic overall, luckily the reno line up looks so good that I immediately bought a room i am actually now debating on going to the LA one at the end of the month because I saw dubmaddox is speaking there I just don't know if I want to go down to LA when I will be driving to reno a week later, and then going to disneyland for a whole week at the end of march
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 10, 2014 23:12:34 GMT -6
I don't think I saw anyone there... seems like most of you were in offensive stuff. I didn't spend too much time chatting away in the bar area. Almost our whole staff was there and we were trying to knock out some stuff for the off-season and next year. I spent a lot of time listening to Greg Vandagriff, a DC from a Georgia HS. Funny guy who was a great presenter. His stuff just made sense. Going in, I was excited for the Butte DC talking about the 4-2-5, but I didn't get too much out of it. I saw two of Rapone's sessions... they were solid, but if you already have the DVDs, it was pretty similar. I also peeked in on the Tracy High OC's talk about his Flexbone pasing attack, mostly because they are moving into our league next year. As far as Chuck Liddell goes... he was dead on. One of our younger coaches actually said, outloud, "look there's Chuck Liddell!" The guy definitely gave him a Chuck Liddell stare. We will be at the Glazier in Reno and our HC/OC is speaking about the Flexbone on Saturday afternoon. Anyone want to offer some tips for him? I don't drink so i spent zero time in the bar area... I will be going to the reno clinic with at least one other coach, probably more... I have spoken at one clinic, my advice is just to practice his presentation and talk a few times first... gran a couple coaches or kids and give them the talk... always better to have too much and you can't get to it all, than to finish talking and have 10 minutes left us bay area folk need to meet up at some point in reno and BS
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 10, 2014 15:59:30 GMT -6
I think the best part of this site is just talking to others and getting the creative juices flowing
many of the posts i've written have been about a new idea I had and was considering and just looking to see what others thought about it
we are able to share ideas, our own experiences, occasionally there is a little argument about the best way but for the most part we all understand there's a million ways to accomplish something... do whatever works for you
we are all at least open to thinking about doing things differently
i recently met a new coach and shared our pistol hand off mechanics... and he flipped out about what we do after the mesh i got it from coach grab but i have seen a ton of people do it
we put the ball on the hip flexor, show open hand looking back at the Rb for 2 vertical steps, then we boot
this was "foreign" to this new coach i was speaking with and he instantly went into defense mode... we can't do that, that's so wrong, QB will never get the laces back ... the sky was falling
he doesn't strike me as a coachhuey type of coach
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 10, 2014 13:18:17 GMT -6
We are trying to keep learning
A lot of coaches I meet in person and have worked with are so set in their ways... Any new idea is blasphemous The world is flat, if you go to the end you'll fall off
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