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Post by wingtol on Mar 12, 2015 17:58:46 GMT -6
Best Speakers I have seen: 1. Larry Johnson - OSU (great passion, good technique, has great drills) 1b Tosh Lupoi - Bama (best Dline technique guy I have ever seen). Concise presenter. 1c Bret Vieselma - used to be HC of Valor Christian Worst 1. Lenny R - Starts clinic talk off a bunch of F bombs. Some guys leave, as they are leaving calls them wussies etc. Throws up some slides - no Scheme, no intro, and states "you wanna stuff guys run theseb blitzes" and just stands there smiling. The fact that this dude has been a D1 DC is crazy. Honorable Mention - RS and JC. Serious guys why are people buying what these two are selling? Gang Green 4-2-5? How about 50 alignment. Other times he gives presentations about building programs. Come on. JC runs every front known to man. Never discusses how kids can learn this or the reads. And coaches JV. Ok. You have peeked my intrest. Who is Lenny R? I wanna go see this guy now.
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Post by spartandefense on Mar 12, 2015 20:52:45 GMT -6
Best Speakers I have seen: 1. Larry Johnson - OSU (great passion, good technique, has great drills) 1b Tosh Lupoi - Bama (best Dline technique guy I have ever seen). Concise presenter. 1c Bret Vieselma - used to be HC of Valor Christian Worst 1. Lenny R - Starts clinic talk off a bunch of F bombs. Some guys leave, as they are leaving calls them wussies etc. Throws up some slides - no Scheme, no intro, and states "you wanna stuff guys run theseb blitzes" and just stands there smiling. The fact that this dude has been a D1 DC is crazy. Honorable Mention - RS and JC. Serious guys why are people buying what these two are selling? Gang Green 4-2-5? How about 50 alignment. Other times he gives presentations about building programs. Come on. JC runs every front known to man. Never discusses how kids can learn this or the reads. And coaches JV. Ok. You have peeked my intrest. Who is Lenny R? I wanna go see this guy now. He is the former d c of New Mexico under Rocky Long. And I was under stating how much of a cocky jerk this guy was. Wussies was the p g version of what he called the guys who were offended by his f bomb intro.
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Post by coachplaa on Mar 18, 2015 21:36:39 GMT -6
Todd Graham ASU James Franklin. PSU Mark Speckman Chris Peterson. UW Steve Greatwood. UO
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Post by terrygordy on Mar 22, 2015 22:23:31 GMT -6
Try a Glazier clinic. There are plenty of small school speakers over the years at these. The clinic I attended was a Glazier Clinic. May try another one in a different state to see if what you say is true. I have been attending the Glazier clinics for years and I couldn't agree with you more! I have always coached at small schools also, and it seems that over the last couple years the problem you stated has gotten worst. I don't see any speakers from schools that are the size of my school.
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Post by CanyonCoach on Mar 23, 2015 9:24:54 GMT -6
The twin cities clinic had a great variety of school sizes/levels represented. NFL, Big 10, DIA, DII, DIII/NAIA and large, medium and small HS. Got great stuff from the HS coaches.
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Post by fantom on Mar 23, 2015 9:53:20 GMT -6
The clinic I attended was a Glazier Clinic. May try another one in a different state to see if what you say is true. I have been attending the Glazier clinics for years and I couldn't agree with you more! I have always coached at small schools also, and it seems that over the last couple years the problem you stated has gotten worst. I don't see any speakers from schools that are the size of my school. Why would the difference in school size make a difference in the usefulness of the information?
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Post by cscs102002 on Mar 23, 2015 10:04:21 GMT -6
Don Smolyn from Lenape Valley in NJ is excellent. Al Golden from Miami has given s few program development talks that were great. I also agree with Rick Darlington. I played for Coach Smolyn from 1994-1997 and is the best man/coach/mentor there is. Anything you can take from him will improve your program. I wanted to add another Jersey guy to the mix. Frank DeLano from Haddonfield High School in South Jersey is fantastic. Had the pleasure of attending all but one of his talks at the Orlando Glazier this past January and was able to take some very applicable ideas to my program here in South Florida. Worst speaker - Rich Rodriguez
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Post by rudyrude9 on Mar 23, 2015 11:47:49 GMT -6
I've heard Rich Rod and thought he was awesome. This was during his time at West Virgina.
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Post by Coach Vint on Mar 23, 2015 14:05:48 GMT -6
Steve Adazzio from Boston College was awesome. I saw him speak when he was the oline coach at Notre Dame. I took a ton of great information from his talk. Last month I saw Bruce Walker who spent several years at Missouri, and he was great!
Another good one is Scott Westering from PLU. He brings a ton of passion and energy to his talks. If you ever get a chance to hear Randy Allen from Highland Park in Dallas, he is another great speaker. Hal Wasson from Southlake Carroll is also very, very good. They both talk about character development. Chris Ross from Prosper HS in Texas is also very, very good. Randy Jackson from Grapevine HS near Dallas is another great speaker. Dub Maddox and Darin Slack are also outstanding! Allen Trimble from Jenks is very, very good as well.
The first clinic speaker I ever say was Jerry Campbell back in the mid 90's. After his talk he stayed for an hour and answered several questions I had about midline blocking. He later flew up to help us install the option and all it cost us was a plane ticket and meals. He became a mentor to me, and made several phone calls helping me get hired in Texas. Jerry has been a very successful coordinator on both sides of the ball in Texas, and knows his stuff. He would also give you the shirt off his back if you needed it.
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Post by wingtol on Mar 24, 2015 7:14:40 GMT -6
I have been attending the Glazier clinics for years and I couldn't agree with you more! I have always coached at small schools also, and it seems that over the last couple years the problem you stated has gotten worst. I don't see any speakers from schools that are the size of my school. Why would the difference in school size make a difference in the usefulness of the information? I think there are some cases, myself coaching at a small school, where you don't relate to or can't do what guys are talking about who are at big schools. "We run three scout teams at our defense to keep the tempo up". Well we have coaches holding bags some practices and can't even put out a secondary at times. "We have 6 OL groups rotating thru blocking stations with a coach at each". Well we have 6 coaches for the whole program. " every Saturday the staff goes to watch the 10 youth teams we have to make sure they are running our stuff". Well our youth players play two towns over cause they can't get enough for one team. As as a small school coach I can relate. If your talking scheme and x and o's it really doesn't matter but when you get into stuff like I mentioned it becomes useless information to some of us. I usually walk out on these guys when they start rambling on stuff like that.
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Post by CanyonCoach on Mar 24, 2015 7:21:15 GMT -6
I have been attending the Glazier clinics for years and I couldn't agree with you more! I have always coached at small schools also, and it seems that over the last couple years the problem you stated has gotten worst. I don't see any speakers from schools that are the size of my school. Why would the difference in school size make a difference in the usefulness of the information? The size doesn't matter on some topics but on others it is critical. We don't have the luxury of platooning....so we only get 45-60 minutes of O or D a practice. We don't get spring ball so when coaches talk about getting things installed or drills taught during that time it isn't realistic for us.
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Post by agap on Mar 24, 2015 8:12:10 GMT -6
For the most part scheme doesn't matter, but it does matter when it comes to practice time. If you two-platoon and have 2 hours of practice on defense everyday, you can do more stuff than small schools who get 45 minutes on defense everyday.
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Post by fantom on Mar 24, 2015 8:49:08 GMT -6
At just about any clinic session that I've ever attended, some stuff I can use, some I can't. Most of the times, when I hear an idea that I like, I can't use it as is. I have to modify it to fit our situation. That doesn't mean that I stop listening, or don't attend a session at all, because the speaker's situation isn't exactly mine I skip his session.
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Post by irishdog on Mar 27, 2015 13:36:23 GMT -6
Why would the difference in school size make a difference in the usefulness of the information? I think there are some cases, myself coaching at a small school, where you don't relate to or can't do what guys are talking about who are at big schools. "We run three scout teams at our defense to keep the tempo up". Well we have coaches holding bags some practices and can't even put out a secondary at times. "We have 6 OL groups rotating thru blocking stations with a coach at each". Well we have 6 coaches for the whole program. " every Saturday the staff goes to watch the 10 youth teams we have to make sure they are running our stuff". Well our youth players play two towns over cause they can't get enough for one team. As as a small school coach I can relate. If your talking scheme and x and o's it really doesn't matter but when you get into stuff like I mentioned it becomes useless information to some of us. I usually walk out on these guys when they start rambling on stuff like that. Well said coach. To clarify...THAT was the intention of my original post. Not only do many (most? all?) of us in small schools have limited facilities, resources, staffs, squad size, budgets, etc. many of us do not have the luxury of an athletic period...or two! I just can't relate. I want to hear from guys in the same situation I'm in.
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Post by fantom on Mar 27, 2015 13:53:05 GMT -6
I think there are some cases, myself coaching at a small school, where you don't relate to or can't do what guys are talking about who are at big schools. "We run three scout teams at our defense to keep the tempo up". Well we have coaches holding bags some practices and can't even put out a secondary at times. "We have 6 OL groups rotating thru blocking stations with a coach at each". Well we have 6 coaches for the whole program. " every Saturday the staff goes to watch the 10 youth teams we have to make sure they are running our stuff". Well our youth players play two towns over cause they can't get enough for one team. As as a small school coach I can relate. If your talking scheme and x and o's it really doesn't matter but when you get into stuff like I mentioned it becomes useless information to some of us. I usually walk out on these guys when they start rambling on stuff like that. Well said coach. To clarify...THAT was the intention of my original post. Not only do many (most? all?) of us in small schools have limited facilities, resources, staffs, squad size, budgets, etc. many of us do not have the luxury of an athletic period...or two! I just can't relate. I want to hear from guys in the same situation I'm in. I think that if you're skipping clinic sessions because you can't relate to the speaker's situation you're missing a lot. t the Glazier that I attended this year the three speakers that I heard were NFL guys (If you count Blaise Winter as a NFLer). I didn't hear anything that any of them said that I considered to be beyond what we could do at our HS. There have been times that I've been in sessions where the speaker said things that didn't relate to our situation. I just made a mental note that we can't do that and kept listening. I've rarely been at a session where I couldn't use anything. It's even more rare that I've been able to use everything.
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Post by coachphillip on Mar 27, 2015 13:54:15 GMT -6
I agree completely with that sentiment. Once talked to a coach who told me he had around 120 kids try out for varsity ball. He drafted an offense and a defense and filled out the roster with the best 60. I can't ever do that.
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Post by tim914790 on Mar 29, 2015 12:45:42 GMT -6
David Wilkerson
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Post by gibbs72 on Mar 29, 2015 13:10:01 GMT -6
Anyone seen Dave Wiemers from Pittsburg State? Seen him and sat in his office with him taking football. Very knowledgable and helpful.
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Post by blb on Mar 29, 2015 13:29:57 GMT -6
Anyone seen Dave Wiemers from Pittsburg State? I spent a lot of time listening to him last weekend in Vegas. Pretty solid down to earth coach. I like any coach who says this is what we do, WHY we do it and says it may not work for everyone in every situation. He was very TCUish and made no bones about it. He is an offensive guy who has since transitioned to defense. And the bit about Autism was cool. Had I had any money left, I would have donated... Vegas.
Wiemers was Jerry Kill's DC at Saginaw Valley and Emporia becoming HC.
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Post by coachmonkey on Mar 29, 2015 21:07:11 GMT -6
Well said coach. To clarify...THAT was the intention of my original post. Not only do many (most? all?) of us in small schools have limited facilities, resources, staffs, squad size, budgets, etc. many of us do not have the luxury of an athletic period...or two! I just can't relate. I want to hear from guys in the same situation I'm in. I think that if you're skipping clinic sessions because you can't relate to the speaker's situation you're missing a lot. t the Glazier that I attended this year the three speakers that I heard were NFL guys (If you count Blaise Winter as a NFLer). I didn't hear anything that any of them said that I considered to be beyond what we could do at our HS. There have been times that I've been in sessions where the speaker said things that didn't relate to our situation. I just made a mental note that we can't do that and kept listening. I've rarely been at a session where I couldn't use anything. It's even more rare that I've been able to use everything. Agree. A lot of times I sit in on these sessions and it spurs ideas that I may have to modify, but at least it spurred ideas. To say you can't relate or learn anything is like the kids who sit through class day after day and say they haven't learned anything. You get out what you put in. I also think it comes down to having a plan at clinics. I usually have 2-3 things I want to know or get answers to. The rest is "bonus."
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Post by irishdog on Mar 31, 2015 19:50:32 GMT -6
I think that if you're skipping clinic sessions because you can't relate to the speaker's situation you're missing a lot. t the Glazier that I attended this year the three speakers that I heard were NFL guys (If you count Blaise Winter as a NFLer). I didn't hear anything that any of them said that I considered to be beyond what we could do at our HS. There have been times that I've been in sessions where the speaker said things that didn't relate to our situation. I just made a mental note that we can't do that and kept listening. I've rarely been at a session where I couldn't use anything. It's even more rare that I've been able to use everything. Agree. A lot of times I sit in on these sessions and it spurs ideas that I may have to modify, but at least it spurred ideas. To say you can't relate or learn anything is like the kids who sit through class day after day and say they haven't learned anything. You get out what you put in. I also think it comes down to having a plan at clinics. I usually have 2-3 things I want to know or get answers to. The rest is "bonus." Prior to attending a clinic I know exactly what it is I want to know, and I attend the speakers I "think" can provide it. Unlike a kid who is forced to sit through a class…as an adult coach who has been doing this for a very long time I can afford to be choosy. When there aren't any speakers from small schools I will attend sessions of guys from big schools. While they offer an idea that I may jot down, most of what they present based upon their resources doesn't give me what I had originally intended to find out. So…with that in mind…it is why I offered my take on this topic to begin with.
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