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Post by tothehouse on Feb 17, 2016 12:08:30 GMT -6
Our seniors.
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Post by red on Feb 17, 2016 12:30:10 GMT -6
Cut Saturdays out because no one should ask their staff to work 7 days a week for 12-16 weeks. Dont tell your players family first and not allow that to be true for your own coaches. We did in 2009 and was best thing we ever did. What profession works 7 days a week for 4 months and gets paid what we do? Take pressure off your wife and get some rest.
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Post by CoachMikeJudy on Feb 17, 2016 19:24:44 GMT -6
We don't do laundry either. Used to- stayed past midnight on Friday nights to do them. It sucked...cuts into my beer drinking time. We have (within our school) a low-functioning special needs program, and I recruited that whole crew to do laundry and sort it. They (and their instructors) absolutely love it and do a great job! All practice gear the kids are responsible for cleaning regularly. No punishment for not cleaning them, but if they get destroyed then they buy us new ones. So do you soak them until Monday? Thanks for the idea. Yes, unless I think they're REAL bad then I'll come in, change the water on Saturday and resoak until Monday.
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Post by lochness on Feb 17, 2016 19:51:23 GMT -6
Maybe I'm missing something here...but why don't you all have the players do their own laundry?
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Post by fantom on Feb 17, 2016 20:14:43 GMT -6
Maybe I'm missing something here...but why don't you all have the players do their own laundry? I've never coached at a place where the kids laundered their own game unis. Reasons for us: 1. We want to make sure that they get done. We have no control over their family situation. 2. It eliminates kids forgetting them on game day. 3. They get laundered right. We get the stains out and nothing gets melted in the dryer. 4. Makes it harder to steal their jerseys.
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Post by craines10 on Feb 18, 2016 8:51:18 GMT -6
Our staff needs this thread so bad! We have entirely too much going on offensively and defensively...
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Post by vanden48 on Feb 18, 2016 10:25:46 GMT -6
Maybe I'm missing something here...but why don't you all have the players do their own laundry? I've never coached at a place where the kids laundered their own game unis. Reasons for us: 1. We want to make sure that they get done. We have no control over their family situation. 2. It eliminates kids forgetting them on game day. 3. They get laundered right. We get the stains out and nothing gets melted in the dryer. 4. Makes it harder to steal their jerseys. I'm all for washing our uniforms, but we have no washer and dryer at the school for this. And if I show up with two trash cans full of sweaty gear to take home to wash in our washer and dryer, my wife will kill me. The only solution is to have them wash their own uniforms, or is there another option?
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Post by 33coach on Feb 18, 2016 10:32:19 GMT -6
I've never coached at a place where the kids laundered their own game unis. Reasons for us: 1. We want to make sure that they get done. We have no control over their family situation. 2. It eliminates kids forgetting them on game day. 3. They get laundered right. We get the stains out and nothing gets melted in the dryer. 4. Makes it harder to steal their jerseys. I'm all for washing our uniforms, but we have no washer and dryer at the school for this. And if I show up with two trash cans full of sweaty gear to take home to wash in our washer and dryer, my wife will kill me. The only solution is to have them wash their own uniforms, or is there another option? do you have a local laundry that might donate the time/money each week?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2016 10:35:06 GMT -6
This may be one of those local or regional differences again but I can't imagine not having a washer/dryer, and washing all the cloth ourselves. It's how I remember all the way back through when I was in school.
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Post by fantom on Feb 18, 2016 10:40:12 GMT -6
I've never coached at a place where the kids laundered their own game unis. Reasons for us: 1. We want to make sure that they get done. We have no control over their family situation. 2. It eliminates kids forgetting them on game day. 3. They get laundered right. We get the stains out and nothing gets melted in the dryer. 4. Makes it harder to steal their jerseys. I'm all for washing our uniforms, but we have no washer and dryer at the school for this. And if I show up with two trash cans full of sweaty gear to take home to wash in our washer and dryer, my wife will kill me. The only solution is to have them wash their own uniforms, or is there another option? Mo.
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Post by silkyice on Feb 18, 2016 11:05:14 GMT -6
I'm all for washing our uniforms, but we have no washer and dryer at the school for this. And if I show up with two trash cans full of sweaty gear to take home to wash in our washer and dryer, my wife will kill me. The only solution is to have them wash their own uniforms, or is there another option? Mo. ?
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Post by fantom on Feb 18, 2016 11:10:28 GMT -6
I don't think that there's a better option if they don't have a washer and dryer at the school. Some guys' wives don't mind doing it but some do. Maybe they can get a deal with a laundromat, maybe not. If there are no other options then all that's left is having the kids do it at home. It's not a good option but it is what it is.
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Post by 33coach on Feb 18, 2016 11:47:47 GMT -6
I'm all for washing our uniforms, but we have no washer and dryer at the school for this. And if I show up with two trash cans full of sweaty gear to take home to wash in our washer and dryer, my wife will kill me. The only solution is to have them wash their own uniforms, or is there another option? Mo.
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Post by CoachHess on Feb 18, 2016 11:53:13 GMT -6
I'm all for washing our uniforms, but we have no washer and dryer at the school for this. And if I show up with two trash cans full of sweaty gear to take home to wash in our washer and dryer, my wife will kill me. The only solution is to have them wash their own uniforms, or is there another option? do you have a local laundry that might donate the time/money each week? 33coach beat me to it. Offer a local laundry mat free advertising. Put up a sign on the fence, make each score or scoreboard update brought to you by (insert laundry name). Ask a local washer/dryer place to donate a set. Don't have to be fancy to get the job done.
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Post by fantom on Feb 18, 2016 12:10:38 GMT -6
Yeah, bad eyes and lousy typing skills are a problem.
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Post by silkyice on Feb 18, 2016 12:49:53 GMT -6
LOL. I actually thought you meant Mo and my ? was because I didn't know what Mo meant.
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Post by 33coach on Feb 18, 2016 13:46:56 GMT -6
LOL. I actually thought you meant Mo and my ? was because I didn't know what Mo meant. you know: Motivation. as in, get the motivation to do it yourself!
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Post by blb on Feb 18, 2016 13:50:28 GMT -6
LOL. I actually thought you meant Mo and my ? was because I didn't know what Mo meant. Mo money.
fantom is independently wealthy because of his retired teacher's pension.
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Post by jg78 on Feb 18, 2016 14:06:04 GMT -6
I have always had the players (or their parents) wash their own uniforms. We're small school without much staff support and I'm not spending hours and hours after practice and on weekends washing damn clothes.
Maybe I'm a party pooper, but I would hate doing something like that in season. On Saturday, I want to prop up on my couch and watch college ball while breaking down film. That's my day to chill. I could get on board with doing it one Saturday during August practice. But once the season starts? No way.
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Post by wolverine55 on Feb 18, 2016 14:44:32 GMT -6
We have our players turn in game jerseys after every game and they get washed at the school. All other laundry is up to them.
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Post by jv018 on Feb 22, 2016 10:37:53 GMT -6
This is a great thread, quick question. In-season lifting - How often and when? I'm at a smaller school and we are not able to have all kids in a Strength class. We try and lift 2 days a week with some combination of before school and after school Monday(for varsity) and Thursday (JV).
Has anybody come up with a better plan.
We used to lift varsity Saturday mornings, but we are in the process of axing Saturday mornings.
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Post by blb on Feb 22, 2016 10:40:13 GMT -6
This is a great thread, quick question. In-season lifting - How often and when? I'm at a smaller school and we are not able to have all kids in a Strength class. We try and lift 2 days a week with some combination of before school and after school Monday(for varsity) and Thursday (JV). Has anybody come up with a better plan. We used to lift varsity Saturday mornings, but we are in the process of axing Saturday mornings.
Varsity lifted Mondays and Wednesdays after practice (played Fridays).
JVs-Frosh lifted Fridays and Tuesdays (played Thursdays), one before practice-other afterward if numbers-space was issue.
Kids that had STC class were excused.
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Post by dytmook on Feb 22, 2016 14:42:52 GMT -6
Lift on Mondays and tried to get in another one on Wednesday. We will practice on campus this year so I imagine we will life more.
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Post by CoachCP on Feb 22, 2016 19:51:36 GMT -6
With attention spans shrinking for Saturdays, I've heard some coaches trying "film highlights." On Monday, the position coaches pick out some themes to go over with the group, keeping it under 4 or 5 concepts (1-2 clips a concept).
If I'm the OL coach, and we got whooped on Power b/c we didn't get movement on doubles, we'd look at that and why (bad footwork, angles, head placement, etc...)
The kids can watch the whole tape on their own in Hudl. I've never heard someone doing it for upcoming opponent scout, but I think it could be worthwhile.
As a weekend meeting replacement, has anyone used Slack? The chat tool? I work for a startup (not a teacher), and these chat tools are free and great. Can be organized by position, side of the ball, person to person messages, etc. I could see using it for the whole staff and maybe even the whole team in the right situation. It's free for everyone, easy to use and it's fun (animated gifs and such). Can upload a lot of stuff (excel docs, etc...).
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Post by tland on Feb 22, 2016 19:54:27 GMT -6
I got rid of our after school pre-game walk thru. Wasn't ever happy, too many kids easily distracted. Instead we did a team lift for about 30 min. Nothing crazy, light weights on explosive and press movements to get hips loose and muscles firing. Then a couple arm exercises to make them feel big and pumped. Kids loved it! I had some flat screens installed in our weight room over break, this season I'll put together a highlight clip against our opponents each week and play that while we hit the lift.
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Post by gambler00 on Feb 22, 2016 21:57:15 GMT -6
We no longer do the following:
Complicated pre game with chants and clapping and a lot of time standing around on the field and no static stretching
We don't go to a bunch of clinics anymore
No game day meetings or walk throughs
We don't do combine training anymore in our lifting i.e. 40 starts etc
No more weekly hype videos we ran out of ideas and the kids make their own highlights now
Limited individual drills a lot more team and combo stuff
Practice one special team a day
We put guys that can handle the football on kick return at every spot no hands team
No more mandatory equipment check
No music at practice just wasn't us
No rpo we try to call good plays 5 in the box run it or six in the box throw it simple
No more paper scouting reports with useless info for the kids
In film we only watch a few highlights of the week before. We send out in Hudl the mistakes and move onto the next opponent
Stopped lifting as much during the season
August practices are 2 hours just like season practices
No Water breaks players can get water throughout practice on their own
We don't go back and reteach stuff before or during spring ball we have Hudl videos for teaching the basics
We don't do obstacle courses or wheel barrel races or other strong man competition stuff we lift and work on football specific drills
No more helmet stickers or sticker charts in locker room do your Job and winning should be enough
No more goal board charts with 50 different goals for offense and defense just a few core goals
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Post by raymul313 on Feb 23, 2016 14:57:39 GMT -6
How you all handling warm-ups without the pre-practice stretching?
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Post by murdr on Feb 23, 2016 15:27:54 GMT -6
Pre-practice static stretching is bad, mmmkay.
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Post by raymul313 on Feb 23, 2016 15:33:53 GMT -6
Pre-practice static stretching is bad, mmmkay. Thank you Mr. Mackey lol I should've been more specific and asked: What dynamic stretches/football related warm-ups are y'all doing and how is it being organized?
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Post by murdr on Feb 23, 2016 15:53:20 GMT -6
Pre-practice static stretching is bad, mmmkay. Thank you Mr. Mackey lol I should've been more specific and asked: What dynamic stretches/football related warm-ups are y'all doing and how is it being organized? 100% of my warmups are done solely with jump ropes (and then a few prehab exercises). If a kid can't jump rope, he learns.
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