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Post by spartandefense on Apr 22, 2016 13:17:24 GMT -6
I have told this story before on this site. Worst speaker ever:
Lenny R - Starts clinic talk off a bunch of F bombs. Some guys get offended and leave, as they are leaving calls them Pu$$ies etc. Throws up some slides - no Scheme, no intro, and states "you wanna stuff guys run these blitzes" and just stands there smiling. The fact that this dude has been a D1 DC is crazy.
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Post by braska on Apr 29, 2016 14:46:25 GMT -6
I saw Danny Langsdorf's presentation at the Nebraska clinic earlier this month and he might be the most monotone speaker I've ever heard; although, his presentation had great material with zone read w/ bubble/fake bubble and QB Stick-Draw RPO, so the monotone presentation was 110% worth it.
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Post by John Knight on Apr 30, 2016 6:07:56 GMT -6
braska, that reminds me of one. Mark McHale when he was at Marshall. He then went to FSU. Funny I later learned he was the guy that found Brett Favre! www.winchesterstar.com/article/0311mchaleStill plugging away though.
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Post by SpreademOut on May 4, 2016 10:22:20 GMT -6
I saw "The Old Ball Coach" at a clinic once, showed up late and seemingly drunk. Played clips of Jabbar Gaffney making incredible catches from Rex Grossman and saying things like,"It's so simple, If the corner bails, throw the hitch. If the corner sits throw the corner." Thank you Coach. would would have known?
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2016 12:03:40 GMT -6
I saw "The Old Ball Coach" at a clinic once, showed up late and seemingly drunk. Played clips of Jabbar Gaffney making incredible catches from Rex Grossman and saying things like,"It's so simple, If the corner bails, throw the hitch. If the corner sits throw the corner." Thank you Coach. would would have known? It's Head Ball Coach. Blasphemy against Spurrier on this site won't be tolerated. Duece
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Post by the1mitch on May 9, 2016 20:17:12 GMT -6
Ty Willingham. 40 minutes on Gripping the Football. He was the just announced new coach at UW and the room was full of High School guys who wanted to see and hear the new guy..... 10 minutes in and people were standing up and walking out, unbelievable. This is why I never speak in public without a wing man to keep me on track with a perfectly timed question.
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Post by dblwngr on May 9, 2016 21:38:46 GMT -6
Believe it or not...Jim Harbaugh. Was talking about the QB/center exchange. Called his son up to help give a visual and then proceeds to make it out to be some sort of sexual act. He goes on comparing it to jamming 3 fingers in a girls...well you know...nice and detailed. And the beauty of it was the lighting that cast a shadow on the back wall that was like the scene from Austin Powers.
Never in a million years expected to see people bailing out at the speed I witnessed.
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Post by kmiller716 on May 10, 2016 3:47:05 GMT -6
Believe it or not...Jim Harbaugh. Was talking about the QB/center exchange. Called his son up to help give a visual and then proceeds to make it out to be some sort of sexual act. He goes on comparing it to jamming 3 fingers in a girls...well you know...nice and detailed. And the beauty of it was the lighting that cast a shadow on the back wall that was like the scene from Austin Powers. Never in a million years expected to see people bailing out at the speed I witnessed. Sent from my SCH-R970 using proboards I had the interesting experience of Jim Harbaugh in my office, shooting the breeze as he waited for me to print a transcript and ACT scores. He is a strange bird. After seeing a picture of my dog (with family) he just went on a 10 minute talk about dogs. I cannot even describe the content because it was like being sober and talking to someone at 2am on their 21st birthday; he was all over the place. He would then just stare off into the window for 10 seconds or so after I said something, then come back and talk more about dogs. I just asked myself how the hell does this guy walk into homes and recruit. One the weirdest moments in my office.
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Post by coachmonkey on May 10, 2016 9:06:23 GMT -6
That guy is a genius compared to the LB clinic I sat through put on by Darryl Talley...waste of money and time... Duece I never seem to learn much from the pro guys at clinics. It's funny how football innovation is backwards compared to most other things. A lot of things trickle upwards from HS to College to Pro. You'd think it'd be the other way around. Nothing against the pro guys, they obviously know their stuff, but I can't think of a time I sat in on a NFL guys clinic and had my mind blown. When I heard Bruce Cobleigh speak at a clinic this year I took like 15 pages of notes. Offensively perhaps, but defensively I think works the other way. Jimmy Johnson's 4-3, 4-2-5, Bear defense etc.
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Post by fantom on May 10, 2016 9:10:50 GMT -6
I never seem to learn much from the pro guys at clinics. It's funny how football innovation is backwards compared to most other things. A lot of things trickle upwards from HS to College to Pro. You'd think it'd be the other way around. Nothing against the pro guys, they obviously know their stuff, but I can't think of a time I sat in on a NFL guys clinic and had my mind blown. When I heard Bruce Cobleigh speak at a clinic this year I took like 15 pages of notes. Offensively perhaps, but defensively I think works the other way. Jimmy Johnson's 4-3, 4-2-5, Bear defense etc. Not to mention the insane chit that Bill Oliver might cook up.
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Post by shocktroop34 on May 10, 2016 10:33:45 GMT -6
I may have to put my name on this list. I've spoken at a few different clinics, but I just didn't feel very good about my presentations. I would have friends sit in and critique, and the feedback was helpful. I just don't feel like I got any better.
I didn't cuss or have many jokes. No magic tricks or wizardry. I kind of felt like a teacher that has to present in front of other teachers. Slightly nervous as I was in front of people who can spot a knucklehead a mile away.
Einstein has said, "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." Maybe I just didn't know what the hell I was talking about.
Anyway, "Toledo" Tom Amstutz. Early 2000's. He put in a VHS highlight video that was about 15 minutes long. Regurgitated some recycled quotes, and bolted. Literally stuff like, 'do your best everyday.' Real revolutionary stuff.
But, far be it from me to judge on this topic.
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Post by blb on May 11, 2016 7:21:46 GMT -6
Offensively perhaps, but defensively I think works the other way. Jimmy Johnson's 4-3, 4-2-5, Bear defense etc. Not to mention the insane chit that Bill Oliver might cook up.
"Brother" Bill!!
Have not heard his name in a long time.
Nobody could get you fired up to coach defensive fundamentals like "Brother" Bill Oliver.
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Post by mdunham on May 11, 2016 15:49:12 GMT -6
Believe it or not...Jim Harbaugh. Was talking about the QB/center exchange. Called his son up to help give a visual and then proceeds to make it out to be some sort of sexual act. He goes on comparing it to jamming 3 fingers in a girls...well you know...nice and detailed. And the beauty of it was the lighting that cast a shadow on the back wall that was like the scene from Austin Powers. Never in a million years expected to see people bailing out at the speed I witnessed. Sent from my SCH-R970 using proboards I had the interesting experience of Jim Harbaugh in my office, shooting the breeze as he waited for me to print a transcript and ACT scores. He is a strange bird. After seeing a picture of my dog (with family) he just went on a 10 minute talk about dogs. I cannot even describe the content because it was like being sober and talking to someone at 2am on their 21st birthday; he was all over the place. He would then just stare off into the window for 10 seconds or so after I said something, then come back and talk more about dogs. I just asked myself how the hell does this guy walk into homes and recruit. One the weirdest moments in my office. This might be the funniest sequence I'ever read on this board!
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2016 13:05:37 GMT -6
My fave clinic speaker this year was a guy who gave a talk on "Defending the Power Read," then showed clip after clip of his team getting destroyed by Power Read while he made a remark like "well, we would have defended it there if the guy had just made the tackle" or "pretty good job on that one" after a 9 yard gain.
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2016 14:28:07 GMT -6
I saw "The Old Ball Coach" at a clinic once, showed up late and seemingly drunk. Played clips of Jabbar Gaffney making incredible catches from Rex Grossman and saying things like,"It's so simple, If the corner bails, throw the hitch. If the corner sits throw the corner." Thank you Coach. would would have known? It's Head Ball Coach. Blasphemy against Spurrier on this site won't be tolerated. Duece No, it won't be tolerated. It will be applauded. By me. Go Vols.
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Post by bigmoot on May 13, 2016 17:33:53 GMT -6
Dang....another Vols fan. I'm alone in south georgiam
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2016 16:37:01 GMT -6
Vols...yawn...Dawgs...double yawn...
Duece
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Post by Yash on May 14, 2016 19:58:59 GMT -6
Along the same lines, I took my kid (8th grade) to Russell Wilson's football camp last summer. It was awful. Way too many kids, not enough coaches. Started about 45 minutes late. Supposed to be a morning session and an afternoon session. The morning session was OK, I guess. Lunch ran long and then Wilson gave a "motivational" speech. Well, before his big "speech", he spent a half hour playing music and having kids come up and dance in front of the rest of the campers. Then he gave his big speech..standard, canned stuff. Nothing memorable at all. By the time he was done, there wasn't enough time for the 2nd session and they didn't even have it. Basically, for $300, my kid got an autographed picture with Russell Wilson. Never again will I send my kid to a pro athlete's camp. It was terrible. I felt so bad for my kid afterwards...he was really disappointed and knew that his time had been wasted. I worked the Russell Wilson camp in wisconsin 2 years in a row--- its more of an out reach than a football camp. They bus in hundredsof low income kids from Madison/ Milwaukee that get scholarships to the camp. Anyone who pays for it is getting ripped off. Half the scholarship kids spend most their time trying to load up on the free gatorade stuff they are giving away and don't actually want to do the drills. As a high school coach, I have helped out with a few clinics and ran a few practices, so I tried to streamline some drills to make them more efficient so kids could get more reps and we could be more organized and I got shot down by some camp "organizers." While I think it was a good experience for some kids to get to see some NFL players that might not otherwise have gotten that chance, I felt it was much more of a publicity thing and giant marketing campaign for state farm than it was a football camp. To put "passing academy" in the title was a complete lie.
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Post by 19delta on May 15, 2016 18:30:24 GMT -6
Along the same lines, I took my kid (8th grade) to Russell Wilson's football camp last summer. It was awful. Way too many kids, not enough coaches. Started about 45 minutes late. Supposed to be a morning session and an afternoon session. The morning session was OK, I guess. Lunch ran long and then Wilson gave a "motivational" speech. Well, before his big "speech", he spent a half hour playing music and having kids come up and dance in front of the rest of the campers. Then he gave his big speech..standard, canned stuff. Nothing memorable at all. By the time he was done, there wasn't enough time for the 2nd session and they didn't even have it. Basically, for $300, my kid got an autographed picture with Russell Wilson. Never again will I send my kid to a pro athlete's camp. It was terrible. I felt so bad for my kid afterwards...he was really disappointed and knew that his time had been wasted. I worked the Russell Wilson camp in wisconsin 2 years in a row--- its more of an out reach than a football camp. They bus in hundredsof low income kids from Madison/ Milwaukee that get scholarships to the camp. Anyone who pays for it is getting ripped off. Half the scholarship kids spend most their time trying to load up on the free gatorade stuff they are giving away and don't actually want to do the drills. As a high school coach, I have helped out with a few clinics and ran a few practices, so I tried to streamline some drills to make them more efficient so kids could get more reps and we could be more organized and I got shot down by some camp "organizers." While I think it was a good experience for some kids to get to see some NFL players that might not otherwise have gotten that chance, I felt it was much more of a publicity thing and giant marketing campaign for state farm than it was a football camp. To put "passing academy" in the title was a complete lie. The most ridiculous part was the "awards" presentation. They gave a "Best Camper" and "Most Improved" award. There was about 45 minutes of football TOTAL during the entire day of the camp, after subtracting the late start, long lunch, and Star Search performance. So basically, the kids who "won" those two "awards" were chosen completely by random. Just terrible. Hands down, the Russell Wilson camp was the worst youth sports activity any of my kids have ever done. Never again.
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