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Post by Defcord on Sept 12, 2020 14:48:30 GMT -6
We were chatting about this during lighting delay the other night. Whether the head coach hopping on the side he doesn’t coach and blurting our random nonsense or a young guy that won’t shut. Maybe the hot mom locator or the head that picks up your opponents signals and gives you the moral dilemma of telling them or using the intel?
Any good stories from over the years?
Anyone ever broke a set because of it?
That’s my story. I am not proud of it but a head coach I worked for a few years ago came on and said “hey I’m going to put Timmy in at LB?”
“”Hey coach we are only down 7-0 in the 4th and Timmy doesn’t play LB.”
“He does now I need Jonny at guard if we get the ball back.”
Head set meet floor of press box. And a few cuss words.
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Post by wolverine55 on Sept 13, 2020 18:01:50 GMT -6
This is a "had to be there" story, but I'll try my best. Two years ago we ended the season playing our rivals at home. We were 1-7 and I think they were 4-4, neither team going to the playoffs. Anyway, we were competing with them fairly well and moving the ball on offense despite struggling on that side of the ball all year long. We were moving it running our base stuff when all the sudden our HC--who rarely spoke when we had the ball as he was also the DC--bellows over the headset "I want Pods!" I honestly don't remember how we lined it up exactly but Pods for us was that formation where 3-4 players line up on the right side of the field, another 3-4 on the left, and then the center and two guards stay with the QB in the middle.
Well, the OC, me, and the other asst who signaled plays pretended to not hear him. A play goes by and we all hear "I want Pods!" Again, we ignore him and another play is ran. Now, the HC is steamed and is yelling if his headset is working so he now runs up to us, grabs the other asst and says one more time,"I want Pods NOW!!!" So, we call the play, our QB throws the ball to the right pod and it lands a good ten feet short of any eligible WR and we never regain any of the momentum we had on offense before that. Granted, some of that may have been the other team simply being better than us.
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Post by nicku on Sept 13, 2020 20:32:18 GMT -6
My first 2 years coaching I was the scribe for both offense and defense. I was a middle school and then a freshman coach at the time. I got treated pretty damn well for the most part, but sometimes I'd get the ol' eff you. Mainly from the DC. One time we were beating our "rival" which was more like a team in our same school district that was only 8 years old and we always whipped...it was 63-7 I believe in the 4th. So the DC decided ahh screw this I'm going down to the field, he tells me to keep charting the opposing plays and formations and then "and can you bring me a Dr. Pepper down from the media area, too? Thanks." Our OC takes his headset off and looks at DC and says something fairly close to "get your own Dr. Pepper you fat motherf*****". I could've shat myself laughing. He grabbed his own drink.
That same season, homecoming game, we are juiced to play a good team that we end up beating. They had some kind of saxophone quintet play the anthem...and it wasn't very good. They finish, we all put our headsets back on and you hear that kind of feedback noise that sounds just like 12 headsets being put back on. Our RB coach, who is hilarious but just totally dry and soft spoken utters after a short pause "well...that was a total abortion." We are all busting up and I look down from the box and I can see a bunch of the kids looking at the on-field coaches wondering what the hell is so funny.
I'm back in the box this year after a year on the field...I love the buzz of the field, but it's nice to be able to be kind of unhinged upstairs.
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Post by coachcb on Sept 14, 2020 7:44:10 GMT -6
Just lost a tough game to a good team, 22-21. One of our CBs blew his quarters coverage and gave up a deep score with 15 seconds on the clock. A volunteer assistant finds me after the game:
Coach Idiot: "What the hell happened on that play!?"
Me: "Johnny blew his coverage. Couldn't keep up on a vertical."
Coach Idiot: "Why weren't we in cover four?"
Me: "We were.."
Coach Idiot: "No, we were in man, he wouldn't have gotten burned in cover four."
Me: "WE WERE IN OUR COVER 4 WHICH TURNS INTO MAN ON FOUR VERTS."
Coach Idiot: "Well, that's dumb.":
Me: "Go take it up with Coach DC if you're that concerned. I'm not in the mood."
And, that's just what he did. I never thought he would, but he did... Ended up suspended for two weeks.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2020 9:05:05 GMT -6
Hc: what was the call?
Dc: blahblah
Hc: why didn’t you do...
Me: well...
Hc: STFU! You don’t know anything...
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Post by Defcord on Sept 14, 2020 11:08:53 GMT -6
Just lost a tough game to a good team, 22-21. One of our CBs blew his quarters coverage and gave up a deep score with 15 seconds on the clock. A volunteer assistant finds me after the game: Coach Idiot: "What the hell happened on that play!?" Me: "Johnny blew his coverage. Couldn't keep up on a vertical." Coach Idiot: "Why weren't we in cover four?" Me: "We were.." Coach Idiot: "No, we were in man, he wouldn't have gotten burned in cover four." Me: "WE WERE IN OUR COVER 4 WHICH TURNS INTO MAN ON FOUR VERTS." Coach Idiot: "Well, that's dumb.": Me: "Go take it up with Coach DC if you're that concerned. I'm not in the mood." And, that's just what he did. I never thought he would, but he did... Ended up suspended for two weeks. I would say that two weeks was a reprieve. I hate that "guy." |
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Post by coachcb on Sept 14, 2020 12:57:05 GMT -6
Just lost a tough game to a good team, 22-21. One of our CBs blew his quarters coverage and gave up a deep score with 15 seconds on the clock. A volunteer assistant finds me after the game: Coach Idiot: "What the hell happened on that play!?" Me: "Johnny blew his coverage. Couldn't keep up on a vertical." Coach Idiot: "Why weren't we in cover four?" Me: "We were.." Coach Idiot: "No, we were in man, he wouldn't have gotten burned in cover four." Me: "WE WERE IN OUR COVER 4 WHICH TURNS INTO MAN ON FOUR VERTS." Coach Idiot: "Well, that's dumb.": Me: "Go take it up with Coach DC if you're that concerned. I'm not in the mood." And, that's just what he did. I never thought he would, but he did... Ended up suspended for two weeks. I would say that two weeks was a reprieve. I hate that "guy."
You're telling me.. I was a varsity DB coach and he worked with the sophomore DL... He came back with a whole new appreciation for coaching.
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Post by Defcord on Sept 14, 2020 17:12:22 GMT -6
I would say that two weeks was a reprieve. I hate that "guy."
You're telling me.. I was a varsity DB coach and he worked with the sophomore DL... He came back with a whole new appreciation for coaching.
Well credit to your program because I have never seen those guys change or grow. |
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Post by coachcb on Sept 15, 2020 6:06:46 GMT -6
You're telling me.. I was a varsity DB coach and he worked with the sophomore DL... He came back with a whole new appreciation for coaching.
Well credit to your program because I have never seen those guys change or grow.
He was pretty young and we were coaching in an established program under the best HC I've ever been around. So, he got his chit together in a hurry when that HC came down on him. He knew it was in his best interest; a bad word from that HC would derail a coaching career.
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Post by planck on Sept 15, 2020 6:08:14 GMT -6
Our Varsity OC has that habit. He'll randomly show up on the sidelines of freshman and sophomore games to give unasked for advice. The worst part is he always shows up just after halftime and wants everyone to hear his guidance despite not seeing a single down of the game or knowing the game plan.
He's almost 50 and has been here for 15 years. So, yeah, most guys like that don't change.
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Post by coachcb on Sept 15, 2020 6:37:58 GMT -6
We had a junior high coach that wanted to sit up in the box with us one year. Reality; the HC didn't want him down on the field because he was obnoxious so I got stuck with him. We were playing a tight game, we both had jobs to do but he kept asking questions about the defense.. Questions he already knew the answer to but wanted to debate their merits.
I got tired of it and told him to do his job and bug the HC/DC about the coverages later. He figured the half of a tied ball game was a good time to do that... He was wrong.. Long story short, he wasn't at varsity games anymore after that.
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Post by carookie on Sept 16, 2020 14:07:21 GMT -6
I was at a spot once where apparently an assistant frosh coach tried to mutiny and take over playcalling duties from the frosh DC.
I was the Vars DC, and the Frosh DC was a real good young coach, up and comer, soaked things up like a sponge, etc. He'd always help out at the varsity games, and I was talking to him at the post game team gathering. Apparently dude kept piping up with random ideas that didnt even fit within our scheme. Eventually he got angry at being ignored and told the DC that, "he was taking over".
This didnt turn out well, as the real DC was a 6'4" 270lb mma fighter. Things didn't get too physical, thankfully, but needless to say Mutiny Coach was gone after that. What makes this weirder is we were up by like 40 at the time
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Post by bignose on Sept 16, 2020 14:18:51 GMT -6
I am up in the press box doing my offensive spotting thing, and we are up by like 35 points.
I am trying to make sure we are getting all of our subs into the game, in positions they may have actually practiced in. I am totally focused on the field and our sideline.
Suddenly, the HC starts screaming: "Holy $hit!, holy $hit!
"What, what?" I ask, figuring that perhaps we don't have enough players out on the field, so I start counting.....no, we're OK......"What's the problem?"
"Holy $hit, will you look at the t*** on the woman on the far sideline?"
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Post by Defcord on Sept 16, 2020 16:52:31 GMT -6
I was at a spot once where apparently an assistant frosh coach tried to mutiny and take over playcalling duties from the frosh DC. I was the Vars DC, and the Frosh DC was a real good young coach, up and comer, soaked things up like a sponge, etc. He'd always help out at the varsity games, and I was talking to him at the post game team gathering. Apparently dude kept piping up with random ideas that didnt even fit within our scheme. Eventually he got angry at being ignored and told the DC that, "he was taking over". This didnt turn out well, as the real DC was a 6'4" 270lb mma fighter. Things didn't get too physical, thankfully, but needless to say Mutiny Coach was gone after that. What makes this weirder is we were up by like 40 at the time We had a guy that would always scream to us on the sideline when we left a receiver uncovered. “The 2 is uncovered, the 2 is uncovered!!!!” “Yes Coach that’s because they have only thrown the ball a dozen times this year and their tailback is playing in the SEC next year. I would pay them to throw to that dude out there.” |
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Post by Defcord on Sept 16, 2020 16:54:42 GMT -6
I am up in the press box doing my offensive spotting thing, and we are up by like 35 points. I am trying to make sure we are getting all of our subs into the game, in positions they may have actually practiced in. I am totally focused on the field and our sideline. Suddenly, the HC starts screaming: "Holy $hit!, holy $hit! "What, what?" I ask, figuring that perhaps we don't have enough players out on the field, so I start counting.....no, we're OK......"What's the problem?" "Holy $hit, will you look at the t*** on the woman on the far sideline?" Classic...unless you look up and it’s your sister |
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