killer cacti
All-Conference
So...I decided to volunteer to coach youth football this year, 12-13 year olds. Being the 'young' coach, the other coaches don't think I know anything, so they've put me at 'defensive assistant,' working mainly with the d-line (there is no offense assistant).
We played our first game last night and lost 6-0. The other team connected on a bomb in which the corner got burnt/tired (he is also the starting qb/rb and had no break).
Here's my beef. We've played 3 scrimmages, and then this game, and we haven't scored a point. :bang But yet, the coach who's been coaching for 25 years, or so he says, keeps changing the offense. We are on our 5th offense since the end of July. We had 4 or 5 penalties last night for only having 6 on the line. When I asked him why the TE wasn't on the line, he said there's no TE, everyone moves around. I was thinking to myself, 'We just put this offense in last Thursday, why make it so complicated? Stay in one formation where each player knows exactly where to line up each time, at least for now.' I guess that makes too much sense. The head defensive coach blitzes his son (MLB) every single play, and no one else. IMO, the kid isn't good enough to be out there every play, but that's neither here nor there.
Also, I found myself playing the role of head coach last night. I was calling timeouts near the end of the game when the other coaches were apparently just going to let the clock run out. I was the one telling the refs we wanted a timeout if we stopped the other team on 3rd down with 1:34 left in the game, even after I was told by the head coach that you can't tell the ref that (I got no penalty). I was the one telling the offense to run it on 2 on 4th & 4 from the visiting team 23 yard line near the end of the game. Maybe it's because of my time being on the sideline during my time at Clemson, but I feel as though I knew much better how to run a game as a coach than the other coaches. One was cheering when we got a stop, one was congratulating his son, and I was sending the offense on the field. When asked why I was sending the offense on the field, I responded, 'because that was 4th down.' To which I was asked, 'it was?' :steam
But after going through all of that, after the game, as I was walking to my car to leave, I heard 'Coach!' I turned to see our safety, Eli. He said, 'I just wanted to thank you for teaching me how to strip the ball, I caused that last fumble.' I told him that he was quite welcome, and to keep up that good play and there'd be many more to come, and that I'd see him today at practice. That moment made it all worthwhile.
We played our first game last night and lost 6-0. The other team connected on a bomb in which the corner got burnt/tired (he is also the starting qb/rb and had no break).
Here's my beef. We've played 3 scrimmages, and then this game, and we haven't scored a point. :bang But yet, the coach who's been coaching for 25 years, or so he says, keeps changing the offense. We are on our 5th offense since the end of July. We had 4 or 5 penalties last night for only having 6 on the line. When I asked him why the TE wasn't on the line, he said there's no TE, everyone moves around. I was thinking to myself, 'We just put this offense in last Thursday, why make it so complicated? Stay in one formation where each player knows exactly where to line up each time, at least for now.' I guess that makes too much sense. The head defensive coach blitzes his son (MLB) every single play, and no one else. IMO, the kid isn't good enough to be out there every play, but that's neither here nor there.
Also, I found myself playing the role of head coach last night. I was calling timeouts near the end of the game when the other coaches were apparently just going to let the clock run out. I was the one telling the refs we wanted a timeout if we stopped the other team on 3rd down with 1:34 left in the game, even after I was told by the head coach that you can't tell the ref that (I got no penalty). I was the one telling the offense to run it on 2 on 4th & 4 from the visiting team 23 yard line near the end of the game. Maybe it's because of my time being on the sideline during my time at Clemson, but I feel as though I knew much better how to run a game as a coach than the other coaches. One was cheering when we got a stop, one was congratulating his son, and I was sending the offense on the field. When asked why I was sending the offense on the field, I responded, 'because that was 4th down.' To which I was asked, 'it was?' :steam
But after going through all of that, after the game, as I was walking to my car to leave, I heard 'Coach!' I turned to see our safety, Eli. He said, 'I just wanted to thank you for teaching me how to strip the ball, I caused that last fumble.' I told him that he was quite welcome, and to keep up that good play and there'd be many more to come, and that I'd see him today at practice. That moment made it all worthwhile.
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