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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: competitive little kid sports

« on: October 27, 2023, 10:20:27 AM »

we finished our 5th grade football season with a record of 5-3. didn't win any trophies but outscored our opponents 130-37 so we definitely feel like we belong. almost all of our kids were tackle for the first time and a lot of the other teams had played multiple seasons. I helped coach it and it was so much fun guys. way more intense than baseball but much less of a grind. we play in a league of Omaha metro and suburbs schools all affiliated with the high schools so it's like Jr. Mustangs, Jr. Wildcats, etc. Our HS had a game where they got all of our kids onto the field for the HS kids warmups and did a big thing for them. pretty sweet. lil sd plays mostly safety and fullback but comes down to LB sometimes. he's also playing his first season of competitive basketball with tryouts and all that. and I'm coaching my daughters 2nd grade basketball team again this season.

my rankings of most fun stuff to coach:
1. football
2. little girl basketball
3. baseball

I bet baseball would be above my son's basketball if I coached that but not certain. baseball is just such a massive time commitment. absolute grind of a season and all year practice is really wearing on me. it's the most "rewarding" to me thinking about it but also just grueling. also it seems like you have way more parent issues in baseball than other sports. maybe that's just my personal experience. mama bear needs to get baby bear on the mound more! why does baby bear bat 8th? all that crap. also the "rewarding" could just be because of all the time we spend together doing it? not sure.

Started practice this week with my 6th, 7th and 8th grade basketball teams.  I’m very excited and 100% agree that youth coaching is the most rewarding thing ever.

My kid isn’t playing, so I don’t think its just spending time with your kid that makes it rewarding.  I actually think its more rewarding that my kid doesn’t do basketball, so I can go to her events and simply enjoy it without worrying about any of my own responsibilities.

I’ve never had an issue with parents either, which I know is rare.  But on the flip-side, I have issues with parents being committed and getting their kids to practice and being timely.  I think I would take the less dedicated parents that don’t bitch at me all the time, but I sometimes find myself getting frustrated with lack of commitment.

I’ve also found that it makes a big difference who you’re coaching with.  I got stuck with a volunteer parent one year, and it was not as much fun.  Now I coach with a buddy that I played pick-up with for years before I convinced him to coach.  We schedule as many Saturday practices as we can-- Mostly so we can go drink beer afterward

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: It is that time of year again...

« on: January 21, 2022, 12:47:05 PM »

Has anyone used an good phone app for communicating with the team/parents?  We’ve been using email and I can barely manage my inbox.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: It is that time of year again...

« on: December 17, 2021, 01:15:20 PM »

I coach both 10u basketball and 9U baseball. Our basketball team is just rec and comprised of kids that play baseball for our baseball team. Also all of our kids are 7/8 years old but because of a weird cutoff age rule and the fact that our rec has no 9U we play 10U. As such we get absolutely dominated by kids 8 inches taller than us sometimes but also win some games because our kids are good at hustling and not timid. Also we mostly just play knock out at basketball practice because it’s just a hobby sport for us.

My 6th grade team is all non-basketball athletes, and they're great.  VERY aggressive!  My focus is getting them converted to basketball.  I already have one complete convert from lacrosse.  His dad told me he had to put up a goal at their house, and the kid does nothing but play basketball now.  Well dad, sorry you spent all that money on lacrosse gear, lacrosse club, and lacrosse private lessons, but it gave your kid a really good base for becoming my best basketball player in a couple years. 

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: It is that time of year again...

« on: December 17, 2021, 11:09:43 AM »

Anyone coaching any basketball this year?

From a few years ago, and a few pages back in this thread (another nod to MichiganCat), I coached my daughter's 3rd grade team and it was great.  My daughter has not played since, but I'm now running the boys program (6th, 7th and 8th grades) at my daughter's school!

It's awesome!  But I'm still learning how to simplify things.

The kids are great, and no parent issues this year (so far)!

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Kansas State Football / Re: The great goEMAW history of the _|mm|_

« on: September 09, 2021, 02:51:57 PM »

 William “T” Price coined the term in the 1991 pre-season. CJ Masters may have had some input.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Your overall pandemic experience

« on: August 12, 2021, 11:15:31 AM »

Glad everyone here is doing so well. 
A reminder of how the other half lives:

At the end of January, the data indicated, more than 24 million adults had not had enough to eat sometimes or often in the previous seven days. That is five million more than in August 2020, when food hardship was already higher than before the pandemic. Human Rights Watch found that more than half of food-insecure households include children, raising serious concerns about the long-term consequences on children’s health and their academic outcomes. More than 45 percent of food-insecure households are in the lowest income quartile, making less than $35,000 a year. Racial disparities are high, with Black and Latinx adults living in food-insufficient households at more than twice the rate of white adults.

Low-income households were particularly likely to have lost work or income. Among households making less than $35,000 a year, 57.3 percent experienced income or employment loss during the pandemic, compared with 34.6 percent of those making more than $150,000 a year.

Tens of millions of households are estimated to be facing multiple stress factors simultaneously, including no work in the previous week, income loss, food and housing insecurity, or symptoms of depression. Low-income households are particularly prone to compounded layers of stress factors. One in nine adults living in households with an annual income below $35,000 experienced at least one of the five stress factors; 60 percent experienced at least two, and 30 percent struggled to manage three at the same time. Concurrent stress factors are much less frequent among highest earners, with only 18 percent currently experiencing more than one stressor.

People of color are also more likely to experience overlaying stress factors. Close to 45 percent of Black and Latinx adults live in a household that faces multiple stressors, compared to 30 percent of white and Asian adults

https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/03/02/united-states-pandemic-impact-people-poverty

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: It is that time of year again...

« on: March 07, 2019, 07:41:18 PM »

In general, be positive. Let them know turning the ball over or making a bad pass is OK. Just getting a shot up in a game is a win. Give every player freedom to handle the ball and shoot in a game, whether or not they’re successful. Every player should play equally if they have good attitudes.  The focus should be on having fun. Expect and embrace chaos. Ask yourself how every activity in practice would translate into a game. If you aren’t sure, don’t bother with it and try to find something that does. So, here's how I'd approach the things you want to work on:
 

Just wanted to come back and thank Michigancat for all this stuff you provided in this thread. I coached third grade girls and used pretty much everything you suggested. Most importantly, the paragraph above.

I did more straight up drills than you recommended, but none of the players had ever played at all before so there was a lot of just learning motor skills.

I had a blast though; one of the most rewarding things I've ever done. The suggestions were spot on and much appreciated.  Thanks again.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Can Vol fans get a wiki on why Currie is a horrible hire at Tennessee?

« on: March 30, 2018, 03:49:22 PM »

Also kinda funny that in the middle of that crap storm of texts from idiot fans, there is a text from the university president saying she had a good conversation with Greg (presumably Schiano)

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Kansas State Football / Re: RIP Jim Dickey

« on: February 23, 2018, 05:55:02 PM »

Who knows, maybe Jim Dickey is would have started the greatest turn around in college football 10 years earlier if not for a John Currie precursor. Nice work Dave Laurie.



https://archive.org/stream/KSULKSColl197778V84N110143/KSUL_KS%20Coll_1977-78_v84_n110-143#page/n251/mode/2up

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: It is that time of year again...

« on: February 09, 2018, 12:56:45 PM »

Thanks again. All of that is very helpful. Great point on wasting practice time on specific drills that don't translate directly to a game. I think it could be helpful for a short time (5 min as you are said) in the first couple of practices to basically just show them the drills and tell them they can work on it at home. Most won't, but the best players will.

We tried the homework thing with the 5-6th graders and it failed. As much the coaches fault as anything, though, for not following through.

I really appreciate everything you provided.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: It is that time of year again...

« on: February 09, 2018, 12:02:50 PM »

Really great stuff, michigancat. Thanks!

Do you ever do any strictly ball handling drills?  I remember doing a ton of figure-8 dribble and the like as a kid but maybe that's outdated now and you have to have enough basketballs for everyone.

Also how much time if any did you spend at the beginning of the season with basics like rules and terminology?  With some of the 5th graders I helped with, when I told them to "play down low" or "get on the block" they clearly had no idea what I meant. Was wondering with the younger ones if they may need even some basic rules explained.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: It is that time of year again...

« on: February 08, 2018, 06:39:38 PM »

 go for head coach next year, I could help you come up with some really fun practice plans for third grade boys.

MIcat, this wasn't offered to me, but I would take you up on it if you're willing.  I helped with 5-6th grade this year and concluded that I wanted to do 3-4th next year to focus on teaching lay-ups, ball handling, rebounding (at least going after the ball), footwork (pivots and jump stops) and maybe some defensive stance/shuffle.

Are those the things to teach?  If not, what should it be?  If so, how do you teach those things while keeping their attention?

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Kansas State Football / Re: Bill announcement Tuesday?!? HCBS Retirement Thread - Episode 5341

« on: January 03, 2018, 10:29:07 AM »

Either it's not true that Hays was asked to do something he didn't want to do or it's not true that Hays wants to retire

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Kansas State Football / Re: Who should the new OC be?

« on: December 28, 2017, 10:49:06 PM »

I also always liked that Stoops got the Florida DC job because Nebraska scored 62 on Florida in the 95 Fiesta Bowl & Spurrier figured he'd have to play them again in 96, so he just decided to hire the DC that he thought did the best job against the 95 Huskers from watching tape prepping for the Fiesta Bowl.

Also helped that stoops was the hottest name among assistant coaches at the time. That hire was not a stretch at all for spurrier.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Central Arkansas Preview

« on: August 26, 2017, 05:03:45 PM »

4 tickets in Sec 5 row 12 with a parking pass and tailgate terrace passes for bargain price  if anyone is interested.

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Kansas State Football / Re: BSFS Expansion Thread

« on: October 14, 2014, 09:19:36 AM »

Well, we're just going to look silly if we get into the playoff, won't we?

Won't be ideal, but should be manageable. WSC will be the temporary home.

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Kansas State Football / Re: BSFS Expansion Thread

« on: October 14, 2014, 08:50:18 AM »

Are we for sure that the funding is in place to start construction at the end of November? I'm so excited to see what this looks like, I would hate to see us have to wait a year.

Yes, we're sure. Everything will be moved out of current Vanier  starting as soon as the team leaves for Waco.

and where are we with the NE corner? any chance in hell we knock it out at the same time, or is it for sure going to be constructed in another year or 2? or never?!?!

Doubt it happens this round. Probably 2015-16. I think the delay is
more of a logistical issue rather than finding.

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Kansas State Football / Re: BSFS Expansion Thread

« on: October 14, 2014, 08:16:52 AM »

Are we for sure that the funding is in place to start construction at the end of November? I'm so excited to see what this looks like, I would hate to see us have to wait a year.

Yes, we're sure. Everything will be moved out of current Vanier  starting as soon as the team leaves for Waco.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Official KU Coaching Search

« on: September 29, 2014, 10:54:27 AM »

Bronco Mendenhall was rumored to have interest when Weiss was hired. Would be as good as any other realistic option. Sorry I don't have a pic but he's a decent looking white guy.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Sean (no gE'ing in this thread)

« on: September 29, 2014, 10:37:15 AM »

If he's well coached, isn't the player that blocked it yelling his ass off so the rest of his team mates know?  And if the block is on, aren't those team mates listening and keeping an orientation as to where they are on the field? 

I agree that's blaming too much on Sean and a bunch of 20 yr olds when the officials were just as clueless.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Sean (no gE'ing in this thread)

« on: September 29, 2014, 10:12:59 AM »

The strangest part of the blocked-punt-that-wasn't was how none of our players went for the football. They just stood there and watched it drop, and then seemingly thought UTEP touching it would down it and just let them pick it up. Why we didn't dive on it was the most frustrating part, then the ref blowing his whistle second.

It seems like everyone involved assumed the ball was beyond the line of scrimmage. You definitely don't want to touch the ball in that situation if you blocked the kick/punt. The strange way it went high and came back down seemed to throw everyone off.

The ball landed quite a ways behind the los didn't it?  I honestly don't remember. But there is such a big difference in what a player should do if the ball lands behind the los vs. beyond the los, that a good coach dedicated to special teams would emphasize that point to his punt block unit so that his team is prepared to react properly when the play achieves its intended out come. But...the refs clearly didn't know either.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Shows that have you by the balls, or vag...

« on: September 25, 2014, 08:23:56 AM »

cody seems like a nice guy who will get tons of puss after the show but i'm glad derrick one last night.
thought he would win america's favorite too

not a great cast this season but the redeeming value is watching derrick just dominate, one of the best to play the game, for sure

I'd like to see Derick play an all star season. I'd be interested to see if his game would work without the group of idiots from this season who couldn't formulate or execute a strategy and just waited for someone (Derrick) to tell them what to do.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Penn St's AD Tim Curley charge with perjury: sex abuse

« on: September 10, 2014, 09:01:46 AM »

Post what you think would happen at KSU if this whole saga had happened here with Snyder in the Paterno role.

Under the Wefald/Krause/Weiser regime I think it would have been pretty much the same as Penn State, and I assume there is plenty of trash under that rug, anyway. I think it is quite possible that the only thing that prevented the same thing from happenning at Ksu is that del miller isn't a pedophile.

I have more faith in Schulz/Currie but mostly because they were not a part of (and do not crave the credit for) building Ksu football so they would be more apt to blow the whistle that would tarnish the program.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: It is that time of year again...

« on: September 10, 2014, 08:36:36 AM »

a couple of points from a former child athlete with no experience or interest in coaching or ever watching a current child athlete.

1)  the stuff michigan said about the adults caring more about winning than the children is complete bullshit.  winning is the entire point.  without trying to win, it's just exercise.  might as well hop on a treadmill.  sports are only fun when you try to win.  you can still have tons of fun if you don't win, but you can't have hardly any fun if you don't try to win.  there is nothing more boring than playing a team sport where score is not kept and/or both teams aren't vigorously attempting to win.  i'm not a particularly competitive person, btw, and wasn't a competitive child.

2)  the only thing more boring than playing a game where no one cares about winning is sitting on the sideline watching other children play and/or playing, but not being involved in the action.  jesus christ, that sucks.  eff that crap about the fat kid needs to learn to play on the line because he's good at it and sucks at everything else.  he deserves to be a qb or rb or wr just like everyone else.


i don't know what the upshot of that is.  maybe (definitely) don't play games where large numbers of children have to be linemen or some other position that sucks.  and make more teams and have less subs so that everyone has to play and coaches aren't bitching about having to play the shitty kids and parents aren't bitching about their kid not playing and kids aren't stuck on the sideline watching other kids play.  like structurally remove the ways in which children are forced to do crap that sucks and then let them play and compete and have fun trying to win and don't be stupid about it by trying to tell them that it doesn't matter who wins when the entire point of the activity is to attempt to win.

Interesting article that touches on some of these points:

http://www.kidsportsmagazine.com/PSR/node/3683

 

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: travel thread

« on: September 04, 2014, 03:45:30 PM »

Just took a train from Pittsburgh, PA to NYC. First time I've been on a long distance train in America. Pretty sweet. Has anyone else been taken a multiple hour train ride in the U.S.?

Completly different than Pitt to NYC, but I took a train from anchorage to Seward, AK and back (4 hrs one way).  It was amazing.