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re: Nerves as a Coach
Posted on 5/6/24 at 2:25 pm to Neveragain
Posted on 5/6/24 at 2:25 pm to Neveragain
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His thought was if a kid beat one of his kids 10-0 one time and the next time his kid lost 6-4, his kid improved
I try to coach in this same line of thought. We used to run a single safety but now that teams can throw better we had to switch to 2 safeties. The kid that got moved to the second safety went from never going after a ball or WR to last week he tried to jump a route and mistimed it so the guy caught it. I was over the moon that he tried to jump the route. I couldn't care less that he missed. The fact that he knew his job was to get in the way of that pass and he tried to do it was amazing to me. Next time I feel confident he's gonna know that ball down if not intercept it.
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Posted on 5/6/24 at 2:25 pm to Bert Macklin FBI
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Yeah, we are teaching the fundamentals. We still have to have a plan.
1)If the give it to their RB and he pulls up to throw, Who is going after the RB and who is staying in coverage?
2)If they go empty, does each player know if we are playing zone or man and their responsibility in each?
3) If they try to run a reverse, the kids have to know who's job it is to attack the reverse and who's job it is to be looking for it on the back side.
4) Hell forget about the tricky stuff, If they run towards you, is your job to attack inside out or contain? If they run away from you, are you cut back or are you staying home to watch for a reverse? If they pass, do you know where your zone is? If we are in man, do you know where your man is?
Offense is obviously a little easier because you can show them the play and they can just run the route they see but on defense there is a lot going on .
They are 6. You might as well be teaching them Trigonometry.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 2:28 pm to HottyToddy7
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They are 6. You might as well be teaching them Trigonometry.
You say that but they do it. Everyone doesn't need to learn every job. but I can boil down each situation into you either do A or B. If A happens I attack. If B happens I'm cut back.
You can call it Trig if you want but when each player is only responsible for their little piece of the equation, it can be solved. And most of the time, we solve it.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 2:57 pm to Bert Macklin FBI
Exactly!! I had a kid that wrestled for me and he wasn't very good. He tried hard and practiced hard but just wasn't very athletic. He wrestled a match, and for a minute and a half he was lights out. Like he's never done before. I was so proud of him. He thought I was crazy because I was high fiving him and ranting and raving about how well he did. He said "coach I still got pinned" I told him yes you did, but you wrestled the best I have ever seen you do for a minute and a half, next time it'll be 2 minutes!!
Posted on 5/6/24 at 3:07 pm to Bert Macklin FBI
My son’s coach pitch and first year of player pitch were stressful. I was just one of the dads that was there every practice. They had two coaches. I was just the dad that would put a glove on and help.
That quickly became being the “coach” who plays catch with the kids who are horrified of the ball. I really felt like I helped. lol one kids was huge. If he wasn’t terrified he’d be a good player. I got him to stop turning his head and started knocking down the ones he missed. I felt like Joe Torre just doing that.
It was nerve wracking as hell when one of those kids took the field.
That quickly became being the “coach” who plays catch with the kids who are horrified of the ball. I really felt like I helped. lol one kids was huge. If he wasn’t terrified he’d be a good player. I got him to stop turning his head and started knocking down the ones he missed. I felt like Joe Torre just doing that.
It was nerve wracking as hell when one of those kids took the field.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 3:08 pm to WDE24
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Same in real life. It’s easy to show up for work and do your job. The stress and anxiety builds in as you start managing groups of people as you move further up the ladder.
Counting on someone to come through, babysitting lazy employees, and dealing with grown adults and their drama all while achieving goals and meeting corporate KPIs.
Boy, you are spot on.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 3:09 pm to LSU alum wannabe
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the “coach” who plays catch with the kids who are horrified of the ball.
This along with the coach that teaches a kid to actually throw a baseball are HUGE roles and can make a world of difference in a season.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 3:17 pm to Bert Macklin FBI
You better bring your A game. Kirby Smart often looks for his next hire at local YMCA coed leagues
Posted on 5/6/24 at 3:21 pm to Bert Macklin FBI
Not a coach, but I get 100x the anxiety watching my kids play vs when I played.
Especially pitching. Most stressful shite ever.
Especially pitching. Most stressful shite ever.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 3:27 pm to danilo
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You better bring your A game. Kirby Smart often looks for his next hire at local YMCA coed leagues
frick that. If coaching youth sports that don't matter is this stressful, I want nothing to do with sports that people actually care about.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 3:31 pm to blueboxer1119
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Especially pitching. Most stressful shite ever.
I’d be a wreck watching my son pitch. Crazy how alone they are out there.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 3:34 pm to Bert Macklin FBI
i got nervous as hell just temporarily subbing for a late coach...the kids didnt seem to care at all
Posted on 5/6/24 at 3:35 pm to Bert Macklin FBI
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Am I crazy or is coaching way more stressful than playing?
If you care about the youth, care about the sport, both sides whether being a coach or player should stress you. Only the best coaches and athletes pay attention to detail and try to get better within the game. If the job is not stressful, then you may not care enough about the sport and the youth playing it.
I'm a armchair quarterback now. But at times while watching college football, I'm the one that wants to be in the game on 4th and goal from the 1 yard line.
This post was edited on 5/6/24 at 3:38 pm
Posted on 5/6/24 at 3:37 pm to Bert Macklin FBI
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Has anyone else found that they get way more anxious about youth sports that they are coaching than they ever did as a player?
Oh yeah
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I couldn't care less if we lose a hard fought game where our guys did what I asked them to do and we just fell short but it really bothers me when we get beat because I didn't have them ready for a certain situation or a certain play.
All of this.
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Am I crazy or is coaching way more stressful than playing?
When I played, I only had to worry about how I did to help the team. Now I worry about how I prepared a dozen kids. I never sweat over losing, but I try to put a lot of thought into the things that I remember as a kid (having fun, learning from mistakes, cheering for teammates whether they do good or bad, etc). These kids are young, but I'd hate any of them to ever quit playing a sport b/c I pushed them out.
This post was edited on 5/6/24 at 3:42 pm
Posted on 5/6/24 at 3:40 pm to Bert Macklin FBI
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I always fear our guys losing because I didn't have them prepared or because my game plan wasn't good enough.
Found Saban's TD Account
Posted on 5/6/24 at 3:40 pm to notbilly
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Hey man - I'm coaching tonight too. Maybe we play each other.
We don't play until later in the week. I've got days and I'm already stressed lol.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 3:41 pm to Dicky
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Last year I got a 6 year old thrown out at 3b to lose the championship game. That kid also happened to be my son, and the sadness and disappointment in his eyes is something that took me weeks to shake.
Bet your kid was all over it before he even finished his post game snowball.
You should have been, too.
If he was a "thrown out" at third base that was a heck of a play by the other team's players. My experience with coaching 6 year old players is the ball either sails over the third baseman or hits him in the face because he is not capable of catching the perfect throw from young Braxton ( who has been groomed to be a star by dad since he could walk).
Posted on 5/6/24 at 4:49 pm to Dicky
The most important lesson kids learn in sports is a failure is not the end of the world. They learn to keep working towards success. Baseball is the best sport to learn this also because its usually 60% failure and 40% success.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 5:26 pm to shoestring
The kids I've most enjoyed coaching:
Willing to try shite
Willing to try it again when they frick up
Willing to take instruction on how to get it right
Willing to try shite
Willing to try it again when they frick up
Willing to take instruction on how to get it right
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