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Post by picodegallo on Apr 30, 2024 8:39:25 GMT -6
I’ve watched the Cal 9th grade games on YouTube. From what I see they have the kids coming up to run a spread and run it well. That group will do some real good things. The Freshmen have a QB and WR combo who are twins. There are definitely some good kids in the Sophomore, Freshmen and 8th grades. It kind of reminds me of the group who started the good deep playoff runs with the Regional Final against Cedar Park in 2016.
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Post by bluecat on Apr 30, 2024 9:30:38 GMT -6
I’ve watched the Cal 9th grade games on YouTube. From what I see they have the kids coming up to run a spread and run it well. That group will do some real good things. The Freshmen have a QB and WR combo who are twins. There are definitely some good kids in the Sophomore, Freshmen and 8th grades. It kind of reminds me of the group who started the good deep playoff runs with the Regional Final against Cedar Park in 2016. With the recent hiring at GP of Arturo”Tudi” Elizondo as the middle school athletic coordinator, it’s very obvious that Davis want to get great coaching and a great motivator for our athletes. I’ve not heard why Guy Grover left the position , but at his hiring he stated it would be a short gig and he would return to retirement. Last night I got to watch a podcast, GT Sports that had Arturo explain why he accepted the job and what his responsibility is at GP. After reading these comments about Reeves and the younger athletes at Calallen, I was curious does Cal have a position of Middle school athletic coordinator? With Reeves coming in with changes of new coaches, new system and new offense, what conduit ensures those changes fully get down to the middle school. Of course the middle school teams don’t run the more technical complex formations that varsity runs but the bare basic formations do. Arturo was at GP until Siebert took the HC job at Rockport and hired him to coach at Rockport.
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Post by wfcoyote on Apr 30, 2024 10:25:43 GMT -6
Bluecat my son I inherited by marriage retired from coaching and they talked him into taking the Middle school job at Giddings and he is back coaching.
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Post by bluecat on Apr 30, 2024 11:02:37 GMT -6
Bluecat my son I inherited by marriage retired from coaching and they talked him into taking the Middle school job at Giddings and he is back coaching. Is it a job or is it his passion? I ask that because he apparently he quit coaching. Many quit to become principals and make a higher salary and better retirement, perfectly normal. Others quit the profession to get higher pay outside of public schools. A warning to those wanting to teach/coach, know what happens at retirement.my wife taught for 34 years at a public schools with a masters degree. Her maximum salary was $58,000.00 and she had no option but Texas Teachers Retirement. She was not allowed by the ISD she taught at to pay into Social Security. She went to the social security office to see how much she would get from the 7 years of work outside of teaching,$200.00 a month. Then she asked what she might get from my SS just in case I happened to kick the bucket, she was told $00.00. Not a damned red cent. Since she was not allowed to pay SS and forced to pay teachers retirement she gets nothing from me. The Texas Legistrature has repeatedly refused to take action. In Texas schools, teachers are not state employees, they are district employees and are treated as such. I hate to be a Debby Downer, but kids and the parents of future teacher/coaches need to be informed.
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Post by jimmythegreek on Apr 30, 2024 11:25:26 GMT -6
The Freshmen have a QB and WR combo who are twins. There are definitely some good kids in the Sophomore, Freshmen and 8th grades. It kind of reminds me of the group who started the good deep playoff runs with the Regional Final against Cedar Park in 2016. With the recent hiring at GP of Arturo”Tudi” Elizondo as the middle school athletic coordinator, it’s very obvious that Davis want to get great coaching and a great motivator for our athletes. I’ve not heard why Guy Grover left the position , but at his hiring he stated it would be a short gig and he would return to retirement. Last night I got to watch a podcast, GT Sports that had Arturo explain why he accepted the job and what his responsibility is at GP. After reading these comments about Reeves and the younger athletes at Calallen, I was curious does Cal have a position of Middle school athletic coordinator? With Reeves coming in with changes of new coaches, new system and new offense, what conduit ensures those changes fully get down to the middle school. Of course the middle school teams don’t run the more technical complex formations that varsity runs but the bare basic formations do. Arturo was at GP until Siebert took the HC job at Rockport and hired him to coach at Rockport. Yes we do. It might change if one of the coaches I heard is leaving is indeed out the door. Coach Danaher always had a good Middle School Coordinator until he went to Beeville a couple of years before Coach Danaher retired. As Pico noted about the high school program needing some tweaks , I expect to see the same in the Middle School and for the better.
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Post by Cochino on Apr 30, 2024 14:55:36 GMT -6
As someone who sat in on some of the brainstorming and the such and filled out the survey during our search, I can assure you that no one spoke up and said the new coach can do this, this and this, but can't do that. Most of requests if you will was for someone to come in who will respect our traditions, but who would indeed have some new ideas to ADD to the program and not take away from it. One of the questions might have been in the survey was something like "Do you want a Coach who plays to the programs strengths?" But it didn't have a follow up that asked if that was an absolute must or rank it in priority. We need some youthful enthusiasm. He fills this void nicely especially after last year where it was non existent on the sidelines. There are certain things that need to be refined and reinforced. One thing I've heard is little things like weight training feel out of date compared to what others are doing (IE more of circuit or Cross Fit like vs traditional stations). Good..... change that if it gets the kids more engaged and the results are just as good or better. Another thing is he's actually going to put some some stock in 7 on 7. Might be too late this spring/summer, but he's going to put more emphasis on it vs where it has been on our priority list which is almost nil right now. Again, the kids like this stuff. Some of us old schoolers see it as maybe time utilized somewhere else, but if it gets the kids pumped about something and they put in the work. Let's go! Does that mean Calallen this fall is going to become an air raid type offense or any other time down the road? Probably not. But it does show Reeve is interested in making the pass game more of a factor in the offense. One thing I want to just put to bed is this nonsense Calallen fans are not going to give him a chance and the space he needs. Sure you have a few idiots out there who will be the first to say "see we told you so." But Alice has those. GP has those. TM might have one or two... Every school has an arm chair QB or two who would look like fools if they ever had to coach even a pee wee Pop Warner game.
On the bolded... hold up. There is no college classes you take that teach you how to run this offense or that defense. You learn on the job and you learn by watching. I'm of the belief that x's and o's aren't even the most important part of the game at the high school level - the mental and psychological parts are. You have to know how to talk to kids and get them to believe in what you're doing and want to follow you. My point is you don't have to be an actual coach to possibly be a better one than they are.
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Post by warcat82 on Apr 30, 2024 15:32:12 GMT -6
As someone who sat in on some of the brainstorming and the such and filled out the survey during our search, I can assure you that no one spoke up and said the new coach can do this, this and this, but can't do that. Most of requests if you will was for someone to come in who will respect our traditions, but who would indeed have some new ideas to ADD to the program and not take away from it. One of the questions might have been in the survey was something like "Do you want a Coach who plays to the programs strengths?" But it didn't have a follow up that asked if that was an absolute must or rank it in priority. We need some youthful enthusiasm. He fills this void nicely especially after last year where it was non existent on the sidelines. There are certain things that need to be refined and reinforced. One thing I've heard is little things like weight training feel out of date compared to what others are doing (IE more of circuit or Cross Fit like vs traditional stations). Good..... change that if it gets the kids more engaged and the results are just as good or better. Another thing is he's actually going to put some some stock in 7 on 7. Might be too late this spring/summer, but he's going to put more emphasis on it vs where it has been on our priority list which is almost nil right now. Again, the kids like this stuff. Some of us old schoolers see it as maybe time utilized somewhere else, but if it gets the kids pumped about something and they put in the work. Let's go! Does that mean Calallen this fall is going to become an air raid type offense or any other time down the road? Probably not. But it does show Reeve is interested in making the pass game more of a factor in the offense. One thing I want to just put to bed is this nonsense Calallen fans are not going to give him a chance and the space he needs. Sure you have a few idiots out there who will be the first to say "see we told you so." But Alice has those. GP has those. TM might have one or two... Every school has an arm chair QB or two who would look like fools if they ever had to coach even a pee wee Pop Warner game. TM has more than 1 or 2.... just go to any home game that they are losing, that they are close in, or are playing Calallen, and you will hear every one of them trying to tell the coach what play to run on offense and defense....... it's amazing some of them actually function in society as grown adults even......
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Post by gpballer4life on Apr 30, 2024 16:08:00 GMT -6
X’s and O’s is not as important as developing talent and understanding how to connect and get the most out of these kids. My personal opinion is that coaches around here know X’s and O’s But do not know how to develop talent, or the time restrictions do not allow them to. Most kids outside of the coastal bend are working with position specific coaches and personal trainers.
Many of them have not figured out how to be themselves and get their messages across while communicating with kids and utilize the same techniques they learned 10 or 20 years ago.
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Post by bluecat on Apr 30, 2024 18:07:48 GMT -6
X’s and O’s is not as important as developing talent and understanding how to connect and get the most out of these kids. My personal opinion is that coaches around here know X’s and O’s But do not know how to develop talent, or the time restrictions do not allow them to. Most kids outside of the coastal bend are working with position specific coaches and personal trainers. Many of them have not figured out how to be themselves and get their messages across while communicating with kids and utilize the same techniques they learned 10 or 20 years ago. Daym, that cuts deep, so who’s coaching the coaches? At GP middle school it was Guy Grover and now Arturo Elizondo. I would expect that job falls on Davis to ensure his position coaches are doing their job or hiring coaches that will do the job. That’s the hard part of being a HC, cutting coaches that just aren’t getting the job done.
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Post by gpballer4life on Apr 30, 2024 18:40:07 GMT -6
X’s and O’s is not as important as developing talent and understanding how to connect and get the most out of these kids. My personal opinion is that coaches around here know X’s and O’s But do not know how to develop talent, or the time restrictions do not allow them to. Most kids outside of the coastal bend are working with position specific coaches and personal trainers. Many of them have not figured out how to be themselves and get their messages across while communicating with kids and utilize the same techniques they learned 10 or 20 years ago. Daym, that cuts deep, so who’s coaching the coaches? At GP middle school it was Guy Grover and now Arturo Elizondo. I would expect that job falls on Davis to ensure his position coaches are doing their job or hiring coaches that will do the job. That’s the hard part of being a HC, cutting coaches that just aren’t getting the job done. It really wasn’t a dig. Kids from up North train outside of school way more than our kids, and they have lineman, db, wr, and Qb coaches they work with on the regular. Kids in south texas spend there time with pitching and hitting coaches.
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Post by picodegallo on Apr 30, 2024 22:27:33 GMT -6
As someone who sat in on some of the brainstorming and the such and filled out the survey during our search, I can assure you that no one spoke up and said the new coach can do this, this and this, but can't do that. Most of requests if you will was for someone to come in who will respect our traditions, but who would indeed have some new ideas to ADD to the program and not take away from it. One of the questions might have been in the survey was something like "Do you want a Coach who plays to the programs strengths?" But it didn't have a follow up that asked if that was an absolute must or rank it in priority. We need some youthful enthusiasm. He fills this void nicely especially after last year where it was non existent on the sidelines. There are certain things that need to be refined and reinforced. One thing I've heard is little things like weight training feel out of date compared to what others are doing (IE more of circuit or Cross Fit like vs traditional stations). Good..... change that if it gets the kids more engaged and the results are just as good or better. Another thing is he's actually going to put some some stock in 7 on 7. Might be too late this spring/summer, but he's going to put more emphasis on it vs where it has been on our priority list which is almost nil right now. Again, the kids like this stuff. Some of us old schoolers see it as maybe time utilized somewhere else, but if it gets the kids pumped about something and they put in the work. Let's go! Does that mean Calallen this fall is going to become an air raid type offense or any other time down the road? Probably not. But it does show Reeve is interested in making the pass game more of a factor in the offense. One thing I want to just put to bed is this nonsense Calallen fans are not going to give him a chance and the space he needs. Sure you have a few idiots out there who will be the first to say "see we told you so." But Alice has those. GP has those. TM might have one or two... Every school has an arm chair QB or two who would look like fools if they ever had to coach even a pee wee Pop Warner game.
On the bolded... hold up. There is no college classes you take that teach you how to run this offense or that defense. You learn on the job and you learn by watching. I'm of the belief that x's and o's aren't even the most important part of the game at the high school level - the mental and psychological parts are. You have to know how to talk to kids and get them to believe in what you're doing and want to follow you. My point is you don't have to be an actual coach to possibly be a better one than they are. Don't disagree with you at all on that point. Although gp37/wfcoyote might. But yea most of your good coaches learned their trade from other good coaches. My reference is more along the lines of the fan who is never happy with anything the coaches do and even find fault when things are going well. To the point they earn that reputation as a know it all.
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Post by Clemensbuff on May 1, 2024 5:05:48 GMT -6
On the bolded... hold up. There is no college classes you take that teach you how to run this offense or that defense. You learn on the job and you learn by watching. I'm of the belief that x's and o's aren't even the most important part of the game at the high school level - the mental and psychological parts are. You have to know how to talk to kids and get them to believe in what you're doing and want to follow you. My point is you don't have to be an actual coach to possibly be a better one than they are. I agree with this 100%!!
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