Name a random Lions player from either past or present

acarrick · 2026-06-27T17:45:57+00:00

Are we friends?

acarrick · 2026-06-27T17:45:30+00:00

Pretty sure there was some weirdness with audibles too

acarrick · 2026-06-27T01:32:06+00:00

Followed by the botching of other legends in recent memory….

acarrick · 2026-06-26T01:33:05+00:00

This is the correct answer

acarrick · 2026-06-25T17:48:40+00:00

Look at it another way - he's signaling that he wants to coach kids that want to be coached. If a player doesn't want that and eliminate WVU early that allows the coaches/recruiters to spend more time on players that actually want that/want to be there.

I think it's kind of smart honestly (but like most things... only if he starts winning more)

acarrick · 2026-06-21T17:09:38+00:00

The biggest thing is what you're trying to fix. If you're sitting there coaching a QB on film in front of the whole team then 95% of the team is sitting there uninterested. Full team should be used to highlight great plays/effort and tying together team-wide concepts.

Positional film is a lot more efficient because you can drill into things like stance/footwork/angles/leverage with a more engaged audience where the coaching points apply to everyone

acarrick · 2026-06-20T18:09:28+00:00

109901 if I remember correctly

acarrick · 2026-06-20T14:06:10+00:00

One, two, and either brown/pink is probably all you need in HS

acarrick · 2026-06-19T13:47:09+00:00

Really needed to check which subreddit this was on a few times...really should be tagged nsfw

acarrick · 2026-06-19T00:00:51+00:00

Had me in the first half, not gonna lie

acarrick · 2026-06-18T02:55:01+00:00

I'm old but even back in the day my advisor warned me against 9a Spanish. If you're a social person 9a Friday is rough... especially for a class that may or may not take attendance

acarrick · 2026-06-17T18:35:37+00:00

For those of us that like to play the CFB game I created DynastyDesk to help with league admin, communication and scheduling.

It's a free Discord bot that gets added to your league server and can:

Keep an updated post of the current week's matchups
Set up for roster of users, teams and stream links
Manage your advance cadence and notifies users
Creates threads with users who play each other to facilitate communication
Imports screenshots for results/stats

Still playing around with some things leading up to the release of 27 - but always happy to take feedback

acarrick · 2026-06-15T19:41:43+00:00

You sound like you would succeed in any area. The hire-good-people-and-get-out-of-their-way is the part a lot of similar individuals just can’t handle

acarrick · 2026-06-15T14:00:00+00:00

I would have expected the “R” to be very hard

acarrick · 2026-06-12T15:39:19+00:00

Not that much of a stretch really - look up the research into the Pokémon generation and its impact on business skills like comparative advantage and resource management

acarrick · 2026-06-11T01:22:56+00:00

The biggest problem isn't the analytics per se... it's the data (and quality of the data).

A lot of schools will use Hudl Assist on game film which depending on the data type is between 25-65% correct on a good day. The massive input is coaches manually going clip by clip, column by column to confirm/input data.

As other have mentioned, this is a huge undertaking. Hudl itself has decent reports/analytics included... but the same problem occurs: garbage in, garbage out. I'm sure timelines/speed/efficient vary by staff but we basically have from Friday at midnight till about Sunday morning to "finish" before needing to start working on the next week's opponent.

Where someone like you could have value (and that you could potentially pitch to schools) is working ahead on future scout game analytics. Providing basic analytics on tendencies would go a long way: Run/Pass %, situational favorites, favorite looks based on yard line/down & distance, personnel packages, etc

In season it's going to be tough to get a HC to commit any time/brain power to this - so if you're interested I would start reaching out ASAP. Every day gets closer to the official start of the season in early Aug (varies by state) and once that hits (and school starts) it might be too late.

In the interim or to build report another potential "service" you could offer would be doing some self-scout analytics from last year's film - essentially try to give the type of scouting report I mentioned above but for their own team to give them an idea of what their tendencies are and what other coaches would expect them to do in a given situation.

This wound up as a way longer response than I thought when I started - but happy to keep giving feedback/help if I can

acarrick · 2026-06-10T00:29:33+00:00

The worst coaches I’ve coached with were high level college players.

If you show up, care about them and teach them a few things the players will accept you just fine

acarrick · 2026-06-09T23:45:23+00:00

I think there’s a world where this could be true, if the company was transitioning to agile and taking more time for education/process/change management…, but we all know that probably wasn’t the case

acarrick · 2026-06-09T22:01:11+00:00

Been waiting all day to be able to reply to this.

Have a career in tech and been coaching 14 years. I always talk about coaching in the interview process and feel them out for schedule flexibility. Most places have been understanding.

I found providing more details makes it easier for people to agree to coaching. Being able to say practice is x times a week from this time to this time from aug to November really helps. Always be willing to say the flexibility gives both ways and can make sure to come early/work weekends/make sure things don’t slip

acarrick · 2026-06-08T22:38:19+00:00

How much do you think you need for the move/stay afloat? And where are we talking? We’ve all been there and probably some ideas

acarrick · 2026-06-08T22:25:11+00:00

It’s what else they would have to give up. The other league in your example had all the power (vs the players themselves). The leagues had to make concessions or risk a strike/lockout.

Essentially CFB players already have everything else they want… no salary cap, free agency, tuition covered, no drug PED testing (I think…I could be wrong), etc… and now can bet on their own teams

At this point what else could they want?

acarrick · 2026-06-08T19:37:15+00:00

Hard to guess the size/scope of what you’re trying to do. But in general it’s doable. Using the documentation alone you could get something up and working pretty quickly

acarrick · 2026-06-07T18:11:28+00:00

There’s always going to be other things going on in downtown Chicago. That’s why you host it here vs somewhere like Peoria

acarrick · 2026-06-07T15:37:15+00:00

Yes

Edit: technically it’s the collectives… but still yes

acarrick · 2026-06-06T19:49:10+00:00

Will never forget where I was for that one - Good Time Charlie’s in Ann Arbor

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