Ramblings
So this is an idea I'm stealing from my favorite author, Bill Simmons. He's a writer for ESPN.com, and is my favorite writer (yeah, I started reading believe it or not. Crazy). Anyway, he sometimes does columns where he just randomly writes about anything, and that's pretty much what I'm doing here rather than focussing on one specific topic (in this case which would have been CCC). He also does a mailbag, which is an idea I'd like to steal. If people want to write me emails or questions eventually I'll throw em all together and make a post out of it. Kinda like what Talle was trying to do, but a lot at the same time.
WARNING-This post is being written at 9am after pulling an all nighter. So if it's crazy and doesn't make sense, well sorry. But realistically, that might have happened if I wrote it on a full night's sleep anyway.
-CCC had it's ups and downs. We didn't have very high expecatations for ourselves going in because we were missing so many people, but because of that we may have underachieved a bit. I just think on the whole we lacked intensity and never kicked it into that next gear. However, we still finished pretty strong standings wise, and there were times (a lot of the Illinois game, a lot of the Georgia Tech game) where we looked really good. Early in the season I was putting a lot of weight on CCC and it's importance. While I didn't make this as public as the year went on, it was still a very important tournament in my mind as it could have set the right tone for the spring and gave us that "we belong here" type of mentality if we did really well. Others disagreed and downplayed the significance of it, and just saw it more as an oppurtunity to do the best we could with a weakened team playing against good competition. I think the right mindset going in probably would have been something in between.
-The lack of intensity that I just mentioned was particulary troubling to me, because as a captain, and the type of player I think I am in general, that's something I'm supposed to be responsible for igniting. I don't really think Ohio State or Davidson were better teams than us, I just don't think we ever got fired up to make a run on them. Both of those games were the type where if we got ourselves geared up and stole a break or two it would have been a huge shift in momentum and I think we woulda eeked em out.
-I have no fuckin clue how the hell to sub for 20 people. We had like 15 this weekend and I struggled with it. I just have a lot of difficulty not playing to win in most aspects of the game, and this translates over in subbing. It's really a Dline issue because Talle runs the O, but when it comes down to important and close games I'm not really sure how to open up a rotation when you have 5 players (Me, Sean, Andrew, Stu, Rob) on the Dline who expect to, and really should be on every point. Thank god for Weasel I guess.
-So apparently Dylan Tunnel was hurt from Club Natties, which was really sad to watch when he was playing the Hodags. These little squirly guys were like skying him and shit, and he's a lovable beast (well unless he's skying the shit out of your team at college nationals), so watching him out there was kind of like watching Emmitt Smith at the end of his career. Poor Emmitt could barely run for 50 yards in a game, for the Arizona Cardinals no less, and I had to watch my boyhood hero get pushed around by a bunch of shitbags, even though he's the all time leading rusher in NFL history.
-Speaking of Dylan, I got to match up with him when we played them on Sunday, and everytime he made a deep cut I'd take off with him and even though I was stride for stride I was still just kind of like holy shit if this goes up this shits gonna be crazy. He would inteligantly just kind of cut back under after this.
-Personal reflection. I had a lot of throways. That is bad. I didn't have any layout D's. That too is bad. I thought I cut really well and confidently, pretty much for the first time ever against good teams. That is good. I didn't help the O line as much as I should have, but still thought I did alrite. That is so-so. I thought my man D on the weekned was actually pretty good. I didn't get a lot of D's, but I shut my guy down a good percentage of the time I was covering him.
-So the reason I pulled an all nighter was because I was working on the script for my sales call video. My sales call plan, and the basis for the video, was a pitch selling Pittsburgh Pirates season tickets. This is actually a really difficult task when you consider the Pirates have the longest active streak of losing seasons in professional sports. Anyway, I wrote 25 pages on it, and then another 16 for the video script.
Sales Call Plan All-Nighters-2 Josh-0
-So in some of Sean's thoughts he addressed a lot of his turnovers and stuff like that from CCC. It was encouraging to read a lot of things he said and I feel like he gets the point on a lot of the things I'm going to say, but I'm going to say them anyway because it's my blog. Our D line offense has to be a real offense. We didn't have the personal to do that very effectively at CCC, but we will in the spring, so I would have liked to run it more that way at CCC. While making a break throw instead of a force throw might seem to reap more rewards, I feel like when the Oline has an open cut on the force they always take it. Granted, its a valid concern that there might not be any continuation off that force side throw, but that's a whole nother in itself. We all know Sean has all the pretty throws, but the fact is anytime you start going over the top, throwing some crazy crossfield breaks or a lot of the other fun stuff Sean does, it isn't as high percentage as taking an easy force side throw. We'll have guys who can get open on the force on the Dline, so lets make it happen.
I think this is also the case with our Dlines zone O. Granted this isn't something that happens very often, but our zone O has always been let Sean throw through or over, and then work it from there. But again, anytime you go over the top it's just not a high percentage. When playing with Blaze Sean didn't really throw stuff over the top or anything like that in zone, (while actually except for in the first game he tried to throw me a blade or something, it was a turnover and Walt yelled at him. THEN he didn't throw stuff over the top or anything like that) because he didn't have to. He had confidence that we would march it down the field, and we almost always did. If you have Sean handling with some combo of Jake/Nick/Btate with him, me and Stu popping, and Andrew and Rob stretching, thats a really good zone O line. I hope he has the confidence in that line to get it done like he did with Blaze. Our O shouldnt be Sean do something cool. Our O should be an O, and if we're screwed then Sean does something cool.
-That last little thing there wasn't meant to be a knock against Sean, and if it came off that way, my bad. I love Sean. I want to have his babies. Those were just some thoughts on our D line O as a whole, and isn't that really what we're all here for. My thoughts?
-Speaking of thoughts, Lindsay Macke is really hot. I'm staring at the picture of her thats on my wall right now.
-So speaking of girls. I got my life fucked up by this girl Lacey last night. I invited her over to watch the Steelers game Monday despite the fact that she didn't actually know my name, but we just knew each other threw Wes. We swapped numbers, but she didn't come cus she had to write a paper or something like that. Anyway she calls me last night, and said she missed a call from me, even though I didn't actually call her. It was a really awkward conversation, so I ended it ASAP, then took a minute to think about it, and the following exchange went down via text messaging:
Josh (8:27)-Hm, so when I invited you to watch the game with us at eddies I was pretty sure you didn’t know my name. So did you just pull the I’ll call saying I missed a call card? Cus I defiantly didn’t call ya. I know I’m that irresistible and all, but I wasn’t expecting that much of an effort from ya : ) -josh
Lacey (8:32)-Lol, no but that would have been pretty tricky of me. My phone rang three times in class so I looked at the three last missed calls. One of them might have called twice.
Josh (8:35)-Haha, whatever you say there buddy. But if you want to hang out with me that bad maybe ill be able to fit ya in.
Lacey (8:45)-ooo mr. popular. Looks like you basically sweat me haha
Josh (8:54)-Haha im sure youd just love that wouldn’t ya. Id say id sweat ya enough to let ya buy me a cup of coffee later, but other than that im feelin pretty cool
Lacey (8:58)-Let me buy you? I think you have that backwards. But if you need a break later I might be available. Early class though.
Josh (9:07)-Alrite well we’ll see how the night goes, but im gonna get back to my work. Try not to miss me too much…
Lacey (9:32)-Lol I don’t even like know you but I’ll try not to
-Basically, I tried to go cocky and arrogant on her. She took everyone line and threw it back in my face. I flipped out about this to Vatz for a good half hour, drank a beer because I was pissed off, and then wrote my 16 pages of sales call scripting.
-I'm going to be late for class, but this was fun so I'll do a part two within the next 24 hours. If I don't then you come come over my house and steal an animal cracker from me. Um. What?
-By the way, it was brought to my attention the other day that Jaeger read my blog. This is a very big deal to me, as you all know how I feel about Jaeger, Walt and Pike as a whole. It's really rather unfortunate that they now see how retarded I actually am in real life, as opposed to summer where I made somewhat of an attempt to keep it all together. So much for that.
Tooodles,
Josh
So this is an idea I'm stealing from my favorite author, Bill Simmons. He's a writer for ESPN.com, and is my favorite writer (yeah, I started reading believe it or not. Crazy). Anyway, he sometimes does columns where he just randomly writes about anything, and that's pretty much what I'm doing here rather than focussing on one specific topic (in this case which would have been CCC). He also does a mailbag, which is an idea I'd like to steal. If people want to write me emails or questions eventually I'll throw em all together and make a post out of it. Kinda like what Talle was trying to do, but a lot at the same time.
WARNING-This post is being written at 9am after pulling an all nighter. So if it's crazy and doesn't make sense, well sorry. But realistically, that might have happened if I wrote it on a full night's sleep anyway.
-CCC had it's ups and downs. We didn't have very high expecatations for ourselves going in because we were missing so many people, but because of that we may have underachieved a bit. I just think on the whole we lacked intensity and never kicked it into that next gear. However, we still finished pretty strong standings wise, and there were times (a lot of the Illinois game, a lot of the Georgia Tech game) where we looked really good. Early in the season I was putting a lot of weight on CCC and it's importance. While I didn't make this as public as the year went on, it was still a very important tournament in my mind as it could have set the right tone for the spring and gave us that "we belong here" type of mentality if we did really well. Others disagreed and downplayed the significance of it, and just saw it more as an oppurtunity to do the best we could with a weakened team playing against good competition. I think the right mindset going in probably would have been something in between.
-The lack of intensity that I just mentioned was particulary troubling to me, because as a captain, and the type of player I think I am in general, that's something I'm supposed to be responsible for igniting. I don't really think Ohio State or Davidson were better teams than us, I just don't think we ever got fired up to make a run on them. Both of those games were the type where if we got ourselves geared up and stole a break or two it would have been a huge shift in momentum and I think we woulda eeked em out.
-I have no fuckin clue how the hell to sub for 20 people. We had like 15 this weekend and I struggled with it. I just have a lot of difficulty not playing to win in most aspects of the game, and this translates over in subbing. It's really a Dline issue because Talle runs the O, but when it comes down to important and close games I'm not really sure how to open up a rotation when you have 5 players (Me, Sean, Andrew, Stu, Rob) on the Dline who expect to, and really should be on every point. Thank god for Weasel I guess.
-So apparently Dylan Tunnel was hurt from Club Natties, which was really sad to watch when he was playing the Hodags. These little squirly guys were like skying him and shit, and he's a lovable beast (well unless he's skying the shit out of your team at college nationals), so watching him out there was kind of like watching Emmitt Smith at the end of his career. Poor Emmitt could barely run for 50 yards in a game, for the Arizona Cardinals no less, and I had to watch my boyhood hero get pushed around by a bunch of shitbags, even though he's the all time leading rusher in NFL history.
-Speaking of Dylan, I got to match up with him when we played them on Sunday, and everytime he made a deep cut I'd take off with him and even though I was stride for stride I was still just kind of like holy shit if this goes up this shits gonna be crazy. He would inteligantly just kind of cut back under after this.
-Personal reflection. I had a lot of throways. That is bad. I didn't have any layout D's. That too is bad. I thought I cut really well and confidently, pretty much for the first time ever against good teams. That is good. I didn't help the O line as much as I should have, but still thought I did alrite. That is so-so. I thought my man D on the weekned was actually pretty good. I didn't get a lot of D's, but I shut my guy down a good percentage of the time I was covering him.
-So the reason I pulled an all nighter was because I was working on the script for my sales call video. My sales call plan, and the basis for the video, was a pitch selling Pittsburgh Pirates season tickets. This is actually a really difficult task when you consider the Pirates have the longest active streak of losing seasons in professional sports. Anyway, I wrote 25 pages on it, and then another 16 for the video script.
Sales Call Plan All-Nighters-2 Josh-0
-So in some of Sean's thoughts he addressed a lot of his turnovers and stuff like that from CCC. It was encouraging to read a lot of things he said and I feel like he gets the point on a lot of the things I'm going to say, but I'm going to say them anyway because it's my blog. Our D line offense has to be a real offense. We didn't have the personal to do that very effectively at CCC, but we will in the spring, so I would have liked to run it more that way at CCC. While making a break throw instead of a force throw might seem to reap more rewards, I feel like when the Oline has an open cut on the force they always take it. Granted, its a valid concern that there might not be any continuation off that force side throw, but that's a whole nother in itself. We all know Sean has all the pretty throws, but the fact is anytime you start going over the top, throwing some crazy crossfield breaks or a lot of the other fun stuff Sean does, it isn't as high percentage as taking an easy force side throw. We'll have guys who can get open on the force on the Dline, so lets make it happen.
I think this is also the case with our Dlines zone O. Granted this isn't something that happens very often, but our zone O has always been let Sean throw through or over, and then work it from there. But again, anytime you go over the top it's just not a high percentage. When playing with Blaze Sean didn't really throw stuff over the top or anything like that in zone, (while actually except for in the first game he tried to throw me a blade or something, it was a turnover and Walt yelled at him. THEN he didn't throw stuff over the top or anything like that) because he didn't have to. He had confidence that we would march it down the field, and we almost always did. If you have Sean handling with some combo of Jake/Nick/Btate with him, me and Stu popping, and Andrew and Rob stretching, thats a really good zone O line. I hope he has the confidence in that line to get it done like he did with Blaze. Our O shouldnt be Sean do something cool. Our O should be an O, and if we're screwed then Sean does something cool.
-That last little thing there wasn't meant to be a knock against Sean, and if it came off that way, my bad. I love Sean. I want to have his babies. Those were just some thoughts on our D line O as a whole, and isn't that really what we're all here for. My thoughts?
-Speaking of thoughts, Lindsay Macke is really hot. I'm staring at the picture of her thats on my wall right now.
-So speaking of girls. I got my life fucked up by this girl Lacey last night. I invited her over to watch the Steelers game Monday despite the fact that she didn't actually know my name, but we just knew each other threw Wes. We swapped numbers, but she didn't come cus she had to write a paper or something like that. Anyway she calls me last night, and said she missed a call from me, even though I didn't actually call her. It was a really awkward conversation, so I ended it ASAP, then took a minute to think about it, and the following exchange went down via text messaging:
Josh (8:27)-Hm, so when I invited you to watch the game with us at eddies I was pretty sure you didn’t know my name. So did you just pull the I’ll call saying I missed a call card? Cus I defiantly didn’t call ya. I know I’m that irresistible and all, but I wasn’t expecting that much of an effort from ya : ) -josh
Lacey (8:32)-Lol, no but that would have been pretty tricky of me. My phone rang three times in class so I looked at the three last missed calls. One of them might have called twice.
Josh (8:35)-Haha, whatever you say there buddy. But if you want to hang out with me that bad maybe ill be able to fit ya in.
Lacey (8:45)-ooo mr. popular. Looks like you basically sweat me haha
Josh (8:54)-Haha im sure youd just love that wouldn’t ya. Id say id sweat ya enough to let ya buy me a cup of coffee later, but other than that im feelin pretty cool
Lacey (8:58)-Let me buy you? I think you have that backwards. But if you need a break later I might be available. Early class though.
Josh (9:07)-Alrite well we’ll see how the night goes, but im gonna get back to my work. Try not to miss me too much…
Lacey (9:32)-Lol I don’t even like know you but I’ll try not to
-Basically, I tried to go cocky and arrogant on her. She took everyone line and threw it back in my face. I flipped out about this to Vatz for a good half hour, drank a beer because I was pissed off, and then wrote my 16 pages of sales call scripting.
-I'm going to be late for class, but this was fun so I'll do a part two within the next 24 hours. If I don't then you come come over my house and steal an animal cracker from me. Um. What?
-By the way, it was brought to my attention the other day that Jaeger read my blog. This is a very big deal to me, as you all know how I feel about Jaeger, Walt and Pike as a whole. It's really rather unfortunate that they now see how retarded I actually am in real life, as opposed to summer where I made somewhat of an attempt to keep it all together. So much for that.
Tooodles,
Josh
posted by Josh at 5:59 AM
12 Comments:
It sounds like Lacey has a personality And self-confidence.
This only spells trouble for you...
How WV girl?
A couple of things to set straight here.
Captain Defensive Reporting for Duty:
1)Though the Davidson Debacle was my latest game, and a shitty one...lets not act as if this is how things were for all time nor that that is how they are going to be. Things got better as the game went along (at least in the fact I started to wing the disc more and completed many more of my upfield throws). We just ended the tournament on this, so there was no opportunity to show that I had learned my lesson. Though I showed it extensively in my blogs post CCC, we are for some reason still talking about this...strange.
2) Walt did NOT yell at me. No yelling was necessary. I believe it was just a stern look.
3)I did not look off any on-time force side cuts this weekend to throw "cool" break throws. If the cuts were late and I had checked down to the breakside before looking to the dump- these things happen...a lot of open cuts never get thrown to because of poor timing/disc movement...but I never never never consciously would look off the force to throw a break...and certainly not for purposes of flow...haha- dline flow.
4)You misread that blade in SL.
5)Your D-line Zone O line with Jack/Nick/TaTe is interesting. Interesting because you call that a "really good zone O line." It COULD be a really good zone O line, but lets put those three on the field with me against any zone from a nationals caliber team. Lets think about the zone's they've seen before this fall (and they aint seen much this fall):
Nick- B team zones, PHUL High School zones.
TaTe- He probably played some zone defense in football in HS
Jake- did UPJ play zone at practice maybe? Maybe some Philly High School zone? Maybe a couple Juniors Nats zone points?
I think it has the potential to be good, but right now I would say that it is unproven, untested, and unknown more than anything else. All of those players have the potential to be good handlers, but if I were marking any of them with our zone, we'd often be going the other way--as of right now anyway.
Maybe we should consider a pike-style zone O with an up-handler who can crash in and eliminate trapped situations where we may get screwed.
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Now that you've devoted two paragraphs to my sucking, in addition to my entry about me sucking (one of which explained AS MUCH AS I POSSIBLY COULD that I was COMPLETELY AWARE OF IT and already put forth the same conclusions , and tried to explain how frustrating it is when I already understand that I fucked up and get to hear about it more from other people (the sean/dad explanation)...NOW, hopefully, finally, the thing can fucking die down already. Holy fucking shit fuck.
Good morning, Sean.
I am seriously tired of this Davidson bullshit. I'm not going to sit back and let you guy take credit for the loss. The offense gave up five breaks in a game to 10! Can we get some credit for sucking too?
josh, you left that post completely unresolved. I was waiting for you to finish up about what the team should look like, or some words of wisdome, or just provoking thoughts, and you talk about some stupid girl
damnit josh, that post really lived up to your blog's title
Reed
Hey guys,
Someone sent me a link to the blog so I was checking it out and saw that most of you read this. I have a lot of time on my hands so i figured I'd pick your brains a bit. I respect all of your opinions a lot so i would love to share thoughts/ideas with you guys. I'm typing as i think so ignore and spelling or grammar errors.
Anyway here goes:
We are having a problem this year with talent. After 3 years of sub-par recruiting at best we are finally paying for it. While we'll be at regionals, where we will be on sunday is yet to be determined. We have been successful these past 3 years because of a great coach and talented upperclassmen, and now we are left with a good coach a former rookie of the region, and a washed up 5th year club bench warmer ;). I feel like both of our teams have come a long way over the past 5 years (Neither of us being competitive in the region, and for us not even in our section, and us making day 2 for two straight years and you going to the show last year.) I feel like with us a good coach was the major change, but with you recruiting awesome athletes made a big difference. Maybe I'm wrong, but being wrong has never stopped me from running my mouth before.
So after all of that maybe i should get to my actual question. How is it that you were able to recruit all of these athletes to play flatball? Besides the obvious of setting up a table at a recreation fair or whatever, how do you get these athletes to stick with the team? Initial practice structures, parties, bitches? I would like to know, I'll be long gone form college Ultimate next year so it wont reallt benefit me, so what was it that you guys did so i can kick myself in the ass for not doing it myself.
I feel like the thing that hurts us the most is that we can get 40 or so people to the first welcome practices but they arent the right kind of people. NJ has a strong youth program but 95% of the kids we get just aren't athletes, or are flakes. No offense to Juniors players (vatz) but I feel relying on Juniors players to build a program isnt a good philosophy. I think i have talked to sean about this before but a lot of people share the idea that its easier to make an athlete a frisbee player, then to make a frisbee player an athlete.
Anyway i will be checking back here to see what you think and i look forward to chatting with you all.
Thanks guys.
Bill,
First of all, you should be much more drunk at 1:09am. Now to recruiting:
We have had two good recruiting years. This year, and two years ago. They were also the only two years that we took recruiting really seriously. It's all about the attitude- if you want athletes, you have to be athletes. At our recruiting fair, we sell athleticism, we talk about lifting, winning, etc. We also had Wes'fashion model girlfrind go into the crowd and sweet talk all the athletic kids she could find and get them to sign up. Next is having pickup that night, and then having "practice" every day over the next two weeks. At these practices we just play, we let the athletes show themselves and then we court them. When Josh came out to his first pickup and I saw he was athletic, I just let him run wherever he wanted and threw him goals over and over again (interestingly enough, we've been continuing that for the past three years). We also make an effort to talk to the athletes more at practices, let them be superstars, etc. But practices in the beginning are all about scrimmaging. No one comes to a team and wants to do drills.
But...what we do outside of practice is what matters. We act like a frat basically. The first week of school is rush week for ESN. After each practice we all go eat together at a huge table in the dining hall...I make fun of Vatz, everyone laughs at him- its a good time.
I cant remember exactly what all we did, but I'll try to give you an idea. We make sure to give them something to do every night with the team. They are looking to make friends and have fun, and our theory is that if we make them all friends with one another, they are all more likely to stick around. This worked for getting Rob, Wes, Josh, Stu.
When we are off the field we attempt to combine women and alcohol as much as possible. It benefits both the womens teams recruitment and our own to combine. We ran into a bit of a snag with that this year because they felt that our penchant for partying was driving away some recruits they wanted to keep who werent into partying--so next year at the recruitment fair we are going to start a female party-team in addition to our actual team signups, we'll see how that goes.
Anyway, as I ramble Josh-style here...oen night was apple-pie shots and ice cream, another was margaritas and mexican food (baja fresh catered), and that weekend we had two parties. Other things we did- cleats shopping trip and $1 burgers (this was a huge find, as its at a real restaraunt and they are REAL good), watched I Bleed Black on a movie screen in the studnet union and bought 200 wings. And EVERYTHING IS FREE TO THEM. (except $1 burgers at the restaraunt and cleats of course)
That concept is something that Vatz really pushed for and really payed off. It cost us a lot...like on the order of $500...but we fundraise like hell so that we can do those kinds of things. You also have to have people who are willing to put up their houses for it in the first week, and you gotta keep it all close to campus...and you HAVE to have girls.
At the end of the first week our rookies play CMUs rookies, which is a lopsided game every time we recruit well (almost as lopsided as when the A teams play). But it gives us something to talk about in practices that first week and gives them some immediate competition in a safe environment. We also send teams to the B div of club sectionals, which has been another great way to get them early action at a level they can compete at.
After the first week we cool down a bit, but still offer a couple weeknight events, and we keep the weekend parties going for the first month. We also have smaller drinking events on the side that are a kind of invite-only affair for the top athletes.
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As you can see, it takes a big effort, but the quality of athletes we have from this year is phenominal and its more than worth the work that we put into it. But you also have to be motivated...Vatz and I were at every single event for the week making sure everything was ok, and I was often making emergency runs to the distributor to pick up a couple cases. Its also taxing personally and on the team as there is frustration when some people dont "pull their weight" in recruiting. And that first week really killed a long-distance relationship of mine of sorts cause I just literally had no time, but Bro's before Ho's and Team before all else. And that shit was going down the crapper sooner or later anyway. I also fell asleep in my first week of grad classes- whoops. Its all good now though.
So remember: Food, Alcohol, Women, Free.
Also- you cant throw any stale parties. You gotta have some drinking games going (pong of course, but we enjoy quarters a lot and its a better spectator game and girls suck at it so they get wasted) and you gotta have girls there.
Phew...thats all I got, if theres anything else, one of the other guys can fill you in.
Thanks a lot Sean, do you bother to do any recruiting in the spring? I feel like while you may get an athlete its hard to make them a baller in 2 months. I really appreciate your honest input.
We don't really recruit, if someone who shows potential comes along we'll make an effort, but we don't really go out of our way. Sean pretty much covered everything,I guess the one thing I have to add is that you really have to put yourself 2nd to your rookies. Sean and Vatz didn't miss anything. I didn't watch the movie, which I still catch shit for, but other than that I didn't miss anything.
Basically what I mean is put them first. I had a very unhappy roomate because I had one of our freshman who we really wanted over at my place drinking when she didn't want anyone there, but you gotta deal with shit like that. At one of the parties a bunch of rookies wanted me to take shots of 151 with them. I didn't want to, but it made em happy, so you gotta do what you gotta do.
Another thing, is you have to recognize the cancers and try and keep them distanced. Anytime you're recruiting a lot of people, you're gonna get guys around who you don't want. They're annoying as fuck, have no shot at being good at disc, and scare away girls. It's really a team effort to make sure these type of people don't hurt your recruiting. AKA, if douchebag mcannoying is hitting on some hot bitches there, it means one of your atheltic kids aint, so you gotta try eleminate that as much as you can. It's not always impossible, but you try your best.
Personal attention is also great stuff. My freshman year Sean wrote me an email being all like, your the shit, and it definatly made me want to stick around. I've since done that with some promising rookies, and while the results may not have been as well as i'd like, it was the right idea. Also, have people on your team take special interests. Like Wes became all buddy buddy with one rookie Pat, and that personal attention definatly helped to keep him around.
So yeah, everything Sean said, putting yourself 2nd to your rookies, weed out the weeds, and personal attention.
By the way, glad to see you're reading my blog. That was a great decision on your part and I'll try not to let ya down.
Big ups to Jersey.
Josh
Sean hit the nail on the head.
The first Monday night at school, we were supposed to have a "scavenger hunt." Sounds fun, huh? Ya, me and sean thought so too, so we modified the plans. New plans: "Ice Cream Social," which was code for beer and apple pie shots. And we got some bitches there. All the rookies got trashed, and freakin loved it. And all this after their first monday night of classes. The rest of the week included more drinking, more bitches, and more fixing the stupid plans that the shitty Pitt womens team tried to force us into. Believe it or not, they actually believed that too much drinking and fun would scare off their rookies. And you wonder why everyone hates women's ultimate. Regardless, we changed all the stupid, not fun activities into alcohol infused fun fests, and it was quite successful.
The key to this all - do stuff that's fun. Freshman are really intrigued by the fact that they don't have to be home at 11pm anymore and they can drink and mommy won't know. Play to that. Let them go crazy and have some fun that they couldn't have at home. They'll respond to that, and they'll start associating the frisbee team with having a great time. You'll keep each and every one of them. This year, of every rookie that we wanted to keep, we kept all but 1 - and that's freakin ridiculous - considering last year, when we decided not to have fun during recruiting week, we lost everyone but me and a bunch of B-teamers.
Glad that this is a private blog so the whole world won't hate me,
Vatz
Haha, well private until I make it public. Which I'm going to. I woulnd't want to deprive the world of reading the ridiculousness that is my blog. Just haven't decided how public I want to make it yet. But most of the world hates ya anyway, so I wouldn't lose too much sleep over it.
That was kind of mean. If you were here I'd drop an FHP to make up for it, and we'd all live happily ever after and listen to Daughters by John Mayer.
Yeah 5am...
what he meant was:
"SFBA Davey"
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