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Presenting news and views - often outrageous, always thought-provoking
- on a wide variety of topics, usually related in some way to coaching,
to leadership, to citizenship. Items cover coaching, football, football
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 TUESDAY, MAY 15, 2012 - "Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it." Laurence J. Peter
*********** Pope Franjo sends this along , from Bob Hunter's column in The Columbus Dispatch...
Barry Larkin went
to Michigan to play football and ended up as a baseball player. In an
interview on ESPN this week, the 19-year Cincinnati Reds shortstop
explained what happened when he went to coach Bo Schembechler’s office
and told him he was going to play baseball.
“He said,
‘Larkin this is the University of Michigan!’ and pounded his desk,”
Larkin said. “He came up over the desk - almost climbed over the desk -
and he pointed at me and said, ‘No one comes to the University of
Michigan and plays stinkin’ baseball!’ I’m like, ‘OK, Coach.’ He told
me, ‘You get out of this office, and you come back tomorrow when you
have come to your senses.’ So I go back and tell him (again) the next
day, and I thought that was the end of it.
“Well,
maybe three or four times a month (when) we’re out there practicing
baseball, this guy in a hoodie comes out and he heckles me from the
third-base line. It was Bo. ‘ Larkin! Come hit a man who can hit you
back instead of that sissy baseball!’ ”
Larkin was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in January.
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GREAT FOR PRACTICE! The PASSBACK! Maybe
you've noticed, as I have, that not enough kids come to us with the
ability to throw and catch a football. Maybe it's because they don't
play catch the way they used to - maybe because even when they do play
baseball they're not taught to catch with two hands. Whatever, as
football coaches we've just had to live with it. Until now. Now,
though, we can do something about it. Better still, the kids themselves
can do something about it!!
Now, for the first time ever, there's the PASSBACK
- a training device that looks, feels, throws and catches just like a
real football - and a player can use it by himself. No more having to
find someone to throw to (or someone to throw to him).The PASSBACK
is not a toy. It's a real football, modified so that it bounces back to
the thrower! And it comes it two sizes - youth and regulation. Watch a young QB demonstrate or,,, Check out some receiver and DB drills I predict that the PASSBACK
will revolutionize coaching the skill positions. Long-time readers of
my site know that I don't endorse many things, but I was so sold on the PASSBACK that I didn't just endorse it - I worked out an agreement with the US licensee to become a PASSBACK dealer. I took as many as I could to my recent Providence, Philadelphia and Carolina clinics and sold all I had.
I'm selling them for
$19.95 + $3 shipping ($22.95) for the youth-size ball or $29.95 + $4
shipping ($33.95 total) for the regulation size. Trust me -
you're not just going to want one for each of your quarterbacks -
you're going to want enough for your receivers and backs as well. DB's,
too. The PASSBACK also makes a great gift! Why watch the little guy in your life kick a soccer ball when he can be throwing and catching a football! (Incidentally, I've found that the youth-size may work even better for receivers!)
A high school coach who bought a Passback for his young son writes, Coach
Wyatt, I recently purchased the Passback for my 9-year-old son who is
recovering from a leg injury. He loves it because it allows him to play
catch by himself, and he quickly discovered the better the throw, the
truer the return. I love it because it has him outside moving, throwing
and catching, all while he is having fun. I would recommend it for any
kid looking to develop hand-eye coordination! KC Smith Walpole,
Massachusetts
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