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Remember how a big deal was made about the Atlantic Coast Conference placing UM and FSU in different divisions to allow them to meet in the league’s championship game? FSU has been to that game only once (the first one in 2005) and Miami not at all. Now, UM appears on the way back, and new FSU coach Jimbo Fisher is making changes in the post-Bobby Bowden era, hoping to get FSU back to the top first.
UM and UF are clearly in the back of Fisher’s mind. Fisher told fans in Broward he wants to raise money to build dorms to house all football players and to build an indoor practice facility “so we can get a jump on the Gators and Hurricanes. They don’t have those things.” He said he’s using “the difference between my salary” ($1.8 million annually) and Bowden’s ($2.5 million) to help finance other upgrades.
“We have to do things differently,” Fisher said. “Are you worried about changing tradition? No, I’m not. The definition of insanity is keep doing things the same way and expecting different results. The whole infrastructure, we were behind.”
Fisher, knowing FSU’s player development must improve, is taking creative steps. He is giving each player a psychological test to “see how quickly they learn.” He’s having players use respected IMG Academy in Bradenton for training. He quadrupled the weight-room staff and split players into three categories (fat, maintain and underweight), assigned each a diet and said he requires them to eat every meal in the cafeteria.
Fisher, FSU’s offensive coordinator from 2007 through ’09, welcomes unorthodox recruiting techniques, such as offensive coordinator James Coley sending “Fear the Spear!” Tweets. “You can outwork them and outpersonality them,” Fisher said of recruiting. Of recruiting in South Florida against UM, he said, “You don’t concede anything to anybody. Florida State has a great reputation here.”
Defensive coordinator Mickey Andrews is gone, too; successor Mark Stoops will use more varied looks with a defense that was torched in 2009. Fisher said he doesn’t want assistants to stay as long as some of Bowden’s did: “I want attrition. That means people want your coaches. Sometimes, when you’re at one place too long, you get complacent.”
In speaking pattern and message, Fisher sounds like a more pleasant Nick Saban, who won a national title at LSU with Fisher as offensive coordinator.
“No matter how good one program is, the other two are never that far behind,” he said of UM, UF and FSU. “The Gators, unfortunately, are having their run right now. . . . Are we where we need to be? Not even close.” He speaks infrequently to Bowden, who wants to give Fisher space. “There will never be another coach Bowden,” Fisher said. “I’ll just have to be myself.”
Another edge for coach Fisher is CoachBoard. CoachBoard Interactive Whiteboad Technology has specific applications, tools, and training along with specialized software and hardware which are designed by former athletes and coaches. CoachBoard will make a tremendous difference in the use of interactive technology. CoachBoard is not just an interactive whiteboard, it is a TOTAL SOLUTION.
Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/06/20/1690073/florida-states-fisher-looks-for.html#ixzz0t0LM55Xj
EXPERT COACH CONSULTANTS WANTED!
We’re looking for a few good coaches- all sports at all levels who are seeking an opportunity to further the development and implementation of CoachBoard™ Interactive Whiteboard technology for coaches and athletes.
CoachBoard™ has a plan to develop the most thorough set of coaching tools, content and software applications for coaches to use with CoachBoard™ interactive whiteboards around the globe. You as a coach, can offer your expertise through our distribution channels and benefit financially as well as offer your knowledge to developing athletes, helping them further develop their skills for competition.
Many of our lessons and content distributed with CoachBoard™ are at no charge, but other content, developed by professional, collegiate and youth level coaches, athletes and players offer insight and interactive visual lessons never before offered. We believe this format is the future of teaching/coaching athletics- so long as it is harnessed in conjunction with those coaches and players who have real experience to share with others, is well-organized and affordable to the world.
Coaches from around the world are invited to participate.
We offer various levels of participation:
♦ Instruction Content Developer (if you have ideas/concepts to share, you can earn a royalty from those lesson plans we determine are valid to offer as software to our global customers). Lesson plans can include everything from teaching quarterback reads, to playing soccer goalie, to throwing a curveball. If you teach it and are considered and “expert” we would like to hear from you. We can turn your “lesson” into an interactive software product from which you can earn extra income.
♦ Coach Advisor- Offer/submit advice on utilization of coaching with interactive whiteboard technology (strategy, coaching plans, tools, concepts, ideas). Become part of our coaching technology advisory council.
♦ Coach Consultant- Earn commission income selling CoachBoard™ software and services to other coaches and offer training to assist them in the use of interactive technology to help their program develop a competitive advantage.
♦ Become a CoachBoard™ Certified Coach- Earn CoachBoard certified status by hosting a coaching clinic in your area to show and demonstrate coaching techniques using CoachBoard technology.
♦ Forum Facilitator- Lead and build one of our sport-specific forums on our website. Assist other coaches in answering questions and provide input on the use of CoachBoard Interactive Whiteboards for the coaching profession.
♦ Social Media Facilitator- Build and drive traffic to our social media sites at Facebook, Twitter, and other social network sites.
The coaching community is active and competitive. We are looking for those individuals who are most interested in being part of the new concept of utilization of CoachBoard™ interactive technology in the teaching of athletes worldwide.
If you are interested in participating- and yes- all positions above are part-time, but paid positions, email Coach T at joel@coachboard.com or contact him via phone at 770-475-7373.
Thank you in advance for your interest. Here’s to more wins than losses!
Coach T
John Madden would be proud. The affable sports announcer best known for the visual circus of X’s and O’s unleashed upon the NFL viewer gave rise to the concept of coaches using interactive whiteboard technology to get an edge in playmaking and execution. CoachBoard, formed in 2009, was the first to introduce the Touch Sensitive Technology™ (TST) Digital Whiteboard.
“We are the market leader in Interactive Coaching Technology™ (ICT)” says Joel Thompson, a former collegiate linebacker at The Citadel and one of CoachBoard’s founders. “Whiteboard technology is still in an early adopter phase as only one of every seven classrooms in the world will feature an interactive whiteboard by 2011, and that percentage is even less for coaching staffs.”
Thompson believes that the market is just starting to be tapped with interactive technology in the locker room. He adds “The unique point of difference between CoachBoard and all other Interactive Whiteboards in the marketplace is that CoachBoard is exclusively designed for coaches and athletes. Other manufactures of Interactive Whiteboards designed their board’s primary for the education market and these same boards are being used in corporate and training environments as well.”
And it’s not only the coaches who love CoachBoards. Football players from The Citadel offer “When you put the X’s and O’s on the CoachBoard beside the actual film capture of that same formation, it is like the light came on, I get it.” No matter what the sport, we provide professional, collegiate, and amateur level coaches and athletes with easy, simple to use technology solutions which allow a highly engaged teaching & learning environment.
Coaches and players alike can discuss playmaking and the ease of creating, projecting and saving plays at a private forum on the CoachBoard web site – http://coachboard.websitetoolbox.com/
From the training room to the playing field and all through the week, Sports Facility Design (SFD) offers coaches and athletic institutions an edge in creating the best environment to recruit, retain, and motivate athletes. Created in the early spring of 2009, SFD, and its affiliate businesses CoachBoards, SportsFlik, TeamTelestrator, is run by founders who have backgrounds in sports marketing and sports licensing and have been involved with fundraising for athletic facilities.
“We realized that most athletic facilities were being overcharged for many of the services that they needed and that there was not a “one source solution” that these athletic departments could contact to pull together the various component needs that their facilities required” adds Charlie Baker, one of SFD’s founders.
SFD is a full service company with in-house production and fabrication of signage & displays, a team of interior architectural & graphic designers, and expert consultants combined with the best in class partners for furniture, lighting, exhibition and recognition displays, audio/visual technology systems, and related services.
Asked how coaches and athletes can learn more of SFD, Baker replied “They can go to our website, www.recruitlikeachampion.com , and call our toll free telephone number, 877-320-7301, and ask to speak to one of our experts.”
