Grant Rocket Football

2009

last updated February 20th, 2010

2009 Schedules

2009 Parent Handbook

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We will be holding our 1st off season training Feb. 26th from 6:30-8:30pm at the Grant High School Gym. Pizza will be provided after the training. If you have any questions, please let us know. 

Are you interested in the Grant Fight Song.  You can down load the words here.

Team Fight Song

Grant Rocket Football is now on Facebook!!!

Ringing the bell after another hard fought victory!

 Grant Rocket Football is looking for a new Coaching Director. If you are interested, please contact us.

Board Meeting Changes

All our board meetings will be held at the Grant Fire Station at 7:00 PM on the 2nd Tuesday of the month.

Are you a Grant High School Student looking for your community hours?  

To place your order call Melissa Cuningham at (616) 205-6785

Note:  All sales are finale.  There will be no refunds on personalized merchandise.

If you coach football or play football you should watch the following video from

National Athletic Trainers Association

http://www.nata.org/consumer/headsup.htm

Important information:

Our Board meetings are open to the public January 12th at 7:00 PM at the Grant Fire Station

4 years later still loving football

Friendship!

  contact us

tigers@grantrocketfootball.org

Top Ten Reasons to be a Designated Good Sport

10. Because taunting, trash talk and intimidating behavior have no place in youth sports - or at any level of sports.

9. Your admission is to watch the performance of highly - impressionable 1st-6th grade children and not a license to abuse coaches, officials, players and other spectators.

8. You want others to treat you the way you want to be treated - and how many of us want to be treated with disrespect.

7. We need more positive role models for our kids.

6. People don't always remember the final score- but they always remember the fan in Section Three who made a fool out of themselves.

5. Because and officials are also teachers.  Why would you harass them in their classroom?

4. A national survey indicates kids play sports to have fun - not to be number one!

3. Its how you play the game that counts.

2. It's simply the right thing to do.

1. Because sportsmanship begins with you!

Team Work

Mom! That was fun!

Volunteers Needed

Grant Rocket Football is strictly run by volunteers, we need your help.  

Committees are currently being formed.  Please contact Jason Cunningham at 834-5866  if interested in serving on any of the following committees.

 Fundraising Committee

 Program Committee

 Concessions Committee

 Field Committee

 Coaching Committee

"Coach I am having fun, now can I run the ball"? 

Home coming parade

Important fundamentals to football.

Sportsmanship, self-discipline, teamwork, focus, forward and backward movement, lateral movement, blocking, tackling, stances, ball handling, pursuing.

No matter what system you run, some of the techniques might change slightly but all these fundamentals remain the same.

Photos Needed!

We are looking for photos of the 2009 football seasons.  If anybody has any photos they would like to share on the website or player program you can email them to Jason Cunningham at tigers@grantrocketfootball.org

Do I have to run a certain style of football if I am to coach for Grant Rocket Football?

Answer. No.  all coaches undergo off season training to learn to teach and coach football but there is no requirement on which style of football you play as long as it is safe and good sportsmanship is mandatory.  Our obligation is to our kids to treat them with respect and give them the opportunity to win this year.

Same question posed to Hugh Wyatt, one of the most successful well know football coaches in the country at youth and high school level.  Here is his response so eloquently put.

I coach 7th grade football. I have finished watching your "Fine Line" video and started watching your "Dynamics I" tape. My question is "Is it worth it to properly teach the DW to my kids for one year only to have them learn a different offense in 8th grade?" Your offense calls for a different snap, a different stance, a different offensive numbering system, and a different way to pull. I don't doubt my coach's and my ability to teach your system, and I'm not shy about running something different than the 8th grade or our high school. I really want what is best for our kids.

It is a good question, one I get asked all the time, and one I can handle easily. It is the classic "prepare them for the next level" garbage.

I think that the best situation is when there is cooperation among all parties, and it is great when a successful high school program is able to offer its services to its youth coaches and they all run the same thing, but that is the exception.

Many people hear of those exceptional situations, though, and seem to think that the ideal situation in a school system or a community is for youth coaches and middle school coaches to be robots, controlled by the coaches above them. I disagree. I subscribe to the old football philosophy that you can only coach one team at a time.

In high school, of course, all levels of the program should - and normally do - play basically the same offense and defense.

But in most cases, youth coaches and middle school coach are free to coach their own kids as they see fit, without any input from high school coaches. (After all, it is not unusual for several different middle schools to feed one high school, or for kids from one middle school to wind up going to several different high schools.)

Obviously, there are dangers if youth or middle school coaches don't know what they're doing, and high school coaches can be of great help in many areas. But the high school coach who complains that the youth coaches don't run his system is often guilty of not really providing them with proper support and direction, or with a system that they can use. A good example of the latter would be the high school coach who runs an offense that requires skills not yet found in little guys.

(All too often, the high school coach has enough problems of his own without getting involved in other programs.)

Your obligation as a coach of younger kids is to your kids. Period. It is first and foremost to treat them right and to help them to be as successful as they can be - this year. It is a matter of your professional judgment to decide what offense and defense are best suited to your kids to enable them to be successful. (Naturally, you need to do your homework.)

It would be ideal if you and the next guy up the food chain were to run the same system, but if you are not doing so and you can't reach agreement, then assuming that you are doing what is best for your kids, is NOT your obligation to make it easier for him when he gets the kids next year by teaching your kids techniques, terminology, snap count, formations, etc. specific to his system. If he is any coach at all, he can make the necessary changes the first morning of the first practice next year.

It IS your obligation to him - and to everybody else who will ever coach your kids - to teach them teamwork, coachability, good work habits and sound fundamentals (blocking, tackling, block protection, hit position, how to fall and get back up, etc.).

It IS your obligation to him to try to put your kids in a position where they have the best possible chance to win, so they will develop confidence. And it IS your obligation to him to leave your kids liking football and wanting more, so they will turn out for football next year.

As to any arguments that you might be stifling the kids' advancement, that is pure horse manure. In fact, if you are successful and the guy above you is not, isn't it every bit as reasonable for you to insist that the he adopt your system so that your kids will continue to be successful?

Suggestion - if this proves to be a hang-up, why not propose staying with the kids for two years - 7th and 8th grade - and then starting over again?  

Permission was granted by Coach Hugh Wyatt to reprint the above question an answer.