Coach Kinzie 🏈
@KinzieLikeABoss
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21 seasons of coaching HS 🏈. SS/Math/PE teacher. Dad of 2. Dog dad of 3. Proud brother of Brian Kinzie (1972-2014) {Pslm 61:1-2} #FlexboneNation #FeedTheCats
South Bend, IN
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Brian James Kinzie, 10/6/72 - 1/18/14.
But today is a day to focus on the dash, and not the dates. Because Kinzie put a *hell* of a lot of life into that dash.
And I like to think that he’s up there smiling knowing there’s a Kinzie prowling the sidelines in a headset again.
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You think your son playing football is dangerous? I’ll tell you what’s really dangerous: Your teenage son not being involved with an organization that works constantly to reinforce decision making, character, keeping grades up, and sacrifice for the good of the team.
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Me when HUDL keeps kicking me back to the “new” HUDL and wants me to use it instead of using HUDL classic:
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My sport is different. This isn’t golf. There are rec leagues in basketball, pools all over the United States, people run their whole lives... 94% of my guys get 4 seasons, and then they’ll never put on a helmet and shoulder pads again. For as long as they live.
I want a season.
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I tell my LBs, “your girlfriends will lie to you, your coworkers will lie to you, your friends will lie to you… Pulling guards will never lie to you.”
A huge key to playing fast as a Linebacker?
Seeing the PULLERS.
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Football coach random fact: every high school football coach knows exactly which bathroom in the building provides the most solitude on Friday morning.
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I coach. I don’t hunt, I don’t golf, I don’t fish, I don’t ski… Football is who I am. It’s been a crazy journey for the last 21 years, and the shortcomings have taught me more than the successes. I’m just ready to get started on season 19.
#2022
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I’m at anniversary dinner with my wife, still texting football stuff with my assistant coaches.
I apologize, and she just said “we got married during football season, I know what I signed up for” and kept eating.
I married the right one. 😉
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Dudes really think they’re head coach material after one year as an assistant, but they haven’t figured out how to make a practice plan or a scouting report. Here’s a whistle, Susan, I’ll be at Buffalo Wild Wings. 0:00 on HUDL this week? Have fun.
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What’s your favorite college sports rivalry? ND-USC? Texas-Oklahoma? Mine is
@KirkBarron73
vs the sun.
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Congrats to Camp Point Central (IL) on their state title! 50 passing attempts all season, 3,940 rushing yards, and this is what a home game looks like.
How can you not be romantic about small school football?!
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Want to know why I think football is the greatest game? This picture (can’t remember where I stole it from) says it all: Guys sacrificing it all for the love of their brother... And their names will never be called on the PA system Friday Night unless they mess up.
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What if I told you that tonight a team took the opening 2nd half kickoff, and then ran the triple option for 12+ minutes and the other team didn’t take possession until the 2nd minute of the 4th quarter?
If you love America, you love Warsaw football and Bart Curtis.
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Today was humbling. We were on the practice field preparing for a football game while, across the street, our community marched in memory of a 7-year old little girl.
I’m just a FB coach. I wish I knew the answers, but I don’t. All I can do is love the hell out of these boys.
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Didn’t have access to my field... But there’s a candle lit at Jackson Field in South Bend as long as the wind will allow. Condolences from the
@RileyWildcats
family
@panthersnc
#LightsForLoggan
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A little Flexbone pod work today… Running inside veer always feels good - Feels like home.
#FlexboneNation
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Found a 30-year old Fleet Enema bottle in my Grandma's pantry. 500 likes and I'll use it.
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Me holding my 4 shares of NOK and AMC while the hedge fund managers come for us all:
#stonks
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@stoolpresidente
Remember how William Wallace felt when he saw Robert the Bruce fighting alongside the English?
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Why football is the best sport, a short story: The VAST majority of football programs don’t cut anybody. You show up and put your work in? You have a home in our locker room. You have a brother in your team mate. You might not be varsity, but you’ll never be turned away.*
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Army and Navy both modernized their offenses, and as a result they combined for *checks notes* 2 touchdowns.
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Harding’s offense sure is boring to watch. Archaic, irrelevant style of football. I feel bad for those kids.
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Ronnie is the most important person in any locker room.
This year was Ronnie’s first (and only) year of football. He plays scout team every day. Some days guard, some days wide receiver. He has never complained about playing time, and has maybe 10 snaps all year. Today he got his first swing at the rock. He is a great teammate.
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This afternoon two teams from 3 counties apart played a scrimmage. It was hard-fought. We hit each other. We tested each other. And when it was done we waved “good game” from opposite sides of the field.
Thank you to all of the adults that believed we could still play.
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18 seasons of coaching & 12.5 years of teaching in the State of Indiana. It’s been great, but now it’s time to go North “beyond the wall” to Michigan with the other wildlings.
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“Several members of the Riley Wildcats football team use their platform in the community to make a statement about racial inequity.”
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Love that I’m sitting here, in my kitchen, watching the IHSAA State Finals. Amazing that we made it here in spite of all of the hardships.
I love the IHSAA, the IFCA, all of the ADs and coaches and health department people... Just everyone that made this possible.
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Want to be a head coach? Here’s the best advice I can give: Make yourself the best assistant coach you can possibly be. Volunteer. Go to JV games. Go to middle school games. Learn how to run the scoreboard, learn how to do the laundry, learn how to tag HUDL… coaching = service
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Average fan: “it sure gets boring watching a team run the same play 30 times a game.”
Harding Football:
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@BretBaier
the Federal Gov't owes us a BIG explanation. And I hope some people are clearing out their desks as we speak.
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So the IHSAA and IFCA have spoken. With all of these colleges having positive tests, PLEASE don’t be the staff that cuts corners and causes us to lose football for 2020. Follow the guidelines, and when in doubt err on the side of being overly cautious!
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Indiana license plate “00X00Y” now belongs to me. Let’s see if traffic behind me calls strength to the 3-man surface.
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Our new lifting shirts for 2023! Coaches have been issued sharpies, and we aren’t afraid to use them.
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June 22, 2010. The worst phone call of my entire life. The worst possible experience any parent could ever live through.
So beyond grateful to God and the amazing professionals who fought against the odds and I’m thankful that my son is still here.
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There is nothing on this Earth that makes me happier than seeing Senior football players coaching up Freshmen football players during Indies.
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January 18, 2014... I’ll never forget that 2am phone call, and I’ll never forget my mother’s reaction to finding out you were gone.
Please know, no matter how bad things seem, there are ALWAYS people that care, people who will listen.
#RIPKinz
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Unwritten rule of FB: When a linemen scores, you can keep the flag in your pocket - we’ll go ahead and walk off the 15 ourselves. 😅
Love you,
@Official_Tyson9
!
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Half of the high school coaches in Michigan right now (not a Wing T, though):
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August, if you could hurry up and get here that’d be great.
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Young men are 4-5 times more likely to commit suicide than their female counterparts. Men make up 90% of the prison population, and males make up 60% of high school dropouts.
Coaches, go hug your young men. Tell them you love them. Let them know that they matter.
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Please refer to my tweet from a few days ago. Young people today deal with things OUR generation didn’t. If you’re a coach/educator and you aren’t all-in for the kids, please retire and make way for someone who is. Nobody cares about your record if you aren’t making a difference
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Hope you’re enjoying the view, Coach. Tell Brian hello for me. RIP.
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When Kansas lines up spread under Head Coach Jeff Monken:
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Fans yelling “Flexbone!” Warms the heart.
We’re headed to the 4th with Harding leading 48-7.
The Bisons are 15:00 from earning their first ever trip to the
#D2FB
championship game.
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SERVANT. LEADERSHIP. This job is too important to be wasted on people who don’t get that.
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Happy 44th birthday to the OG
@coachkinzie
. Some wounds never heal - I still miss him every day.
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So frickin' pumped... One of my former players just called me last night to let me know that he went to Western Michigan's walk-on tryouts, and he made the squad. He's currently being fitted for equipment. Congrats, Jake - You gambled on yourself and worked your tail off!
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Happy
#NationalSiblingsDay
to my brother Brian. Hope I make you proud, and I'll see you again when my work here is done.
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FYI: Last night's game was the first game my mom has come to since my brother died in 2014. You gave her a heck of a show.
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No weightroom? No problem. Getting creative is the name of the game in the “new normal.”
Cinder blocks come in weights from 30 to 60 (that I saw!), can be labeled for each player, and can get sprayed down after practices. And they’re literally $1 a piece!
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When she helps you sort through practice pants, looking for ripped thigh pad pouches... She’s a keeper.
#coacheswife
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Public Service Announcement for High School football players: HYDRATE. NOW. Not later, not tomorrow morning... NOW.
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3 years ago today was the morning that we received the news that Brian had passed away. The lives he touched means his legacy will never die
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Fullbacks wearing a 99, pretty sure that’s what our forefathers fought for.
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Today, one of my coworkers joked “I bet you’re glad you don’t have to play in this weather!”
Are you kidding? I’d die to be out there right now. Those of you lucky enough to have the chance, cherish it. Win or lose, you’re doing something incredibly special tonight.
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It’s an honor that Coach Edison, Mr. Henderson, Mr. Gavin, and the Riley community trust me with their program for the 2020 season.
I promise to love these young men and always do what’s in their best interest, and I’m excited for you to see what we have in store.
#WaveTheFlag
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No feeling more helpless than picking your kid up from school in tears because other kids were teasing him in school that day. Like his scars are his fault.
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When your plan isn’t working, maybe it’s time to just line up with two TEs and see what Zone Dive, Trap, and Iso can get you.
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If you’re “too big” to go help set up the field for Pop Warner, you’re too small for the chair. I said what I said.
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To all of my coaching friends whose seasons ended last night… One of the most relatable and gut-wrenching scenes in film: Friday Night Lights, Coach Gaines taking off the Seniors’ name plates from his depth chart. God bless all of you for the work you do, not everyone can do it.
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@FootbaIl_Tweets
@WillFosterIV
Watched it live, absolutely one of the top 3 football games I’ve ever watched
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@JimIrsay
Head football coach of a tremendous group of young men at Riley HS in South Bend who are working their tails off to try to get ready for the season, and I would love to be able to use the $400 to help buy every one of them some equipment!
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6 years ago today, we laid my brother to rest on his favorite of days: A snow day. 3 busses parked in the funeral home parking lot, a full spillover room inside, and we held up traffic for 10 minutes. What other job allows you to impact that many lives?
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So my wife and her sister went to go see the Taylor Swift movie/concert, and she made me a
@ITYSL_memes
friendship bracelet and I’m more in love with her now than I’ve ever been.
#DarmineDoggyDoor
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My wife is addicted to watching Love Is Blind on Netflix, but I can’t help but think that most of those people are probably just there for the zip line.
@ITYSL_memes
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If you Then you
don’t love Don’t deserve
me at my Me at my
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January 18th is a day that I always dread on the calendar. 8 years ago today I lost my best friend, and not a single day has gone by that I haven’t thought about him. Miss you, BK.
@coachkinzie
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@wretherford
That’s what’s so frustrating. We take temps daily. Sanitize as they walk in, and again when they leave. Masks being worn. Zero equipment in use, all body weight workouts and conditioning.
... And then you go to the store, and you see tons of people doing their own thing.
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@MadScientistFF
Used the decorative towel. You know, the one that’s hung prominently on the towel rack in the bathroom but your not allowed to use *as* a towel?
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Check out the TE washing down the End... No better feeling on Earth than moving a man from point A to point B against his will.
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Warsaw, Mishawaka, and Fairfield are all sectional championships. The Northern Indiana flexbone trifecta is complete.
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Today would have been Brian's 43rd birthday. Still miss him everyday.
http://t.co/dhTZcfRNt0
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@NickStro66
The one truth of coaching: There is no correlation between time spent on creating scout cards and improved efficiency of scout team.
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Assistant coach, after last night’s scrimmage: “You know, Coach, I’m kind of thinking we should still be spraying these pads down with sanitizer every day even after coronavirus is over.”
A fair point.
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Any college coaches looking for a c/o ‘25 MLB/FB who has a 4.0, runs a 20mph 10-yard fly, wear a cowboy collar, and rides bulls in his free time? My DMs are open.
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If you recognized the amount of trauma and upheaval that our young people have been through in their lifetimes, you’d wear the title of “player’s coach” like a badge of honor.
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Huge shout out to this Harding D. You don’t have the time to run your system if the D doesn’t absolutely shut this Mines offense down.
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Finally, there’s a stone worthy of the man that Brian James Kinzie was.
And tomorrow I take to the sidelines for my first game as DC, and I can’t help but think the timing isn’t a coincidence.
I can’t wait to be out there with the only brothers I have left.
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@chung_cr
@serbensms4
No. It isn’t decent at all, and no civilized person would be caught dead there - Which is exactly what makes it the greatest.
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