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Post by coachmac57 on Nov 13, 2008 16:09:17 GMT -6
Our team went 4-6 this past year, but have many returning starters. The current staff has been here for two years and have gone 2-8 and 4-6. The previous staff was 1-19. With that said, the kids have not had a great deal of wins, but we are making progress each year. We have good athletes but they still have that "Rec" ball mentallity. What I mean is that no one inside the locker room will step up and lead, we (coaches) are the only ones pushing the kids. They dont push each other. And no one wants to step up and make the big plays when we need them. It is almost as if they are looking for someone else to do it for them. My question is how would you change the attitudes of the players so that this program could continue going in the right direction?
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Post by tothehouse on Nov 13, 2008 16:21:45 GMT -6
mac - our program had it's worst record since 1979 in 07. We went 4-6. Since 1985 we have averaged 8.7 wins a year. Our problem last year? What you described.
So, we assigned positional leaders. Specific players that lead by position. We hold them accountable to be accountable for their position players. They owe push ups when one of their positional players is late, etc. We force them to lead and hopefully that turns into direct leadership from them. We have gotten good results....not great. It is hard to make students rise up and lead. The success we have achieved has translated to an 8-1 record currently. The leadership piece is attacked every week.......so as to not let 4-6 occur again.
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Post by eickst on Nov 13, 2008 16:37:54 GMT -6
It is hard to make students rise up but peer pressure is a wonderful thing. Punish the right ones for other people's screw ups and those other people stop screwing up.
Works for the military.
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Post by coachmac57 on Nov 13, 2008 16:39:27 GMT -6
tothehouse - We installed something similar to yours. We had senior leaders and each one had a "team" he was responsible for. It worked great in that our off the field problems pretty much disappeared during the season. If a player got ISS, was late to practice, etc., then the "team leader" would have to participate in the punishment along with the offender. First year was a jump start year, but this year was pretty disciplined off the field. Your idea is a great one and I think our staffs are kinda on the same page, but even this set up hasn't produced the leadership that our team needs from itself. But great idea, we got ours from an article about how Urban Myer uses the same program at Florida.
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Post by optiononme on Nov 14, 2008 8:55:54 GMT -6
dcohio really hit the nail on the head. In order to get to where you want to be which is hopefully a championship program, everyone from from top to bottom has to be on board with the discipline and methods of your program. Coaches, Have you ever looked at how your Lockerooms are kept by your teams and compared it to the record of that team. Dan Hawkins raised this point in a clinic article and when you look at it, some interesting findings occur.
Championship Team-Championship LR
Losing Team-Losing LR
Is this always true, probably not, but it goes back to what dcohio was saying about the understanding of what it takes and the improvement of the "TEAM".
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Post by swoop on Nov 14, 2008 9:05:59 GMT -6
We have appointed captains on our team. The 4 guys who knows what we are looking for and live and die for football. They lead by example and have the resposibility that everybody else is in line and live up to our standards. It don't have to be the natural leading positions like QB or MLB.
We have two RB's, an FB and a DE. The guys who just shows up at practice and in games with the right mentality.
We do also punish the right ones for other people's screw ups and those other people stop screwing up.
It just gets people fired up running because someone else have failed.
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Post by windigo on Nov 14, 2008 11:49:38 GMT -6
One thing that I have found is that you are always going to have a lot of players that are natural minimalists and not in the art sense. They will do the absolute minimum that is required of them. But the thing to remember is that they are not quitters. They are just naturally lazy. Its your job as a coach to raise the bar and keep the minimum expectations high.
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