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Post by coachdawhip on Oct 27, 2009 20:46:45 GMT -6
....COMPETE!!!
Brophy's last two articles on his blog about Motivation got me thinking.
Many times those of us who have worked in programs that were not very good, our kids did not know how to practice and how to compete in practice and in the game.
AS they say "Get After It"
So what drills or things do you do to teach your kids to compete?
I loved one thing that Coach Plaa does, which is his 4x4 Drill every Tuesday where the do single-elimination tourney style Oklahoma Drill and the winning team gets a reward i.e., no locker room clean up that week, etc...
I know some coaches have teams for conditioning and the winning teams get some type of incentive.
Because after all isn't how to compete what we are trying to instill in our team?
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Post by coachdawhip on Oct 28, 2009 6:18:03 GMT -6
I understand your thoughts dcohio,
How to you get your kids to compete when you only have a small amount and THEY know there are very few people you cna replace them with?
Example team of 32, with 11 being 1st time freshmen who have never played football. How do you get the rest to complete.
They come to practice every day, you have made big gains in the weight program, but during practice they won't get after each other...
AS brophy said in his last post, screaming and yelling is not coaching so what do you do?
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Post by coachcb on Oct 28, 2009 6:25:01 GMT -6
One drill that I do with my DBs is a straight man-man skelly session. We have 4 DBs and 4 WRs; straight up, lock coverage. The offense throws any route the want at us, but it's full friggin contact. The WR beat us, I expect to see 4 DBs rallying to the ball, ready to make some hits. On the flip side, those WRs had better try and block us once the pass has been completed.
It's a great drill because we get to rep those fundamentals and we get to go 1-1; the WRs can't run to open grass, they'd better beat us in coverage if they want the ball. Generally, our DBs end up having a great day; they learn to play man coverage, we get picks, we get big hits and strips. We also learn to make open field tackles; a great thing.
If the WRs want to beat us, they'd better play hard; get off of jams and fight for the ball. They learn to play more a more physical brand of football. When that ball goes up, they've got to beat the defenders for it. When they make catches, they'd better hold onto that ball, because the DBs are going to pop them in the mouth and look for strips. They figure out in a hurry that they can't 'just be athletes', they've better be football players.
We don't have any punishment/reward system in place; the sessions turn into a fight for pride and they're competitive enough without it. We had a WR last year that burned us deep on a fade; the DB peeked and lost a step. He started talking trash to the DBs and they kept their mouths shut. The next play, he runs another fade, the ball is tipped, he gets drilled and we come up with a pick; he didn't talk the rest of the day.
There's just sometimes when you have to let the kids play for pride; turn them loose on one another. We have a decent JV/soph rivalry going on right now; when we go up against them, it gets friggin nasty, all because we do let them bang pads a little bit.
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Post by coachcarnac on Oct 28, 2009 8:13:40 GMT -6
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Post by coachwoodall on Oct 28, 2009 8:26:40 GMT -6
Look at your practice schedule and see how your structure practice. It is is tough to coach and monitor individual competion when you are going team.
The more sessions/periods you have in indy/group will allow you to work on this.
One session that we get to do is this during run group. OL/DL&LB going at it, while on the other end of the field the WR/DBs are doing 1 on 1s man coverage. Sometimes we might go 1/2 perimeter. Either way the key is intensity and competion.
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Post by brophy on Oct 28, 2009 8:40:53 GMT -6
You remove fear and compete against your best self in the weight room and in the off-season. This in turn leads to confident, aggressive, and selfless football players. Then we hopefully prepare them well, leading them to operate on "autopilot" and playing fast in practice and games. nuff said.......awesome! |
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Post by coachdawhip on Oct 28, 2009 11:00:28 GMT -6
Understanding the "when" is easy but how Do You Teach the Competion.
To say do it in the off-season and the weight room tells the when but not how??
Has anyone ever coached the team that competed in the weight room and got stronger, in speed training and got faster, againist other in the off-season and got better.
But when the pads came on they went down hill??
I know the 1st reply is coach'em up!
But lets be more in detail.
How do you get the player who is a starter who knows he is the best at his position to push it or compete in practice.
Just playing DA here.
He's not just going through the motions, be he is loafing it, in the sense that loafing in this ocntext means he knows he is better than everyone else, but he is not doing anything to push the other people around them and make them better. It's like while he does the right things he is on cruise control.
How do you get that kid to push himself harder and others?
Coaching at team 17, how do you push them to compete?
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Post by fbdoc on Oct 28, 2009 11:18:25 GMT -6
This is all good stuff but the kids have to WANT to compete. They're on your team so the WANT to play football. Now do they WANT to get better or are they happy just having a helmet and a place to stand (or sit) on gameday? The Frosty Westering quote is a great one, but it also goes back to another Frosty quote -
"They won't care how much you know until they know how much you care!"
YOU want them to compete - but how do you get them to WANT to compete? All the drills in the world won't get them to compete unless they have bought in to what you are selling.
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