Places you visited this Spring

I am headed for Celina, TX, to visit with Coach Butch Ford and his staff about the 10-1 defense in late May.

We visited Wake Forest for a Spring Practice and the things that you walk away from it seeing how they break apart Physical and Mental Reps during practice. They would go from a 11 on 11 Scrimmage to Team Concepts using air, and getting kids to visualize coverage and what routes they should expect.

Also a great job breaking up the special teams postion. Used 1 coaches to coach the each of the following positions left side, right side, upbacks, long snapper and punter.

I know its hard to do some of that stuff at the high school but some of the stuff I think we can do.

Really? I only see one on the board, we get pretty up to date info on that here. NU has 4 commits and none from the same school: nebraska.scout.com/a.z?s=204&p=9&c=8&yr=2011

Next time I see Barney Cotton, will have to let him know they have another one

Went to 3 Spring Practices and 3 days of coaches clinics in Lincoln
Learned how college position coaches are held accountable
Learned how college coaches teach kids how to watch film
Learned how NU runs it IZ and Power Series
Lots more small stuff

I visited a local HS to pick up how they were teaching their cb's shuffle tech...going to DeMeo clinic next week and possibly to Navy this weekend (depending on weather and wifey)

Dave, in reality no one is really a commit untill signing day!

Try and stay up, by the way I will ask Bo why the NU is ducking Boise St. ;D

Coach Cisar,
Do you mind sharing what they do to hold their position coaches accountable and how they teach their kids to watch film?

I would also really appreciate what Cisar has to say with details about his post

;D Davey Boy, whats wrong. Because I answered the Footwork question in private does that make you mad. Or is it that Nebraska is ducking Boise State.. or that you just dont like the fact that a woman is coaching HS in Washington DC.

Or maybe it is because you have never Coached Varsity High School Football and you feel juuust a little small.

Or is it that 2 of our players are going to the Spring Game on the Invite of Bo?

What ever it is Dave, you better pick up your game.. Because right now it is a Running Clock and I am about to Score again

i'm still curious as to the "footwork" answer myself... as i'm sure many of our users are.

so, since albert doesn't care to share publicly, could the person that received the info perhaps share?

creditiblity shouldn't have to be constantly questioned, although it appears it is.

Coach, thanks for sharing. I like the film-watching guidelines. Being able to sit in a position meeting is a pretty awesome learning experience; but not every school lets you do that anymore, unfortunately.

Coach,

Sorry if I gave you that impression.
Coach Eckler was teaching a group of maybe 35 of us how HE teaches his kids to watch fillm.
Im not a tale teller , no one special.

Went to watch 2 spring practices at Rice. Got to spend some time with Ronnie V. (O-Line Coach). Got a great idea for an offensive line circuit that he does during individual. Pretty excited about trying to implement it. Enjoyed watching them practice. They are very organized. They get a ton of reps.

Way to contribute to the discussion and keep it on the up and up. Maybe we should all post our credentials before we answer a question because the higher the level you coach at the smarter you must be.

Coach, it wasn't earth-shattering, but it was something that I hadn't thought about. They didn't have a lot of individual time, so this is how Coach V made the most of it.

At one point, he had a 10-minute block of time between two group sessions. He wanted to get a lot of work done, rather than just one or two drills, so here's what he did.

Say he had 16 O-Linemen. He broke them into 8 groups of 2. Then he set out 8 different "stations" for them to work. Two stations could be a Set & Punch Drill. Two stations were a Mirror Drill. Two stations were a Push/Pull Drill. So forth & so on. He would just add stations and drills if he had more kids.

This way every kid was working at the same time. They'd work for about 30 seconds at a time, Switch Roles (other partner works), and then rotate to the next station. That would take only about 8-9 minutes. They'd take a quick water break, and then they were off to the next group session of practice.

Problems: 1) Kids have to be self-motivated. You can't watch everyone @ the same time. However, his kids did a pretty good job of working through the drills. 2) Kids have to know exactly what is expected in each drill.

Solutions: 1) Coach V makes sure to have this session videotaped during practice, so he can watch it with his guys in meetings and point out any lack of effort/laziness that he sees.
2) Make sure you teach each drill thoroughly by name before you ever attempt this. That way you don't have to spend time explaining every time you do the circuit. Just run up to it and say "Alright I need 2 guys on "X" Drill, 2 guys on "Y" Drill, 2 guys on "Z" drill, etc... Ready....Go."

One great thing about it is the self-coaching that will go on. Your guys will start holding each other accountable & coaching each other up. I also love the fact that you can get through 4 or 5 times as much work in the same amount of time.

Not so sure how it will work out at the high school level, but I'm going to give it a shot. I think I'll have to do a good job of teaching drills this spring, so that this will be more successful when I implement it in the fall.

I just kind of rambled here, but if you have any questions, let me know. I'll try to clear it up.

Hope this helps,

SMU92