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Post by RENO6 on May 19, 2010 20:40:32 GMT -6
Whether anyone wants to admit it or not, we all have the need to be creative.
I think creativity creates excitement and shows humans' capabilities. Yet it can be dangerous to think one self as immortal. What ways are you a creative coach?
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Post by dubber on May 19, 2010 20:50:39 GMT -6
I invented a pass play where I send all 4 eligible receivers down the field into 4 zones equidistant from one another creating a vertical stretch on the FS.........
I'd love to tell you more, but I have to go, I'm giving a clinic talk on repackaging ideas as your own.......
Creativity, imo, is less about scheme, and more about the ability to see and foster potential in your players
It's saying, "Hey, you know what, Johnny looks like he can play Guard for us".....and Johnny's played FB since 3rd grade.......
It's having the vision (and balls) to play a 135 lb kid at 1 tech over a 220 lb kid.
And to move a 2 time all-conference DT to LB.
How efficent and "creative" you are when it comes to personnel is where it counts.
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Post by coachguy83 on May 19, 2010 21:48:02 GMT -6
Creativity in coaching is also about selling ideas to the kids. Not every player learns the same way and some have a hard time getting it. That is where you have to be creative in thinking up ways to make every player understand what you are trying to teach them.
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Post by airmale on May 20, 2010 3:31:43 GMT -6
I doubt you can vreate something that has not ever been done in the game of football. But, a new way to do it, package it, teach it? Maybe. As Dubber said, creativity is how you reach and teach your kids.
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Post by ojowens411 on May 20, 2010 5:06:09 GMT -6
I think that we as coaches do have opportunities to still be creative when it comes to schemes, plays, formations...or whatever else. A coach may see a way to tweak something already designed in order to make it work for his system or particular players that season. And yes, the chances are that his version has been done before, but if he's never seen or heard about what he perceives as "his tweek"...then that still makes him creative...just not original to the overall viewing masses.
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Post by dacoachmo on May 20, 2010 5:19:42 GMT -6
CREATIVITY...the reason that FOOTBALL is the best sport PERIOD.
When did you ever watch any other sport and say WOW, that's new and cool. Even the NFL does try new ideas!!
Last year I got a little crazy with my personnel packages...players got to "play" but really were taking up a spot...
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Post by airraider on May 20, 2010 6:24:50 GMT -6
I doubt you can vreate something that has not ever been done in the game of football. But, a new way to do it, package it, teach it? Maybe. As Dubber said, creativity is how you reach and teach your kids. Umm... I think with new rules.. or new interpretations of rules rather.. you have holes open up for people to do things that have never been done.. I would be willing to be the A-11 had not be done before.. at least not to that scale.
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Post by lyons on May 20, 2010 7:18:28 GMT -6
What about ways to spark interest in your program in the offseason? What are some creative ways coaches do that? I think the easiest is posters and stuff, but is there anything you guys would like to share? The best thing I do is feed our kids and shirts.
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Post by 42falcon on May 20, 2010 7:39:27 GMT -6
I agree it is not all in playbooks and schemes because well...... most of this is re inventing the wheel taking something someone did before and putting your own spin on it. I do a man zone drill with the DB's and thought yup.... I am the man no one else is doing this I am creative. Then I watched a video of Colorado DB's and well my bubble was burst they do it all the time hahaha I chatted with a university coach it is a staple drill hahah again bubble burst.
Where we get creative is where to play guys how we reach them and teach them the stuff. That is the "coaching" of it all. Especially at the lower levels. How do you get the most out of a sub par athlete who is small and slower than the other teams guys. If you can compete with that guy on game night then you have done your job on being creative. If you throw your hands up and say oh well what now well time to be creative haha!
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Post by coachwoodall on May 20, 2010 8:20:04 GMT -6
Creativity, imo, is less about scheme, and more about the ability to see and foster potential in your players
BINGO!!! We have a winner. It's all in playing the hand you are dealt and finding a way to win with it.
- Dont' have a true NG? take that 145 lb wrestler and slant him - Run the spread off. and don't have but 1 decent WR? motion him, move him around, get him where you need him. - Have a LB that won't read his keys and just takes off, but he can make plays? Put him at DE - Have a system the kids have trouble with/can't learn? Let them make up the names for the plays/signals or give them some kind of vested interest.
I could go on and on. It makes me think. You could place coaches into 2 catagories on this: Creative and Not, based on coaching clinic sessions.
Many times I go to clinics to hear colleges coaches speak on what they do scheme/drill wise and I hear coaches walk out saying, "Yeah, that's great if you can recruit a _________ that weighs _______ and runs a ___, but I can't do that with my guys...."
And then you hear the coaches that say, "We can use that scheme/drill if we tweak it by .................."
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Post by 42falcon on May 20, 2010 9:04:29 GMT -6
macgillmanrhs2004 another one I love is: What's wrong with you guys?" um............ coach let's look at our own practice hahaha
I had a bunch of junior coaches this season and we had to sit down with them and talk about the same stuff you just posted!
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Post by tim914790 on May 20, 2010 9:06:13 GMT -6
This is off topic but just to clarify for me. Arent vertical routes a horizontal stretch for the D and Horizontal routes are a vertical stretch?
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Post by mariner42 on May 20, 2010 9:39:11 GMT -6
I think one example of creativity is how you speak to your kids to get them to understand what you want. We have a OL/DL who COULD be an absolute wrecking ball on both sides of the line, but he's a bit tentative to play like a d!ck. Problem is, I've seen him punch through a windshield when he was {censored} off about being taken out of a game at a big moment, so I KNOW it's there. Everyday this spring he's heard me tell him "Play like a window puncher" and that only makes sense to him, but it gives him a clear visual to work towards.
The more creative and precise you can be with your language to give verbal and visual cues, the better you'll do as a coach.
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Post by blb on May 20, 2010 9:43:41 GMT -6
I have to admit I'm an imitator, not an innovator.
My creativity comes from how I implement various elements of our program, teach them to assistants and players, and use them on Friday nights to achieve desired results.
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Post by fbcoach33 on May 20, 2010 10:47:27 GMT -6
Great comments, Ive enjoyed reading these, I also think a area of creativity comes in how you run your program and are you willing to do things different if what you are doing is not successful. and are you willing to do things different if it works for you. And how creative can you be in keeping the workload and hours short for your coaches and families.
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Post by davishfc on May 20, 2010 14:22:11 GMT -6
I think "creativity" comes when you research football concepts and techniques and find ways to creatively include them within your packages in ways that your players will easily understand and be able to execute. I mean as far as terminology and making things relate to one another. That takes a tremendous amount of creativity sometimes to relate so many concepts yet still keep the learning process as simple as possible for the players.
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Post by charger109 on May 20, 2010 16:00:09 GMT -6
where i lochness? He likes post like this..... ;D
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