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Post by gobucks on Aug 3, 2011 21:18:38 GMT -6
Coaches,
I'm coaching ms for the first time in my career. Working with the oline. We have 3-4 kids out of 13 that have played at some point in their life. We've been practicing for a few days now, and I haven't installed any of our schemes at all. I've been mostly working on stances and starts. I'm just wondering how important is it really to win at this level vs working on the extreme basics. I get the feeling from the HC that he is focused on winning, but told me to do whatever I think they need when I asked him about this. Should I be teaching the plays? Or still focusing on all the basic fundamentals at the expense of scheme work?
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Post by coachmsl on Aug 3, 2011 21:44:06 GMT -6
If they have never played, getting lineman into a proper stance will take a while. How long until your first game? If you have like 4 weeks, I would say to pick you base play and teach all the techiques needed for that play. So if there are down blocks and a kick out, Practice downs and the kick from the stance they just learned. Baby steps. Maybe a play a week or something? Im thinking novice here. Heck, 4 runs for you first game ought to be ok, right?
I got into a really short debate about scheme over techinque last month. Dude said well youre all about scheme, im about techique. I said, the scheme is just a bunch of techniques tied together for the common goal.
If he has a scheme he wants you to be teaching, he should follow up with the technique needed, and maybe even drills to isolate that individual position for its part of the play (scheme). Be happy if you get which techniques he wants taught. Jump for joy if he gets you the drills to introduce and expand the understanding of the kids job.
Good luck Coach
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Post by coachmoore42 on Aug 5, 2011 9:47:21 GMT -6
They need scheme/play work. Winning a middle school game is not the super bowl (to most of the coaches). It is however, very important to the kids. I don't know at which age they begin to care about winning, but they have figured it out by middle school. If they go out there without a solid scheme, they will likely be exposed. That will result in a lot of them giving up football before high school because their team is "no good".
That said, once they have a series, or maybe two, installed, drill drill drill the fundamentals. They certainly need those, but not at the complete expense of the scheme.
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Post by joshnorton on Aug 5, 2011 11:05:15 GMT -6
Teach proper fundamentals in very short indie sessions. Then reinforce them constantly during the scheme reps which should be a very large part of your practice at the youth level in my experience. We practice stance and get off during our dynamic in order to kill two birds with one stone.
Sincerely,
Joshua Norton
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