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Post by coachwoodall on Apr 30, 2017 12:58:24 GMT -6
There is a wealth of information on this site as to how best develop the talent we have on the field so that they and the team can realize it's full potential. I'm curious, how do you HC's and Coordinators develop your ACs in a like manner? What do you ACTIVELY do with them individually and as a group to help them improve in the locker room, in the film room, and on the field?
Thanks in advance to the wisdom of the board and I'm looking forward to the stories/examples that you can share.
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Post by **** on Apr 30, 2017 13:30:34 GMT -6
I have a young coach on staff that I am helping groom. Not sure if this is the best answer or not but I don't really have any specific plan to do it.
If he asks questions I will stay with him after practice and go over whatever he wants to know. I'll explain the reason why we do things the way we do before we install it. Pros/cons/why/etc.
I don't go out of my way to show him things but if he comes to me I will give him all the time he wants. If he doesn't have the ambition to ask then I'm not going to worry about it. I had a guy a few years ago that I thought could be a good young coach but he never came to me with questions to grow as a coach. He did what was asked and that was it. I had no problems with him but he wasn't as eager to learn as I thought he would be.
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Post by CoachSP on May 1, 2017 8:31:36 GMT -6
As someone who is considered young (5 years in), I think there are a few different aspects to development of ACs.
I tried to shut up and listen as much as I could when I first started out (I was a college kid volunteering).
When I got my first teaching job, the OC taught me the offense in a classroom. He said, "I know you know some things, but I will teach you from scratch as if you know nothing."
From there, it was gradual learning. I would ask questions anytime I felt I didn't know something that well. I kept paying attention and coaching the things I knew (technique) and would ask questions about scheme (which was my weakness at the beginning). There is no substitute for working with experienced guys. However, the head coach must make coaching coaches a priority. My first HC did just that because our staff was five deep with coaches with only a handful of years in.
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Post by southidcoach on May 1, 2017 8:42:38 GMT -6
I am an assistant coach going into my 7th season. What has been most beneficial to me has been having good examples to emulate. The expectations you have for an assistant should be the same expectations you have of your self.
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Post by realdawg on May 1, 2017 10:04:43 GMT -6
I have one coach who is a younger coach (3rd year). First year I just talked and worked with him on learning and perfecting his technique and breaking down film. Second year we started talking more about schematics and run fits. This off season we met when he asked to start talking about secondary play. Bc he knew nothing of this.
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Post by hunhdisciple on May 1, 2017 10:55:19 GMT -6
I am an assistant coach going into my 7th season. What has been most beneficial to me has been having good examples to emulate. The expectations you have for an assistant should be the same expectations you have of your self. I think this is very relevant. And at the other end of the spectrum, it's kind of helpful to see bad coaches, and learn what not to do. I've probably learned just as much from good coaches as I have from the bad ones.
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Post by newhope on May 1, 2017 11:48:40 GMT -6
There are a lot of good replies here. I'd add include them in what you're doing as far as planning, evaluating, film study--offseason and well as in-season. Let them understand the "sausage making" of it, if that makes sense. It's one thing to say, "here's what we run and here's how I want it taught". It's another to go through how you put together your offense and defense, why you do the things you do, why you want things taught a certain way. For a young guy who wants to be a head coach, let him see how you deal with parents--and why, how you deal with players in a certain way--and why, all the stuff that happens away from the field. I've also taken young coaches who wanted to be head coaches and moved them around to various positions, let them learn both sides of the ball, that sort of thing. In the last 10 years, I've had 8 assistants go on to be head coaches. A lot of that has to do with being fortunate enough to hire some really good people, but I'd like to think at least some of it had to do with helping to prepare them. Once my assistants started getting head jobs, it also helped me attract coaches who wanted to be head coaches.
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Post by tigerscoachbuck on Jun 13, 2017 7:10:29 GMT -6
I am the assistant OC and WR's coach at our school. We preach accountability to our team and that starts with us on the staff. The HC makes sure that we are all using HUDL and breaking down our film. Then the O and D staffs will develop a gameplan and present it to the HC and their counterparts so that before our Monday practice we all know what the plan is for that week on both sides of the ball. That's the biggest way, in my opinion as a young coach, to develop them. Challenge them to do more. Challenge them to create plays, scheme, coverages ect. But then challenge them to explain the who/what/where/when/why/how of their ideas.
The other way to develop is to have the coach in the offseason study his opponents position. As a WRs coach in the offseason I read and research a lot on the play of CB's and Safeties.
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