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Post by funkfriss on Mar 20, 2019 6:13:58 GMT -6
We’re a small school and have been fortunate the past few years to have an absolute beast of a lineman. The only problem is, he’s SO much better than his teammates that he doesn’t get much out of practice. He destroyed anybody one-on-one and any team session he’d mess everything up if he went hard. In short, we struggled to both make practice worthwhile for him and also good for the whole team.
We’ve got another kid coming up that will be the same way. Any suggestions?
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Post by doitforthekids on Mar 20, 2019 6:37:23 GMT -6
Make him dominate every rep, build consistency. Pair him with the strongest and most competitive teammate you can find and have him raise his level of play.
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Post by bulldogsdc on Mar 20, 2019 6:43:42 GMT -6
Time for you to suit up coach!
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Post by Defcord on Mar 20, 2019 7:06:09 GMT -6
We have a kid similar. Focus on technique. Put a fast lid on him every once in a while to present a different challenge. Our guy is a stud and flat wears people out. Someone wants to fight him everyday in practice because he doesn’t take it easy one anyone. Same way in the game. Last year he drew five personal fouls from guys that were so frustrated going against him that either tried to punch him or hit him from behind when he was heading back to the LOS.
I am not sure there is much you can do besides reminding him that he is trying to be his best not just the best on the team. Our guy has been to camps so he knows there’s other dudes he is trying to compete with they just aren’t at our practices.
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Post by CoachMikeJudy on Mar 20, 2019 7:16:33 GMT -6
Also challenge him by being ULTRA critical of technique, 6/7 second effort during a play, footwork/hand placement etc. Don't make it easy for him!
We had a Penn State commit at RT (#5 OG in the Nation). He annihilates everyone- big strong explosive and athletic. I played OL in college as did my OL coach, so when we do weekly grades he typically receives a "middle of the pack" grade because we are VERY critical of the little things. He take too big of a step, punch without thumbs up, elbows get wide etc...he gets blasted.
This approach helped him develop REALLY quickly and challenge him daily on these things.
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Post by bobgoodman on Mar 21, 2019 6:49:00 GMT -6
How's his form? Could you make him a coach?
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Post by fkaboneyard on Mar 21, 2019 7:25:12 GMT -6
That's an unbelievable blessing to have a kid like that.
And some of the best parts about him (IMO) - the other kids are going to get better going against him, they will never face anybody as good as him. He makes the coaches better because you begin looking at every detail because you know what he is capable of. Great players truly lift up players and coaches around them and make them better.
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Post by funkfriss on Mar 21, 2019 7:27:31 GMT -6
Thanks for the replies. Definitely work to perfect technique as much as possible.
The biggest problem we have is during team time when he goes against scout team as a DL. It’s like the Waterboy except as a lineman. We’ve tried putting him against our next best or a quicker kid, but didn’t matter. He blew everything up and we couldn’t give the rest of the defense a look.
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Post by Yash on Mar 21, 2019 7:41:37 GMT -6
We’re a small school and have been fortunate the past few years to have an absolute beast of a lineman. The only problem is, he’s SO much better than his teammates that he doesn’t get much out of practice. He destroyed anybody one-on-one and any team session he’d mess everything up if he went hard. In short, we struggled to both make practice worthwhile for him and also good for the whole team. We’ve got another kid coming up that will be the same way. Any suggestions? Coach if you were looking for some better match ups, I'll trade you my starting guards next year for him, both are about 175lbs and 5'8 |
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Post by funkfriss on Mar 21, 2019 8:12:01 GMT -6
We’re a small school and have been fortunate the past few years to have an absolute beast of a lineman. The only problem is, he’s SO much better than his teammates that he doesn’t get much out of practice. He destroyed anybody one-on-one and any team session he’d mess everything up if he went hard. In short, we struggled to both make practice worthwhile for him and also good for the whole team. We’ve got another kid coming up that will be the same way. Any suggestions? Coach if you were looking for some better match ups, I'll trade you my starting guards next year for him, both are about 175lbs and 5'8 If they both pull on Power and run into each other I’m going to have to decline. The spots are already filled... |
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Post by Yash on Mar 21, 2019 8:14:55 GMT -6
Coach if you were looking for some better match ups, I'll trade you my starting guards next year for him, both are about 175lbs and 5'8 If they both pull on Power and run into each other I’m going to have to decline. The spots are already filled... Only one of them is dyslexic so it only happens half the time. |
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Post by bleefb on Mar 21, 2019 8:52:05 GMT -6
We’re a small school and have been fortunate the past few years to have an absolute beast of a lineman. The only problem is, he’s SO much better than his teammates that he doesn’t get much out of practice. He destroyed anybody one-on-one and any team session he’d mess everything up if he went hard. In short, we struggled to both make practice worthwhile for him and also good for the whole team. We’ve got another kid coming up that will be the same way. Any suggestions? Will they both be there at the same time? Use them against each other. |
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Post by dubber on Mar 22, 2019 20:42:23 GMT -6
I use a kid like that to make the others better.....he will play scout D for our 1/2 line stuff, etc.
Some dudes don’t need challenged in practice.....find a way to challenge them in the offseason, you’ll get more bang for your buck.
Also, he is the guy who gets MF’ed 3:1 over any other player.
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Post by Defcord on Mar 23, 2019 6:06:48 GMT -6
Thanks for the replies. Definitely work to perfect technique as much as possible. The biggest problem we have is during team time when he goes against scout team as a DL. It’s like the Waterboy except as a lineman. We’ve tried putting him against our next best or a quicker kid, but didn’t matter. He blew everything up and we couldn’t give the rest of the defense a look. One thing you can do is have him just tap off near hip instead of tackling the ball carrier. You still want him playing full speed with great leverage and you can see that if he taps off. We do almost every team period like this. Our scout teams are so bad that when we go live it’s a sack or TFL every single play and our lbs almost never get involved and our dbs never get involved in a play. It’s a good way to get sloppy on defense. This made an immediate difference on our defense. We don’t film every practice but we filmed a few cause at firs guys were just reaching out to tap the guy or stopping their feet on contact, which isn’t good. We had to really explain to them and show them that we wanted to tap near hand near foot to near hip of the BC and speed their feet and accelerate through contact. It takes a little to get use to but once you get it running smoothly the whole defense is forced to play to the football because the BC is running hard till he clears the defense. |
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