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Post by tog on Oct 30, 2019 8:57:42 GMT -6
I am sure this has been asked before somewhere around here.
Does anyone know of a football 101 curriculum that can be used to just catch up jr high and freshmen football players about basic knowledge of the game?
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Post by planck on Oct 30, 2019 9:33:08 GMT -6
I'm curious too. I've been thinking about doing a summer seminar for kids and parents to teach basic ideas and concepts.
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Post by morris on Oct 30, 2019 12:46:17 GMT -6
If no one has one maybe we can generate one here by pooling ideas.
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Post by aceback76 on Oct 30, 2019 13:03:31 GMT -6
This outline was from a one semester evening class I taught at Virginia Commonwealth U. for PE majors who were about to go into coaching. It could be sized-down for PLAYERS in Middle & High School. For Example - you could teach the INTRO, then #5 through #8, and you might want to include #11 & #12.
FOOTBALL COACHING CLASS:
INTRO: The Beginning of Football; Football in the United States.
1. Athletics – Principles and Objectives
2. The Coaching Profession
3. The “Musts” of Coaching
4. Organization
5. Developing An Offense
6. Quarterbacking
7. Defense
8. Kicking Game
9. Scouting
10. Equipment
11. Weight Training Programs (Etc.)
12. Sports Medicine Segment (Safety; Injuries; Heat Problems; etc.)
13. Summation Points
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PS: I also taught a class for the MOTHERS of our players at various High Schools I coached at. We used the following as a TEXT BOOK (written by the wife of my coaching friends, Coach Wally English). Available on AMAZON:
Real Women Know Football by Peggy K. English
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Post by cqmiller on Oct 30, 2019 13:48:08 GMT -6
We started to build one a while back... never got finished with it. It was literally starting with the coin-toss and explaining the options for each team each step of the way, then the base rules for kickoff & KOR... it was going to be too cumbersome to work with so we kinda abandoned it after a couple of meetings.
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Post by planck on Oct 30, 2019 14:17:34 GMT -6
I'd be interested in putting something together if anybody is interested.
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Post by fantom on Oct 30, 2019 14:20:48 GMT -6
Just off the top of my head a few things you may want to cover:
1. Rules, including the differences between HS and college/pro rules that they see on TV. 2. Reading a play diagram. Realized that we need this when we had a promising freshman who was useless on scout team. Turned out that he didn't know what the lines on the scout cards meant.
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Post by blb on Oct 30, 2019 14:32:45 GMT -6
You'd be amazed how many young kids don't know-understand the difference between positions, i.e. Tackle or Guard, and terms like "inside" (towards the ball-Center) and "outside" (away from Center-ball or towards sideline.)
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Post by coachcb on Oct 30, 2019 14:43:22 GMT -6
You'd be amazed how many young kids don't know-understand the difference between positions, i.e. Tackle or Guard, and terms like "inside" (towards the ball-Center) and "outside" (away from Center-ball or towards sideline.)
Not just young kids.... High school kids... We had a senior safety one year ask me what a tight end was....
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Post by blb on Oct 30, 2019 14:58:01 GMT -6
You'd be amazed how many young kids don't know-understand the difference between positions, i.e. Tackle or Guard, and terms like "inside" (towards the ball-Center) and "outside" (away from Center-ball or towards sideline.)
Not just young kids.... High school kids... We had a senior safety one year ask me what a tight end was....
For sure, cannot assume they know what you are talking about.
Once had an all-conference RB named Stack who was getting reps at backup DB during Pre-Season install.
We were putting in "70 Stack Blitz."
After we broke the huddle he looked at me as seriously as could be and asked, "Coach - does that mean I blitz?"
Guess I should've been happy he knew what "blitz" meant.
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Post by CS on Oct 30, 2019 16:54:45 GMT -6
I’m pretty sure this topic comes up once a year.
I would teach them the gaps and defensive techniques like 1’s 5’s 9’s etc.
Positions, route tree, types of blocks, “scoot in” means towards the ball not back up etc.
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Post by aceback76 on Oct 30, 2019 17:48:30 GMT -6
I’m pretty sure this topic comes up once a year. I would teach them the gaps and defensive techniques like 1’s 5’s 9’s etc. Positions, route tree, types of blocks, “scoot in” means towards the ball not back up etc. Depending on how MUCH detail you want, we can always give them what we teach our QB's (a manual we give QB's & Coaches on a complete study of DEFENSIVE STRUCTURE updated from a SEC Coach): 1. AIGNMENTS/FRONTS 2. GAP CONTROL 3. CONTAIN 4. SUPPORT 5. FIELD ZONES 6. HORIZONTAL ZONES/VERTICAL SEAMS 7. COVERAGE ID 8. COVERAGE VERIFICATION 9. BASE COVERAGE RESPONSIBILITIES 10. MOF OPEN 11. MOF CLOSED
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Post by CS on Oct 30, 2019 17:52:23 GMT -6
I’m pretty sure this topic comes up once a year. I would teach them the gaps and defensive techniques like 1’s 5’s 9’s etc. Positions, route tree, types of blocks, “scoot in” means towards the ball not back up etc. Depending on how MUCH detail you want, we can always give them what we teach our QB's (a manual we give QB's & Coaches on a complete study of DEFENSIVE STRUCTURE updated from a SEC Coach): 1. AIGNMENTS/FRONTS 2. GAP CONTROL 3. CONTAIN 4. SUPPORT 5. FIELD ZONES 6. HORIZONTAL ZONES/VERTICAL SEAMS 7. COVERAGE ID 8. COVERAGE VERIFICATION 9. BASE COVERAGE RESPONSIBILITIES 10. MOF OPEN 11. MOF CLOSED I think it would take quite a bit of scaffolding to get middle school kids up to speed on something an SEC coach gave anyone
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Post by blb on Oct 30, 2019 17:52:43 GMT -6
I’m pretty sure this topic comes up once a year. I would teach them the gaps and defensive techniques like 1’s 5’s 9’s etc. Positions, route tree, types of blocks, “scoot in” means towards the ball not back up etc. Depending on how MUCH detail you want, we can always give them what we teach our QB's (a manual we give QB's & Coaches on a complete study of DEFENSIVE STRUCTURE updated from a SEC Coach): 1. AIGNMENTS/FRONTS 2. GAP CONTROL 3. CONTAIN 4. SUPPORT 5. FIELD ZONES 6. HORIZONTAL ZONES/VERTICAL SEAMS 7. COVERAGE ID 8. COVERAGE VERIFICATION 9. BASE COVERAGE RESPONSIBILITIES 10. MOF OPEN 11. MOF CLOSED
You posted this on Oct. 20.
AND Oct. 17 - twice.
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Post by aceback76 on Oct 30, 2019 17:59:55 GMT -6
Depending on how MUCH detail you want, we can always give them what we teach our QB's (a manual we give QB's & Coaches on a complete study of DEFENSIVE STRUCTURE updated from a SEC Coach): 1. AIGNMENTS/FRONTS 2. GAP CONTROL 3. CONTAIN 4. SUPPORT 5. FIELD ZONES 6. HORIZONTAL ZONES/VERTICAL SEAMS 7. COVERAGE ID 8. COVERAGE VERIFICATION 9. BASE COVERAGE RESPONSIBILITIES 10. MOF OPEN 11. MOF CLOSED I think it would take quite a bit of scaffolding to get middle school kids up to speed on something an SEC coach gave anyone We use it VERBATIM on the High School level with our QB's. It is so well organized and explained (in ONLY 20 pages), that it can be easily be taught as a curriculum to any players in Mid-School and High School IF: 1. They have an appetite for the game, 2. They will invest the time. If our QB's don't have these two qualities, they won't play QB for us! NOTE: Take a look sometimes at how MUCH is in the curriculum (Coaches Choice DVD) that site member Andrew Coverdale uses at Trinity HS in Ky.
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Post by planck on Oct 30, 2019 18:48:22 GMT -6
Yeah it's super easy to take stuff for granted. For example, the idea of "leverage" is TOTALLY foreign to most kids, but matters quite a bit. And you probably can't even start there, since a lot of kids don't know extremely basic stuff.
Football is very bureaucratic and rules heavy.
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Post by carookie on Oct 30, 2019 18:49:08 GMT -6
I used to have something like this, but for the life of me I cant find it. In general I believe it went like this.
1) Basic Objectives & Means to Achieve- Offense is team with ball, they are trying to score a TD.....What a down is, how to get 1st down &what if you dont, 4th down kicks (Punts/FGs). How the defense tries to stop them- tackle, PBU, out of bounds, turnover. Kickoffs, etc. Be as meticulous with this as you can and establish a foundation
2) Rules- Legal formations, eligible receivers, false starts, holding, forward pass rules. Offside, PI, illegal tackling (facemask, spearing, etc) all the rules that come up.
3) Positions and General Responsibilities- Their position name and what they do. Now mind you I'm not talking about what they do in a specific scheme- ie. the Strong Safety in cover 2 will play 12 yards off the #2 receiver or apexing EMOL and #1 if there is no #2. Playing deep half and staying over the top of the deepest to his side. Thats down the road 102 stuff. What I mean here is: this is the 'center' (or 'C') his job is to snap the ball to begin the play and then block. On a sheet we will indicate the center with a square with an 'X' through it to indicate he is snapping the ball. To either side of the center are the guards....... In any case you have to remember this is 101, crawling before you walk, intro to the sport type stuff that too often we assume players know; so you literally have to teach the basics. I think coverage principles, techniques, things like that is football 102 level and things you teach as part of a team. But you can't assume they have any knowledge when they come to you, YOU have to coach them this cursory knowledge of the sport so that they can play and don't have any gaps.
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Post by coachlit on Oct 30, 2019 19:54:55 GMT -6
I created a power point for my JV kids this season that outlined: defensive techniques; defensive zones; generic defenses they’d see and line up as for scout team; offensive personnel groupings; generic OL blocking techniques for OL; and our routes for skill players.
This was great, but it was something I wish I could slowly introduce to the freshman in the summer and scaffold as if it was class.
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Post by coachd5085 on Oct 30, 2019 20:44:08 GMT -6
I think it would take quite a bit of scaffolding to get middle school kids up to speed on something an SEC coach gave anyone We use it VERBATIM on the High School level with our QB's. It is so well organized and explained (in ONLY 20 pages), that it can be easily be taught IF: 1. They have an appetite for the game, 2. They will invest the time. If they don't have these two qualities, they won't play QB for us! NOTE: Take a look sometimes at how MUCH is in the curriculum (Coaches Choice DVD) that site member Andrew Coverdale uses at Trinity HS in Ky. OP asks for a football 101 curriculum to be used to catch up jr high and freshman football players. You post something 20 pages long and that requires appetite for the game and time investment that you use for your Varsity Quarterbacks.... and somehow you never ever see that this is a very common action on your part.
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Post by aceback76 on Oct 30, 2019 20:58:08 GMT -6
We use it VERBATIM on the High School level with our QB's. It is so well organized and explained (in ONLY 20 pages), that it can be easily be taught IF: 1. They have an appetite for the game, 2. They will invest the time. If they don't have these two qualities, they won't play QB for us! NOTE: Take a look sometimes at how MUCH is in the curriculum (Coaches Choice DVD) that site member Andrew Coverdale uses at Trinity HS in Ky. OP asks for a football 101 curriculum to be used to catch up jr high and freshman football players. You post something 20 pages long and that requires appetite for the game and time investment that you use for your Varsity Quarterbacks.... and somehow you never ever see that this is a very common action on your part. Hey "numbnut" - What have YOU contributed to the OP??? You are just trying to ruin another thread and somehow you never ever see that this is a very common action on your part. One day the fact might dawn upon that giant intellect of yours that what I post is NONE of your damned business!!!
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Post by badtotheflexbone on Oct 30, 2019 20:58:56 GMT -6
For a complete curriculum, I'd say go back even further, start at the very very beginning, you know how a pig is slaughtered and its internal parts are used to create the prolate spheroid (i googled) shape we call a football. Maybe even include the life cycle of a pig and its dietary recommendations and the point at which they are taken from their mothers to... damn I see why our teaching curriculum are *#%#@! (JK)
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Post by coachscdub on Oct 30, 2019 21:17:54 GMT -6
A buddy of mine told me no matter what, that every year i coach freshman football i need to never ever assume that a kid knows anything about football. And because of this anytime i use a term that to most of us is understood i need to make sure they know what i mean. He highly recommended that every year i give the kids a whiteboard lecture of sorts to cover the most common terms that will be used.
So with that in mind here would be an updated list of things that i would cover
Directional Terms Play Side: Back Side: Strong Side: Weak Side:
Field Landmarks Side Lines: Yard Lines: Goal Line: End Line: Hashes: Numbers: Top of the Numbers: Bottom of the Numbers: Flag/Corner: Upright/Posts:
Offensive Terms: Snap: Cadence: Motion: Route:
Defensive ID/Terms Gaps: Techniques: Shade: Head Up: Zone Coverage: Man Coverage: Contain: Box: Spill: Flow: Pursuit: Trigger: Leverage: Head Up: Inside: Outside: Blitz:
Positions Cornerback: Safety: Line Backer: Defensive Line: Offensive Line: Running Backs: Fullback: Wing Back: Quarter Backs: Wide Receivers: Tight Ends: Sniffer:
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Post by coachd5085 on Oct 30, 2019 21:45:51 GMT -6
OP asks for a football 101 curriculum to be used to catch up jr high and freshman football players. You post something 20 pages long and that requires appetite for the game and time investment that you use for your Varsity Quarterbacks.... and somehow you never ever see that this is a very common action on your part. Hey "numbnut" - What have YOU contributed to the OP??? You are just trying to ruin another thread and somehow you never ever see that this is a very common action on your part. One day the fact might dawn upon that giant intellect of yours that what I post is NONE of your damned business!!! Trying to get you to focus your wealth of football knowledge is a helluva lot more useful than what you posted. You have a ton of football experience, you simply refuse to take the constructive criticism on how to really put it to use in this medium. You are the 6'4 260lb HS DE who runs a 4.6 and is a surefire bluechip specimen who simply refuses to read his keys or play the technique the coaches ask. As far as a football 101 curriculum, I would start with Objective (move ball to score) then the concept of down and yard to gain, and then go into positions (where you could implement some vocabulary such as splits, alignment techniques etc)
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Post by 33coach on Oct 30, 2019 22:37:42 GMT -6
if i was going to do something like this i would probably do it in the frame of a game. using a relatively evenly matched game from our hudl film (blowouts are typically unusable shitshows)
Coin Toss to Final Whistle...stop, talk, rewind, talk...go through the game step by step.
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Post by fantom on Oct 30, 2019 23:03:50 GMT -6
OP asks for a football 101 curriculum to be used to catch up jr high and freshman football players. You post something 20 pages long and that requires appetite for the game and time investment that you use for your Varsity Quarterbacks.... and somehow you never ever see that this is a very common action on your part. Hey "numbnut" - What have YOU contributed to the OP??? You are just trying to ruin another thread and somehow you never ever see that this is a very common action on your part. One day the fact might dawn upon that giant intellect of yours that what I post is NONE of your damned business!!! Coach, I think that he has a point. What you posted is great if you're educating QB's. That's not what the OP asked for, though. He's looking for what to teach young kids who play every position, some of whom may not have played organized football before (And even if they played youth ball may not have learned much). In this case the old Lombardi line, "This is a football" would be more appropriate.
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Post by CS on Oct 31, 2019 4:01:11 GMT -6
OP asks for a football 101 curriculum to be used to catch up jr high and freshman football players. You post something 20 pages long and that requires appetite for the game and time investment that you use for your Varsity Quarterbacks.... and somehow you never ever see that this is a very common action on your part. Hey "numbnut" - What have YOU contributed to the OP??? You are just trying to ruin another thread and somehow you never ever see that this is a very common action on your part. One day the fact might dawn upon that giant intellect of yours that what I post is NONE of your damned business!!! Has anyone else seen or heard someone called a numbnut recently?? Bravo sir, that made me chuckle
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Post by jml on Oct 31, 2019 4:41:36 GMT -6
Am also looking for something like this. Would be great to have for example all of the possible situation for a punt covered. And all of the other special teams.
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Post by coachcb on Oct 31, 2019 6:05:53 GMT -6
Not just young kids.... High school kids... We had a senior safety one year ask me what a tight end was....
For sure, cannot assume they know what you are talking about.
Once had an all-conference RB named Stack who was getting reps at backup DB during Pre-Season install.
We were putting in "70 Stack Blitz."
After we broke the huddle he looked at me as seriously as could be and asked, "Coach - does that mean I blitz?"
Guess I should've been happy he knew what "blitz" meant.
This safety had been starting for us for three games. We were repping a base Robber coverage that had him pattern reading the TE (carry him if he pushes vertically, bail to the middle 1/3 if not). The TE blew past him and so I walked over to him:
Coachcb: "Billy, you need to carry that tight end vertically. You can't let him fly past you; we don't have other deep coverage." Billy: "Who's the tight end, coach?" Coachcb: "Johnny was the tight end in that set, Billy. Did you just not recognize the formation? Bobby made the Robber call." Billy: "Yeah, I heard the call.. What's a tight end?" Coachcb: "It's the eligible receiver lined up right next to the tackle. You've been playing this coverage for awhile, bud.." Billy: "Yeah..... I kind of thought that's what a tight end was... I've just been manning up on that guy in the formation.."
I sat back and realized that we'd only seen ONE 21/22 personnel team in the previous weeks and they'd never sent the TE on a short route...
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Post by blb on Oct 31, 2019 6:09:57 GMT -6
Hey "numbnut" - What have YOU contributed to the OP??? You are just trying to ruin another thread and somehow you never ever see that this is a very common action on your part. One day the fact might dawn upon that giant intellect of yours that what I post is NONE of your damned business!!! Trying to get you to focus your wealth of football knowledge is a helluva lot more useful than what you posted. You have a ton of football experience, you simply refuse to take the constructive criticism on how to really put it to use in this medium. You are the 6'4 260lb HS DE who runs a 4.6 and is a surefire bluechip specimen who simply refuses to read his keys or play the technique the coaches ask.
When you post on a public message board, it becomes anybody's business who chooses to make it so.
More important that he puts on display what he knows and his supposed connections to a "big-time" coach than answering-helping OP.
His ego knows no bounds. And lack of professionalism above is disturbing but another "common action on (his) part."
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Post by tabs52 on Oct 31, 2019 6:57:26 GMT -6
I know about a year ago, coach started to put this together. I have a folder shared with me from him, but also jump onto the toolbox and it should be in there as well
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