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Post by coachb5806 on Feb 4, 2015 14:42:01 GMT -6
We live in a very spread out state (NM). We had road trips of 3 hours + are pretty normal for us. We ave to travel to play teams in our classification and admin is very supportive of it. I don't worry about us on the bus, I used to and it created a lot of headaches. Keep it down so that those who want to sleep can, be calm and respectful. We start our home game routine at 4:30, so our goal is to get to a road game at 4:30, our routine begins then. It has worked fairly well. All of this is in regards to a 7 pm kickoff
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Post by coachb5806 on Jan 15, 2015 11:32:08 GMT -6
Ok, here is what we do. These are things we try to do weekly (mainly during our Tuesday indy time), once we are in the rhythm of the season. We are a wing t team, and I try to do a 30 min indy period on Tuesdays. We live scrimmage on Wednesdays and spend Monday on film and walkthroughs. We may do additional indy time on Monday if we feel it is needed that week.
Explosion drills on a sled:
6 point - we are on all fours plus knees, fire out, strike w/hands, roll hips and extend to a belly flop, reset and repeat for a total of 3 reps, then next group in. Once everyone is through, we repeat it from a 4 point then a 3 point stance.
Once we have worked a 3 point fire out and extend, we roll into a basic sled strike and drive, replacing the belly flop with an aggressive leg drive (nothing revolutionary, I know). I have found that this really helps our guys with getting off the ball by progressing in this manner
We will then work our basic blocks against hand shields in the chutes. Reach left/right, down left/right
We then split guards out, everyone else gets additional down and reach work. Guards go and work kick out at varying lengths against the sled and wraps against hand shields. We will also work kicks against hand shields of varying lengths to simulate trap, down and sweep kicks.
We then do a drill that we call the conveyor belt, we will pick a yard line and line up in pairs all the way across. Each kid lines up to work a straight drive block. They have a clearly marked line between them, and the object is to gain ground and win that line. I give them a few seconds, they must drive through each other, no twisting non sense. When the whistle blows, one side slides and the other stays put. This way we get a lot of reps for everyone and a great mix of match ups, no one can hide against weaker comp. We run this for one complete rotation. It is also a great lineman conditioner.
We finish by getting our Varsity o line huddled and I will call down/reach rt/lt. The rest are allowed to line up head up or in any gap along the line. I call a cadence and the line applies the call. It forces us to learn to apply our base rules against any look we may see. It can be rough at first, but the players get very good at fitting everything together. If we can get them to wash down and reach as a seamless unit, then all we have to do is apply a pull and kick and we have punched our hole.
Everything is taught using aiming points. We rep the heck out of a straight drive block, as our goal is to turn everything into that. On reach, we step and attack PS armpit, throw but and back to ball carrier and drive.
On down we aim for the v of the neck if the guy is a penetrator, his back hip if he wants to spin off pressure, or his soft midsection if we can flat have our way with him. We try to eat aiming points.
On kicks, we try to drive our inside shoulder thru the top of the stomach, follow with hands, head in the hole.
Feet fire thru contact on all of these, obviously
The best thing I have done to get kids to run their feet thru contact has been to make our lineman run our youth camp. We let the kids do a kick out drill where a varsity player holds a hand shield and the knock him down onto a bed of pads. Kicks start harping on the little ones about running their feet through contact to really light up the player holding the bag. I kid you not, I have seen more improvement and more light bulbs go off having them do this then any drill work I have had them do.
Hope this helps a little
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Post by coachb5806 on Jan 13, 2015 16:30:39 GMT -6
Coach, what type of scheme do you guys run? I have a few things we do, but they are pretty gap scheme specific
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Post by coachb5806 on Jul 8, 2014 12:33:53 GMT -6
Coach dubyah, We also use our Night of Champions as a fundraiser. Kids collect lb for lb pledges or flat donations. My 1st year we made $1,750 in about 3 hours and last year raised over $2,300. Our goal this year is to break $3,000. We have between 25 to 30 kids lift. Last year one kid got his mom's boss to pledge $1 per lb. He hang cleaned 250. Pretty easy fundraiser really. Only complaint I have is that they then have to go collect the money, which creates an administrative task that parallels with 2-a-days.
Also, our middle school is across the street from our high school. We allow our guys to start lifting at the conclusion of their 8th grade season of football. We have 4 freshman to be with over 80 workouts that are pretty high on our rewards list. When we get them young and teach them the right way early, they generally stay on that path.
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Post by coachb5806 on Jul 8, 2014 12:08:28 GMT -6
Reno, this is a problem that I have spent a lot of time combating over the years and here is what I have implemented. First, our offseason begins as soon as our season ends. We bring our guys in at 6:45 am every day before school. We try to get 3 days a week on the weights and two days a week on footwork and agility. It can be hard to do, as we are a small school and almost all of our guys play multiple sports, hence why we go mornings before school. Like coach2013 said, it is all about incentives a rewards. We use those to create a culture of wanting to work and get better every single day. We take attendance at every single workout/practice. Our current attendance records go back to the Monday before Thanksgiving. We use these solely as rewards, not punishments. For example, we have a kid Trevor, he is a Jr and the only kid that has not missed a single workout. He is sitting at 113 workouts as of now, (He also plays baseball and throws in track). Trevor is number one for everything.
1. We buy a few new helmets and shoulder pads every year. Equipment is issued in order of workouts attended. Seniority means nothing here! You get things in the order you have EARNED them. Our seniors know that if they want to go first, they have to start earning it as soon as their Jr year ends. We have a kid who has not played before that will be a senior who has committed to our program and will be near the top of the list.
2. We are currently constructing new locker room. It will have 24 custom, wooden sit down lockers. It will also have overflow bench seating. The top 24 workers get to choose which of the new lockers will be theirs, the others get the overflow benches.
3. We traveled to a team camp a few weeks ago in two school suburbans. Kids were fighting over who got to ride in which suburban. I was driving one and our principal was driving the other, some kids did not wnat to ride with her. I told them if they could not figure it out I was going to get out the attendance log and whoever had put in more would pick where they rode. We use that attendance log to reward wherever possible!
4. We do a Night of Champions lifting competition at the end of each July. We also max in December and May. Players can reach our 1,000 lb club (bench, squat, hang clean, deadlift) at any of these max windows. At the night of champions kids get to pick one lift to compete in (they max the others before the event that afternoon) and we give a trophy to the heaviest lifter in each class and the best lb for lb lift (encourages everyone to work, regardless of size and overall, top end strength) At the end of the year football banquet, the last award we give out is the 1,000 lb club trophies and shirts for those who made it. This is after all district, all state, all stars, etc. We build it up as the biggest award a player can earn because it is a reflection of the commitment and work ethic that we value above all else. We give out very nice awards for this (google sculpture alley)
This is some of what we do to motivate our guys. I am going into my 3rd year as the HC at this school. Our first year we went 4-6, no playoffs. Last year we went 7-5, were seeded 5th, and lost in the quarterfinals to the eventual state champ 22-6. Our improvement was primarily due to our players commitment to our off season program. We are a wing t team that had a 15oo yd tb, 1100 wb, and a 700 fb with 4 sophomores and a junior on our offensive line. We were tough, strong and determined because our guys learned and prepared for that every single day.
We have 15 starters back from that team and every single one has lived in the weight room and committed, regardless of what else they have going on. They are all over 80 workouts.
Now, sometimes you have to be creative. We have a Sr to be, the aforementioned 1,100 yd rusher, who was not showing up and working. I had tried everything I could think of. I sat him down and asked him what it was going to take. He said to let him wear a visor (I haven't allowed our boys to wear them). I agreed, we typed up a contract (Agreement was he would have perfect attendance from that point on) and it is sitting above my desk. He has not missed since mid January when we made the agreement. Of course, I will not only allow him to wear a visor, so if he succeeds, and he is 3 weeks from fulfilling the contract, he will have unlocked that privilege for all players, adding to their respect for him and their view of him as a leader.
Hope some of this helps. This is one area of coaching that I think is hugely overlooked and sooooooo important.
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