worry about what you do or worry about opponent

I look at it like this

I am not "worried" about what the other team does. I am going to take advantage of it with my team being varied enough attack wise to do so all while keeping it simple.

As an offensive coach at the college level. During fall camp. We focus on what we are going to do,and then the week and a half before the first game we start preparing for our first opponent.The scouting report has already been don,and has been ready since mid June.
During the season, we chart the opponets fronts,stunts,vlitzes and coverages and a GA puts them throguh the computer. I look at this info briefly in terms of what to practice for what situation vs the scout team.
However the main focus is aklways on what we are going to do. I try and have our base ten plays that we can run against anyone anytime. Which normally works
So in essence the emphasis is on us more then our opponents. As if we do what we do well no one will stop us.

It's probably just a statement to describe his overall philosophy and wasn't meant to be broken down into specifics. You know, the ol "Play your own game stuff a lot of people say"?? I agree with it though!

I do not watch film of the other team. I find it a waste of time. if i am going to watch film it is of my own team to correct their mistakes.

when you throw the ball there are only so many coverages out there. if you practice against them all the time, then you do not have to worry about what the other team is doing.

i guess that is the luxury of lining up in 5 wr on every play. we do not need to know what fron the defense is in.

Mav, that's whgat I was going to say. Particularly if I'm a 5-wide team I want to know where they line up their covermen and how good they are. At a school I used to coach at which was pass-first 4 wides every play we played a team that had a bunch of great athletes and could play lots of press man because of it, but inevitably had one guy we could pick on and we spent the whole game trying to match him up against our good receivers. For three straight years the guy we picked on was different and so were our QBs and receivers but our gameplan was the same, throw it against the guy we can beat on.

I've read some of Wooden's stuff, it's pretty good. He has some real wisdom with how to coach players: not beating them down, when critiqueing them try to give them a complement ("You made a nice cut and sank your hips well but you have to get your head around and burst out of the break" rather than only the negatives) etc. I think when he talks about focusing on you it is not meant to the exclusion of your opponent (though if you have Bill Walton and Kareem Abdul Jabbar you probably can just run your plays for those guys and not worry about what the other team is doing).

Other coaches on here mentioned it, I think it is good to keep the players focused on themselves rather than the opponents. We break down opponents film with them but we don't want them freaking out about this guy or that or this scheme or another. And I do think you have to ride what got you there and not change up just because you think you see some weakness, but you do adapt and scout and attack the weaknesses. Part of this is having a good scheme of your own so you don't have to drastically change every week to take advantage of perceived weaknesses.

I make it a point to prepare for our opponent and what we plan to do against their tendencies. We will watch game film all week during the lunch hour.
I feel its a must to break down your opponents game film as well as break down your teams practices and game film (of the previous week). It's just my opinion, but I don't understand why you wouldn't or couldn't do both.