From rat to scapegoat to head coach: my football journey
Jul 17, 2018 18:23:09 GMT -6
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Post by Victor on Jul 17, 2018 18:23:09 GMT -6
Hello, my name is Victor Cohen, like I said a lot, I'm from Brazil. I'm trying to make a kind of documentary about my first Head Coaching job but didn't have the time to do the way I wanted. However, I gonna make my journal here. First of all THANK YOU very much! I evolved as a coach and person reading a ton of posts here. I wouldn't be on this position right now without this web site, I have my own, but like I said above, I'm not posting due to my busy routine. So where do I start?
The first D1 NCAA Offense in Brazil
Yup, a lot of coaches try to do this here but unsuccessfully. They try to grab plays and make an offense, a few have a consistent system and you can easily see, heck, normally they are the champions. How did I get on this point if I said everybody is failing? Well, a lot of research and money invested. After I forced to leave, aka fired, I made a promise that would find the suitable offense from what I've seen being around the game since 2010 here. What I found was this interesting method:
- Small teams without experience, Single Wing:
Why? Since they are raw, it would be perfect to begin with some simple, unorthodox and fun offense. You can take your best players, normally it takes some time to develop but you always have a couple (if you are lucky enough, sometimes five) good athletes. Therefore, but the best as TB and WB and let it roll. Nobody run this here, it would make some damage after a couple of months practicing;
- Medium to Power house teams, run first Spread:
With experienced players you can use something fancier, but just a little bit. I was an avid fan of the zone run game because I was a defensive player turned to OC - all of this with a behind the scenes "fight" that happened after a semi final game meltdown with national attendance record of 15 thousand people, a year after the World Cup was played on the same turf - and knew nothing about O. I taught that I knew, rookie mistake. After a couple of months being HC I realized that's easier and fit with our body types of linemen, we are amateurs, so if you are fat you gonna play in the trenches. Plus the big guys love to pull! Idk why more teams don't play with gap schemes!
Now it's about to find the tough SOB to fill the role of H-Back, if I could run any offense it would be UC, but for a lot of reasons it needs to be gun oriented. Shotgun or pistol. Therefore, you need to add some deception and play-action. Likewise, the dual reader defenders are easily fooled down here if you establish the running game. Now Malzahn's offense appears. It all started with his book: "The Hurry-Up, No-Huddle: An Offensive Philosophy". Then, it evolved to his playbooks floating around the web, the receivers are numbered, colors for the playsides, and what the f**k is that?
It took months to begin to understand it. The formations, the motions, the Little Rock-turned-Arkansas concept, the H-Back alignment, the few passing combos/concepts. It all makes sense on our scenario. It all fits together, it makes sense, like a perfect song. Last practice (07/15), without ever really installed the up tempo, it worked magically. Less than six plays we marched the whole field for the score.
I hope I didn't make too many grammar mistakes and I intend to post regularly here. Any feedback is appreciated and other stories about my journey - sometimes not in
chronological order - will be featured. Thanks again for all the knowledge I learned, hope some day I can do the same on my country!
The first D1 NCAA Offense in Brazil
Yup, a lot of coaches try to do this here but unsuccessfully. They try to grab plays and make an offense, a few have a consistent system and you can easily see, heck, normally they are the champions. How did I get on this point if I said everybody is failing? Well, a lot of research and money invested. After I forced to leave, aka fired, I made a promise that would find the suitable offense from what I've seen being around the game since 2010 here. What I found was this interesting method:
- Small teams without experience, Single Wing:
Why? Since they are raw, it would be perfect to begin with some simple, unorthodox and fun offense. You can take your best players, normally it takes some time to develop but you always have a couple (if you are lucky enough, sometimes five) good athletes. Therefore, but the best as TB and WB and let it roll. Nobody run this here, it would make some damage after a couple of months practicing;
- Medium to Power house teams, run first Spread:
With experienced players you can use something fancier, but just a little bit. I was an avid fan of the zone run game because I was a defensive player turned to OC - all of this with a behind the scenes "fight" that happened after a semi final game meltdown with national attendance record of 15 thousand people, a year after the World Cup was played on the same turf - and knew nothing about O. I taught that I knew, rookie mistake. After a couple of months being HC I realized that's easier and fit with our body types of linemen, we are amateurs, so if you are fat you gonna play in the trenches. Plus the big guys love to pull! Idk why more teams don't play with gap schemes!
Now it's about to find the tough SOB to fill the role of H-Back, if I could run any offense it would be UC, but for a lot of reasons it needs to be gun oriented. Shotgun or pistol. Therefore, you need to add some deception and play-action. Likewise, the dual reader defenders are easily fooled down here if you establish the running game. Now Malzahn's offense appears. It all started with his book: "The Hurry-Up, No-Huddle: An Offensive Philosophy". Then, it evolved to his playbooks floating around the web, the receivers are numbered, colors for the playsides, and what the f**k is that?
It took months to begin to understand it. The formations, the motions, the Little Rock-turned-Arkansas concept, the H-Back alignment, the few passing combos/concepts. It all makes sense on our scenario. It all fits together, it makes sense, like a perfect song. Last practice (07/15), without ever really installed the up tempo, it worked magically. Less than six plays we marched the whole field for the score.
I hope I didn't make too many grammar mistakes and I intend to post regularly here. Any feedback is appreciated and other stories about my journey - sometimes not in
chronological order - will be featured. Thanks again for all the knowledge I learned, hope some day I can do the same on my country!
