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Post by coachadam on Jan 23, 2019 12:16:18 GMT -6
Coaches,
How does your staff improve in the offseason? Do you go to clinics only? College visits? Have a "clinic day" where your varsity presents to your JV/Frosh coaches, O coach up the D guys or vice versa? DVD's, books, , Twitter, etc?
What experiences do you find the most useful and those you find a waste of time?
I am looking for some new ideas for our program to get better in the offseason.
Thank you
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Post by vanden48 on Jan 23, 2019 13:03:22 GMT -6
Clinics are only good if you go in with a plan to learn. Drink the beer, enjoy the company, but have an improvement plan.
One thing that I have overlooked and it cost us this last season is staff team building. Strengthen the bonds of the staff. Before you even do team building with your players, do team building with your staff. A staff that isn't strong together will fail. Build loyalty within the staff. Agree to read a book as a staff(although most coaches won't read). Have an organized staff outing.
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Post by fshamrock on Jan 23, 2019 13:16:09 GMT -6
I think clinics are awesome and college visits are fantastic, but the biggest things I've ever seen a staff do to improve is the take time together to self scout and go over issues from the previous season, then try to implement some changes, I was on a staff that was fortunate enough to take college visits for a week every spring, we would spend all day in meetings and at practice, but the most valuable thing we did there was game breakdowns of our previous season. Every assistant was assigned a number of games to watch and fill out a google doc on it questions were specific to our offense, how they lined up to us, what gave us problems, what we did well....that kind of thing. We had a copy of our game plan for the that game ready as well. Each staff member "presents" his breakdown to the rest of the staff. It's a really really good way to come up with solutions specific to your team and what you are facing
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Post by dblwngr on Jan 23, 2019 14:52:34 GMT -6
Always good to get together for clinics, off season meetings etc. But I would also add to make sure and have a get together or two that involves the coaches and their families.
We've had a HC the last few years that is big on family and I can definitely say, when you include the wife n kids in your passion, they will be your biggest supporters, even during the long weekends of film and meetings. In my younger years I was with a staff that was all about ditching the wife n kids so we could party our a$$'s off. My wife was not the biggest fan of me coaching during those years.....
I feel like many of the guys on staff are coming back every years because of the atmosphere that welcomes their families.
I guess I really didn't answer your question about staff development as much as staff retention.
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Post by dubber on Jan 23, 2019 15:09:00 GMT -6
Learn how to fight productively
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Post by coachadam on Jan 24, 2019 10:14:07 GMT -6
Always good to get together for clinics, off season meetings etc. But I would also add to make sure and have a get together or two that involves the coaches and their families. We've had a HC the last few years that is big on family and I can definitely say, when you include the wife n kids in your passion, they will be your biggest supporters, even during the long weekends of film and meetings. In my younger years I was with a staff that was all about ditching the wife n kids so we could party our a$$'s off. My wife was not the biggest fan of me coaching during those years..... I feel like many of the guys on staff are coming back every years because of the atmosphere that welcomes their families. I guess I really didn't answer your question about staff development as much as staff retention. I think that's still a great point.
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Post by fshamrock on Jan 25, 2019 8:20:08 GMT -6
I think clinics are awesome and college visits are fantastic, but the biggest things I've ever seen a staff do to improve is the take time together to self scout and go over issues from the previous season, then try to implement some changes, I was on a staff that was fortunate enough to take college visits for a week every spring, we would spend all day in meetings and at practice, but the most valuable thing we did there was game breakdowns of our previous season. Every assistant was assigned a number of games to watch and fill out a google doc on it questions were specific to our offense, how they lined up to us, what gave us problems, what we did well....that kind of thing. We had a copy of our game plan for the that game ready as well. Each staff member "presents" his breakdown to the rest of the staff. It's a really really good way to come up with solutions specific to your team and what you are facing piggy backing on my own statement, probably the best thing about doing this is finding out what your assistants don't know, because we are barely smarter than chimps and our ego's are so fragile we would rather nod our head and smile for 5 years completely clueless than ask what somebody is talking about, at least I would anyway
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Post by fshamrock on Jan 30, 2019 9:09:18 GMT -6
Couple of guys PM'd me for a copy of the doc we used for staff game breakdowns I found a few paper copies the questions were like this: What were our successful runs/passes? What were our unsuccessful runs/passes? How did they play 3rd down? Goal line? What were our explosive plays? (15 pass, 10 run) What was their base defense? What pressured did they use? were they effective? What were their coverage's? How did they Line up to a TE?
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