The idea here is that you would log on to the discussion board for the Equalizer Group and post your information under the "Best Practices Exchange" topic. Here are my 11:
1. Implented our 4-3 Defense: It solved the dilemna of how do you defenese the double tight, double wing offense one week and switch to defending shotgun, no backs, call everything at the LOS the next week.
2. Created the EQualizer Offense. It allows teams with limited talent (compared to the talent they have to face) to compete for the Championship.
3. Used the BFS Total Program: BFS helps athletes achieve athletic potentials sooner, cuts team injury rates by more than half, and positions programs to compete for the Championship every year.
4. Implemented a 5-Under Man defensive scheme for pass happy offenses. This one thing really elevated the effeciveness of our pass defense, ESPECIALLY when you incorporate collisioning the receiver at 5 yards to disrupt timing.
5. Incorporated the midline series into the offense. This series accelerated our offensive output significantly.
6. Married our Quick Pass Offense to the midline series increasing the effectiveness of both.
7. Breaking the secondary positions into four distinct positions: Strong Safety; Halfback; Free Safety and Cornerback and listing the attributes of each and declaring that the SS & CB always have flat and force while FS & HB always have deep coverages. It simplifies and expediates secondary defense.
8. Implemented plyometrics into our BFS training program. Plyos, including box jumping and the plyo ramp, did more for our team footwork and team speed than any other single training activity.
9. Committing to play our DTs in a 1 technique and our DEs to a 7 technique. In doing so, our ability to stuff the trap increased dramatically, our secondary got better pass/run reads elevating their play and our LB'er play got better as they were more protected.
10. Made Be An 11 part of the program and created the class. We taught a Be An 11 Class on attitude, motivation, goal setting, visualization part of the daily curriculum. It became the most popular class taught in three different high schools. Kids still, 25 years later, have their notebooks from the class.
11. Journal write with the kids. Through the Be An 11 Quote of the Day and the Be An 11 Journals we created for class, we would carry on a dialogue with the athletes whoc would write things on the page they would never tell me face to face. I got to know them on a deeper, more meaningful level. It even led to some victories out there on the field.
What are your Best Practices?
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1. Came to the realization that to get better it is faster to copy ideas of teams who are already there. Several of the best practices below relate to this.
2. Learned about BFS and promoted it to the point that we now have 10classes (5 each semester) and 95% of our players lifting during the school day.
3. Learned about and have been doing team camps for the last 8 seasons at the end of June. This legally extends your spring training without getting into trouble re: seasons of play.
4. Adapt your offensive to the type of athletes you tend to have plenty of. We seem to have more FB types than WR's so our version of Freebs EQ mixed with some Wing T concepts work well with our players. What ever you want to do practice it a lot you can't put in too much (which is the tendency for young coaches)because you don't have time to practice it all.
5. We make use of our common lunch hours to watch film during the season. Monday's for sure all season and then most days as the playoffs approach. don't spend valuable after school practice time in film study. Have the kids meet at lunch.
That's Five off the top of my head!
Sorry Freeb...I didn't mean to send it anonymously. You probably recoqnized that it was me I'm sure.
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