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Organization. Section Structure. We Are Warriors The Bullfrog Clan. The single most important thing I teach my players is that they are part of a Warrior Society and on the practice field they learn the lessons of the Warrior Code.
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We Are WarriorsThe Bullfrog Clan The single most important thing I teach my players is that they are part of a Warrior Society and on the practice field they learn the lessons of the Warrior Code. This practice field will make you cry, make you bleed, and it will bring pain but in turn it will provide the lessons that you need to not only survive but thrive in the world we live in.
Football is a Combat Sport • martial artsnoun: any of the traditional forms of Oriental self-defense or combat that utilize physical skill and coordination without weapons, as karate, aikido, judo, or kung fu, often practiced as sport. • There is no other sport like football. It is a TEAM COMBAT SPORT that requires eleven players to attack the other team’s eleven players in a coordinated assault. • You play it with a helmet and pads so you are not injured because it is a full speed violent game. • Every player on the field is violently hitting another player or being hit by another player. • Learning how to play this game requires you to learn specific skills: blocking, tackling, hitting, and avoiding how to be hit while also learning skills like handing off, carrying, catching, and passing the football. • Football is a martial art.
A Martial Arts Requires A Warrior • We coach a combat sport! • We teach a martial arts! • We train players to be warriors! • We train them to play through pain, control their emotions, and focus on the task at hand so that all eleven players accomplish a single task!
Warrior Code • Warrior Ideals: teaching kids football, of any age, to believe in themselves and the team they play for is an important concept. • Because this sport is so violent it requires a level of courage and commitment not often found in kids nowadays. Every young man at some point dreams of being a warrior, a knight, a Spartan, a Trojan, a hero. It is in every young man's DNA and tapping into that can be a very positive tool for you as a coach. Our coaching staff understands this and for me it is reflective in the nature of my coaching and how I approach players. Every player will be treated as a young man on the field. In turn they respect and trust me as a coach and a mentor. • We will be tough, fair, and unyielding in practice but we will have fun as a team and we will learn how to be successful as a team of warriors.
The Path for Your Team • To make your players stronger! • Physically stronger • Emotionally stronger • Mentally stronger • Spiritually stronger • Being a true warrior, or “champion,” requires an understanding and appreciation of the connectivity between our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual commitment. • We are preparing our players to succeed on the field and handle the physical, mental, and emotional rigors of this sport. • We are preparing our players for the very same lessons in life as well. • Young men want to be held to a higher standard. They want to be pushed. They want to be important in the eyes of their seniors.
Your Staff Guidelines For the Players • It is the player's team not the coaches. We are mentors and teachers; the team is theirs they own it we guide them. • Every player will have a position and role on this team. It is our job to find out what every kid is good at and amplify that strength as a positive for our team. Find that one thing he is good at and nurture it! • Playing time is earned not given. If a player is not showing up to practice, not giving his best effort, is disruptive he loses the right to play. Being a football player is not a right it is a privilege on our team. • We push every kid mentally, emotionally, and physically on this team. Every player must be challenged to improve. • Practices must be intense. Don't waste practice time chattering or explaining. Teach it, show it, rep it and rep it a lot in the allotted time given. Correct mistakes on the fly with specific positive instruction but expect them to get better. No exceptions to this. • When we condition we condition with the mindset to not only physically push them but to mentally and emotionally push them. We push them hard so that practices are much more intense then the games ever will be so that come game time the exercise of playing a game is easy. They must fail on the practice field and learn how to deal with it on the practice field so that they know how to deal with it on the game field. Success is often something players will need to learn how to deal with has well (respect and honor). • We expect our players to give 100% we must give 100% as well to set the example. • Player welfare/Goal Accomplishment are the priorities of the coaching staff!
Safety & Contact • It is every coaches' job to ensure their players are as safe as realistically possible on the football field at all times! • Proper training in wearing protective equipment. (helmet fit, shoulder pad fit, lower body pads) • Proper training in keeping the head out of contact. (concussion injury) • Proper training in keeping the head up/eyes up. (spinal injury) • Proper care and up keep of mouth guards. (concussion injury/dental/tongue) • Protecting player’s joints. (keep them bent/don’t lock out) • Compliance with Safety Rules and Sportsmanship on the field • Coaches can control amount of force and danger of a drill by: • Making sure you pair up players evenly considering biological maturity, experience, athletic ability, size, and aggressiveness. • The closer the distance the safer the drill. The farther apart the players are the more force they can both generate (acceleration). • If you increase distance use obstacles and start/stop situations to reduce force. • When doing gang tackling drills and turnover drills use close proximity. • Fast whistle when you need to. • Keep players above the waist. No tackling our players below the waist. Bite the Hip on dummies only and in scrimmages against other teams only.
Make Practice Fun! • That doesn’t mean pandering to every player’s desire to be the center of attention. • That doesn’t mean you should play fun games that offer nothing to the development of your players, team, or schemes you teach. • It means that your practice should be fast paced. • It means that everything you do should have meaningful value to the development of your players as a person, athlete, and football player. • It means the vast majority of your practice should be competitive and allow your players to be aggressive and violent in the context of your drills to foster competition and a desire to succeed and become better players! • Players will adapt to the nature of the practice as long as you make it up beat, positive, and get the best out of them while fostering an atmosphere of sportsmanship and teamwork. • Give positive feedback to all of your players when they do something right. • When they do something wrong – explain what they did wrong, explain how they need to do it right, rep it again. Be positive – positive/negative/positive when you can!
Develop of Sense of Knowing • The front side of your practices should always be the same. This allows players to know exactly what will occur when they get to practice. It gives them the ability to focus on becoming better athletes and football players. It allows them to emotionally and mentally warm up as they physically warm up for practice. • Vary the back end of your practice but use drills and variations of drills that the players already know. • Push them to the edge at various points in your practice mentally, emotionally, and physically. Once they realize that every practice will be tough they will start to adapt and they will start to have fun. • Make the easy seem hard and the hard seem easy • Use drills that are both competitive and aggressive in nature.
The Chain of Confidence • Develop Confidence in the coaching staff. (Trust in ability to teach the game and keep them safe) • Develop Confidence in their equipment to protect them. • Develop Confidence in their teammates and the team to achieve success on the field. • Develop Confidence in themselves to achieve anything on the field. • The is forms the nucleus of pride and self worth in a football player and the team.
The Chain of Success • Once you achieve a confident player his desire to compete will grow. Encourage competition at all times within your team. • The use of competitive drills is important to foster this growth at every practice. • Set them up to succeed and to deal with success and failure. The practice field is used to develop experience that they can use on the game field. Every practice should bring a positive experience that they can learn from. • That doesn’t mean they have to succeed it simply means they have to learn something positive from it. Whether it be success or failure.
Competitive Spirit Breeds Aggressiveness • Show me a player that wants to succeed and I will show you a player that is aggressive. • A player that wants to be successful will attack a drill with all out effort. That is the natural aggressiveness we are looking for in our players. • Teach a player that his equipment keeps him safe and the techniques you are teaching him will keep him safe and he will stop thinking about his “safety” and start thinking about succeeding and he will start competing. • Passive players have a greater chance of getting hurt. • Aggressive players have less chance of getting hurt.
Confidence + Competitiveness + Experience = Aggressiveness • Players need to have fun. It promotes a positive experience and that promotes a positive attitude. • Make being competitive and aggressive fun and important as player! • Everything you do should have a competitive component built in to it or should progress into a competitive phase as technical mastery occurs. • Mental + Emotional + Physical Toughness are essential to being a warrior/football player.
Preparation for the Season Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked. "Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat. "I don't know," Alice answered. "Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
Practice Concepts • According to DFAL rules we are limited to 2 hrs. of practice each session • That equates to 120 minutes per session • Lose 2 hrs each week by not going 150 minutes • Need to tighten up how things are run • Defense will get ½ of the practice time – 60 min/practice • Focus on the defense • No water breaks – some water supplied, but players are expected to have water with them. • Water bottles with names and numbers on them • Carry them with them to each drill • Warm-up is in line-leader groups with the related coach • Come out, get warmed up and ready to go • Stretching first, then 20 yd jogs • Wednesday practices are 5-7 • This time provides opportunity for tutoring, appointments • Thursday – Regular practice, full pads (no hitting) • All kicking teams • Only players involved in kicking teams plus scout players • All others are with coaches for blocking, tackling, sumo, etc. • Defense walk-thru • Offense walk-thru
Opponent Top 10 Plays Run Play: 1 Insert play diagram for their #1 play here Run Play: 2 Insert play diagram for their #2 play here
Practice Concepts • Determine best way to teach our athletes (might be multiple ways to do this) • Visual • Hands On (Rep, Rep, Rep) • Question/Response • Written • Determine best method for evaluating our teaching of the athletes • Test and Quiz (oral, written) • Demonstrate • Film grading (game) • Question and answer • Play performance over potential • Create competition in practice by position. WHO CAN PLAY? • No starting position is ever set in stone, we need to create an atmosphere of competition every day • Never waste practice time, always coaching, always teaching, always helping our athletes to improve. • No lectures, stories. Anything over 55 seconds is too much time talking • Meetings to teach, watch film with position coaches? • Demonstrate if you have the ability to do so safely • No touch program does not mean you can’t be a hands on coach. • Utilize drills that will show up on film (this is the hard evidence that what we have taught has been learned) • If it won’t show up on film, why do the drill? • No “time fillers” use time wisely to get better every day. • If you come up with what you think is a good drill, communicate it.
Scout Defense • Scenario: Triple vs. Live D • Scenario: Live Pass Protection • Coaches must setup the defensive alignments in 3-, 4-, 5-, and 6- fronts. Assignments should be base and 3 stunts/blitzes • Draw these up so the D can just look at them and line up and go. • 10-min period of scout • Goal is 2 PPM so 20’ish plays • Coach on the run • Identify problems, note them, and fix them in INDIVIDUAL, not during this session • If you have to coach a player, take him out of the rotation and then put him back in when you are done • We won’t stop the team to coach the 1
Fundraising – Beg-A-Thon • Each player is asked to bring 10 addresses with a short note asking for money • School sends out the letters • Cash comes in
Local Restaurants • Many local restaurants will sponsor a football night. For everyone from your organization that dines at that restaurant on a particular night (that shows some form of identification with the program) the restaurant will donate back between 10-20% of the check. Some restaurants use this as a way to boost business on "off" nights. • The local Outback Steakhouse made us a great offer. They have a dinner at noon before the store opens and we sell tickets for $20. 100 % profit. The cooks and waitstaff work for tips and Outback donates the food. Sell the tickets and glad-hand for an hour and a half and we made about $2500.
Reverse Raffle • I wasn't real involved with the raffle as I'm still at my school from last year when this was going down, but I'll try to explain it. • Essentially they sold 100 tickets for $75 each. They then started pulling tickets out of a big tumbler thing. Every 10th ticket got $50 back. They did this for 95 of the tickets and then the final 5 tickets were up for a prize of $3000. • The final five then decided if they wanted to split the prize or put those five tickets back in and draw again. They decided to draw again three times until only two were left. They decided to split the prize. • I also forgot there was a steak dinner that everyone who bought a ticket got two tickets to. So they did the meal and then raffled off the stuff. The only cost on the meal was the steak. They got the potatoes donated and the deserts and such were made by the moms of our kids.
Flea Market • Had a fairly successful "flea market" at the school. Boosters and parents donate their junk and spend a morning selling it for the team. decent money and again no cost. • This works well when we did it at the local JC. Rent 2 spaces ($60) and get 4-6 families to contribute their stuff. Lay it out, price it, and sell it. Anything left at the end of the day went to the charity groups (Goodwill, churches). Families got rid of stuff, team made money, and charity groups got stuff. With the right frame of mind these are a lot of fun.
Apparel (Nike) • We have a guy that orders through Nike that gives us 40% off of all Nike apparel and shoes. • We give all of our kids an order sheet with shoes, gloves and dri-fit apparel with a 30% discount. So we make 10% off of every order. • We also do this with our middle school and younger kids. Usually makes a lot of money each year and doesn't take much effort. • Let me know, and I can give you his name and number. It's good for coaching apparel, too. • There are companies on the internet now that will sell a very large selection of gear in the school colors and logos. • http://www.prepsportswear.com is one company that does this. They will kick back 15% of the sales and there are over 400 products available. All orders are made-to-order and take a few days to deliver. They are linked to the team/school website.
