Monthly Archives: December 2016

Evaluating Your Passing Game

Q1. What concepts were you most successful with this year and against what coverages?
Q2. How did your pass protection dictate what you could do with your passing game?
Q3. What concepts and coverages did you struggle with this season?
Q4. How many short yardage concepts do you employ/trust?
Q5. When breaking down your opponents, what did you look for in the coverage?
Q6. How do your athletes impact what you do with your passsing game?
Q7. What will be your focus this spring and summer to improve your passing game?

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Evaluating Your Run Game

Q1. What were your most effective run plays this season?
Q2. Why was this play succeful for your team?
Q3. What were your least effective run plays this season?
Q4. Why was your team unsuccesful running this play?
Q5. Do you have runs that you prefer vs odd fronts and even fronts?
Q6. How many of your run schemes have RPOs associated with them?
Q7. What are you goals for improving your run game this spring and next fall?

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Beginning Off-Season

Q1. When your season is officially over, how soon after do you begin off-season?
Q2. Do you begin off-season with strength tests for a baseline, or do you jump right in?
Q3. How much in-season lifting and conditioning do you do, and does it help begin off-season?
Q4. Describe the in-season lifiting and conditioning you perform.
Q5. How do you plan the first phase of your off-season?
Q6. How do you group your athletes in the first phase?
Q7. What is the environment created by the coaches and the workouts during the first phase?

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A Championship Environment

Q1: What characteristics define a championship environment?
Q2: How do you build these characteristics into your program?
Q3: Will you visit with champion programs to learn from their environment?
Q4:If your team falls short of the goal, what changes do you look to make in your program?
Q5: Is it easier to change the mentality of the team/players or the environment in which they work?
Q6: What does your program do already that is characteristic of a championship program?
Q7: When you think of championship programs, college or HS, what programs come to mind?

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2 Way Players or 2 Platooning Your Team

How do you determine whether you use 2 way players or 2 platoon your team?
How do you handle your sub-varsity teams?
What are the benefits of players playing 1 side of the ball vs both sides?
What are the cons of players playing 1 side of the ball vs both sides?
Are there small school coaches that 2 platoon?
Have you ever gone from 2 Way players 1 season to 2 platoon the next? (or vice versa) Why?
If you don’t 2 platoon your players, how often will you share your best athletes?

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