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Q1. What are you most pleased with about the job you did coaching your position/team last season?
Q2. What did you dislike about your coaching job from this season?
Q3. What did your coaching staff do that helped the team the most?
Q4. How did the steps you took last spring and summer help you become a better coach this fall?
Q5. What is one area in your professional development you’d like to specifically address this off-season?
Q6. What will you do in the off-season to improve your coaching?
Q7. If you were the head coach of your program, what changes would you make?

Q1. What did you find to be the most important part of your defensive prep this season?
Q2. What were your most successful stunts/blitzes against the run?
Q3. What formations gave you the most trouble in being to defend the run or the pass?
Q4. What reports on your video system were most helpful to you this season?
Q5. What coverages did you find most successful against 3X1? Empty?
Q6. How did you prepare for fast tempo offenses?
Q7. How will you use the off-season and summer to improve upon your defense next 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?

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?

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?

Q1: How many different personnel packages do you employ? #txhsfbchat
Q2: How do you use each package differently? #txhsfbchat
Q3: How do you use each package the same? #txhsfbchat
Q4: Do you have personnel packages on defense? #txhsfbchat
Q5: What situations call for different personnel on defense? #txhsfbchat
Q6: How does your personnel determine how you play? #txhsfbchat
Q7: Do you use two-way players in your packages? #txhsfbchat

Q1: Will you introduce new plays into your scheme to take advantage of your opponent? #txhsfbchat
Q2: How much time will you spend working the new play leading up to the game? #txhsfbchat
Q3: How do you determine the cost/benefit ratio of adding this to your attack? #txhsfbchat
Q4: Are you more likely to “steal” plays/schemes from other teams, or adjust the play to your system? #txhsfbchat
Q5: In the game, how do you work it into your plan? #txhsfbchat
Q6: What determines if the play becomes part of your system or just a game week adjustment? #txhsfbchat
Q7: When you Scout an opponent, do you look for plays to add to use against them? Why? #txhsfbchat

Q1: How do you prepare each week for different D&D situations that occur during the game? #txhsfbchat
Q2: How does your philosophy for 1st down plays differ from 3rd and medium (4-6 yards)? #txhsfbchat
Q3: You’re faced with 3rd and 25+ in the last minutes of a game that you’re down by 3-4 points, what is your plan to get the 1st down or stop them from converting? #txhsfbchat
Q4: How do you work your 2 minute drill? #txhsfbchat
Q5: When you work GL do you work against a scout or good on good? #txhsfbchat
Q6: How do you incorporate special teams into your situations? #txhsfbchat
Q7: Do you practice the last play of the game? Taking a knee? Special play to win the game? #txhsfbchat