Tonight we are talking about the Elements of Coaching. As 2018 officially begins, we need to evaluate how we connect and challenge our football programs #TXHSFBCHAT
HSSocialMedia : RT txhsfbchat: Tonight we are talking about the Elements of Coaching. As 2018 officially begins, we need to evaluate how we connect and challenge our football programs #TXHSFBCHAT
We have made several good hires in the last few years. Individuals who will check their egos at the door and do what is best for the program and kids. The coaches have built trust by having each other’s backs over a few lean seasons. #TXHSFBCHAT
I would like to think I’m fairly sound with it. There are going to be those relationships that are closer than others and those that don’t flourish. All in all, it’s important to be you, and make sure that you are a reliable and selfless team member. #TXHSFBCHAT
A1: You have start by building quality relationships w/ both your players/coaches. Trust is the number one thing I look for when hiring coaches. I’ve got 4 former players on my current staff, b/c their great w/ kids & I Trust them whole heartedly. Trust=Success #TXHSFBCHAT
A1: I establish trust by removing boundaries. I'm pretty much an open book and that allows me to build lasting relationships built on honesty #TXHSFBCHAT
A1: You have to show that you care for them. One big thing I think we do is being a servant leader. Have to be willing to serve to lead and gain trust of everyone. #txhsfbchat
A1: I think fairly well. I'm very open about my expectations and what happens if they're not met, while also being open about myself and background also. Seems to have worked.... #txhsfbchat
A1 cont: with the kids we have been doing a better job in being the stable support that a lot of them need. Lots of our kids are the adult in the house. We have done a better job spending the time needed in and out of practice to build relationships #TXHSFBCHAT
A1) You have to create a family-like atmosphere, while being able to spend time with you nuclear family.
It is a hard balance.
You want the kids to love and trust you, and eachother... but you cannot replace their family.
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A1: set boundaries with freshmen and be more strict with freshmen to get them on the right path. 10&11th start finding the leaders, 12th grade start listening to suggestions and let them take ownership of program #TXHSFBCHAT
A1: The best way to establish these are through your own actions. They will try and get away with as much as possible so they have to know what is right and wrong #txhsfbchat
Trust is built with your actions on the staff and with the players if say you are going to do something do it. Be a man of action and accountability. Kids know if you are fake #TXHSFBCHAT
For assistants and co-coaches... they need to become like cousins. Or at least that good friend that you trust with your dog while youre away.
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A1: I have always just been myself with players and coaches. I try to build relationshipswith each and everyone of them, some are closer than others. #txhsfbchat
A1: I think I do a good job. I have an open door policy with my players and always make myself available to my players in and out of season, to talk about the game or about life. As a result, I feel my players respond better to me on the field. #TXHSFBCHAT
As coaches we still need to be better about maintaining these relationships beyond the school years. We just lost a former player, he was a bright shining person but he lost his way and took his own life. We all have to be better.#TXHSFBCHAT
I eliminate boundaries with my guys and try to be as transparent as possible. I can not expect my guys to fully trust me if I am only allowing them to get pieces of me here and there. #txhsfbchat
A1: I identify very well with my guys. I grew up just like them. Very similar circumstances and in the same area. This has helped me build that trust. Remaining an "open book" to them has allowed me to have success. They know they can come to me about anything. #txhsfbchat
Losing a player, whether current or past, is so tough. I have been through the same thing and it really makes you value the relationships you build. You're right, we do need to keep up with our kids after they leave us. We say we care, lets follow through #TXHSFBCHAT
A1: We have a "what happens in football stays in football" mentality. Kids need to have a "safe" place on campus. Coaches we have no bad ideas policy #TXHSFBCHAT
A2: breaking down film with the players. In the off season like to use notes on HUDL to teach even when not seeing/coaching them everyday like in season #txhsfbchat
A2 try and lead them down the right path check in on them with grades and behavior you may be able to catch something underlying at home that you could help with #txhsfbchat
A2: With golf it is easy. Make an adjustment do something different see what result is. Golf like OL is not a natural motion to learn. You must develop a technique and be coachable #txhsfbchat
A2: Holding them accountable for their actions helps w/ this process. If you do it the right way, the student can in sense become the teacher for not only themselves, but their teammates. #txhsfbchat
A2: I share my own stories and urge them to understand the importance of both in their lives. I also try to make them aware of how they already do it, so they understand it's easier than it seems. #txhsfbchat
A2) My job right now is to teach cognitive change to criminals. It is about learning how to initiate AND complete tasks.
Nothing we do is for S&Gs, it all has a purpose. Make sure you see that purpose, and plan accordingly
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Trust and relationships are build thru honesty. I’ll go to bat for any of my boys and they know it, they also know I’ll tell them when they are wrong. These same guys, know they can correct me without retribution. I feel my LBs and I have a great repore. #TXHSFBCHAT
The guys know the rules and expectations that we have as a team and within the unit, but as far as boundaries I am open and up front with them and they are w me. They know they have support of unit and myself and can work through any issues. #TXHSFBCHAT
A2: I want my guys to know their job inside and out and know my expectations so that they are more critical on themselves than I am. If I always have to repeat myself, they don’t care enough to self-correct and there is someone else behind them that will care enough. #TXHSFBCHAT
A2: We use personal mistakes and current issues for self awareness ideas. For football part. After every practice / game. we have them grade themselves and text us their top 3 plays (clip #), 3 worst performance plays and 2 poor effort plays and explain each. #TXHSFBCHAT
A2: For the scouting reports for each team, we give each position “homework” to prepare for the upcoming opponent. I also add points and plays were they need to watch themselves and tell me what they did wrong or right #txhsfbchat
A2: This is tough. It takes a lot of quality reps on the field for them to recognize and self-correct a physical action. A behavioral action takes longer because it may be more ingrained in them. We must instruct and reinforce constantly #TXHSFBCHAT
A2: I want my guys to know mistakes are inevitable. We're gonna jump offside, we're gonna hold, we're gonna bomb a test, we're gonna be late. It happens. But what are we gonna do to fix it? It's not how you start, but how you finish. That's how you'll be remembered. #txhsfbchat
A2 continued through on it. Extra work after practice and one of the most coachable groups I have been around. You coach a player in 30 seconds on the sideline and you saw them trying to accomplish it on the field. 6-2-1 as a JV team. #TXHSFBCHAT
Another key point is that you are not an accident. You are the product of every action this world has ever undertaken until this point.
No matter what, you are needed. You are the only chance for someone else to exsist. Know your own value
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A2: Model it. Identify opportunities to show accountability. Best times are after making a bad call in a game. We’ve built an environment that players/coaches can admit to a mistake as long as they’re working to give it #txhsfbchat
A2: Repetition, repetition, repetition. Creating a routine and repeating good habits really helps my players, and myself, pick up on mistakes and helps be more self-aware so as to correct those mistakes. Whether that be in daily life or on the field. #TXHSFBCHAT
A2) I learned this from my high school coach. Be clear in what you want, hold the players accountable to that level of play, tell them when they did it wrong, then find any and every excuse to praise them. #txhsfbchat
A2 this part of the years all about them as an individual the effort you put in during the off-season will decide how much success you have during the season. Also set expectations for behavior & standards we want to have. Not going to be perfect but want to chase it #TXHSFBCHAT
A2: I try to make feedback a constant part of our communication every day. If we stress the "why" instead of just the "what," players are more invested and genuinely want to improve which leads to buy-in, which leads to self-correction. #txhsfbchat
A3 the biggest thing is to be able to deal with adversity you will deal with it in games practices life everything if we can teach them to bounce back and keep competing we have done something right #txhsfbchat
On the football field, short term memory. Forget it and let's move on. In life, model it. If we're taking on a role as a father figure, we have to set the precedence. #txhsfbchat
A3) For the coaches, it is to better themselves. Too many coaches just coach what they have learned from their coaches, and what they know. Get out of your comfort zone, learn something new on Twitter, Clinics, Glazier, etc. Never before was this much available. #txhsfbchat
A2: I teach the kids that we are all going to make mistakes at some point during the game, but you have to be able to recover and continue to compete. I teach my kids to on it and learn from it.
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A2 cont: For my DBs 90% of mistakes are because of "bad eyes" and they know that, when something bad happens learn from it and play the next play. As far as self-awareness and correction off the field goes I think you have to teach accountability and be consistent. #txhsfbchat
A3: The challenge I always put towards them is that they need to try and get comfortable being uncomfortable. If you are not trying to reach higher limits, then you are on autopilot #txhsfbchat
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A1: Starts in the offseason welcoming them to 'The OLine Family.' For some it's an extension of what they already have @home. Others is something for them to belong to. As the season develops we do dinners, etc. It's a 'People Business' 1st ⚒️🐗⚒️ #TXHSFBCHAT
A3: We are challenging players to make Ironman, which means 75% attendance in the offseason. We have a combine style testing system that shows them their progress vs their own past but historically over the last 15+ years. #TXHSFBCHAT
A3) I challenge them to be 1% better every day. Do one additional pro-social task or chore every day.
They can choose what that task is. But it encourages my mantra of #Gb4S Growth before Status
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A3: We challenge them everyday. Our base is to challenge yourself to be your best at school, at home, in the community, & on the field. Do we meet those challenges on everyday? No, but we’re instilling a mind set in our kids, that we hope helps them later in life. #TXHSFBCHAT
A3: Its one thing to celebrate a TD or a Victory when everything goes right and when you're winning, it's another take ownership of a mistake and hold each other accountable. I challenge my players every day to take ownership and be accountable to each other. #TXHSFBCHAT
A3: Be honest with yourself, and those around you and be able to lay your head down each night without thinking what else you could have done, be proud and confident. #TXHSFBCHAT
A2: we use film. The eye in the sky does not lie. It allows players to visually see what they need to do from what they think they are doing. It helps them understand why they are being asked to do what they are doing. #txhsfbchat
A3: Overcoming adversity everyday and to always compete during every rep. Also, I challenge my kids, coaches, and myself to be better today than we were yesterday.
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A3) we try to test them physically and mentally. Let them fight through and overcome adversity. We will all be challenged and face adversity as adults. Allow them ways to face it now so hopefully they will overcome it as an adult #TXHSFBCHAT
A2: Building off Q1, 1st, BIGGEST thing to me is gaining player's trust. It all starts there. In addition to my coaching, I use tech when possible - kids always have their nose buried ion their phones! HUDL Technique's a GREAT tool for coaching-correcting #TXHSFBCHAT
A3: Failure sets in the weightroom at the end of each week, high personal & season goals, tough & creative conditioning, various character topics teaching response to life challenges. #txhsfbchat
A3 continued: We are also experimenting with a variation on Coach Plaa’s point system from his article at @XandOLabs on program development. We are striving to continue to improve as a staff through contact with other coaches anywhere, anytime.#TXHSFBCHAT
A3) For the kids, it is to be great. I have very high expectations, but I believe they are fair. If we fail, we talk about why. It is hopefully team accountability which translates to personal accountability. I need to do a better job of actually saying that. #txhsfbchat
A3: Win the day. When we lay down at night and reflect, can you say you were great? If so, awesome. Be proud. If not, what could I have done different? Identify it and correct it. #txhsfbchat
HSSocialMedia : RT CoachRmcD60: A3 the biggest thing is to be able to deal with adversity you will deal with it in games practices life everything if we can teach them to bounce back and keep competing we have done something right #txhsfbchat
A3: The goal is always to have 100% trust in the process. This is the ultimate team sport. If one person decides to do their own thing, the play/game/season will usually fail. So while it may seem unfamiliar or uncomfortable to some, team>me mentality is key. #txhsfbchat
A3: I challenge my kids to be able to think clearly at a fast pace. In order to be successful I challenge them to find that inner fire that drives them to push themselves to be the best #TXHSFBCHAT
A3: Be the best you can be at everything. Win at everything you do! Win in every situation. Win in the: weight room; classroom; cafeteria; hallway; at home; as a son; as a teammate; as a student, etc #TXHSFBCHAT
A1) I think I am a players coach in general. I am the same guy at practice, grocery store, hallways. I ask a ton of each kid and can be very demanding. With that, I try to get them to know I am as committed to them as I am demanding. #txhsfbchat
I’m always challenging them to focus on the process. I actually want to see mistakes. But I want to see growth. Accept it. Learn from it. Flush it. - Frosty Westering A3 #TXHSFBCHAT
A4: I feel like I’m very good at listening to coaches and players! That is a major aspect of how you build trust and relationships with both groups! #txhsfbchat
A4 I would like to think I am approachable by coaches and players. I know there are times that can always be improved. I like to keep a open door policy. #txhsfbchat
A4) I have always tried to have a button hole policy. Anyone can button hole me and talk to me about anythin.
When I was a MS coach, I told the players that they could draw up plays and we would try to use them.
Some of their defensive stuff was very good
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Each new play is a new day. Life doesn’t always go your way. But the sun comes up tomorrow. I take a real world application to teach them how to overcome a bad play. March on! #TXHSFBCHAT
A4: Being the sideline OL coach, I have to establish trusting communication with my players. That includes listening to them and showing interest not only during the game and practice, but their off the field stories as well. #TXHSFBCHAT
A2) I ask them to be 100% right or wrong but always 100! When you are 100% wrong it becomes easy to self correct. The good ones crave correction even from themselves. #txhsfbchat
A1:This has been hard at times. I use verbal reminders. Redirecting players to help them remember those boundaries. I Also try not t
to keep them at arms length. Better way to say it is, "treat them no different then you would treat a younger family member". #txhsfbchat
A4: I don't know everything and I'm willing to admit that. During a game I'm not in the trenches and no matter how much film I watch, I DON'T see everything. So I am very open with my players "What are you seeing?" and I'm always open to criticism from my colleagues. #TXHSFBCHAT
A4: It can always be better. I try to always stay open-minded and in growth mindset instead of fixed, but I am always working on this throughout the year. #txhsfbchat
A3)I challenge my positional group to be at the best and give everything everyday. That is my promise to them, somedays it ain't 100%, but it is everything I got. Team D wise, no bad segments, rough happens but is over come, can't tank team or small group. #txhsfbchat
A4) this is such a crucial underestimated aspect. I try to learn from all coaches around me, value their input on matters. Also rely on players, especially upperclassmen for their thoughts and opinions whether it be drills, workouts, ways to improve practice plan, etc #TXHSFBCHAT
A4: With coaches, all ideas, concerns, and comments are heard. While I may not always take their advice, they are very much welcome. With kids, I am always available. As a young player myself, I relied heavily on my coaches for support and I try to pay it forward. #txhsfbchat
A4: I'd like to think I'm a pretty good listener. My old man used to tell me "You were born with 2 ears and 1 mouth for a reason." That's always stuck with me. I like to think I can work with anyone. With some of the guys I've been around, I hold this to be true. 😂 #txhsfbchat
A4 cont: with the players it has been more important in a practice setting to be more open and receptive to questions the kids have or to make sure they can see the big picture about the hows and the whys behind what we do. Makes games easier,#TXHSFBCHAT
A4: I listen to my players and my coaches anytime they have something to say. I feel that if they feel it is something that they need to say then I need to hear them out, they might see something I missed.
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A4: In regards to their issuesproblems, open door! When it comes to football, based on trust level. During games I am talking to the players on the sideline constantly about what they like, whats going on, etc. I will let the QB make his own audibles based on trust #TXHSFBCHAT
A4: Players - After practice, at our dinners, OFF the field I give them 100% attention/focus. On the practice field during our indy time I'll engage BUT not in a conversation. I'm much better with my dudes than w/Coaches. I HOPE I'm approachable but.... #TXHSFBCHAT
A4: Learn to listen more. I don't think we as Head Coaches listen enough. Over listen to them if that is possible. Understand that we can't have a hand in every process. Set expectations and let them role with it #txhsfbchat
A5) I want to start actual goal planning sessions with players at my next program.
Things written are harder to ignore than verbal. We will get it on paper, and rank them
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A4: Meet with them. Meeting with every kid in the program this off season. Also thinking about debriefing with my coaches after every game. While fresh #txhsfbchat
A4: cont I tend to be 100% focused on my dudes during practice and I think other coaches since that. Also - we're all Alphas - APEX predators. In short - my social game with my peers needs work #TXHSFBCHAT
A5: Very much. Trying to teach my kids how to take ownership of it. They set the goals last year, trying to strengthen the accountability side now. #txhsfbchat
A5 Starts with post season meeting. Teaching reflection and goal setting are critical in creating accountable athletes. We use a lot of @janssenleader and @TBrianKight material. Currently reading Above The Line to help maintain focus #txhsfbchat
A5: Yes. We talk as a staff about team goals and I talk with my players about helping them set and achieve their goals. We do need to improve ownership and follow through in our pursuit of our goals #TXHSFBCHAT
A5: We got away from concrete goals on the field and it has hurt us. The coaching staff is working on fixing that mistake. We are also trying to get more goals set for the kids in the offseason: attendance, combine scores, and any other metric we can come up with #TXHSFBCHAT
A5: I do a survey with each player and conduct interviews to learn each players individual and team goals. From this me and my staff make our overall team goals for the season. I always have a weekly goal the I tell the team on Mondays.
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A5) I have made specific quantitative goals for games and other times more of an expectation of attitude(HAVE FUN). We had a game where pregame speech was "play loose, fast, free only mistake is playing with fear, well everybody but you, you are a sop, you play scared #txhsfbchat
A5: During summer & fall camp we have a few sessions for goal setting, team and individual. We post team goals in the locker room (nothing fancy) and refer to them. We used to do accountability partners every week but didnt think the time to invest wasn't worth it #TXHSFBCHAT
A5: Yes. We set goals as a team, as an offense, and as an individual coach and player. It's our job as a TEAM to hold each other and our players accountable. #txhsfbchat
#TXHSFBCHAT A5 we have gotten away from goal setting and focus more on personal and team bench marks that we set and modify every 3 weeks . The idea of being able to modify our benchmarks if needed is valuable if we hit some adversity or something unforeseen happens.
A5) we all are accountable to the program No 1 player or coach is more important than the program We give them goal sheets & have them write them down & ask them to put them on their bathroom mirror You should be forced to look at them twice a day and look at yourself #TXHSFBCHAT
Yes. I think it also helps set the tone and expectations. It's a wonderful thing when your team leaders start to take charge and hold team mates accountable with what the coaches have instilled in them. #TXHSFBCHAT
A4: In our program everyone is heard at all levels. Ideas, no matter whos, should not be shrugged off. Some ideas are better than others and those tend to get more consideration, but that is just the way life works. #txhsfbchat
#TXHSFBCHAT A4 listening is a skill and we have two ears and one mouth for a reason. The longer I️ do this the more I find that listening is a huge key to building trust and ownership amongst everyone players staff parents etc. find the the good nuggets and use them .
