Coaching Styles and Motivation

Probably my favorite coach of all-time: Chuck Heater, Marshall Defensive Coordinator

 

I posted this on CoachHuey.com quite a few years back.  It is a paper I did for my Master's degree.

Don Shula - Everyone's A Coach

Perfection: the 17-0 1972 Dolphins

The NFL Network just did a great piece on Don Shula, the NFL's winningest coach with 347 wins, Don Shula on the 40th anniversary of the 1973 Super Bowl that capped off the 1972 perfect season.  One of the biggest thrills of my coaching career was from my second year in 2002 when we played at St. Thomas Aquinas and I went up in the booth and saw Don Shula and got to shake his hand.  Here are some of the notes from Shula's book with Ken Blanchard, Everyone's a Coach: Five Business Secrets for High Performance Coaching which I highly recommend.  I haven't looked at these notes in years, and I forgot how good the content was.

How You Sell It - OJW, Deuce, Vass

In today's economy, if you can't afford to go to a coaching clinic, you have to create your own.  I was able to get together and talk ball recently with three great friends and coaches.  As you can see from the video background, we spared no expense in accommodations for the clinic.  Seriously, good people, a whiteboard, video projector, and plenty of time to talk are all you need.  OJW (black hat), Deuce (red shirt), and Vass (ugly green hat) discuss in the video how coaches have to be salesmen at times in wording things to get players to fully buy in.

RB Balance Touch Drill

I will be sharing some RB Drills in my upcoming posts from a dvd I made for my RBs a couple of years back.  The actual drills were done by former Auburn RB Coach Eddie Gran.  He's one of the best coaches I have ever met and has coached some good ones: Deuce McCallister, Rudi Johnson, Heath Evans, Cadillac Williams, Ronnie Brown, and Monterrio Hardesty.  I added a few cut-ups on the video to go along with the Auburn cut-ups that he already had and put them in slow-motion so you can really see the skill being performed. 

The Balance Touch Drill is a good drill to start Indy time with to help your guys get loose and for them to get reps performing a very useful and important skill for the position.  If a RB is stumbling, he can put his hand down (balance touch) and keep on running instead of falling down.  This may not seem like much, but it is often the difference between scoring and not scoring, as you will see for yourself on the video.