POSSIBILITY THINKING GAME – FOOTBALL STAFF
I. RULES
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Agree to Listen
Agree to Care
Ask “Big” Questions
Innovate
Assume Success
II. OBJECTIVES
1. Championship
III. WHAT IT WILL TAKE
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Keep all of the players healthy.
Keep all of the players eligible.
Develop a great kicking game.
Develop a sound offense.
Develop a sound, aggressive defense.
We must become great teachers.
We must thoroughly study our opponents.
We must maintain a high degree of enthusiasm,
discipline, and motivation.
9. We must set sound plans.
a.
Organization
i. Sound fundamental coaching.
ii. Hard work.
iii. Attention to detail.
iv. Be thick skinned.
GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF COACHING
We will abide by the spirit and letter of rules.
1. Play performance, not potential.
2. Make no compromise on toughness and effort.
3. Teach “why”, not just “how”.
4. Choose players on the basis of trust, toughness,
intelligence, speed, and strength.
5. Be intense, but not grim.
6. Make no changes without staff discussion – head coach
first.
7. Keep player meetings to less than one hour. Meet as often
as you need, but keep the head coach informed.
8. Coach against penalties and turnovers.
9. Missed alignments and missed assignments will beat us
more often than mismatches.
10. The game and practice fields are places for running, never
walking. Demand running.
11. Dress in school gear, and make sure your players do also.
12. Know as much as possible about all facets of the football
program.
13. Keep coaching right up to game time, but don’t change
things.
14. Demand attentiveness at player meetings. No hats, sunglasses, food, drink, phones, beepers, or feet on desks.
This is to help us learn to win.
15. Make sure your players are getting stronger.
16. What we run is not as important as how we play and who
we play with.
17. Great players don’t always make the best team, but the
best team normally wins.
18. You see what you coach. Take responsibility.
19. Talk about playing hard, smart, and together.
20. Talk about earning and deserving the right to be
successful.
COACHING
By Jim Harrick
The notoriety of the coach is dictated by how his team performs while
under pressure.
You are a teacher of football. The field is an extension of the classroom.
They learn:
10% when they hear
20% when they see
70% when they do
The Laws of Learning:
Explanation
Demonstration
Repetition
25% of your players are excited daily. The other 75%...you have to get
them excited.
 The Mediocre Coach Tells
 The Good Coach Explains
 The Superior Coach Demonstrates
 The Great Coach Inspires
David Noonan:
In the end, it is attention to detail that makes all the difference. It’s
the center fielder’s extra two steps to the left, the salesman’s memory
for names, the lover’s phone call, the soldier’s clean weapon. It is the
thing that separates the winners from the losers, the men from the
boys, and very often, the living from the dead. Professional success
depends on it, regardless of the field.