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Facility Focus (NEW!)
On-Field Football Equipment
Football teams are built in the searing heat of the summer sun during the two-a-day practices where players relentlessly pound football sleds, tackling dummies and a variety of other on-field football equipment.
Lacrosse (NEW!)
Getting The Most From The 2-3-1
One of the more familiar formations in lacrosse at any level is the 2-3-1 but just because it’s familiar doesn’t mean it’s fully grasped.
Football
Rescuing The Defensive Back (NEW!)
Recent styles of offenses have forced defensive schemes to change. New defenses, like the 3-3-5, 3-5-3 or modified 40 fronts have emerged in response to the shift in today’s offensive philosophy toward a more open format. Offenses now are looking to isolate defenders, especially in the secondary.
A Bellyful of Answers For Your Winged T
The fullback belly-x was the most productive play I employed during the 13 years I ran the Delaware as a high school coach. When teamed with the t-trap, keep pass, and belly option, it made a formidable split-side attack...
Defense in the "Coming Out" Zone
Ask any football coach in the world and he will tell you that the most important area or zone on the football field is the "Red Zone." He will also tell you that the success or failure of a team will usually ride on how well it executes in the 20 to goal line area.
Basketball
Defending Various Delay Offenses
Last month we discussed a specific plan on how to defend the “Four-Corners” delay game. There are many other forms of delay games that offenses utilize for last second shots at the end of time periods and to preserve leads late in games. A good coaching staff should have a defensive game plan for other types of delay offenses such as the three offenses mentioned below...
Inbounding the Basketball
Following is a defensively sound scenario that will serve the basketball coaching staff well at the high school and college levels...
Powerline
Athletic Nutrition Bytes: Fueling the Body for Competition
Athletes are taught that being a part of a winning team requires discipline and attention to detail in the classroom, on and off the field, and in the food choices they put on their plate...
Exercises, Equipment Modes, and Rep Duration
The training landscape is in a state of continual flux, and the ongoing changes, updates, and emergence of proposed cutting-edge devices and techniques makes for interesting and thought-provoking debates among practitioners...
Baseball
A Scientific Slump Cure
Baseball hitters at all levels of play experience slumps. Normally good hitters go through periods where they can’t even buy a base hit. A whole body of baseball myth and folklore has sprung up through the years around just how to break a slump...
Giving Your Team a Chance to Win With a Winning Defensive Practice
With fall baseball season just around the corner, I would like to share some of the things we do at Rogers H.S., particularly in the way we challenge defensive situations...
Athletic Directors
Communication 101 for the AD
Is there a more important skill for an athletic director to possess than the ability to communicate effectively? We are often judged, whether fairly or unfairly, on our proficiency to inform, explain, persuade or promote our program either verbally or in written form...
Protecting Your Coaches
Athletic directors wear many different hats. Probably the most important of them is for the protection of their coaches...
