Hello Happy Campers!!!

Are you ready for Spring ball? Of Course not. Camp this year will be dramatically different and we are adding in a few new technique elements. You will not want to miss out on what we will be teaching so stay alert and be ready to roll late February!

Rip Not Wrap!

What can be done to improve on defense this off-season? How can we get better and limit our opponent’s successes? You can always become better tacklers. More after the jump.

Winning Ugly

What to do when your team wins but executes less than expected.

I am Honored!!!

Wow!!!

Five Seconds!

Football is a game played in spurts; spurts that last approximately 5 seconds in duration. Kids have short attention spans; spans that last approximately 5 seconds in duration.

Pass Defense Route Concepts

Predicting routes through extensive film study and opponent down and distance tendencies allow the Defensive Back the luxury of taking risks where appropriate. With each risk taken is also the possibility of failure. Know when to gamble and when to play dependable coverage. The first step in responsible risk taking (a contradiction in terms if there ever was one) is the recognition of the possible pass routes that can be run in any situation. For example, if the ball is on the opposite hash and #1 to the field is spread wide to the boundary the likelihood of an “out” route is negligible. You must know your opponent’s route combinations and favorite schemes. Start with the basics:

My Coaching Philosophy

”If you don’t invest very much, losing won’t hurt too much and winning won’t be very exciting”

Many people want to know if I coach like I outwardly appear to be which is assertive, aggressive, energetic and effusive. Many times I have been called a straight shooter. Some act like that is a bad character trait. I feel it is better to deliver honest news and clear and concise assessments rather than wishy-washy blather meant to assuage an individual’s self esteem. For being myself, I have often been castigated. That’s fine with me. I have big shoulders and can take it. When given the opportunity I would rather “go through the door than run around the barn”. In other words, I am a direct and pointedly exact individual. I am unique in the respect that I find very few shades of grey in my life and the way I carry out that life. I suffer fools poorly. This all dovetails back to my coaching philosophy.

First Post

Hello and thank you for visiting what I hope will be a long running venture complete with detailed information for those Defensive Backs and DB coaches wishing there was one site from which to glom information. I have a lot of my own writings interspersed among those of others and to be completely honest, I don't know for certain whose is what’s and what is whose so I simply piled it all together into one giant database for all to glean from. 

I hope you enjoy having a one stop shop to gather your Defensive back needs.

Brian