Archive for July, 2011

Here’s Some Summer Inspiration

It's definitely the dog days of summer, and I'm trying to get in some reading and came across this great article about Coach Bobby Greco Jr. pursuing his dream to coach football. It's hard enough to coach with all of my faculties in working order, I can't even imagine how to do it from a [...]

Key Points on Closing Out on Defense

Going through clinic notes and instructional video and one big coaching area for 1-on-1 defense is closing out properly. It is something that needs to be coached because players develop all kinds of bad habits naturally which become impossible to correct as they get older. (MJ vs a young Iverson) There are of course a [...]

Getting Out Of The Dreaded Elementary Stance

I went back through all of the posts that I've made so far to this blog (950 if you can believe it) and I didn't find one that talked about stance, specifically defensive stance. Hard to believe I've missed talking about something so fundamental. Anyways, I was watching our Varsity coach the other day working [...]