Summer Coaching Challenges:
1) Bored: u create a 100 new plays, concepts, and can’t fail schemes:they work every time against paper(then u waste a week of practice in August when u realize u are playing against other humans, not paper)
2) Your back up QB is magical in 7 on 7 and outperforms your starter…The parents and some players begin to stir a controversy and u begin to wonder if he is actually better…Then u put on pads and 11 on 11 and blitzes, and DL surround them both and you are reminded why u never make QB decisions based on 7 on 7…Real football requires live action, pass rush, scrambles and getting hit in the mouth…There are a million 7 on 7 freaks who can’t play “dead in a western “ when it comes to real football
3) Your starting 198 pound right guard pulls a hamstring at a camp of D1 prospects when the big time D1 OL and DL coach get in a pissing contest of who’s the better coach and have him go 8 straight reps against a top D1 recruit( whom your 198 pound guard whips his ass repeatedly) and now misses first 4 games of the season…( coach your players on how to say NO at college camps or you’ll lose games because of a moron unethical college coach not caring about the fact that your season matters to!! ( I’ve seen this hundreds of times).
4) Get most of your Gameplanning finished!! The season is so much easier when u have an idea about the schemes and issues you’re going to face in season and have a plan to fix those problems in the summer…Overwhelm easily happens in season… do as much as possible in summer
5) Don’t ask your players to do more than u… if u need time off ( and u do)… give them time off
6) Work “Go To” routes with “must have” GL and third down situations ( have starting qb master knowing and reading body language of his best receivers)
Summer is an amazing time for rapid improvement…Use it well