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Casey: Today on Clubhouse Gas we’re honored to be joined once again by friend
of the show now buddy Curry. You’re friend of the show congratulations!
Curry: Thank you.
Casey: You have got a Defensive Rookie of the year award in the National
Football League but that cannot be near as exciting as being friend of
Clubhouse Gas.
Curry: This is one of the highlights of my freshmen career thank you very much.
Casey: We want to talk a little about some advice for youth coaches you got to
experience at every level of football and now as a youth football coach
and not only playing in high school but seeing a son play in high school.
For you when you look out at the youth football landscape, when you look
at coaching as far as head coaching goes what the first thing that’s sticks
in your mind?
Curry: Well the first thing to stick in my mind is you need to get a group of
coaches around you that understand the principles that you want to guide
your team by and principles such as sportsmanship, such as teaching
fundamentals touches being fair. Those things are important so that
everybody understands in the theme and the spirit of the team is let’s go
out here and let’s learn fundamentals. Let’s have fun doing it. Now we get
on the field we’re going to kick but and we’re going to be aggressive but if
we are winning by a large amount of points we’re going to let all the kids
play as much as we can.
And if we’re loosing we’re going to let kids play and the bottom line is
that you want to have the coaches all around you that believe in the same
things that you do.
Casey: Something that I see as I travel around especially with football where it
takes a lot of put in these games and put in place coaches are giving a team
in two weeks before their first game and then rather than focus on
fundamentals they just go straight to putting the playbook and
scrimmaging where do you stand on that?
Curry: Well absolutely and if you can— if a head coach can get his coaching staff
together. At least two weeks maybe earlier than that not before the season
he can map out and strategically plan how he’s going to take those kids in
two weeks to get them from really not knowing even how to get in a
stance to being able to play for this game in two or three weeks. That takes
preplanning, that takes organization and that takes strict adherence to a
schedule so each coach before each practice has a practice schedule and
they know about the minute about what their supposed to do and they
trained on how to do it.
Casey: So a team that can block and tackle and run the football and protect the
ball that is an 8 play it can be one defensive formation is better than team
with no fundamentals who has an extensive play mode.
Curry: Well that’s exactly right though. You want to spend as much time as you
can teaching fundamentals and if you do have a core group of plays five to
eight plays and you execute those well you know, you have a better
chance of winning because you are able to have more repetitions and
practice. We all know that football is a game of repetition. You have to
practice what you are going to run in the game. And the more
fundamentals you do each day, the more the same plays you can do the
better you’re going to be executing under pressure.
Casey: Probably if we ask 10 Youth League coaches in any sport neither of them
would come back and say the most challenging thing for them is not
coaching the team but dealing with the parents so they advise for each
football coaches when it comes to parents expectations.
Curry: Absolutely, as a head coach and as coach you need to set the expectations
of the team. We talked about you know having principles that everybody
understands what you’re about and really it’s not about winning football
games. Yes, we’re going to win football games as a result of us preparing
well, executing the plays and the techniques that we know but parent this
is what we want to accomplish this year, we want each kid to get better
and better every week.
We want each kid to have a positive experience and so they don’t want to
come back and play next year. We want to get on the field and teach these
kids intensity and being able to come in and play hard at the first play all
the way to the last play whether your winning by large amount or whether
your losing by large amount. We go out and play hard and have fun and
that first meeting with your parent. We should have in your first practice
you know what I suggest is that you not even practice as head coach with
your team the first half an hour. You get your parents and you script it and
you lay out the expectations.
And you also lay out the expectations of what the parent’s behavior should
be. I really have a triangle that I think is really good. That there’s three job
descriptions on a football team, you have the players and your job is to
play football, to learn and have fun. You have the coaches and the coach’s
job is to coach and then you have the parents and the parent’s job is to
cheer. And that everybody keeps their job description and everybody is
okay.
Casey: Buddy thank you so much. If you want to learn more about Buddy kid’s
and pro’s or maybe how to get to a clinic for your kids or for your coaches
check out the video prescription below there’s a link to his website. We
want to thank everybody for joining us. I’m looking forward to seeing you
right back here next time for another great edition of Clubhouse Gas.
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