New HS coach
Hello everyone,
I’m a new HS coach who’s played all his life. I’ve been able to get a good understanding of the players and noticed we have a lot of new players mixed with a couple veterans (played all their life) and experienced players (played all of HS). Many of them are juniors or below with 2 seniors.
We have a 3 headed dragon one being a 6ft cb for his club and is our best all around player. One being sort of our 6ft work horse. Decent passing, speed, strength, shot. He’s amazing at being open or being an option. And 3rd our freshman who’s technically the best on the team. Nice touch, pass, dribbling he’s just physically still getting there. He’s around 5’7, mid pace, gets pushed off the ball a lot.
I have a bunch of new players who are getting better but have 3 that have taken leaps in the short amount of time. Extremely coachable, aggressive, 100%effort. One is a bit shorter but easily has seen the most improvement. Another really has taken strides in passing, attacking the open space, and getting past a defender. The last one has progressed the most in actual football skills like passing, receiving, and communication but hasn’t connected the dots so to say or doesn’t have the right decision making.
This comes to my question (sorry for the long rant), I want to train them on their reactions and decision making so when a game comes or when we scrimmage they keep the ball moving and keep possession. We’ve been spending a lot of our time really getting the basics down but I want them to know what to do with the ball. What to do before they receive and what to do after receiving. How do I train them to make better decisions when they have the ball? We spend time working on being an option to the person with the ball but would love to get more info! I think drops aren’t used enough at HS level and would love to change that but have noticed they want to only move forward.
We have different levels of experience all across the team how should I train them with this in mind? Also I live in PWI where american football and basketball are our pride and joy meaning we don’t really have that culture (Main goal is to build a culture). That being said we have probably 15ish players max. During summer, practices and weights aren’t mandatory and have noticed many players just won’t show up. My biggest obstacle has been attendance. I have a small following that show up everyday. A lot of the kids work and the others just don’t show up. I have around 8-9 players that show up regularly and 4-6 players that show up everyday.