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Home , Dean Pees, Jedd Fisch, John Harbaugh, Marc Trestman, Teryl Austin

2016 Football Coaches Clinic

John Harbaugh, -I want coaches’ families around the program. I want them around the complex. -Do things the right way and take care of each other. -If your players are doing good things, that’s how we were as coaches making a difference in the world. - didn’t see Harbaugh’s initial vision when he took over in Baltimore. On bus ride after : “Now I see it Coach.”

Jim Harbaugh, University of Michigan Head Coach -Hope is not a plan. Have a plan for any situation you are faced with. -Build a team where players think ‘What’s better in the world than being on a ‘ball team?” -Know the rules (game, conference, recruiting). When you know what you can do, you can gain an edge and outsmart others. -Hire a staff that will touch players. -If we can fix it, it wasn’t broken -Don’t act frustrated and angry to try to convince people you’re busy (George Costanza) -If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic -Players play the hardest for: • Coaches they respect • Coaches they like • Coaches that rely on them -Kids need to know you love them. -Bob Ladoucer: “The players’ jobs are to love each other, the coaches’ jobs are to love the players.”

Marc Trestman, Baltimore Ravens -Best way to give is with no expectatiosn of getting anything back -Adversity is a given. Embrace it. -Have humility in success. -Every day figure out a new way to show guys that you love them. - is a Servant Leader -Coaches need 3 things: a patient wife, a loyal dog, and a great QB -Fundamentals must be developed and practiced constantly. -A must have a “relentless, demanding, detailed, and creative coach that is able to manage his QBs’ learning curve daily. -GDM = Game Defining Moment -Isolating the skills and fundamentals of playing the position and then creating the necessary drills to effectively teach those skills -What we do for ourselves dies with us, and what we do for others lives on forever.

Dean Pees, Baltimore Ravens 1. Scheme a. Do I know it inside and out? b. Can I teach it? c. Do I know how to fix it when it breaks? 2. Fundamentals a. Do the drills fit the scheme and the game? 3. Evaluation a. Does my drill show up in the game?

Mike Martz, former St. Louis Rams Head Coach -Thing that makes great is everything he does, he’s trying to make better (chasing perfection) -You play offense with your eyes

Jedd Fisch, University of Michigan Passing Game Coordinator -Do everything faster than you already are -Make your players’ lives simpler -Be the best at everything you can control -Kids can do anything we ask them to do if coaches buy in • Example: 4-hour practices. Kids will get it done as long as all coaches are on board

Teryl Austin, Defensive Coordinator -Scout team to best player: each person plays an integral part of success. -Set your standards for: • Meetings: on time, learn as much as you can in a short period • Dress: look like a team • Practice: with a purpose, speed and precision. Must be competitive but not combative -No talent skills (BETA) • Body Language: encourage good body language. Bad body language doesn’t foster togetherness and camaraderie. It fosters resentfulness and divisiveness. • Effort: must be expected in all phases. • Time: be on time. • Attitude: how we approach everything has a determining effect on how good we will be. Our players know things will be tough and hard so we approach each task as if it is of utmost importance -Proper technique • Allows players to rely on things other than the play called. • Thousands of reps of technique versus tens of reps of plays -Game philosophy • Play to our strengths (not to take away theirs) o Allows our guys to play fast o Maximum effort, minimum mistakes.

Fergus Connolly, University of Michigan Human & Sport Performance Science -It’s all about the 22 hours. Not the 2 hours spent at practice. -Team approaches • Clueless • Shotgun (attempting to implement ideas with no specifity) • Poor Practice (accurate but not precise…a lack of knowledge is weakness) • Wrong Direction (solving a problem, but not the right one) • Ideal (identify the correct problem, solve it properly)