Under Processing & Overcooking Football CoachingUnity Consciousness #3322

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When humans have disorganized themselves using the suboptimal worldview context, almost everything is based on deception due to lack of, and abandonment of, and resistance to, a healthy knowledge of self and else. Health is not a priority. What does matter is peronal comfort, wealth based on money, control, and false superior intelligence.
In every institution, one of the flaws is to make almost everything complicated. This is intentional and due to lack of understanding in the mirror of self, family, friends, jobs, communities, governments and so on.

In sports such as football, one way deception and miseducation manifests is the dominant prevailing notion that as football players go from youth programs to the professional plantations, every step of the way along this course, every aspect of the game must become a little more complicated.
Sports leagues, organizers, administrators and coaches pretend to be masters of the game in possession of superior knowledge because they are the thinkers for the doers. At each level “up,” this thinking produces more elaborate rules and methods of teaching, training, explaining, play design, play naming and justifications for their compensation and You-need-me administration.

It is foolishness, the essence of being a fool, to think, that as players get older and go from peewee to professional, that the game somehow changes, becomes more complicated, thus requires complicated rules and coaching to tell players where to line up, who to block, who to defend and whether it's a run or a pass. Making any part of this complicated, causes more mistakes, more penalties, more missed assignments, poor execution, under-performance and game losses.

There is a relationship between:
1. Player age
2. Position fundamentals
3. Game fundamentals
4. Player innate talent
5. Player skill improvement
6. Player skill underdeveloped
7. Player talent arrested and/or diminished
8. Coaching focus shifts appropriately or inappropriately
9. Love of the game, effort, heart
10. Focus of spirit-mind-body-emotions
11. Match-ups
12. Mismatches
13. Strength, conditioning

Summary Thoughts

1. At earlier age levels, due to teams being drawn from relatively small player pools, talent dominates and causes mismatches, thus talent-based coaching must be the approach. Fundamentals are important and must be taught in the simplest way. There is little to no need to focus on strength, conditioning, heart and effort, but there is a need to foster love of the game no matter talent or skill level. This mixture of coaching will result in a greater number of favorable outcomes that are not centered around and end result of winning or losing a game.

2. As players move from age to age teams are composed of players who have had a taste and decided this sport is for them. Thus they join teams that are a combination of several schools, talent begins to decline as the dominant factor while fundamentals begin to increase as the factor that causes mismatches. Thus coaching must depend less and less on talent and more and more on fundamentals, game awareness and situational awareness. Strength and conditioning are introduced as secondary fundamentals. Eventually a full approach to all fundamentals must be incorporated in order to teach a disciplined approach to preparation in season and in the off season. The emphasis continues to turn including coaching focus on learning what to emphasize when, how to teach each player, how to adjust during preparation and during games. More favorable outcomes will be achieved through fundamentals than talent.

3. Nowhere in this process is it necessary to try get better results by using elaborate schemes, play-design and play naming nomenclature. Too many offensive plays and defensive schemes is a hindrance. There is no evidence that a higher number of plays and unique language, improves memory, performance, execution. But on the other hand, there is plenty of evidence of forgetting play assignments and being so bogged down by this uncertainty and discomfort, that it causes a mistake in other fundamentals.
All a team should need is 20 of their best plays and 20 plays based on the matchups in each game. In this way only 20 or fewer plays need to be rehearsed each week, while the standard stable of plays can be accomplished by quick walk-throughs versus various defenses.

4. If more complication begets better performance than why do college and professional teams make the same mistakes as each other and as earlier levels of the sport? And why do they never move closer to perfection, but instead seem to rely mainly on each other's mistakes, even though this they will never admit.

5. Nowhere in this process is there a one size fits all coaching approach. This is because there is no such thing as one type of player fits all teams or one type of player for each type of position.

6. Coaching focus that does not enhance talent and skills so they become second nature is a coaching approach that interferes with progress of the player and the team. The fundamentals of the game always include finding ways to get the ball in playmakers hands and helping all other players support the efforts to move towards goal and score.

7. If you are a good cook, you can make a good meal out of scraps. If you are a so-so cook, you can make blah-blah bland out of staples; however, if you are a bad cook, you can make crap out of even the best ingredients.

8. Even though I'm sure Bill Belichick uses a great deal of the suboptimal approach to coaching, I agree with what he recently said regarding emphasis on fundamentals as difference makers.