Be Organized

Stephon Healey

Head Coach: Philosophy and Approach

Our program and ethos will be based around football being the tool that we use to develop young people. We think of football as the carrot on the end of a stick, that we motivate the players with. We are in the business of developing young people, football is just the tool that we use.


Assistant Coach Expectations

Coaches are required to build relationships with the players and show that they care for their personal and physical development. Coaches are required to be dependable educators that reinforce the ethos of the program. It is preferred that they demonstrate thorough knowledge of their assigned discipline and that they bring relevant experience when applying their skills.


Offense

Offensively, we will run the option. Our base formation will be the spread. Two wide receivers, two slot running backs, a super back and quarterback under center. Our base run plays will be the veer, midline, counter option, sally, toss and belly. Our base passing game will be a complete 3 step game, limited 5 step game, limited sprintout concepts, boot concepts and play action off of the option and toss.


Defense

We will run a 4-2-5 defense. We will run two base coverages, loose cover zero and cover one. Both coverages will start with two high safeties. Cover one will involve a safety rolling down to cover number one or number two on either side. Cover zero can be run as a max coverage, or behind a blitz. Running two base coverages will keep things simple for the athletes and allow them to play fast and truly exhibit their skills.


Kicking Game

The kicking game will be led by me, the head coach. This allows the program to stress the importance. We plan to place the best athletes on special teams and want to gain a clear advantage in games. Our mantra will be "Take your rest on offense/defense." Offensive coaches will work with the head coach on offensive special teams (KOR, PR, FG) and defensive coaches will work on defensive special teams (KO, PR, FGB).


Leadership Off-Season

The head coach will run a leadership committee involving 15-20 of the proven players that have already shown that they are committed and have an impact or awareness of the other players on the team. Leadership committee meetings will be run every two weeks or when a pressing matter is at hand. We will have a motivational point scoring system that measures class attendance, workouts completed, grades, community service and casting the program in a positive light. The rewards will be selection of jersey number, selection of locker, single seat on the bus, free cleats and award T-shirts.


Post Season - Remainder of the Fall Semester

The post season starts with equipment pick up and end of season interviews with both the head coach and the coordinators. The players will start workouts after the Thanksgiving break and a winter break workout will be provided to them. Coaches will immediately start to clean up the game film and make cut ups. Evaluation of the season is better done when the memories are fresh. This also starts the recruiting season for us. We will review our target recruits and identify new ones. Our first recruiting visits start in this period.


Spring Semester

The spring sees a continuation of our recruiting period an the initiation of our leadership committee and point scoring system. The team starts four day a week training program that involves 40-50 minutes of lifting and 15-20 minutes of lifting. The players will be tested in the weight room twice throughout the spring. Spring practice will start at some point in March and will run for 5 weeks involving up to 16 practices.


Summer

During the summer most of our players go home. They are given a 13 week workout that involves a 4 day lift and 3 day run. Players are contacted regularly during the summer to provide motivation and information.


Pre-Season

Players arrive 3 weeks before before the season. We follow the regular division 3 practice schedule. Practices are accompanied by a three day rotation of work with the strength coaches (lift, stretch, pool recovery). Between practice, meals and workouts, players attend meetings. There are position meetings, team meetings and educational meetings. Educational meetings include topics like: sexual assault, social media training drugs and alcohol.


Season

Our in season schedule is as follows:

Sunday: study table, grading and breakdown for next week's opponent

Monday: provide feedback from previous game, light practice, lift, base game plan preparation

Tuesday: position meetings, practice, special situation game plan, scouting report finalized and delivered

Wednesday: position meetings, practice, watch practice film, start breakdown of next week's opponent

Thursday: position meetings, practice, watch practice film, Finalize game plan

Friday: Position meeting, walk through

Saturday: game day