Coaching Ph Losophy Conch Bear Bryant Hex, Twewld Léhe to oper by reading you semething that T believe in. It 4s: "The Paice of Success” What is the Price of Success? 12 is Sinple....To use abl of your Courage, to Force Yourselg to Concentrate on the. Probéom in Hand, to Think of it Deaply ard Constantiv, to Study it g2om até Angees, and te Pear. Te have a High and Sustained Determination 20 pot over what you plan to Accompeish, but in Spite of att Adverse CLicunstances ch may Arise -- And nothing Worthohite hes ever been Accomplished wetheut some Gbsdacke Overcome. To Reduse tr Believe that there are ang Cixcunstances sufficiently strong to Defeat you in the Accomplishment of your Purpose. HARD? I Shoudd Say So! That 4s why $0 many ten never Attampt to Acquite Success. They Answer the Siren Caét of the Rut and Remain on the Beaten Path for Beaten Men. Nothing Worthuhize fas ever been Achieved without Constant Endeavors, some pain, and Constant Application of the Lash of Ambition. That's the PRICE OF SUCCESS. Every len should ase Himes: An T Wékding to Endure the Pain of this Stnuggee fax the Comforts and the Rewards and the Glory that go with Accompbéshnent? Ox Shake T Accept the Uneasy and Thadequate Contendrent that comes with Mediocrity? Am T Wiking to Pay the PRICE OF SUCCESS? Prayer - T assure thot most of you are high schoo’ coaches - 1 have great, great Respect for feégh school coaches because 7 think that they're the heart, the blood and the guts of football today. 1 think more so today than any other time. THE always regret that T never had the opportuntiy te werk in high Sencee, because T know and gee Like 7 2 contriouted moxe. I'm not OLE you on anuthing. U'm abeut Sootbate ond some of the experienaes I’ve had, the mistakes Tive made, hoping you won't wake sone og the sone , gets tc be a job, and you wont to do Something e2se, then don’t continue eoaaiiing. To be én the coaching business, a must have a goal or an chjective, iy goal hos atways been winding, But negardiess of what my goad i Les important to me in how T ge about attain ig this goat. 1 don’t think aiything can hapgen by aecident vou make Lt Tf you want 20 make i hagpen, 2 first thing you have to de is have a plan, A plan you bebieve in so atrongéy that you never compromise. T think then the next step depending on whether you'te ax assistant on head coach, is to try peonfe. 1 haven't ever seen & coaal mike bad, I've never seen them make good, you have to have @ team, you have de have people. You have #o hire people that footoale means a grect deal to. Winning means eveauthing to. 1 think when we hire people, not oufy do they bedieve out wav, but they have to bedéove in our plan. Now £f you're @ head coack and Love it, T think employing a stass with the right people is vittuat énportant, it has got te mean atet to then. They have to bebiewe an your plan. Some good raves T've siwags had £8 that for ale the people oa my stz§{, T want them to be brighter than Tan, T want them to be abfe to Speak up and afsa fo expiess ahombefves. Tt is also highty important te keepharpy and t¢ motivate them. 1 think its impottant to recognize theit contributions heoause everybody Likes xecognétion. 1 Like te recogiéze their ideas in grvr o§ the squad; t gives him prestige and makes them a bigger man ia the eyes of the squad. 1 Léke £0, aster wo win a game, 42 xcognéze each manbor of my Staff, individuadty, by uame, to the press, T. Ve media. 1% géves then an incentive aad makes them want Zo do dexter and 1 think this is very, vou Amportant. Next thing #0 have 4s peopee to play. 1 think that it ds very omortant at any Level, especeatey for eotfege ceaohes whe are able to Aecnwit. In high school, you can only get what vou get. The 14t thing you vitnt to de’ Ls to try the players dogether that footdate means an aesue tot £0 thom, You want te ty the players that are witting to pay the price, and butd up te thems not necessarity players with ability theugh you want abévity, but players who are winners and that’ betiove in your plan. The playars that work and saorésice aad Liseépting thonsetves, not because. we want them to but because they know that it tahes discipline te win; and because they want what they can take de tn. Some players want to be Like other Students, but T don't want players who want te be Like other students. 1 want players who are cut there to win, T want ones who take préde in dodng without some of the things othet students are doing. 1g he dees that I think we have @ chance to win. 1 think dts very important 20 Leeagnéze wamters and get them in the bate game, dt doosn't matter what size they axe on colon they ane; you need £0 recognize the people with abébity. T think you waet to dry the Lenders whether it is the coaches ot players. We need ty seld them on werk 1g sacrégice and disctnline £f we se2 them on Dus fect that 2f they WEEE Wing they" not onty whs, they ele Learn Lessons through Later Lise, Lessons that are hard to teach in the chuwck, home, on school room, Th become better prepared to x in abl axons of Cife, spiritual, mentar, physical. 14 we om’ do thés, thon we'ae an business. What T mould Like to suggest, 18¢ of cbt, we hope to adapt our suscem to what the player can do. We have to have a system cf offense and desense of what the players can do. We Lup to recruit players that go with our system, 4f we don't we have to change to seme thdng the playors oan do, Four on sive jeans age we changed to the wishbone eecuse that’s what kénd of players we had and 1 think it paid off. Now again, 44 you Sind the winner, (2nd the place fon trim, get hém in the bate gam. I've been caitizied by my com players and by other peope for moving players around; but whon the need calls fox 1t, sometimes theses no way ancund At. Again, its good to pass out congi- dence £0 players te make them feet a part of everything, Its good ty tet them share oa think they share ta making a decision, This adds te the attitude, and a goed attitude makes good monate. Task my sendors afot of the times what they woutd Like £0 de in certain situations. T think it is very Anportant that when ce start preparing our team we should have a plan for everything that we ake going to de. When we have a meeting with the squad, whieh T do everyday, T don't aver go ia wiprepated. Thave a plan gor practice everyday. T want it 40 be well’ onganized because we fight against time everyday. 1 atso wait to have a plan before practice so when T eaée the players together, we can make something happen. T think the most important thing about coadhing foctbatl, where a head coach is concerned, is that the team YI" means we,” us,” ete. T am notan "I" coach. "D" coach, means T've never seen a great that "I" did thea and "I" déd that, 1f its good, then its us, the team, the stags, but if its bad, thon Lis me.” This és one émpontant thang about ecachéng footbate. Tt és my job to see that we have @ pean for practices that we have a good practice, aad that we don't have a bad practice. Tf we have a bad practice, T apologize for 44, because T hitow we have good people, 4¢ it must be me that messed up somewhere it the planning. To be a good coach, 1 think you have fo be yoursed(. You have to be yout cum coach, We att have porsonaditios and dégforent ideas of our oun and you welt have your owe plan. Your. plan won't be Like mine but you wiel have a plan, aid you wet be able to seek it to your team and stags. Th organization, you ate fighting against time. You have to have a eet eaganized practéece te get things done athe reason £5 players have mone things on their mind now, more than bagene. You have to take them when you have them because Line is involved. We domend aot at our practice new, le do things now that T never did 2 to time ago, but that was becmuse we didn't biow thet they wete énportant 4 the playens and owe progran. g In a well organized tean, the girst thing you have to de is keep from Losing. There are alot more games being fest than won. There (9 a great difference in mg opinicn, ar wiaméng the game and beating somebody, and there is a great désference ih Losing the game and being beaten, We Lost alet of ganes whon we were not really beaten and we won afot of gane when we never reakdy beat anybody, Se we fave te keep grom Losing first. In tefeing about persenned, 2 weaker your £ean, the wore conser you have te be. "For when you have a 4 weak team and you go owt and try to do a lot of things, Like threwiig the bate a Lots you may be beaten badty. But, 2h you are weak and you ge out and keen pushing along and plug ging along you have a chance to beat somebody. In order 20 keep from ge. the fast thing we the kicking game. The 4s with one af the most Amportent parts og the game - Kéak-of{ return, kéob-of severage, the punting gane, extra podrts and géold goats. Thorty £o thénty- give percent of every game deals with some aspect of the kicking gane. Th this much tine is dwodved in an actual game, aad we onty spend a Little bit of tone & couple of days a week, then we're not doing everthing we ean fo win. We ge ever our bickéng game everyday. We aE phases every day, leith exception of Prdayl, ng beat, as From the kicking game we ge to the defense. We stress degense, with aut ebjective being to keep the’ other toan gtom scoring, It doesn't matter what defense is used, the objective is to heop the ether dean grom Scoring. We never want te give up an easy Seore. We geek that £f we can contin custy sicp @ team and make them drive 2 bate, then eventuakey they' C2 stop themetves with « peratty or beau assignment. Tf we can eliminate tho Zong Aun on Long pass then we'se doang a part of our defense. and another Large # being Anvotved with’ degense, then you wee find that 4 on 5 big plays on offense wilt usuatey decide the game. This 4a why we tay to s02f our peente on going 100% on every play; tiyéng Yo win on ever kicking play, twing #0 win on everw defensive pkay, Wo have @ ahance 20 keep from Losing, unkess we get ponattios. This 48 the’ easiest way fon a desense to