Quote from Leach's book about Technique vs Scheme

[TrueMaroonGrind]

"Technique is more important than scheme. People wanna say, “scheme, scheme, scheme.” No matter what plays you run, technique is always more important. You have a chance with whatever you run, if you have great technique. If you have a great scheme but you don’t execute it well, you have no chance."

If the actions match the words, I feel pretty good about the future.

 

[TrueMaroonGrind]

Another quote from his book. This time Emory Ballard gives his insight into the Leach offense.

“Ninety percent of teams today don’t run an offense, they run plays. A goodly portion of football teams just run plays but without a concept. “With offense, you decide what you want to do. Then you decide, now, what is the best way to carry out that plan? So many people line up and then they try to decide what they want to do from that. It should be the other way around. The wishbone was all about balance. You can do it to the right or to the left, with this guy or with that guy. It’s not a one- or two-threat offense. It’s about constant threats. That’s why I like Mike Leach’s offense.” –Emory Bellard, creator of the wishbone

 

[Felonious Junk]

If you ever have a chance to go to practice you’ll see them throw the same pass route for the entire practice. Not the same play. The same route. For three hours.

It’s all about being excellent at a few things with him.

 

[codeDawg]

If you ever have a chance to go to practice you’ll see them throw the same pass route for the entire practice. Not the same play. The same route. For three hours.

It’s all about being excellent at a few things with him.

Hell. If you want to know what plays he’s going to run, get some tape from 10 years ago. He doesn’t change much. He just makes sure his guys can execute better than the other guys. He’s going to run “six” on you all day. Can you cover it?

 

[TrueMaroonGrind]

If you ever have a chance to go to practice you’ll see them throw the same pass route for the entire practice. Not the same play. The same route. For three hours.

It’s all about being excellent at a few things with him.

I'd love to see it one day. His book has me pretty excited for the next season. He seems to focus on a lot of the things that fell by the wayside under Moorhead. Discipline and execution are paramount.

 

[johnson86-1]

If you ever have a chance to go to practice you’ll see them throw the same pass route for the entire practice. Not the same play. The same route. For three hours.

It’s all about being excellent at a few things with him.

I'm hoping this helps our WRs hands. Surely if they are catching passes all day in the same 6-10 plays they can't help but get better catching.

 

[Felonious Junk]

Definitely true.

Then to finish off practice he’ll have all pass catchers catch tennis balls out of jugs machines. Hard as hell to do.

 

[SheltonChoked]

Hell. If you want to know what plays he’s going to run, get some tape from 10 years ago. He doesn’t change much. He just makes sure his guys can execute better than the other guys. He’s going to run “six” on you all day. Can you cover it?

And as soon as you do, he will call "96".

Or more accurately, the WR will stop in the open space and make it "96"

 

[johnson86-1]

Definitely true.

Then to finish off practice he’ll have all pass catchers catch tennis balls out of jugs machines. Hard as hell to do.

I'm a little surprised this is effective. I get hand eye coordination is hand eye coordination to an extent, but it just doesn't seem like catching tennis balls would be more effective than catching footballs (or even bricks going to the Jerry Rice example).

 

[Felonious Junk]

It’s an exercise in making your hands soft. You’ve got to learn to let your hands give a little to keep the ball from bouncing out.

 

[SheltonChoked]

I'm a little surprised this is effective. I get hand eye coordination is hand eye coordination to an extent, but it just doesn't seem like catching tennis balls would be more effective than catching footballs (or even bricks going to the Jerry Rice example).

Catching is catching.

Hand Eye coordination or more accurately, getting it so you don't have to watch the ball all the way in. Getting used to using your fingers to catch. Focusing on a smaller target. And soft enough that it won't injure someone.

Plus, with a tennis ball machine, you can load 200 balls in and practice by yourself. A JUGGS machine has to have someone load a football

Tennis ball drills are a great way to add variety and can be done without access to a quarterback. Catching a tennis ball lets the player to focus his eyes on a smaller target and forces him to catch the ball with his fingertips (imagine catching a tennis ball with the palm of your hand, it will bounce away almost every time). Any drill that changes the player’s eye angle to the football or provides distraction are good ways to enhance stationary catching drills and improve eye discipline & focus.

 

[RockKickinSandPoundinSOB]

Hell. If you want to know what plays he’s going to run, get some tape from 10 years ago. He doesn’t change much. He just makes sure his guys can execute better than the other guys. He’s going to run “six” on you all day. Can you cover it?

I love that. A lot of teams can’t. That’s why he’s been to 16 bowls in 18 years at 2 ****** programs.

 

[Todd4State]

I'm hoping this helps our WRs hands. Surely if they are catching passes all day in the same 6-10 plays they can't help but get better catching.

If you can catch a wrench you can catch a football.**

 

[Duggar Hall Desk]

Catching is catching.

Hand Eye coordination or more accurately, getting it so you don't have to watch the ball all the way in. Getting used to using your fingers to catch. Focusing on a smaller target. And soft enough that it won't injure someone.

Plus, with a tennis ball machine, you can load 200 balls in and practice by yourself. A JUGGS machine has to have someone load a football

When coaching little kids baseball. I used tennis balls a lot in practice. (a) it teaches them to close their gloves around the ball quicker, (b) it teaches them to catch in the web, and (c) when they are still learning how to catch, getting hit in the head with a tennis ball doesn't bring practice to a screeching halt.

 

[Seinfeld]

Well, the way I look so it, having neither technique nor scheme is exactly what we’ve been witnessing for the last two years. Therefore, if we can get even one of the two, we’ll be in a better place

 

[The Situation]

Well, the way I look so it, having neither technique nor scheme is exactly what we’ve been witnessing for the last two years. Therefore, if we can get even one of the two, we’ll be in a better place

Nah, we had a scheme, but not much else. Pay attention up in Oxford this year.....I have a feeling you're about to see the same sort of thing go down there too. Moorhead and Kiffin are very similar in my opinion. They won't be just plumb awful but they'll be suffering from the same symptoms we did.

 

[The Situation]

Another quote from his book. This time Emory Ballard gives his insight into the Leach offense.

“Ninety percent of teams today don’t run an offense, they run plays. A goodly portion of football teams just run plays but without a concept. “With offense, you decide what you want to do. Then you decide, now, what is the best way to carry out that plan? So many people line up and then they try to decide what they want to do from that. It should be the other way around. The wishbone was all about balance. You can do it to the right or to the left, with this guy or with that guy. It’s not a one- or two-threat offense. It’s about constant threats. That’s why I like Mike Leach’s offense.” –Emory Bellard, creator of the wishbone

While I agree with Bellard, I think that's an out-dated quote. Most everyone has an offensive plan nowadays, even the big blue blood schools. Even Croom had a plan.

Back in Bellard's day, everyone was pretty much doing the same stuff. Maybe he means just breaking from the norm. Which, in that case, the triple option is still sort of the answer, because everyone is running the spread.

 

[oxfordrebel22]

If you ever have a chance to go to practice you’ll see them throw the same pass route for the entire practice. Not the same play. The same route. For three hours.

It’s all about being excellent at a few things with him.

That’s pretty fascinating.

He’s going to win a lot of games at State, isn’t he? Dammit.

 

[WrapItDog]

If you ever have a chance to go to practice you’ll see them throw the same pass route for the entire practice. Not the same play. The same route. For three hours.

It’s all about being excellent at a few things with him.

I saw a youtube where he runs a play in practice with 5 qbs and each qb throws to a different receiver 1-5. The QBs rotate throwing to a different receiver each time. So 5 qbs are making a read and a throw and 5 receivers are catching a ball every play.