I read an interview with the new WR coach, who talked about how coach Cutcliff at Duke used keywords to replace coaching lectures. See below. What Penn State players would you use as keywords for various coaching points?
The one theme that Parker emphasized was Cutcliffe’s ability to thoroughly teach key principles and then attach key words to them as quick reminders:
https://www.pennlive.com/pennstatef...receivers-to-believe-in-themselves-again.html
“Coach Cut does a great job of using universal program language. They’re tag words that the entire organization knows the meaning of. So, it shortens teaching.”
These are shorthand terms that communicate complex thoughts. Once you teach the concepts, then one- or two-word terms are attached to them. They can be used as simple, easily conveyed reminders during a practice or a game. No need for longwinded repeated diatribes. Saves time, saves delays, saves exasperation.
Parker gave a couple of examples:
“If you go to watch a practice at Duke, you’ll hear the term ‘Gretzky.’ As soon as you hear ‘Gretzky,’ everyone knows that you’d better take the correct angle – in blocking, coverage, whatever it may be – so that you meet the person where they’re going to be, not where they’re at.”
If you’re old enough to recall, Wayne Gretzky was the best in the history of hockey at seeing a play before it unfolded. That’s how he made passes into space that somehow ended up on the tape of Jari Kurri’s and Paul Coffey’s sticks.
It means, then: see the game a few seconds ahead and be efficient. That can be a blocker getting to a spot where he has the proper leverage to make an effective block, it can be a linebacker making a straight-line break in space to meet a ball-carrier with force, it can be a safety breaking on a ball in zone coverage so that he’s able to make a play on it.
So, ‘Gretzky!’ is a quick reminder of an overarching football principle that applies to a lot of different situations.
Parker said: “If we were out on the practice field and a wideout took a poor angle to block, instead of giving a dissertation, he’d just say, ‘Hey… Gretzky!’”
How about an example specifically for the passing game?
Cutcliffe also used the trigger words: “Peyton Manning.” What’s that mean?
“That the quarterback and the receivers have to be on the same page about what they’re gonna do with routes. So, if you see us or any pass-catcher where the quarterback thought he was gonna break out and he broke in, again, instead of a dissertation, you’d say; ‘Hey… Peyton Manning!’
“That was one of his cool ways of teaching. These trigger words were great. They could be used in the meeting room or out on the field. Coach Cut’s way of teaching his players and teaching his coaches to teach was powerful in that regard.”
The one theme that Parker emphasized was Cutcliffe’s ability to thoroughly teach key principles and then attach key words to them as quick reminders:
https://www.pennlive.com/pennstatef...receivers-to-believe-in-themselves-again.html
“Coach Cut does a great job of using universal program language. They’re tag words that the entire organization knows the meaning of. So, it shortens teaching.”
These are shorthand terms that communicate complex thoughts. Once you teach the concepts, then one- or two-word terms are attached to them. They can be used as simple, easily conveyed reminders during a practice or a game. No need for longwinded repeated diatribes. Saves time, saves delays, saves exasperation.
Parker gave a couple of examples:
“If you go to watch a practice at Duke, you’ll hear the term ‘Gretzky.’ As soon as you hear ‘Gretzky,’ everyone knows that you’d better take the correct angle – in blocking, coverage, whatever it may be – so that you meet the person where they’re going to be, not where they’re at.”
If you’re old enough to recall, Wayne Gretzky was the best in the history of hockey at seeing a play before it unfolded. That’s how he made passes into space that somehow ended up on the tape of Jari Kurri’s and Paul Coffey’s sticks.
It means, then: see the game a few seconds ahead and be efficient. That can be a blocker getting to a spot where he has the proper leverage to make an effective block, it can be a linebacker making a straight-line break in space to meet a ball-carrier with force, it can be a safety breaking on a ball in zone coverage so that he’s able to make a play on it.
So, ‘Gretzky!’ is a quick reminder of an overarching football principle that applies to a lot of different situations.
Parker said: “If we were out on the practice field and a wideout took a poor angle to block, instead of giving a dissertation, he’d just say, ‘Hey… Gretzky!’”
How about an example specifically for the passing game?
Cutcliffe also used the trigger words: “Peyton Manning.” What’s that mean?
“That the quarterback and the receivers have to be on the same page about what they’re gonna do with routes. So, if you see us or any pass-catcher where the quarterback thought he was gonna break out and he broke in, again, instead of a dissertation, you’d say; ‘Hey… Peyton Manning!’
“That was one of his cool ways of teaching. These trigger words were great. They could be used in the meeting room or out on the field. Coach Cut’s way of teaching his players and teaching his coaches to teach was powerful in that regard.”
