State Champions in 4A for the State of Utah!!! They won 55-43 to clinch a title in the same year as the football team. Proud of those players and yeah 3 of the starters return next year. Next year will be a very interesting season!!!
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Saturday, March 6, 2010
Timpview vs Mountain Crest for State Basketball 2010
Well Christian Covey (starting QB next year) hit the game winning 3 last night with no time left in the game to send Timpview on to the state championship vs Mountain Crest. Should be an interesting game and hope my T-Birds win but we will see what happens.
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Friday, March 5, 2010
Timpview Men's Basketball in State Semifinals Tonight
Even though I just coach football for right now, many of our players from the State Championship football team are playing in the game tonight. They play Highland of SLC in the semifinals and if they win could play our crosstown rivals Provo in the state championship game. I am really proud of this team, they have made this run without Bronson Kaufusi (lost to injury) who could be a D-1 basketball player in addition to football. I will be watching the game tonight and wish these players the best.
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Go THUNDERBIRDS.
Monday, March 1, 2010
Speed on Defense
One thing that I really like about our defense is that we go more for speed on defense. To play on our defense you have to be a runner never stopping till the play is over. Other coaches that have seen our game film are impressed with our defense all being by the ball as the play ends. We drill that with our defense like crazy, they all have to run to the ball.
Some look at our defensive line especially this last season and you might have thought how are these guys stopping the run game? We weren't super big up front but we used proper technique and were faster than opposing lines allowing us to get off the ball quicker and control the line.
Many times we would play teams that had big huge guys on the line but weren't quick to the ball. You would see on our offense where our team would run away from these players that if they were quicker would have been able to stop a big play from happening.
Were I to take over a defense the first rule is find those that are able to be fast on defense and run to the ball. If you want to play on the defensive side of the ball for me, then you need to be persistent in running to the ball at all times.
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Some look at our defensive line especially this last season and you might have thought how are these guys stopping the run game? We weren't super big up front but we used proper technique and were faster than opposing lines allowing us to get off the ball quicker and control the line.
Many times we would play teams that had big huge guys on the line but weren't quick to the ball. You would see on our offense where our team would run away from these players that if they were quicker would have been able to stop a big play from happening.
Were I to take over a defense the first rule is find those that are able to be fast on defense and run to the ball. If you want to play on the defensive side of the ball for me, then you need to be persistent in running to the ball at all times.
3 Best Run Plays
If someone were to ask me what our three best run plays are I would say inside zone, outside zone, and counter. Personally I love when we run QB counter, it's probably one of our best plays and fun to watch when run correctly.
I already posted about the inside zone so I figured I should talk about the outside zone and counter. Here is a 5 minute video regarding running the outside zone and counter. The video quality isn't the best, but watch how the O-line does with the double teams and getting their hips around in front of the blocker. Unfortunately you can't hear the sound of the coaching points.
I hope that the first thing you notice is how there are a lot of cutback lanes with the outside zone. This is because the defense starts to run hard to the outside allowing there to be cutback lanes. The most important blocks for this play to succeed is the Guard/Tackle combo play side. As they take their steps it is important that the O-line take a nice lateral step to try and hook around the defender to open the outside for the back. If the defender has beaten them to the outside, then the line will just push the defender to the sideline.
Play side OG and OT work in combination to block both the play side DE and LB in the play. As they both step together whatever the DE does will tell them who is coming off to backer. The clip shows various times where the OG steps over and bumps the OT off to the backer; while the OT takes the DE out and the OG steps up to the LB in other clips. The aiming point for the back is the butt of the tackle. Our RB coach teaches the backs that as they are running this play if he sees opposing helmet on the outside of the OT then he cuts up. If opposing helmet is inside of OT then take it to the outside.
Another key to successful OZ is getting the defensive players to run with you. Staying engaged and having them run actually will open up those running lanes that will allow your back to find a lane and hit it hard. As you see in the video there were times when even pro players over ran the zone allowing for more yards to be gained. From what I have heard a lot of teams prefer to run outside zone first then go to inside zone once they have the defense over pursuing.
As you watch the counter, notice that the pulling players are trying to get to outside of the line and lead up for the back. However also notice that the pulling players don't allow a defensive player to cross their face. You have plays where the pulling players don't make it to the end of the line but pick up the opposing player to allow the back to run.
Key to this play is that the back follow the second pulling player through the hole. Once through the hole, the back then leaves the tackle and runs to daylight. We don't run counter exactly the way it is shown in the video but I will write more about that later.
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I already posted about the inside zone so I figured I should talk about the outside zone and counter. Here is a 5 minute video regarding running the outside zone and counter. The video quality isn't the best, but watch how the O-line does with the double teams and getting their hips around in front of the blocker. Unfortunately you can't hear the sound of the coaching points.
I hope that the first thing you notice is how there are a lot of cutback lanes with the outside zone. This is because the defense starts to run hard to the outside allowing there to be cutback lanes. The most important blocks for this play to succeed is the Guard/Tackle combo play side. As they take their steps it is important that the O-line take a nice lateral step to try and hook around the defender to open the outside for the back. If the defender has beaten them to the outside, then the line will just push the defender to the sideline.
Play side OG and OT work in combination to block both the play side DE and LB in the play. As they both step together whatever the DE does will tell them who is coming off to backer. The clip shows various times where the OG steps over and bumps the OT off to the backer; while the OT takes the DE out and the OG steps up to the LB in other clips. The aiming point for the back is the butt of the tackle. Our RB coach teaches the backs that as they are running this play if he sees opposing helmet on the outside of the OT then he cuts up. If opposing helmet is inside of OT then take it to the outside.
Another key to successful OZ is getting the defensive players to run with you. Staying engaged and having them run actually will open up those running lanes that will allow your back to find a lane and hit it hard. As you see in the video there were times when even pro players over ran the zone allowing for more yards to be gained. From what I have heard a lot of teams prefer to run outside zone first then go to inside zone once they have the defense over pursuing.
As you watch the counter, notice that the pulling players are trying to get to outside of the line and lead up for the back. However also notice that the pulling players don't allow a defensive player to cross their face. You have plays where the pulling players don't make it to the end of the line but pick up the opposing player to allow the back to run.
Key to this play is that the back follow the second pulling player through the hole. Once through the hole, the back then leaves the tackle and runs to daylight. We don't run counter exactly the way it is shown in the video but I will write more about that later.
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