Practice Foundations
Practice is easily the most important section of the Calloway Coaching System. Nothing else comes close. Without it, figuring out how to implement the 600-page offensive playbook is overwhelming.
A playbook will never win a single game without the proper teaching and practicing with a defined purpose. The KEY to your success will be found in how to structure your team and run your practices. The practice structure and the proper teaching of fundamentals and the way of teaching the system is the MOST important things that will contribute to your success.
Tempo and no-huddle offenses are utilized widely at every level from high school to the NFL, and Coach Calloway’s success has proven that these concepts can be taught and run successfully at any level of football, youth, middle school, high school, college and professional levels. No matter your age group there are concepts that can be used that will propel you to success.
Coach Calloway’s almost 3 decades of coaching has allowed him to refine the way in which you should run practice to successfully teach and install this system.
College / High School / Youth Coaches
Although the system is modeled after some of the most successful college and high school programs around the country. If you are a youth coach the system works perfectly for you as well.
The proof is in the numbers. In addition to coaching and winning at the high school level Coach Calloway has also used the system at the youth level his self. His record in a 4 year span at the youth level was 38-3 with 3 consecutive championships in that span. In addition youth and middle schools coaches around the country have implemented the Calloway Football system and achieved tremendous success with league championship as a result, You can dominate your competition at any level with the right practice organization and habits.
Just learn and follow the system.
Practice is easily the most important section of the Calloway Coaching System. Nothing else comes close. Without it, figuring out how to implement the 600-page offensive playbook is overwhelming.
A playbook will never win a single game without the proper teaching and practicing with a defined purpose. The KEY to your success will be found in how to structure your team and run your practices. The practice structure and the proper teaching of fundamentals and the way of teaching the system is the MOST important things that will contribute to your success.
Tempo and no-huddle offenses are utilized widely at every level from high school to the NFL, and Coach Calloway’s success has proven that these concepts can be taught and run successfully at any level of football, youth, middle school, high school, college and professional levels. No matter your age group there are concepts that can be used that will propel you to success.
Coach Calloway’s almost 3 decades of coaching has allowed him to refine the way in which you should run practice to successfully teach and install this system.
College / High School / Youth Coaches
Although the system is modeled after some of the most successful college and high school programs around the country. If you are a youth coach the system works perfectly for you as well.
The proof is in the numbers. In addition to coaching and winning at the high school level Coach Calloway has also used the system at the youth level his self. His record in a 4 year span at the youth level was 38-3 with 3 consecutive championships in that span. In addition youth and middle schools coaches around the country have implemented the Calloway Football system and achieved tremendous success with league championship as a result, You can dominate your competition at any level with the right practice organization and habits.
Just learn and follow the system.
Practice Fundamentals
At Calloway Football we teach the up-tempo no huddle system. This style of football has been extremely productive and widely successful at every level. Programs like Oregon, Clemson, Texas AM and hundred of high schools and youth programs are having a tremendous amount of success with this style of football.
Practice is the #1 Key to your success with this system.
The best advice we can give to coaches looking to implement the up-tempo no huddle is to trust it, stick to it, and follow the system from A-Z. It alls starts and ends with how you practice.
It’s important for your program to come up with your own identity. Our identity is to Play Fast, Compete, and Be Physical. We filter every thing we do through this view or we do not do it. The brand of football I want for my program is that we are going to line up and snap the ball at a feverish rate, compete on ever snap and be physical. I want the opposing coaches to concern themselves more with my tempo than my schemes. By doing this, I have an advantage before I even snap the ball. We have proven that tempo levels the playing field and gives us the advantage when we have a under-talented team playing more gifted athletes.
Here are some more of our practice fundamentals:
At Calloway Football we teach the up-tempo no huddle system. This style of football has been extremely productive and widely successful at every level. Programs like Oregon, Clemson, Texas AM and hundred of high schools and youth programs are having a tremendous amount of success with this style of football.
Practice is the #1 Key to your success with this system.
The best advice we can give to coaches looking to implement the up-tempo no huddle is to trust it, stick to it, and follow the system from A-Z. It alls starts and ends with how you practice.
It’s important for your program to come up with your own identity. Our identity is to Play Fast, Compete, and Be Physical. We filter every thing we do through this view or we do not do it. The brand of football I want for my program is that we are going to line up and snap the ball at a feverish rate, compete on ever snap and be physical. I want the opposing coaches to concern themselves more with my tempo than my schemes. By doing this, I have an advantage before I even snap the ball. We have proven that tempo levels the playing field and gives us the advantage when we have a under-talented team playing more gifted athletes.
Here are some more of our practice fundamentals:
- Coaching Matters: We will be the best practice coaches in the league, region, and state.
- Energy & Excitement: Bring a high level of energy & excitement to everything we do.
- Coach Every Single Rep: FAST, using cue words & gestures. Focus is on reps & immediate, quick feedback. Do not slow down or stop practice for one player.
- The Fastest Way Off The Field: Is to be a “Me” guy. The 2nd fastest way is to slow us down!
- 100+ Team Reps per Practice: In a 2-hour practice, our players get as much actual practice time as other teams’ players get in an entire week.
- Constantly Self-Scout: Outside of practice, we analyze practice & player performance with video. One of our favorite sayings is: The eye in the sky don’t lie.
- Practice Like a Game: In tempo sessions, we use a timer, ball spotter, scout team, etc. to simulate game day conditions.
- Always Plan Practices: Every minute of every practice is planned with defined goals & clearly communicated. Not one minute is wasted.
- No Stupid Drills: If a player won’t perform an action in a game, we don’t waste time on it. For example, two players lying on their backs head-to-head and jumping up to make a tackle. You will never see a RB laying on his back jump up & run the ball straight at a defender during a game. Don’t waste time practicing it.
- Practice Fast: Our practices are always run at a high tempo.
- Practice All Situations: Always be prepared for any situation: (Like Down & Distance, Late Game, Goal Line, Substitutions, 4th & Short, Quick Change & Turn Overs...etc)
- Practice Hand Signals: Coaches need practice too. We don’t wait until game time to use hand signals.
- Always Be Conditioning: We condition with how we practice. There’s zero need to waste time running sprints if you make players do everything full-speed during practice.
- Coach Every Rep & Every Player: We use video outside of practice to evaluate every rep and every player so that everyone is prepared.
- #1 Rule, Never Stop Practice: We never stop a practice to coach a single player. It takes time away from other players getting reps and wastes valuable practice time.
- No Standing Around: Drill lines are always very short so that players are constantly moving. We want them getting reps every 10 – 20 seconds. Shorter lines = more reps.
- Coach Individual Players: During drills, designate coaches for pulling players aside when they need individual coaching. Don’t stop the drill to coach a single player.
- Every Practice Starts With: Noose, Pat-N-Go, & the Tackling Circuit.
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