Perfection Workouts... a different approach, building our program

We had our first Perfection Workout for 2019 and the way we have adjusted our approach should be productive and make us a better team.

Instead of trying to work on "everything" and working from the base, we worked backwards. Last week as a staff we met and basically asked these two questions:

1- what are problems we need to fix?
2- what will we need to be good at in 2019 to win championships?

To answer question #2, we obviously had to spend quite a bit of time watching video of our 2019 opponents. We try to get the bulk of that done before we go home for Christmas. It's a bunch of work, but it really helps us in planning what needs to be emphasized going forward.  Our base offense and defense stay the same, but depending on our personnel and our opponents, we use certain plays and schemes more than others.

The answers to the two questions above determined our work today on both sides of the ball. We will do the exact same workout for Perfection Workout #2 next Wednesday. My hope is that at some point, one of our assistants will approach me and say, "We have that down and we are bored. We are ready to move on to something else."

We are returning much of our team from last season and are entering year 5 of our program.  That experience showed today. Normally day 1 goes well for us in Perfection workouts, spring, summer workouts, etc. But, as practice becomes more complex in the following days, we begin to struggle. Today we started more complex, but our kids seemed to handle it better.

Also, our guys are understanding better our expectations in regards to effort, attitude and leadership. We are a work in progress. We are going in the right direction and getting a little better each day.  And, the adjustment we made to our workouts was definitely a positive that will help us become the best team we can be!