Practice Efficiency
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For example they showed the video of the defense firing off at the snap of the ball and then having all eleven guys chase the ball down the sidelines.This is the pursuit drill, and, yeah, if they've done it a hundred zillion times, it may seem repetitive. That, however, is the point. The coaches are trying to create muscle memory, and we learn best by repetition. The coaches are making pursuit second nature. That's why they're called "drills," because they're trying to "drill" it into the players' heads. This is also the modern way of warming up. Back in the day, you would stretch, do some warm-up exercises, and then drill/practice. Now, you lightly warm-up the muscles (called "dynamic warm-up) and get drills done at the same time. What they're doing is actually making practice more efficient. The best team I've seen in getting 11 hats to the ball in the last 20 years is the Mississippi State teams of the late '90s/early '00s, and they drilled the crap out of pursuit at full-speed, every practice, every day. At Milford, we preached pursuit, but the best we ever were at it was the year we put pursuit drill into our practice. Up to that point, we, too, thought it was something boring that the kids had already done and that we could practice pursuit through large group and team drills. However, when you're coaching large group and team drills, you're focusing on alignment, assignment, and execution. Pursuit drill allows you to focus and concentrate on hustle and angles. As you might have guessed, I am a huge proponent of pursuit drill. The only thing I might disagree with is doing it only during warm-ups, as I believe you want to simulate pursuit angles at full speed. For all we know, however, they may be doing it at full speed while there are no cameras running.
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