User:B D Lawnic/sandboxcoach
This is from a novel I am working on.
Coach is known for his disdain of the biggest, fastest, or strongest recruits. Coach values intelligence over everything else in his recruits. Coach stated "Show me the biggest, fastest, or strongest player and I'll show you a guy I can not use of my team. Now you show me a recruit who is smaller then he should be, but has a perfect SAT scores; and I'll show you a guy I want on my team."
What make Coach so successful is that he truly does not care about winning or losing. Coach only cares about maturing his players into men. Winning it seems, is a by-product of what he preaches. Most coaches are not afforded this comfort. Often College adopt a win now or you're fired approach to coaches. When asked why he is not affected by this he said, "I realized a long time ago that if I was fired I would get another offer and another offer. And well if one day I had been fired from every team I would just get a nine to five job. I have an Ivy League MBA. I am sure that I can get job in business any day of the week. But I love coaching these young men and that is why I coach. It is just nice to have that MBA to fall back on if I nned it."
Coach's teams are disciplined and they play with their minds, not their hearts. Coach is known for always having his team's prepared for games and for valuing the team as a whole over any and all individuals.
His base defense is a 3-3-5 and his primary offensive philosophy is 'pass to score, run to win.'
Coach is also known for not allowing Freshmen to start on defense. Saying quote "It's not that I don't like freshmen. It is simply that the defense we run is complicated and it often takes a year to learn everything. Our defense takes advantage of pre-snap reads and to date I have not had a player pick it all up sooner then his second year."