Coaching Philosophy/Letter of Interest
My name is Terry Gilbreath and my goal is to become a head coach football coach on the varsity level. I currently have no head coaching experience on the varsity level, but have five years of varsity assistant experience and head coaching experience on the junior high level. While at Anniston High School I coached quarterbacks and running backs on the varsity level and served as head coach for the junior high. I am now currently at Douglas coaching linebackers for the varsity and have served as the defensive coordinator on the junior high level. Obviously I do not have the experience you are probably looking for but have coached under some great coaches and have learned a lot about not only schemes, fundamentals, and techniques, but how to communicate and motivate as well. One of these coaches is Mike Justice, a Mississippi hall of fame coach who has won 5 state titles and now currently coaches at Gulfport, Mississippi. I know I will make someone a great coach if given the opportunity and would like to make my start with you at South Lamar.
While at Anniston I served as the head varsity baseball coach. I took over a program that had not had a team prior to the years I took the job. I was proud of the growth of our players and the successes we had. At Douglas I have served as an assistant varsity baseball coach and head junior high coach. I love to not only coach the sport of baseball, but enjoyed playing it as well. I feel to be good at baseball you have to be fundamentally sound and that comes through reputations. During practice I try avoid as little down time as possible and try to have players constantly working their skills.
The Essay on High School and Social Support
The purpose of the study was to determine possible differences in leadership behaviors, using the Revised Leadership for Sport Scale (RLSS), between male and female coaches and among different coaching levels. The researchers submitted two hypotheses. The first hypothesis was that male and female coaches would respond differently to the RLSS in overall leadership behaviors. The second hypothesis ...
First and foremost I want our players to be Student Athletes, meaning that they graduate and prepare themselves to become effective people. I love the word student athlete due to the fact that the word student comes first. I truly believe that football can teach so much about life and team play. I have heard and believe that the football field is a huge flashlight that exposes who a person really is. It shows who is selfish compared to a team player, who is lazy compared to a hard worker, who is a quitter compared to a person who overcomes. One of the greatest things I learned from a person that I respect as person and as a coach is to not focus on winning. Rather focus on building character, great work ethic, and great people through love, respect, and discipline. These are the building blocks or by products of winning. If you want a cake you cannot just wish for a cake and magically have it, you must take the right steps or directions to make the cake. To win you cannot just wish it; you have to take the steps to win. I feel my role as a coach is the same role as a parent. First and foremost, a coach must truly love his players through everything. It is easy to love someone when they are always right, but what if they miss up. As a parent if a child drops the ball you keep on loving them, while the child faces the consequences of their mistake. I have attached a letter written to me by a varsity football player at Anniston High School that means a lot to me and is a good example of following through with discipline. A coach must have a vision and a plan to make the vision a reality. First, I plan to create a staff that has the same philosophy and is working toward the same goal. To do this you have to be an effective communicator to you’re staff. Secondly, the success you have during the season will be based on the planning and work done in the off-season. I coach just as hard in the weight room as I do at practice or on Friday night.
The Essay on Soccer Tournament Coach Team Game
The red and white stripes of his jersey seem to fly off as he sprints right by me. His black number 8 glows vividly, though, as I turn to watch him weave from side to side to set up and release his enormously powerful shot. He shoots; he scores. "GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAALLLL! Ole! Ole! Ole! Ole! Ole! " I already know the rhythmic mantra too well as the opposing under-fifteen national team from ...
Offensive Philosophy
Offensively I use a multiple “I” formation. I feel this offensive scheme is not limited and can fit any personnel. The advantage of this offense is balance. After we establish our running game through options, leads, traps, counters, and sweeps it opens up big plays in our passing game, which are typically one on one situations. Another advantage of this offense is it is friendly to our defense, it allows us to control the tempo and time of the ball game by moving the chains and controlling field position. In the running game through multiple sets as a play caller you can catch a defense getting out of position and hit them with a big running play. Offensively I believe in perfecting a package of plays that can be ran out of many different sets to get numbers in our favor. The numbering system, terminology, and blocking rules are designed to work together so that the offense has to learn new sets, but not new plays. By running plays out of many different sets the multiple “I” works much like the Wing T in that it confuses the defensive player’s keys and they get out of position. Overall I feel if the offense has a unifying terminology, players can learn a certain amount of plays in which they can be successful and have their focus on the opponent not their assignment. The terminology allows one play to work off of another and catch the defense out of position.
Defensive Philosophy
Defensively I tend to base out of a 4-4 alignment with either a cover 3 or loose man cover 1 look in the secondary. I like to base out of a 4-4 alignment so that I can easily adjust into a 50 front are in long yardage situations a 4-3. No matter what alignment I feel it is important to be an “attacking defense”. On defense we want to dictate what the offense does and get them out of their game plan. I have heard the quote in life you are either the hunter or the hunted on defense I want to be the hunter. I like to run multiple designed stunts and blitzes to disrupt the backfield and make the offensive line think about their blocking assignments. I like to give different looks so that the offensive line and coaches can not pinpoint how to block us.
The Term Paper on Children today prefer to play computer games to traditional games
People nowadays are busy with their own lives by spending much time on their gadgets like tablets, iPads and laptops including the children. They are either doing their job or playing games because of habit on the gadgets and forgot the traditional games. It is agreed to say that children today prefer to play computer games to traditional games. For instance, children nowadays did not participate ...
** I am sending you a copy by mail of our 7th and 8th grade team which has posted a 10-1 record over the past two years with two of the opponents being 9th graders. Our offense averaged 28 points a game and our defense only gave up on average 8.8 points a game. Hopefully, this will give you a condensed visual of my offensive and defensive philosophies, obviously on the varsity level their will be a lot more formations and sets, but feels this shows the fundamentals we teach such as form tackling, shooting hands, staying low, reading defenses (option) ect.
