Legend FootballFootball.legendtitans.org

Season• We are in 5A Continental League South.

• We have 10 games this year but only 9 are scheduled.

• 10th game will be decided after week 9.

Robert Doyle• Coaching football for 16 years• Started in CA at Kaiser High School - LB and QB• Won a State Title• 7 years at PHS - Freshman, LB, DC, OL, DL• Won a State Title• 5th year at Legend

Vision•We will be a first class program that creates leaders and positive citizens. The philosophy of Legend Football is that we will help create dynamic young adults with the lessons learned on the football field. It is extremely important to teach the student-athletes to live a balanced life and help them to handle successes and failures in life. Learning these lessons as they apply to football is an authentic experience. These leadership skills are being built together with the football staff, administration, high school staff, peers, and parents. This cannot happen without everyone involved inspiring these young men. This is like our classroom and we will treat it like a classroom environment.

Philosophy•The philosophy of Legend Football is that we will help create a player with a strong foundation of skills at the younger levels and progressively add to their skill development each year. As the skills are introduced, along with team strategies, the joy of playing the game and winning will naturally follow. This process will be accomplished in a positive, structured, and disciplined environment in an attempt to help the players grow as individuals as well as football players.

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company, a church, a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past. We cannot change the fact that people will act a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it. And so it is with you –we are in charge of our attitudes.

-Charles Swindoll

Attitude

No ExcusesAny excuse for nonperformance, however valid, softens the character. It is a sedative against one’s own conscience. When a man uses an excuse, he attempts to convince both himself and others that unsatisfactory performance is somehow acceptable. He is, perhaps unconsciously, attempting to divert attention from performance-the only thing that counts is his own want for sympathy. The user is dishonest with himself as well as with others. No matter how good or how valid, the excuse never changes the performance. The world measures success in terms of performance alone. No man is remembered in history for what he would have accomplished. History never asks how hard it was to do the job, nor considers the obstacles that had to be overcome. It never measures the handicaps. It counts only one thing, performance. No man ever performed a worthwhile task without consciously ignoring many a plausible excuse. To use an excuse is a habit. We cannot have both the performance habit and the excuse habit. We all have a supply of excuses. The more we use them, the lower become our standards, the poorer our performance. The better we perform, the less plausible our excuses become. Next time you want to defend your subpar performance, say instead (at least to yourself), “No excuses!”

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Team• If we work as a team, we will accomplish great

things. We are going to spend a lot of time developing a “team” mentality.

• Coming together is a beginning.Keeping together is progress.Working together is success.- Henry Fordo Be enthusiastico Know your assignmento Play tough and physicalo One play at a time

Decisions1. What is best for the team

2. What is best for the individual

Offense•We will operate as a multiple offensive scheme. We will use multiple formations, personnel, and motion with a limited number of blocking schemes. The scheme will include one, two, and three back sets with misdirection and a power run game. The purpose of the multiple schemes is to enable us to utilize our personnel and to create favorable match-ups while stretching the defense horizontally, controlling the ball and the clock. This will be achieved through the balanced use of run and pass. We will be a physically and mentally tough unit that will be in better condition than our opponent and win the war of attrition. We will play with a fast-paced approach and with great intensity and enthusiasm. We will do a few things well rather than many with mediocrity. We will have a complete and diverse offensive package, but only feature what we can do well and execute to perfection. We will also adjust our offense to align with our personnel on a yearly basis. We must utilize the strengths of our players in order to obtain the maximum results.

Defense•We will be an attacking defense, taking chances when the odds and match-ups are in our favor. We want the offense to adjust to our defensive play. We will base out of a 4-2 defense with the flexibility to use the 3-4. This will allow us to play to the strengths of our athletes. We will adjust our defense to align with our personnel on a yearly basis. We will need to be in better shape than our opponent to win the 4th quarter battles when they are trying to control the clock.

Special Teams•We will be sound in the kicking game and take chances when needed. One out of every five plays is in the kicking game. Special teams is where the momentum of a game can be swung in our favor. We believe that this is a phase in which our best athletes must be involved.

Fundraising• Football is expensive! It costs $45,000-60,000 to

the run the program in any given year.• Helmet-$250, shoulder pads $250, all of the other

equipment costs $100 for each player• Uniforms for each player is $275• Helmet reconditioning cost $12,000 I do this each

year.• Buses cost about $8000• Each year about $10000 in new equipment• Extra Coaches Salaries $6000• Fundraisers – Camps and Titan Cards, Gala

Lockers• Football player’s need to buy a Legend lock for

$10 or it will be removed.

• Hide valuables in lock or do not bring valuables

• Locker room is supervised but not all of the time

Rewards•Reward - Name on the back of jersey

•Need a 3.0 2nd Semester G.P.A. to earn name on jersey. Head Coach has discretion to take name off at anytime.

Point System Rewards

o Ability to be a captaino Helmet awardso Shirtso 1st in line

• Summer Weights• Power Weights• Fall Sport • Spring Sport• 1pt for any football activity• Participation in fundraising• Bonus Points (community service)

Changes This Year• Name on the back of Jersey will only be off 2nd

Semester Grade• We will have a one way bus and Caravan to home

Varsity Games. Football players will be responsible for their own ride home.

• Varsity will have film after every game at 8am, usually Saturday.

• We will have a travel roster for the Varsity Rocky Mountain game.

• We will have a Varsity and JV split in practice.

Questions• Thank you for coming out tonight and for your

support. • • Feel free to contact me with any questions

• Varsity: robert.doyle@dcsdk12.org

• JV : Nick Miles nick.miles@dcsdk12.org

• Freshman Contact: gabriel.aguilera@dcsdk12.org

Booster Club•We will need an active Booster Club to raise money. The jobs will need to be delegated and we will need to get as much help as possible for fundraising. Meetings will be held weekly in-season (we will watch film together at this time, as well) and monthly out of season, starting in February. The Booster Club is a great way for parents to be involved and allows for open communication and a better understanding of what the coaching staff is trying to accomplish with the athletes.

• Booster Club Responsibilities

• Fundraising

• Team Meals

• Banquet

• Concessions

• Help with Camps

• Merchandise Sales

• Reading with Winners

Booster Club• Committee Sign-ups• Stats – Have a spotter• Banquet