Three Ways to Implement Quality into your Triple Option Offensive Program
January 7, 2014
You have decided that you would like to implement a quality program within your Triple Option Football Program. This article is intended to give you a top-level implementation plan for quality within your Triple Option Football Program.
1. Ensure Assistant Coach Buy-in
Quality is led from the top down and implemented from the bottom up. Your coaching staff and players will not receive maximum benefits unless everyone is empowered and given the knowledge and skills necessary to take action and improve their responsible work areas. Leadership from the top of the Triple Option Offense is necessary to define, prioritize and construct the quality culture.
If your assistant coaches are not already committed to quality, your first step is to educate, develop the understanding, and generate active support. This is no easy task. It entails you having a comprehensive understanding of the concepts of quality and using your persuasion skills.
One way to get attention and build momentum for a quality Triple Option Offense is to highlight the many problems and daily ‘fires’ of the offense. Look for repeated player visible defects, calculate the value of improvement from reducing defects, and try to quantify player frustration with the current process.
2. Examine Your Triple Option Offense and Offensive Culture
If you made it past step 1, your assistant coaches now realize that without quality the Triple Option Offense will not succeed. They understand that there are player-focused methodologies to solving problems, and have agreed to set aside resources to engrain quality in the culture of the Triple Option Offense.
The next step is to figure out how best to implement quality with your Triple Option Offense. This offense has a specific culture and way of doing things. The culture of a Triple Option Offense is the result of the beliefs and values of its players. If your offense is long established, the culture may be difficult to modify if players are not used to change. Focus on the fit between the culture and quality and determine how best to implement quality within your offense. The end result should focus on recommendations, specific next steps and the long-range plan for implementation.
3. Establish A Mission
You’ve now gained support from the assistant coaches and come to agreement on the best way to implement quality within the Triple Option Offense. The final step before actual implementation is to develop the quality mission.
The mission statement sets the direction and priority for developing and implementing the quality plan. It clearly states the nature of the Triple Option Offense’s commitment to quality and should then be tied to the operations through programs, projects, actions and rewards/recognition.
Only through clear, strong and persistent actions by assistant coach can you convince players who doubt and reassure players who fear. Implementation actions must directly involve the HEAD COACH to show what the culture now expects.
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